Article January 29, 1910 Issue

We have received a copy of the "Thanksgiving Number"...

Evening Standard

We have received a copy of the "Thanksgiving Number" of The Christian Science Monitor, a daily paper published in Boston. It consists of eight twelve-page sections, or ninety-six pages of news, editorial articles, illustrations, and advertisements. It seems, therefore, that this paper, which first appeared a year ago, is already a valuable property. The purpose of the paper, we are told, has been purely educational. It does not consider the question "What do the readers desire to know?" but what they should know, what will contribute to their lasting advantage.

Thus a writer in this anniversary number explains that "the time and energy consumed in the reading of unimportant literature, of the follies or strifes of men, is quite as surely wasted as is that which is devoted to gossip and trivial conversation. It is of no lasting benefit, and when the general public loses its thirst for such news and learns to read and appreciate better things, the conditions will have greatly improved. Whatever is written on the subject of war and contention should be written in advocacy of peace; with a view of preventing or ending war."

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