Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1913 — Improving Comic Supplement. [ARTICLE]

Improving Comic Supplement.

The distinction of having first taken up the work for the Improvement of the coml£ supplement is claimed by the League of American Pen Women, of which Mrs. Joslah Quincy Kern of Washington is president She is also chairman of the comic supplement committee for the Federated Clubs of the District of Columbia and is a member of the board of education of Washington. She wrote and circulated thousands of copies of the resolutions adopted by the League of American Fen Women and hundreds of other clubs and societies which declare “that the so called colored supplement Is a menace to tbe culture and morals of children, begetting In them an admiration for deceit and cunning, misrepresentation and vulgarity, disrespect for the aged and infirm, a lack of reverence for sacred things and of sympathy for the unfortunate, encouraging bad manners, disregard for authority, Incorrect language, low Ideals of literature, distorted notions of art, the perpetuation of practical jokes, anpatriotlc sentiments and general demoralization of character.”