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■Stories of the ilnble, for example, are instnuotive, valuable lessons to which every child, heathen. or not, should be exposed. The child who reads the comic-book version has much of his natural curiosity • satisfied. He thinks he knows the Christ story; next he wants, to hear of something else. He doesn’t learn that there is any depth or significance to life that can’t be reduced to a few bloody cartoons and explosive captions.
That’s the real tragedy of comic books. Most of our kids are too tough, I think, to be greatly warped by them, but they aren’t too tough to be smothered intellectually. A desire »to read books—not merely to look at gaudy actioki pictures—is one of the most precious and enduring legacies a parent can give his children. No parent wonild fill his child’s Stomach with watery soup and bread crusts when the larder was bursting with rich roasts and nutritious vegetables. The least penalty would be social ostracism. Is it any less repugnant to pump horror pap into a youngster’s mind? There’s the $64-question on comic books—(Elks Magazine, October 1949).
Friday night. They will at a later date sponsor some wholesome form of entertainment in order to raise funds. I am proud of the action Of the Executive Committee of the Flint Hill P.-T. A. and trust that other groups of prominent citizens will follow their lead in this matter.—
NORMAN J. FUYTHE
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