The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1934, Page 4

Page Feur lwo Mu st Push Struggle for Rich Delta BUCKS COUNTY GROUP \Seab Drive Jobless and Social Insurance| Soil Breeds | International Workers Order Head Urges Support of Workers Insurance Bill By MAX The all over-shadowing issue at this moment is social The International Workers Order must learn to understand and must make the masses of workers under- adequate social insur- ione can give the working that chance to live and in their dependents which mployment,old age and from them. s does not want ng class, easier victim to organization of the is the only power that and ont- weigh the ad ge which the control of the means of preduc- tion gives to the capitalist mas- ters over their wage-slaves. That is why they do everything to pre- vent militant workers’ organiza- tions. They try to make them il- legal, but especially do they try to maintain capitalist illusions in the heads of the workers. These illusiens are made to order to keep the workers ont of organiza- tions and struggie against their bosses and the boss class. The present noise about the “New Deal” is such a bosses’ effort to create or maintain capitalist illu- sions in the minds of the workers. The capitalists shout so loud about} ant the} a New Deal because they : to the in- solve the to the ve that crisis themse: E Workers Must Deal Themselves New Deal The New Deal, the NIRA, does not help the workers. It is a method of the capitalists to help themselves to more and more profits out of the An increase of the ‘he misery of the workers. As azainst this New Deal of the capitalists, the workers must raise the issue of a New Deal of their own, They must not merely de- mand a New Deal, but erganize and prepare to deal a new deal themselves. The first card in this new deal must be the demand of, and organization to struggle for, social insurance. Our demand for social insurance must out-sound he noise of the capitalists about he New Deal. Whenever and cvher the agents of capital- ism advocate, praise or discuss the , the demand for so- cial mee must come back to them as an ail-dominating echo. We of the International Workers Order have the greatest duty in insurance. | verge of | BEDACHT {this struggle for social insurance. The workers join mutual benefit societies because they expect from them a reduction of those sufferings which their economic insecurity causes them. It is therefore the duty of our proletarian fraternal or- ganization, the duty of our Interna- t 1 Workers Order, to help our members and to help the working class, to uce these sufferings even beyond ‘the help which the mutual aid of the Order provides. All members, all branches, all leading committees and all City Central Committees must keep the campaign for social insurance on their order of business. The support of the campaign for . Bill must be made into a mating mass cam- n of the Order. ld the Children’s Section uilding of a s section of the O1 n task set by the N: ecutive Committee for the entire |Order in the months of March, April and May. The s be built without the direct help of |the entire membership. In par- | ticular, every adult branch must | consider the building of its junior | branch as one of its primary activi- | ties. There should be discussions in all adult branches on the children’s | question, on the role and conditions of the workers’ children in capital- ist society. Wherever children’s branches already exist, the parent branch should arrange a “Children’s Evening” with a program given by | the children, as a comradely get- together of the older and younger generations in the struggle. These discussions and affairs should lead to definite action on | the part of the parent branch, such as: The election of a Chil- dren's Committee to supervise the k of the Juniors; a registra- of all members’ children and their recruitment into the Junior | branch; a constant connection | between the adult and Junior | Branch based on relation of a | parent to his child. The adult | branch is in ali cases responsible for the growth and development of the Junior Branch. Support the New Pioneer | Some time ago we began a cam- | paign in the Order to support the |children’s magazine, The New Pio- neer. We set ourselves the goal of $1,200 to help save the New Pioneer from suspension. Up to the present moment, we have reached only a very small fraction of this quota. The children themselves have raised | between three and four times what the adult branches have raised. All |branches should immediately see | that they sell the Pioneer stamps and send the money to the National | Office, so that we can prevent the | suspension of the magazine which is so much beloved by the children | and which is our best instrument to |win them for the cause of the | working class. NEWS AND NO NEWS brief note from Comrade Esther L. notifies us of something we cvidently missed. She writes: “This little quote from Comrade Wan Min’'s report io the Comin- tern (Inprecorr Feb. 5, 1934) is a good plement to the very slight in the International Women’s ssue of the Daily Worker on ties of Chinese women: In Soviet China, under the ip of our Party, every toiler, i$ Women and children, stands steadfas‘ly at his or her post. military operations of the Red Army against the attacks of the| Kuomintang is exceedingly im- portant. The activity of the women is by no means limited to work in the Red Cross groups, laundries, sewing circles, ete., but they directly Participate in the fighting with the enemy troops. In Szechwan Proy- ince 500 Red peasant women suc- | ceeded in disarming a whole regi- ment of the White Army.’ “There are grand stories of the militant Chinese women in Agnes Smedley Butler's ‘Chinese Des- tinies, which is in the Workers’ Bookshop circulating library.” (There is also, by the way, a small pamphlet, “Chinese Toiling Women, printed in London and costing ‘two pence’ or five cents, which is filled with very interesting information.) Comrade Eleanor B., who sent from Chicago one of the pumper- nickel recipes, wonders what suc- cess the comrades had with it. (I haven't heard.) She sends Mora- vian recipes for the R. I. C. B. and says in a postscript: “The minute biographies are swell. Let’s have more. And what happened to Dr. Toozan?” Comrade Pennsylvania: “Quite some ‘time ago your column contained articles by a certain Dr. Toozan. These articles I almost considered masterpieces because of the clear presentations of conditions of American womaz- hood under capitalism. Would it be possible for you to get Dr. Toozan for your column again?” 5 ier ae Well, comrades, I too am won- dering what happened to Dr. Toozan. (The crisis, you see.) At the time the first articles were written he was removing from New York City to a Western state. I am only afraid things may not have gone well for him, for I have had no news. And I don’t think in this case no news is such good news I liked those articles, too, im- mensely, and I'll try to get in touch with Dr. Toozan and tell him his andience is shouting for encores. w 1 the He vover sed BY HELEN LUKE The role of the women in the | Nellie K. writes from | 7 Can You Make ’Em | Yourself? | Pattern 1796 is available in sizes | 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Size 14 takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric and 1% yards 4% yards ribbon. | | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5e.) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) | for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. ' | Starvation |**Nile of America” Is| Dotted by Rags | and Slops By a Worker Correspondent | JACKSON, Miss.—This city is | situated in the middle of the Mis-| | sissippi River delta—which is called | |the “Nile of America”—in some |counties of which two bales of cot- | |ton per acre have been produced and as high as 150 bushels of corn. | Yet, this being the day following | Christmas—here is what I observed | in a two-hour ramble through the | | well-to-do residential section this morning An old Negro woman of 75 years in her hands a pair of} | 's cheap shoes, both of which | | were torn into shreds tops and bot- | toms | A young white woman with a _ | bucket of meat scraps and bones | on a two-wheeled discarded child’s spress wagon, which a little boy vas hauling from the rear of a local market. | An old Negro woman and two} girls of 14 or 16 emptying a swill| barrel that had been set out in front of the house for the garbage collector, from which they had sal- vaged small pieces of corn-bread, | biscuits and apple peelings, ov which coffee grounds and dish water had been emptied. | A Negro man leading a little boy | of 10, who was almost too weak to} walk, and the wife, carrying an in- fant of three months in her arms, devoid of clothing, except for a flour sack wrapped around it, both | parents carrying a sack of wooden |fire-wood blocks, which they said |had been picked up at the mill a |mile away. The N. R. A. and C. W. A. are | working fine, the residents tell me, jand F. D. R. is a popular hero, but jrestaurants charging their cooks} |and waitresses board for what they jeat, employers work their help| |longer hours than the code pro-| | vides, and $2 a week for domestic | | workers is good pay. ems | |Can’t Get Anything to | Do,” Says Negro Mother | of Nine in Black Belt —— | By a Sharecropper Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala—I am a Ne- gro woman in the black belt. A mother of nine children, and we have nothing to go upon—no shoes, no clothes for my children or myself, and we can’t get any- thing to do to help us, We haven't had a farm in two years. The ruling class seems like they treat us worse than the majority. Only five of the children are large enough to work, and then they can’t get nothing for their labor. They allow only 50 cents a day for their work. School started last year and my | children didn’t have the clothes | to start, so I got them only one | piece around to wear on top, and they went to school two weeks, | and school was out. Now it has started again, and they are in the same condition, no shoes, or clothes and they can’t enter now unless my boys get a job, and it is hard to get. 76-Vear-Old Man Refused Relief Because of Age By a Farmer Correspondent ROUNDUP, Mont.