Show TO RAISE FICTION STANDARDS the me american fiction guild an organization of american popular etory writers has undertaken an ambitious program for the improvement of tho the Ameri american ean fiction etory story ot of all lenetha lengths it Is tho the aim of ox the guild to free the american home of the perdelous pem cloua influence of sordid sex stories and of the gangster hero etory story which stimulates in the adolescent ole olta clescent scent cent mind an unhealthy desire ao 40 emulate the guild Is 1 eager to prove to lo the public that its products na as represented by tho the better publish cr eri of all oil fiction magazines is t wholesome heroic clean and appeals to the highest ideal of am briean youth of both sexes it boc not advocate a return to the old blood and thunder fiction it menly merdy withes wishes to mare male it plain that the american popular story issued by publishers whose whole desire Is to place before reader readers of I 1 acs rood clean stories that appeal to the spirit of romance of life does not stimulate the imagination ex cebot in a healthy and noble way it Is an tin ambitious hut with the celoso cooperation of writ urit rm r publisher sand above all the public publio the time will eoon soon come when tho the stands will carry I 1 only the best by the best friters produced with a careful sye eye to Us its wholesome effect on the general public |