The age-herald., 1902-05-11
ELECTION OF MRS. BURDETTE
 RECALLS VISIT TO BIRMINGHAM

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 but formed from experience observation
 and close study of the attributes she de-
 scribes.
 Miss Dooly is an exponent of her own | theories. She has drawn. it is true,
 picture of the ideal newspaper woman.
 and in drawing 1t. I think that 1t was in measure a parallel case to Cyrano, in that she must have laid her soul be- l side her paper and copied it. Some ex- | tracts are as follows:
 .grhe newspaper of today has a three fold mission.
 Tt must prove a paying investment to these who have invested their capi- taI but since poor work Is professional suicide the newspaper must make money ! fer it's advertisers as well as its stock | holders. But to make money a newspa, per must get itself read and to be read the newspaper must stimulate curiosity and must revive tagging interest; the newsgatherer must be on the alert to ] catch tho interest of the passing mo- ment ard having caught 1t to hold and So expand and elaborate 1t as to make | a leader of 1t.
 "But the newspaper must do some ] thing more than make money for it's pro- motors and patrons; it must do more than | excite and satisfy interest; it must pro- 1 pose measures and develop ideas that besr upon future policy.
 ""The newspaper that works only for the prosperity of the moment or tho l year is doomed.
 "The newspaper that Is rot working for the future for it's stockholders, it's l patrons and its nation is already on the 1 descending plain. And it Is because the scheme of the daily press comprises so much that 1t often seems to commit so many blunders, seems to so often fall. ! Many Of the children of men never | fail--simpy because they have not the
 courage to attempt anything new have
 not the spirit that aniDates the daring.
 "But these things are simply what the
 new spaper should accomplish. Now
 comes the question, how Is this three
 fold mission to be accomplished? How
 may q newspaper make money for It's l patrons. interest its subscribers and up- hold the progress of the race? Why,
 simply through the intelligent observa- tion of the present, the whole present,
 the present of heathendom, of civiliza- | tion-through the intelligent observation | of what is occurring throughout the | length and breadth of the world, and this observation of the present, backed | up by hope for the future, and supple mented hy study of the past The news paper of today thinks feels that women 1 are necessary CT they would not pay women. But women can only remain l necessary to the newspaper by fitting herself fer a much more extended field then she now tills.
 After she has stGrted on the right | road, it does not very much matter in ] what department the Womans work may lie
 "The woman who is interested in all | the significant movements of the day. | the woman who will, in spite of obstacles, | find some time each day for li,ele earn | est study, the woman who wants to know | the truth bound up in a knotty social | problem more than she wants the glory | of having gctten the better of an oppo- | nent-n short the woman who realizes | that newspaper work needs all and the | best of all the talents and abilities that | she has-this woman Is necessary to the | newspaper and she is the only woman | who is necessary to any journal that has l a past or hopes for a future.
 1 "The woman who is necessary to live
 newspaper is the woman who is doing
 (perhaps) good work today, but who is | certainly striving to do better work to-
 morrow and this woman can and will
 promote the interest of her paper in , l
 The woman who Is necessary to the news paper is the woman who can and will
 encourage the janitor to keep the office
 cleaner, and who will lead the janitor to
 see that he is himself happier, better sat-
 lshed with life when ne does good work
 The woman who is necessary to the
 newspaper is the woman who reminds her
 assistant that to simply say clever things
 Is not the whole end of story writing
 the woman who will enforce through ex-
 ample that to get news at the expense
 Of good taste, to make capital of the
 private and personal life of individuals
 Is contrary to the whole spirit of news | paper ethics The woman who can prize | truth more than the victory of the mo-
 ment, the woman who can realize that
 delicacy and drunkenness are perfect | ly consistent with eagerness for news and
 energy in setting it forth-this woman | the woman who can combine energy l enthusiasm and judgment and who never | lets these tools get rusty-is necessary to | the newspaper, and the newspaper will | willingly. nay gladly, testify at any time
 that this woman Is necessary; willing to | testify to her usefulness and quite will | ing to reinforce their testimony through
 the payment of a weekly salary"