Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-10-26 | Page 5 | Pupils Cremate Comic Boks in Solemn Rite

To Read No More Pupils Cremate Comic Books BooksIn I In Solemn Rife Rile SPENCER W V Va Oct 26 UP Jp- Jp With year old David Mace In Intoning Intoning Intoning In- In toning the service Spencer grade school children cremated 2000 comic cornie books They've been rounding them up for weeks Young Mace led the burial servIce service service ice We Ve are met here today to take a step which we believe will ill benefit benefit benefit bene bene- fit ourselves our community and our country Believing that comic books are mentally physically and morally injurious to boys and girls we propose propose propose pro pro- pose to burn urn those in our ur posses posses- sion We Ve also pledge e ourselves to try not to read any moreDo moreDo more Do Do you fellow students believe believe be be- lieve that comic books have caused the downfall of many youthful readers In unison We Ve do Do you believe that you w will ll benefit by refusing to indulge in comic book reading reading- We Ve e do Then let us commit them and they did Mrs Elizabeth Cordray principal principal principal pal of the school said the students would ask the city council to ban the books from Spencer news stands The campaign was initiated initiated ini ini- by the Teacher Parent-Teacher