PROCLAMATIONS-MAR . 18 , 21, 1940 WHEREAS by this dedication of the month of April to a voluntary national program for the control of cancer, the people of the entire country will be acquainted with the progress that is being made by the Federal Government through the United States Public Health Service, by certain of the States and by other agencies, as well as by individuals, in the struggle against this dread disease, which is second among the causes of death in the United States: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do proclaim the month of April 1940 as Cancer Control Month, and do invite the Governors of the several States, Territories, and possessions of the United States to issue similar proclamations; and in order that the people throughout the land may have informed knowledge concerning the prevalence of cancer and of the means which can be taken to control it, I also invite the members of the medical profession, individually and through their associations, other scientific groups, all organs of opinion, including the press, the radio, and the motion picture, and all others who have the interest of the public health at heart, to unite during the month of April 1940 in concerted effort to impress upon the people of the United States the necessity of a national program for the control of cancer to the end that suffering may be relieved and life preserved. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 18" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. April 1940 desig- nated as Cancer Con- trol Month. INVENTORS' AND PATENT DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the preamble to Public Resolution 58, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved March 15, 1940, recites: "Whereas there will occur on April 10, 1940, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of President George Washington's ap- proval of the first Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the grant of patents as contemplated in article I, section 8, of the Constitution; and "Whereas the encouragement and the protection thus afforded to discoverers and inventors have both inspired and rewarded their genius to the benefit of this Nation and the whole world; and "Whereas the American patent system inaugurated by this Act of Congress has promoted countless applications of the arts and sciences to the needs and well-being of our people and thereby contributed notably to a higher standard of living in our country; and "Whereas it is fitting that the anniversary of the institution of a system so beneficial to the people of the United States should be worthily observed"; March 21, 1940 [No. 2390] Preamble. Ante, p, 6 2689 54 STAT. ]
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