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By BUD GOODE
Editor's note: Jack Webb was a child of the Depression; he was raised without benefit of a father's guidance; he lived on the wrong side of the tracks. He had more than three strikes against him before he became a -man — but he's never been called out! "Will power" is Jack's plea to today's teenagers: Will power, strength of character, determination — call it what you will — it is this mental iron of which our solid citizenry is made. Jack Webb is his own best example. It is not appropriate that he say this, or point to ■himself, and he is far too humble to do so. However, we can and do point to Jack Webb as the brightest example of his own philosophy. Now listen to what he has to say to today's troubled teenagers.
• Jack Webb, Dragnet's well-known Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, says: "High-school teenagers, between their fifteenth and eighteenth years, are really young adults. They are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. They are old enough to be considered responsible for their own actions.
"Don't misunderstand me," Jack continues, "I still think that parents, no matter what age their children, are responsible for their children's actions, too. The schools have a similar responsibility. Likewise, the community churches. But in the last analysis," he emphasizes, "the decision to do right or wrong is up to the individual teenager."
Jack does not consider himself an authority on teen-age problems, and he wants to stress that point. But he does have two children of his own — he, too, was a teenager — and, to the extent that Dragnet has covered teen-age problems, he is familiar with them. "I do know this," says Jack, (Continued on page 93)
Jack Webb is Detective Sergeant Joe Friday in Dragnet. seen over NBC-TV, Thursdays, at 9 P.M. — and heard over NBC Radio, Tuesdays, 8:30 P.M.— both EST, sponsored by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. for Chesterfield Cigarettes.
Producer-director-star Jack Webb is concerned with every major aspect of Dragnet. At right with script supervisor Frank Kowalski and Ben Alexander, who is Friday's partner, Frank Smith, in the Award-winning documentary drama.