Valley Times from North Hollywood, California • 14

I VALLEY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1957 14 FANTASY EXPERIENCES VALLEY CALENDAR I 'Private Eye1 For Navy Use BALTIMORE kb Westing-house Electric Corp, said today it has developed an electronic private ec" that can quickly check the accuracy of a Navy interceptor plane's weapons on the giullnd Or ill flight without filing the weapons. The electronic equipment, developed at the Weshnghouse air arm plant here under a Navy contract, weighs less than 16 pounds and can be built into a plane as part of its gun-aiming system. Hi is new unit permits reduction of the time required for a complete check of the system from a matter of several hours to less than three minutes, said B. hi. Erown, vice president in charge of Westinghouses Baltimore plant, Children's Addiction To TV Presents Serious Problem Childrens Addiction to TV has become an alarming problem.

This first of four articles gives the remarks of the psychoanalyst Dr. Isidore Ziferstein, made to a Valley audience recently and reported in the Valley Times. They are presented as a public service. The materials lepresent the views of Dri Ziferstein and do not necessarily constitute a statement of policy of the Valley Times. technique sometimes is used in the treatment of emotionally disturbed children.

A competent parent ran watch his children's reactions and get a good idea of what, is troubling them. ISIDORE ZIFERSTEIN, M.D. In recent jours TV has come absorb a major portion of children's leisure time. It takes as much time as all their The way children use leisure lime sets up certain patteins that last throughout life. Is leisure used actively and ton-stiuctjvrly or passively and negatively in ways that do not Tl ESDAY (City of group and meeetina Plata 1h soma unless otherwise noted.) IXCHANGE CLUB Crescenta-Cancda, 7pm Rudy's Flint ndoe Inn.

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Queen of Clubs, 9298 By to up other leisure time activities put togelher. Youth lead anj where? Leisure activities play an important part in children emotional development, TV has a particularly strong impact on children because it is audio-visual, approaching the child through the two senses of sight and hearing. One 7-year-old i boy put this well when he said: I like TV because TV gives you stories like a book. It gies you pictures like the movies. It has voices like than parents.

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In a woid, TV leaves nothing to tlie imagination. viituel. 15 A child gets aesthetic from TV and loams TV evpei lenres are fantasy ex- new aesthetic values which help pnienies. Other such expen-dp' C'P his appieciation. leading, imaginative cnees aie Wp see, ihen.

that what the Bennett, Richard Briggs, Betty Cox, Herman Foss, Robert Gray, Lois Lacpy, A. Clark, William Erkfitz and Jim Ross. Linch, secretary, and David Fife, retiring president, treasurer. New boaid of directors elected include Paul Backman, Ilenry child sees on TV is not meaningless or harmless. It can' be quite potent medicine and particularly so because of the dos play, day-dreams, and being exposed lo the mass media of ladio, newspaper, comics.

Mass media aie the subject of a tag- Tarzana C.C. Names Staff Jerry Lrfcvre has taken office as president of tlie Tarzana Chamber of Commerce. Elected to hold office with Le-fevre at a recent meeting were Ralph Rothmund and Gene Brown, vice presidents; Rush F. ing controversy which olten gen-jage, the tremendous amount the males more heat than light. child is exposed to, and the com-Tcrhaps vve can avoid some of i tnnpd audio-visual impact.

Ihe pitfalls of this controversy Whether this medicine is bene-if we begin by examining the ficial or harmful depends on function of these fanta.xy-eperi-i three factors, cnees in the psychic economy ofj 1 Dosage; 2 Content; 3 our children. Wc will then be in Form. Let us consider each, CltlE? a better poxilion to evaluate how well TV and the other media fulfill these functions. 1 Dosage. A fantasy experience should constitute only a small part of the child's life, and 1 TV and tadio fill the func-i an adjunct to his other e.x- Give years of listening pleasure tion of entertainment.

Children enjoy watching and hearing. It is important that children have fun and have pleasure. TV hi ings childi en into contact with tlie wide world, a contact that they might not otherwise have made. They know many things childi en of the past did know. They hear and Play Santa with a PP Cash-to-Buy Plan everybody nowadays spends more than he intends ior Christmas gifts then winds up with heavy bills to pay.

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He should use thece insights in real life. Where this is not so where TV viewing absorbs a major portion of a child's time and interest then TV is used not to help the child develop and deal bet-not ter with reality but as an escape see the President or watch a or substitute for reality and real baseball star perform. These are, gratifications. We have then an direct experiences children did addiction. The motivation is not have access to before TV.

similar to other addictions an On a deeper level these easy, relatively pleasant, pas-media provide children with an sive regression from reality to TOltf SPENDING $20? OR Whatever the amount, youll find the exact RCA Victor gift you want, at the price you want to pay.j So, dont settle for any other brandy insist on RCA Victor and give proudly Other omotMft op )o 41500 or mor I "i'-T-Vn- fantasy. TV represents a greater danger of addiction than other mass media. It is easily available. You just Hick it on. TV furnishes everything and may require no effort of the intellect or imagination.

In reading you have to make a translation of words into images in your brain. Not sO with TV where you can be physically, intellectually and emotionally passive. There is a tendency in our cull lire to substitute passive experiences for active ones. Such encouragement of passivity is epitomized by a sign on a music store in downtown Los Angeles: "Trade in jour piano for a television. (In tlie second article in this series.

Dr. Ziferstein will discuss the role that crime and violence play in TV programs today.) ON YOU MiHft wtmv AlAfN V( Jm- opportunity to give vent to emotions that may be repressed feelings of love, hate, rage, exaltation, ambition, wish for accomplishment. Many such feelings children have to repress in an adult world that leaves them little scope for expressing their feelings. Fantasy experiences through TV, radio, reading stones, imaginative play then, pei form the important function of catharsis. 4 Children may have the opportunity to relive in an active way some traumatic experience they may have suffered personally in the past.

A child who has had an operation will for a time thereafter play imaginatively at operation. He may play tlie role of doctor or nurse or anesthetist while some other child plaj's the role of victim. This gives him an opportunity to re-enact and 'master a hurt that he had experienced passively. It helps the child feel stronger. It heals the wounds to his self-esteem.

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