THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
Sir-We have heard a lot lately about the dangerous effects of comics on the youth of today, but nobody seems the slightest bit perturbed about the pernicious influence of the anti-social propaganda that is encouraged every Christmas and over Junior Request sessions throughout the year. I refer to Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, who, by reason of @ ‘slight physical defect, was scorned and rejected by his fellows, who used to laugh and call him names and refused to let him play with them. This is bad enough as a behaviour pattern, but a worse example is to follow, for when he achieves success, the reindeer who have previously scorned him now come running with the most disgusting display of flattery. Whatever the reindeer equivalent of a milk-bar cowboy is, I have no doubt that is what these reindeer became, and yet we allow and even encourage the spread of their propacanda.
DISGUSTED OF DOLLY VARDEN.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 5
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157THE RED-NOSED REINDEER New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 5
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