The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1933, Page 4

/ i , But Is Not Welcomed by Party Member Whom | I Page Four pen Letter Stirs ‘Worker to Join the Communist Party & He Anproaches; Writes Letter to Guard Against Such Party Elements shad not 23 yer Ks we closer to the Party. ie Open Letter stirred many non-Party workers. It brought them The fearless Bolshevik self-criticism, the urgent call to wild a “MASS PROLETARIAN PARTY”, contained in the Open Letter, maie many non-Party workers join the Communist Party. But the sec- taranism, the “exclusiveness” of many of the Party units placed obstacles in the way of revolutionary minded jevery Party member is the first essen- werkers to join We are pub! ing a letter below from a worker, who upon reading the Open Letter, became convinced hat it is his revolutionary duty to be n the ranks of the Communist Party. But when he approached a Party member to recommend him to join the Party, instead of being received en- thusiastically, he received a cold shoulder. Is it not just this attitude of some Party comrades, which keeps many workers away from joining our Party? It is against such sectarian habits that the Open Letter has de- clazed war. The worker winds up his letter by | stating “THAT I HAVE WRITTEN THIS LETTER BECAUSE IT MAY STIMULATE THE PARTY TO BE ON | GUARD AGAINST SUCH ELE- MENTS IN THEIR MIDST, WHO CAN ONLY IMPEDE THEM IN CAR- RYING OUT THE PROGRAM OF THE ‘OPEN LETTER.’ ” We welcome the letter of this worker. We urgently request all work- ers who find cbstacles to join our revolutionary Party to immediately write in to the “Dail: We assure them thet the “Daily” will promptly publish their letters and see to it) that they immediately find their place in the ranks of the Party of their class—the Communist Party—Editor. v Party. Dear Comrade Hathaway: Afier reading the Open Letter of the Commu! Party in the Daily Worker, saw that the policy of the Pa s not to blame for) the fact that their needed leadership penetrated into the enti:e merican workers. The fault seems to lie in the lack cf an apr us extensive enough td put int ll the tasks which the Pa Sincere discipline to carry out. More and action from} |prerequisites for (Based on Wm. Z. Foster’s b tial, besides the immediate enlarge- ment of their forces in order to carry on the struggle with renewed effec- tiveness and scope. Only with the aid of an enlarged apparatus can the only truly revolu- tionary party fighting for thesimme- diate interests of the workers and their eventual release from wage slavery and unemployment adequately carry on its struggles. or these reasons I felt that I could no longer remain passive. I approached a Party mem- ber, asking to be recommended. I wished to join the Party. He replied that he did not know me and peremp- | torily dropped the matter. Nor did he further trouble himself to find out whether or not I sincerely and hon- estly desired to participate in the work of the only movement that is building up the genuine subjective revolution in this country. Is it as difficult for a worker to join the Communist Party as it is to \get relief from the capitalists? From the impressions given me by this | Party member the average worker could easily draw such a conclusion. I have been told, but I hope it is not true, that my experience is not an unusual one. That quite often sincere workers instead of being actively re- cruited into the Party are in fact discouraged by the disinterestedness or “exclusiveness” on the part of Party members who make no effort to help or direct them when they voluntarily take steps to join the Party.. I have written this letter because it may stimulate the Party to be on rd against such elements in their vho can only impede them in ing out the program of the “Open Letter.” Harry Mensh. important to keep insects ‘om the baby ri sides. To ‘ nopy it will probably be to sew several widths of the material together. If mosquito | netting cannot be obtained, use Goarse cheesecloth. Cheesecloth can be washed and used for something else when the season is over. | Don't make the baby lie so that; the sun shines into his eyes. When buying a baby carriage buy | One with an extension in front, so! that when the child is older he Aan | take his mid-day nap apnea | Buy a baby cariage with oilcloth \ning, so that it can be washed with ‘soap and water. y in the home | of washing to When there is a baby there is a groat de: be dene. It is be to do this | every day.) In this way you save| your strength, and do not become