The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-22
AT THE WORLDS FAIR
wOMEN's FEDERATION AND PRESS PARLIAMENT ADJOURN.
The Matter of Making a Permanent Organization of the Latter Is Left in the Hands of
 COmmittec,

Worlds Fair Grounds, St. Louis, May H.-The General Federation of Women s
 Clubs concluded the first week of it's con- vention this afternoon and the Press Par | liament finished its work and adjourned. movement to make a permanent organ | ization of the Parliament was left in tho I hands of a committee which is to report
 at some later ttime. The committee Is
 composed of David R. Francis, Presi- | dent of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
 tion; Walter B. Stevens. Secretary of the Exposition; Capt. HenrAAW, King, Chair
 man, and Charles w. Knapp, Vice-Chair-
 mar of the Executive Committee of the
 Press Parliament; Sir Hugh Gilsan-Reid President of the Parliament; H. von Kupffer of Berlin. and the commissioner 1 to the foreign press, Walter Williams Before the press session of the biennial session of the General Federation of Wo- | mems Clubs was called to order today, in l the German pavilion at Worlds Fair
 Grounds, Miss Florence Hayward, Chair
 mar of the Press Committee announced that the General Federation would deco
 rate the marble bust of Emperor William, which stands in the main corridor of the
 second foor with a wreath. in recogni- tor of the courtesy of the German Gov
 errment in allowing the use of its build
 ings for the meeting of the Federation. After this was done, Mrs. Dimies T.
 s. Denison, president of the federa-
 tion, called the session to order
 '"The woman's club" was the subject
 of the address by Miss Lavinia Egan,
 of Louisiana. a member of the worlds fair board of lady managers. She said
 that the "Woman's column" in the
 average newspaper is filled with "plau-
 dts and platitudes and pie crust and
 pudding"
 'No woman" continued Miss Egan,
 Ifs fit for the ballot of equal rights
 with men as long as she permits a
 woman's column of the accepted type.
 Clear it of recipes and frivolities and
 let 1t express the woman's point of view.''
 Melville E. Stone spoke on the in-
 fiuence of women on the newspaper. He said that not a line of scandal
 would be printed in any American newspaper were 1t not for the women. NO large metropolitan newspaper can live without the support of wom-
 en-" he continued. Newspapers to-day
 are edited for women and not for men.
 If the women of the general federal
 ton of women's clubs will set their | faces against scandal the objectiona- ble journalism will disappear. Women
 have a joint responsibility with the editors as to the class of news contain ed in the columns of the metropolitan | dailies."
 Previous to the press session a short business session was held at the Odeon
 in St. Louis
 In the press parliament addresses were | made by Kaneraburo Myamatsu, of Japan, who gave a history of Japanese | journalism, and said that its great draw l back at the present time was the com | plex character of the letters used. He | hoped and believed that the time was not | far distant when the papers of Japan
 would use the same type as those of l America
 l L. N. RubinofT of St. Petersburg made
 a bright and witty address that brought | forth much laughter and applause. Com | ing down to the serious questions of jour
 nalism he declared that the newspapers | of Russia were not given the opportunity l they should, and this was shown in the
 lack of intelligence among the people at | large.
 George FranRoudls. of Athens. told of l newspaper work in Greece, s. S. Kelly | of Budapest. described conditions in | Austro- Hungary and Martin van Raalte | of The Hague, told of Dutch papers.