CALL RECRUITS IN SYPHILIS WAR Call for ‘“‘recruits’’ in the “War Against Syphilis’’ by Gen. John J. Pershing and Dr. Ray Lyman Wil. bur will be heard throughout the country. General Pershing is chair- Gen. John J. Pershing. man and Doctor Wilbur is vice chairman of the National Anti- Syphilis Committee of the American Social Hygiene association. “Aided by state and city committees in many sectors, we expect to enlist Ray Lyman Wilbur. fight on conditions which war fund broader interest in the syphilis and the favor its spread with a of $500,000 contributed by volun- teers,” says Doctor Wilbur, who is also president of the association. Several Colleges Join War to Check Syphilis Stimulated by the national cam- paign to control venereal disease, a few colleges and universities are making syphilis tests a part of the routine examinations required of in- coming students. Judging from a survey made by the Chicago Trib- une, serological diagnosis for syph- ilis is not a common regulation among student health services, how- ever. Instruction on the sexual and so- cial hazards of the disease is far more common. Many universities, in fact, require their freshman men and women to take courses in health or hygiene revealing the character of the disease. Others confine this instruction to medical and socio- logical courses beyond the reach o/ most students. University presidents, deans, and health directors questioned were unanimous in declaring that syph- ilis does not constitute a major health problem on American cam- puses. Most of them agreed that students found to have syphilis and gonor- rhea should be kept in school where they could have adequate treat- ment. Prep school leaders, dealing with younger boys, were just as cer- tain that all syphilitics should be barred. The University of Chicago, Uni- versity of Iowa, and Dartmouth col- lege are schools which have elected to give Wasserman or Kahn tests to all newcomers. New York univer- sity offers free tests to all students, but does not require them. Testing began on the Midway with the winter quarter this month, tak- ing advantage of the Chicago board of health’'s program of free and secret examinations, since the uni- versity health service lacked funds for this purpose. Dartmouth college began routine Wassermans last fall and found one case of congenital syphilis among 650 Incoming students. The University of Iowa started serological testing of freshmen in 1924 and continued until 1930, re- ported Dr. M. E. Barnes, head of the department of hygiene. It ceased, he said, because of many objections. The university then con- fined its testing to food handlers, employees, and others. “Fid. Del.” on British Coins The title “Fidei Defensor’ (De- fender of the Faith) was conferred on the English King Henry VIII by Pope Leo X, in 1521. It was his rec- ognition of Henry's reply to Martin Luther. When Henry quarreled with Rome, in 1538, the Pope then in power, Paul III, deprived him of this title. But in 1544 it was con- firmed by the English parliament, and has ever since been borne by all British sovereigns. Now it refers to the Protestant faith, and not, as at first, to the Catholic religion. man-eating lion. too. It's volts I'm talking about wallop. a wallop they pack. A hundred lighting circuit at home—wi the way of the But this with eleven thousand of those times as many as they run through more of number in your if he gets in oling around four - n f 10 tric chair up at Sing Sing. strong. have. The date was February 7, 1933. the Long Island railroad. It ta trified trains that run out of Nev large quantities. At that time Dick was working for run those elec- where the voltage came through in Dick came to work at four partner worked the four to m He and his They had only been on the telephone to put ii i WI FR into service an by the day Both of them connecting switches are loc but they didn't b« matter of throwing a switch and eleven thousand J ited ther about At least, that's whi they discovered that se cables—were on brackets. dangling in The two men laid as to put those wires where they switches still open, no need for gloves or any were had been taken out along their switch sticks, »s, for their job was a simple he juice ride on through. py reached the cellar high tension anging ks and proceeded wires were dead, for the and his partner figured there'd be The cable A back-feed was what did it. shunted back from get through it because it was open. It hit that switch, but couldn't If there had been no other metal in But with all the force of a thunderbolt. in the other. of the switch. power. away, doing the same thing. Every bit of hair second.” broken loose. floor. The big sign of them. Lumps of hot copper lay on the There wasn't so much as a Says Dick: of it. out with our lives. voltage through our bodies. lions every time. than the volts would leave. Strength of a Lion Naturalists have seen a lion leap over a nine-foot wall with a calf in its mouth, honeybees extinguish the flame of a candle with the breeze created by their wings, and a secre- tary bird. four feet high, kill a ven- omous snake with one blow of its foot.—Collier's Weekly. Indians Used China Brier The China brier, which grows in Florida, was used by the Seminole Indians to prepare a dish called brier. and pounded in a mortar. this meal was mixed with The roots were chopped up Then water sediment, when dry, was a red meal. this meal was mixed with honey and warm water. Ii jelled as it cooled and was eaten with corn bread or cakes The Dominican Republie The Dominican republic has both historic and scenic attractions. Ciu- dad Trujillo, formerly Santo Domin- go, is the oldest European settle- ment in this hemisphere, having been founded by Bartolome, a brother of Christopher Columbus, in 1496, Snake Rattles Don’t Count A persistent and popular notion is that the age of a rattiesnake may be told by counting the rings or but- tons of the rattle, each one of which is supposed to represent a year in his life. This is entirely erroneous, says a writer in the Detroit News, because they actually take on an average of three each year. Vibra- tion at the tip is so pronounced that very frequently a segment is brok- en off and lost. Some small speci- mens carry more buttons than some twice their size. BAAMAAMAALADAAMADAALALL LAM WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALAAAAAAL EW YORK.—One of this depart- ment’s favorite monarchs has long been Jeff Davis, king of the hoboes of America, who now leads f his following of Hoboes Will carly 1,000,000 in Pay Honor to a plan to erect a national memorial ar. x Bard of Home to John Howard Payne, Home.” author of ‘Home, Sweet There is perh: pride involved, ent he er understand 7 King Jeff Is Elected to Job for Life better tions He wants the railroads to estab- lish a one-cent-a-mile rate for box car passengers. He says the plan has worked fine in France He moves about the country, fighting the bum blockades set up by 1 jenounces the is i 1s following—ho- a t but never toss nything into the jungle stew, ® . . ORRESPONDENTS on the Brit- ish-Italian radio war front in Arabia report a victory in the first engagement for Abdul Wahab, the . desert Rudy Val- Italy Wins lee, crooning for Radio Duel taly. The sheiks, . accordin news in Desert gt out Britain's broadcast, accounts, tuned which in- cluded news of a death sentence crooner. The Italians also were one-up on due to the fact that Sir John C. W. Reith, grim, pur- poseful and, incidentally, Scottish, director general of the British Broadcasting corporation, led off for England, paced by Big Ben and “God Save the King.” Abdul coun- tered with “Just a Little Oasis for Two,” and “Aldebaran and You,” in Arabic. It was no contest after Sir John's last appearance was at Edward's solemn valedictory. The tali, bald, frosty mogul of British Broadcasting, lord of the empire air waves, takes the microphone only when imperial interests demand it. Recently he said: ‘To set out to give the public what it wants, as the saying is, is a dangerous and fallacious policy.” Those who know him say he will go on giving the Arabs what he . thinks they ought Lord of Air to want, and prob- Keeps B.B.C. ably Wn away . wit . e has Out in Front been lambasted as a dictator all over the empire, but has ridden through labor and con- servative administrations and keeps the B. B. C. steadily advanc- ing. He is the most accessible man in England, forty-seven years old, the son of an old-line Scotch clergy- man, trained in engineering at the Royal College of Glasgow, success- ful as an engineer in London, be- fore becoming general manager of the B. B. C. in 1922. 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