Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-31
DEMOCRAT|CPAPER
PLANNED BY women
Assistant Secretary Vrooman
Gives Impetus to Project at
y
Convention.
LAUDS' PRESIDENT WILSON

a national newspaper, published in
Washington by women in the interest
OF the democratic party. is a possibility
in the near future. Carl vrooman. as
sistant secretary Of agriculture. in an
address before the woman's National
Democratic League. today in conven-
ton in the Raleigh Hotel. gave i'm
pulse to the project, and said it offered
a great sphere for the women of the
organization to put their power to the
wheel Of publicity sphere of action
for which they are. in his opinion,
especially adapted, as they can get
things by the editor where a mere man
fails and quails.
That there is a project to establish, a
newspaper in Washington to give publicity
TO women's views Of how civilization
should be conducted and developed was
the admission Of one of the prominent
members of the organization.
Lauds the Administration.
Assistant Secretary Vrooman lauded
the administration Of President Wilson.
calling him the greatest of Presidents.
The story of the Wilson administration,
he asserted. is an epic. Only a great
historian, to come out Of time. can do
justice to his leadership in this world
crisis, the speaker believed.
He spoke Of President Wilson as the
man who has made good: whose work for
civilization has not been exampled in
generations; whose endeavor has been
synonymous with efficiency, patriotism
and all the best that is for humanity,
and who has advanced the national life
by assuring peace and by industrial
progress.
ership. and by the patriotic support of
Congress. he said, is unexampled in the
world.
The vision OF social justice. Of benef-
cence to man, of progress-dreams OF
statesmerl--have been made reality by
the laws put on the statute books dur
ing the past four years, Mr.. vroomar
said. Not only, in Mr.. Vrooman's opin.
ion, are they a blessing to the people
of the United States, but to all man.
world and point an example when the
present generation has passed on.
He gave praise to the women fol-
their support Of President Wilson a
the polls. and pointed out that ten out
of the thirteen states having universal
franchise backed up the democratic ma.
tional ticket on election day. --.
Publicity Lacking.
Regarding the matter of publicity
he said that the accomplishments OF
this democratic administration had not
been in any part placed. before the
people. He was confident. he said, II
the whole had been known that prob
ably every state in the Union would
have given its vote for the retention
of Woodrow Wilson as President, re-
CARELESS of political ties.
He then told the women that the mer
were not competent to make publicity
He said that three-fourths of the
newspapers are opposed to democracy
and that therefore propaganda went
into, the. waste basket, when offered by
men. who had not the power of per-
sistence. He urged the women to take
it up. as an especial sphere OF activity
in which their success was assured.
Representative w. w. venable of Mis-
sissippi was the other speaker of the
morning. He paid tribute to the part OF
women in the recent national campaign