—On March 1, on the highway where I live, a man was walking past. I called him in and asked him to have a cup of tea. I asked him where his home was. He said, “Billings, for the last fifty years.” I asked him why he does not register on the C. W. A. or P. W. A. He said that they will not let him register because he is too old. He said, “I will be 76 years old on March 4.” I had my Daily Worker on a chair and I picked it up and showed him the picture of Ben Gold. He said he knows that man for a good many years, and he read on about him in that Daily of mine. He said, “We should all stick to- gether.” I asked him where he was headed. He said, “Up there by the big dam about 400 miles from Roundup.” He was going to fish and sell fish for a living; that was about all he could do, His name is Otto Tremmel, of Billings, Mont. Now we working class people see} what the capitalists do with us all, when a 76-year-old person has to go about 400 miles for a living, when | he is refused a C. W. A. job because | he is too old to work.” Egg Producers | Get Less While Food Prices Rise By a Worker Correspondent BRIDGETON, N. J.—In the Vine- land egg tract, despite all the bally- hoo about the higher farm produce prices, egg prices have been six to eight cents lower this year than they were last year. This in itself is bad enough, but food prices have gone up from 30 to 40 per cent. Last year an egg farmer had to work like a horse to make a living. This year he works like a horse and doesn’t make a living. Many |poultrymen have dropped oft of | the egg business, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1984 SWINGS INTO Ae a Japanese Gevernment Representative Unwittingly Gives Farmer Some Good Advice (By a Farmer Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Here is a good story on the government. One of the farmers in Lehigh County in Pennsylvania was about to be fore- closed. Another farmer held the mortgage, a rich farmer. The poor farmer, with a large family and about to lose his home, went to the government representative to apply for a loan. The representative ad- vised the farmer to go down to Bucks County where there was a farm organization called the United Farmers’ Protective Association, and get them to help him. So this farmer, who had never heard of the U.F.P.A., drove down to the headquarters. The farmers in the U.F.P.A. told him to go back and get all neighbors together and that they should go as a large committee and demand that the mortgage holder not This, the farmer did. He was a Pennsylvania Dutchman and all his neighbors were too. And one of his neighbors was a nephew of the farmer who was foreclosing. “But when a farmer's home is to be saved, foreclose. | relations don’t count,” was the at- So two carloads full of farmers went to visit the rich mortgage holder. They had been neighbors for years. They filed into his house. He trembled somewhat, but said he was determined to go through with the sale. So the farmer committee told him that they were going out to mo- bilize all the farmers and prevent this sale from taking place. They |reminded the mortgage holder of the other cases in Pennsylvania, where farmers had prevented sales from taking place. They also in- formed him that now the United |Farmers’ Protective Association was | backing them up. | Two hours later, the lawyer of the mortgage-holder informed the |lawyer, through whom the farmers were officially filing an application for a stay of sale, that if the farm- ers were really going to take action, the mortgage holder would not op- | pose the stay. Farmers all over are hearing about what they can do through organi- zation. French Peasant Tells About Rising Taxes, Failing Prices By a French Peasant Corre- spondent FRANOE—I am the owner of a little farm 8-10 hectares, including forest land, in the commune of Sout-Suben (Yota-Garot). In 1912, the amount of land taxes was 50 francs. In 1938, 339 francs. As you see, the taxes increased six times, and the farm products get lower Prices, For fire insurance and all other kinds of insurance at 60,000 francs, I have to pay a premium of 200 francs a year. Besides