The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
ARE TOO MODEST
Newspapers and Public Criti-
cised by Army Man.
Capt. Louis HOugh Here in We
nereal Disease Drive.
FACTS SHOULD Be FACED
He Says Innocent Suffer More
Than the Guilty.
Every Town in the State Should
Have a Clinic.
FACTS SHOULD Be FACED

Capt. Louis Hough. regional coun-
sellor of the venereal disease bureau
of the United States public health
service is in Topeka today. He will
be here for several days assisting DIR.
Kilburne, state director of the bureau
in planning the work of the nation
wide campaign against venereal dis
eases.
THE attitude of the general public
has always been" says Captain Hough,
that guilty offenders alone suffer.
The general public knows nothing of
lives ruined. marriages resulting in
divorce and disease, children born
blind. crippled physically and mental
ly from the ravages social diseases.
The public does not know that the per
cent of the innocent who suffer is
much greater than the percent of
those who suffer thru their own in
dividual guilt. If 1t did understand
and comprehend all these things. II
would rise up and demand protection
sa me as it has done against other dis
eases The trouble with the people of
the United States is that there is too
much false mcdesty in dragging the
matter out into the light of cool, calm
contemplation and regarding the dis
eases in the same manner as tuber-
culosis."
Cr4ticises Newspapers.
"a newspaper will print stories of
attacks on girls. A father seduces a
daughter. A man is hailed into court
on a white slave charge. He has taken
woman to another city and lived
with her in a hotel. Men and women,
married and unmarried, mingle in sur
reptitious midnight escapades that are
actuated by only one motive. A man
works at night. His wife runs around
with other men for various reasons
then a divorce suit and all the sordid
details are dragged to light in the
courts and the public wants the de-
tails and grabs the papers that fur
nish them. And yet-the same paper
does not care to handle a story. whose
basic element is the same thing as in
these other cases and which results in
all the life tragedies of venereal dis
eases. It hesitates to say gonorrhea
and syphilis when that is what II
means and calls 1t a dangerous COM
municable disease. So is tuberculosis.
There is too much modesty. A public
that will read these other stories OF
lifes scandals will not be injured by
reading of gonorrhea and syphilis
designated for exactly the death deal
ing. life destroying. eternaliy blasting
diseases that they are"
Five Clinics in Kansas.
There are now five venereal clinics
in Kansas. They are at Rosedale
Lawrence, Wichita. Kansas City and
Topeka. At Lansing there is a deten-
ton home for men and women. Cap
tain Hough predicts the day not far
distant when every city of over 10, 0O1
persons will have such a clinic. One
of the aims of the present campaign
| has a view to this result. He predicts
that counties, cities and states will
soon provide in their yearly budgets
money to foster the progress of the
work that the United States army
threw in the face of a public that was
at first shocked but has since gone
into the work heart and soul.
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans. Sept. 24-CoTTON-Spot,
steady and unchanged: middling. 31.3S.