Reports to the Surgeon General... represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate-are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

Our tasks are definite. The first to see that no man, woman, or child shall go hungry or unsheltered through the approaching winter. The second is to see that …

[Engineering] is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Th…

I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the local and state governments are un…

All communities are apt to look to government for too much. Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, we are prone to do so…

Mothers! Can you afford to have a large family? Do you want any more children? If not, why do you have them? Do not kill, do not take life, but prevent! Safe, …

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.