Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 26

§ 9 GIENE SOCIETY * NAMES DIRECTORS Group Hears Reports on Progress of Social Dis- B, ease Work. The Social H District of Columbia held its annual meeting last night at the Grace Dodge ne Society of the |z STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927. $lotel, approved reports of past activ-| "€ Rles, elected additional members to the board of directors, and was ad dressed by Dr. Thomas Parran s sistant surgeon general, United es | * m Public Health Serv and Willia Knowles Cooper, general the Young Men's Christian Associa tion Reports indicated th has a membership of 565 person has not only initiated valuable I tion for the prevention of diseases, but has sponsored edu health meeti and business esta aided in the work of es, educational and con- structive, were outlined in de: of the aims of the society for disease clinic of the District Health | Department Holds Standards Raised. ing of health standar the raising of moral standards, and stating that personal liberty is con fused too often with personal license. More prog as been made in the control of soci: disease: i past nine y than in group of h i lic enlig has undergone a formation during Forty per cent now include in their programs some | such instruction, he state are 900 ative clinics in the United Sta ing the work of the Public Health Service in combating disease, Dr. Parran stressed the need for the sound edu- |\ cation of the public in the f: volved in the study of social aid that sex instruction should in the home. Cooper spoke of the responsi-| " of fatherhood, decrying the of modern fathers to let schools and institutions usurp their obligations to their children, New members elected to the board of directors were Howard Moran, Dr. Thomas Parran, jr.; Mrs. Otto Veer- hof, Herbert S. Wood, Dr. Edith Coale, Mrs. W. P. Roop and Mrs. Willlam C. McNeill, colored woman member of the school board. Dr. Robert Scott Lamb, president of the society, pre- sided, and Dr. Margaret Lotto Eck|} reviewed the work of the past year. Dr. Howard Fisher told of the work of the social disease clinic of the Dis- | trict Health Department, and empha- sized the necessity for the continuance of its activities. After the conclusion of the ad- dresses, both of which emphasized the value of proper education along the lines of social hygiene, the society passed a resolution noting with ap- Pproval “the increasing interest in so. cal hygiene shown by teachers and educational leaders in Washington” and at the same time calling the at- tention of the school board and all others engaged in directing education to “the crying need of still greater effort in behalf of all social hygiene instruction.’ . TESTING RECOVERY OF OIL NOW WASTED "Bureau of Mines Delving Into 0il- soaked Sand and 0il Shale With Success. Recovery of the enormous petrole- um supplies in deposits of surface bitumen, oil-soaked sand and oil shale in the United States may be success- fully undertaken under an 1m])ro\'eg vised by C. P. Bowie an Aff of the Bureau announced today oil sands from s been taken still hold in solution nearly 50 billion bar- rels of oil; that 100 billion barrels |, could be produced of five Western addition more tha es, and that in billion barrels may be extracted from oil sand and tar spring deposits in California and Canada, the bureau declared that at least a study should be undertaken of ways and means to recover the last drop of usable oil in the ground, no matter what the conditions of its oc- currence may be and what the other | substances are with which it is asso- e experiments with the in proce: it to be useful to rec s, and when worked out, bottoms and refineries. Some of the have extensive deposits of asp uminous rocks and oil and tar springs. As an in- stance, the bure ted the Coast Range Mountains lifornia, which have oil-producing rocks nearly one mile _thick. : Miss S. ___ Serves These Delicious Croquettes made of teaspoo 1 ibicspoon chopped parsiey A dush of paprika A svaong of nutmeg Cover the roe with boiling water, salt s wimmer 15 minutes. Drain, mash. Then mix well with nd allow to cool. Shape dip in crumbs, then in abtly with water, then in cru Fry in deep fat until brown. Serve at once. 188 5 —, whose little lunche #nd suppers are famous amon ork writers and artil this original recipe of hers to the house- wives of America. Try it— IGortoaPew Fishe fesCo.,Ltd. Gloucester Mass. Viite for FREE booklet the society | contributes to | a oil from oil | ¥ N X% N A% BEDDING The half-yearly sale brings op- portunities that every housewite ates. 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