The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1933, Page 4

iv Hie wee Page Four Says Editorials Help the District Fight Sectarianism Rebecca Grecht, Organizer of Dist. Fourteen, Also Criticizes “In the Home” Column, and Makes Some Practical Suggestions By REBECC Editorial Note: We are publishing District Organizer of Dist. 14, Newark, will be given our earnest consideration, ‘A GRECHT below a letter from Rebecca Grecht, New Jersey. Some of the suggestions We urge all comrades to write us their opinions on the various points raised.) Al would like to express my satisfaction with the editorials that are pearing in the Daily Worker on the? - le of the “Daily” and the struggle against opportunism in the Daily These editorials Worker campaign. i very effective are, in my on, means of co! cting the tance to build the Daily Worker which is manifested in many parts of the New Jersey District. It is bound up with the line of oposition to bring the Party forward in the struggles of the workers, which we have had to con- tend against in New Jersey in every strike and unemployed struggle in which we have participated. These editorials in the Daily Work- er will help us in our fight against this form of sectarianism I would also like to express my opinion at this time on the “In the Home” column. If this is intended to be the special column for women, then certainly it is far from sufficient to meet the requirements. I think the Daily Worker should have, at least once a week, a special section devoted to news and articles on/| ‘women’s work, dealing with women in industry, with the struggle against war (exposing of the various paci- fist and patriotic moves against| women’s organizations, etc.), as well as the problems of the workingclass housewife. Years ago we would fre- quently discuss the necessity of such @ column in the Daily Worker. I think it is time now to put it into) effect, I have met, from everyone to whom I have spoken, very enthusiastic re- sponse to the new features in the Daily Worker, as well as to such questions as increasing simplicity in the language used, particularly in the editorials Our District, thus far, has not been | very much alive to the Daily Work~| er, but we are confident that with the plans we have now made, there | will be a d ive turn for the better | in developing the circulation of the| Daily Worker in our District. Speed-Up After NIRA Promises | HAMMOND, Ind., Sept, 1.—Only | a few days after Bruce Vernon, gen- eral manager of the Lever Brothers | chemical plant, promised his 400 workers more work and more pay under the NRA five machinists were | fired. The others were warned to| put out as mugh work in six hours as they formerly did in eight or to| get out. Bittleman Answers Greetings of the Party Conference To the CC of the Party. Dear Comrade Browder:— Please accept my heartiest thanks to the comrades for the greetings of the Extraordinary Party Confer- ence. Its wish for the speedy re- covery of my health, I consider an instruction to me by the Party to make myself fit again for active service. The Open Letter I have read, of course, and find myself in full agreement with it. The Control Decisions adopted by the Confer- ence in connection with the Letter make one feel confident that the ground has been brei:en for a great effort to win the masses for the revolutionary struggle. I ardently wish that I may join you soon in your great and historic work. How contemptible the enemies’ reaction to the Open Letter ap- pears in comparison with what the Party is trying to do at the present time. They say the American Com- munists have made an open con- fession of failure. But it does not seem as if they—the capitalists and their social-fascist flunkeys—feel much comforted by this confes- sion of ours. Judging by the ex- ‘tensive Green, Thomas & Co. against the advance of the revolutionary move- ment in the United States, one is compelled to conclude that the enemy looks upon the Communist movement as a pretty formidable opponent; in fact, the only oppo- nent of the present capitalist of- fensive upon the toiling masses. It is quite certain that if the Party membership, and the wider masses of our sympathizers, can be aroused to the proper execution of the Open Letter (and they can be aroused), then there will pretty shortly be registered some very heavy failures. And these will not be ours but Roosevelt’s, Green’s, Thomas’ & Co. All power to you, dear comrades, in the fulfillment of your great tasks, With Communist greetings, Alex Bittelman. Today’s Menu BREAKFAST Grapes Cheese Toast Milk—Coffee Cover toast with white sauce in which cheese cut in small pieces has | been melted. | Add salt and pepper. | * . * | LUNCH Potato Salad Boiled Summer Squash Cocoa Cut cold boiled potatoes into one- half inch cubes. If desired add an onion cut into small pieces. