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COMIC BOOKS NOW $52 MILLION INDUSTRY

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Radio series

A series of five critical
broadcasts on “The Comic
Strip” will be presented
over radio station CBR in
Vancouver beginning this
coming Wednesday, Jan-
uary 10. The series, pre-
sented by Norman New-
ton, will be heard at 10.15
p.m. Subject of the first
talk “about your favorite
comic character” is Harold
Gray’s insufferable child
propagandist, Little Or
phan Annie.

@ Cartoon courtesy CBC
Times,

Chaplin af best
in ‘City Lights’

CITY LIGHTS
A revival. Charlie Chaplin at
his best. Don’t. miss it.

TEA FOR TWO

Technicolor and good tunes
make this very much adapted
version of No, No, Nanette a
fairly acceptable fluffy musical.

BESERT HAWK

Another fantasia played on the
exotic sands of an imaginary Or-
ient. Horrible!!!

ALL ABOUT EVE

Joseph Mankiewicz presents a
ruthlessly clinical study of a
small, not too important section
of humanity—the people of the
theatre — specifically Broadway
—with devastating results, Bette
Davis, George Sanders and others
expertly deliver the sharpest dia_
logue ner in some time.

Publishers violating Criminal Code with
crime, war, sex comics, charges youth paper

CANADIAN publishers and im_
porters of American comic books
are flagrantly violating the Ful-
ton Amendment to the Criminal
Code making it a crime to print
or distribute books featuring
crime, sex, violence and hate.

This is the conclusion of a
hard-hitting brief recently pre-
sented to Toronto Board of Edu-
cation by representatives of the
Committee for a Democratic
Youth Paper, Champion, who
cited seven comic books, selected
at random from newstands, as
giving a consistent picture of
violence, murder, torture, crime
and cruelty.

The brief was prepared and
presented by Charles Fine, B.A,,
in answer to an earlier Bresen in

WAR PROPAGANDA PERVERTS CHILDREN'S

tion to the Board by R. K. Vogan,
graduate student of the Ontario
College of Education. Vogan’s
report attempted to whitewash
the comic book industry and
maintain that comic books con-
tributed little to juvenile delin-
quency,

In his carefully documented
brief, Fine declared:

“Canadian youth have long been
brought up under the tradition of
peace and against militarism.
Yet if we carefully examine the
frantic note in the cultural out-
put of radio, movies, comic
books and other literature of
today, we find an unmistakable
emphasis on force, violence and
the use of death-dealing wea-
pons . In the world today

IDEAS

‘Rat-a-tat-tat... we'll kill ‘
boasts comic-reared youngster

TOMMY IS il, perhaps 12
years old. He attracted my at-
tention when he launched into
a high-pitched, colorful, descrip-
tion of the Korean war for the
edification of his younger com-
panion. Sitting near them in a
Fairview streetcar jolting north

on Granville street, here is what —

I heard:

“Are we going to see a war
picture, Tommy?”

“Sure. Maybe, it’s about the

“war in Korea, You know about

that, don’t you. Boy, that’s where
the -Yanks are killing all those
Chinese gorillas. Those gorillas
are plenty tough, you gotta get
a machine-gun right up against
them and go rat tat tat tat tat
before you kill ’°em dead. They’re
too big to kill with an ordinary
gun.”

“How did they get so big?”

“Well, first they were just
little Russion gorillas, then we
let them grow instead of wiping
them out and when they got big
they turned into Chinese red
gorillas and there’s millions and
them. But they can’t kill us like
we can kill them because we got
all the military equipment.

“Boy, our planes are dropping
bombs on them and killing
hundreds of them. The only
trouble is they got so many of
them we gotta keep fighting
them all the time, but they still
keep on fighting because they
don’t care how many of them
get killed,

The lads got off the car and
headed towards a theatre whose
marquee advertised a Hollywood
production entitled American
Guerilla in the Philippines.

I FELT slightly sick. Just five

years ago I was living ‘in a slit

trench southeast of Nijmegan,
“marking time’ while the brass
planned the final big Allied push
into Germany. (‘While we marked
time, the Russian armies were

smashing westward on their way
to Berlin,

In the six-month fighting ad-
vance from the Normandy beaches
through France, Belgium and
Holland, our 40-man heavy mor-
tar platoon haf lost one officer
and several men, and had suf-
fered 50 percent casualties. We
were all hoping that the spring of
1945 would see the final defeat
of Hitler Germany and usher in
the dawn of a new day, in which

all mankind would throw off its

chains and begin building a new
world.:

January, 1951, finds mankind
advancing. In the Soviet Union
and the New Democracies the
people go forward from victory
to victory in peacetime construc-
tion, In China 450,000,000. people
have “stood up” and shaken off
their oppressors.- All the colonial
peoples of the Far East are stir-
ring. In Korea a valiant people
are fighting to drive out their
imperialist enemies and emanci-
pate themselves.

