Show r 1 I The Funny L Page i By DR FRANK CRANE I 1 have otten often marveled at the type of mind that day lay after da day week in and week out year ear upon year can turn ou uniformly funny tunny comic strips It seems see to me that me-that that this requires a typo type of genius as sure surely I as d duos s the composition of ot an oratorio or the writing of a sonnet Lars Saxon Sweden's Lord says MS the difference In popular Appeal between n American J and European papers is the funny tunny page v With the thc skyscraper and the cowboy the tho comic page takes its place as a distinctly American Ins in- in s Only here has it Jt attained the prominence with Which s we are familiar It Is above all an democratic It deals only with common folk tolk It talks in the tho jar Jarron on of at the time It reveals re the ideas of the four tour million It gives more than a moments moment's relaxation or a laugh augh at the end of 01 a it hard day though day though these in themselves s would be e a Justification It i Is the tho kings king's Jester r to hi his majesty the people And it enjoys enjo's the same liberties and sand impunity It mocks the foibles of ot the time and laughs at atthe atthe atthe the fads of the hour It mixes sense and arid nonsense farcical blunders and native nathe shrewdness satire entire and buffoonery Moreover It Is a cross section of everyman everman It is Is' Is a looking glass held up to human Its appeal l lie lies primarily in human elements that are inherent and universal Out Our Way Vay Boots Boats and Her lIer Buddies Our Boarding House have become real live people to millions who laugh at their thell foibles and antics and recognize in them traits of ot themselves and of their The front page of t the te e paper is devoted to others better and worse than we are tire But the comic pa page e is us us' us Copyright 1926 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |