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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY 121 to somebody else—it is not liis money—it is a terriffic responsibility, and one that you have to always, regardless of your personal opinion, rely somewhat upon the economic situation and what the possibility of box-office value is and the story or the idea you are thinkinjr of might have at the box office, in order to see that stockholders, whose money you are spending, get a fair chance of their investment being safe and sound. There are no peculiarities particularly in our business. I was born in Greenville, Ga., a town of 814. I came to Hollywood with all of the things that people say about Hollywood and Hollywood people, that a stranger there would last 3 months, 4 months, 5 months. And I have never found a more friendly, a more American, a more corial group of people than composed in the motion-picture industry, and a group that I wnll stand by and with at any time, any place, in de- fense of their deep sense of obligation to their community, to their public, and to the problems that exist in our country. And doing that, I will tell you, Senator, I will still make a lot of mistakes, but we will do it forthrightly, w^e will do it courageously and we will take our penalty for the mistakes we make, Mathout asking for any sympathy whatsoever. We will stand on our record of the job that has been done by American motion pictures in every section of the world, in carrying the American w^ay of life to all peoples of the world, so that today 80 percent of the playing time on all theaters of the world are American motion pictures. I think that is about my statement. Chairman Kefauver. Mr. Freeman, we appreciate your forceful and good general statement. What particular considerations are you giving at Paramount to this problem we are investigating, as to the welfare of our children and the difficulty of juvenile delinquency? Do you have any or are you planning any particular pictures that will try to furnish leadership in bettering this general situation ? Mr. Freeman. Well, in the end result I hope so. We are preparing and trying to work out a story now that is on the delinquency of some parents in their homes, and wliat they do that brings about maybe a broken life and leads to greater contribution, I think, to juvenile delinquency than any other media. I am one who believes that the fault does not lie in the newspapers, does not lie in television, does not lie in motion pictures. I am one of those fellows born in a country town, raised by parents who I think understood—and I think maybe you had the same experience, Sena- tor,—what it meant for the children to recognize their mother and father and for the mother and father to live the kind of lives that would be something the children could respect, and bring them up in a way that the problem that you have today doesn't exist. In my opinion, when you wind it all up and make all the examina- tions you can go through, all of the research you can make, it will come right back to the source of the foundation of our way of life in this country, and that is the home. Drinking liquor, divorce, we didn't start it; it starts at the source of the family heart. Chairman Kefauver. Mr. Freeman, my hometown was not quite as big as Greenville, but I know what you are talking about. Mr. Freeman. Good. You knew what a hickory switch was.