Abstract

In the Driftway

This article presents news items, related to newspapers. When the late Leroy M. Bickford, of Boston, Massachusetts, provided recently in his will, that a copy of a Boston newspaper should be placed, daily, in every home in Newburg, Maine--his birthplace he doubtless thought that he was conferring "a great boon" upon the community in which he "first saw the light." It is painful to record the fact that the press throughout the country altogether fails to share his view. There is at least one Boston paper, which is establishing a position of curious prestige in the American press. The newspaper referred is the "Christian Science Monitor." It was the first newspaper, to record the serious general strike which broke out in Australia some months ago. That strike was sufficiently political in color to cause the censor to suppress all cable accounts of it, but the newspaper jogged along with a full report more than a week ahead of all other press dispatches on the subject.