Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 30, 1960, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text6 I ft Television Believed to Be Worst Offender In Savagery as Form of Entertainment The Worship 0 Violence "u yur cnurcnes we give .worsmp to the Prince of Peace. We pay homage in our neanto gentleness and com passion. We believe in heal ing the sick, caring for the destitute, comforting the dis trought. Yet in our entertain- . mcui we are emnraiied at every form of savagery, bru taiity, lulling, maiming and blood-letting. And we are raising a gener ation who do a pretty good job of imitating thfe in our neighborhood streets. Television is undoubtedly the worst offender. It brings into our living rooms a nightly torrent of violence which makes many of us recoil', some of us turn off the sets, and som6 wonder how the young sters can sit there and take it. I'll never forget one mother's classic remark, "Now Pauly you turn off that television and go to Bed. You've seen six murders already and that's enftigh for one night!" A recent witness before the Inderal. Comouni cations Commission testified that our q average youngster sees "the violent destruction of 13,000 human being on TV" during his growing-up years of 5 to 14. TV, which is so circumspect in avoiding controversial con tent in its dramas, has virtual ly a no-holds-barred policy when it comes to brutality. 3 There's No Limit "There is no limit on vio lence," Actor John Cassavetes recently complained. "Y o u can get approval on a story in which a woman is slaughter ed, but' an honest story " that's anctther matter. The stage was well set by the comic books when TV came along. Torture, may hem, and sadism were virtual ly unrestrained in the comic books until outraged parents and the law forced that indus try to clean itself up - a little. The paperback books and low fcV budget movies have inherited some of the violence market, but TV is by far top dog. What harm does it do? 'it infuses a worship of vio lence into our culture. It makes brutality glamorous. It sets up as heroes men who are adept at smashing bones and faces, wko are quick to kill. These become the pat terns of heroism. This is what youngstew are iifvited to emu late. We have always had sym bols of manliness. A red-blooded man is supposed to be able to use his dukes, if need be, to defend himself. Sometimes that time-honored gesture, the punch in the nose, may be a fitting reply to an insult to one's wife or one's honor. We have always had a certain threshold, of violence, a point up to which we excuse it. A Bestial Pattern But when that threshold is raised to include wanton punching and mauling, inces sant beating, slamming, stab binge impaling, burning, crushing, stomping, and chok ing then we no longer have an excusable human pattern but a bestial one. Instead of "punch him in the nose," the emotional cry within becomes, "gun him down, kill him-kill, kill." In a New York drive a few years ago to rid the city of sadistic publications, Mayor Robert Wagner held such pop ularized violence partly re sponsible for the grotesque trends in youth crime. Judge Adrian P. Burke, Bulky-Knit Beauty 7197 Sp Casual, dashing, smart! Toss this bulky-knit beauty on for sports, travel, every day wear. Jiffy -knit! - Use jumbo-size needles, 2-strand knitting wor sted for short or hip-length jacket. Pattern 7197: direc tions size 32-34; 36-38 included. Send Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern - add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st - class' mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, House hold Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PAT TERN NUMBER. JUST OUT! Our New 1960 Alice Brooks Needlecrait Book contains THREE FREE Patterns. Plus ideas galore for home furnishings, fashions, gifts, toys, bazaar sellers -exciting, unusual designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, huck weave, quilt. Be first with the newest send 25 cents now! then Corporation Counsel, cited a series of youth "delin quencies" - stomping a man to death, burning a girl with cigaret butts, flailing girls with whips, torturing and beating homeless men and declared, "You'd think those kids were using these books for a script." To impressionable young sters of borderline intelli gence, with unbalanced emo tions, the constant stimula tion to violence may sooner or later erupt into action. It can no . longer , be brushed aside as "getting the aggres sions out," as the apologists for violence once contended. Instead, as J. Edgar Hoover has put it, we are "creating criminals faster than jails can be built." Liked to Beat People The borderline youngster does not passively' watch in cessant violence and come away cleansed. He is incited, stimulated, his sense of values warped. And so one 18-year-old who tortured an aged man with lighted cigarets and beat him into unconsciousness told the police, "I like to beat people up. I like to see them squirm and suffer." And another, a boy of 17 involved in a number of beat ings and muggings, said, "I used the victims for punching bags. I wanted to see how hard I could hit." The police are not shocked by this anymore. They've heard an 18-year-old who kill ed a woman by crushing and strangling her confess, "I like to hear people scream. I like to beat - and break ribs." And they've heard a 16-year-old in a gang stabbing say, "I want ed to know what it felt like to stick a knife through bone." That's just about made them shockproof. For No Reason The police use a new phrase these days: the "no-reason as sault." It describes violence without a motive. Just vio lence for its own sake: The boys in Los Angeles who "just wanted to beat somebody up." The youngsters in Washington who killed a man they didn't even know - "We were out to shoot the first guy who came along." ; -:- Why? I've asked the question scores of times to the young sters themselves, in police stations, in detention homes, Li jail cells. The most honest answer I received was from a 17-year-old in San Francisco, standing trial with five others for beating up an innocent man. "I guess a kid wants to make a name for himself," he said. That's what it meant to him. Turn on your TV. Heroes are men who can slug. They're skull-breakers and bone-crush ers. They snuff out lives with- I out a qualm. That s today's I oattern for herops and hprn worship. Most of our youngsters, praise God, have enough emo tional balance and intelligence to resist the stimulation to IS Mtgi) vffifiT?) fc iMJ li3r ST Mcmwttiiniui bciiw i i rnwoioo. to wnn, ct--cow. wmm, Luckye liager has a straight-forward quality, a "character" you just don't get in other beers Here's why: Lucky Lager is brewed by the famous German lager technique a special process from start to finish. It begins with the best: large-grained barley, purest water, the most flavorful o hops, the most modern breweries. Then old-world brewing skills and extra-long ageing give the renowned body, aroma and flavor of true lager beer to Lucky Lager the real lager beer. LUCKY LAGER the rea lager beer violence. With the help of parents, school, and church -and with their own built-in moral fiber they learn to manage aggressive energies, to apply them for good and not evil. But even for the good kids, look what values are exalted by the violence peddlers. Manliness is identified with the quick trigger, the fast and deadly fist. '- -. . . - Violence is portrayed as a first, rather than a last, resort. Reason doesn't enter the picture at all. Perhaps worst of all, the vogue of violence preaches a message of taking the law into one's own hands. If someone has wronged a member of our family, "gun 'im down." Ven geance justifies everything. Be your own judge,' jury and executioner. This is poor schooling for youth in an age when man must be at his most civilized if he is to survive. . The new frontier is in de veloping a generation which is sensitive to human suffer ing, not callous. The delicate balance between humanity's survival or suicide may be the new generation's devotion to human values rather than its surrender to the code of kill ing. American prestige suffered greatly in Europe in the 1930s when the U.S. was famed for its gangsters and "Little Caesar" was its trademark. Shall today's trademark be "Mike Hammer"? 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