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add 4 table- spoons of oil and mix thoroughly, | . add 2 tablespoons of vinegar and mix | + again thoroughly. Hard boiled eggs may be cut up and added. Wash the summer squash and cut it into quarters. Cook 20 minutes or | until soft in boiling salted water. Drain, mash, season with butter, salt and pepper. -Mix two tablespoons of cocoa and two tablespoons of sugar together and add enough water to mix easily. Add a cup and a half of water and boil. Add a cup and half of milk and bring to the desired temperature for drinking, but do not boil the milk. Wor ee We DINNEB Meat with Rice Tomato Salad Apple Snow Milk Grease a baking dish and put in 1% cups of boiled rice. Make a hollow in the rice and fill it with left-over chopped meat highly sea- soned with salt, pepper, celery salt, and onion, and mixed with enough water to make it moist. Put the re- mainder of the rice on top. Cover the dish with a paper cut in shape to keep out the moisture from the steam. Steam for 45 minutes. Put the baking dish into a larger kettle that can be tightly covered. In order to life the baking dish so that it vill not rest flat on the bottom of the kettle, put a tin cover or wadded pa- per under it. Keep the water in the Kettle surrounding the baking dish doiling. Dip the tomatoes into boiling water ind them peel them. Stand them on ‘nd and cut them into quarters and then into eighths but do not cut ‘lear through to tue bottom. Let the dieces open out like a flower. Put on ettuce and sprinkle with salt, pepper, | finely chopped onion and cheese. To make apple snow fold the stiff- »y beaten whites of egg into apple fauce that has been mashed into a yulp. Serve with a custard sauce nade by beating two egg yolks, add- ng 3 tablesncons of sugar, 1 and 1-3 | Pattern You Make ’em Yourself ? With the end Can of the summer maneuvers of Roosevelt, | 'A Pictorial Histery of the Grea (Based on Wm. Z, Foster's b ook, “The Great Steel Strike”) No. 1.—The stories, of hideous brutality against the strikers were countless. The following incident is only one of many. Concetta Cocchiara, eight months advanced: ite pregnancy, was out shopping with her sister. Two State policemen bruquely ordered them home, and when they did not move fast enough to-suit, followed them home, forced themselves into the house and struck the women over the head. They grabbed Con- | cetta by her hair, and pulled her out of the kitchen, struck her again | over the head, and took her to the borough jail. i SEPTEMBER 4, 1 t Steel Strike of No, 2.—The State police felt rea- sonably sure of their skins, for be- hind them were large forces of armed guards, ready to spring to their support. Moreover, they knew , that they were above the law. Once in a while they get into trouble. | One worker reported six of them lying in the Sharon hospital after | a “riot” which they started. : 933 ba 5 By DAN RICO —Meny of the armed guards were murderous criminals scraped up from the slums of the cities to defend Gary'sm. They even robbed | the strikers in brexd dayl ght. One | triker was robbed while he was in To lose watche=, kn'ves, etc. in ee, New Wave of ‘Layoffs, Wage Cuts Shown by Letters of Transp ‘Indiana Harbor Belt Railway | Lays Off Crews: | | (By a Railroad Worker | Correspondent) GARY, Ind—The Indiana Harbor | Belt Railway in the past three | | weeks has taken off many engines | and crews due to a, drop in ship- | ments. This railway runs. around |outer Chicago, transferring cars | between the different railroads. | At the Inland Steel Co. capitalist papers announce thé inany employ- ed and being re-employed. But one man who was, fortunate, got a job at this plant six weeks ago. He worked eight hours a day until last week, when he was laid off for a week. If he goes back he will be lucky to work two or three days per week. A public accountant, working in | an office in Chicago. was receiving $28 per week, and the boss was overburdening him with work. He asked some help. When the N.R.A. came into being the boss took heed to his pleas and hired another man at $14. His misery and his pay is divided with another at no cost to the employer. At the U. S. Steel Co., Gary, several