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88 that temptation and seduetion is an enormous factor. We don't have to be materially bad to do something bad occasionally, and, moreover, these children who commit such a delinquency, they don't do that because they are bad. They don't even necessarily do it to get the money or to get even, but it is a glorious deed.

You go there, von show how big you are. You are almost as big as these people you read about in crime comic books.

You see, the corruption of the average normal child has gone so far that except for those who follow this it is almost unbelievable to realize.

T would like to give you one more example. This is one I would like you 1o keep in mind, that the minnuum edition of such a book. I think, is 300,000; probably this is distributed in a 650,000 edition,

Senator. I did not understand.

Dr. . The minimum is 300,000.

Senator. Is that a month?

Dr. . This is only one eomie book. In order to make any kind of profit the publisher must print about 400,000 copies.

In other words, when you see a comie book you can always assume that more than 300,000 copies of this particular comic hovk have been printed.

In other words, you would not. go far wreng if you assumed that this comic book is read by half a million children, for this renson, that when they are throngh with it and have read it, they sell it for 6 cents and 4 cents and then sell it for 4 cents and 2 cents.

Then you ean still trade it.

So these comic books have a long, long life. We have studied this market. We know there is a great deal of tlis trading going on all over.

Now, flus is 2 heroine. This is a women who killsa man. You see, he has blood coming all over the man's fave and she says, "I want you to suffer more and more and more and more."

Then the final triumph, she takes this man's organs and serves them up as dishes like a housewtic and you see her "famous fried brains, famous baked kidneys, famous stuffed heart."

Next to that is the remainder of this man.

All I say is that quite apart from the disgust that it arouses in us— and I am a docter, I can't permit myself the Jixury of being dis- gusted—lI think this kind of thing that children see over and over again causes this ethical confusion.

Senator. That seems to be the end of that comic book story.

Dr. . Yes. I should add that it says here, "The End." "The End" is this glorious meal, cannibalism.

Senator. So it did not have a very happy ending.

Dr. . Well, the comic book publishers seem to think it did. They made a lot of money.

Mr. Chairman, we have delinquency of the smallest kind. I have seen children who have stolen a quarter. I have seen children who stole $30,000. And they have to know some technique; they have Lo, for that.

But there are other crimes which you can commit in which you can take the ordinary kind of violence, for instance, there is an awful lot