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I JANUARY 7,1949 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER PAGE THREE (Second Section J y Students Igainsi flS-v Wii it :i!nmic Books 113H"J I Inn nf Whoth ,. arfin forum l'"1 W:. ., V. a maiorlty 'T'L w..iy against ban ,I,'M, La only two r,;';';; U,e opinion tnat 1,1 I,.' ' ,t i sponsored K: wan Mi- L, ,s smiM. I ,., iTinarks pro u. " ,,udentS on the ,oiiijl, )110k query - ASC y FRANCIS chnuld nol oe Ot coursp there are those u crime, the use of slang approach (.1 sex, Boci ', ,.inv others that the wrong impres- . ,.n educa- , mmlrous and would (1 pastime lor eim ' :u. omul for lM(. reuoiiiK e." ..i.ii,ir..n iney sec ,1,,. various pans oi uie pictures through the Sf . that some kind .ltitin;d hoard should be .,..f this l.vi'e oi puu il.at worth while ,1,1 !. retained and the . ,.u,uiuitecl from the Immoral plots and illustrations, and an over-emphasis on murder and horrible killings. I think this type- of comic book should b heavily censored to niake them more pleasant to read, but there should still be emphasis on the fact that crime does not uuv. That is what these books usu ally try to convey to the reader, and they would be just as enter taining if they were less gruesome. Th comic most highly approved by the public is the classic- and sports. The young readers don t hold these in very high esteem; but I think and hope they will be come more popular, and the popu larity of horror comics will dwin dle. Ship Breaks In Half Oil North Carolina Coast w iyz w L am: oliver bunks should nol ne oui- v hrawlv censored. XMum- ,ks have too much sex, JAMES McJUNKIN I don't think anyone has a right to ban completely the comic books. It would mean a ban on freedom of press and speech. There are a Tew of these that very definitely should be improved. Some are not even fit for adults to read, let alone children. I think that more modesty should be displayed by the cartoonists. They are ruining their own busi ness. Trip maioritv of the comic books are for the younger people. They are as harmless as literature can get. Th ones I obiect to are those which play up crime and have ob scene pictures. TILE HALT GLAZED JlSBKIt QUARRY 1EK ESTIMATES FRADY TILE CO. ;H Waynesville, N. C. icmes 78,'i-R or 2105 It , ' cd v" ? I Heavy seas pound the bow half of the Argentina tanker El Capitan which broke in half off Cape Hatteras, Sunday. Two members of the crew, wearing life jackets, are on deck. Sixteen members of the crew, including the captain, were removed from this section of the ship by the Coast Guard. Two other crewmen are believed to be adrift on the severed stern of the tanker. At the time of the mishap, the El Capitan was being towed by the tug Tern en route from Savannah, Ga., to a shipyard in Baltimore. The tow line from the tug to the bow of the tanker did not break. (AP Wirephoto). MARGARET NOLAND This question, "Should comics be prohibited?" should be receiv ing much thought in the minds of parents and teachers everywhere in the United States. It is up to the parents of today to protect their children from juv enile delinquency, which has had a great increase since the sale and distribution of comic books. So comic books have many great classics in them! They may have for instance Dicken's "Great Ex pectations". The first nine or ten pictures showed a big gruesome cruel man with a knife hovering over a young boy. Why couldn't the money paid into taxes for mailing comic books be put into funds for librarys or something worthwhile and decent, instead of the cheap trash they get from the comics? should abolish all others. Many cities have found that reading the so-called comic books gives people the wrong impression. They have found that reading them leads young boys and girls into juvenile delinquency. Some of the comic books are very educational, and it would be a crime to take them out. I think there should be a limit, and 1 am sure that reading a few comics will not hurt anyone. such books as True Comics and Hero Comics. The former of these two, True Comics, is an illustrated history book. Hero Comics tell of the deeds of some of our most famous men, not only heros of war but heros in the field of medicine, electricity, and others. Next comes the so-called horror stories of blood and thunder. They teach that crime docs not pay, that no matter how smart a crim inal is, he always gels caught. These books might be censured DONALD MATNEY One of the recent questions that has had great interest among our teen-agers is the question, "Should we outlaw comic books?" We do not have to do away with our true comic books, but we SYLVIA JANE NEWELL