weeks ago they employed thousands of men and:stocked their warehouses in a short time, then began laying them off again in the last two weeks. Now some of the old timers are back at two or three working days’ per week, while the rest are out altogether. Detective Extorts | | | | | | By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am a truck driver. I was riding on the street at 33d St. A car pulled out from the curb right in front of me, should come preparations for next | the driver didn’t signal, and in doing summer. Cottons may be cheaper now than they were at the begin- ning of the season. The house dress for next summer, sleeveless, can be made and put away. 7 —V j\S Pattern 2548 is available in sizes 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch fabric and 8% yards binding, Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included with pattern, SEND FIFTEEN CENTS (15¢e) 2046 Anra. Adan s in coins or stamps (coins prefer- red) for this tern. and style number. STATE SIZE. Anne Adams _ pat- Write plainly name, address BE SURE TO Address orders to Daily Worker Department, 243 West ups of milk end stirring the mix- ‘ure over het water until it thickens. 17th Street, New York City. (Patterns by Mail Only) this scraped the front fender'on the |fender of my truck. T slowed down, and the driver of the other car waved back and said go ahead. Two blocks further on he said I should stop my car. He pulled over alongside of me, and took out his badge, so I could see he was a detective. He started to give me a summons—and took $1.50 from me so that he shouldn’t make out the summons, because I was afraid of losing my job. A Negro worker in the truck with me started to say something to him, and the detective threatened to hit him. The license number of. the de- tective’s car was Y32-64 NY. SAM MARKOWITZ. (Signature authorized) one Editor's Note: The Taxi Drivers Union asks that all complaints of persecution of drivers by detectives and police be reported. to them im- mediately, for they. fight cases of this kind. The address is 37 E. 13th St. New York City. Widow of Railroad Worker Robbed by Pulaski Co. Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) NO. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—An in- stance of the corrupt relief system in Pulaski county is the case of a Negro widow woman, Delia Turnage, 2701 E. 2nd St. She was forced to pay back $11.25 for relief received during the four months illness of her husband. After the death of her husband she was supposed to get $1,000 in insurance from the Missouri Pacific Railway Co., but the lawyer, Mr. Bogard, took $295 as his fee. The Telief bureau notified her that no more relief would be given. Then case worker Miss Daniels” ¢ame “around and informed her she must pay for the aid given her. She refused. | Later, the chief of detectives, Mr. Pratt, forced her to make payment, Mrs. Turnage turned the grievance over. to the Unemployed Céuncil, who began to fight for a refund of this sum. They hold the receipts given to -her by Mrs. Pratt, and one given later by one in the R.F.C. wel- fare bureau. ' Imagine a worker having to re- fund for relief, which consisted of | two loads of wood, groteries, and Red | Cross flour which has printed on it, | ‘not to be sold.” | Tell your friends about the new ' 6-page “Daily.” ' $1.50 from Driver’ (BY A WORKER CORRESPONDENT) | PRINCETON, Ind.—This is a city time 95 per cent organized in the AF. are the Princeton Railroad shops and Boiler Dept. in road business a short while ago, but now business has about gotten back to the ’32 “normal,” and many | men in transfer labor are pressing concrete—again—at this point, with years of “seniority.” In the past 18 months, these men received government flour, but now that, too, has been cut out here. Flour that sold a few months back for 80 cents now sells for $1. Everything is up in price. Pur- chasing power is down. ‘WS: One man has found em- ployment in the ice plant—and he is an engineer who was compelled ; in the transaction to fire three hours—a shift of 8 hours, as well as the other two engineers there, by dispensing with the employment of one fireman. Stagger Plan in Chain Stores Chain stores here are staggering forces, but not raising wages. Hotels are laying off regular em- ployes, cooks, and finding plenty of other help for their “board,” with the N.R.A. in the windows, working this new forced Iabor 13 and 14 hours per day. Laundry workers are cut to $4 per week, while the boss raised prices to a much higher rate