HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 1779 A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE FEDERAL SECURITY MATTERS RELATING TO SOCIAL PROTEC- THE LIDHARY ! CONGRESS 84295 WASHINGTON, D. C. Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor 46-26044 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1946 GL S 6Ap 46 146 CONTENTS Alphabetical list of witnesses and authors of exhibits. Watson Miller, Federal Security Administrator.. Charles P. Taft, chairman, National Venereal Disease and Social P. L. Anderson, director, Department of Public Safety, San Antonio, Harry P. Cain, mayor, Tacoma, Wash. Charles J. Hahn, secretary, National Sheriffs' Association.. Dr. William F. Snow, chairman, Executive Committee, American Miss Jean B. Pinney, director, Washington Liaison Office, American 27 Dr. Helen Gladys Kain, American Medical Women's Association... 29 30 Dr. J. R. Heller, Chief, Venereal Disease Control Division, United 30 Dr. James Lade, director, Division of Syphilis Control, New York 32 APPENDIX Exhibit 1. Letter from Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon General, United Exhibit 2. Copy of letter on work of Social Protection Division sent by Exhibit 4. Letter from Robert P. Patterson, Secretary of War- 35 35 39 40 40 Exhibit 6. Statement of Bascom Johnson, director, Division of Legal and 41 42 Exhibit 8. Letter from Dr. John H. Stokes, director, Institute for the 43 Exhibit 9. Telegram from Neil J. Crowley, president, Chattanooga, 44 Exhibit 10. Letter from Bailey B. Burritt, president, New York Tubercu- 44 Exhibit 11. Statement from George J. Nelbach, executive secretary, The Exhibit 13. Statement from Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, associate general Page 50 50 50 Exhibit 17. Statement from Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, president, National Exhibit 18. Statement from the Congress of Women's Auxiliaries, CIO.... ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES AND AUTHORS Anderson, P. L., director, Department of Public Safety, San Antonio, Tex. Burritt, Bailey B., president, New York Tuberculosis and Health Associa- Caple, Gus, first vice president, National Sheriffs' Association_ Colclough, Rear Adm. O. S., Judge Advocate General, United States Congress of Women's Auxiliaries, CIO Crowley, Neil J., president, Chattanooga Hamilton County Health Everett, Ray H., executive secretary, Social Hygiene Society of the District Ferebee, Dr. Dorothy Boulding, treasurer, the National Council of Negro Godfrey, Dr. Edward S., Jr., Commissioner of Health, the State of New Hahn, Charles J., secretary, the National Sheriff's Association. Heller, Dr. J. R., Chief, Venereal Disease Control Division, United States Jones, Mrs. Alfred Winslow, president, Women's City Club of New York.. Lucas, Ferris E., president, National Sheriffs' Association.. McMillan, Commissioner Donald, the Salvation Army Miller, Watson, Federal Security Administrator Nelbach, George J., executive secretary, the State Charities Aid Associa- 49 Pinney, Miss Jean B., director, Washington Liaison Office, American Welt, Mrs. Joseph M., president, the National Council of Jewish Women.. Williams, Dr. C. I., Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public SOCIAL PROTECTION SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1946 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND EDUCATION, Washington, D. C. The hearing was called to order at 10:10 a. m., in Room 424B Senate Office Building, Senator Claude Pepper, Florida (chairman), presiding. Present: Senators Claude Pepper, Florida; Walter F. George, Georgia; George D. Aiken, Vermont. Also present: Mr. Charles Kramer, staff director, Subcommittee on Health and Education. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order, please. The bill we are to discuss this morning is S. 1779, the purpose of which is to continue the Social Protection Division of the Federal Security Agency. During the war, this Division has done magnificent work, in collaboration with the Army, the Navy, and other governmental units, in repressing organized vice and prostitution in the neighborhood of military camps, and in developing methods of retraining and guiding wayward girls and juvenile delinquents. The marked rise in venereal disease rates since the end of the war indicates a pressing need for the continuance and expansion of the work of the Social Protection Division. The fact that today the greatest rises in venereal disease rates are found in the home towns of soldiers and sailors, rather than in the towns bordering the military camps, shows that methods of social protection and suppression of vice must be extended to every urban area in the Nation. We must not let the good work of this organization cease. On the contrary, we must enlarge it if we want to suppress vice, lower venereal disease rates, redirect the activities of delinquent girls into more socially useful channels, and maintain and strengthen the moral fiber of the people. The Social Protection Division does no direct police or social welfare work itself. Its activities are entirely of an advisory and contributory sort. It cooperates with local agencies by teaching new techniques of social control and by promoting unified action between police, social welfare, educational, church, and citizens' organizations in the community. As such, as an advisory and educational unit, bringing the latest and most scientific techniques in social work to the attention of local enforcement and reform agencies, it deserves the thoughtful support of the Nation, and continuance in its good work by the Congress of the United States. The first witness this morning is Mr. Watson B. Miller, Federal Security Administrator. Mr. Miller, we are always glad to have you. 1 |