the live- stock and other expenses amount to over 600 francs a year. The whole turn-over amounts to 2,500-3,000 francs a year. Thus, after a year of obstinate work, the peasant can hardly succeed in making ends meet, All the earnings go for keep- ing up an army of traders and an apparatus of government officials, The bourgeois newspaper of our province, ‘Petit-Jiroud,” is flooding Southwestern France with all kinds of lying stories about the Soviet Union, as “Starvation,” “Forced Labor,” etc., telling fairy tales in order to conceal those tremendous achievements which exist on one | sixth of the world, in the land of the Soviets, where the peasants are masters of the land, till the land with their own tractors and enjoy the fruits of their own labor. Force Opening of Camp Hill Schools (By a Sharecropper Correspondent) CAMP HILL, Ala.—What about these rural schools? We believe that there is a trick in these schools, because they closed in December and have just opened Feb. 12-13. Comrades, we know that our organi- zation is making them do it. Down here we let the boss know it, because the National Relief Ad- ministration said he had to close down the C.W.A. jobs to pay these teachers. My children cannot go to school because they have no clothes or shoes. We are going to organize and fight for better con- ditions and demand what we want because we can’t go naked and hun- gry. Some of the bosses here said the other day that they did care if we were like that but I have been to the relief office and they gave me just enough for two of my children to eat, and only because I was around their necks. Letters from AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Fort Dodge, Iowa. Daily Worker, Dear Editor: Enclosed find $8 for the following causes: One dollar for “The Scottsboro Case,” from a Negro worker and $2. for the cause to help the Austrian Victims of Fascism and for the help of German comrades—$1. for each cause. With comradely greetings, —“A Fort Dodge Friend,” Fort Dodge, Iowa. Send Us Name and Address New York, N. Y. Will the comrade who wrote to the Daily Worker, requesting litera- ture for an American boy 14 years old, of Italian parents, send the name and address of this boy so that we could write to him per- sonally and send him some litera- ture? Write Daily Worker, c-o News Department. ORGANIZED A CLUB TO FIGHT AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM New York, N. Y. I am a high school student and a reader of the “Daily Worker.” I would greatly appreciate your kind- ness if you were to print the follow- ing in your paper: Lavenburg homes, East Side tene- ment house, situated on Goereck St., holds meetings every week against War and Fascism. Every Thursday in the south hall of the Lavenburg Center a large group of tenants assemble, includ- ing some of the high school stu- dents. We discuss the bloody war- fare which is being carried on against our fellow workers in the various parts of the world. During one of our meetings we had as guest speaker Joe Klein, a member of the Communist Party, also a speaker from the American League Against War and Fascism. During the meeting one of our members suggested that we send a letter of protest to Mayor LaGuardia, pro- testing against the wrong which had been done to our fellow work- Ask PWA to Build Jim Crow Housing | By a Negro Worker Correspondent | ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The West Belle Garden Apartment, Inc., a housing Project for Negroes, has been sub- mitted to the P. W. A. in Washing- ton by a St. Louis organization. | This is like a good many organiza- | tions in this country, having as its | | foundation segregation, though its| | Primary purpose is supposed to be the rehabilitation of an area in the city where Negroes live. There is a provision in the project that Negro labor be used in the construction work. Fred A. Jones, realtor and advertising man for the St. Louis Argus Publishing Co., is the promoter of the proposed im- provement project for Negroes. But we revolutionary workers know that if Mr. Jones wanted to help the toiling Negro masses, he would line up with the revolutionary organiza- tions and demand that Negroes live in any apartment in St. Louis which | they had the money to pay for. | NOTE We publish letters from farm- ers, agricultural workers, cannery workers and forestry workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week, Our Readers ers who were clubbed at the 42nd St. Library. This suggestion was agreed upon by the members, and the letter was sent. The aim of our meetings are to impress upon the people the horrors of war and the meaning of pre- paredness which is being carried on throughout the United States. An- other point which is being made is to show the people that in unity there is strength and that