The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1933, Page 4

Page Four Speed War Sh and West Workers Report (Based on Wm. Z. Foster’s book, “The Great Steel Strike”) ? Byen Small Towns Are Drawn on for War Serap Tron fa, Worker Correspondent) STIS, Fla—Car after car of ap iron is being loaded here for “sonville, the nearest seaport| fewn, where, I am informed by a} Worker connected with the business, | it is loaded on Japanese ships and! Sefit to Japan. | When we>consider that heretofore this commodity was worth less than nothing in a small, out of the way town on a branch line railroad, it is easy to conclude that the same thing | is being done in larger towns on a larger scale. Three shiploads have already} cleared anchor from Jacksonville, | four more are being loaded, which means that this country is furnlching | Japan with raw material to build} more huge guns and all manner of | implements of war to use to try to erush the increasing tide of revolu- | tionary action which is sweeping China. Army Air Practice | in Minnesota Town By @ Worker Correspondent VIRGINIA, Minnn.—At the request of Mayor Purcell Barker, nine army | planes from Port Snellimg were in-| vited to come to Virginia, to give the residents of Virginia and vicinity, an “air show,” part of the building of war psychology in the minds of the workers. | It was necessary to inspect the different landing fields on the Range, | including Virginia, and to make oth- er necessary investigations along these lines, in connection with war preparations. Therefore, what bet- ter expuse could they give for such an act, which they are trying to keep a secret from the workers, than to give them a swell treat—an air show, by real army planes, Ship Scrap Iron from East Coast to Europe By a Worker Correspondent JACKSONVILLE, Fla,.—Shipments of scrap iron are being carried on regularly from this port. The Nor- weigian freighter, Knut Hamsun, is being loaded with scrap iron and will sajl shortly from Bremen, Hamburg 4nd other European cities. __A five-mast schooner, Edna Hoyt,” | sailed from this city a while ago for Philadelphia, loaded with scrap iron. Imperialist war preparations, of course. —i. L. |to manufacture 1,000 machine gun jis chief buyer. | administration. ipments East Making Parts for Airplane Machine Guns By « Metal Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The Aerial Machine | Co., 1 Bethune St., N. Y. C., has re-| ceived an order from the U. S. Navy} parts. The blueprints which are handed to the workers to work from | are all marked “for experimental purposes,” by the bosses in order to fool the workers into thinking that these m@chjne gun parts are not for war purposes. The material prin- | cipally used in manufacturing these parts is called “duralumin.” Dura- lumin is used for the manufacture of machine guns for aeroplanes. Serap Iron Shipments) Sped from West Coast} By a Dock Worker Correspondent | SAN PEDRO, Cal.—The scrap iron | business is sure on the upgrade in this part of the country. And Japan Saturday, Aug. 19, 300 tons of acrap iron loaded on the Japanese liner “Sanyou Maru,” Dock 228, consigned for Tokyo, Japan. The | boats “City of Honolulu” and “Cal- ami,” of the Lasco line, were sold | to Japan for scrap iron. This port seems to be the biggest | as far as shipping of war material is concerned. August 16, a total of | 190 tons of dynamite and caps were | loaded on the “Raby Castle” of the} Barber Line, which is an English | line, for Manila, Philippine Islands. | The capitalist press very seldom mentions these shipments. And when they do mention it, it is just to prove | that business is increasing. But not | that war is drawing nearer. | NO JOBS FROM THE WAR | By a Worker Correspondent VINELAND, N. J.—During the World War, many of the big manu- facturers employed all the mechan- ical means of the country to invent machines to fill the places of those on the firing line, and eliminate them on their return home. During the World War, I heard the mouthpiece of a big corporation say, “Labor has got us now, but after the war we'll get them.” Well, mil- lions today have been eliminated from industry, and there has. been no adequate provisions made by this This is the reward you get for serving a capitalist government at home and on the battlefield. Let us oppose all bosses’ wars and demand Unemployment Insurance instead. Today’s Menu BREAKFAST Fresh Fruit Cooked Cereal Milk—Coffee . . * | | | LUNCH Peanut-Carrot Salad Pancakes and Syrup | Peanut-Carrot Salad— Grind to- together through a food grinder four parts of carrots to one part of shelled Peanuts. Mix thoroughly with salt and salad dressing. Arrange in a bowl with lettuce or cabbage leaves. Pancakes—Mix together 1 cup of flour (%* cup flour and % cup corn- meal), % teaspoon salt, ‘2 teaspoon of soda and enough sour milk or but_ termilk to make a thin batter. Drop on a hot skillet. When the edges are set and bubbles appear over the tops turn the pancakes. Syrup—Boil togéther one cup of water and one-half cup of sugar (brown sugar may be used). Add a tablespoon of. butter. . . Beet Stew— Put soup meat and bone in a large kettle of cold water. (Many grocers, if asked, will sell a bag of soup greens for 5 or 10 cents. They will put in the large stalks of _eelery, carrots that have dropped out of bunches.) Add to the soup meat such as celery, carrots, onions, turnips, string beans, peas, corn, tomatoes, and let simmer for | three hours if possible. Add pieces of potato half an hour before serving. ‘Thicken stew with flour and water | stirred together. _ Dumplings— P| 1 cup of flour 2 teaspoons of baking powder % teaspoon of salt 1 teaspoon of butter or lard Milk (or water) Mix the dry ingredients. Work the fat in lightly with the finger tips. Stir in enough milk to make a very thick dough. When the stew is boil- ing add just enough cold water to stop the boiling. Then drop the dumplings in from the spoon and cover tightly for twenty minutes. Do ‘not remove the cover to peep in while the dumplings are cooking. Educate your child to help you with the household tasks, such as setting “the table and removing and drying ‘the dishes. Also he can air aud make this own bed. By allowing him to ‘help you, you will give him the feel- | ing thet he is sharing and living on ‘an equal footing with the grown-ups. To develop a habit of this kind re- ‘quires time and patience, but once it 7 been started it must not be al- fl to drop. Such habits of help- fullness can be started in a child of } Yoars, and the earlier you begin, © Whe easier it will be. and style number, 17th Street, New York City. ! Can You Make ’em Yourself? Be sure that when making this dress you have the contrasting top of a material that is not too light in color, so that it will not soil before the rest of the dress, When you discover short cuts in sewing, send them direct to the Edi- torial Department of the Daily Work- er, 35 East 12th St., New York, so that other readers of the “Daily” may know about them. Pattern 2559 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 25% yards 39 inch fabric and 1% yards contrasting. Tllustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded with this pattern. SEND FIFTEEN CENTS (1c) in coins or stamps (coins prefer- red) for this Anne Adams_pat- tern. Write plainly name, address BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West (Patterns by Mail Only) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933 A Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 ¥»»4N Rico No. 1—From the first, the Pitts- burgh papers were violently antag- onistic to the steel workers.. They played up the race issue, virtually asking the American workers to stand together against the foreign- ers who were about to overwhelm them, For them no further proof of patriotism was needed than to go back the the mills. Every club- bing of strikers was the - heroic | work of law-abiding citizens against | reckless mobs, they said. | No. 2—But the journalistic | strike-breaking master stroke was | an organized effort to stampede | the men back to work by mini- | mizing the strike’s effectiveness. | First the papers declared that only | a few thousand steel workers were | out. Then they followed this with | stories of thousands of steel work- | ers flocking back to the mills. | Full-page advertisements begged the men to go back. No. 3,—The so-called foreigners have great respect for the law, and especially military authority, which plays such a big part in their na- tive environments. The U. S. Steel Corporation did not fail to take advantage of this, It gave out the impression that the letters “U. S.” in the corporation’s name indicated that it was owned by the United States government, and that any- one on strike was liable to depor- tation. No. would take a squad of soldiers and go to the home of a striker. He would give John a last chance to return to work, telling him that re- | 4—A mill | | fusal meant either jail or deporta- | | | | superintendent tion, Then he would take John to the window and show him the sol- diers. After looking at his wife and children, John would take his coat and return to the mills. Such tactics succeeded in breaking the strike. Farmers and Workers Pressed Harder As Price Scissors Are Widened by NRA Farmers Get $15, By a Worker Cofrespondent YAKIMA, Wash.—J. C. Penny has a chain of stores all over the coun- | try and is finding the N-R.A: the most profitable institution yet got. up b; the fellows who handle the money- bags. Two weeks ago, a farmer comrade ' bought me a suit of, light summer | underwear for the sum of 49 cents from the J. C. Penny Co. On August | 26 I went to the same store and found the same goods on the same shelves, but the price had jumped to 79 cents, an addition of 30 cents for the same article in two weeks. In the city of Longview, we find | that the Longbell Lumber Co. and | the Weyhauser Lumber Co. are hir- | ing a few men and firing a few ex- tra men to make up the N.R.A. ‘de- ficiency program. Farmers here are getting from $10 to $15 a ton for pears, and the tvork- ers are going to the store and buying two cans of pears for a quarter. There | are just two pears in each Can. By weighing up the pears and averaging up the weights, we find that the workers are paying a little over $400 a ton for the same pears. ' The canning company doesnot waste anything, so peelings and cores are made into jams, syrups and’ vine- gars. These things pay about ‘all costs of canning, and therefore the company makes a nice profit. Sharecropper Union Greets 6-Page Daily Dadeville, Als. Comrade Editor: Enclosed find two dollars as part payment on our bill. To the six- page “Daily,” the Share Croppers Union sends greetings. We pledge to support it all that we can by paying for our bundles as regular as we can and as much as we can. —x. Editor: Name withheld. for obvious reasons. Where the Workers and Farmers Rule By ABDUL GOCHAEY | NALCHIK, U.S.S.R.—At the recent conference of aged women at Nal- chik, the center of the Khabardino Balkarian Region, 506 delegates, aged women of different nationali- ties, were present. My mother was among them. Our district is a cattle breeding district. Almost all the poor and.mid- dle peasants are united in the col- lective farms (95 per cent). We have 76 per cent of all horses, 68 percent of the pigs, 91 per cent of the sheep and 24 per cent of large horned cat- tle concentrated in kolkhozes. There are 21 sovfarms in the region-with 9,500 head of large horned cattle as against 300 in 1928 and 11,900 sheep as against 2,900. Only five years ago it was diffi- cult to find one literate Khabardin. ‘We have done away with illiteracy now. There is not a small village. now: without a reading room, a red.cdrner, a club and an evening continuation school. Each collective farm. ‘issues its own wall paper. In the kolkhozes we have public dining rooms, kinder- gartens and public nurseries. Native women are not slaves any more, Before the Revolution Before the revolution a woman was the property of her husband who had bought her from her relatives. My father was a herdsman. He herd- ed the cattle and sheep of our duke, not a single animal being his own. I was six months old when he died. Mother had four children beside me. ‘The eldest brother replaced father, and mother began to work in the master’s poultry yard. ‘ The revolution broke the landlords were forced. out. My eldest brother went to the Red Army and was killed by the White Guards. It was a very hard time for my mother. We were very, hungry. At the beginning of the collettiviza- tion I had difficulty convincing my mother to enter the kolkhoz. She. was afraid and did not believe in it. Three years passed,.and my, moth- er, rewarded with premiums’ as a shock worker, was called as a dclo- gate to the conference to speak be- fore an audience cn the progress and the shortcomings of her kolkhoz, out, }road and were not tied up to the Prepare $22,000,000 Gold FROM A WORKER CORRESPONDENT. We ont here in Wyoming have just learned that two irrigation projects | will be buiit in Wyoming under the New (Dirty) Deal. Two dams will be built at a public expense of over $22,000,000. One dam, the Pathfinder, was built a number of years ago and during the last three years has never been fuli of water. In spite of this fact two more dams will be built with no addi- tional source of water supply. The climate of that part of Wyo- {| ming is such that, besides smail| grain, good crops cannot be grown. Alfalfa, the principal irrigated hay crop of the West will produce only 2 cuttings, 1 of which, the first, is quite} often poor because of cold spring | weather. Corn seldom matures there. | From two men who spent at least | 25 years on a large alfalfa farm | under a small project there, I have! the information that it would be | cheaper to buy the alfalfa for their sheep if they were closer to the rail- ranch. Also, these same men told me | that two tons was a good average yearly cutting per acre on their land which had plenty of water, good land and a very good stand of alfalfa. I know every farmer in that locality, and knew them a. number of years ago, and most of them were broke before the depression came, Why This Project? Why, then, will this project be built? There are a number of rea- sons. Speculators who have bought up the good for nothing homesteads (that is, for cultivation) hope to sell this land to misguided farmers from other localities who do not know the actual conditions. As soon as the water for irrigation comes they will advertise the wonders of the crops grown; the healthfulness of the cli- mate; the marketing advantages, which are nil, and a few other make-believe advantages. Business men in Casper and Raw- lins, two small cities near the site of each proposed dam, expect to see men put to work at anything so they can continue to make profits off them. The same interests wish to have a permanent farm population to exploit. Building material own- ers expect to sell materials. Promot- ers want to make fat commissions and, last but not least, Senator Ken- dricks, a wealthy stock man from the northern part of the state, wants to build his political fences. In fact, the Casper business interests are now preparing a huge celebration for him. However, the ridiculousnass of this project need not surprise anyone. It is in line with other phases of the New Deal. Just why, for, in- stance, are new lands developed at all when acreage is now being cut; just why, when acreage is being cut, does Roosevelt hope to place unemployed families on farms; just why, when at least 50 per cent of the heads of worker and farmer fam- ilies could buy $100 worth of cotton clothing tomorrow, if conditions were right for them, is cotton being plowed under; just why, when most workers’ children are undernourished, does Roosevelt spend over $300,000,- 000 on cutting acerage? MERTON WILLER. Letters from Our Readers MORE EDUCATION rooklyn, N. ¥ Comrade Editor: In order to make a successful six- page Daily Worker the following is very important. To run serially His- torical Materialism, written and ex- plained in a workers language, and if possible also to publish Political Economy. This would give us more material to combat the bourgeois in- tellectuals. And since the Daily Worker is a Marxist-Leninist paper we ought to see more often their pic- tures in the Daily. Max Gold. Editor's Note: The “Daily Worker” is now trying to run more material of an educational and propaganda nature. At present we are basing such material on questions sent in by workers on subjects of a theoretical nature not quite clear to them. It is true that more space should be given to the Communist classics, and that these two great leaders, and others as well, should be popularized more systematically. “IN THE HOME” Bronx, N. Y. Comrade Editor: “In the Home” should have more space in the “Daily.” Cooking isn’t all that a woman wants to know. For ages the bourgeois class taught us cooking and told us that woman's place is in the home, But millions of women are toiling. They want to know how to organize and fight for better conditions. Women are mothers—they want to know how to bring up children, that the children should understand the struggle of the working class. In school they are taught to be slaves of the bosses’ class. We must teacl them how to fight for the freedom of the working class. “In the Home” should be a place where a working woman can write about every day struggles in life. We should have a discussion about NRA and the high cost of living. If the Home section of the “Daily” will have all this discussion it will have more life, and be more educational for women. M. Swetlowa. Editor's Note: We agree and ask women to flood us with material. A MISTAKE ON CUBA Comrade Editor: The headline in Wednesday’s Daily Worker on the story of the U. S. sending warships to Cuba says “U. S. ly to Intervene.” This is a misleading head. The U. S. has intervened. The Span- ish War and the Platt Amend- ment were the beginning of Amer- ican intervention. The sending of warships to Cuba is a futher act of intervention. The Daily Worker headline is therefore a serious in- accuracy. . EDITOR'S NOTE:—This cor- respondent is correct, The send- ing of warships to Cuba is an act of war against the Cuban people, against which the American work- ers must make the most vigorous struggle. The Daily Worker was guilty of a seriously misleading formulation, and we are glad that a number of readers have reacted so promptly to this error. We in- vite all our readers. to check up relentlessly on every error which creeps into our pages, RE PROSTITUTES S.W.—With regard to your letter on prostitutes, read Michael Gold’s “Jews Without Money” for a good class interpretation of this problem. If you would send us your address, we would be able to reply to your numerous letters. We can’t possibly publish all of them, Five-Year Old Meat | Saved by Swift's for Sharecroppers | | By a Farmer Correspondent | LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—A worker re- | cently got a job at Swift's distribut- |ing plant. He found saltmeat five years old in storage. This included rejected meats by particular retail- ers and just inferior grades. | But Swift, being a good capitalist | exploiter of markets, found that this | was just what the southern bosses | wanted for their plantation commis- | saries to supply the sharecroppers. | Workers in the storage shipping | rooms are forced to trample over the | meats, \“Spreading the Eagle | Mears Spreading More ' Misery,” Writes Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) GREAT FALLS, Mont.—The situ- ation in the country here is not a pleasant one for the farmers who resented the term they used to insist they be called ranchers. Taxes not paid for two years, wheat only 62 cents and money 70 cents. Even if they had a crop, the price is not enough to pay over-head. Cream is sold at $1.60 per five gallons, So the high prices of bread, flour, and butter does not make the farmers prosperous. A farmer said that he would seil his cows if he could, another said he had four and five year-old steers and no feed, but could not sell them. The drought and hoppers has cleaned the farmers of more crops than the New Deal could of. Now they are told that: they will get paid for reduced acreage, Evictions and foreclosures are in otder and expected on all sides. The loss of farms, tractors, combines, per- sonal property and crops are the present list of crimes against the im- poverished farmers. The State is about to spend a mil- lion on hi-ways and bridges, the pay to be sixty cents per hour, thirty- hours per week, two weeks on and two. weeks off. This work may last till Christmas, depending on the weather. Thus the situation of 1929 will be repeated when the road- crews came into town only to find no work. But then they had been getting some wages so that they had something to carry them along for a while. Now it is easier to talk to the 100 per cent guy and the language can be a shade redder than a month ago. The spreading of the Eagle means the spreading of more distress, for when the government, as in the road work, uses the stagger system then the cooperatives of the NRA, those using the Eagle, can also, for the argument is to put more on the pay- roll, and not to improve their stand- ard of living. Even the street cars charge twice the amount of four years ago, cost of everything soars and the income goes down. The business group of this country are ballyhooing the tune of the New Deal, yct they can only count the pay-rol! but once. A big Northern-Montana fair is in progress, also the American Legion struts the New Deal waltz. ADDRESS Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Communist Party. headlines about the coming strike Protest Committee. of the Record invited a number of lealers of farm organizations to his home for dinner. The leader of the most militant of the organizations received his invitation too late for hi mto attend. This boss arranged to have Biddle and Fox, two rich law- yers, represent the farmers. Instead of all rank and file farmers, out- siders were shoved into this com- mittee. Want to Break Strike The purpose of the lawyers, doc- tors, and the publisher is to sell out the strike by declaring it a boycott, by opposing mass turnout of farmers, and by declaring an alliance with the small dealers, The Standard Dairies would also benefit by this because the Standard Dairies fights the National Dairy Products in Pennsylvania, The Standard Dairies would win consid- erably by having the farmers strike because it holds patents for paper containers and sells milk in these containers for a cent less in the chain stores than National Dairy Products. Under the code it would have to raise its price one cent. In New York, however, the owners of Standard Dairies work hand in hand with Sheffields, a subsidiary of Na- tional Products. The Philadelphia Public Ledger, a Curtis paper, connected with J. P. Morgan, tried to pyt something over on the farmers also. One of the reporters sent a telegram to Dudley Field Malone, rich lawyer and friend of Jimmy Walker, asking him to come to Philadelphia to help the farmers. This reporter used the name of the president of the United Farmers Protective Association with- out permission. Malone rode into Philadelphia like an emperor in state. He was interested in the pub- licity and fee of $2,500 which the Ledger said the farmers would guar- antee him. The farm leader went down to see Malone, said he would be glad to have his help if he wanted really to help. But the farmers were too poor to give Malone the $1200 a day he immediately asked. They had a lawyer, Saul Waldbaum, of the ILD, who worked for them for noth- ing. Malone turned tail and went Milk Strikes Brewing Again Pennsylvania Farmers Prepare to Take the Leadership of the Fight Into: Their Own Hands BY BEN FIELD. PART Il, ITE Philadelphia newspapers the last week or two have been carrying bi, and the milk hearing which the gov- ernment said it would grant the farmers on September 1. At the same time, the enemies of the farmer have been very busy, work- ing behind the boss’ press. The Philadelphia Record organized a Milk Code The publisheré— pick to his Long Island estate. In Delaware County General But- ler, the spitfire, was present at a meeting of farmers cailed to con- sider the strike. Butler said he was with the farmers 100 per cent. He and trying to hang lawyers and judges who were acting for Wall Street, He himself knew what Wall Street was. Hadn’t he as a general in the army raped Haiti and other small countries for Wall Street? Wars are not made in heaven but here on earth by Wall Street, The farmers applauded the fiery general. It didn’t take a few minutes, how- ever, before the general showed his real horns. He continued by saying a strike is never very effective because the farmers pan’t have a “cohesive” force. The newspapers always turn the public against the farmers when they go out on strike. There can be no square deal for the little fellow unless there’s a revolution, and you can’t have a revolution unless more than 60 per cent of the people are hungry. And so why strike? Socialist Leaders Against Real Struggie While all these enemies of the |farmers have been busy, what have the socialists been doing? They have also been forming another one of the mushroom organizations, highly col- ored by the name Consumers. Or- ganization. But they never organize any attempt at real struggle. They advocate a theoretical alliance be- tween the workers and farmers, and are out for a membership of 50,000. Emile Reeve, of the American Fed- eration of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers is one of the backers of this move. So here we have the AFL and the Socialist Party ready for their old game of betrayal. The Pennsylvania farmers are tear- ing the sheepskins off eagh one of these wolves as they jump up. They are going on with preparations for « milk strike. They are arousing the farmers to be present at the hearing on their demands’ in Philadelphia Sept. 11, They intend showing Roosevelt and his gang that the Am- erican farmer, with the help of the city workers, will fight for his bread. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Specialists. We receive quite a number of in- quiries regarding medical specialis Some reader wants to know whether a@ certain specialist is “good”, an- other wants us to recommend one, while a third asks us whether the specialist business is not a racket. Under a system of exploitation of the many by the few, under a regime where the greed for money crushes the life of the masses under the iron heel; under the black flag “of capi- talistic robbery and piracy, every human activity must perforce be- come a racket. No profession, no trade, no art, no craft can withstand the decay which spreads from its rotting head to the remotest nerve- endings of this stupid Colossus of Greed in its death throes. We thus have religious racketeers and educational hijackers. We have gangsters who hold us up with a painting brush and those who stab cur pocketbook with a poisonous pen dipped in molasses. The men and women who compose the medical profession are not made of different they are as subject as others to the cruel, stupid and haphazard “system” of which Morgan is the God and Foley, the Profit. It is true that tra~ dition, training, the sense of duty and of