as tired as you would if you allowed | the dirty articles to pile up. It is not necessary to wash out the baby’s mouth, unless it is sore and you have been told to do so by the doctor. Today’s Menu Breakfast Apple sauce. / Poached eggs on toast. Coffee—cocoa. Peel, core and pare 10 sour apples; add 3-4 cup of water and cook un- | til the apples begin to grow soft, add | 1-2 cup sugar and if wanted, one/ tablespoon lemon juice or a little | einnamon. Cook until the apples are ‘horoughly soft. Lunch Boiled fish salad cold on lettuce yith mayonnaise. Grapes. Tea—milk. Dinner Pork chops. Noodles. Spinach. ‘Cabbage. Prune whip. Put the chops in a baking dish, add salt, pepper, caraway seed and cover, bake one hour in moderate or slow oven. Prune whip—press cooked prunes through a coarse sieve or colender, taking out pits first. Add stiffly beaten whites of eggs, “a little sugar, mix well and serve. Narr ear 3 ‘ Benzoate of soda, commonly used as a food preservative, has been ‘proved to be harmful when used in canned foods. cae To be om the safe side when buy- ing canacd foods, buy those marked “Choice,” “Standard,” or “Fancy.” ‘These grades, wé are told, come up to government requirements and will probably be good. . . A great deal of the nourishing ually of the canned vegetable is st if toe quid it pou * off. Beat a Can You Make ’em liquid up with an egg i.cater, a Yourself ? 10 takes 1 1-4 yards 54 inch “ah- ric and 1 3-8 yards 36 inch con- trasting. Illustrated siep- _ ..ep sewing instructions includel with in available sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, 17 and 14. Size the pattern. Pattern 1534 is Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coin preferred) for this Anne Adams _ pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, (Pat- terns by mail only.) it will lose the taste that canned goods sometimes haye. Ser When cooking—cover your hair with a washable cap or towel, and be sure that hands and finger nails are clean. When washing “dishes—cold water should te used for soaking dishes which have been used for milk, eggs and starchy foods. ‘Hot water for dishes used for sugar substances and for sticky or greasy foods and such foods as jello. Greasy dishes, we believe, are more easily cleaned when first wiped with soft paper, which should be thrown away. When pos: sible wash cocking utensils first. Pie | If anyone says anything of.,relief | 1, 3,000 workers gathered to speakers. Everything wds“as peace- No. 1. Next day, September 21, hear ful as a Sunday school picnic, | when suddenly a troop of state police appeared upon the scene, and without a word of warning, rede full tilt into the crowd, club- bing and trampling women indis- criminately. The venal Pittsburgh papers screamed about the Violent outbreaks of the strikers that had been crushed by the gallant state police, | ever known. ook, “The Great Steel Strike”) No. 2. Despite all these terror- istic methods, the steel trust could not break the will of the workers. On September they struck through- out the industry with a discipline and a universality that will be re- membered so long as steel is made in America. It was a magnificent effort for freedom, and twice as big a strike as this country had Lh AMT No. 3. The shutdown was almost complete. Throughout the coun- try the industry was stricken with paralysis. On the average the strike was at least 90 per cent ef- fective. Im the great Chicago dis- trict, practically all the men struck, hamstringing the giant plants of that section, Gary, Joliet, ete. The pent-up force of the men swept the district like a flood, leav- ing hardly a wheel turning any- where. It was a complete walkout. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1933 A Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 By DAN RICO No. 4. The battle line, however, was far from perfect. Many local unions would not act until they heard from their own headquart- ers, Far more serious than this was the attempt of the Union of Steam and Engineer officials who condemned the strike. The engi- neers, roused to indignation by this cold-bleoded course, struck with the rest of the steel workers. | Cotton Under When We Need Clothes? | (By a Farmer Correspondent) | | MENA, Ark—The government | has asked us to plow up half of| our cotton crop, telling us it would | jhelp to raise the price AL, Cotton | |this fall. Well it may“‘raise it} some. But it also has sent the| price of shirts, overalls and dres-| ses up over fifty percent. We} can’t touch them at all as the cot-| ton is not ready to pick yet and we have not got the money that the government promised us for our cotton. | How we are to get it, as we need | it and they have ‘got it, to pay for the tens of thousands of yards of cloth that we have plowed up at their command—saying that it will help prices. Whose prices will it} help most? Not ours but the BIG) man and the middle man who are already starving us. We are organ izing that we may stand up for our jrights and get that which is ours.