The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1934, Page 4

x Page Feur ee a ame mean a ante tame “Senator Wagner Wants A Club to Keep the Peace” Bill Dunne Quotes Capitalist Magazine to Show Meaning By WILLIAM F. DUNNE Article V by the -belief that with the prese official leadership of the A. F. of L. the American workers can be licked Bill ial peace— Certainly mployers! is one other witness who 1d here upon whose remarks id like to make some com- ment before proceeding to a brief of some of the specific is a nan of the Uni Mr, Gorman, an of this Com- r Da worked out a on of the trouble in He claims that unist ac- the previous nation is a little too can be compared only tatements made in some d recently by e ice-President y Woll of the A. F. of L, sident of the ation, to the ist prop- the banks in Ar effect that it aganda that this country closed I think it would be ince even the Rev. Ed- of Penn- | of Wagner Bill ; mund A. Walsh, regent of the school |of foreign service of Georgetown] Uni ity, who recently distinguish- | ed h elf by issuing, with a kindly} | foreword, the recent provocative ad-| dress of the Japanese imperialist | nt, George Bronson Rea, of the| of se two s atements, al- cooperates fratern: with Easley and Woll of the tional Civic Federati It to be p med that Mr./ Gorman was referring to the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. which is| recently led the largest section of the strike of some 65,000 workers in he silk section of the textile in- ustry. This union is affiliated to he Trade jon Unity Le: r. Gorman’s cotton | the silk industry, ided a minimum of $13 a veek| he North and $12 for the South with numerous provisions for vage groups lessened the averag inder the starvation code. This is what started the strike jin the silk section of the texlile | industry It was the continual attempt of these so-called labor leaders to maintain the code by deception and |other meti.ods, that resulted in a ievolt «gainst them by their own members and other workers who were following their leadership for atime. It is an indisputable fact that in the largest center of the strike, Paterson, N. J., the workers would not allow McMahon to speak, and I am also informed that Mr. Gorman was not very welcome there either, There are, of course, Communists |in the National Textile Union, but there are more in the U.T.W.—sim- ply because it is a somewhat larger | organization. The N. T. W. U. is not |}a Communist organization. There are in the United States, according |to the latest figures published in | the central organ of the Communist | Party, the Daily Worker, some 23,- 000 members of the Communist | Party in the United States. They | work, of course, to carry out the | program of their party, but it is | obvious that they can carry through | their program or parts of it only | by winning majorities or at least | decisive sections of workers for it in any given struggle or industry. (To Be Continued) HOME $¥ 1934 The following true story has been yy a young girl worker; this of “home life,” which came in the range of her observation is a graphic example of the kind of environment large sections of to- day's youth must face and “learn to conquer.” HOME IN THE GARRET (By a Class-Conscious Girl Worker) At our union headquarters one day my friend Rose and I met a girl called Helen, who looked very nice, and Rose asked her to go for a walk with her. (They were both looking for work.) Helen agreed, and they went out. Later I asked se how she liked Helen, and this is what she told me. he and Helen had gone out and ped for some little things that Helen needed. Then Helen said she} had some money coming from a place about eight miles away, and asked Rose to “hitch-hike” with her to get it. Rose agreed, feeling they would be in the fresh air, anyway; and both gorls were taken in an auto by a fat gentleman who took them within walking distance of the factory, and Helen went in for she came out Helen said had had a hard time getting y money at all, that the boss had given her less than the code rate, but it was no use arguing t They then got another i back to town. When Helen bought a loaf of bread, one pound of meat, and one pound of tomatoes, Rose began to wonder, but said nothing. Helen led her to the back of a busy city street, opened a door that looked like a barn door, opened another with her key, and went in. A funny odor almost made Rose sick, but she overcame her feelings and went up the three flichts of stairs to the room. It was small and dark: a bed in the middle—a bureau, a window, and a small oil stove. Helen then lit a lamp (not even gas on the third flocr) and the stove; then she went to the other garret room and asked the occupant (a hunch- backed, white-haired, old man, a member of the “Independent Party” who hates Communists and thinks they should all be run out of the country)—if she could cook the meat, then they’d all have supper. After “supper” a “friend” came to call for Helen, who then dismissed Rose in order to go out with him. Rose wondered if she owed him thanks for the supper, and I told her: “I shouldn’t be suprised. Don’t you know there are hundreds of girls living as that girl does, in Airty, anheated, unlighted rooms, who ‘ge' long’ any way they pos- sibly can, even selling their bodies for the price of a meal or a decent room to sleep in? Those girls are not ‘bad’girls; they are willing to we-k, even at the starvation wages we are being paid—but can find no work, or are unable to produce as much as the boss wants so are fired. “Whet else can the girls do? They have Hejparents rich enough to give \ ‘ile Rose waited outside. | them money to live on, and there is no decent home to take care of them, so they are forced to sell themselves. Now do you still won- der why I am always talking, talk- ing, about the poor working class, suffering amidst plenty? Don’t you think in a country as highly devel- oped (mechanically) as ours we could all have the benefits of sci- ence, and not just a few people who are rich and want to get richer?” Rose agreed with me and I think she will soon join the Party. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1754 is available in sizes | 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 34% yards 39-inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Il- lustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, number, BE SIXE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th '{ New York City. address and style SURE TO STATE Sy (Crop Curb Law, Takes All from Small Farmers: Reports Sharecroppers’ Union and Y. C. L. Are Growing By a Worker Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala—TI am a worker in the Y. C. L. and I have been very active in my work. I was a delegate to the Farmers’ Second | National Conference, and I also at- | ended the Farm School at St./ Louis. Since I have returned we hi received four new members in the Y. C. L. and are expecting aj large number at the next meeting. | I also work with the share crop-| pers. In this section I know of several farmers that are forced to cut out | their reduction in cotton. There are three families in one place and they are only allowed to plant five acres apiece. This will throw the} farmers in a worse condition than ever before, because it will take all of the little cotton to pay for the |fertilizer and the groceries. during the year. This will throw the farm- ers on the starvation list. This is the 1934 “New Deal.” Farmers and workers! I have been a member of the Share Crop- pers’ Union and the Y. C. L. about one year. I have had only one job, and I worked at the city cafe about two months last year, August and September. At the end of Septem- ber I quit because I was elected a delegate to the two national con- ferences at Chicago. Since then I haven't been able to get a job at all. They have found out that I was a member of these organizations. I haven’t made 50 cents since I quit. | When I was working I received $2 a week for seven days a week and five hours a day. I worked 35 hours for $2. My father worked on the C. W. A. awhile, and he was cut off. Now, I haven’t any clothes and no way to get any; but I pledge to be a loyal fighter for the workers and farm- ers of the Black Belt. 0.'P. (Signature Authorized). No Relief Now in Camp Hill 'Can See No Difference Between Roosevelt and Hoover By a Worker Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala—I want every one to know the condition of the poor workers here in my home town. The C. W. A. has proved to be a complete failure, and I don’t see any difference in Roosevelt's and Hoover’s plans. They both work in behalf of the bosses. Hundreds of men signed to work on the C. W. A. but just a few were fortunate enough to get work, and now the works have closed com- pletely, and the men are unable to get on the relief. Now we will have to struggle against discrimination and starva- tion. Little CWA Relief in Tallapoosa Co. By a Worker Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala.—I enjoy read- ing the Daily Worker, and I always find something in it to encourage me to fight on. I always pass the paper on to my neighbor. I attended the C. W. A. relief to- day, and have been for three weeks; but every time I go I am told that the relief list is full. Still they are taking on those that they wish to, but the majority are refused any relief at all. That is the benefit of the C. W. A. in Talapoosa County. Try to Seize Hogs of Negro Croppers By a Worker Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala.—This is what the bosses are trying to do in this country. They said, let us pass a law to get all of those Negroes’ syrup and hogs. They said it is against the law to raise over two hogs to a family, and second they said those Negroes who won't Ict us have their hogs, let us get up an- other plan. We didn’t succecd in that one, we know. We can get their chickens. They didn’t succeed in_that. The bosses tell us we have te close these works to run the rural school, and they said we are going to open up the C.W.A. works the first of April. NOTHING TO LIVE ON By a Woman Share-Cropper Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala.—My condition is bad. We haven’t anything to live on. I have three children and can’t get anything for them to eat because we can’t get jobs and haven’t anything to go upon. My husband has been denied a job on the C.W.A. and we don't get any relief at all. We get a little food from our neighbors, and it barely keeps us living. Are you doing your share in the Daily Worker sub drive? Every reader getting only one new sub- seriber will put the drive over the pt v i “All I See Is DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934 Militant Demand for Relief Staged by Wives of Starving Negro Sharecroppers Worker Correspondent (By a Share-Cropper Worker Correspondent) | DADEVILLE, Ala—The Share-/} Croppers’ Union seems to be getting along fine now, but it has taken hard work among us leading com- rades to clear our work, though mine is just among the work of the women, Now. on the work of the unem- ployed women; they are in bad con- dition. I often explain to them in their meetings how to put their work in action, also to work out some program to let these damn bosses know that we don’t like it. There were four unemployed,| seemed that they were about to starve, also had been brutally beaten by the landlord in 1931 and threatened. I raised the question of these comrac@S” a the Party, also the Union Buro. They told me O. K. I called a meeting and we or- ganized the four of them with my- self, and went to the relief office and explained our condition, and what do you think these old nuts said? That we should go back home and go to work and tell our husbands to get out and hunt a job, and, furthermore, if we had worked and laid money back for a rainy day,.we would not have to come to them. TI asked: “Here! How in hell could we farming women make our hus— bands lay baok anything when the boss stands on the corner to watch them when the wagon rolls into town with the cotton on it, also takes charge of it after ginning, | things, although we don’t see it any more?” She said: “Oh, well, you owe it to them.” I spoke and asked her why they would not give my husband work to do. Are there no more jobs? And what good was the R. F. C. and C. W. A.? We had not got any benefit out of it, I told her. “Here, what'few Negros they did give work to, they took it away from them and gave it to the whites that did not need it as bad as the poor Negroes.” She spoke then and said: “This you all are saying sounds like some of these old Communist Party but, however, we whites have been good to you all. I have been told to give to whom they tell | me and also the needy ones.” “Well, I said, here they are now. That’s why they are up here.” So we five comrades began to talk to the relief woman about the rotten system until she gave one two pounds of butter, another a piece of meat and another a sack of flour, another a can of beef. “Now,” she said, “that’s the best I can do. You all tell your husbands to try and find some work to do real soon.” “Well,” I said, “what's the use of keeping on walking up here with a piece of paper and get no work— nothing but a tired feeling?” Comrades, all I see now is mass action, and go to them just like you would fight fire, and let them know we are humanity just like them. Let them know we are or- ganizing the masses in such a way as to smash this dirty, lowdown Southern ruling class. Mother and Baby Caught in Welfare Starvation Toils Dying Slowly of Hunger, But Are Put Off With Red Tape Exuses by Detroit Bureau (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich—aA girl with a baby 16 months old was sentenced to starve to death by the Public Wel- fare Department of Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Minnie Jordan applied to the Welfare Department at Elmwood for aid for herself and her child, Lella May Jordan, and was given an emergency grocery order for the sum | of.2. About four weeks later she went back, and was told by the boss’ tool, Ruth Foster, that her case was not yet clear and that she would have to call back in about another week, Mrs. Jordan called again after a week had elapsed, and the same boss’ tool sent her back to the Bishop School where there is a clinic for children, with a blank asking the nurse to please report if the 16-month-old baby was underweight. Ruth Foster says if the baby was not underweight, the welfare board could not help Mrs. Jordan, because she was living all right. Mrs. Jordan walked about three miles from the Welfare office to the nurse to ask her to please fill it in so she could get food for herself and milk for her child. The nurse replied, “You do not need to fill this out to get help for your child, you are entitled to help if you are in_need of it, Mrs. Jordan.” ‘Then Mrs. Jordan went to 51 West Warren to the Legal Aid, where she was sent back to the eee Department, about seven miles, The next day she was not able to walk, she was weak and hungry and tired after her three days’ at- tempt to get relief. After returning to the clinic the following day, she was asked why she did not take the blank to the clinic instead of there was no need, I was entitled to aid for myself and my child.” “Take it back and see the nurse, also the doctor,” she was told. It was cold and a long way to walk for a young woman extremely underweight from hunger. “I tried to nurse the baby but not getting the proper food myself was com- pelled to stop nursing the baby and that required milk for the kid.” After Mrs. Jordan saw the doctor, he made her wait another week and then he put on her blank “Baby’s Diet Im- proper Probably.” Mrs, Jordan took the blank back, and Ruth Foster said: «I will be out and bring you a check.” That was a lie. Mrs. Jordan has not yet received any aid. P. S—The writer of the above is in bed sick from cold and ex- posure trying to get aid for her 16-months-old