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1954 MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
New Zealand Social Security Fund "Nazi Morality Will Be Self-Supporting By 1970
Auckland, N.Z., Oct. 7.3 V
Of
New Zealanders have had an agreeable surprise in connection American Comics
with their Social Security Fund.
*After being told by Mr Sidney Holland, the New Zealand Prime Minister,
in July that £14,000,000 would have to be transferred from the: Consolidated. Fund to balance the Social Security Fund for the your to March 31, 1955, they have now learned that the Social Seturity, Fund may be self-supporting · before 1970,
Mr J.V.T. Baker, the deputy | pays one third of the doctor's | ing pharmaceutical benefits on Government Statistictan, made | feo,
this "projection into the future-j Improvements. --not a prophecy or forecast" benants,
IMMIGRATION.
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for provided free.
at a conference on the Waltare | school children but not avail- State organised by the Auck- able to adults, could be made, land branch of the Economie he added, and some form of Society of Australia and New optical benefit introduced. Zealand.
Mr ·L. N, ROSS, past Presi→ dent of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, criticised the social welfare programme, do- claring that there is an urgent need for an examination of all aspects of it by a Royal Com- mission. of
He based his projections on an axitimed population of 2,682,000, including In annual immigration of 5,000, by 1970-en increase 29.8 per cent compared wille 1954 with An Increase of 39.5 per cent in the labour forco.
Professor J. F. Northey, Professor of Law at Auckland University College, and Pro- fessor H. R. Rodwell, Assoclate Professor of Law at the College, snit that Mr Baker's Agures
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The Leader of the Opposi« tion, Mr Walter Nash, one of the architects of the Dominion's social security scheme, suggest ed to the conference that there was room for an extension of
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London Oct; American children's horror comics, now sale in back-street” bookshops in Britain, - have come under the lash of a magazine editor.
Mr Kingsley Martin, editor of the left-wing Weekly journal, New Statesman and Nation attacked the "Nazi morality" portrayed in the comics and which was now being fed to English children.
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"Can British
in practice
be alde stroots. of London Parents roused to action in time before other English town
Respectable distributors the, vested interests in child seduction are too powerful?" rules forbidding their sale." But
Mr Marlin
bookstall managers' was
reviewing "Seduction of. the
Innocent,"frequently kept them under the American book by Dr F. Wertimin, who exposed Brutal sadiem etenics,
an
of
the American
***
He declared: "Whoso who want tho civilisation of the West to be destroyed could not have imagined a subtler swifter thathod of undermining D whole it than to pervert generation of children; to give them an immoral instead of a moral upbringing; 10 teach
them that love is ugly, that brutality is manly, and that everything that Christ taught Is 'Cleste.
STEADY DETERIORATION
There waS
a steady do- terioration in the reading capacity of American childress and a high propor-
of American who were now iterato... **If literacy MERNS being unable to read anything more sublie than the words in the balloons of comics.”
thank
عالعليم
counter.
¡
(Representativos of 27,000 news, agents ・・・ decided at a Stratford-on-Avon meeting re- to campaign against tho cently sale of American comics in. Britain.)
raid that Dr Mr Martin Wertham was particularly con- vincing
on the subject of wwith Superman, suppported ghastly logle" by Superboy and Wonder Woman.
NAZI IDEOLOGY
“XXin `$19ustrations prove only loo terribly that Nazi ideologý
being continuously and deliberate- Ir Inculcated,” he said, "It is correct 'to. Inflict any kind of violence and torture on negroes, Chinese, Japo men', Jews, Indians, Japs, Slavs and Wops.
"All these are shown in the comics as having irregular features, swarthy skins, phy sient deformities,” while Super- man is tall, blonde, regular Describing Dr Werlham's Kentured and has at his sido a blonde girl with book a "terrifying," Mr Mar-young
tha said the import of Ameri- super-breasts (usually known na can comles was not allowed "headlights"}," in this country but English publishers bought the matrices from America,
The most horrific and sadistic types could be bought in
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Americans who wantedį la stop this vast perversion ware defeated by two groups of opponents whose self-delusions the nnd hypocrisies filed a largo proportion of Dr Wertham's book-the comic publishers and an apathetic public.
RICH BUSINESS. The
*pahilahing
business was immensely rich, welk 'organised · * and entirely unscrupulous. pecudo-psychological experis daily ‚ repeated"/_thas, 'po -evidence existed that comics
harmed children.
Mr Martin commented: "To that the comics have no effect on the children but merely fulfil their Instinctive life, is exactly like saying that p there is no harm in foeding your children
because they get to like it end?Z therefore show
Instinctively need, what they "De Wertham le exactly right hundreds
he says, with the evidence
unhappy neurotief
of
children behind him, that, the effect of the comle le not to in remove aggressive tendencies children but to remove their Inhibitions
One arguments used for the comics was that they led on to interest in more
serious literature.
of the least honest
By way of proof –» It was adduced
that
sometimes tho world's great
classics
ro used by comier. King Lent
for instance, can be made into a comte book, it seems only if it contains a realistid picture of Gloucester having hi}) eros gouged out," Mr Martin said."
NO HARM DONE
„Badinom 17, was the most victouts @aspset of cabsoemnity, Nó · ́haring: wsa k dane te nociety by teaching, evas 1}] somewhaä irresponsibly, bostity and happinens. „malkiglédine from thử fecus
relations of men and women,"
In the West commercia interests are allowed to cofer ouro, walls with an endlass tulations neusk appeti he said, Sighis CARE A on the ground that the censorship are: greater 30
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