Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-04
Of Love
!. and Laughter
Stond Firm on TV Trouble
With Your Children
BY MARJORIE HOLMES

"In recent column you speak Of censorng chill
drens TV shows. My two boys (aged and 81 are not
allowed to watch shows with Violence, gun play scary
science fiction nor, Of course the sexy class movies
But they complain that they the ONLY ones in
our neghborhood or in their classes at school who are
denied these privileges They say. All the other boys dis
cuss what happened such and such program and
have to admit we don't get to see Them
Needless to say they feel much mstreated and
out of step with the others
II hope you will have in your column on this,
and maybe In time more mothers will realize the harm in
letting their children watch all this trash enough
parents feel this maybe get 1t of the air" Mrs.
Quinn Tamm. 1907 coquelin terrace Chevy Chase, Md
Porents. Stand Pat
Roll up your sleeves Mrs Tamm and prepare to hold
the line. What "the other kids" do has long been
willy for offspring. Later you will be subjected
TO teen-age that "other kids all get TO
late" all the other kids have cars" Actually "all
the other kids are often enved minority blown up to
agonizing size.
But exaggerated or not children are not made oucass
by hrm principles practced at home.
AS for immediate Tv trouble. 1t has been estimated
that children can witness 10000 acts of violence week.
Ours don't.
ANY program featuring a gun-toting hero is OUT.
Any program in which murder brutality its head
switched OF, regardless want to teach children
basic decencies, nsl in them any for le
1t seems to me preposterous that aspect Of uginess
or depravity be welcomed in the homeas entertainment
or otherwise
Youngsters don't mind censorship as much as they
make out Secretly they're sometimes proud Of what
they're NOT allowed as against companions whose parents
are too lazy or Indifferent to portest
Take the Sunday Tv section and plan the weeks
ing with them It's surprising how they respond to
efhcient affirmative approach.
First Doncing Shoes -.
You come them in the attic day-a pair Of
furnished silver slippers.
You hold them in your hand minute studying them
shaped to the small light feet that first went tipping around
shaky in their unaccustomed spendor Then and
steadily until 1t nothing at all to go twinklng of
to parties in pair Of high silver heels
Those heels-scuffed. turnover The toes nearly
through And OH the fororn droop Of the pert
little bows
How many miles did she dance in Them you wonder?
How much happiness did they carry? And how much
heartbreak. doubt. too? mother only stand on
the sdelines watching. mother really know
But lifting them to the light, 1t all flooding
back-those days when the household rang with her
laughter When the phone peaed day and night the boys
and girls flowed in and out like a sunny beach,
and what to to party almost crucial
as who was going with whom.
The corsages faded and gone. The budding ro-
mances they represented have boomed wted away like
the flowers And the little shoes abandoned Left
hind forgotten. You feel kinshp with them
how. saa ass-e&&
With smile and bit Of a snifie. you tuck them back
In tissue-a daughters frst party shoes.
Sunday In Of wonder and joy the heart stirred 10
spok And cut Of the mystery Of the moments ihonkssa poem
10 born "of Love and Lsushts" the womsns Section.