Items of Interest August 10, 1935 Issue

Items of Interest

To promote a better understanding of the position of The Christian Science Monitor in respect to the significance of its news and editorial columns, the following excerpt is quoted from an editorial it printed, March 7, 1934, entitled "Reading Your Newspaper":

The editors do not make the pages of the news. The world makes them. Editors may sort and shift items to fit their special patterns, but what men do furnishes their material. . . . Neither prejudice nor attachment properly makes news. Only facts. . . . A paper may cover an entire news page with what some celebrity has done, and yet not believe in it or him. It gives him that space solely because his deed is important in relation to others. On the editorial page it may condemn and dismiss him with a paragraph, or ignore him altogether.

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