| At a meeting Saturday night aj | speaker had just outlined the pos- | sibilities for war and had -showed | how it would affect us when a fellow in the back of the room said that) he would fight for something to eat) and that he would have to do it soon | if something didn’t happen, -but that | he would not fight for any other | reason, that the big boys could go | to hell before he would fight in j another world war. Then gnother fellow close to him got up and said that if the government wanted him | they would have to burn the woods | and look away down by the creek in the thicket and sift the ashes for him. . This is the general spirit. of the people in this country towards war. They will fight for something to eat and a lot talked of it last winter and now they are thinking of something very seriously. When you go to.town you used to hear fellows say, how bad they needed something to eat and that they just had to have it right now. But now they...come around with a different look in. their | face and set around and say..nothing. | | they will answer that there isn’t any: need to look for any, that;we, will just have to go and take it. Fewer and fewer people.céme to town now on Saturday arid: those that do come look hungrier than they did last winter and. their clothes are just off their backs’ and lots of the children are naked.’ But you never see them in town. There are lots of them that are. completely | without clothes at all. Why-are we told to plow up our cotton? is the question asked at every corner and} any place you see any one. Why| doesn’t the government gives our money for the cotton? Is‘it that the government is broke’ or that | Roosevelt is lying to us? Why is it) that the Moratorium Bill that the State passed last year is’ tifGonsti- tutional? Why is it that everything that is for us, is unconstitutional and everything that is for the big man is all good? oe Sas There is lots of sickness here and it is caused by the lack of clothes and something to eat. One family | here hasn't had anything to eat except what they raised in the-gar- den and had no salt or bread. stuff to go with that (and the. gardens are just about gone now.andodt is time for winter and nothing, to eat or wear). A fellow in town heard of them and give the mother a job; cooking for them, so when. she got something to eat she gos a hemhor- rage of the stomach and almost died | and now two of the children are very sick with the fever which: they probably would not have had: if they had a strong body to fight. it-away | with. And now they haven got any money to get medicine with, and no way to get any. Only way I sce it is we must organize better, | | Why Must We Plow Planting Wheat to Destroy It to Cash in on the Bonus Only Hope of Work- (By a Farmer Correspondent) FREDERICK, S. D.—The wheat} farmers are no more enthused about the wheat allotments than the cot- ton farmers are about plowing up their cotton, And now it is the hogs. The town | of Frederick stock yards was full of | pigs yesterday. Some say they are| going for tankage, and some say to feed the poor—but who wants to eat pigs from 25 to 100 Ibs. in size. They were paying 9c for 25 Ib. pigs and 6c for 100 Ibs, less freight, which makes the pigs bring from $2 to| $2.25 to $5 per pig. That don’t count) up very fast. Now the government is going to collect the feed and seed loans from the wheat allotment and some say the county will collect the taxes. Nothing will be left for the farmer who really needs the allotment. The farmers who cut down their acreage of wheat because of the gov-| ernment’s plea to reduce the acreage are not getting much if any benefit. Destruction of Crops Not of Benefit to Farmers; Price Rises Hard to Meet The money goes to the man who planted wheat. Now some who have not been planting wheat are ‘going to start in. It does seem childish to destroy the necessities of living when folks are needing them so much. Our fam- ily could use. five hundred yards of various kinds of cotton cloth if we. could only get it; and other families) in_proportion. The striking miners and dairy farmers have a lot of sympathy in this country. One farmer said that it didn’t seem that they should have to strike for 45 per cent of the con- sumers’ dollar. They should have that much without striking. © Also, these poor Negroes—are we going to have to go down there again. It seems the upper (so-called) class is determined to force the issue every- where. u . With wishes for better times not far distant, and no hopes in Roose- velt. +E. M. Farmer Sees CP. as ers and Farmers (By a Farmer Correspondent) time, I was a Socialist, but several years ago, I did Have lots ¢f faith in Eugene D. as a clean-cut toilers’ man. ‘But as time went on, things have changed both as to Socialist Party and our economic conditions. As to the Socialist Party, it has drifted in- to compromising with the capitalist system. We have come to the end of this system, compromising, or talking rad- ical on some points for opportunist’s sake to mislead the common people for gain sake and it is prolonging the agony. Beware of those. There is only one Party for the toiling masses on farm or industry that will bring us into our own and that’s Communism which stands for a commonwealth and universal broth- erhood. Then we'll need no more high teriffs, nor militarism. That's our only hope of peace on this earth. By a Farmer Correspondent ‘ OMAHA, Neb.—Now that the Roose- | yelt government has been applying its measures to “help” the farmers, throughout the nation, the poor and starving elemtents of the farm popu- lation are having a chance to see the machinery of the Roosevelt govern- ment “relief” in operation—and this is certainly exposing the details of the Roosevelt fake ald to agriculture. The farmers haye now found out just who profits from this so-called relief. The Federal Land Banks allow loans up to 50 per cent of the value of land plus 20 per cent of the value of buildings. That of course demands 200 per cent security on land and 500 per cent security on buildings. Naturally this leaves out the bankrupt and impoverished farmers and all who need help. Under the farm bill a $200,000,000 fund was provided “for those who are eligible” to purchase farms lost through foreclosure. When we figure that more than a million} farms have been lost through fore-/| | } MILO RENO, FARMERS’ MISLEADER, SUPPORTS ROOSEVELi’S PROGRAM closure in the last fourteen years the | sum of $200,000,000 will not redeem | a very big percentage of them—not | 4 per cent at the most. It is ‘only a! few of the very richest farmers that get any measure of relief. Tenant farmers and those who have lost their farms do not get what could be called a pretense of aid. | On top of all this, Rev. Milo Reno, | farm misleader, is brazen enough to remark, “I wish to say that the ad- ministration’s program administered | \honestly and carried.to its logical con- | | clusion, would without doubt be a long step in the direction of the final solu- tion of our problem.” Rev. Milo Reno | |even sees a final solution in the | | Roosevelt “plan”... . But the farmers are rapidly learning that the policies | of the Reverend Milo Reno and the Policies of the Roosevelt government contain the same degree of sterility. E. B. P. S. —I say ‘Rev Milo Reno’ because Reno is an ex-Campbellite preacher. E. B. Bethlehem, N. H. Comrade Editor: The card I received today from my father has the following infor- mation about a brother-in-law of mine, who has been out of work for some time. It is only one sentence but it made me think a great deal, and I am sure it will be of interest to many readers and class conscious workers to know to what extent Roosevelt’s Recovery Act has helped as far as jobs for unemployed are concerned. It reads as follows: “Nat has a job again, dealing with cigar stores to get them to agree to raise: prices.” Little does this Nat realize that every necessity of life is being raised and that his small wage will not go very far, I feel that it is up to every worker, employed and unemployed, to expose this raising of prices and to object to it every time @ purchase is made, so as to interest others in the store to join our work, I also take this opportunity of congratulating ihe six page Daily Worker, and feel sure of ‘its success to increase the circulation tremen- dously. M. 8. L. Letters from ‘Our Readers Forest City, Ia. Comrade Editor? Just a few linés to let you know the way I see things, both economi- cally and politically. Once upon a time I was a Socialist, but the So- cialist Party has drifted into