Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
BY ROSE PATTERSON,


staH Correspondent of The star and the
North American Newspaper Alliance.
LONDON, February pa bright and
up o-date daily newspaper, which will
| compete with London's best and appeal
| to both sexes, all parties and all creeds,
| and will be owned and controlled by a
million women, Is the latest project in
British journalism.
The originator of the idea, Miss Annie
COLES, chairman of the company, is
trimming with enthusiasm.
80 far women have had no control
| ling interest in the daily press" she be-
gan, when called on her in her Lon
| don home. "In consequence war and
many other preventable social evils are
accepted almost as matter of course.
This is to our shame, and we women
I must now arise and right this condition.
ut will not be a woman's paper in
| the restricted sense. The staff will be
composed of men as we'll as women
| the best people we can possibly get.
The idea is to have an editorial and
administrative staff comprising an equal
number of men and women who will
work together in perfect harmony and
cooperation.
But the controlling interest will be
| held by women. We want to get a
| million SIS shareholders. We don't want
| large shareholders, and nobody, as a
matter of fact, will be allowed to invest
more than 81 900. There will be one
vote only for each shareholder, no
matter what her holding.
Women Best Managers.
"You see, women are the best man
ayers. They are more spiritual and
far-seeing than men, too, and We who
are working to establish the Call feel
that women need the chance, the sort
of representation that can be had only
| in a national newspaper.
mot that our stunts will be feminine
stunts or our leading articles feminist
articles. Not bit of it, Anything in
| the nature of sex antagonism is abhor-
rent to me and to all of us. Men and
women were made to be comrades, and
we women want to show the world that
we can be comrades"
IT see," I said, perhaps doubtfully.
"You want to achieve this perfect COM
radeship, but you want the control OF
the whole thing to be held by women
only"
why, yes" acknowledged Miss COLES.
THAT is only fair when men have con-
trolled such things for so long. We
can do it as well, and we want to show
the world we can. Men have habit
of controlling, and it is only because OF
this age-long habit that they are so
often allowed to control.
do you know of any man who could
make a career for himself and run a
home at the same time? DO you know
of any man who could manage home
as a full-time job with the efficiency
Of a woman? 1 don't. Yet countless
women are running homes as well as
careers very successfully.
But We shall have clever men as
well as celever women on the Call, and
we shall pay our clever women as much
as our clever men. There will be no
distinction between the sexes. We in
tend to show them how they should
treat us women"
There will be no bar to married
women on your staff?"
mo, indeed. / see no reason for that.
ran my home and brought up my
children and pursued full journalistic
career for many years, and neither my
husband nor my children, am sure,
felt that neglected them in any way"
Are your shareholders English women
so far?" inquired.
Interest Is World Wide.
mot only English. We have excited
interest in the venture nearly all over
the world already. We have share
holders on the Continent in the colo
MES and in the United States, in Japan,
India, Cuba and Brazil. We have
members who hold posts in the Reich
stag.
of course, we want lots more, too
We want to draw together women of
all nations to help us to work, above all
things, for peace. That is the one plank
in our platform from which we shall
never depart. We must unite the women
OF the world to this end. They can
help so much In this great cause, espe-
ctally the women of Britain and America.
The Call will aim at improving con-
ditions for women the world over, to
give them the chance they have never
yet had We do not want to exalt them
them equal opportunities with men,
We are out to prove that there is no
sex antagoniSm fundamentally, and
that marriage should not and need not
be failure. We believe men and
women can be comrades in every de-
partment of life, and We are going to
work TO prove 1t.
I'VE shall begin with our million
readers and keep them and attract
others because of the excellent quality
of our paper. They will be attracted by
seeing every one get fair show, in the
first place. We shall, for instance, when
any important matter Is under discussion
IN Parliament print in full the speeches
Of all parties, for and against, and re-
frain from adding our own persuasion
in either direction. We want to make
people think for themselves. rather than
fall into line with the views expressed
in leading articles.
Our paper will offer attractions COM
peting with those OF other dailies. We
have already new ideas for accident and
other insurance schemes, and we are
assured plenty of advertising.
Foreign Editions Likely.
when we have got going we shall
hope to have foreign editions of the
Call, and we shall no doubt be able to
finance some excellent things. One of
our ideas would be, when we had raised
further capital, to start q model thea
ter and model concert party.
THE untrammeled advocacy of such
paper as the Call would itself afford
lncalculable aid in promoting all move
ments to improve the lot Of the sub
merged TENTH of underpaid workers,
neglected children and ill-treated ami
mails, and in finding a remedy for
countless evils which even the best
disposed men, either for lack of time
or opportunity, or perhaps because they
are not so well fitted as women to
tackle them, have so far failed to
eradicate"
And when do you hope to start?"
Possibly in very few months" said