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Rh Virst, ib is to entertain, as you siuw in the case of Walt's presenta- tion, just the presentation is entertrining, aside from his message.

Second, the public servant agpect. of this thing which we want to prt on the record, because the horrible stull is much more fascimating than the good stuif, but 1 think you agree with us that the good stuil shonld be on ili recard, too.

Many of these are stmply incidents in or daily lives, because we spend almost as mueh time doing the public service kind of thing as our regular strips; in fact, it hecomes an enoruions preblem.

In this instance you will see, for instance, Mr. Miusial here with Governor Dewey during a New York State Department of [lealth meutal hygiene campaign to which he gave a great amount of time, and other artists involved in the soctety as well.

This is Dagwood Splits the Atom, which was prepared with the scientific views of Leshe Grove, General Dunuing, and se forth.

This has to do with the bond sale during the war, the use of Lhe conue strips.

This is a bulletin, rather a booklet, which was prepared for boys who ure sent fo Warwiek School, to the New York State Reformatory,

This is to tel] them not how to get in the reformatory, bul how te gel ont of it en the assumption they have read counte books.

This is to show if they conduct themselves properly they will get paroled back to their parents.

This obvtously is to get kids to brush their teeth. usimg Dennis the Menace: of course he is not a menace; the title is apocryphal. These are sunply incidents of {lie same thing,

All the people know the Disuey comics. The widest selling comie book in the whole country and in Canada is Donald Duck. Tt ont- sells every magazine on the stand; that inchides Life, the Saturday Evening Post.

Asa matter of fact. the Dell camic books constitute 50 percent of the comic books published. They think it is too much that they even dropped Dick Tracy because it was a erime comic.

These pictures with General Dunning, General Eisenhower, Presi- dent Truman had to do with the bond campaigns in which we partici- pated. This is in this case Steve Canyon's Air Power. It so hap- pens, speaking of people condoning comic books or endorsing them, this is endorsed by General Doolittle.

The. I might add it is endorsed by the junior Senator from New Jersey, too.

Mr. . Thank yon, Senator. J hope jusi. for the simple bnsi- ness of letting you know how the other half live, shall we say, that we do some good with the very medium which is fighting for its life, if you will, and we think very highly of the industry as such, because of its enormous potential.

Thank you.

The. Thank you very much, Mr. Caniff,

Are there any questions, Senator Kefanuver?

Senator. I wondered, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Caniif, how do you feel you can get al this sort of thing? 1 know you don't think this is a good influence, some of these horror coures that you see and none of ushike. How do you get at a situation like this?