for all classes of work. } In Evansville, Ind., Sewell laid The railroad shops are working four days—32 hours—with reduction of 1 10 per cent in wages, with a much reduced force in the Car Dept. and | There was a pick-up Employment Flare Dies Out Western Union | In Indiana Railroad Shops of 7,000 population which had at one .L. Unions. The key industries here the Kings Coal Mine. off 2,000 employes. Coal mines here in Somersyille and San Frisco working open shop, with two other mines in the county working cooperatively, both with the aid of the U. M. W. of A. Miners at Somerville and Frisco signed up in the company union and applied for a state charter, while scab mines at Somerville and Transico are loading coal for 15 cents per ton. * Sheriffs Guard Scabs The mines at Somerville are being picketed by 15 or 20 miners each day, while the scab ‘called the union men and their wives and daughters every Vile name under the sun, carried guns, and tear gas bombs while going to and from work. They are ably protected by the local sheriff and deputies and by the state police, yet miners here have been promised by a U. M. W.| of A. organizer three months ago to have the mines organized in two weeks. The last organizer told a meet- ing the NRA compelled the boss to recognize the U.M.W. After that he never appeared in this locality again — and he is now probably fooling the miners in other localities. STEPHEN GRAHAM’S DEATH New York City Dear Comrades: I feel that the District neglected Comrade Graham after he was killed. Comrade Stephen Graham | as you know, was a very active |comrade and a capable organizer in the shops, as well as outside. He was one of those comrades | who was very sincere, and the | Party could well wish that they could have more of such excellent | fighters. He studied hard to learn | the right line of the Party, and was | Very skillful in all his shop work. | There was never a day when he did not think on how to improve his work for the Party. He was very thorough in his shop work. When he went to a factory he would observe and pick out the spies and stool pigeons, and then carefully approach the most intelligent workers person- ally, take them to his home, to the parks, acquaint them with the problems in their shop, and step by step bring them into the move- ment. He would never hurry or expose himself to the bosses. It would take sometimes months before they were finally brought into the move- ment. The funeral arrangements were not taken care of by the District or Section, but were left to me personally with the aid of two other comrades, who were personal friends. Many workers, whom he was in contact with. have only just re- cently learned of his' death, because of the failure of the Party to make it better known. Needless to say, if the funeral had been better ar- ranged, there would have been more organizational results. There was not even a banner of the Section there. The District neglected to find out the details and inform the Daily Worker so there could have Letters from Our Readers been a better write-up. I hope the District will learn by this big mistake, and in the future make better arrangements when- ever a gifted and devoted ecmrade loses his life in the course of his work and struggle. With Communist greetings, Stephen Graham's, Comrade. Cae ah Bronx, N. Y.| Editor, Daily Worker: It has always appeared to me that | many party comrades like to do’ a great deal of talking at a mecting but when it comes to help carry out their plans or lead us, they are al- ways busy. They have more mestings and conferences than a dog has fleas. I would suggest that any comrade bringing forth a plan must’ partici- pate in it. Also that comrades should not be assigned to a number of duties. In taking part in demonstrations in the past year, I have noticed that they have no appearance of a group who are out for something—it is | more or less a crowd just out for a lark, Why, on a march, cannot we have discipline, instead of no semblance of ranks? I make a motion that the Workers’ Ee-Servicemen’s League have their members visit all workers clubs and branches once a month, and give them a little training. Also that each group elect a captain and only these shall be captains at demonstrations. Also, that these men do not try to be captains of the whole line of march, but of a company of, say, 50. Then the marchers will know their captain end obey him, Slogans shall be shout-d not more than a given number cf times, the captain starting and stopping the company. As it is now w2 buck each other. One shouts this, the other shouts that. All are shouting one minute and the next only one voice can be heard. To the people on the side lines this means weakness, and we must change, An I, W. 0. Youth Join the Com NAME ADDRESS: 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me more information on the Communist Party. munist Party ortation Workers Firing Older Men to Cut Pay. (By a Messenger Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The older mes- | sengers, 22 years and over, who have been with the Western Union for five or more years are being fired. Every week a few are let go on the excuse that they have violated some small regulation. The Western Union will replace | these men with boys, whom they will pay less;.and will save the future pension payment to these men. This is the reward that we have to look forward to! The profits for the Western Union for the first six months of 1933 were $2,664,469. There was a distribution in August of $731,000.00 called back pay, (see New York Times, Aug. 2, 1933). The officers and clerks received about one week’s salary, but the messengers did not receive any- thing, although their pay has been cut more often than any of the officers. When wages of officers and clerks were cut last November the company promised a share of the 1933 profits to the officers and clerks. The 10 per cent cut re- ceived last November still is in ef- fect and by giving this back pay or one week’s pay of the profits the company camouflages the fact that six months profits have been made and more will be made in 1933 beeause of the wage cuts. This can be proven by the New York Post of Aug. 14, 1933—an article that shows that with less} business in the six months periods of 1933 compared to 1932, the com- pany made more money in 1933. As for the profits of the next six! months the Western Union will not | less we messengers demand share of the profits in the form of back pay, our wage cuts restored, and no firing of the older and mar- ried messengers who hrve been work'ng for the Western Union for yéars and-need their jobs and pen- sions. 6 Barge Captains Must Take Care of 22 Scows By a Merine Worker Corvz; NEW YORIS.—The . runs 22 scoxs witn six expiains. The cap- tains have to handle three and four ccows a man each day. spondent C. five loaded scows at 7 p.m. and one of the captains was told to rush Tight over to a street dump to pump water on one other scow. The cap- tain arrived there at 8:30 p.m. and was supposed to stay there all night in a cabin with nothing else in there but a table, not a bed nor a stove, not even a chair to sit on. ‘There are only three or four scows which have beds in the cabins, and then they are fiithy and completely unfit for a human being. Some of the cabins are down in the hull and are in such miserable, rotten, stink- ing condition that no farmer would care to put his hogs in a hole like that. Workers. who are addressed with the title, “Captain,” have to use their own carfare out of the wages of om for 24 hours or about 9 cents an jour, Crews Cut One Third By Many Lake Boats Ey a Marine Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, IlI.—Lake boat officers ere firing many seamen with as much es 15 years experience and hiring their relatives and friends, who never failed before. Lake seamen are kick- ing Itke hell and beginning to talk organization, Representatives of the Marine Workers Industrial Union are being established at various lake ports, and seamen and dockworkers are request- share any of it with any one, un-| our) A couple of days ago they landed | Negro Murdering by Police Thugs Sweeps Georgia Against Lynch Wave 4 By DAVE SOUTHERN ATLANTA, Ga.—It is no news to,us in Georgia to read currence, | Who wes brutally shot by @ policeman. “Self defense” was the officer’s plea.} Another Negro was shot while leaving} a filling station because the “peace! officer” thought he had failed to pay | two gallons of gas.. A Negro’s life; for two gallons of gas! i Policeman I. B. “Babyface” Jones| recently shot an old Negro woma: through both legs because she had in- | nocently picked up a can of oil on| the street which had been stolen by} a boy, and dropped when chased by! an officer. “Babyface,” named -ihus by his fellow murderers because of his “sweet. face,” laughed at the woman's misery as she lay suffering in Grady Hospital. He boasted of what an excellent shot he was. He} took pride in and gloated over his} marksmanship in shooting both legs from under this old lady with one