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Evening star., 1943-01-29

there now are tests which people can
take, years after infection and ap-
parent cure, to learn whether they
still harbor the germs. And phy-
sicians know how to avoid the in
sanity or crippling physical condi-
tions which otherwise might lie
waiting. This could be achieved on
a larger scale If enough former pa
tients would take the precaution OF
an examination.
Another difficulty in treating
syphilis always has been what doc
tors call the relapse factor. Pa
tients who have not received ade-
quate treatment see their symptoms
vanish, assume they are all right
and fail to return for further treat
ments. Other patients become ex-
posed again and are re-infected
complicating their records.
Once, $1,000 case histories OF this
scourge were turned over by Amer
lean hospitals to research workers
at Public Health. But when they
were sifted, only $500 were found
Of scientific value. There were too
many gaps in the others.
Syphilis, fortunately, is communi-
cable only at certain stages, and
patients may be rendered harmless
long before it's safe for them to stop
treatment or at least examination.
The doctors hope some day to
make venereal diseases as rare in
this country as bubonic plague.
While this goal still is far off, much
progress has been made in the last
few years. In the absence Of a
demonstrated immunizing agent, a
preventive, which research workers
still seek diligently. present meas
sures are about all that can be ap-
Evening star., 1943-01-29

and large headquarters, with excel
lent results.
AS a matter of fact, reports on the
results of blood tests given men
called up for selective service indi-
cate that venereal disease is much
more prevalent in civil life than in
the armed forces. Those who were
serving when the new Army was es-
tablished had a considerably lover
rate.
Plant Areas Watched.
Public health authorities are Just
as concerned with communities hav-
ing war industries as with the en-
virons of military posts. Protection
of the vast army of war workers is a
vital problem of conserving man.
power as essential to winning the
war as soldiers are. Efforts are being
made to stretch sanitary cordons
about war production centers.
An added measure of optimism is
found in the new treatments for the
two chief venereal diseases, syphilis
and gonorrhea.
Sufficient data has been accumu-
lated to lead to the belief that 80 to
95 per cent of gonorrhea cases can
be cured in 10 days to two weeks
with sulfathiozole, the Public Health
Service reports. The rest of the
cases usually will yield within a
month to weeks. Time was when
physicians deSpaired of curing this
most prevalent of venereal diseases
There was no specific remedy, and
treatment often went on for months
without definite results, and dor
mant infections often became active
again with devastating results.
Syphilis presents a more complex
medical problem, though the new
shortcut cures, while still in the ex-
perimental stage. are regarded by
specialists as distinctly encouraging
Ehrlich, discoverer Of salvarsan
or "606," found. to his disappoint-
ment, that one dose was not enough
So treatments were prolonged over
six months or year Three prin-
ciples have come to be applied to
any remedy for this sinister disorder
first, the drug or method must
make the preliminary, visible symp-
toms disappear; second. it must
KEEP them from reappearing, and
third, it must prevent the later
dreadful manifestations of the dis
ease, such as locomotor ataxia and
the mental deterioration known as
paresis.
Mapharsen, belonging to the ar
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Beoverbrook Requests
Debate on Aid to Russio
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 2a.-Lord Beaver
brook, former cabinet minister, to-
day called for an open parliament
tary debate on aid to Soviet Russia
to determine whether shipments of
airplanes and tanks "can swiftly be
increased during the next several
months"
Lord Beaverbrook is former min
ister for war production. Before
holding that post. he had been at
various times minister OF aircraft
production, minister Of state and
minister of supply.
Evening star., 1943-01-29

piled. While protection Of the
armed forces and of war workers
is an emergency objective, the prob
lem remains, as 1t always has been.
essentially concern of everyday
civil life. For those who carry the
disease. most Of them belonging TO
what often has been called the old
est profession. 60 not enroll in the
armed forces and seldom work at
war plants. but sell their wares
where they can, as they always have.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Floridu's Small Yards
To Build Oil Burqes
By the Associated Press.

