Article June 27, 1925 Issue

In the "Current Comment" column of your issue of recent...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,—Cedar Rapids

Gazette

In the "Current Comment" column of your issue of recent date, under the caption "It is Life," your statement, "One or two benign publications that look at the world through smoked glasses print no crime news at all," leaves an erroneous impression as to the position of such publications. The newspaper which can print enough good news to fill its pages and satisfy the normal appetite for constructive thought should be credited with looking through glasses cleansed from the smoke of evil to the extent that a clear vision of existing good can be obtained. While you refrained from naming the newspapers which you would include in the quoted portion of your article, if you meant to infer that The Christian Science Monitor was one of them, since it prints no crime news, it may be interesting to your readers to note a reference to that newspaper in an editorial which appeared in the Chicago Leader of January 16, 1923. It read: "If the teaching of journalism has needed standardization,—and there can be no question that it has,—the actual realm of practical journalism has had its standard, and a worthy standard, for some sixteen years past.... We refer to The Christian Science Monitor, published in Boston and circulating throughout the civilized world. This newspaper is generally recognized by scholars, educators, diplomatists, and heads of governments everywhere as the finest product that the human concept of journalism has brought forth."

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