And at home? At home we find
our government selling out our
heritage to Hitler’s successor, the
United States, the reactionary
colossus which stands as the great
roadblock to peoples’ progress in
al parts of the world,

Daily and hourly the propa-
ganda machine of the US. —
movies, radio, magazines and
newspapers—dins into our minds
and the minds of our children
the’ lies and the slanders, the
warmongering hysteria which has
become the “American way of
life.”

Where does little Tommy get
his ideas, his child’s-eye view of
the world? , From Hollywood
movies, from Yankee magazines,
from Canadian newspapers which
feature American-inspired war
propaganda in the comic strips.

“with

kill ‘em all’

Is it any wonder that Tommy
regards war as an exciting game?

*¥ * »*

A FEW DAYS ago I was talk-
ing to Ray Gardner, who re-
cently returned from the World
Peace Congress at Warsaw which
he attended as a member of the
Canadian delegation. In the
course of our conversation he
mentioned the children of War-
saw.

“Peace is a concrete word in
their language,” he told me.
“Peace means construction, Every
child has plans for the future.
They see new buildings going up
incredible rapidity. New
schools and factories, For Polish
children, these things spell peace
—a better living, a happy future.
Having experienced war, they
know that war means only des-
truction and disaster.”

Canadians who love their child-
ren, who want them to grow up
in a world at peace, must unite to
fight against the insidious infil-
tration of American war propa-
ganda.

A good first step has been taken
by the editors of the new pro-
gressive youth paper, Champion,
in demanding the banning of war-
mongering Yankee comic strips
which deface our daily news.
papers. But that’s only a first
step.

« A crusade to clear the Canadian

air waves of Pentagon propa-
ganda and to bar the more ob-
noxious Hollywood movies from
perverting the minds of our
movie-conscious youth is neces-
sary. Coupled with this, a posi-
tive campaign to win Canadian
youngsters for peace, by making
peace an exciting word, synony-
mous with progress and a happy
future—BERT WHYTE.

}

’

this can only indoctrinate the
youth with a philososphy of
violence, can only lead the youth
to settle differences of opinion
by the sword instead of the pen,
can only drive relentlessly down
the road to war.”

In an examination of seven
“so-called “adventure fomic
books,” Fine found, in the 261
pages, 408 examples of violence
and crimes, There were 34 scenes
depicting violence and crime
with fists; 151 scenes of other
forms of violence using whips,
arrows, clubs, axes, chairs, boots,
knives, strangling, judo, scenes
of death, poisoning. There were
46 scenes depicting intent to com-
mit murder or violence. There
were 110 frames illustrating vio-
lence and crime by use of six-

shooters, tommy-guns, machine
guns, rifles.
Fine listed 20 examples of

“perverted or cruel or sadistic
methods of crime, torture or
death,” including:

Wanton bombing of people,
people being turned into atom-
dust by death rays; being shot
down by machine gun fire from
airplanes.

Men being eaten alive by ani-
mals, trampled to death by cat-
tle, torn to pieces by other men
and women,

Decapitation by an axe wield-
ed by a human being; man stab-
bing his brother to death; being
whipped by cat-’o-nine tails.

Fine included 13 instances of
scenes depicting war hysteria,
atomic and hydrogen bomb hy-
steria.

The brief examined the field
of so-called romance comics and

used a story, picked up from

a comic book on newstands en- -

titled “They Caught Me Cheat-
ing at Love.” The author re-
printed an entire scene in which
“there takes place the develop-
ment from youthful innocence to
thinly-veiled prostitution.”

Incitement to race prejudice
and hatred was also subject to
examination. In seven comic
books under review, “there were
many frames depicting Indians
and Negroes as savage, blood-
thirsty people, obviously des-
cended from an inferior race of
mankind. There were 46 frames
where Chinese were presented in
a grotesquely . caricatured light,
complete with pigtail.”

Fine listed the Canadian Ang-
lican Outlook as his source for
the information that comic book
printing in Canada was a $52
million; industry, “Crime in
comics show that crime does pay
and pays handsomely,” he said.

As for the aspect of the
“comic” of humor, the brief said:
“In all cases but one, Jaughter
Was expressed only when a per-
son was either committing or
observing some violence or
erime of brutality.

In its recommendations, the
brief asked the Board of Edu-
cation to initiate prosecution of
the publishers of crime comics
under Article 207 of the Criminal
Code, known as the Fulton
Amendment,

Comic strips in daily and big
weekly newspapers also came
under the condemnation of the
survey, as more harmful, in
many cases, than comic books
because they were more widely
read,

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