1955-03-12 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1955.

HORROR COMICS

THE DANGER WE FACE

in

By CHARLES RAY

OMETIMES, in the unguarded hours, 11 fantasy breaks through k barrier mind which, half- remembered in the morning, leaves a shadow and a sour taste behind. We know that lunatic in the criminal

there are prople asylums possessed, and activated by fantasies, which are such the source of the details which the Jury henr, but

no newspaper can report.

They are the

Today a book is pub. lished that tolls the story of one man's war against horror comics in Amorica:

doctor' the story of a seven-year-fight to and the diet of vico and per- version which is being fed to American children. Revealing for the first time the full extent of the danger, the book is certain to axort consider- able influenco on the future course of action.

sicknesses set THE SCREAMED AS I DROVE IT 108, I FELT IT TEAR shown in the FLESH, CRUNCH AGAINST CARTILAGE, I RAISED IT AND

clinient notes [STABBED AGAIN AND AGAIN....

of Freud, and

the impulses

which found an

outlet in Bel-

the

13.

Di Wertham's

about

hundred-

lion-dollar

Ilustry

crane and horror

that nourishes on

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presentation

this side

human nature to the youth ti America

The l, t, ༥ ; t materials of this The industry ares

the ravings of

One of the milder illustrations reproduced by Dr Wer ham,

the editorial wallets and

(1 month. Journal

Street 840

psyetuatrie wat

These

idea skilful

provide Smart

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The Woll estinated that units were printed One-third of the cheap 1053. pulp produced in Cumisela and America is said to be used in This is big business. this way

then appl. million themselves 741 eladtarle sumplity. From stehtrojne muli alngly exercises on the themes of sex nikt violence emerges the pucture starp that a child of six Chen follow.

Dr Payn stalks i catches her and cuts off I' hands. "Not my hunds! Oh, no. Please not my

10

It runs tobby. 1 pays retainers experts Werthum child

and the names some of them

they receive-to certity sumes the Innocence of its product.. And it has been shaken enough

counter. sait for

Oil by Wertham's campaign 10 Next he ovats off girl's long single him.

HAIR! Lovely, altach.

blonde hair.

perfect hair!"

Two

Rough

13

So far, the nets are indis- putable. The question remains: what influence de the comic

124 the child? have on

xambalion of theas question which the most valuable part of Wertham's hook. He himself is one of the leading American psychiatrists, forner director of some of their largest ellakes, and a recognised expert in medio legut cases He has worked ca the horror comic

Just for the

through

his clinics has Investigated correlated the cage bisontes Bundreds of childress.

features Hetr nici, drawn large and soudagevi, nam being dragged along tied to the

Ther rear kaumges of a car. are words in balloons coming

These The car

Kuvei Foods art rough on tyres" "But

yu gotta admit there's nothing like 'em for erusting faces " A third character says: "Superb Even Bht Pal will admire this job if he lives lont mough In

letify the meat!"

The eye motif is a favourite The Couger

A Jong คอ pointed mail, which is called the Pkiller's manicure,” He

leans over and says: "Yore eyes are gonna pop like grapes when of Gotter gets his hands on you!.. Here 2550

thes

prepera The

blood theme

is abo recurrent.

A pointer ter his mufel to a

ceiling, stabs her, and uses ber blood for paint

The secret

seven you12′′N,

and

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เ

;1

Werthin's Orst point is very simple one. He says that the onus is not on him to show that u stemy diet of rape, BS-

torture

and

sault, killing, mockery of every value that the human race holds decent does no harm to a child. The burden is on those who say it does no harm to prove it,

But there in a view that it is only those who are predisposed to oy who submit to temptu- tion; or that some little boys and girls are born for delin- quency and others are of such Innate goodness that they would CORTO to no harm it taught to kick in faces from babyhood. Wertham, from all his vast ex- perience, will have none of it.

One factor

"Just a hairline," he здун, separates the child who does not get into trouble from the one who does," There, but for the grace of perhaps single tector, goes your chlid. And that factor may be non-exposure ki the hator cumte.

Q

Werthum, from his persotta) handling of delinquents, and deep analysis of their CASCA, claims to have established a de- mite link between the crine coinde and the nature and extent of juvenile crime in present-day Ameries. He records case after cure in which the strip situe- tion has been re-enacted, deter. mined the type of weapon the method of its use, triggered off. abnormalities which migh otherwise in the course of the child's development have dieti

وان گیا

for lack of nourishment. The child mecka

idance. instincts caelised

Dusch urges may be! into different direc tiona, It is at the stage that the crime comic offers daily diet drawn from the compit of adult aberraliun.

