Editorial December 19, 1908 Issue

A DEMAND FOR CLEAN LITERATURE

Archibald McLellan

In the Sentinel of Oct. 17 The Christian Science Monitor was announced in part as follows:—

The tide is "at the turn;" the current of human thought is setting in the direction of that which alone is real—the good that men do, and not the evil. All over the land there has been and is a call from the fathers and mothers who feel their responsibility in this direction, who are asking for a paper that will supply vital current news, the things we want to know and ought to know about our fellow-men, but which are submerged in the daily tidal wave of crime and disaster which the ordinary newspaper would have us believe sweeps over the world. There is a field. and a wide one, for a clean newspaper, and it is this field which the Monitor is entering.

It will be the mission of the Monitor to publish the real news of the world in a clean, wholesome manner, devoid of the sensational methods employed by so many newspapers. There will be no exploitation or illustration of vice and crime, but the aim of the editors will be to issue a paper which will be welcomed in every home where purity and refinement are cherished ideals.

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