Editorial June 15, 1912 Issue

CHICAGO CONVENTION EDITION OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Archibald McLellan

It is characteristic of Christian Scientists to be alert to an opportunity to serve the cause, and to lose no time in grasping it and turning it to account. It has remained, however, for the splendidly organized forces of the Christian Science churches in the great metropolis of the middle West and its enterprising suburbs to set a new mark even for that progressive city.

When Mrs. Eddy inaugurated an era in the newspaper world by founding an international daily whose fixed policy is "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind" (The Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 25, 1908), and requested Christian Scientists everywhere to support it, nowhere was the work of extending the paper's field of usefulness entered upon with more loyalty and enthusiasm than in the city of Chicago, and there has ever been a ready response to any call from headquarters for cooperation in the work of introducing the Monitor to new readers. Consequently, when it occurred to a group of workers in that city that the national Republican convention, which opens in Chicago June 18, would afford an unusually cosmopolitan constituency of readers, and the Publishing Society was asked if it would issue a Chicago edition of the Monitor during the convention, provided a suitable plant could be installed and the expense therefor guaranteed, the Society could but do its part toward putting the plan into effect.

On the face it was a stupendous proposition to fit up within two weeks a complete printing plant, even to the gold-lettered sign which marks the temporary quarters of the Monitor, simply to publish a paper for the few days of the convention; but prompt action on the part of the churches secured the necessary funds, a large store on Michigan avenue just back of the Coliseum was rented, a fully equipped printing plant installed, and everything is in readiness, beginning with next Monday afternoon, to give Chicagoans and their guests an opportunity to see how a modern up-to-date newspaper is made. It is safe to say that many thousands of people will stop to watch the huge press which occupies the show window, as its wonderful mechanism with almost incredible rapidity transforms the roll of paper at one end into piles of printed and folded Monitors at the other.

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