Article January 13, 1912 Issue

What shall a newspaper be? Shall it photograph the...

London Daily Chronicle

What shall a newspaper be? Shall it photograph the sins and failures and complaints and horrors of the world? We have enough of them in our own lives, and the ordinary newspaper—one may suspect—recounts the horrors only to profit by their removal. But there comes a paper that refuses to recognize anything but the thanksgiving for blessings received. For three years The Christian Science Monitor has steadfastly refused day by day to publish anything that does not tend to cheerfulness. And the Thanksgiving number of Nov. 29 is so full of cheerfulness that it has to come to this office by parcel post. The ordinary halfpenny could not carry the bulk of joy!

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