baby, and by the mercy of her friends at the large rooming house where she now re- sides she was thought dying last night, and all the roomers made a collection for money and called a doctor near by. He found her con- dition to be hysterical from worries and hunger. Prescriptions were going to the Legal Aid Bureau. She replied: “I did, but the nurse said filled, and Mrs. Jordan is being j cared for by Dr. Doslick of 2701 Hastings St. Letters from PROFESSIONAL WORKERS MUST WAKE UP New York. IT read your paper occasionally and I find it interesting. The work- ing class should support your pub- lication. You are fighting their battles. Yours is the only news- paper in the city that has the courage to tell the truth. The rest of the newspapers of the city, or, should I say the rubbish sheets put out by other newspapers, are mis- jeading and keep the toilers en- slaved and in misery (the prostitute press). The writer is a New York lawyer who has been enlightened a Jong time ago and knows where his interests lie and is class-conscious. I only hope some of you militant Communists would wake up my sleeping, passive, dormant, docile and misguided colleagues, particu- larly the fledglings, to fight side by side with you comrades the real battles of the working class, which is a worth while cause. You ought to make a drive among all profes- sional classes; they have your sym- pathy. The lawyers 10 years ago fought and enlisted in worthy causes. Today they are a docile group and they are starving beau- tifully. SYMPATHIZER. UNEMPLOYED MUST ORGANIZE AND FIGHT FOR RIGHTS Columbus, Ohio. I am a C. W. A. worker's wife. My husband was cut off the C.W.A. work going on two weeks without notice and very little pay. Now we are without food or fire. We are trying to get some relief. Don’t know if we gill get any or not. We are not organized on the C.W.A. here. We may have to starve and Our Readers to send the rest soon. without the “Worker.” Comradely yours, I can’t do NATIONAL STUDENTS LEAGUE FIGHTS WAR AND FASCISM Fort Worth, Texas Happened to pick up an item in the local pitss about foud and hatred of Ccinmanders of Americaa Legion against the Texas Christian University students who express their opinion on wholesale slaughter of people engaged in capitalist war- fare, American Legion Commanders score it as unpatriotic and cowardly. However, we understand them weil in their motive, so let’s fight harder and lkarder, and be more determined to enlighten struggling workers, leading them on the proper Com- munistic path to attain our goal. Refer this student body to proper channels, so they may get more in- Jormation on the way to combat this jingoism, and line up with us in the class struggle. We have much of good material for leadership, but they have to be approached in a proper way. PREPARING FOR WAR McKees Rocks, Pa. Dear Editor: I am sending you a copy of my city’s capitalist paper Feb. 18, 1934 adv.: “Wanted, a young man to join the U. S. Army. Must be a good patriot of good character, honest. and good worker, will have good jobs open to those who qualify— burgh, Pa.” Last. week 11 boys joined the army and six to the navy, Pgh. Press Ady. I don’t know, but I am sending 50 cents on to the “Worker.” That is all the money we have, Will try A buddy of mine wrote me a letter and said all cavalry outfits are mobilized now. Each troop has rs Mass Action,” Writes Woman "Bogs Will Not Let Us Sell Our ‘Own Cotton” Sharecropper Fights to Better Conditions In Black Belt | By a Share-Cropper Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala—I am a mem- ber of the Sharecroppers’ Union in the Black Belt ever since it has been in the Black Belt. I am a farmer and have been a farmer on | this plantation for seven years, | through drought and short crops; and my family has made it some way, though suffering conditions for the past years. I have been in tough and I asked the boss for a settlement. They put me off, and that has me in bad shape. The boss won’t let us sell our own cotton we make. I am fighting to better the conditions in the Black Belt. I am a member of | the Share Croppers’ Union. On Relief Waiting ‘Roll Your Months Not Allowed to Raise Chickens or Hogs (By a Worker Correspondent.) CAMP HILL, Ala.—I want to tell you all our conditions. We are hav- ing a hard time here. We signed up in December on the C. W. A. and haven't had a day’s work yet and can get no help. I have been to the relief office for help and they tell me they will have to put me on the waiting roll. I have waited almost four months. They don’t want us to raise chickens or hogs, so you see we are in a suffering condition. Only Bosses Get CWA Work, Report Women Croppers By a Group of Share-Cropper Worker Correspondents CAMP HILL, Ala.—Local No. 7 of Tallapoosa County met on Fri- day night, January 5. These men of No. 7 are in a suffering condi- tion, They have no land to make their support. and they have no jobs and their condition is bad. They have put in for C. W. A. work but the landlords and bosses get the work One of us in Local 7 worked on the R. F. C. till November and then he was taken off the pay-roll. He has five in the family and he is without relief. We need relief. The children are naked—only have a piece around. Out of all the money that has been taken for relief, comrades, it looks hard for us to go from house to house and beg our neighbors and they are in need as well as we are, but they are good enough to divide to keep the poor little children from starving. LOCAL NO. 9 (Women’s Group.) 