david bruce this is still the show where we show everything in the public domain and boy do we have a show for you today from the one nine hundred forty s a film about sexually transmitted diseases well you know we've always had to address the issue of gonorrhea and syphilis and things like that how to prevent it oh that's were ugly so you can back in the not so liberated one nine hundred forty s how did one talk about such things and sexuality and especially sexually transmitted diseases which took like wow so that's what makes this film so interesting it's just listen to how they attempt to talk about it and in that very repressed er and we're far more liberated today we can openly talk about this it's not something we have to show to a select audience we it's public so anyway so here's a blast from the past sexually transmitted diseases nineteen forty style you'll enjoy this one i'm going with the groups here we go as surgeon general of your army i know that the subject of this film is a deadly enemy and a menace to our armed forces for too long we have allowed as social to move to prevent defective discussion and action now it is high time we met the enemy with all the force and knowledge at our command i am sure the doctor parent agrees with me i completely agree with what general curtis told you the life not of a democracy is your ability to understand and act upon a problem once the facts are presented to you the purpose of this motion picture is to give you the facts and then you as individuals and citizens of a democracy must take action it's taken over the enemy before you start dropping bombs on back to that big place when we start treatment starting now you want to facts when the first question is the extent of syphilis in america being measured in numbers anyone had mentioned syphilis in my presence now i realized that i was just shutting my eyes to a very serious condition i mean you got our figures out of every thousand men who appear before this board for induction we've had to reject forty one because of syphilis at first we thought there must be something wrong with this district so he wrote to the selective service headquarters in washington tell him what i got it wrote that the national average is forty seven neighbor bodied men rejected for syphilis out of every thousand examined there are some states in the union however where the average is as high as one hundred seventy men rejected for syphilis out of every year out of every thousand men in uniform that means three hundred thousand men put out of action each year and ten million man army and every one of those men is a casualty so as combat is concern me think of that three hundred thousand casualties without even a battle in public institutions twenty three thousand cases of insanity caused by cities in state asylums because the taxpayer fourteen million dollars annually another thirty one million  but now that we know what the extent of syphilis in america let us consider what can be done about it to the necessary evil and something signs our neighbor to fight all he said simply too powerful for the human race to cope well has to assault the population of new york state he's roughly equal to that of sweden norway and denmark combined each of the didn't take us represents two thousand new cases of syphilis reported the year so in the last year before the nasty invasion new york state one of the most progressive states in fighting s fifty thousand new cases reported denmark norway and sweden combined i want them to see how it's done splendid everybody should know all about this we've come this way when come on i don't know about you but i hate the idea of the swedes norwegians and danes thinking we're a bunch of superstitious idiots let's show them we're as adult and intelligent as they are let that be our plan of conquest the conquest of disease that the only sure way from the individual to avoid infection is to avoid exposure learn the facts with knowledge and intelligence actions the people of america