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12 Tk Newa-Revlew, ReMburf, Oft. Tut., April 23, 19 JO UNFUNNY FUNNIES HIT Editors Ponder Ultimate Effect On Youth Of U. S. By Crime-Laden Comics WASHINGTON-) The coun try's edilori asked themselves and their comic artist! Saturday wheth er comic (trips laden with sex and crime will some day make them answerable (or "damage done to American youth." Two of the top artists, Al Capp of "I.i'l Abner" and Hilton Caniti of "Steve Canyon" defended their craft as being one in which virtue always is conspicuously rewarded. Caniff had the last word: "The editor is the key to the whole thing, he can tell us what's wrong, he can leave the strip 'jut of the paper, he can cancel it." But the debate was hot snd th 00 YOU KNOW ... thai in nuw al about M at all ailment may ba corrected oy iplnal and tntaatlnal trMtoianta rttb oroper dlL Or. M. C. Caaaal camopKACTio rajvaioiAN SI S Caaa T.I Hal STORAGE No more room In Hi gorogef Store It for a few dollars. Call Roseburg Transfer & Storage AGINTS FOR ION DISTANCI MOVIN ret icoNOMT-tir us MANDtl All tlTAItl LOADED WITH WORRIES? YoU should be, if you hove o great many dollars worth of personal property . . . without complete insurance protection for that investment. Remember, this property may be lost or stolen . . . ruin ed by fire, explosion, wind storm, flood! You need the "of home or away" coverage of the Per sonal Property Floofer. Ask us about it today. R. O. YOUNG Phone 417 205 W. Cast St. Roseburg wit barbed aa editors aired their "grave concern" over unfunny funnies in a forum at ASN'E'i an nual meeting. James S. Pope, managing fdi- tor of the Louisville Courier-Jour nal, led the assault for the editors along with Norman Isaacs, manag ing editor of the St. Louis Star Times. A questionnaire circulated by him to fellow editors, Pope said, showed them bothered by these problems: Editora Worried Many editors are worried ibout the detailed picturization of crime. One editor of a successful daily carries no crime or detective strips. Sex: There was concern but less ; than expected. The problem of I "sly and smirking sex has been greatly improved," Pope said, per . haps because of the public reac , tion against newsstand comic ; books. i Propaganda: A "tremendous up rising" of editors against any form I of comic-strip propaganda was re vealed. "Kditora seem to wsnt to pick out their own targets for edi torial crusades," Pope suggested And: The comics are not funny. Al Capp was belabored for the accentuated hips and thighs of the female inhabitants of his mythi cal .mountain town, Dogpatch. He protested that "women do have figures and they're beautiful people like to see beautiful girls properly dressed and artists like to draw them." Isaacs retorted that Capps should underline his own phrase, "prop erly dressed." Unabashed, Capp explained: "These are very poor people in Dogpatch." Prison Director Hoard Even James V. Bennett, federal director of prisons, was drawn into the act. Isaacs read a statement by him voicing concern over the impact on juvenile delinquency of blood-and-thunder strips "which can easily be imitated by chil dren." Caniff promptly Invited anybody to "quote us a single statistic to show that any child has been prompted to commit a crime by any comic strip." Bennett rose from the floor and acknowledged the cases were few but he said he could introduce Capp to a youth who admitted staging a kidnaping on the promp ting of a pictured crime in a "com ic book, not a comic atrip." "1 do have a feeling that there are a few casei of that kind," Bennett said. "It seems to me and to hundreds of thousands of oar ents that the comics are not char acter building." Isaacs said the feature syndi cates which sell the comics tend to deal with complainta by "fil ing, fumbling and forgetting." He said there are many strips which are perfectly harmless, and he in cluded Camff's among them, but he observed that "enough is wrong with enough strips to cauae ui concern." Comic strips are, to children their first introduction to medio crity, Isaacs said. "We've got to stop feeding kids this mental mari juana." As for propaganda on the comic pages, Capp laid he fears a ten dency in America to shrink from the lampooning of itself in the manner of the "delightful and dis respectful humorista of another day." He professed himself ter rorized" at the interpretations some seek to read into his own make-believe tiles. "I'm afraid America la losing Hi moit "precious freedom the fifth freedom the freedom to laugh at itself," he remarked. "Let'i not loie thit freedom for without it the other freedoms are n't any fun." A Pressing Problem BALTIMORE, April 22 -.PV-Richard Kogera has taken his pressing problem of a suit to Bal timore city officials. It seems Richard was out with the boys on Esster Sunday. Rich ardwho is 10 years old had his new suit on. "All of the boys went on the sliding board" at ' a city play ground, he wrote. "When I slid down T heard a rip and discovered that I had badly torn my new Easier pants." Richard didn't come right out and say he wanted the city to re place the pants. But "I should like to hear from you as quick ss possible. I would like to have them to wear to church Sunday." A major crime was committed in the U. S. every 18 seconds in 199. NORCROSS GREETING CARDS sentiment ( ' A the nd, red rest i"VJT eaa- ROSEBURG PHARMACY a l a, ill n i n l ' rv.- n . -v . ft, 1 u ji s Roseburg, Oregon Phone 95 iWii.'st'. ENDS SATURDAY! QUANTITIES LIMITED! HURRY! 111'. 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