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Show Ijohnson, tewis Censure Suppression Of Broadcast in Social Disease War t - X . Jf s ' jiH' i r -'a-J '1 v I? Nil VV I NEW YORK, Nov- 11 JP Blunt speaking General Hugh 8. Johnson and National Broadcasting company com-pany officials today locked horns over the role of radio in the war against social disease). The NBC officials, after a hurried conference last night, canceled Johnson's regular commercially sponsored broadcast because It dealt in plain terms with the ravages of syphilis and gonorrhea.". A lS-mln-ut "stand-in" musical program was -substituted . The radio .officials later issued a statement saying they had tried unsuccessfully to reach General Johnson before the broadcast and added: "The NBC Is in entire sympathy with the war on social diseases, but has not yet found a way for radio to contribute to this campaign without aeriously embarrassing the family group." The former chief of the defunct N R A said federal authorities had sanctioned radio discussion of the campaign against social disease and asserted he thought the NBC had I HI GH 8. JOHNSON Charge policy changed SINCLAIR LEWIS Rtrikee at censorship "changed its policy" after permitting permit-ting U. S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran to use its facilities recently in a national broadcast address on the same topic. In his bannedcript, which he later made public. Johnson asserted social diseases were "more powerful power-ful than any other cause in the creation of a real criminal class of the most murderous and dangerous sort." He said their ravages had been so widespread partly because "until recently there was a conspiracy among our human society to conceal and protect hot only them but all their deadly methods." NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (Sinclair (Sin-clair Lewis, the novelist, who wrote "It Can't Happen Here" as a warning warn-ing against fascism in America, delivered de-livered a League for Political Education Edu-cation lecture today entitled "It Haa Happened Here," and cited the following: That General Hugh S. Johnson was forbidden by the National Broadcasting company last night to tell his audienc about social diseases becaus "apparently the radio censors think it is better not to offend the ears of children than to see their bodies destroyed." |