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Rh Mr. . Up to this time we have not given her any particular instructions,

Mr. . Ifave you had oceasion to change any of the pictures or stories she has come back with to make them less crime, horror, 2nd terror ?

Mr. . We may have changed the pictures. I do not re- member at this time whether we changed them for the purpose yeu state or for any other purpose.

Mr. . Do you recall whether you may have changed them to make them more horror, crime, «nl terror?

Mr. . I will say to you that we interfere so Little in the work of our artists and seript writers and ecditars that the changing that I might do ts infinitesimal, The couple of books in which Tam interested, perliups I approach them trom a legalistic attitude, mean- ing by Ghat that E have done a great deal of work in the field of cen- sorship. L have read the books written by Morris L. Evnst. I have read (he book written by Mr, Hayes; T have read the hook written by the prefessor ut Harvard who did the basic work on the question of censership,

I was interested in the famous Winters case which our Supreme Court had before them 3 or + times,

Mr. . None of them ever described crime, terror, and horror comic books?

Mr. . The Winters case was a crime-and-horrvor book.

Mr. . Comic book?

Mr. . I don't know how you can differentiate, Counsel, between the production or the envisionment of detection and erime work in a comic book as against another mass mecta.

One of your witnesses here yeslerdaywell, I won't go oe that, but it so happened I happened to look at the same newspaper he looked at and I looked at last night's Telegram. T have last night's Tele- gram with me and by actu: tal count there are 25 to 30 stories deahng with erinie.

Mr. . That is the statement made by Mr. Gaines?

Mr. . It is not, counsel, becanse that is an entirely dif- ferent newspaper,

Mr. . The same type.

Mr. . The point I am making is that we attempt to make perhaps, rightfuly or wrongfully, I don't know, but attempting to muke a whipping boy ont of ane oe field of mass—not the Senators here, because they have asserted they were trying to find achat the honest fact is

Mr. . Let me ask you a question

Mr. . Let me finish, counselor. That a whipping boy is being made out of one particular facet of the means of information devoted to crime and horror and detection work as such.

Gut there are perhaps as many Uitles of so-erHed erime pulp maga- zines, as many titles also as so-called true crime detective magazines and they have been in existence tor more than I can remember, for longer than I ean remember, There are the movie depictions, there are the television depictions, and to make a particular whipping bay ont of one facet of ib and say that if these were removed from sight ihe others would have no impact or would not have the same impact,