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Problem For New Congress —TV Crime LAWMAKERS TO DISCUSS ITS PART IN JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Television is not only programs; it’s, problems, too. The industry is now perched impatiently on Capitol Hill in Washington, waiting for the new 84th Congress to convene and decide what to do about the latest headache. This is no novelty. For the past two decades or more, no Congress has escaped coming to grips with broad¬ casting. At first all the trouble was with radio; these days TV is harass¬ ing the legislators. The newest hassle is whether TV contributes to juvenile delinquency and, if so, what to do about it. The issue was born some months back when the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was investi¬ gating comic books. One witness made charges against some of the TV en¬ tertainment offered to children. Some parents followed up with letters pro¬ testing programs of crime and violence. The subcommittee perked up and mailed questionnaires to the radio- TV editors of the Nation’s press. What did these experts think? Being experts, they disagreed. But several felt some of the programs were too rough and lurid for impres¬ sionable youngsters. The lawmakers decided to collect facts and make rec¬ ommendations to be laid in the lap of the next Congress. Hearings, in late October, devel¬ oped interesting, though sometimes confusing and contradictory, testi¬ mony. Among the principal points were these: Old movies—gangster pictures and Westerns—are the source of nearly all complaints. In order to fit the films into the split-second timing demanded by TV, they have been shortened. 10