all work-* ers, regardless of the party to which they belong, must unite in an effort to prevent the coming war. It is mainly with the co-opera- tion of the younger generation that we can expect to reach our destina- tion. 8. F. A FARMER LIKES THE DAILY Hertel, Wis. The following letter I received from my dad is a typical farmers situation, explaining in their own words, so I would like to have it appear in part in the Daily Worker. Dear Son: I will now write you a few lines to let you know that I am still O.K. here and I am certainly thankful to you for subscribing for that paper (the Daily Worker) for me, for when that paper comes, there is nothing else doing then until I have read it all. It’s the first paper I have yet seen that I am really in- terested in, because the capitalist paper is of no interest to a poor working man like I have always been, but this Daily Worker has exactly all the right kind of news that I have always been looking for. It doesn’t have those pictures of young capitalists who are newly wed explaining their honeymoon, which I have always known was at the expense of us workers and lots of other news of the same kind, for which we have paid dearly. So I know where my life of hard work has benefited me and it makes me smile to read the Daily Worker, which is only in favor of the work- ers. The neighbors like to read it too but I haven’t got any subs on it yet, titude of this nephew. | | through these seven Japanese farm- but when summer comes I will see what I can do. One big reason is Bosses Cited! CoHeeting 6,000 Boys | in Campaign Against Strawberry Pickers By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Japanese bosses are collecting 3,000 Japanese boys to work in the strawberry ranches in Souther California, in order to prevent the strike move- ment of Mexican, Filipino and American agricultural workers. This | is the result of their experiences | with the strike movement of last | year (viz., Venice, San Gabriel). Twenty Japanese boarding houses ers’ (bosses) unions are engaging in this campaign. Japanese bosses used to dis- place Japanese workers with other workers, because Japanese work | for higher wages than others. And when we have 6,000 jobless Japa- nese workers, now they advertise that the wages are 20 cents per hour with meals, and 23 cents with- out lunches during the strawberry season, that seems very big wages nowadays. Stervingly yours, A JAPANESE WORKER. PARTY LIFE | How to Carry In accordance with the constantly reiterated appeal, to devise ways and means of educating new com- rades and trainin new cadres, our unit has organized and conducted @ weekly study-circle. We have drawn another unit in our terri- tory, into the study-circle and in- vited any friend or contact of any of the comrades. We also stress the importance and necessity of bringing the women to the study- circle, We have had only six sessions of | our study-circle, and the success we} have had and the enthusiasm the circle has met with, has given us/ confidence and courage. | Our first session met with little success, because we had chosen the wrong method. We appointed a comrade to prepare a short lecture |on dual unionism, which was to be followed by discussion. As can be readily seen, here was no plan Only a haphazard course taken on the style of a discussion group or open forum. We immediately saw our mistake and made a sharp turn for the better. the Communist International. This Price Below Cost of Production in Michigan Region By a Farmer Correspondent COPEMISH, Mich.—This is @ farming country with no industries and no markets except the local bssiness and you take what they see fit to give you for produce and the price is below cost of production. As I have only 20 acres of land, I haven't much to sell to any con- cern and I am not much of a farm- ¢r anyway. I am a molder by trade. I belonged to the molders 19 years until I was expelled for radicalism and blacklisted. I also belonged to the Western Federation of Miners. I worked in the mines in the West for years and was a member of different labor unions in Seattle, Wash., and have always spread the messagé of unity of the working class by word of mouth. I have distributed as much printed Com- munist propaganda as the average workers. I used to handle I. W. W. literature and was a member of it. I left the organization on account of double crossers and stool pigeons. Pay Your Tax and Lose Relief, Or Don’t Pay and Lose Your Home (By a Farmer Correspondent) OXFORD, Miss.