Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-12
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TT is the announced intention of the
Christian Science Publishing So
"A ciety to issue a daily newspaper
which will be called the Christian
Science Monitor. One of the purposes
of tine paper will be to protest against
and counterfeit the power of SUCCESS
ton of evil exercised by many daily
newspapers, especially those of the type
described by the adjective yellow"
Los Angeles Herald, both in its news
columns and its editorial opinions, has
protested constantly against this form
of journalistic enterprise. We regard
sensational or hysterical newspapers as
evidences Of disease, and have never
hesitated to say so. We have pointed
out that one crime may lead to another
similar crime, not because that particu-
lar variety of crime is In the air and
infectious, but because a slxillful and
vivid description of it is infectious.
The puerility which ascribes to "erlme
waves" the epidemics of moral disorder
which sometimes sweep across this
country would be laughable IL 1t were
not concerned with a subject of such
grave and vital Importance to civiliza-
ton. In a case of this kind, where
similar crimes follow a so-called big
and sensational crime. the yellow
papers have infected the whole country
with this kind of crime. and against
this infection and plague there is, as
yet, no quarantine.
Mrs. Eddy has said: Looking over
the newspapers of the day one natur- /
ally reflects that it is dangerous to live |
so loaded with disease seems the very
air. These descriptions carry fears to |
many minds, to be depicted in some
future time upon the body. A periodi- |
cal of our own will counteract to some
extent this public nuisance; for through |
our paper at the price at which we
shall issue it, we shall be able to reach |
many homes with healing, purifying
thought"
In commenting on this the Christian
Science Sentinel remarks: 1.-The last
clause strikes the keynote for the
Monitor and what it will stand for.
1t is this healing. purifying thought
that not only Christian Scientists but
the better class OF people everywhere
are demanding today. The tide is at
the turn; the current of human thought
is setting in the direction of that which
alone is real-the good that men do,
and not the evil. All over the land
there has been and is a call from the
fathers and mothers who feel their
responsibility in this direction, who are
asking for paper that will supply vital
current news, the things we want tc
know and ought to know about our
fellow men, but which are submerged
in the daily tidal wave of crime and
disaster which the ordinary newspaper
would have US believe sweeps over the
world. There is a field, and a wide
one, for clean newspaper, and it is
this field which the Monitor is en-
tering.''
We wish success to the Monitor. In
deed, we know by experience it Will
be successful. It has been the mission
of Los Angeles Herald, even as it is
the announced mission of the Monitor,
ito publish the real news of the world
in a calm, wholesome manner, devoid of
the sensational methods employed byl
many newspapers" 1t is part of the
policy of The Herald to avoid lex
ploitatiOn or illustration of vice and
crime" and its aim is ito issue a paper
which will be welcomed in every home
where purity and refinement are cher
ished ideals"
The success of Los Angeles Herald
warrants the belief that the Christian
Science Monitor will be successful