Smyrna times., 1945-02-01
HYGIENE DAY
FEBRUARY 9TH
Schools, Churches, and Civic
Bodies All Over State to
Help in Special Drive
COOPERATION NEEDED

With the hope of enlisting
churches, schools and mayors all
over Delaware in the observance of
National Social Hygiene Day on
Wednesday, February 9TH, DR.. Ed
win Cameron, executive secretary
of the State Board of Health, an
nounces that his organization, as a
member of the state committee,
has mailed out packets of informa-
ton about Social Hygiene Day to
ministers, high school principals
and mayors all over the state. In
the accompanying letter, DR.. Cam
eron points out that health depart
ments are doing their utmost to
control and treat venereal diseases
but that the problem is not en-
tirely a medical one because moral
issues are involved, and promis-
Guilty inevitably results in the
spread of venereal diseases. A sup
porting, letter from DR.. H. V. Hol-
loway, state superintendent of the
State Department of Public In
struction, tells school principals
that young people should know
the dangers of venereal disease and
realize that purity of life and recti-
tude of conduct is the only sure
way of avoiding them, and that
prevention is infinitely better than
the possibility of cure" He sug-
gested that school administrators
arrange meetings in cooperation
with their Boards and, if possible
with their Parent Teacher Associa-
tions. The Delaware Congress of
Parents and Teachers have also
come out in favor of special pro-
grams in support of Social Hygiene
Day in a letter sent to all local
PTA health chairmen by Mrs. j.
D. Chalfant, state health chairman,
in which she asks that the organ
ization assist the principals who
are planning programs. She also
urges the support of all measures
needed to provide young people
with healthy recreation, and to
educate them for happy marriage
and family life"
DIR. Tarumianz State Chairman
DIR. M. A. Tarumianz appoint
ment as state chairman of the Del
aware Social Hygiene Day Com
mittee, by the medical societies of
Delaware, has been announced by
DR.. William H. Kraemer, president
of the Delaware Academy of Medi-
cine and member of the commit
tee. Officially, DR.. Tarumianz is
superintendent of Delaware State
Hospital and director of the Mental
Hygiene Clinic. Unofficially, like
wise, he is well known as an inter-
ested eader in every movement for
better mental and physical health
and for all other things that secure
good citizenship. DR.. Kraemer said
that it is the aim of the medical
profession of Delaware, under
whose auspices the plan originated,
to make this years Social Hygiene
Day, a time not only to acquaint
the general public with the facts
about venereal diseases, but also
to enlist their full support for the
venereal disease control program of
the State of Delaware and of the
City of Wilmington.
Menace to National Security
"All the 70, and more, members
of the Committee, representatives
of interested official and voluntary
sponsoring agencies, believe it is
the responsibility of every citizen
to join the campaign against these
dangerous and widespread infec-
tions," DR.. Kraemer said. "Be-
cause the venereal diseases, syphilis
and gonorrhea, reduce the output
of industrial workers, weaken the
striking power of our armed forces,
they are menace to national Sc
curity."
Cooperation of Public Needed
Medical science has given us
all the means needed for their con-
troll" he continues. There are
now available new drugs, new
methods of diagnosis, new tech
niques of treatment. What is still
needed above all is greater under
standing, by, and therefore cooper
alton of, the general public" The
slogan of this years Social Hy-
giene Day is: Unite Against VD;
VD Delays Victory.
Local Committees Named
Mayor R. F. Corley has named
the following committee for Smyr-
ma: DR.. G. ]. Prickett, Harvey c.
Jones, Miss Anna B. Beckett, Mrs.
Thomas Russell, ]. Wells FAIRIES,
Rev. Herman Dam, and Rev. R. E..
Green. Clayton, in cooperating
with the observance has the fol-
lowing committee named by the
President of Council Carl A. Hurd: