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Publisher Elzey Roberts decided that they were-though some other parties were also guilty. In an editorial he said: "It is time that society as a whole faced the fact that through its negligence and apathy this postwar period has become a hog-wallow of eroticism." He felt that the mud in this wallow was contributed by some movies, fashion designers, plays, radio programs, books, perfume ads and "unwholesome comic strips with provocative poses." He left it to his readers to tell him what should be done...
Star-Times Publisher Elzey Roberts countered with a defiant open letter to officious, slowfooted Dickmann. It was absurd, Roberts said, to make it "legal to listen to such news [by radio] and illegal to read it" in a paper. In Washington, Dickmann's fellow St. Louisan and political sponsor, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, agreed with Publisher Roberts, and ruled that the law didn't literally mean what it said. Henceforth "incidental reporting of a lottery" will not bar a paper from the mails...
...Times's Managing Editor Frank W. Taylor was quitting after 32 years "to take a well-earned rest." They knew that big (6 ft. 3), bellowing, brilliant, 53-year-old Editor Taylor, rated one of the ablest editors in the U.S., was getting out because he and Publisher Elzey Roberts had agreed to disagree...
...turned down a Scripps-Howard offer of $25,000 a year, and in the mid-'30s turned down a Hearst offer of $700 a week. Publisher Elzey Roberts would not match such salaries, but he gave Taylor Star-Times stock, which he has lately bought back at Taylor's stiff figure. With this nest egg and savings from his $19,500 salary, Editor Taylor can probably take it easy from now on. But he has no intention of retiring for good. "This is a little journey into the woods to see if I can recapture...
...morning in 1938 Publisher Elzey Roberts of the St. Louis Star-Times glanced over the comics running in that day's editions, noted that of eleven strips, ten dealt with fist fights, murder, domestic quarrels, fear, theft, despair, deception, torture, arson, death. Publisher Roberts sat down and wrote an indignant editorial. Then he began to look for a comic strip to appeal to children...