The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1933, Page 4

Page Four Even United Efforts of Terre Haute Parade for NIRA Falls Flat As A Stale Pancake KKK, NAACP, A. F. of L., S. P. and Bankers Fail to Make the BY A WORKER CORRESPONDENT. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—On August 19 Terre Haute staged an N. K. A, | parade that was a success as far as numbers on the street was concerned. | But the parade itself would have been a flop, had it not been that every | taxicab, grocery delivery wagon, transfer wagon and truck and all the cars that the bosses could force, were in the parade. It was the deadest parade | tHat I have ever seen. Even the speakers could hardly get a hand on anything that they said. I saw just one guy take off his hat when the flag passed. A few children clapped when a clown came. I heard one man say when the boy scouts passed: “there goes the future militia.” city officials in the crowd passed and some one was heard to say “There goes the City Hall sangsters.” An- | other man d, “If these birds were doing even a of what they would have the pu c believe they were do- ing, it might help some.” N.AA.C.P. Follows K.K.K. About a dozen K.KK. followed by the N.A.A.C.P. How even those few Negroes could children and the bosses mostly school hed s ed 2 meeti: in the Negro sectio! them to turn out in the parade. Some one asked the NAACP. “What about the Scottsboro boys,” and like remarks were heard all along the parade. One little colored girl car- Tied a banner right behind the KKK. which said 100 per cent American. I was wondering if it meant the colored people in the par- ade or the K.K.K.’s r. Also Represented heel horses ty in the parade, He was in a group: ne Owners Associa- A Squad of police and the | tion. This organization was organ- ized by a renegade C. P. member who was expelled from the Party some }time ago. And as I understand it, he has been given a bosses job ina slave driving factory. A. F. of L. is the Big Cheese T. N. Taylor, president of the State | Federation of Labor, was chairman of the meeting, and he constantly used the word “We,” which shows that he is part of the N.R.A. In introducing Mr. Beasly, a banker, Taylor said that he (Taylor) had | had the pleasure of working with Mr. | Beasly for a great number of years, and knew him to be an able leader. | He must of been, Mr. Taylor, as they be led into such ajhave led you clear away from the | @eimonstration is beyond me. It was|class struggle and the interest of the | workers. Mr. Rex Bell, the head of }the N.R.A. here. spoke, but» was a |complete flop as far as working up jany sentiment for the N.R.A. I was surprised that the whole thing fell as flat as it did, and it sure is encouraging to see that the workers are not falling for this N.R.A. jas they hoped they would. But |workers, build your organizations |now, for the bosses will try hard to force this thing over and now is the time to double and triple your ac- | tivities. | Join and build your local Unem- | ployed Councils, and push the fight for Unemployment Insurance and for more d better relief. BETHLEHEM, N. H I would e to call your attention to. the lac! of the Daily z ers’ School. I last fall and Structor ad d us to buy various pamphlets and Should read. rT, they failed to. 1 Di rs which to my Yr portant as any lic eeps us posted on the c2ily struggles in practice which T’think is just as important as theory. Not until the end of the term when a delegate of the Daily Worker came atound to sell tick and incidental- ly had some papers with him, he S@ld %2 dozen papers in one class focr:, which was all the papers he hes. I was greatly surprised to find that Pat 9 p. m. so many students at the | Workers’ School had not read our Daily Worker and it made me think {that perhaps many more in the|apply for relief. rature which we | School did not read it regularly. would, therefore, suggest that in connection with all literature sold in the classroom the Daily Worker | should be mentioned each time. |am hoping for a much greater circu- lation of our paper and am trying |to do my bit as every worker should. | M.S. L. NEW YORK, N. Y. | Comrade Editor: New York capitalist papers ex- tended a cordial welcome to the | group of European police and crime \experts who arrived here on their way to the Chicago Police Conven- tion. The capitalist system which is | based on crime wants us to believe |that the police can find a way to jeliminate crime. Why didn’t they | arrest Morgan, Mitchell and Harri- |man, if they wanted to eliminate |crime? Why don’t they try to kill |hunger, instead of