that this failure was due to the very slim budget the Health Department had to work with.

Mr. Leach also told us some of the problems of working with children and in the public schools, trying to get the facts of V. D. and its cure across to them. He emphasized how it was practically impossible to catch syphilis from a public drinking fountain or toilet seat because of the delicate nature of the spirochete, which requires dark, moist conditions and at least an hour of contact with healthy mucous membranes under these conditions. It is possible to catch syphilis through kissing only if the communicant has syphilitic mouth sores and the recipient of the kiss has a out on the lip or a sore in the mouth. Dentists have been known to catch syphilis when they have a cut finger and are working on a person with syphilitic sores in the mouth.

Gonorrhea can be contracted only through sexual intercourse. This is why the authorities laugh if you try to tell them that you caught it any other way.

Sten Russell

What's in a Name?

A great many headaches

and heartachos. Or so it is with Mattachine. It all began in 1950 with the secret Mattachine Foundation, which in 1953 became the Mattachine Society with a voting mombership. And now, in 1961, it is the subject of much controversy and bitterness tho name, that is. The San Francisco group lays claim to the exclusive right to the name and reports it is willing to file suit against any group who uses it. However, the former area councils, which were formed and have been known in their areas as attachine, also feel the name is theirs. They have chosen to be known as the Mattachino Society of New York, Boston Mattachino, and Philadelphia Mattachine Society. Plans are for the latter groups to form a national federation at their convention in New York over the Labor Day wook ond. It will be interesting to note what form Mattachine takes in the federation,