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 a social taboo to prevent the fact of discussion and action now it is high time we met the enemy with all the force and knowledge at our command i am sure that dr faron agrees with me i completely agree with what general curtis told you the lifeblood 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  taken over the enemy before we start dropping bombs on heard from the kid next door of the patent medicine salesman surely not from anyone who knew what he was talking about colonel give me the works i've got to get back to that they claim when we start treatment we've had to reject forty one because of stuff like that first we thought there must be something wrong with this disk so i wrote to the selective service headquarters in washington down to tell him what i got it wrote that the national average is forty seven able 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 his combat is concerned i think that three hundred thousand casualties without even a battle and now let us measure the spread of syphilis in dollars and cents and cost to the taxpayer it cost the taxpayer ten million dollars every year to pay for the care of the  in public institutions that are twenty three thousand cases of insanity coast by syphilis in state asylums because the taxpayer fourteen million dollars annually another thirty one million  spent annually in private institutions the veterans administration spends eighty two million dollars every year on hospitality sation and disability pensions for cities case don't worry the children are normal as the babies they have a good happy life ahead of them they're the lucky ones you wouldn't want to see the other side of the picture and now that we know the extent of syphilis in america let us consider what can be done about it is it a necessary evil is it something scientists are neighbor to fight always and simply too powerful for the human race to cope you can see for yourself how denmark attack the problem there is one of the big community clinics in copenhagen denmark has a young couple entering the clinic together for blood tests before getting married there's no shame attached no questions of secrecy and dangerous we need to know regions here that civilization no copenhagen it's no crime to have several if it's only a crime not to take treatment for service but then you are in danger of everyone with whom you come in contact when the question is does their system work any better thus bringing the discussion of syphilis into the open accomplish anything fifty thousand new cases reported denmark norway and sweden combined so now we know fact number two seventy six can be stamped out as widespread as it is now a country today we could almost completely wipe it out in no time don't be afraid to come on an i want them to see how it's done splendid everybody should know all about that that you come this way when you 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 idiot let's show them where is adult and intelligent as they are let that be our plan of conquest the conquest of disease