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266 As you notice, this morning T have been asking a number of wit- nesses as to the effect on our country’ ’s relationships with other coun- tries of these crime and horror comics.

Would you care to comment on whut impression and what effect erie and horror comics in Canada are having on the children’s ideas of what the United States of America is like?

Mr. Furson. Y would say that their eilect in that regard is not very serious in Canada. We live too close to you not to know that, our way of life and yours are very much the same.

Tt would be my opmion, therefore, that a Canadian child reading this type of muguzine would notreaction on him would not be what drendtul things « vo on in the United States of Ainericn as distinet from what goes on in Canada.

Rather, the nndesirabilty from our point of view certainly is that it portys ys these as natural and everyday occurrences.

In other words, our objection to thein is not that it portrays the United States as a country, which has lower standard of nioral values {han our own. Ii is merely that they portray Lumen society as having an eutirely distorted and unreal sense of value and of moral standards.

Besides that. I world make no, I certainly wouldn’t express any opinion that they have a derogatory effect on the opinion of our chiklren toward America as such because as 1 have pointed ont, al- though to a cousicderable lesser degree, many publications of the same type ave published in Canada, it snilicienL number to be alarming and disturbing.

Mr. . I have no further questions, Mr. Chairman.

The. It is your considered judgment that this statute has been extremely helpful, it is not?

Mr. Kurran. Yes, it is, Senator, although T must again repeat that I feel it has not been used to the fullest Possible extent.

The. Senator Hennings?

Senator LHensxtxas. [have nothing further, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.

The. Thank you again, Mr. Fulton, very much indeed.

My. Furron, ‘Thank you, Mr, ‘Chairman,

Mr. . Mr. Samuel Black.

The. Mr. Black. will yon be sworn?

Do you selemnly swear t that the evidence yor ere abont to eive to this subeommittee of the Committee on the Dali ay of the U ited States Senate, will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ?

Mr. Buack. F do.

The. Will you state your name, address, and association, for the record?

Mr. Ba ACK, My name is Samuel Black, 17 am « wholesaler and reside at 3 Ehvood Drive in Springfield, Mass., and do business at 31 Winter Street, Springfield, Mass.

Mr. . You are a wholesaler of what?