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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
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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."
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BALTIMORE, April 22 -.PV-Richard
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pressing problem of a suit to Bal
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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
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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
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