Many people think that omic books should be done away with or outlawed. There are comics which are funny and express the name "Comic". But so many are not fun ny. They express crime. They are sensational and immoral. They never teach us wholesome thoughts; they do not create good impressions, and they promote crime and juvenile delinquency. Comic books are illustrated and therefore attract attention and ap peal to the eye. The more daring and unreal the cover looks, the more curious you are to buy it. They are a waste of time and money. There are some "Comic" books which stress religion and try to leach the Bible. The true comics teach historical and geographical facts. We do not object to these because they create good morals. But does the good outweigh the bad? If comics were outlawed as a whole wouldn't it be better? We could get our facts in another form of literature. Big Star Actor Costs $6,000 Daily To Act In Movie By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UP.) It can cost about $6,000 a day to get a big star to act in your picture, but they're worth it. Robert Cummings, actor - pro- more strictly but not by any means, ducer, who doesn't drag down that Acting Cow Turns Out To Be Ardent Bing Crosby Fan HOLLYWOOD (UP) The na tion's only acting cow has turned out to be a Bing Crosby fan just like anybody. The cow, Bla'ckie, excels at stand ing still and looking coniemeu. For that she gets $10 a day, plus-hay. Her trainers said she gave one of her most expressive perform ances in Paramount's "Top o' the Morning" when it came to standing still and looking contentedly at Crosby. When it came to moving away, however, she "was excelling at standing still. Her trainers inspected their shoelaces in embarrassment. This, they let on, had never happened in Blackie's eight years as an actor. Always tractable, they assured di rector David Miller. Always reli able. Quick to learn and obey. They pointed out tentatively that dairymen sometimes inspired their herds to super-normal milk production by tuning in Crosby. It was possible that Blackie heard Crosby warmjng up a few boo-boos. His famous groans, as dairymen have proved, have a hypnotic effect on cows. Refuses to Budge In the scene, Crosby, an Ameri can insurance investigator posing as an artist during a visit to Ire land, set up an easel in a field supposed to be in hailing distance of Blarney Castle. Blackie, munch ing contentedly beside him, watch ed him try to paint a picture. Then she was, supposed to saun ter away. Her trainers cajoled, threatened, begged. They looped a wire around her horns and pulled. outlawed. WILLIAMSON, JR. are a definite part (7i7l7TfiriRi TODAY and SATURDAY, JAN. 7 - 8 DOUBLE FEATURE FISTS flY! GUNS BOOM! KNIVES FIASH! HORSES GALLOP! Decree Eigrfc PSECOND FEATURE run Hnrv tlnh W- FONDA BELLAMY COLOR CARTOON and Chapter 3 DICK TRACY RETURNS MALCOLM R The comics of our American Folk literature. What would our life be like with out Blondie, Li'l Abner, Dick Tra cy, and Jiggs. The publishing of comic magazines is a tremendous entertainment business. Much is said of the supposed harm done to juvenile minds by comic books. I cannot believe that the mere reading of a magazine for pleasure and entertainment could result in any harm to a child's mind regardless of the content. Critics point out the death and murder in comic books, but they must remember that Jack and the Bean Stalk, and Little Red Riding Hood are not tales of gentleness and warmth. The American tradi tion of the free press cannot be vi olated by the banning of comic books. They are here to stay, and let us put our efforts toward im proving the undesirable ones, not abolishing them altogether. Dan Dailey May Be In Running For Academy Award HOLLYWOOD (UP) Dan Dailey, currently acting the par ent of a child movie star, may be coddling one along in his own nursery. The Dailey sprout, at 15 months. sings, dances and beats on a drum, and it looks to be only a matter of time until Pop retires and Dan, Jr., takes over. That would be okay with Dailey. He's doing more acting and less dancing in 20th Century-Fox's You're My Everything"; people are talking about his chances for an Academy Award nomination. and it looks as though there's room for another song-and-dance man in tiio house. I'm not going to make a movie star or anything else out of him," Dailey said. "If he goes in the movies, it's all right with me. The business hasn't been so bad to me." His own father couldn't see it for a career, Dailey admitted. Father Dailey ran a hotel in New Orleans that hosted a lot of carnival and burlesque troupes. He looked stiff ly on their antics and decided show