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Show MEETING CALLED ON RED PLAGUE' Delegates Outline Meps to Stop Ravages of Social Diseases WASHINGTON, net 25. Among the srores of answers dally received "f1 I anaWer to invitations to attend it'.'-All-American conference m the ' r . 1 R d I'l ignc two .-land out mi. thfse was an acceptance and one a 're-gret." 're-gret." The acceptance was from Oenen PerslnK. who wrote- 'Thf confereii e on the jrreat red I plague to be held In Washington during dur-ing the sc-cond week In December will deal with one of the important qut lions which coiic-rn the general welfare wel-fare of the people It Ls a disagreeable disagree-able subject and one that w. .ir.- pros ' to push aside and leave to chance, and yet there are few things thai brlriK mop' unhappiness to the human r.u 1 in Frame, where ihe physical and moral welfare of our soldiers was of vital Importance In order that the might fight with resolut .ro;. ind efficiency and be returned to thelrl homes clean and self-respecting, every possible measure was tak-n to COptrol xen. reul disease. Itigij regulations ) were promulgated, but It wan due to a general spiritual uplifts mdre than to, military prohibitions that our army returned from us victory with a rcc-' ord that ha never been equalled by that of any other army In the history, of the world "We idiouid take every precaution and exercise every good Influonc- to I see tbal our young m-n and womn 'are free from the ravages of thU dread disease, and 1 sincere1 hope tb' com-, ing conference will do much to ae on,-, pllsh this -n.V The "regret" cam,- from David Starr 1 1 Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Leland .Stanford university, who wr..' "I regret that I cannot attend your 'conference. I haven't the KtrnKth to travel that I used to have. I am proud . however, that I have helped to give ou two members of your admlnlrtra-(tlve admlnlrtra-(tlve committee. Dr Thomas A Store , o.' :ba t.r.itfcrl itiii inlf r-lf-"-'nental social hygiene board, and Dr. William F Snow, of ihe American Social Hygiene. Hy-giene. I am proud, too, to hae been the first to suggest the name "Great Red Plague" for the twin diseases you arc attacking ' , |