service, are keeping thousands of physicians, particularly in the country, in the narrow path of pro- fessional ethics and—genteel poverty. But in the larger cities where com- petition is fierce, where the cost of living is high, where the bread and butter depends on an expensive au- tomobile and the wife’s happiness is embalmed in a coat from dead mink, many physicians stray from the straight and narrow and become medical racketeers. ‘They use the same methods of attracting and ex- ploiting the patient as they see the the lawyer with his client, the fi- nancier with his investors, etc. ‘There is very little chance to make big money in general practice. What- ever pickings there are, hardly pay for the abandoning of the path of professional honor. Still, a certain amount of heartless exploitation goes on, even in the most wretched neigh- borhoods. Those who have read Michael Gold's “Jews Without Money”, will remember that even among the poorest of the poor, the two types of physician—the honest, down at the heel, and his fat col- league. To make real money, how- ever, there is nothing like specializa- tion, although since that fateful February of 1929, a bunch of speci- alists have returned to general prac- tice in order to eat. Of course, specialization per se is an admirable thing which has existed for centuries. Nobody can object to the arrangement of having surgeons who do nothing else but operate and become proficient in this ‘branch of medicine. There is no question that surgeons, bacteriologists, dentists, obstetricians, ophthalmologists (eye specialists) and others fill a definite need. Physicians who by inclination or circmstances have taken up a certain specialty and have hecome clay than the rest of humanity and; banker employ with his depositors, | Doctor advises: skilled in it after years of prac ce, are constantly saving the health «nd lives of felloWYmen whom the un- skilled general practitioner is unable to help. There could be no objection to such specialization. Our quarrei is not with them, but with the greeiy inefficient fake specialist. (To Be Continued.) & ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS bs Lemon Juice in Rheumatism Mrs. Mary Arats—All citrus fruit (lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruit) are good for so-called rheumatism, They are good for anybody, in fact Be sure you use ripe fruit and dilute the juice with a lot of water. There is no scientific data on the rind of these fruits. A small portion of lemor rind could not harm you. Pees er Barbers’ Tich B. Smith.—After such long dura- tion, we hesitate to recommend any remedy. If you have not pulled the hair out from the infected area, try this. Paint the part with tincture of iodine every other night. If this fails get a few X-ray treatments; this cures most of the chronic cases. o 2 2 Complications of Gonorrhea Guido S.—The smart guy who told you that gonorrhea “does not go up,” is talking through his honorable hat. It does go up to the prostrate gland and if you do not attend to it now, you may suffer from it a good deal when you reach middle age. Besides this, gonorrheal rheumatism and gonorrheal endocarditis (a heart dis- ease) sometime follow an attack: of gonorrhea. If you cannot come to New York, you have to trust to your local dispensary, The disease laste about six weeks to three months in the average case. Exceptional cases have no time limit. Don't eat meat or spicy food and don’t drink alco- holic beverages (this includes what is sold nowadays as beer). Drink plenty of water, The sickness is “catchy.” You ought to 1 You “catched” it. It may affect blood and health of the patient. As far as the acute symptoms are concerned, Lin seen is curable, “ . le symptoms of syphilis, you'll find them described in the Sep- tember Ist issue of the Daily Worker, PRR Ra Vi Nose and Throat Specialist? -. Sam S.—The doctor you mention. graduated only five years ago, He is. not connected with any hospital and he is not recognized as a specialist by the medical profession. Call at our office for a friendly chat. 7 o ee Eczema Ruth R.—From your letter it seems that your mother has some form of eczema. But in any skin condition, in @ person over 49, the urine should be examined for sugar. The first symp- tom of diabetes (sugar disease) is often a breaking out of the skin. Wé are writing you privately. t . * . Readers desiring health information should address thelr letters to Dr. Paat Luttinger, ¢-o Dally Worker, 35 B, 22th St., New York City. liked the way the farmers were act=\ ing these days, fighting sheriff sales, \ /