com- promising with the capitalist system. For instance, we had 324. billion dollars debt at the close of the Hoover administration, public and | Private, and Roosevelt ruled six bil- lon more bonds to pay interest on. If socialists were to take over the mines, railroads or other industries, they would be appraised, and how would you raise the money under this system, but by more bonds. Lord knows the bonds we have will never be paid, let alone issuing more. Dear Readers, we have come to the end of this system, we have come to the end of compromising. There is only one Party for the toiling masses on farms or in indus- try that will bring us into our own and that is the Communist Party. 8. 5. 0. | Police Sent as 2,000 Strike in Puerto Rico 80.—Police reinforcements headed | by Chief R. R. Lutz have gone to, Mayagut, where 2,000 needle trade workers are on strike for an eight hour day and wage increases. Se eral aliée and strikers were in- | juted in clashes. The fasterias are | Maria Luisa Arcolay, by* ad's! own the SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug.| | | | | | NAME i} | ADDRESS Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N, Y. Please sed me more information on the Communist Party, Worker-FarmerUnited Action Brirgs Victory; Members Pouring in (By a Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio.—The United Front so long preached by the Daily Worker has certainly brought results in Toledo and Lu- cas County. The Unemployed Gouncil here has a powerful organization—the workers in the city have joined in with the farmers of the county. The strike which was started here August 1, and won in two weeks, has achieved them a won- derful victory. Instead of them getting 60 cents an hour as they demanded, they have forced an 80 cents an hour scale. This victory has brought hun- dreds of new members. They had practically stopped all evictions, but the bosses started a secret sys- tem of throwing the workers out of their homes, so the unemployed formed a minute man force, When the bosses’ evictors appear at you~ house, to throw you out, if yon ;can get to a phone, get in touch with headquarters. The United Front Action here has become so powerful that they have made some of the capitalists factions sit up and take notice, They have been picketing the\ food relief stations for two weeks. The workers receive a weekly al- lowance, which is put up in a pene sack, and is called the Noose ag. They call the NRA—the Na- tional Racketeers Association, or No Real Action. Evicted Farmer Jailed for Non-Support of His Children; ILD Appeals (By a Worker Correspondent.) ROCKLAND, Me.—Charles Kau- ra could not meet the payments on the mortgage on his farm, so the; select men of the town of Cush- ing, aided by State troopers, evicted him. They threw his fur- niture on the roadside, breaking several pieces, including the stove. Having no place to go, he and| his family had to sleep on the roadside. The next day Kaura was arrested on the fake charge of not providing for his family. Those who are guilty are the se- lectmen and the mortgage holder, as they had Kau-a evicted and broke his stove, so that he could net cook for his children. The “judge” impose! a fine, but the case was appealed, and Kaura is now out on bail, furnished by ne Knox County Branch of the NOTE: We publish letters from farmers and agricultural workers every Thursday. 'Get them to. us by the preceding Monday. NOTICE: Workers will find the “Daily Worker” editovial office open evenings from 7 to 9, and every Saturday from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. onmctent assistance will be given "s requirny help in for- FOREST CITY, Pa—Once upon a} Third Uprising in Te Down in the deep, black heli-hol | officials, the Brushy | guards set about the systematic | | starvation of the striking convicts. They threatened—and would no doubt have used, had it been neces- | sary to gain their ends—a tear gas attack. In case that failed, they planned to cut off the air supply from the miserable strikers crouch- ing in the darkness far underground, Now the men are back at work. They ate to be soundly punished, the Tennessee officials state. Everyone knows what that means—the whip. Deputy Warden O. C. Hendricks, who instituted in Brushy Mountain a regime unrivaled for sheer brutal- ity, and whose immediate removal was the chief demand of the strik- | ers. has been upheld by the state authorities. The Tennessee prison of- fieials hail him as the “savior of Brushy Mountain.” The brave .young leader of the