Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-09 | Page 19 | Movies Beneficial to Children Psycholoigst Finds after Research

Movies Beneficial t to Children Finds After Research Two years of o- research into nto the effect of motion pictures on the young have convinced d D Dr Jseph Jo Joseph J- J seph R. R Holmes professor lofessor r of psychology at Columbia university N tew Nw w York that tho the entertainment faro fare are which draws audiences totaling total- total big ing ng each cach week eek in this tiLls Country alone is wholesome and ial in III Its effect on children Dr Holmes Holmes' report Including many mp quotations from rom other scientists Supporting his Opinion as aswell i well veil as from supreme court judges district strict attorneys attorney and similar stu st dents or of crime and delinquency will shortly be published as a n monograph monograph monograph mono- mono graph by a nationally known law lawI I journal durnal Actual questions put to more than han children who had been a lurid exaggeration of the usual film treatment of crime ad ad d ance vance digests o of the zep lep rt state stat revealed that He ended In jaIl Jair jaIlor or r They got the bad man was the time universal and almost sole Im res- res remaining from froni the picture Not a single child tested during dUling the two wo years ears either expressed o or 01 Implied Im- Im plied s sympathy or orho or- or leniency toward the ho evildoers evildoer in he The so called crime Picture ic u. u the safeguards ds as t to piot lot treatment which the tae Amerl industry seif tOday cannot can can- not possIble be fig r n as pro pro- r aldin I a r I des des cies It furnishes an admirable a le vicarious vi vi vi- viCarious carious adventure ac for or the audience and is in fact an n excellent enid enid- outlet The villain gets sets his and and the hero gets th the th heroine That i I Is wh what t the time children a at le least st remember Dr Holmes advanced seven fifty supporting opinions ns for his Imis h 8 findings findIngs find find- ings and said that only oni- nl seven out of ot twenty nine who declared they thought movies might be harn harmful Cui had attempted attempt d to adduce any specific spa spa- cl lc case where where- S seeing eing a motion picture had harmed a child We will never never get anywhere l toward ward solving the national situation situation situa situa- tion i in regard to crime h he continued continued con con- if it we are going to accept Unscientific and loose diagnoses of ot cause due to the universal human habit of seeking an alibi for all ahl ll Ills His and and then forgetting them D Dr Frederick L. L Hoffman whose annual surveys of ot homicide statistics statistics statis statis- tics in the United St States tes are na nationally na- na known kno has also reached the time conclusion that m motion tion pictures pictureS' as h beneficial produced J d to In ln America Ameria toda today toda are community life lire and do do- donot not Induce to juvenile delinquency delin delin- quency or adult crime Dr Hoffman Hoffman Hoff- Hoff man recently protested the use lIse e pt of h his s j name In connection connection- with an rU attack 5 on n motion Pictures Dr Jo Joseph eph Jastrow- Jastrow for tOI many years pro pro- fearer of ps at at the sit sity of Wisconsin has him announced a a. opinion S SS S a