business was not for his boy. Started Early But Dailey was dancing around the play-pen when he was two. and his sister was singing profession ally when she was five. "Now she works for a bank," he said. "My brother's in the frozen food business. I'm the black sheep." Dailey was working with about 15 babies and an equal number of dolls in a hospital scene where he gets the first glimpse of his future movie star child. Each baby can LOVE'S LABOR LOST HAVERHILL, Mass. tUP) Dawi was breaking as the safe doot swung open and the thieves who had jimmied throughout the night in the office of the City Oil Trans portation Co. reached inside. They fled empty-handed. The cash had been removed from the safe the previous afternoon. work only 30 seconds at a time, which makes it hard to put out an Academy Award performance. "They get everything all set, the actors in place, the cameras turn ing," Dailey said. "Then they rush the baby in, switch on the lights and you start acting like mad. The nurse keeps a stop watch and at 30 seconds you could be giving the performance of the century, but she busts in and grabs the baby away." JAY DEE STANLEY No, comic books should not be outlawed. Most of the children of today read comic books, so called funny books. Some funny books are enter taining, others are educational. Several of the entertaining funny books feature such characters as the famous Disney creations. These books should under no circum stances be outlawed. In the educational group are producer who pays it is getting the best kind of picture insurance. Barbara Stanwyck, for instance, is currently collecting' $30,000 a week. Cummings, who made a re cent picture with her, says she de serves every cent. "A big star is primarily inter ested in a good picture," he said. "They're on time, they're ready, they know their lines, they work fast. They're always looking for things to make the picture better." Loretta Young, Academy award winner, with whom Cummings just made "The Accused", kept her eyes open constantly for bits of business that made every actor's part better. After 20 years in movies, she knows what makes a good picture. Experience Tells A friend of mine who was pro SOCIAL CALL PAINFUL HOLYOKE, Mass. ( UP) It cost Edward J. liussell, 2G, a smashed hand to find a friend had moved. After he discovered his friend was no longer living there. Russell was leaving an apartment building when a woman approached him. accused him of trying to enter her apartment, and smashed his hand against a railing with an iron bar. PARK THEATRE PROGRAM SATURDAY, JANUARY 8 DOUBLE FEATURE money and get one of the young actresses just coming up," Cum mings related. "He told me that for what it cost him in retakes and waiting around and shooting a scene over and just to get some thing, he could have hired Berg man. "And the next time, he said, he will." With a bunch of old, experienced actors in a picture, Cummings said, you don't even need to hire a director. He's seen many a time when an experienced cast picked up after an inefficient director and turned out the picture themselves. Cummings is about to put his theory into practice. When he finishes his part in "Bitter Vic tory", Hal Wallis' Paramount pic ture, he takes off for Italy to make a movie about the life of George Sand. Who's his star? One of the most experienced, most expensive of A handler hid in the bushes and yelled "boo". Blackie hardly turned her head. They scattered choice tidbits of food along the route. Blackie gulped the first one. literarly chewed up the scenery. Finally Crosby started off in the same direction. "We'll have to get an udder cow," he said. Maybe Blackie was chasing him. but she followed. FHA TERMS MEAN QUALITY In HOME HEATING NO DOWM PAYMEHt SEE US TODAY COmPHNf Aaheville, N. C. 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Ten years ago we used to pay around a hundred dollars a month for lights and; power. Today we use considerably more electricity and pay less for It. Oyer1 in England the government socialized the power industry six months ago, and in that six months the cost to consumers has increased 50 per oenf. This case Is. a particular. Taken with" other par ticulars such as the splraling British cost of living, the Increasing cost of government, and the general Inefficiency of nationalized British Industry, It con stitutes ct generality that living Is neither as pleas ant nor as profitable under socialism as it is under the. free enterprise system of America. frem THE ZEBULON RECORD, Zebuhn, N. C. CCAROUNA POWER A LIGHT COMPANY V 4 it u it 1 1 f M 1 ! n SUNDAY SHOWS 2 - 4 " 9
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