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THE CREAM OF CROSBY
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of my favorites was the Georgia Tech song:
"I'm a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech
"And a hell of an engineer.
"Like all jolly good fellows
"I drink my whiskey clear."
Just possibly it had a permanently damaging effect on my character, Senator,but I doubt it.
"Now see if you can guess what this tune is."
A Sensible Approach
IT HAS always been my contention that children would survive television as they have survived the other cataclysms like the invention of the bathtub. Not entirely unscathed, but reasonably in possession of their faculties.
This moderate view is not susceptible to much editorial indignation and is not especially popular among parents, some of whom like to ascribe everything including measles to the malign influence of a piece of furniture in the living room. The case for the opposition — there is one — has been made, rather tellingly, I think, by the health officer of Oakland, California, Dr. J. G Geiger.
"The more insecure an individual or
parent may be about the realities which surround him, the more anxious and vociferous he or she will be about the radio, television or moving pictures. In many cases a parent who becomes fearful about the influence of television programs on his child is actually anxious about its effect on himself. In other instances, a parent may become anxious because he senses the fact that he will not be able to control this new ogre. For example, parents who are controlled by their children fall immediate heir to this anxiety and fear."
My own highly unscientific and slightly crotchety observations bear this out. To put it in the most matter of fact language I can muster, the type of parents who worry about television are likely to worry about every damn thing. I don't mean to impugn the common sense of every parent who has ever muttered into his martini about the persistence of "Space Cadet." There are certain legitimate complaints to be made about the children's fare on tele vision. The noise rate — to take one very small example — of "Howdy Doody," for instance. They conduct that program at the tops of their lungs as if all the children were three rooms away, which frequently they are.
Parents, Dr. Geiger points out, have no real reason to fear all the shooting that goes on in the cowboy epics or the prevalence of the gun in their own living room. "The amount of influence that a television or radio program has on a child is directly related to the adjustment of the child in his family and to society in general. If the child has a secure relationship with his family and with his outside social environment, he will be able to take the 'Hopalong Cassidy' adventure or the 'Dick Shane' detective serial in his stride.
"Such a child will always be able to regard the program as a make-believe story and view it from that standpoint. He may act out the cowboy story in his play the very next day; however, he will always recognize his play acting as fantasy which may be cloaked with excitement but devoid of abnormal fear or anxiety.
"The maladjusted and insecure child who has an unloving relationship with his family and who is fearful of his social environment may be influenced personally