Wisdom from the funny papers

Friday, September 6, 2013

We remember the quotation by Will Rogers, "Well, all I know is what I read in the papers." I have a friend who claims that all we need to know we can learn from the funny papers. Some of you may be too young to realize that the comic page used to be called the funny papers, or the funnies. During a newspaper carriers' strike in New York City in 1945, Mayor Fiorella La Guardia was concerned that the children would be denied their fun of reading the funnies so he read the comic strips over the radio in his weekly broadcast. It became so popular that he continued it even after the strike was over. Obviously the mayor thought that the funny papers were important also.

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