Ambition

lo

Entrance to Fort St. Lucian, Malta.

(Photo by

Charlos Dawson).

Concluding "Ferment In The Middle East"

THE

"GEORGE CROSS"

T

too

it

ISLAND

BY HAROLD GUARD

Malta. Into politics in an leland HE “brain centre" of where politics are both a

NATO's south Euro- profession and

pean defence system fion.

is located on this

an avoca-

that

tiny British colony — and But the translation isn't the Maltese people aren't always literal. It la modi- sure that they like fled and sometimes distorted

by the fact

Malta perenially hangs from an The bombs dropped on economic and constitutional Malta during six years of precipice. fighting in World War II

here

left their mark not only on There is a strong political the shattered buildings but faction

that wants also on the minds of men. Malta to tako no part in any These fears of a courageous future war with reserva- people have been translated tions.

William Hickey

IN - TWO

WORDS WE SUM

ONE MAN

OUR PRIDE IN

London, since 1913. A philosopher. THINK we will all be A theologian. gind that the Queen has made Albert Schweitzer

An honorary member of the Order of Merit,

It is a small band of men, just 24 in number.

UP

I suppose that intellectually hely a genius, But he is alzo simple.

During World War II, the inhabitants of the "Stationary aircraft carrior"

called Molto spent their nights and their days in medieval bomb sheltors. Their courage won the island the George Cross. To- day, the fact that Malta has became @ head- quarters for NATO's forces in the Mediter- ranean is the overriding Inace in its political lifo. Mony Maltoso feol it is an invitation to bombs in the future,

mobiles,

Marq

petrol, tobacco,

The faction, led by fiery Dominic Mintoff, is the Maltese Labour Party, which rules in coalition with the wines and spirits. Nationalist Party of Prime

The Governor's decree is Minister Borg Oliver. But Mintoff qualifies his policy seen by the Maltese na 21 by saying that if Malta strong boost for Mintoff, must again become a defence who can now point an fortress, it should share the accusing finger at Britain economic benefits of the denying the Maltese peoples' mutual security programmes claim for equality as NATO which the United States ex- partners. tenda to other NATO members.

There

are other musi¬

It is hard for us, solled with Other missionaries, our cluns.

understand lives. 10 Other learned men.

simplicity. We

times

Luist

year,

It is that Schweltzer has become for us a symbol of the good man.

But we recognisa it.

it

when

that the

Malta was chosen as site for NATO headquarters not only because of its central geographical position, but because a first-class com- munications system alreadly existed.

planning

H

because the

and

the of

"at appeared likely only can

in half-sence it. Perhaps NATO command the But no one here expecta looking at a Doric column. A Mediterranean would be Malta

to be anything but speare scanes. A chord of American, Mintoff and his lamente a loss music.

followers confidently ex- eight miles wide at Jis But Schweitzer', life But they are the chosen

scemspected dollar ald. The broadest point →→ hasn't We speak for

to have my always

that quality appointment of

for the ones, the great ones,

development Admiral space him 80 in

working hours,

dern airfleida. The indictment is eight-fold. ones who have perpetuated generation-need

Kisure, in talking-a quality Lord Louis, Mountbatten as den Crane comtes create an olour greatness

in desperately.

that we can only fumbie for. C-in-C dashed their hopes.

"If vertical take-off aircraft mosphere of cruelty and decell thought, in art, in science, In Our Brrogance We The format is an invitation

come into service in a couple. that we could do

Mintoff has now taken of years, wo may have, some- illiteracy. They crente a read. statesmanship, in arms thought

the without God. In our arro- Churchill, ness for temptation. They sinu-

Thank God! We can recognise another line, He has accepted thing based hero," an RAF off- until that cer told me, "but unwholesome

we laughed at the We know it for good.

the fact that Malta is fantasies. Augustus John, the Vaughan Kance

day comes there is no room for suggest crininal

Williams, the Trevelyan, the idea of the Devil.

regard the NATO base but he insists runways large enough Wo

to ac- sexually abnormal ideas. They

Then came the war. And, pastor's son from Alsace it is that, such being the Alanbrooke.

сабе, commodate modern jota - Øven fluxush rationalisation for

worse than the war,

through moun- those ideas, which may be even

the our hearts that cry out: "Yes! the local Maltese defence if we blasted They are the great ones realition more harmful than the impulse of our land, but I think that worked in such men

that the Devil It can be done! Man can lead forces should be paid on a

tains." self.

as the good life." They Buggest the form a delinquent

take, the name of Schweitzer In Hitler. And then we thought may impulse and supply the details of tech- the Order honours them. and realised that the Devil

was in all of us.

