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children by “ex- posing their families to pub¬ lic gaze as ob¬ jects of beggarly solicitation. It’s a miserable thing to do to children and may scar them for life.” That’s just a start. Others bitterly complain along these lines: Why are not the poor unfortunates given what they need without making them bare their souls to the public? Why should people connected with the show be billed as humanitarians when they make a good living out of it? Or, as one editorial stated: “Charity vaun- teth not itself.” Warren Hull, emcee of Strike It Rich and a pretty articulate lad, can go to great lengths demonstrating just how much good he thinks his show has done. “There’s nothing about our show that vaunts itself,” says Warren, “We’re made pretty humble by our contacts here. We’re not trying to drain people of their last shred of pride. We make them feel that they are as good as anybody else. And our audience instinctively knows it. We can tell by the mail we get. “Originally the show wasn’t in¬ tended to help the halt and the blind. When we came on TV more than two years ago, we had plenty of frivolous cases. One fellow came on the show because he wanted to get money so he could have a tattoo of a woman re¬ moved from his arm because it of¬ fended his wife. But pretty soon our audiences dictated to us what they wanted. Not too long ago, we had a women’s club from a small town come on. They wanted to win some money so they could take presents to their husbands back home. We were hit with a barrage of mail from people complaining that those women didn’t deserve to get on such an im¬ portant show for such trivial rea¬ sons. It just shows what our audience has done to us. it, A tale of woe . A woman and her son: some authorities believe youth is scarred by the program. 1 sympathetic ear. “We don’t tMT force people to appear on our * show or to say anything they don’t want to say. Let the peo¬ ple who have been criticizing us read some of the mail from people whose lives have been saved by us. Doctors and nurses getting the money they needed to finish training. Mothers and fathers reunited with their children. People who through no fault of their own have had bad luck. “Our audiences expect us to have only people who really need help. If we don’t, we’re sunk. We rarely re¬ ceive mail complaining that we are vaunting our charity. You know when we get the most complaints? When people write in telling us we’re cruel for letting somebody miss an answer. They claim we’re depriving some¬ body of a new start in life.” Walt Framer, producer and origina¬ tor of Strike It Rich, calls the criti¬ cisms “the squealings of petulant chil¬ dren.” Framer said: “We’ve been on the air over five years and in that time we’ve given a new start in life to over 1000 people. And that doesn’t include the good done psychologically to people at home who can say to themselves, ‘Me making a fuss over my picayune little