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i . » os . see yen and the negro rate 26 per thousand. It ts interesting to note here that while the figure of 25 per thousand was quoted as the prevati- ing rate for the past three or four months, I was informed te January of this year by Major Robert Dyer of the Surgeon General's office that the rate for the entire army at that time was approxt— mately 38 per thousand per year while the rate for the dtr Corpse alone was 38 per thousand. I suppose there ts some statistical explanation for this diserepancy but I was unable to obtain any tnformation in regard to tt. . During the major portion of tha program I sat with Colonel] Turner and engaged in conversation with him from time to time, He stated he wos aware of the effective work being done by the Bureau in tte white slave and May Act jurisdictions to counter- oct prostitution ond was opprectative of tt. I took occasion ta inform Colonel Turner of the up-to-date statistics of convictions under the statutes. The next speaker on the program was ElltotaWess who actad as co-chatrman with Mr. Taft at the meeting and he praised _ Fhe program of the Social Protectton Section of the Federal Security Agency which seems te embrace all avenues of activity. The burden of Als remarke was "“cooperation® and while he very cleverly gave credit to all agencles represented at the conference he took fre= quent occaston to project his own importance os Director of the Social Protectton Section tnto his remarks and dealt with his own actiluittes to considerable extenty Dra 7111 tapXGnou of the American Social Bygtene Assocta- tien gove a short talk commending the program in general and commenting on the advancement during his twenty-jftoe year assecta- tion with the problem of venereal disease control. Mr. Joseph T &MOwens of the Ivd.C.P. then gave a shert involved statement tn hich he emphastzed the difficulties ~~ ancountered by police departments tn suppressing prostitution, bringing out particularly the opposition encountered in the form of owners'*property and stoting that police departments would be only os effective as the publte wished them to be. He also .< menttoned the difficulties encountered in police departments due to the loss of expertenced personnel to the army by tnductton and enlistment. He pointed out tn this connection that police _. Yesponstbtlities were tncoreasing due to wartime condittione:» “whereas the supply of expertenced personnel was diminishing used the sttuatton requiring particular efforts to suppress _- prostitution ag an example of the increased responsibility of: law enforcement agenctes. 2 ? 4 2 ae