Jate

They

nique. They may tip the scules

towards mulidjustment or delinquency,

be

"What do you want to when you grow up?" Werthain aukoda amall boy. nn

avid

horror comic reader, and had an

instant and enthusiastic reply "I want," sald the child, be v sex maniac."

SECRET POLICE

DOOMED

INFORMATION

here

the

The symbol

It is not that Schweitzer, who was 80 in January, is a great musician. A master of the organ. A healer of the sick

in Equatorial Afrien

when

of.

And when

His philosophy

He has spoken

for Life."

I remember the pathos Joad, the philosopher of eur

he realised of his philosophy, Irragance before his death that there was a power of evil.

the realisation of

But God le good. And with power of the Devil, we accepted thank- fully the idea of the power of good.

A shield

WUB

it is something against Hiller's which Life,"

We have lived through much. Worse problem

await

our answer.

A

basis of equality with other NATO forces here.

This promises to become a An ancient fort built by the and written major -political issue during Knights at St John in the 17th "Reverence the next general election century plays an active role in the NATO local defence scheme. next year, when the Mintoff The Knights built a #tring of that we set faction might well overcome forts on the island to guard the philosophy, the slender majority which coastline, mexiced-by invaders *Contempt for

carried Oliver to the head of from both Europe and Asia, ao a coalition government.

One of these forts has today an RAF, Fight-Lieutenant 18 Oliver's uneasy rulo has "Keeper of the Fort",

with a It is an old, old, old story.

himself been shaken further by the "garrison" of II akmen, It is Man must fight in and in the world the battle of British Governor's decree thump," and little is said about known as an Air Force "storage And Schweitzer, the humble

that all members of the what its great vaults contain. So when the the man in the dabby

British nation,NATO staff headquarters The Islackbers like to whisper sult, the man who had through lis Queen, enrols Al-

have privileges that its stores include "some- renounced The world. has bert Schweitzer in ito Order of should a blunder that dually become to us a gym- Merit, it is not just honouring similar to those granted in thing special" in the way of other NATO countries, in- bombe in the subterranean pris- honeycomb the cluding exemption from fort's foundations: income tax. The nations represented

Apart from their, involvement in Mount-

tho batten's command

in local political issues, arė

NATO continant appears to be France, Greece, Italy, Tur-tafled with the progress made, key, the United States and Britain.

WATCH MALENKOV

WOR

men,

London, is known. But it is now certain wont, It

bol of good his **treacheryTM and may well prove fatal in the Hitler. reaching that

were not inventions years to come.” suggests that of the Politburo

"plotting"

os was at one Malenov

in mortal time thought, Men smush women in

Beria had been the

danger of his life, despite playing a long game in his own teeth.

Women in Liger akin pints and brassieres string the news that, he has been quest for power.

coloured men from a beam. For given new post. Only

the children

onci

The

of

the

good and evil.

In solitude ››

THE human spirit is not

it lives on dead, but

In

walch

Air Marshal B. V. Reynolds šolci mo that the Malta operation had shown that a multi-national defence organiratioņu pauld: com odostively operatu

despite

· Langungo said "wapan. Lönologiend

foreca

a man. to replace the a

an affirmation It is making He is a calling man, who of its belief in mankind. makes not very good joltes and This is a sunsational allega- doesn't quite understand what tion, and, of course, it can't be all the fuss about him is there proved. But every shred of last few years. Why men and evidence supports it. The sud-women of good will-and fail- He had a profound contempt den disappearance of Rostovorov ing-have learned to reverenco who know where

was in Tokyo the Army stands between for Stalin's methods, yet

his absoquent him. and to look there ΠΟΥ

are

Petrov pictures within pictures, and the Malenkoy and the traditional ready to show his hand and quest for sanctuary...t

He is our tower, our chicla solitude. It has realised that it Tre nothing but the secret one pornographic. "liquidation" which follows join up with Malenkov. Probably case in Australia...both point our proof that men is capable now

each feared the other,

to the truth of this theory.

of great good as well as of essential nature of man 08 Loyalty is a jeer, love a ancer, a Communist Party "re-

which to base ftabit. honesty

Rostovarov and the Petrovs were great evil. а mug's game.

And it is becoming increasing- Berla nominees in "the M.V.D.

