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Show Successful Parenthood With over 500 comic books to choose from is it any wonder that parents have been throwing up their hands over the problem of helping their children purchase suitable ones? Yet to give up on proper selection . and depend on confiscating the harmful ones which get into your children's hands is an inexcusable example of shutting the barn door after the horse has run away. Until now, however, this was about all parents par-ents could do. But at last, through the efforts of a group of parents in Cincinati, Ohio, the comic books have been rated as to their moral tone, cultural cul-tural aspects (or lacking of them) and their emotional quality. To bring these important findings to parents the country over, Parents' Magazine publishes in its February issue the ratings given the 555 comic magazines examined by the the Cincinatti reviewers. There is no longer any excuse for finding heavily emotional, unwholesome comics among your child's possessions. poss-essions. By studying the comic ratings rat-ings you and your children can together make a list of the ap- enforcement officials portrayK stupid or ineffective. The Moscow press reports the largest salt mine in the Union has met its production q. two months ahead of schf':-One schf':-One trusts the parole board " take this into account. Wasi: ton Evening Star. Afternoon papers are put : so male trolley riders can't ; women standing. Oysterett; Q How can I make a good let perfume? A A good toilet perfume be made by mixing two ounce alcohol with one-half ounce oi risroot. Keep in a bottle tic: corked, and shake well before ing. proved ones. There are enough of these to give your children plenty of variety and to satisfy their pleasure in news stand shopping. Children are often maligned by those who say, "Oh, they always grab for the most lurid comics .no matter how hard we try to improve im-prove their tastes." This simply is not true. The fact is that garish comics, movies and books scream their wares so loud that children, who aren't very experienced in making decisions, take the ones that arrest their attention. More modest publications often go unnoticed in the welter of blood-thirsty covers and posters. It is your job, as good parents, to find out about the good comics, as well as about the undesirable ones, so you can satisfy your children's love of this form of story tolling without subjecting them to comics that undermine their nervous systems sys-tems and pervert their tastes. Of the 555 comic magazines rated rat-ed in the published list, 165 have an A rating, which moans that no objection was found in the cultural cul-tural area or the moral area, and that they arc not morbidly emotional. emo-tional. This moans that 30c; of the comics on the news stands are OK for your children to buy and rend. This is about the snmo per cent for children in the Parents' Magazine Maga-zine movie guide. It would scorn, then, that instead of indicting all comics, parents should tnko the time and trouble to Improve thoiv children's tnsto in rending comics ns well ns in other forms of recreation. re-creation. As mi indication of the stund-ards stund-ards used In evaluating comics hero nro Homo of the objections in the nioreal im-n: women ns jrun molls, criminals and the wieldors of weapons, sexy Inipliciit ions poisons poi-sons dressed Indecently r unduly exposed, crime stories, oven If thov purport to show Hint, crime doe's not pay, situations that glnmorl.e crlmlniilH, details or methods of crime, especially If oimetod by children, thwart ed just lee and law |