Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-07
WOMEN AND THE PRESS
EFFECT ON YELLOW JOURNAL
ISM DISCUSSED.
Delegates to Woman's Club Convention
at St Louis rendered Recep-
ton Last Night.

| Are the men or the women responsible
for the appearance and continuance OF
| modern yellow journalism?
| Inc local Federation of Women's Clubs
| which held meeting in the Hotel Portland
| last evening, is of the opinion that the men
/ are the guilty parties, in contradiction to a
| charEe made recently by Mr.. Melville t.
| Stone, the veteran newspaper man, that the
| women were the cause of it ALL" The re-
| ception last night was in honor of the dele
| gates of the local clubs to the national con-
| vention of the National Federation of Wo-
| mems Clubs. recently held in st. Louis.
Mr.. Stones challenger was Mrs. Clara A.
| Colby, editor of the Woman's Tribune who
| discussed yellow journalism" She char
acterized II as "a reYersion to the tyne OF
publication exhibited in the maya zines and
periodicals. of the times when women were
not supposed to form a part of the reading
public. As an incident of the relation OF
her experiences al the worlds fair she
made a brief reply to Mr.. Stones assertion
| that 1t is the women who are largely re-
| sponsible for the publication of scandal IN
the newspapers.
Mr.. Stone said il was the women who
are responsible for the immoral tone of the
modern newspapers. AS a matter of fact
it is the men, said Mrs. Colby. The news
papers read by women, she declared, are
delivered at the homes. not bought on the
streets. Modern yellow journalism, in her
opinion, was only "a temporary reversion
TO the old scandalous type of publication OF
the days when women did not read they
do now She predicted ii would not last.
Miss Frances French, who acted as presi-
dent at the reception. in commenting on
Mrs. Colby's reply to Mr.. Stone said she
| understood Mr.. Stone had intended to ask
the aid of the club women in elevating the
moral tone of the newspaper press, but she
! said when he stood up to speak and saw
that vast sea of faces upturned toward
did not express his meaning properly.
What" calculated Mrs. Charles M. Pep
per. "a man who has been in the newspa-
per business as long as Melville Stone has
gotten scared! / guess not
During a subsequent discussion of the
federation convention in St. Louis, Mrs
ton of the resolution debarring from MEM
trship In the National Federation Of
Women's Clubs the women's clubs of Utah
Shut Out Utah Women.
! What is most needed by the women OF
Utah." said Mrs. Colby, lis federation and
the constant association with the people OF
other states. Instead of being given
opportunity for such association and affilia-
ton the club won en- of Utah have been
shut out, and l regard the resolution de-
barring them most unfortunate.
Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood and Mrs. Martha
Schneider, the other two delegates to the
r ational convention, spoke briefly of their
experiences during the convention.
Mrs. Charles NJ. Pepper, who had just
returned from the Lake Mohonk interna-
tional arbitration conference, addressed the
members of the club, telling them of the
objects of the conference and the work al
ready accomplished. She strongly advocated
the maintenance of a formidable army and
navy as the best method of preserving
peace. This sentiment was also expressed
by Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main and Miss
Frances French
Mrs. John Stokes was the hostess of the
evening, and the reception committee was
Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main, Mrs. Ada
H Wis, Mrs Adeline Portman, Mrs. Mar
tina Schneider Miss Susan Pollock, Mrs.
Charles M Pepper, Miss Fleming, Mrs.
Alice Foster and Mrs. Guss.