Article February 13, 1909 Issue

In the city of Boston the initial step has been taken in...

Los Angeles (Cal.) Record

In the city of Boston the initial step has been taken in a movement that promises to be of great interest to the makers and the readers of newspapers the world over. This step was the launching of a daily paper that is to be absolutely clean in every way, and to avoid all sensational exploitation of scandals and news of crime that might tend to degrade rather than uplift the world.

The name of the new paper is The Christian Science Monitor, and it is published by The Christian Science Publishing Society. Its mission is to publish the real news of the world in a clean, wholesome manner, devoid of the sensational methods employed by so many newspapers. There is no exploitation or illustration of vice and crime, but the aim of the editors is to issue a paper that will be welcomed in every home where purity and refinement are cherished ideals. The Monitor contains, in addition to the usual news feature, special departments which make it appeal to good men and women everywhere who are interested in the betterment of all human conditions and the moral and spiritual advancement of the race.

The Monitor is not being conducted by a staff of rabid reformers, who would revolutionize things in general at one fell swoop, but by some of the most able newspaper men in the United States—men who have had their training on the best and biggest papers in the country, and who know how to make good newspapers. It has a staff of which any paper might well be proud. It covers local news fully, and it is obtaining its telegraph service from the United Press, the same press association that serves the Record.

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