The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-03-12

Editor Ida Clarke of Nashville Be-
lieves Children Should Read What Ia
Going on In World and Proposes to
See if New York viii Support Prof
ect to Improve Juvenile Tastes.
Mrs. Ida Clyde Clarke OF Nashville.
Tenn, writer and newspaper woman,
Is in New York with the announced
intention Of starting the first daily
newspaper TO be published exclusively
for children Her idea is to conduct
the daily the same as any other news
paper, except that such reading mai.
ter as il sensational or otherwise OBJ
jectionahle for little readers will he
omitted Mrs. Clarke hopes to begin
publication soon
II believe the idea viii he SUGGEST"
Mrs. Clarke asserts. What probably
pointed out the necessity of such Il
daily paper more than anything else
is the interest my ten-yearold son
takes in the newspapers. Coming FROM
family of newspaper people. there
is no item of the day that this small
hoy cannot discuss with his father
and mother
Daily News Expurgated.
My plan is to give the children he
latest news Of the day presented in d
way that can be easily understood and
Will be both interesting and instrur-
tive. Children are inclined 10 read tile
newspapers, aud they should not he
denied the knowledge of what is going
on in the world in the way Of inyen,
ton. science, education ana the like,
While such happenings as murders, sui.
cideS and the other sensational things
unfit for childish eyes and minds
should be omitted. These items are
| always published In large type on the
! front pages of our daily newspapers
and are about the first thing to attract
the attention Of the small readers and
occupy their minds. Anything of this
kind would not lind space in my paper,
| but everything else of current interest
would be included, as in other news.
| papers.
II know something of the compiled
tons incident to publishing a daily
newspaper having been in newspaper
work for years myself, and therefore
have the experience that win be OF
value to me, Next to that my interest
In children has been the strongest in
/ eentive toward starting the newspa-
per. Those Of us who are parents Of
ten discuss the inadvisabiitT of al
! lowing our children to read the daily
-. &C. but while keeping them from
reading about murder trials and di-
Vorces we are denying them of much
!, that is Of an instructive nature.
Parents Support Project.
after announcing my intention in
the south Of starting such a paper
came encouragement from parents.
schools and the like wanting to sub
scribe at once. received telephone
: messages all day long asking me
when | was going to begin puldication.
. But an enterprise like this. Of 81 high
: class nature. cannot be started in a
day. There are thousand things TO
be thought of that are undreamed of
by people who have not had expert
ence in newspaper office.
THE next step was to choose city
in which to start publication. Being
a southerner and knowing that we
, have all manper of incident and mate
rial in the south, none the less, ap-
preciated The fact that q large city
was the only field for The cllidren's
l. newspaper Washington. Chicago. st.
Louis and other cities have presented
attractive features to me. but New
York with its bigness seems 20 me 70
} be the place to lay my foundations for
the chidren's daily.
Thinks Daily Is Needed.
, II want to be able to give the paper
to the children at penny or less, GER.
tainly not more. There will be news,
funny pages. chidren's stories and
, only such advertisements as are of in
terest to them and clean and fit 10
publish. At the same time I should
want to make the children feel that
they were gettlng the news JUST the
same as big people and that il was
not cut and dried affair. with You
must rot read this and that headlines,
} to excite their curiosity.
I'VE have all kinds OF chidren's
magazines and weeklies, but daily
exclusively printed for children IS,
believe. form Of publication mostly
In need Of ALL For the neSt few weeks
! shall work ahead formulating my
plans"
Mrs Clarke Is enthusiastic in her
venture. She is young woman OF
, soft speech and gentle manner. typ
ical southern girl, but resourceful. and
with determination behind quiet per
sonality that has shown those who
know her that she always carries ou'