killing hungry | men, women and children when they A. Today s Menu BREAKFAST Baked Apple Bacon Toasted Rolls and Butter Coffee Milk Van of our readers seem to think J 4 necessary to turn on the oven for every bit of baking they have / t@'do. That is not so. An Androx oven placed directly over the gas ‘will bake apples, puddings, potatoes i many short time bakings. * * * LUNCH Broiled Flounder Mashed Potatoes Spinach Bread and Butter ' Tapioca Pudding with Milk Ri tee | box. Here is another suggested iy. Two tablespoons full of tapioca, of two eggs, %2 cup of sugar, milk. i + Then drain it and put it in “milk in the double boiler, and and stir it till the tapioca looks , like glass. Beat the eggs and the sugar with them and beat till both are light, and put them le milk and tapioca and cook minutes, stirring all the time. take it off the fire and add a ul of salt and a half teaspoon- tof vanilla and let it get perfectly iid, Note: Flavor may be added Is@ by adding a slice of lemon or fange skin while the milk and ta- oem are cooking. - a SUPPER Peanut Butter Sandwiches Apple Sauce Iced Cocoa aeeron Fined in Houston. » Texas—BPob Pearce d J. Sandram were fined $100 th for holding a meeting without Permit, two others were arrested ‘ vagrancy but released on court Police broke up the anti-war ition here soon after it had A verbal permit had been but when the first speaker ,attack the plowing under jton crops as a part of ’s “New Deal”, the police in and made the arrests. The have been appealed. n to "Tapioca pudding has directions on | ‘ the tapioca into a, small half | i of water and let it stand one \Can You Make ’em Yourself ? 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He was fired the next | morning. ‘Lhe umion “grganizers, running the gauntlet of-the Steel Trust gunmen, carried {their lives in their hands. Both J Unorganized Printers Form Body to Unite Employed and Jobless By a Printing Worker Correspondent NEW YORK CITY.—Although one of the highly skilled trades, many unorganized printers are making -er- rand boy’s wages. In New York there are about 170,000 printers. In 1931, from the pressmen and bookbinders }due to unemployment and inability to pay dues. The existing printers’ tinions—the ized these printers, but their policy ali along has been to put difficulties in their way, in the interests of the bosses and during the past four years have closed the books entirely, ~ Trades officials called a meeting of the unorganized and proposed that the workers authorize the officials to represent them at the Code hearing in Washington. The unorganized printers did not and will not give these fakers any such authorization in view of the fact that they are directly responsible for the miser- able conditions the unorganized printers are forced to work under. Since this meeting a group of un- organized printers have gotten: to- the Organization of the Unorganized Printers,” located at 80 E. 1lth St., Room 240. This group realized’ that the existing unions will not organize the unorganized and that they will not sincerely represent~'them in Washington. The Committee's aims ave to organize the‘ unorgan- fight for better conditions - through shop struggles. It’s immediate aim is to call a mass meeting of all un- organized printers, to be Tepresented at the hearings on the Code and de- |mand full union wages atid condi- tions, as well as to carry on a strug- |gle for the betterment ofthe condi- tions of the employed and unem- | ployed printers. All unorganized printers are urged we, too, will be in a position to |make demands upon our bosses for | better conditions. | An Unorganized printer belonging to the Committee for the Organiza- tion of the Unorganized Printers. |Nen-Citizens Kicked. | Out of Relief Jobs (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY—I am one of the 75,000 employed throughout the city in the parks on 9 days per month. I would like to know why thése hypocrites talk so much about in- creased wages and buying power under the N.R.A. and at the sdnie time cut our wages from $45 per month to $40.50. i Last. week, they began what théy call a periodic check-up. Hundreds of men were given pink slips to re- port at 23rd St. Ferry. The are advocating on the Job" for the dismissal of all non-citizens. This periodic check-up is a weeding out process, through which they hope to get rid of the non-citizens adhd others. We have no regular pay’ days and are compelled to guess when they pay, thus wasting our time and extra carfare. Many times we are not paid till Saturday arternoon. Then the racketeers demand 25 cents! for cashing our checks. As it is a case of cashing checks immediately or re- maining hungry till Monday, we-are forced to accept their terms while the police close their eyes to this racket. The Red Cross denies us food boxes on our off weeks on the ground that we are employed. It is high time that something is done. What we need is a real organization. This’ is the only way out for us. —A City Commission Work Buro Worker. $3 a Week for 12-Hour Day Washing Bottles (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Colorado.—The J, Zerob- nick Bottling Co., pays its workers $3 a week for twelve hours work washing bottles. This company has just recently sold a shipment of twelve carloads of bottles, realizing a profit of hundreds of dollars, while their employees are struggling to ‘ob- tain bread for their familles. The only remedy for wrongs of this kind is for the workers to organize and show these hig bosses that tngy | Street, New York Cyr é are tired of being slaves just for the benefit of their employes ei “loyal . gether and formed a “Committee ‘for | ized printers: into a tmion and to) to back up this movement, so.that | No, 2.—Under these circumstances + very few dared to go to these meet- | ings. But the organization grew | rapidly nevertheless. Every dis- | charged man became a volunteer | organizer, and got his friends to enroll. A favorite trick to escape the espionage was to get a group of men, from a dozen to fifty, to meeet quietly in one of the homes, and send the applications to the union by a sister or a wife. Shop Which Prints NRALabel ‘Violates’ Eagle Regulations By a Printing Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK CITY.—I have been | 257 W. 17th St. Our boss here was one of the first to sign up with the NRA. He just received a permit from the govern- A. F. of L—could easily have organ-| ment to print the new NRA stickers | and we have been printing them by | the millions, | Since we started printing these NRA stickers, conditions, instead of improving, have gotten worse. We A few weks ago the Allied Printing have to work much faster than be- | ‘fore. The factory keeps going day and night. The bosses sell these stickers at a huge profit, but our | wages are the same. When I first heard about the NRA, I didn’t know what it meant. All I knew was that it was supposed | to improve the conditions of the | workers, but now I see that it is | making conditions worse for the | workers and making more profits for | the bosses, |. The boss tells me that he is giving | us a break by letting us work over- time, but what good is it if we only get 25—35c an hour, The only way we can make a half-way decent wage is if we work 60 or 70 hours a week. Many of the workers are complain- ing against the conditions here, but they don’t know what to do. I have heard that the Daily Worker can help us by telling us how to organize and fight against these conditions. Our shop‘is an open shop, We have about 40 workers here. x. . | Editor’s Note:—There are many un- | organized printers who realize the | necessity of united action to improve conditions. Some of them have got- ten together and formed a Commit- tee for the Organization of Unorgan- ized Printers. Its headquarters are at 80 E. llth St, Room 240, New York City. A group of workers from this shop, who trust each other, should get in touch with this Committee for ad- vice and help. Boss Signs Blue Eagle ‘Code, Lengthens Hours (By a White Collar Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—I have been working, together with six others in the office, on an average of 44 to 48 hours a week. As recently as five months ago we suffered a 33 1-3 per cent cut in salary, Even those who have been working there for a period of years, have not had a vacation for two years now. About two weeks ago, our employer signed the N.R.A. pledge, boasting volubly of his patriotism. Since then the four male members on our staff have been working, between them, 44 and 48 hours a week; the three wo- men age allowed a 40-hour week every third week, working 44 to 46 hours a week the two intervening weeks. No pert of the 33 1-3 per cent cut has been restored to us; no addition has been made to the staff; no vacations have been granted. But our employer is proud of having “done his bit” in signing the Pledge! On the other hand, my rent has been increased to 75 per cent more than my weekly salary! The renting agent assures me that this was done in keeping with the spirit of the “New Deal” and an effort to raise the standard of living! What's wrong with this picture? aed é Stenographer. Editor's Notc: The trouble is you seem