6S Aut hSoOCltbtd fTtSS.
MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 29-Allen G..
Thurman, secretary of the Senate
Small Business Committee, disclosed
here that it is planned TO award
contracts this week end for con-
struCtion of IS oil barges in Flor
ida's small boat yards
They will cost about 5000 900 and
will be part of national program
to build 260 such barges to haul oil
from Texas, he said. With a value
OF $25, 900 each. the craft will be ITO
by "a feet and have a depth of 10
feet, with a capacity Of about 600
barrels.
Mr.. Thurman has consulted with
owners Of War-hlt small boat yards
here.
Evening star., 1943-01-29

tell city and county health officers,
district attorneys and sheriffs what
to do. But 1t can furnish all the
scientific help they want.
The Federal doctors are doing
everything in their power to per-
suade local authorities to place the
problem primarily on a medical
basis. particularly now, when the
effects OF venereal diseases injure
the war effort. Public health off,
GERS, regarding syphilis and gonor-
rhea like yellow fever or any other
plague, are concerned only with
curing the carriers. What punish
ment is meted out to prostitutes is
matter for law Enforcement
officers.
Public health physicians do wax
indignant, however, when they see
infected women treated as Grim
inals, thrown into jail merely be-
cause they have a disease. These
are, to the doctors, sick people who
need care. First they should be
cured. What the law does with
them afterward is its own concern.
About a year ago, in city of
100000, Federal doctor found a
Jail in which prostitutes were thrown
after casual physical examination.
Cots for Is or 16 women had been
placed in a cell intended for six.
The women slept on bare mattresses
without covers. In another place,
women were sleeping on the jail
floor, under shocking sanitary condi-
tionS.
improvement Reported.
Fortunately, conditions are i'm
proving in most sections of the
country, DR.. Vonderlehr reports.
In Memphis, for example, sus-
pected prostitutes are placed on
| trial, and, if convicted, are COM
mitted to the Shelby County work.
house for six weeks. Careful tests
are made, and those found infected
are sent to the workhouse hospital,
| which is equipped for the latest
treatments. Within the six weeks,
many cases can be cured, and others
| arrested effectively enough to leave
the patients harmless to others.
In Memphis, as elsewhere, the
| consent of the prisoner is neces-
Sary, especially in the treatment of
syphilis, which requires what legally
amounts to a series of surgical oper-
ations in the injections. The United
States Constitution is construed to
hold that no operation may be per-
formed without the patients per-
mission unless he is mentally un-
sound. But usually there is little
difficulty in obtaining the co-0pera-
tlon OF women sent to such hospitals.
Around a score of detention
homes, some in buildings formerly
used by the now terminated Civilian
Conservation Corps, have been es-
tabllShed by the Public Health Serv-
ice, the Federal Works Agency and
the Office of Defense Health and
Welfare Services. Many more will
be opened eventually throughout the
| country and in outlying stations of
the armed forces. Contagious dis
ease hospitals and even special wards
of general hospitals may be used in
other instances. The whole program
Is being expanded on a big scale as
The military and naval enrolment
scars and war industries grow. In
each facility, competent medical
care and adequate laboratory equip
ment will be provided.
PrOmDt Treatment Given
Evening star., 1943-01-29
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.


