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Show thing more. The Roman Catholic Holy Name Society complained to the Federal Fed-eral Communications Commission, Commis-sion, and I called on an FCC official who admitted that this profanity was definite violation of a federal statute and therefore there-fore a federal crime. The FCC, however, declined to do anything about the incident on the grounds that the industry was in the process of setting up its own organization to prevent such things as this from happening. happen-ing. At the suggestion of the FCC, I talked with the party who was head of this organization and asked him what penalty would result from someone violating criminal laws on television. He replied that his organization intended in-tended to provide a seal of good behavior for broadcasters and that in the. event of such violations viola-tions this accrediting seal would be taken away. Television is having its difficulties diffi-culties today and will have even greater future difficulties largely because the industry has not been willing to inflict any more than a tap on the wrist punishment punish-ment by removing a seal. Since this self-policing organization organi-zation was formed, liquor advertising adver-tising has been introduced on TV and profanity has increased. Mr. Doerferk chairman of the FCC, has suggested since the quiz show scandals, that the idea of a TV czar for television may be looked into. Columnist Suggested Czar to Watch TV The current TV and radio scandals scan-dals are shocking the nation. And there are more disclosures to come. Washington Columnist Clinton Davidson, in a recent dispatch, recalls that he suggested many months ago that TV appoint a czar to run its affairs and prevent pre-vent just the type of thing congressional con-gressional committees are exposing expos-ing now. Mr. Davidson recalls: " Mr. Robert Lishman, counsel for the committee which investigates investi-gates activities of government agencies, answered his telephone and then turned to me and said, "We are getting the New York Grand Jury records regarding the TV quiz shows." He obviously obvious-ly was pleased and excited. Thus began in investigation which has shocked the nation. TV's difficulties were not only foreseen, but were predicted. They resulted from the unwillingness unwill-ingness of leaders in the industry indus-try to punish adequately those who violate criminal laws in the program which they bring into the living rooms of millions of Americans. I speak from first hand experience. experi-ence. Shortly after the close of World War II I called on a top NBC official and urged the appointment ap-pointment of a so-called "czar" with authority to protect the good reputation of TV. I suggested appointment of someone with the authority that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan-dis Lan-dis had in the baseball world, or Will Hayes had in the movies, and warned that unless this was done TV could destroy itself. I mentioned that as more and more shows were produced in Hollywood and as a larger number num-ber of Hollywood personalities were used on TV programs, the moral tone of the programs may be affected by Hollywood morals. mor-als. This official, who was greatly impressed with the power, progress pro-gress and prosperity of his industry, in-dustry, dismissed my suggestion with a statement that the movie industry needed such a czar but that television did not. Shortly after that conversation a woman featured on an hour long program beamed to the home, used some shocking profanity pro-fanity on the air.I called officials of the company and asked what they were going to do about it. I was told that the announcer had apologized and that they had no intention of doing any- |