to accept all this complacently. The others in the office also are suffering. Why not unite and de- mand decent conditions? The Of- fice Workers Union, 80 E. 11th St., will be glad to talk things over with ‘you and advisa vo WEDNESDAY, No. 3—The unions made great | headway through the small towns, | due to the defeat of the McKee- | | sport Czar Mayor. Rankin fell | | without a blow. Braddock capitu- | | lated easily. At a street meeting | | held in the middle of the town, sev- | | eral organizers, including the writer, | | were arrested. The acting mayor | | refused to “do the dirty work of | the mayor.” That settled Braddock. No objections were made to meet- | ings, | GUST 23, 1933 A Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 4x mo (Based on Wm. Z. Foster’s book, “The Great Steel Strike”) No. 4.—Mayor Williams of North Clairton, chief of the Carnegie Po- lice at that point, swore dire ven- geance against the union organizers should they come to his town. But the union called a meeting on a lot owned by its local secretary. But hardly had it started, when with a great flourish of clubs, the police broke-up the reetin~ and arrested the organizers, including the writer. obless and Workers on the Job Feel the Pressure of the Blue Eagle o ‘Mean Official Makes WorkersWaitWhole Day in Heat for Pay (From a Worker Correspondent) | | NEW YORK CITY.—The “A” Shift | |2 that it should not report for work | }on Aug. 7 as scheduled, but a week | | later, and that these workers will be paid on Wednesday, Aug. 9, at the job, that is, during the time of; | their forced vacation. This pay was | coming to the tens of thousands of | | workers for work done during the! week of July 24. | | At 9:30 Wednesday 100—175 work- ers were On the Job” anxious to get) | the $18 check, which meant so much jto these half-starved people. The mothers have surely promised their} children a “real” lunch. The land-| lord, the groceryman, the shoemaker and tens of others want to get aslice of the $18 check. So this mass of people waited under a burning sun, but paymaster Ward was not there. The workers did not leave the place and Mr. Ward did not arrive with | the checks until about 4pm. That's} the New Deal! Ward's wooden face | did not express any regret. He seemed to be proud of the fact that so many people waited for him a whole long day. I have talked to many other workers and find the same thing happened on every job |in the Bronx. Human suffering means not a thing to him. Once he dared to | direct an official to dismiss a worker | from the Work Buro who suffered | jfrom a serious sickness, because. Ward explained, the city can not| }Rave any use out of a sick man! | And Ward is still the big boss over thousands of unprotected workers! | Shame! ! REDLEAF, “Better Citizenship” | Outfit SendsWorker on Wild Chase for Job (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—During the first week of July, I read an article in the “New York American” for Better Citizenship to prevent more gangsters, headed by Robert Greer and backed up by the society people. I was in need, two small children | and wife sickly, a citizen of the U. S. I wrote them a nice letter and asked them for a position or to help me in any way. This is the letter they sent me: Dear Mr. We have no jobs in hand, but if you come in we will give you let- ters and in that way do our bit.” When I received this letter, I im- mediately went there. When I got there I thought they were going to| give me food for my family or a position. He told me Mr. Greer is not in at present and gave me a let- ter to the City Employment Bureau. I went there and they couldn't do anything for me. No jobs, that was the answer. Campus of University Is Opened t to Fascists (From a Student Correspondent) AUSTIN, Texas. — When school opens at the University of Texas, this semester, the American Legion will be comfortably installed in a nice new building on the campus. The authorities of the University, after outlawing the local brancn or the Na- tional Student League and increas- ing matriculation fees to keep out radical students, invited the Legion to establish its state headquarters on the Forty Acres. A fascist student club, sponsored by the Legion, may be organized on the campus. In the event o: war, the Legion headquartsrs would serve as Drug Store Boss Finds Picketing Undignified for His Employees (From a Drugstore Worker Correspondent) BRONX, N. Y.—At the mass meet- ing of retail drugstore proprietors held Aug. 16 in the Winter Garden, under the auspices of the Bronx 20,000 of these belonged to the A, F.