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however, was free from the disease, and 

 never had been a victim of it. A field in- 

 vestigation revealed the fact that the 

 father's father had died of syphilis. A son 

 born to the young man, after he had been 

 taken to the asylum, showed physical de- 

 formities due to the toxin of syphilis. Here 

 is a case of sending on a poison which 

 cursed three generations of innocent people. 

 Where normals pay 100% Life Insurance 

 premiums, syphilities pay 188%. 



When The Honorable Josephus Daniels, 

 editor and owner of the "Ealeigh News," 

 with a claimed circulation of 100,000, 

 awoke after the first election of Wilson, 

 he found that the Secretaryship of the 

 Navy had been thrust upon him — some say 

 because of his knowledge of inland navi- 

 gation — and others because of the deep 

 religious and moral influence of the "Ral- 

 eigh News" in getting votes for Woodrow 

 Wilson. 



He discovered that there was very little 

 of the social diseases in the Navy, because 

 a former Assistant-Secretary of the Navy 

 had seen to it that the Medical Board 