bullet. He wanted her to stop still, and by | God, he stopped her still. He “never | hangs trigger on a Goddam nigger,” he boasted to an old Negro who stood | by watching the woman’s pain. This} woman was “Babyface’s” third vic- tim! ‘The long list of Negroes murdered by “peace officers” counts up into the scores. These brutal but legalized | murders have gone practically un- noticed by the so-called Negro uplift Societies and churches. When on June 16 the N.A.A.C.P. sent a protest | wire to Mayor Key stating the Asso- | ciation “viewed with alarm” the in-| creasing killing of Negroes by the po- lice, two having been killed that week, and urging investigatior” with the view of putting a stop to the prac- tice, they received an insulting slap in the face by the mayor, who, among other “ insinuating remarks, asked them why the Association didn’t pro- test Negro killings of policemen. Mayor Key cited the case of detective Foster who was killed by a Negro, but failed to say that four Negro lives were legally snuffed out for this one white killing. After this stinging rebuke which virtually said “You damn niggers dry-up and stay in a nigger’s place,” the N.A.A.CP. did “dry-up” and has failed. to raise any further protest or show the least bit of militant lead- ership against such outrages. With this humiliating spanking by the Mayor the N.A.A.C.P. have behaved like “good little niggers” should! Of all these recent police mur- ders the latest and most dastardly is that of Clover Davis, an old blind man. In an interview with Mrs. , of pcelice murdering another Negros-It-is a very common oc “Nigger life” is cheap. | have witnessed a vast wave of increase in these murders. | victim was a Negro man sleeping behind an old school hoyse ttie Richardson, sister of the mux: But the last few months One Mai GARE dered blind man, I learned that ha. had been stone blind for twenty years, He tried to eke out an existence by putting cane bottoms in chairs. On Aug. 3 while fixing a chair for a woman he became embroiled in a row with the woman over a dollar which she had taken from’ him. Policeman: O. W. Allen, arriving on the scene burst into the room and fired a bullet into the blind man's body. Realizing it was. the law the blind Clover Davis turned, put both hands in the,air and said “Wait a minute | boss,., let, me ex—”. but he was cut short by a second piece of hot lead plowing_through his flesh. Clover Davis:fellOver in the doorway. Friday of the same week he died in Grady Hospital. O. W.-Allen, the murdering police- man,~says: he killed this blind old Negro in self defense. He says the blind man-was advancing on him with an ice pick and he-had to shoot! Knowing about. the International Labor. Defense, that it stands for justice to the Negroes and all work- ing people, the brother and sister of the police’ victim came to the ILD, office in Atlanta asking for help. The I. L. D. wishing to make Clover Davis’ murder ‘a symbol of the end of such outrages, invited all other interested and ‘sympathetic organizations and individuals to co-operate in a series of protest’ meetings and a mass pro- test funeral. At the first meeting of representatives from many of these organizations Aug. 28, it was decided to go forward with funeral prepara- tions and to set up a prosecuting committee: From the mass funeral a committee is to be elected to go before the mayor and chief of police with the following demands: 1.—Removal of I. B, “Babyface” Jones, who has already shot three Ne groes, from the police force. 2.—The removal. and prosecution O. W.,Allen,.who recently shot ° death the blind Negro, Glove. Davis. Arrangements are made for the mass protest funeral on Labor Day. Negroes and white workers will join together to stamp out the oppression of the capitalist bosses who use much police terror to keep both in subjec- tion. All organizations and inter- ested individuals are urged to send protest’ telegrams, letters or regolu- tions, émbedying the above three de- mandé, ‘to James L. Key and chief of police, T. O. Sturdivant of Atlanta. By PAUL LUETINGER, M.D. PART Il. The reader who hes had the pa- tience to read so far, will readily un- derstand that the treatment of anemia must take into consideration the cause cf it. Of what use is it to give.a patient an iron tonic when he is suffering trom a tapeworm, cancer or bleeding piles. It’s like i giving the worker beer (at ten cents | ss) when he needs bread, o i; capitalism by iscuing a billion dollars of grcenhocks, os passing a fake NIRA law, It’s the