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Show TO RAISE AMERICAN FICTION STANDARDS. The American Fiction guild, an organization or-ganization of American popular story writers, has undertaken an ambitious program for the improvement of the American fiction story of all lengths. It is the aim of the guild to free the American home of the pernicious influence of sordid sex stories and of the gangster-hero story which stimulates stimu-lates in the adolescent mind an unhealthy un-healthy desire to emulate. The guild is eager to prove to the public that its product, as represented represent-ed by the better publishers of all-fiction all-fiction magazines, is wholesome, heroic, clean, and appeals to the highest high-est ideals of American youth of both sexes. It does not advocate a return to the old blood and thunder fiction. It merely wishes to make it plain that the American popular story issued is-sued by publishers whose whole desire de-sire is to place before readers of all ages, good, clean stories that appeal to the spirit of romance of life does not stimulate the imagination except in a healthy and noble way. It is an ambitious program, but with the close cooperation of writers, publishers and above all, the public the time will soon come when the newsstands will carry only the best stories by the best writers, produced with a careful eye to its wholesome effect on the general public. |