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. Gains New Recruits For Party While Out For New ‘Daily’ Subs P. Serbu, of Rochester, N. ¥., not only gets new subscribers for the “Daily,” but also gets workers to join the Communist Party while canvassing with the Daily Worker. The experience of Comrade Serbu iis similar to that of other com- jrades who are successful in get- ting new subs. He talks with » his fellow work- ers, disc usses with them the crisis, and asks them to read the Daily Worker, ex- Plaining that in the “Daily” they can find out how to free themselves from cap italist op- pression. If a worker is not a reader of the “Daily,” Comrade Serbu gives him his copy or leaves a copy of the “Daily” at the worker’s home. “I have very much success in get- ting new subscribers by this method,” writes Comrade Serbu, “and I have also succeeded in get- ting some of them to join the Party. I have gotten seven new subscribers since the drive began, and I’m after getting still more.” ee a ae anne eTtoe ne airplanes, trucks for horses, motor- cycles and tanks. They never had that a few years ago and besides they are going thru smoke screens, mustard gas and always manouver- ing. Getting ready for war is P. Serbu 496 Fourth Ave., second floor, Pitts- right. I get the Daily Worker every day since March, 1933, and I sure did learn somethings that I didn’t think existed. Wishing that Soviet Amer- ica isn’t a long way off, I remain, \ Comradely yours, PARTY LIFE Central Committee Will During the last two or three years there has been a large influx of new members into the Party. Most of these workers are politically undeveloped and organizationally inexperienced. They are completely unfamiliar with the most elemen- tary political problems as well as organizational principles of the Party. In many sectiohs there are veloped systematically to give the new members the necessary polit- ical and oragnizational education they need. In the next few months there will be a still greater influx of new members (Comrade Browder esti- mates on the basis of the actual conditions that during this year we fail if we do not increase the Party membership to over 100,000), raw, inexperienced and ignorant of the ways the Party carries on its work. There is already a general com- plaint about shortage of leading forces. In a few months this condition will assume much more importance. It will become a serious political problem. We can say that it is up to the Units and Sections to develop more forces, increase the leading cadres. But even with the very best intention it will be impossible to develop leading forces for all these thousands fast enough. Units, frac- tions and leading members will be more and more occupied with prac- tical tasks and less time for instruc- tions, classes and discussions. Some- thing more is needed immediately to help this process of developing new cadres. more qualified leadership for the lower units and also to raise the whole level of the membership. In my opinion the Party should publish a General Handbook. a book of instructions dealing with every phase of our general activity. Such a handbook would be of great help and value to all members, and much time that is now used for teaching elementary organizational problems of general and permanent character, could be saved. We have in our district units that are abso- lutely isolated from any center, that are too far away to be visited, that are trying to function without any knowledge of the principles of the Party. For them a handbook of this kind would be of real value. And later we will have more units springing up here and there all over the country and we are not pre- pared to give them the necessary personal guidance. This handbook should contain briefly the multimate aim of the Party and the means whereby it is going to be accomplished; how to win the confidence of the masses by organizing and leading them in struggles around imme- diate issues. How to build and work in mass organizations, etc. On Party structure, the function- ing of shop and street units, frac- tions, groups, their task and meth- ods of work. Unit bureaus, what. they are and how they work, task of functionaries, how to conduct not even enough leading forces de-} Will Issue Book Answering Questions on Party Procedure Supply Answer to Vitel Questions; Will Help Level of Units unit meetings, drawing up of agendas, and assignments of work. Agitation and propaganda, task and functioning Agitprop in units and sections, classes, study circles, schools, outlines of lessons, subjects for discussions, directives on litera- ture, etc. Suggestions of how to distribute literature, Party press, conduct campaigns, Red Sundays. How new units should help bufid Y¥.C,L. and Pioneers. Their organi- zational forms and methods of work. There are a thousand and one | problems that should and could be |ineluded in such a handbook. Per- | haps all these questions have been } printed one time or another, but not in condensed form and in one vol- ume so it is available for new units and new members. This handbook should not be & substitute for the Party ‘izer, but an addition. The “P. 0.” is needed for current problems and experiences in our daily work. The “P. O.” has been of tremendous value in outlying sections and units and should continue to become bigger and better. The handbook should not be made too expensive, but should be sold at a reasonable price so that it could be put in the hands of every member, employed or unem- ployed. The Org. and Agitprop Depart- ment. of the Party take this under serious consideration and if a handbook like this should be regarded valuable and 0 then no time should bé lost in * lishing one. ow. L. Org. Sec’y, District 19. ee The Organization Commission of the Central Committee is plan- ning to publish such a handbook in the very near future. We wish this handbook to contain a con- crete, simple answer to all of the questions and problems which confront our comrades. We therefore ask every Party functionary to send to us ques- tions which in their opinion should be treated in this hand- book. The handbook will be pub- lished in the form of question and answer, and in sending in your suggestions, it would be advisable if they were presented in ques- tion form. Since this handbook will be published in the immedi- ate future, questions shonld be sent in immediately. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street ANSWERS TIC QUESTIONS Psoriasis Thomas E. Z., Brookston, Pa.— We regret to advise you that there is no cure for psoriasis, We have tried at least fifty different reme- dies for this disease and we have never obtained more than a tem- porary relief. .So far, chrysorobin ointment is the only one that seems to have some more lasting effect on this skin disease than any other ointment. Every new treatment for psoriasis is eagerly investigated by us and we are experimenting with same on several of our patients. But so far we cannot report any positive results. It often happens that a new treatment seems to give relief; but to an unbiased observer, it be- comes apparent soon enough that this seeming relief is nothing but the ordinary improvement which of- ten occurs spontaneously in this baffling disease. As soon as we get some positive results from any new treatment, there will be a notice to that effect in this column. Periodic Alcoholism Anthony L., Pittsburgh.—You only imagine that you have to use alco- hol at certain times of the year. These periodic “bats” are due to habit and to restlessness. After ab- staining from alcohol for a certain time, the habitual drinker feels the need of the false stimulant and he goes on a “bat.” Some chronic drunkards go on periodic “drunks” every month; others indulge in a drinking orgy once in two or three months. We know several patients who begin to drink in the Spring; their fancy turns to alcohol instead of love. Try to resist your so-called urge for alcohol next time it comes over you and you'll find that you do not have to drink if you don’t really want to. If you volunteer to do something for your fellow- workers and you work very hard at it, at the time that your desire for drink overpowers you, you'll find it much easier to resist the tempta- tion. ‘ Instead of going to the saloon for a drink, try to obtain, for in- stance, a few subscriptions for the Daily Worker. You’d be surprised how much more exhila: this type of work is and how much of a kick you'll get out of it. We know a patient in your city who has tried this method and he writes us that he has become actually intoxicated with the work and has never touch- ed a drop since, By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Diet in Rheumatism J., Denver, Colorado.—For people suffering from rheumatism, it is best to avoid all kinds of animal pro- teins, such as meat, chicken, fish and eggs; also to eschew any spicy foods such as salt, pepper, mustard. The drinking of alcoholic liquor should also be avoided. %& is best to drink large quantities of water, preferably with orange juice, lemon juice or grapefruit juice. Mrs. Martha W., Chicago, TH.—If the douches did not have a perma- nent effect on your condition, i will be best for you to consult a physician in whom you have confi- dence. You may call on‘one of the following: Dr. Marjan §. Swiont, 4231 Archer Ave., Chicago; Dr, Shayle Miller, 753 E. 79th St., Chi- cago; Dr. S. Stein, 9204 Commercial Ave., Chicago; if you do not care to return to the physician who treated you unsuccessfully. Epilating Wax Several correspondents have in- quired regarding a simple and cheap way of removing objectionable hair. The best one we know is made of one part (by weight) beeswax and four parts finely powdered rosin, Melt wax over low fire, pour in the powdered rosin, stir gently for about two minutes. Pour into deep dish, crisscross the thick fudge-like paste with deep markings, as if you were an inch apart. Before pouring into deep dish, be sure to grease it with vaseline to prevent sticking. After cooling, the wax is brittle. until it becomes soft. skin in the direction of growth until the layer of about one-eighth inch thick. to cool, then pick up the pull the wax off sharply in posite direction of the the hairs. Repeated use of epilatory seems to have a permanent effect on the growth of objectionable hair, besides the tem- porary denudation. We prefer it to the pumice stone method. making caramels, three-quarters of ©