Venereal disease in the armed
forces is decreasing. AS the num-
Der of our land and sea fighters
scars above 1000, 900 the chart of in
fection shows an encouraging down.
ward trend, The Star learned at the
War Department today.
One reason for this may well be
a new policy which health officers
and laW-enforcement authorities in
many communities near Army and
Navy posts have adopted.
They round up prostitutes as fast
as they appear. Those found in
fected are given their choice of re-
ceiving free medical treatment or
going to jail.
There is, admittedly, no legal way
to force these women to take treat
ment. Some doctors say there
should be. But the committing
magistrate has the right, if he
chooses, to suspend the Jail SEN
tence on condition that the women
remain under care until cured. Few
refuse-most of them want treat
ment.
Congress, in 1941, authorized the
Secretaries Of War and Navy to de-
! fine areas around military and naval
stations in which commercial vice
could be outlawed and prostitution
punished as Federal offense. Sec
retary of War Stimson used this
authority twice in 1912, establish
| ing extensive areas around Camp
Forrest, Tenn. and Camp Bragg
N. C. More than 200 convictions
have been obtained in these regions
during the last six months, and the
| disease rates are reported to have
declined at both camps.
Jail Alone Futile.
But public health officers long
| have felt that it was futile to round
up prostitutes and Jail them unless
examination and necessary treat
ment followed. Otherwise the women
simply serve brief terms and go
back to their trade, many of them
carriers of dreaded infections.
DR.. Thomas Parran, surgeon gen.
eral of the United States Public
Health Service, pioneer in attacking
the problem realistically and pub
licly, has been advocating for years.
! long before Americas military might
was remobilized, policy of making
treatments accessible to every in
fected or exposed man and woman,
with their names kept confidential.
/ Today there are more than $500
clinics where the latest, most effec-
tive medication is given, and this is
due largely to his efforts. But the
road to control of venereal disease
is long one and much remains to
/ be done.
At present, under the immediate
| direction of DR.. r. A. Vonderlehr,
assistant surgeon general in charge
| Of the venereal disease campaign
OF the Public Health Service in CO.
operation with other Federal and
State agencies, is developing addi-
tional facilities all over the country
for diagnosis and treatment.
Experience has shown that from
one-fourth to One-third of all
women picked up are infected. 1t
thus becomes comprehensive why
the Public Health Service feels that
rounding up suspected women is the
first and most imperative step in the
fight.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Prompt Treatment Given,

The Army and Navy medical au-
thorities are cooperating closely
with national, State and local health
authorities In trying to reduce We
neral diseas TO minimum among
soldiers and sailors. With the camps
Evening star., 1943-01-29
USPHS Role Advisory.

States and local communities have
their varied laws and customs in
dealing with prostitution. All the
Federal health agency can do Is to
advise and help and to spread its
educational information. 1t can't
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-06
THURSDAY AFTERNOON

MJLB-News and music
NFNIr-Newscast.
WJBk-Polish Ladies Hr.
LIS T.. n.
WJR-Aa Perkins-D.
WWJ Modern Romance.
CkLW Yanks VS.. Cards.
WXYZ Edw. MacHugh-M
WEXL-Orgdn hymns.
1870 T.. NJ.
WJR-Bernadine Flyun-N.
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WJLB-IntermezZo-M
NEXL-Music.
1;i5 4. NJ.
WJR-The GOldberes-D.
WWJ-WAVES program.
NCAR-Rhyme-a -line-V,
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200 p. NJ.
WJR-YOung DR.. Malone.
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WCAR-News.
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WE%Iy-Newscsst.
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WJR--JOyce Jordan-D.
NWJ-Lonely Women-D.
Notwithstanding time.
NFSIS-Melody IN rhythm
WJBk-NeWs and Melody.
ESQ y. NJ.
WIR-Ne Love and Learn
MNJ-Light Of World-D.
WCAR-Music box.
WE$I-Parade OF bands.
Melody matinee.
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gas y. NJ.
wJR-Pepper YounE-D.
WWJ--Church hymns.
WCAR-Matinee melodies-
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WJR--Linda's first love.
NWJ-Woman OF Amer.
WCAR-News Ace.
NXYZ Morton Downey-M
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3:16 T.. NJ.
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WILMA Perkins-D.
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WEXL-Musical program.
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WCAR-Guest Time-M.
WJLB-Melodic Gems
WE%L-I Love a Parade,
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Room for Millions

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 CUP)
Africa, with a population of
$50 600, 900, can support twice that
number. according 10 DR.. Frank
J. Klimberg, professor of history
IN the University of California.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-06
Medicine VS.. Cookies

