Article November 23, 1918 Issue

Your publication espoused an ill-considered attack upon...

Avery Coonley—Washington, D. C.

Army and Navy Register

Your publication espoused an ill-considered attack upon the veracity of The Christian Science Monitor when it reprinted in the issue of May 25, under the caption "Remarkable Group of Misstatements," an attack which was characterized by anything but judicious consideration of the facts. This attack appeared in The New York Times in a department called "Topics of the Times." This particular department is notoriously unreliable on anything connected with Christian Science, and the entire absence of the judicial or conservative in its comment upon the editorial in The Christian Science Monitor is well indicated by the declaration: "Every single statement made in the article, as of fact, is false." A pronouncement could hardly be more rash, and specific citations of unreliability which follow are in keeping with it.

For instance, the Monitor is charged with misrepresentation for stating "by clear implication" that "the opinion of the medical profession as to the value of vivisection is divided." The Monitor did not imply this; it stated it in plain English, and in doing so it was well within the facts. A few citations will substantiate this.

Dr. Charles Bell-Taylor, of Nottingham, England, a surgeon of world-wide reputation, announced it as his conclusion that vivisection was not necessary for the education of the surgeon, the physician, or the general practitioner, and declared that "these gentlemen (the vivisectionists) and their predecessors ... have been vivisecting animals now for upwards of two thousand years without the slightest benefit to the human race;" a conclusion which very definitely indicates a division of opinion.

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