Show TEE I Work of flitTEE I W0men flUbs i Ladies Literary Club Friday was newspaper day atthc Ladles Literary club Jn charge of Mrs Margaret Wallace A Womans View of a Moderjl Newspaper was the subject of an entertaining paper by Mrs Clesson S Kinney and was responded i re-sponded to by Judge U C Goodwin I J i he afternoon proved to be a very i I Interesting pne and was much enjoyed by the hundred or more members and I guests I Mrs Kinney In beginning specie of the press as a school which we ail attend I at-tend from the time we learn lo Actd until the end of our days What I then she said Mare Its faults not Its virtues and whrtt the responsibilities 6f editors jindTenders and what can bo done toward making ft better The advertising evil was the first referred to and the speaker said It had become i u el1nblt nuisance j that thu purchaser I pur-chaser of the newspaper wanted the news while the advertiser and publisher pub-lisher wanted him to read the ads Next she made a plea for greatly condensed I con-densed local and telegraphic news with r total absence of sensations or iVatuzes wih pictures excluded ox cept where they aid In comprehending the news She thought the great ten I dency of leporters many is I not to caro I fully record thQ news but to make a I sensational story and this she said I vniild nut ml iUe s t r rters degenerates degen-erates and Incapable of writing n mad 1 lerplece but the public Incapable of appreciating out if It pre wrilSn If the newspaper js to be the Bible of I the future adoel l Zsti i Kinney we j must remove the reproach from journalism Jour-nalism that It Is not lIterature I ought to be literature I our Journals are to be the guides philosophers and friends of the masses they should change their slangy colloquial and snappy style they must stop throwing 1 mud at their neighbors 1 have never been able to see why one newspaper is any whiter because it calls us neighbor neigh-bor black The space given by a London paper I a hundred years ago to the killing o Charles Lambs mother by his sister live Hires was then referred to and I contrasted with what would be done at the present time under the same cIrcumstances and Mrs Klnncys de I scrlpilon of the photographs interviews inter-views and conclusions that would he reached by the newspapers was really i I lauchable i Before closing Mrs Kinney gnve the press credit for certain generous I qualities which make it ready to facilitate facili-tate any disinterested work taken up I by any disinterested member of tie community and In closing quoted from I an article recently published In which the views of a number of prominent men a to how the newspaper could be Improved were given JUDGE GOODWIN REPLIES Judge Goodwin replied to Mrs KInney Kin-ney s argument against newspapers and said If J there arc yellow Journals it Is because the people buy them and there will not be an Ideal newspaper until there Is i a lifting up of the people r Referring to the statement made by Mrs Kinney that a London newspaper newspa-per devoted five lines to the murder by Mary Lamb of her mother murcc Judge Goodwin said If a like event wore to occur today and one newspaper In i city should devote five Hues to the story and another give a full account fortyfour out of every fortylive women wo-men would buy the paper tha gave the news The speaker said it was nqt an easy thing to run a riewspnpey that It was easy enough to say how It should be run bUt > l paper had to inciet the dc ThanUSoC all classes and hiwrlh1S editorials an editor had to try to please the washerwoman as well a the Senator Sena-tor Above al things he said the newspaper needs the charltS of the people Not many people he said un derslood how the ordinary newspaperman newspaper-man had to work and said If his hear ers did not believe J let them try to write even four sticks a day for two weeks on different subjects and many of them would soon find that their I minds were reservoirs and not springs Then Judge Goodwin prlngB cited soC s-oC where the support of the newspaper was sought even by members of literary lite-rary clubs and said if the reporter who wrole J up did not exaggerate exoSgelute the facts a little to arouse public In terest in their project next time they wanted a favor they would go to the other paper and call the one which had simply sheet stated the plain facts a stupid II Speaking of the plan of advertising Judge Goodwin said that even the I great magazines of thc coUntry fijl their pages on either side of thc read Ing matter with advertisements that they had to do It In order to live and why not a newspaper Judge Goodwin looked forward to the time when there would be an ideal newspaper when the paper would be good the type clear no errors in print and when all the pictures would be reproductions re-productions of the old masters That time he said had not yet come and when It did come it would be because n body of women like the Ladles Literary Lite-rary club yearning for something higher their yearning would somcthlng effect on the masses and they would demand something higher and better MEETING OF SECTION The tourist section of tho Ladles Literary club will meet Tuesday morn lag April IGth The following papers will be given Germany University Student LlreMrs BIckford German Ger-man Watering Places > Irs Whitney t a a The Browning section of the Ladies Literary club will meet at the homo of Mrs Eugene LewIs on First street next Tuesday evening at 8 oclock They will read Old Pictures in Florence Flor-ence Andrea del Farto and Fra Llppp Llppe The current events and current literature liter-ature section will meet on Friday af ternoon April 19th at 2 oclock The programme will be Paper Edward VII Mrs John Reed paper George Eliot Mrs A C EWing A full attendance at-tendance Is desired as a new chairman Is to be elected |