In Manhattan last January the American Social Hygiene Association heard New York City's Health Commissioner Dr. John Levi Rice earnestly single out the prevention and treatment of syphilis as the gravest single problem facing his department (TIME, Jan. 27).
Taking the cue from Dr. Rice, the huge, proletarian New York Daily News forthwith launched an editorial campaign. It was criminal and foolish, said the News, to withhold from the public a full & free knowledge of venereal prophylaxis. The News soon discovered that the subject was alive with reader interest. Many of the paper's 2,900,000 purchasers wrote in to praise it for...
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