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History of Propaganda. The tidal wave of propaganda against venereal diseases began on the Atlantic Coast, in the offices of Surgeon General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director...
...whole movement resurged in 1934 when Dr. Parran, as New York State Commissioner of Health, and Dr. John Levi Rice, as New York City Commissioner of Health, were forbidden by radio executives to mention syphilis in air talks. They lost their tempers, started a moral storm. The groundswell first surged effectively 13 months ago, when 2,500 women and men attended a meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 20. 1936). It frothed in July when Dr. Parran published an article on syphilis in Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Almost 2,000,000 reprints...
...Parran used his installation as president of the American Public Health Association in New Orleans to blow the storm higher (TIME, Oct. 26). Between Christmas and New Year's he called some 600 public health officers and social hygienists, including Dr. Snow, to Washington, let them know that he had $10,000,000 to help them beat the venereal problem, let them urge him to ask Congress for $15,000,000 more...
...Snow caused last week to be designated a National Social Hygiene fete, got scores of meetings organized, got his old friend Dr. Wilbur (now president of the American Social Hygiene Association), and his newer friend Dr. Parran to make speeches for electrical transmission by dozens of radio stations which at last permitted discussion of the subject...
Said Dr. Wilbur: "When every American family sees that the children in each generation are taught the truth about syphilis and gonorrhea, how to avoid them and what to do if infected, we shall no longer see our young manhood and womanhood their chief victims.'' Said Dr. Parran: "There must be secured through the medical and other professional groups additional experienced personnel to provide for the necessary diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of all infected persons...