| Working for several years in the Ever! of the Emergency Relief Workers in| County Pharmaceutical Association, of L. Since then many were expelled | Ready Label Co., a printing plant at/ the Bronx was notified by mail Aug.|Mr. Brodkin, a veteran leader and ex-president of this bosses’ associa- tion, denounced in vigorous terms the tactics of the recently organized Pharmacists’ Union of New York, a union of employees. He had bitterly attacked the pick- eting of drugstores. He said that, ile pi ing may be alright for a@ grocery, butcher siore, bakery or some other retail store, it is entirely out of place in a profession such as pharmacy. His speech breathed with defiance and determination to fight any gen- uine move on the part of tne Phar- macists’ Union employees to better their lot. “Only over my dead hody would’ they picket my store,” was the climax of his speech. New Men Taken on Get Reduction of Nearly 50 Per Cent (By a Wor Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich—I applied for a .cb as engineer in the warehouse of , one of the biggest grocery chain com- panies. I was hired and then sent over to the company’s doctor for an examination, costing $2.00 whether you pass or not. I passed. When I got back to the office, I had to sign a paper freemg the com- pany of paying me compensction if I got hurt. They told me the wages Were $25 a week for 48 hours. The old men are receiving $45, so that is a $20 cut. I wasn’t on the job two hours till the superintendent asked me if I was a union man. Of course, I said no. He said, “Have you ever been a union men?” I said, “sure, do you hold that against a man?” He said, “No, but’ we must notify the main office.” They are not cutiing the old men’s pay as yet, but any new men are offered just half of what the wages were. I was told by a comrade I met in the warehouse to watch my step £0 I guess the place is well filled with stool pigeons. The name of the firm upon request. |More Work, Less Pay forPaintersUnderNRA | (By a Painter Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N, Y.—This is how the Roosevelt new deal is applied under the N.R.A. enactment at the Baltimore Hotel at Madison Ave. be- tween 43rd and 44th St. Before the N.R.A. in this place, the painters were receiving $27.50 for 54 day’s work or 44 haus. Now, under the N.R.A., we get $22.50 for 5 days work, but we work ail day Saturday or 48 hours, and we get only $23. This shows that we have to work 4 hours on Saturday for 50 cents. The speed-up is greater. Before, two men had to finish a room in one day. Now we have to finish the job in a day and a half. The hotel manager is around every hour to speed us up. Before we had just the foreman. We even have no time to wash up. _ And on top of all this, they make us pay for the laundry now which emounts to 50 cents or more per week. What are we going to do about it? Are we going to d ail these in- cults by the boss: or are we go- ing to fight for cur rights? Let’s get together and ozganize into a union that will help us in winning our demands, that is the Trade Union Unity Council, * o* * Editor's Note: The cddress of the TUUC is 80 E. 11th Si., 2nd floor. Cincinnati Boss Plays Favorites With Jobless (Letters from Our Readers) CINCINNATI, Ohio.—. . . At 1401 Reading Road a place has been open- ed up for the unemployed under Mi. Fenton, with the report that it was to give work to all that wanted to work at two days a woek—everybody a chance—Well, they have opened up but have not given everybody a chance. Those that have been put to work at the start have been on steady. The rest can suck their fingers and are being told to come bagk and come back. a focal point for jingoism and con- serip*-~ —One that believes in a square deal. |working. The Quakers are of par- | growing nation, | Mennonites prospered. Pennsylvania Farm Fights Once Conservative German and Quaker Farmers Battle Against the Robberies of the Milk Monopolies (This is the first of a series of two stories $n rural Southeast Penn- sylvania, The concluding one will appear in the Daily Worker tomor- row). By LANKY. ALLENTOWN, Pa.