Letters May 21, 1949 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS

from Christian Science Committees on Publication

Lancashire, England Radcliffe Times, Manchester

I was concerned to read in the Radcliffe Times of recent date that at a meeting of the Prestwich and Whitefield Divisional Executive Committee it was decided, to quote your report, "not to allow The Christian Science Monitor to be placed in school libraries because it was considered to be of a religious propagandist character." Perhaps the members of the Education Committee would be interested to learn some of the facts concerning this international daily newspaper; it would certainly give me pleasure to send them copies for their examination.

The Monitor averages sixteen pages daily with eight columns to the page, and included in the Saturday editions there is also a sixteen-page magazine section. Of all this space, roughly two half-columns are devoted each day to a short but well-loved religious article —that is, less than one per cent of the whole paper. A very mild form of propaganda, surely.

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