Evening star. [volume], March 08, 1959, Page 21, Image 181

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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little possum ranged from “off-beat and
original" to “romantic and unrealistic."
The comment of one student on There
Ouffhta Be a Law was typical: “I enjoy
laughing at others’ problems and difficul
ties, many of which are like my own.”
Beetle Bailey's hilarious goofiness some
how has a strong attraction for all, includ
ing President Eisenhower.
The President, The Star learned, is not
a regular comics reader but gets the most
"kick out of” Beetle Bailey when he does
occasionally indulge. It might just be that
Mr. Eisenhower finds in Mort Walker’s
bumbling buck private a nostalgic identifi
cation with his own Army days.
Youngsters from the sixth grade up, who
have never savored Army chow or had to
stand a 4 am. inspection, see in Beetle “a
chance,” as one student put it, “to laugh
at ourselves.” For Beetle, in or out of
uniform, is to all of them the harassed
and misunderstood, perpetually out-of-step
youth incarnate.
Perhaps this is the answer to 'all the
wailing pessimists and “handcuffed" hum
orists who steadfastly insist that “Amer
icans can no longer laugh at themselves.”
They can. And they do.
In fact, they do it every day when they
pick up one of the 900 comic strips pub
lished in more than 3,000 newspapers across
the country and around the globe.
In the provocative commentaries of
Pago, the domestic ironies of There Oughta
Be a Law, or the simple and light-hearted
philosophies of Freddy and Beetle Bailey
can be found a mirth that Interprets life,
not as the self-appointed censors dictate
it—byt as it really is.
And a good thing, too.
For the day the comics stop kidding us,
the kids and their grand-kids will stop
reading them.
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