—The region I write of is roughly bounded by Philae delphia, Trenton, Allentown, Bethlehem, Reading, Lancaster and Wilming- ton. York and Philadelphia. A fertile area, strategically situated between the great cities New Into this region 200 years ago came large numbers of peasants—Enge lish Quakers and German nites fleeing from religious persecu- tion—good farmers, thrifty and hard- ticular interest because of their friendliness to the Negro race. In pre-Civil War days, these Quaker farmers organized an illegal appa- ratus for aiding runaway slaves to flee to Canada. This was the famous underground railway. The German Mennonites did not marry outsiders, kept themselves a small group largely isolated from progress. Isolation was so great that to this day they retain their own customs and German dialect. Thus situated, in the heart of a} the Quakers and} City Workers Come. Into this conservative group, be- ginning with the post-Civil War ner- iod, came Hungarians, Poles, Lithu- anians, Italians and Jews, mostly former peasants. Still hungry for land. Stopping off in the American cities and mines only long enough to gether the capital to buy a piece | of land. The city with its industrial struggles left its impression. When the class struggle comes to the sur- face on the farms. these people show great militancy—lessons of factory and mine. Into this mixture came a small but important grot f former fac- tory and mine w 's, blacklisted for their activity in the industrial | struggles. Every imporiant strike struggle of the East, of the last 25 years, i3 represented in this area by farmers who are biack'isted militants. These veterans of class war will speak, and speak loud. These farmers alwa: produced However, .until com- they were to a some cash crop. paratively recently large extent self-sufficient. That is, a large proportion of goods consumed on the farm were produced either on the farm or in the neighborhood, Very little cash was needed for operations. This factor of relative | self-sufficiency helned to retain iso- lation, helped to fight off the attacks of capitalism. The family farm, hiring little or no help, wes and is the predominat- i unit. Therefore, we all and middle f: ing productio: industrial crises of the past these The made little impression on people. They were relatively sufficient and had the choice ma: of the nation at their doorstep. HUT the present agricultural crisis, ...bezinnine in 3921, started most of them down hill. Machinery was com- ing in more and more, requiring more specialization, killing self-sufficiency | forever. The automobile had come, pushing the horse out of the city, destroying the profitable hay market. The farmers had to use up the extra hay—so they bouzht more cows. From now on milk became the main source of income. Just about this time, 1921. the manufactvrers of certain light in- dusiries (textile and needle trades) decided that wages were too high in the cities of New York and Phila- delphia. Besides, unions were a nu! ence. These bosses sought cheap} “contented” labor. Menno- @—. |the d: They found it in this area. “contented” was the labor (sons and daughters of farmers) that the Men- nonite Church even forbade any member to join a labor union. With such a holy blessing, the sweatshop prospered and multiplied until every important cross road boasted of one. Children Work in Sweatshops. The small wages of the sons and }daughters in the cross road sweate shop supplemented the farm income. The old family unit farm, somehow managed to keep going and Hoover could still depend on the faithful. Along came the present industrial cri Unemployment in the city meant a decline in consumption of milk, hence a decline in price on the farm. -Unemployment at the cross road sweatshop meant a cut in the supplementary, precious cash income. The full weight of both the indus- trial and agrarian crises were being felt. By the summer of 1932, the farm- ers selling milk had received from iry trust six price cuts since the beginnin> of the industrial crisis in 1929. In the city no cut in retail prices had taken place. The farmer was selling milk below cost of pro- duction and the trust was getting a larger share of the consumer's dol- lar than ever. A mass meeting was called in the Hatfield. High School. Three hun- dred small end middle farmers re-. sponded. A new organization was born—the United Farmers Protective Association. Prominent in the lead- ershin emerged the former city work- ers, the proletarians with strike and union experience. The early aims of the United Farmers Protective Association were along the lines of forming a co- eperative that would overate a milk plant end retail direct to the con- sumers in the city. Monopolies Arrive. ‘Twenty-five years ago the milk in- dustry in Philadelphia and in most cities was in the hands of many small independent dealers. With these small businessmen, a small or middle fermer was almost on an equal plane. A “fair? bargain could be reached. Thus, if the city retail price was 8¢ a quart, the farmer usually got half, or 4c. Now, the small dealer is nearly gone, along with the age of free competition. In