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...fight against venereal disease. The 827 municipal clinics throughout the U. S. where venereals may receive free or cheap treatment, get only a fraction of the victims. Of the rest, some do not know that they are infected, while the rest shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops" in the war against syphilis. They may send patients to any one of the Health Department's 14 diagnostic centres, get back without charge confidential Wassermann reports. Such patients will get free antisyphilitic drugs...
...General Electric buildings in Schenectady, N. Y. and 24 G. E. plants elsewhere in the U. S., President Gerard Swope posted notice that henceforth company wages will be adjusted periodically with changes in the cost of living. Following the Department of Labor's index, wages will be increased up to 10%, but will not be cut lower than they were Oct. 1. To cover the last six months' rise in living costs, G. E. last week granted a 2 raise...
Simultaneously with Life's sale, its publishers last week told its readers that henceforth they would get Judge instead of Life. With the circulation of the oldest funsheet in the U. S. thus doubled, Judge, control of which last week passed to new and unknown owners, set out to woo Life's old contributors and advertisers, make Life's old subscribers feel as much at home as possible...
...afternoon competition. Last week Scripps-Howard completed the capture of Memphis by coming out in the open, handing Mr. Hammond his walking papers, admitting that any literate citizen among Memphis's 156,528 whites, 96,550 Negroes who wants to read a home-town paper must henceforth do so under the Scripps-Howard flag. Claiming "the largest circulation in the South," the Commercial Appeal brings Scripps-Howard 121,992 new daily readers, 138,124 new Sunday readers, to add to the Press-Scimitar...
Except for France, the European powers are not at all perturbed by the Belgium declaration. London feels that this neutrality policy will enable France to concentrate on the Rhine, while Belgium can henceforth take care of her own frontier alone. For the future peace of Europe this move is a wise one, since European stability can never be achieved when eight or ten countries have "ganged up" upon one or two others in a "collective security" system...