FOUNDED in 1908 "to injure no man but to bless
all mankind," the Christian Science Monitor ap-
pears to the average "live-wire" journalist to be a
daily, but not a newspaper. Why not? When the
Titanic's sinking furnished the press with the great-
est "story" that ever came from land or sea prior to
the World War, the Monitor never mentioned the
name of a single one of the 1500 men and women
who died. All this evening newspaper could do was
to publish the names of those who were saved. Re-
cord the dying of poor man or millionaire, wife or
widow, it could not. Death must go unrecorded.
In the Monitor's code it was not fit to print.

So you find in that daily no story of a train wreck,
no mention of an automobile accident, no record of
the sinking of an ordinary steamer. You may lose
your best friends in the Knickerbocker Theatre col-
lapse in Washington, or have a vital stake in the Ar-
gonaut mine disaster, so long drawn out, but you will
learn little of either from the Monitor. So terrible

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