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Never yet has there been a Negro officer of the U. S. Navy and many a naval officer says privately there never will be. Oscar De Priest, three-term Republican Congressman (1929-35) from Chicago's colored district, appointed three Negroes to the Naval Academy. None got in. One was disqualified for imperfect eyesight, one because of age (limits are 16-20), one flunked the entrance exams. Negro Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell who defeated Mr. De Priest in 1934 had better luck. Year ago he appointed James Lee Johnson Jr., who got into the Naval Academy, lasted one semester...
With large ads in 14 newspapers the Ladies' Home Journal last week called attention to an article on syphilis in its August issue entitled "We Can End This Sorrow" by Paul de Kruif & Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. It was Dr. Parran who made the U. S. press syphilis-conscious, brought the subject into open discussion this year in newspapers, magazines and books (TIME, April 6 et seq.). The Journal in its ads harked proudly back to pre-Parran days...
...present editors of the Ladies' Home Journal, Bruce & Beatrice Gould (man & wife), were unable to find any quotes from the Bok editorials to run with the de Kruif-Parran article to prove that Bok said it first many years ago.' But it can fairly be said that Editor Bok pitched the first ball, even though it was a roundhouse curve...
...de Kruif-Parran article is a statement of the known facts about syphilis and its treatment, written in Mr. de Kruif's breathless style. Example: "And what is more dastardly than the way this microbe gangster then sneaks back out of his hiding? So that a husband, having long ago forgotten a past indiscretion, may then infect his wife. So that a mother, unaware that death has ever lurked within her, may pass it to the babe growing in her womb." Constructively, the Ladies' Home Journal backed up the article by editorially endorsing a Wassermann test for every...
...nerves. What Frenchmen titter at is the self-portrait of youthful Poet-Journalist-Socialist Blum sowing his wild oats. What is not so titillating or so new. but only a little on the old-fashioned side of Gallic good sense, is his sex theory. A succes de scandale in England since the first translation appeared there last month, in the U. S. Marriage will likely perk up more ears than it burns...