The shadows over our lives "It is now independent of all "Teen-age dope slave describes signation."

ly clear that Berin had planned

and the stronger ... no, more important, over knowledge, the wonderful effects

Oliver has made it known Even more consational, how our souls.. pro- I am told that Malenkov a much

have lengthened for that independence. It is morphine. "One needleful of

Western line than Malenkov. He over, was Beria's alleged plan,ance the war. The darkness of convinced, too, that comparsion, to all the governments con- joy-juice and you get so solls is watched day and night by had established undercover con- He wanted to make his deal not knowledge that is only destrue the soured of all ethics, cerned that any decisions said, "has been to perfect a com- fed with the world you forget secret police. He has prac tacts with the West, and intend with Truman, Aches of Elsen- tion

all living- erentures has obecured the light of embrace

man affecting the vital interests forunge and relatedt operation! your obligations."

tically no chance of escape

and not limit itselt hower, but with the right-wing | fmarity, BY

of the Maltese people should cer And then In a senso, the words are even and

of the Repulican Party, Beria

izvo only the slenderest

we have thought kind. feared Chinese Communiam. The of Schweitzer

his bir "Ancient ethics had not this not be taken by Britain until constant mureines with the akmed at naval units, man he wanted to make a deal rather awkward frame moving depth, this strength of conve the opinion of the Malta NATO

here now with WILE

the hono

tha from his simple quarters to the fion; but beside it

costumadd of government has been heard, docentralising General MacArthur.

ftpital where the black man stands, a new ethic that

zpwedern, anal giving each, NATO and woman wait with cres respect for Hio-whoso validity

acknow and four diseases.

fe 'more Land- more

The privileges claimed by country in turn command of an ftci veðural defenkce zosta, Tho -We have thought of his music ledged."

SCHWEITZER talking the NATO command; staff résults have been encouraging." playing of Johann Sebastian Bach of his love in Osio when he received the also include exemption from of Paul, of his platy for Janis, Nobel Prize for Peace last year. customs duties on auto-

more

definito

moza characteristic of the inten- chance of coming back into JOHN ASHWIN

tion than the drawings. There is;

a borderline beyond which the favour again.

passions can no longer express

themselves in language, but only

in sounds and noises.

Over the border

Nows is trickling through very ed to develop those with a view Howly from the Soviet capital, to overthrowing the Soviet

other

But Beria's approach did not but these facts to be pieced regime and starting a revolt in get him to the General. His cop togotiser:-

the Ukraine.

tarts at a lower level let him down. Was this treachery or (1), The execution of Abaku

A diplomat from one of the incompetence? mov, an accomplice of Beria, Scandinavian

.countries who marked the anal coup towarda know Heria well tek 'me: "Ho The American crime strip is eliminating Malenkov, Abaku was the one man the West could constantly over this border. It moy was said to be implicated have donit with, and it might: scrapes the barrel of language, in the sudden death of Zhdanov have meant peace in our time, on: finding nothing- strong in 1948.. Malenkov bed the He was on sopportamist and mough, for Its purpose (which struggle against Zhdanov and his entirely Machiavellian, but he no Herally becomes, "unapeak" | faction.

ew through the bottom of able'), grows inarticulate with

now clear that Soviet Communiam.

HO

and media contacts with the

bestiality Alecccvce, arggh-h-h,

(2) It is

eruurunch, whanammmmm" and Malenkov mads a big mistake in West, but the stupkilt

a whole dictionary of noises not forming

from the managerld mark not Berla. The two together could

an allanca will dardistatus of · curtolix ·

colleagues.

· organisations zapult=

merely the victim's mortal palu have held power inlednitely ad in his being found out by he and fear, but also the joy and | Borla's Enll was the work of vis

You may bể, warm satisfaction which they are Khrushchev and, the Army zys deriving from its infliction, pl

thi betatagal of Berta Bor

a Malenky had played down that it is what itenocinke D Wertham puts the current efr- Stalinism. Under Chi infusion been duined into the other culation of comla: books in stalin's birthday win, kucewek ma membe

beries at around 90 million

JOHNNY HAZARD

LJOHNNY, YOU'RE IN A TIN

POSITION TO BE A GREAT-·, NEED TO ME AND Z. KNOW YOU WON'T REPUSE MAILS.

I GUESSED YOU

HAD BOMETHING

· UP YOUR BLEIVE WHEN YOU TOLD, ME TO TIMON C

BUT WHAT YOU'VE, BÓT TO SAY IN PROBABLY ONLY FOR MY CARD/ HEY,YOUMBO "AWAY?. LEAVE US ALONE

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