Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-15
MAY
SHARE HIS PROFITS
Newspaper innovation Seen
in Suggestion Made at
Luncheon to Vile.
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.
BY Cable to The star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1919.

Daily News. Copyright, 1919.
LONDON. England, December 10
One of the most remarkable de-
partures in modern journalism was
the occasion of a farewell auncheon
this week in honor of Frederick
William Vile, who is leaving the
Northcliffe organization, after thir-
teen years Of service, to become the
Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
In the course of a speech recount
ing the services Mr.. Vile rendered
the Daily Mail in Berlin and London
before and during the war. Lord
Northcliffe announced the incubation
Of a plan looking. to intimate CO.
in the production of his newspapers.
What he seems to have in mind is
something akin to the specialization
Of his papers for the men and women
1t Is said that he wants everybody
on the premises from the humblset
boy in the packing room to the ed
itor-in chief. including every branch
Of the business, to feel and take a
direct interest in getting out the pa
per and getting out a better one day
by day.
May He Pro1ft-Sharing.
Lord Northcliffe did not hint that
the scheme eventually would become
profit-sharing, but his friends believe
that this Is in the back of his head.
In9dental to presenting Mr.. and Mrs.
Vile, who are sailing for America on
the Mauritania on Tuesday, an old
English silver tea and coffee service,
Lord Northcliffe said:
IT am glad to utilize this occasion
to bear testimony to the courage OF
Mr.. Vile in sending out from Ger
many everything he could learn re-
~ is n f1 vsyr
preparations between 1906 and 1914.
He did so not only at the risk of his
fob, but at the risk of his life. Had
Mr. Wile's revelations been acted
upon Great Britain would not have
been in such q state of unprepared-
ago. Nobody ever suggested that Mr..
Wile's facts and figures were inaccu-
rate. vet highly placed people both in
Germany and England tried to bring
influence to bear with a view to MI.
WiIe'a removal from Berlin. Neither
he nor /. fortunately, was at all in
clined to heed the suggestions that
Mr. VILE would be better employed
in another sphere"
Iauds American Journalism
In responding. Mr.. Vile spoke feel-
in Civ of his long connection Win tne
s4master spirit of modern Journalism,
and then took a dig at Lord North
ClfHe'S 1rOnlCdl eAA~S SO~>
naiism IN America was less progress
siye" than Journalism in England.
AFT will probably come as snock
to Won Britishers." said Mr.. Vile. ITO
know that I owe my presence on the
stan Of the Daily Mail to one Of our
net aversions, namely. Lord Haldane:
That came about in consequence OF
nv being the progressive pro tenn.
correspondent of the Daily Mail in
Berlin in 1906. LORD Haldane. then
British secretary Of war, came 10 Der,
lin to examine the German general
STAFF system beforer as he put It. tin
kering with one of his own Having
received my reportorial training In
CHICAGO. I conceived it an elementary
thing to interview LORD Haldane. !
decided to do so against the urgent
counsel Of the most dlstlngu1sneo
British journalist in Berlin. VINO SAID
that such a thing as interviewing a
British cabinet minister travellng on
Important government business
wasn't done Well. did It. Tne re-
suit was that half an hour after see
ing him I became Daily Mail man
and have remained one ever since
Fenton MACPHERSON, the retlrlng
foreign editor of the Daily Mail; ana
also guest of the honor !uncheon
received a purse of 500 pounds (about
s2,5OO) as an honorary reward OF
service.