— The C.W.A. closed down long ago. The last two weeks’ pay check was for $2.80 a week. One day’s work in a week, but if you failed to report for work every day, you wouldn’t get any work at all. The workers were com- pelled to donate to such strikebreak- ing institutions as the Y.M.C.A. Be- sides, they gypped us out of as much as two days’ work gratis, in ex- change for jobs or new prospective jobs which have, so far, not ma- terialized. ‘Now here’s a little sample of the F.E.R.A. racket. This is what a family of five gets for a 2 weeks supply: 6 lbs. of flour; 25c sugar; 15¢ dry fruit; 10¢ soap; 4 Ibs. lard; 10 Ibs. fatback; 2 Ibs. butter; 5c soda; 5c salt. When they come back for more on the day they are told, they are then told the day has been changed and now it is too late and they'll have to wait another two weeks. The relief hall is full every day of both white and Negroes. The white sometimes raise hell, and while the Negroes are very quiet in the office, the enclosed letters vo- lunteered to me, without my asking for them, shows just what the Ne- groes think. The other day, 999,000 acres went to the State of Mississippi for delin- quent taxes. You are told to be a good patriotic citizen and pay your tax. But if you pay your tax, you can’t get relief, and if you don’t pay your tax, they take the house and home away from you. You are disfranchized as a voter and thrown on the soup line where they refuse. to give you anything to eat. While very little relief is handed out, we have a real army of office holders. They are all, of course, res- pectable citizens. At the head of the C.W.A. we have such wonderful men as Mr. Hartsfield, farmer high sheriff, who had to leave in the middle of his term, because he ac- cidentally borrowed $28,000 of the county’s money, to gamble in cot- ton, and lost. ‘The high-way and by-way, town and country are literally lousy with these despicable parasitic, relief grafters and racketeers. A wage of $30 for 4 months work from sun- up to sun-down every day in the week, is the N.R.A. standard in Ox- ford, Miss., for workers working on the saw-mill; 50c worth of relief for 3 days’ work is also good pay. Well, here are greetings to the Daily Worker. It’s getting better every day. Special greetings to Com- Government Agent Cheats Farmers in Buying ‘Up Land By a Farmer Correspondent LA OROSSE, Wis—I wes very glad to see my letter published in the “Daily,” as through this letter I_haye come into correspondence | with some new comrades in other | cities. I wanted to send my dollar for the “Daily” ever so much, but couldn’t get hold of any money. Then my brother got a job at the “Gauge” here, so that I could pay for the “Daily” again. Gee! I was almost forced to stop sending for my paper, but that would be like cutting off my right arm. The work on the airport here, which was being built under the C. W. A., has been stopped. And yet no plans for further work have been made. Some workers say that. no more work is to be done on the airport. The farmers that had woodland or a hay meadow are forced to sell their land, as a dam is to be con- structed out in the bottoms. Some farmers sold their land a few years ago. This is the way the govern- ment does it: An agent goes to the farmer, buys as many acres as he wishes, gives the farmer a dollar and tells him he'll get the rest of his money after five years. A farmer who sold his land about six years ago didn’t get his money yet. The farmers, in seeing that they'll have to buy their hay-mow and pay for pasturing their cattle, turn around and go to work in the fac- tories. They'll either have to give their cattle away or else kill and bury them. Since my brother started work- ing at the Gauge he has been tell- ing about a few things that have happened there. He says that since Christmas about 63 fingers have been cut off by the punch-press and 37 workers had their heads cracked. Last Friday night an in- spector came to inspect the ma- chinery at the “Gauge.” While he was inspecting the press, the crank- shaft broke, hit him on the head and cracked his head open. He was rushed to the hospital to keep the workers from knowing what had happened. It is believed that this inspector is going to die; his con- Work Among Party Members Study Cireles Should Be Planned To Edueate Comrades on Communist Party Position on Agit-Prep discussed and analyzed paragraph by paragraph, Right here I wish to bring out a very important point. Im choosing the article to be read, there was a sharp difference of opinion. One group was in favor of the article suggested. The other group hetd that it was too difficult amd ad- vanced for the workers who #- tended the study-circle, and that | we should undertake a more ole- mentary subject, preferably current events. After much discussion it was voted that the article sug- gested be accepted, and that dis- cussion on this point be brought up at the study-circle, This was done. Much to our surprise, the very workers whom we considered back- ward and raw were the ones wh voted for continuance of this and other such articles. Not only have we enthu- siasm. Not only have we these