Press: Sunday School & Skeezix

Before or after Sunday School, most U. S. moppets hasten to extract the “funnies” from the family’s newspaper. High among their favorites is “Skeezix,” the 10-year-old boy in Cartoonist Frank King’s “Gasoline Alley.” Last week Dr. Charles Everett Draper, pastor of Quindaro Methodist Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Mo., asked his congregation: “Why Doesn’t Skeezix Go to Sunday School? Why didn’t Auntie Blossom[Skeezix’ s foster-mother], when she be came Mrs. Wallet, take Skeezix to the House of God? The Wallets go to shows, drive in the country, and do everything normal persons do except take their children to Sunday School. I should like to know if they are unbelievers. Some feel the blame should not be laid at the Wallets’ door but at the church door. There is no church in Gasoline Alley to which Skeezix could go.”