National Health

Public-spirited son of a public-spirited father is Theodore Roosevelt, 46. A gallant, much-decorated lieutenant-colonel in the A.E.F., he returned to help organize the American Legion, serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor as the island had ever had. He showed the same spirit, won the same reception as Governor-General of the Philippines in 1932-33. At leisure since then, he last week snapped up another chance to serve his fellows, as president of the 13-year-old National Health Council.

Headquarters of a nation-wide fight against disease are the Council's offices in Manhattan. Centered there are 17 health-education bodies, including the American Child Health Association, American Public Health Association, National Tuberculosis Association, each with its thousands of local chapters throughout the land. The Council gives them a common meeting-ground, helps them to cooperate and avoid duplication in surveys and campaigns. It also provides a common clerical, telephone, information, printing & storage service.

Though his new job pays no salary, Theodore Roosevelt expects to give it much more than his great name. Said he last week: "I feel that a great service can be done to the United States if their work can be coordinated. ... I believe so strongly in this that I want to unify the activities still further. ... I shall strive for even more teamwork, working together to help one another."

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