Show Television I And n Violence i iThe I The greatest new force in mm- mm in inciting inciting in- in citing crime and violence in the United States today is sion This Is the view of countless countless count count- less educators and editors I TELEVISIONS TELEVISION'S e effect t on youngsters was explained re recently recently re- re by Dr David Abrahamson Abraham- Abraham son a i noted Ameri Norwegian can psychiatrist Abrahamson noted that in 1941 there were s serious er i 0 u s crimes in the United States I In n 1965 there were And a few years ago he pointed point point- ed out it was rare to find a youngster had killed someone Now it is not uncommon at all he noted DR ABRAHAMSON thinks the two main causes of or the alarmIng alarming alarming alarm alarm- ing rise in the U US U.S. S crime rate rat e are the effect of so much vio via violence violence lence on our commercial television television tele tele- television vision programs and what h he e calls the American dream o or r ideal This dream or ideal is that tha t everyone should be rich an and d happy happy which which makes for intense e de competition and worship of th the e dollar This competition ha has s es er alienated us from one another r and even from our children in inmany inmany inmany many cases he says A VIEW AT comparative statistics statistics statistics sta sta- should convince the av av- av arage rage American of ot the necessity y for regulation of commercial 1 television content in the homes home s 1 lot of America I |