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...Sidney Clarence Garrison, 50. All week the two campuses shone with such a collection of academic finery as the South had not seen in decades. From rostra thundered Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General Thomas Parran, American Bar Association's President Arthur T. Vanderbilt, scores of other bigwigs. No mere installation of officers had instigated all this big talk. Pedagogues and laymen had gathered to take stock of Education in the South. Excerpts from the inventory...
...charge of the campaign to suppress venereal diseases in West Virginia. Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter has similar charge in Pennsylvania. In Illinois the executive is Dr. John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...
...National Social Hygiene Day" last week, radiorators, notably General John Joseph Pershing, Dr. Parran and President Ray Lyman Wilbur (M.D.) of Stanford University discussed such matters over 350 broadcasting stations. Dr. William Freeman Snow, director of the American Social Hygiene Association announced that, of the $500,000 which he needs to propagandize for Dr. Parran's program, he already had collected $102,000. Senator Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin and Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of North Carolina urged Congress to appropriate $271,000,000 towards a 13-year campaign for prevention, treatment, control of venereal disease...
...their efforts to date Dr. Parran and Dr. Snow have the following results to show...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to enroll with Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service as Founder No. 1 of his National Foundation to Combat Infantile Paralysis (enlistment fee: $1), he found he had no money, was obliged to borrow from Press Secretary Stephen Early...