Grunthal Collegiate - Green and Gold Yearbook (Grunthal, Manitoba Canada)

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Marlene Martens; Linda Krahn; Lydia Funk FRONT ROW: Gwen Peters; Linda Martens BACK ROW: LEFT TO RIGHT: Agnes Krahn; Mary Martens Ann Froese; Erna Funk. BASKETBALL TEAMS

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Faults of Television Television is inmoral, indecent, unhealthy, sinful, wasteful, and downright rotten. Television is so evil that it should be annihilated from humanity for all eternity. Because, if there will no longer be television, there will no longer be sin. Everbody will attend church. Nobody will ever do wrong. No time will ever be wasted. All will have a clean mind, healthy eyes, and many an hour to spare. Students will do every bit of their homework; housewives will complete every bit of their culinary and cleaning duties; and househusbands will complete all the yard work, or whatever househusbands are supposed to do. Without television everybody will be happy, and, altogether, the world will be a better place in which to live. Probably the most harm done by television, to one and all, is done by the dreadful ' ’programs televised. None of these are of any u,‘.3 to the millions of avid television fans, and are just an unnecessary burden of expenses and boredom. Nobody actually enjoys the comedies, mysteries, variety shows, sports telecasts, or the other dozen types of televised features. People watch televsion only to secure into their minds and hearts the priceless-or is it worthless?-bits and snatches of urgent information whcih are the basis of tele-broadcasting. They strain eyes, ears, and minds only to catch a glimpse of the one thing which will always sweeten sour thoughts-the commercials. For it is only because of these advertising gems that more and more unfortunate souls are lured into a life of habitual two dimensional treatments. Thus, more and more people are falling prey to this morbid monstrosity. And thus, more and more money is spent by people who really cannot afford it, on television sets and their upheep. Not only do these complicated bones cost an outrageous average price of about two or three hundred dollars, but they also consume about four or five dollars ' worth of electricity per month. In addition to this, they need to be repaired about every two or three years because a fuse blows or a tube burns. Altogether, an average receiving set lasting about seven years will cost about fifty dollars per year. Naturally, it would be much cheaper for the masses to attend theatres and arenas for the same number of live performances than to watch them on a television screen. Television has also had a termendous detrimental effect on education and morals. Directly or indirectly, throught television, there has been a great rise in crime since the days of A1 Capone, and, because of television, parents say that their children are more ignorant, and also do not do half the homework done by children twenty or thirty years ago. This, no doubt, is true, and is actual proof of the harm done by television. Crimes originate from the mystery stories of television, the stories do not originate from actual crimes. Child¬ ren recive strange ideas from and are more stupid because of gruesome and unwholesome shows being broadcast, such as The Friendly Giant, Butternut Square, and Bugs Bunny. Other features as well, like En France, Discovery ' 65, Nature of Things, Canada Schools, and World of Nature certainly increase a child ' s ignorance. Especially affected are the teenagers, throught the detective stories and westerns, because they are taken so seriously, and are thought about so intensely. To conclude, television has no good points whatsoever, and it would only be a waste of time to try to consider even a fraction of its remaining evils. Allen Kolisynk PAGE 45