workers politically. heve ally. The which we drew our pote) asf 4 members. In ow house to house canvass of », invitations are MOW TO TRAIN J PO CARRY ON AGITA‘ AMONG THE MASSES One question should be asked of every new recruit and of ail our Party members, and Ji:cy should be made to be able to answer cor- rectly and to und so thet each and every one be prac- tical in their answer. I believe by comrades realize the importance of study of the Party Life column. The unit organizer should be told to ask the Party members this ques- tion: If you were called on to voice the position of the Communist Party at a picket line of farmers or workers what would you say? Put this question and see how many Party members can give a practical answer. Questions should be asked which would enlighten us on how to speak to our buddies in time of imperial- ist war and also to our class com- rades in the opposing armies. War is near and questions should be posed to these young comrades to find out how practical they are and also the asking of these questions, and a discussion of the answers will be one of the best ways to teach them how to work against imperialism, I am a farmer and I am reading “Why Communism,” written by Comrade Olgin. I think it is one of the best pamphlets I have ever read because of its simple language. I believe it wquid be great if comrade kal ae Comrade "8 method in wri a farm pamphlet. W. H. Dakota City, Neb. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12h STREET, N. ¥. 6. Please send me more informa- tion on the Commenist Party. Name Street City rerttrrrretierererres tebeceeeeee rer ececoreones rr rerttrr rr rere ret? dition is terrible. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C. R., Hancock, Mich.—We have not seen the article in “Colliers” describing this species of the human race with natural six-inch tails on one of the Pacific islands; but we can tell you, confidently, that there “ain't no such animal.” We are surprised that you fall for such non- sense. Ovaltine has been referred to in this column before. It is a nutri- tious food drink; but it is not a remedy for nervous conditions, in- cluding insomnia. Any warm liquid, even plain water, has a tendency to cause people to sleep better. Fur- thermore, you can make a drink similar to Ovaltine by mixing the yolk of a fresh egg, a tablespoon of cocoa, and a cup of milk which will cost you much less than the patented article. . Ringworm rade Hathaway. that money is so scarce. Here on Sunday I sold Henry Rows two bushels of corn for one dollar and that was all he could buy as that was the last dollar he had, and you know he used to be among the richest. farmers around here. And here is Mr. Cury who was supposed to have plenty to live on for the rest of his life. He had to mortgage his personal property to pay his taxes last year, and they are all in the same boat. ‘Vour father, c. M.D. Mrs, Ethel B., Chicago—Try to paint the affected area with tinc- ture of iodine, every other night, and let us know the result at the end of two weeks. ihar wie Biology In Russia M. C.—The Russian Government does not concern itself with the theoretical aspects of biological questions; excepting insofar as they may have a bearing on practical medic®l or other problems and con- ditions. The majority of scientists in Russia have the same opinion about heredity and environment, and the Mendelian law of domi- Doctor advites: By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. nance and the law of segregation, as the majority of scientists all over the world. Environment is recog- nized as being a much lesser factor than heredity in the anatomical and Physiological makeup of the indi- vidual. On the other hand, we re- cognize that environment has a powerful influence on the psycholo- gical development of the individual. In other words, environment will not produce a genius out of a feeble- minded person, but the wrong en- viroment might prevent a normal individual from developing to his or her fullest capacity. It is not true that Wiggan in his book, “Fruits of a Tree,” proves that when a wealthy per- son marries a proletarian woman his grandchildren will develop into epileptics, drunkards, etc. What he does state is that when an indi- ea Biting ine a feeble- m ‘amily, his progeny is liable to become feeble-minded. There are feeble-minded __ individuals. among the rich as well as among the poor. As to his contention that eugenics could solve the economic question, he is all “wet.” Under the present capitalist scheme, it |would take about a million years before the true science of eugenics could be properly developed and practiced. But even among a race of supermen, the economic ques- tion would still play an important role, unless the pangs of hunger could be abolished frem hyman Physiology. |