underlying cause cf anemia, that has to be re- moved before iron can be of any ge. This is why the quack and cultist, as well as the ‘paiierit who treats himself, fail to obtain relief. ‘The ordinary signs of anemia are the same, no maiier What the cause may be: The patient (females are more subject to anemia than males) feels weak, gets tired easily, wants to sleep all the time, does not feel rested in the morning, looks fale (when the war paint is removed), yawns con- tinually (air hunger), poor or capri- cious appetite, short of breath, belches gas. She (it’s usually a she) complains of fullness in the pit of the stomach, soreness of the tongue, brittle nails, dry hair and dull skin. Sometimes all these signs are pres- ent, in other cases some of them are Jacking, depending on the age, duration of the condition and the patient's heredity. When the medical quack or the patient himself or the ca-eless physician diagnoses anemia from the above signs, he immediately thinks of iron with the results described in the previous article. In order to re- lieve the patient, the physician must first remove the cause of the anemia and neither spinach nor iron tonics, nor “radiated sawdust” nor* awe-in- spiring injections will do any good. But even with the cause removed, or when it’s an uncomplicated case of lack of iron in the system, it is not so simple to replenish the blood with the necessary amount of iron. The ignorant food faddist believes that all one has to do is to eat foods iF ed ‘to get jn touch with them at 3064 E. 92d st., South Chicago, and at Camels Hall on Superior St., Duluth, Minn., and Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union on Huron St., Buf- falo, N. Y. i Crews have been cut one-third on many Lake boats and the radio op- erator.must work as a deckhand, dis- Placing one man. The bosun has been abolished, also one porter and one. coal passer. Even firemen must work in the engine room when not shovel- ing coo! containing lots of iron, But this is not as simple as that. First of all because many people, and anemia sufferers particularly, will not absorb iron from their stomach or intes- tines. In other words, no matter how many iron pills or tonics or spinach you give them, they cannot.take it into their blood. And as long as the iron is in the stomach or intestine, it 1s still outside the body, which means it is not in touch with the body cells which can only be reached by’ the blood, In other words, you can lead a horse (patient) to the water, but you cannot make him drink''(absorb irgn into his blood). Or, if ‘he absorbs it, he cannot re- tain it'for a a ore length of time to strengthen his body. Some physicians who are nol abreast of the times are still trying to overcome this by increasing. the amount’ of* iron. But this causes constipation, which, in many cases inezsases ‘the anemia: They forget that the amount of iron in the bods is very ‘sinall. There is hardly enough iron in the largest man tc make More than a few nails. Mod- ern medical research has shown tha‘ a small amount of iron, combinec’ with “copper, manganese and sun- shine, ‘when properly administered will dé more than quarts of tonic: and bales of* vegetables, poorer Mae 34 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS The. condition art ut ts often due to in- may be cor- rected by eating ‘vegetables anc and starch, A ‘ailment, try the follow ing: Wash the skin between the toe: with alcohol and water (equal part of rubbing alcohol and water). Re move tabs of dead skin, then appl: some compound tincture of benzoir with @’ cotton swab into the crack: and the entire web of the toe. Thi: will cause-some smarting, which cubsidec. Allow the tincture to thoroughly. Repeat every ever remembering to clean the skin uM film left. on it, before applying* th: tincture. Any druggist will sell yor en ounce. of the ccmpound tincture of benzoin, Let us know the result Laboratory Work—Soviet Methods A. H. W.—Thanks to you and you friend 8. G, for your offer to assis with biochemical and work. We shall keep your name o1 file for future reference. We hav no firsthand information regardin terlologist who had visited the Soviet told us that the German in vogue; béing that of Kolle rw Wasserman... You may find a same at the Library of the Acadi n ‘of Medicine. If unable to get it, should be glad to let you consult ot) copy (2 volumes, German text). * * ape tae Readers’ desiring hesith information should address their Ittters to Dr. bs Luttinger, ¢c-o Daily Worker, 35 B, St, New York Clty, ° &