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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY 125 Chairman Kefauver. I think it might be of interest in this argn- ment whether Davy Crockett was born in Tennessee or North Carolina, he wasn't born in either State. Back in 1792, what is now Tennessee was created as the State of Franklin. It lasted three and a half or four years. That is when Davy was born. Mr. Warner. He has done a good job with his predecessors. Chairman Kefauver. Yes, he is a fine man, Davy. ]\Ir. Warner. He has a corner on all the coonskin caps. I think I would rather be serious; if you don't mind a little spice of life occasionally, it is all right sometimes. The cause you represent, I believe, is a serious one. I just tried to diagnose and think over to myself in the last day or two of what could have been, or what has caused the delin(iuency of juveniles throughout not only America, but I believe it is throughout the world, and I came across several phases, one in particular within the last 40 years, that there has been a complete change in the mode of life in our country. That era, the prohibition era, when law and order were completely disregarded, tended to create not only juvenile delinquency, but there was much adult delinquency. I feel during that period of time of disrespect and disregard of law and order, we all know, especially all the older fellows, and girls as well, that everybody tossed aside— law meant nothing, to any degree, and particularly I am speaking of the prohibition era. Therefore, I feel over the years there has come many, many children of the parents of the period who saw this lack of law and order, and the disrespect, it grew up into now wdiat may be many of the juvenile delinquents, or it may be the parents of many of them. I feel that had something to do with it. Along that very particular order we happened to, I believe, have made the first motion pictures that brought to the surface that very era; naming one, the first one was "Public Enemy.'' We showed conclusively just exactly the operation of the gangsters of the period, the prohibition operation, whatnot, whatnot. We made a picture "Little Caesar" and probably a half a dozen others, all with great, with what I thought had social contact, so much so that it sounds very much sort of a comic nature now, but at the time it was rather serious. When I went to New York then one of oin- films w^as showing at our theater there and T went to some speakeasy and I met one of the boys I knew, and I said that I thought they were mad at me because we had been showing them up. He said, "No, it is great. Me and my gal have been up here three times. We are going again to see it." I felt, although that was humorous, the seriousness behind it these pictures brought to the surface, to the public, and to the hoodlums, just exactly what they wei'e, and I feel had nnich to do with law and order taking hold again or at least steering it into an avenue, Avhat- ever it may be, and bringing it to the surface and stamping it out. It had a lot to do with it, as a matter of fact. Another film we made at the time was called "G-lNFen." It was a history to a degree, more or less, of the G-man, J. Edgar Hoover, of the time; I think about 1928, 19?>0. Many of the things we showed in the film were things that Mr. Hoover was trying to get, such as his 6iT65—55 9