his place stands the mighty dairy corporations like National Dairy Products and Bor- dens, controlled by Wall Street. This is monopoly capital. These are not equals and the small and “middle farmer cannot exnect equal results. We now find the re- tail prices at 10¢ a cuart and the farmer receiving 2 to $ cents. To ate tempt to match the small capital of the small and middle farmers in retail competition with the dairy trust (Wall Street) is hopeless. But it was a very hard job for the class conscious farmers to convince the conservative element of this. “Tf we can’t fight the trust by | building our own milk plant—how can we fight it?” asked the conservatives. “By your power of numbers, by united mass action”, answered the class conscious farmers. And’ so the turn was begun toward class struggle. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M. D. Health of Party Workers TV.—Constipation One of the worst enemies of the revolution is constipation. There is a perfectly good physiological basis for the term “constipated” which is often applied to a stupid person. There i no greater drawback to clear thinking than a bowel full of feces from which bacterial toxins (poisons. are continually absorbed into the blood and which intoxicate the brain cells. People who allow themselves to go two or three days without a move- ment are just as foolish as if they would drink or take nar¢ (dope). Women are more inclined to suffer from this condition than men and nothing is so pitiful as to see a fresh complexion become pimply and sallow on account of chronic constipation. That beauty is only skin deep is a sophism. Scientifically, it would be more accurate to say that beauty is bowel deep. And as long as we are making aphorisms we might add another one, It not only requires “guts” to be a good revolutionist, but one must have clean guts. The hurry and bustle in which Party members live accounts for many cases of chronic constipation. They “simply have no time” to at- tend to the call of nature. Once they get into tnis bad habit, the lower bowel becomes more and more dis- tended and can accommodate a larger amount of excretion. The auto-in- toxication which results from this ac- cumulation further paralyzes the nerves and lowers the activity of the glands and other organs; the circu- lation becomes impaired, anemia su- pervenes and the constipation be- comes worse. Very often it is almost impossible to break this vicious circle. To pre- vent it is much easier, Regularity of habits is the first precaution. A person should have at least one bowel movement daily. The inclusion of rough vegetables or bran in the diet will be sufficient to bring about this resuit. If not, an enema (Syringe) consisting of a quart of warm wat@y and a.tablespoonful of bicarbonave of soda wil do the trick. The im- portant thing is to take the enema, as much as possibie, at the same time, preferably before going to bed. This regularity, when continued for a suf- ficiently long time, will establish a habit “and the bowels will move by themselves, when the time for the enema’ comes around. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Poor Memory—Weak Sexual Powet Foreign-born worker, Philadelphia. Your letter sounds as if you have been reading the throw-aways which quack “sex specialists” are distribut- ing for the purpose of catching vic- tims. Have yourself examined by an honest physician. Your trouble may be due to anemia or to faulty vision. When a severe headache follows read- ing, it is almost invariably due to lack of proper eyeglasses. Write again giving your age, work and other par= ticulars. . - @ J Dry Sca'p and Falling Hair B. S.—The compound you mention is of little use. Castor oil or olive oil rubbed in every night might help. Make sure that you are not suffering from some general condition or faulty diet. Oily Hair Li B.—The more you'll wash, the oilier your hair will get, because you stimulate the oil glands at the root of the hair follicles. The condition often improves by itself, when you grow out of your “teens” (the age between thirteen and nineteen). Many adolescents have the same trouble because puberty is accom= panied by an excess of blood to the head and face. Live on a fat-free diet, drink plenty of water and take daily sun baths, or, if you are work- ing, try ultraviolet rays. If you have a family physician, he may arrange to give treatments at reduced cost. GR Readers desiring health inform- ation should address their letters to Dr, Paul Luttinger, c-o Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St, New York City. z So, i 8 8 3 i we we sowas