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For years now, both on radio and TV, jovial Art Linkletter and his House Party have been making a good thing out of an ever-changing panel of kids, ranging in age from five to 10 and in mentality from cute to downright frightening. There have been times, in fact, when people have quietly left town following the innocent answer of a Linkletter panelist to an even more innocent question. On one recent occasion, which Link- letter will never forget, a policeman’s young son was asked if his mother didn’t worry a good deal about his father’s being beaten up by gangsters. “No,” came the thoughtful reply, “she doesn’t worry because Daddy keeps bringing home all that jewelry every week.” At this, even Art’s generous sup¬ ply of aplomb failed him. There was also the lad who allowed as how he wanted to be a bookkeeper like his Daddy, who was in charge of the horses down at the hotel. He was matched by the little girl who explained her father’s bandaged finger as being the result of capping beer bottles down in the cellar. She said it, and Linkletter wasn’t glad. “You have a pet dog,” Link men¬ tioned to one of his little visitors. “Is it pedigreed?” “I think,” came the answer, “she lost her pedigreed last week.” Next panelist. One little boy stated it as a fact that his sister talked the longest on the phone in his family. Asked what she talked about, he replied, “Mainly who she’s going to beat up next, and I’m high on the list.” It is Linkletter’s contention, based on years of experience both in the studio and at home (he has five chil¬ dren of his own), that the most facile script writers in the business couldn’t possibly dream up the answers these youngsters fire at him without any apparent effort. “With a single sen¬ tence,” he says admiringly, “they can explode a veritable bomb. I once asked a little girl where she slept when company comes. ‘Under the bed,’ she said, ‘with all the dirt and dust.’ Now what professional writer would possibly think of a line like that?” Linkletter claims that there is nothing quite so logical as the logic of a child’s mind, and who can argue with him? CBS can take heart for the future. A five-year-old “Grade Allen” ap¬ peared on the show. Asked if she had any brothers or sisters, the little girl smiled sweetly and said, “No, I’m single.”