NEW YORK, Oct. 6 INS) -
That five-pound package of cookies
you don't send your soldier over
seas makes room for 90 packages
of Sulfadiazine.
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Buy War Savings Stamps the
convenient way. Order them
delivered to your door from your
Detroit Times carrier-salesman
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Corn spike.
4--Fissure.
s-Corded fabric tpl j.
12-Topaz humming bird.
13-- Measuring rod
14-MedlcinAl plant.
15-Angered
17-Smau valley.
1s--Luhricates
19-Takes liquid.
2l-Heavenly spirit.
23--Wof hound.
2i-Irishman.
25-Who is Trfby's master" in ,hs
novel by that name?
2p-Siikworm.
30--Rcady.
3l--Make an edging,
32-Male chickens.
34-Ship officer.
35-Golf mounds.
36-What Massachusetts, city was the
center OF early "witchcraft" per-
sccution7
37-Targe tract ~ wooded land
4o-What was the ancient Gaelic cap
Ito the sheltered side
42-Promulgauon.
46-Cl0ge
47-Orderiy
4S-HiCh hill.
4Q-Turfs
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premier. ~ Itaiy replacing the
fallen MBssbAni,
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THURSDAY MORNING

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WEXL-Newscast, music.
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WNYZ-News Flashes.
1880 A. NJ.
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WWJ--Help Mated.
CkLW-Mary Morgan-T.
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WEXL-Treasury Parade.
10:45 A. NJ.
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WWJ--Theater Of the AIR.
WCAR-N ovelty time NJ.
WXYH--Fun With Music.
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WCAR-Wohl Sophisticates
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WCAR-Letters from Boys
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Evening star., 1943-11-08

learned that so long as political
man means what he says and
shows an unyielding attitude he
will succeed eventually. His own
experiences with the British and
American governments as well
as with the groups hostile to him
in North Africa have demon
strated this amply.
Only last May Gen. De Gaulle
was merely tolerated in Algiers.
Gen. Giraud was our favorite.
He was invited to Washington,
where honors and receptions
were showered on him while Gen.
De Gaulle, ignored by the Allies,
stayed behind.
Soon after Gen. Giraud re-
turned to Africa he discovered
that Gen. De Gaulle had taken
control of everything, including
the army. Gen. Giraud is now
only tolerated by the French
while Gen. De Gaulle is the actual
leader and unquestionably the
future head of liberated France.
Political Acumen.
The erratic French general has
shown more political acumen
than both the State Department
and the Foreign Office have given
him credit for. He achieved his
aims merely by going overbag
and baggage-to Russia. He is
convinced that any European
power playing along with Moscow
will in the end be on the winning
side.
And the Russian government
accepted Gen. De Gaulles ad-
vances with enthusiasm because
1t recognizes that in any future
setup Of Europe France will play
an important role.
France is weak and exhausted.
The defeats have made her a
fourth-rate world power. But she
does continue to have an intel
lectual prestige over the bulk Of
Europe which the misfortunes of
war cannot obliterate.
Russia must have France on
her side to obtain a beginning
Evening star., 1943-11-08
On The Record

