MICKEY MOUSE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11827, 7 January 1933, Page 3

MICKEY MOUSE

WHAT GERMANY THINKS

Newspapers of the 1 uited States are taking up editorially the iaot that Mickey Mouse is being diagnosed in Germany as a victim of paranoia* cal dementia. And. for the most part, the editorials are in defence of little Mickey.

The Seripps-Howard chain of newspapers appears to be taking the lead in the editorials. In. the New 1 »rlc “World-Telegram." the following was published : “Poor Mickey is being ".psyched by the scientific- gentlemen whose preoccupation in life is to delve into any mental quirk that seems to them ii» be outside the range ot sanity ns catalogued in their card-indexes. They utv the norm' boys, and so they are bothered by Mickey, whose ante s lie beyond their comprehension. “That tlie gay, mad, little mouse belongs to that lantasiic land of which Alice and Rot tom and all ot tlio pixies and elves of the Irish fairy tales tiro denizens is nothing to them. Nor can they comprehend that the world of make-believe is, a real one. and that into it creeps at times the children of all ages, to whom the nagging cares oi a tvork-a-day existence compel some escape.

“Mickey mad? His sanity is proven every day to thousands of believers. His antics are those of the .completely free individuals, the defier of time and gravitation and pain, and all the other laws by which conformists are punished. “It will ho a sad time for the world when iho emancipated Mickey is looked upon as something pathological. Despite what dealers in ‘complexes’ and ‘inhibitions'* say, he seems the symbol of freedom, and as such we wish him a long and useful life.”