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STAFF
EDITOR
Lex R. Lucas
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Oren R. Felton
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TV Cheating and a Boy
Perhaps by the time you read this the TV quiz-show
fiasco will be a forgotten thing, but I doubt it; the
problems involved are never solved permanently.
Is it possible that a fixed TV quiz staged in New
\ ork (.ity can influence the lives of boys in a pack, or
troop, or post in Mesa. Arizona? I think it can, subtly
but strongly, Hrst because the boys in Mesa, Miami,
or any other town watch I V and know what's going on
in the world—and are affected by it. And second,
because in their own lives they have temptations that
to them are equally strong.
What do we, their leaders, do about it? We can do
nothing, saying—or showing—that this sort of thing
is none of our business. Or we can recognize that
anything that affects boys' attitudes toward life values
is our business.
There may be a very real relationship between the
quiz-show investigation and another investigation that
has been conducted more quietly for some time by the
committee appointed by President Eisenhower to study
youth fitness.
Interestingly, that committee has moved on from the
initial concern about physical fitness to one about the
moral standards and spiritual values that guide today's
youth.
We have every reason to share that concern. The
ethics and principles involved in the TV situation have
their counterpart at the juvenile level.
If cheating (called by some in the TV investigation
"controlling the show to maintain interest") is O.K. in
a ()uiz show. is it also O.K. on the gridiron or track?
Or in a Scout contest where audience interest could
be increased if the contest were framed?
Is there a time and place in life for compromising
with the truth? When does the little white lie become
a big black one and a habit?
You can't dodge this sort of question if you're
going to work helpfully with boys. Perhaps the TV
quiz investigation opens the door for you to lead your
boys to think about one of a man's most basic and
difficult character qualities—that of honesty.
Editor
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