Neither correspondent was dis
interested. Mr.. Bigart expressed
his opinion that ut would have
been dangerous moment for the
King If the antimonarchist as
sessment of the public temper had
been correct" He also. expressed
the opinion that Naples is the
most republican city of Italy"
Mr.. Matthews expressed the
opinion that Naples is the most
monarchist city of Italy and
devoted most of his article to
recorcing, with obvious sympathy,
the opinions of the Kings out
standing opponents.
So, actually, We know Just
about as much as we did before
reading either of these flrst-hand
accounts-namely nothing what
ever about the state of public
opinion in Naples.
Volatile People.
What those of us who know
Naples well, may, however, add to
these reports is that the Neapoli-
tans are volatile people. They
like shows, are born actors, and
being Italians are also skeptical.
Perhaps it is not very important
from q serious political stand
point what their reaction was to
the sudden, dramatic appearance
OF the King in the streets. Maybe
1t was just spontaneous response
to sudden surprise. I mold it pos
slple-from long observation of
the behavior of crowds-that the
very person who cheered may
have said 80 seconds later, And
just the same he is as guilty as
Musso himself"
The peoples voice is, in other
words, a more subtle and diff
ferentiated thing than the mass
demonstration of people in
streets. I have seen the same
crowds within the space of a few
minutes, cheer two diametricallv
opposed candidates and causes.
The King is not hated in Italy.
He has been too negative a figure
for % years. When there was no
figure to stand off against Mus
sollnl, many anti-FasciSts were
passionately royalist in opposi-
ton to the dictator.
And the King has been de-
nounced and deposed by Mus
sollni, too. Acclaim of the King
might be interpreted as anti
Fascist, and boos against him as
pro-Fasclst. Popular reactions
are bound to be meaningless un-
oeT SuCn circumstances.
But the future of this parti-
cular King seems sealed by the
Moscow agreement, which goes
into details concerning Italy. The
three powers have demanded
that representatives of anti
Fascist parties be included in the
government. But the condition
for anti-Fascist participation in
the government is the abdication
of Victor Emanuel though not
or the dynasty-for obvious rea-
sons, they want to start with a
clean slate.
The real issue is whether it is
possible to install new forces
around which popular acclaim
can gather. In a twilight situa-
ton, such as the present one. the
people cannot decide where to
put their loyalties.
Released by the Bell Syndicate, 1ncl
Evening star., 1943-11-08
The Great Game of Politics.

Nor has Mr.. Early any trace of head
swelling. In brief, so far as the
Inner circle is concerned, he is
practically unique and it is some
thing of puzzle to those who know
the others as to how Mr.. Early got
in and how he stays in.
Particularly one wonders about
this after reading a remark by Mr..
Early in the current issue by a
monthly magazine. The editor had
asked Mr.. Early to write an article
describing how the President spent
his day. Mr.. Early said he did not
have the time to write the piece.
Then the old suggestion was made
that the piece could be written for
him and all he would have to do
would be to authorize the use of his
name as the author and pocket the
handsome check-as so many others
had done before him.
Mr.. Early Says No.
NO" said Mr.. Early, II won't do
that. That has always seemed not
quite honest to me-" And, of course,
Mr.. Early is right. 1t not only does
not seem quite honest-it is not
honest at ALL AS a matter of fact,
ut is a clear case of false pretense,
but so far as can be recalled, Mr..
Early is the only member of the
inner circle'-the only one of the
Presidents "close friends who has
taken that view. The other view is
all but unanimous among them. 1t
has also been held by certain per-
sons even closer to the President
than his friends. And a good deal of
easy money has been made putting
lit into practice.
Mr.. Early's distaste for taking
checks for magazine articles written
for him by some one else but printed
under his name is as much In con-
traSt to others of the palace guard
as was the attitude of former Vice
President John N. Garner toward an
offer of a large sum for a weekly
radio talk back in the first Roosevelt
term. The offer came at time when
various persons even closer than
secretaries to the President were
Icashing in on their closeness. In
rejecting the offer, Mr.. Garner said
that it was too much money to pay
Jack Garner, and no one had enough
money to buy the Vice President. The
fact that Mr.. Early feels that this
ghost writing game is mot quite
honest and won't do it, is an added
reason for the esteem in which he is
held.
Evening star., 1943-11-08

moned him to the villa here where
he had met number of prominent
Italians.
The King questioned him closely
about food conditions in Naples,
Col. Hume declared. expressed graf
iflcation that AMG was getting
some white bread to the Italians
now and added. I'VE still are eating
brown bread in my family
Describing his escape from Rome
at the time of the Italian armistice
/ the King told how he fed the cap
ital at dawn in an automobile with
no clothes except those 1 was wear
ing" Col. Hume reported.
Col. Hume is veteran Of Italian
affairs. He was in charge of all
American hospitals in Italy during
the last war and has been a men,