Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-08-24
The WOman's Page In the Aver
age Newspaper.

Most OF the large papers have a
Woman Page, but possibly not in
one instance is the woman who
edits it at liberty to exercise her
own Judgment. One individual on
a certain New York daily is sum-
moned every few weeks into the
presence of the great managing ed
itor, who says: "Eou are putting
too much woman suffrage and too
many strong-minded women on
your page. "You tell me to keep
a record of everything that women
are doing" she answers, "and it is
these who are doing the pro-
gressive work OF the world. "
"Well, keep woman suffrage off of
that page, is the reply. Another
woman, one of the best writer's in
the country, was given the position
of Sunday editor on :, big daily,
pot long ago, with this admonition;
"Now, we know your tricks. Re-
member, if one line of woman
suffrage goes in, you go out,
The writer of this article was
requested to prepare a series o
twelve articles on the most promi
nent women lawyers, doctors, min
isters, lecturers, organizers, etc,
"with not a flavor of woman
suffrage in the series!' AS matter
Of course every one of those who
were necessarily selected was an
ardent advocate of the enfran-
chisement of women, and it was due
to this long agitation that they
held such positions. To prepare
those sketches without reference to
this fact was to stultlfy the writer,
and offend the subjects and all who
believed with them on this question.
Nevertheless, from business point
of view, it was impossible to re-
fuse.
At another time, when about to
accept an important editorial po-
sition the managing editor made the
significant remark: please re
member that this paper does not
believe in woman suffrage" Dur
ing two years of editorial writing
of course this subject was not
mentioned, and toward the close of
this period letter was received
from a woman S organization which
said: "When you became one of
the editors of the. we were
filed with delight, for we felt that
now its readers would hear some
thing of our cause, but your abso-
Lutte silence has been a bitter dis
appointment. Possibly you may
think to curry the favor of men by
this action, but you have lost your
friends among women.
AT present a masculine editor-in-
chief decides absolutely what wo.
men desire 10 IGdu. he GlOplONs
other women to put this "stuff in
shape, because he thinks they can
do it better than men. but he trusts
their Judgment only to a certain
extent in selecting it. Until wo
men themselves acquire positions o
control on newspapers. or until mer
can be persuaded to take differ
ent view OF woman S taste in this
matter, we shall continue to hav,
only the very lightest reading or
the Woman's Page. There is, how
ever, no department which has
shown so marked an evolution dur
ing the last ten years.
a great deal OF excellent matter
OF special interest is gradually
finding permanent place TIL,
time will doubtless come when IN
woman editor will rot wholly hatt
it, and herself, because she is helC
responsible for it, At present Tn,
Sun is the only metropolitan daill
paper in the world which has
regular department devoted TO th'
enfranchisement of women. Thii
assertion is made in the hope o
calling out information if "there ar
others.
IDA Hustled in New York Snn