strike, 25-year-old Joe Morelock, of Johnson City, Tenn.,.has been sent to the insane asylum at Nashville. Two guards, praised by the prison- ers for their humane and kindly at~ titude to the men in their care, have been dismissed. “They failed to pun- ish the prisoners often enough,” Hendricks explained. “And all this,” adds Hendricks, ‘is’) just the beginning.” “Everything's lovely,” says Dr. W. E. Cocke, Tennessee’s Commissioner of Institutions. Third Convict Revolt The strike which has just ended, was the third uprising of convict miners at Brushy Mountain Peniten- tiary since 1926. Brushy Mountain is known as the hell-hole of Tennessee. The fear of being sent to Brushy hangs like a sword over every man arrested in that state. “George Pricker, ex-prisoner in the Brushy Mountain Coal mine prison, spoke of his experience with the-task system. He said: ‘It has not been told how four strong men are called in to hold a man to the floor while he is lashed with a ‘iine-pound Whip for “Infraction of rules,” and ’“in- fraction of rules” . usually means failure to get task. . .. I was whipped three times, each time receiving 15 to 27 lashes for “Not getting task.”""” Brushy was, therefore, a fit set- ting for Deputy Warden O. C. Hen- dricks, who arrived there in August. Hendricks’ nick-name i s “Bull Dick.” For years he was with the Tennessee Central Railway as a detective— called a yard bull or a yard dick. From that job, he was “promoted” to Nashville penitentiary — where} young girls are hung by their wrists for hours in a dark cellar. So well did this ambitious young jail offi- cial do his job in Nashville, that he was promoted again—this time - to Brushy. There, where a majority of the convicts are Negroes, Warden Hendricks—it was no doubt believed would have full scope for his tal- ents. ‘These talents came into play at) 1 The “Brushy” Strike Is Over B Can’t Cow Workers ut Whips mnessee Prison Camp Was But Preparation for the Struggle Against Starvation and Terror By JIM MALLORY (Editor of the “Southern Worker.”) le of Brushy Mountain Penitentiary, | Tennessee’s prison mines, 188 convict miners, driven to desperation by killing labor, inhuman conditions and constant use of the lash, last week barricaded themselves underground and announced that they would not come out until their demands were granted. | But the strike has been broken. In the typical style of Southern prisom Mountain® arrival, Hendricks conducted a gen- eral “shake-down.” He went thru the prisoners’ lockers, took away their underwear and their extra clothes, and pocketed their tiny sav- ings. Willie White, Chattanooga Negro, had $2.50 in his locker. That went too. For some time the men had not been whipped for infraction of rules. Hendricks changed all that. The lash worked overtime. Willie White told reporters how he was given 12 lashes across the back by Captain Hodge, mine guard, while he lay on the ground under the pistol of Dep- uty Warden Hendricks. Young Joe Morelock, the strike leader, summed up the cases in an interview with the press: “The deputy warden is too hard with us; he kicks us around, cusses us. We get jerked, sworn at and abused.” On Monday, August 14, the men could bear it no longer. They bar- jricaded themselves in the mines and refused to come out. They demand- ed the removal of Hendricks. A strike committee was elected—Joe Morelock and Earnest Tweed, white } prisoners, and Willie White, a Negro prisoner. For 34 hours the men remained in | the mine, without food. “We'll starve them out,” said Hendricks cheerful- ly. “If that doesn’t work, we'll use tear gas.” The officials planned to use a 25-foot fan to carry the gas to all sections of the mine. They also consulted, quite coolly, about the possibility of cutting off the air supply. Dr. Cocke arrived Nashville. He would go the limit, fe announced, in upholding the deputy warden. He sent word to the miners that they must surrender within 30 minutes or face a tear gas attack. The miners knew the traditions af Tennessee prisons. They knew that the offi- cials would feel no qualms at carry- ing out their threat. And so, after 34 hours of starvation, all but 17 of the prisoners began the mile- long walk to the mouth of the mine. Some hours later the others came out too. ‘The men have not given up. “There is still plenty we can do,” they say, “even though we know the lash is waiting for us.” Warden Hendricks is feeling pretty good about the whole afafir. He's been upheld. He can go risht ahead with his plans for a more inhuman treatment of the prisoners than they thave yet known. He gets his way, now, about everything. He kicked out those two fool guards who “failed to punish the prisoners often enough.” With the help of Dr. Cocke, he had the heroic boy, Joe Morlock, railroaded to the insane asylum. “And this,” says Hendricks, “is just the beginning.” t And Dr. Cocke chimes in. “Yes,” once. Almost immediately after his | he says. “Everything's lovely,” By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Superstition about Iron There are many superstitions about iron and its relation to health which are so prevalent, even among some}, physicians, that it might be advisable, to discuss the subject at some length. First of all, there is a prevalent notion that if you have plenty of iron in your “system,” you are a strong “he man.” Therefore, conclude the patent-medicine manufacturers, if you don’t want to remain a weak cow, dose yourself with plenty of iron | tonics with the name blown in the bottle. “It’s all wrong,” say the food fad- dists. “All you need is spinach!” “Spinach, me eye!” say the break- fast food concocters. “Don’t let your children eat the nauseating grass, give them tasty “wood crispies” or delicious “lumber sitavings,” guaran- teed by NIRA, the celebrated White House cook. “Old reliable Blauds pills, are good enough for me,” grumbles the old- fashioned general practitioner who read a medical article once (in 1883). _ “Liver, me boy, liver; that will dix | you up in a jiiiy,” exciaims the dapper young graduate, fresh from a meeting at the Academy of Medicine. “Jackasses,” hisses the “specialist,” “all you require, my dear man, is a couple of hundred injections of Ferro- Cupro-Mango-Yeasto - Vita - Arsen, a’ wonderful new German ‘innovation; Look at the Nazis! Twenty-five dot- | ars, ‘please, \ The poor bloodless simp or the! weak cow naturaily does not know) whom to believe. As a rule, he or she begins by taking gallons of beef, iron | and wine, and finishes by Pinkh2in’s., ‘Pills for Pale People or Nuxated Tron }—the iren that maze Dempsey a aanpicn. To no avail! Ey sheer geod luck—so it scems at fist—some naturophatic “literatiire” happens to get into the hends of the | pocr victim of snemia. Then the fun begins: At first he eats, drinks, chews, | smells, sniffs or licks every e7fye vegetable whigh is supposed to contain iron. He lives in a world o: sdinac.., Gandelion, beet tops, alligator 3 \ pears, | peiato prels, rhwbacb. chard, kale, \cnions and turnip tons. Then come the . non-edible weeds and herbs which forces himself to choke or gulp down. When he feels himself weaker, in spite of all the natural foods, he is ready to do anything to get out of his or her miserable state, even to consuit a physician or visit a dispensary, However, just as he about’ to take this fatal step, he in a magazine or hears over the the “humanitarian” offer of a sample of “Toasted Straw” or “Ni ist Prunes,” both guaranteed to tain the full flavor and pure minera) content (including iron) of the God- given gift of Nature’s Bounty, or words to that effect. w It does not take our bloodless here or heroine very long to go through the gamut of the food manufacturer's wares and the “natural” canning in- dustry's high-priced products. It de- pends on how much money an¢ stick-to-itness he or she retains. Finally or usually after seme atro- cious bellyache the victim appliet to a dispensary. The disillusion it quick. After waiting for two hour: and paying a dime or a quarter fo)": “free” treatment, the physician either a student or a new graduate barks “what’s the matter” ‘at him and before he has time to finish. his first sentence, pulls down the ‘lower eyelid to see if the mucous memrar> of the eye is pale and hands hin siip No. 3. If not im- proved next week, h2 gets prescrip. tion No. 5; the week after he may have the luck of getting No. 1 and No. 6. The second prescription turns out to be a laxative, so the patient feels that he is geiting—or rath lcsing—somcthing. He imagines he is impreving end sticks to No. 1. and 6 for weeks or even months! But the ke.) iriends must part. some day, £0 our patient decides that maybe a privete physician will do him more good. Sometimes he doer and sometimes he does not. It de- . pends“on what kind of a physician he gces to; wheher he is old-fash- toned, nevw-baked or a fake special- ist. If he has bad luck, our hero or heroine may never get relief. If, on the contrary, he has some com- mon senze and reads this column, he may help*himself without ® eent ef extra east : eqeise v ’