The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Letters DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934 eflect Life and Struggles of Transportation Workers Western Union Boys Find Boss Steal ing Quarters Pocketed Fees Messengers Thought They Were Paying to Bicycle Storage Man By a Western Union Worker Correspondent F. W. Bloomer is nion office et. Recently r a period of he was t time to ano was a nanager had 's he took the rs to keep their bicycles it was gratuitious. there but iS This had been going on for many months. All the boys who had work- ed there before or now were asked hey had paid Bloomer. They were advised that they would receive their money back, and thus far a few of them have. It appeared that Bloomer was through, since it was also alleged he had previously figured in some shady activity at another office, but i been nm another chance to lem himself. But no reckoning t of the fact that this appointed to his posi- tion by no less a dignitary than the son of the associate general man- ager of this division who is himself the superintendent of the district in which M Bloomer is employed. And so, incredible as it may seem, Mr. Bloomer is still in the service and Mr. C. H. Carroll, Jr., the afore- mentioned superintendent, had the effrontery to leave him in the same office where he had practiced his le game. And this serves as a little illustra- tion of the calibre of some of the association Western Union employes officers. Mr. Bloomer is the chair- man of the entertainment committee of this company union. We all ex- tpect to be entertained at the next meeting, for we feel sure he will be able to bring forth quarters from to sign statements as to the money | his hat instead of mere rabbtts. THE BEAUTY-GARDENER (Foreword: Ehbarking on a voy- age of writing about beauty culture is, in our est , a risky cruise liable to lead into stormy waters: yesterday, however, we bravely put out from shore and sailed across the the safe bay of health as the only sound basis for beauty. Proper food, fresh air, proper exercise, enough rest, sanitary living conditions, free- dom from strain and worry, proper medical aid—these are the unalter- able pre-tonditions for the health on which good looks depend, the conditions for which all workers must put up an unceasing struggle. Now we steam on into rougher waters—the sea of cosmetics and “artificial aids” in which we must steer a careful course to avoid com- plete shipwreck.) t, in the effort at beautifica- tion, two inventories are in order— of one’s personal characteristics, then of the “aids” in sight, and an} elimination of those that may be dangerous. ‘ is obvious that appearance can be changed only in two chief ways: line and color. It’s equally obvious that the form of face and body are Susceptible to little real alteration without the aid of “plastic surgery” which is costly, and a risky business anyhow. Otherwise our lines may be changed by the adding or losing of weight, the general outlines of the head by the method of arranging the hair, and the face by the “ex- pression.” Posture, while not actu- ally changing any dimensions, af- fects the general -lines of the body. Judicious selection of clothing is y effective in harmonizing the lines and colors of a given indi- | vidual. The sensible approach is first decide in just what ways you con- sider your appearance deficient and then seek a remedy; not to use in- discriminately a host of “beauti flers” just because they are adver- tised or because it is a custom. As to line. Some short women try to appear taller by the aid of high heels. Not a safe course. It breeds fatigue and comically bent knees while walking, and tends to make the leg straight and shapeless. Surely a short healthy girl looks better than a tall tired one! The “raw-boned” type of women, who have large bones with sizeable joints, appear better with more flesh, proportionately, than when thin. The small-boned types can be slender and still be “rounded.” Control of weight depends on diet and exercise and should be attempted with care, with the aid of competent dieticians, physical culture instruction, or at physicians’ suggestions. Nothing on earth can reduce the size of big feet or big hands, or make such alterations: here it is better to be resigned and ee objectively in order to enjoy ife. Every woman knows that the dressing of the hair alters the ap- parent dimensions of the face, and that experiment is the best way to find the most becoming method. In the Ho CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE general, the simpler it is the better it looks. The painfully elaborate curly-cued coiffures of the bourgeois women may look “swell” to them- selves, who pay others to do the work, but make a worker tired just to look at them, for the workers know how much time, energy, labor, are involved in the concoction of such intricacies. If one has fine straight hair that clings closely to the head, and if the features are small and fine, a permanent wave may be found to improve the appearance. If cor- rectly done by competent operators, |they have no known harmful effect. | (A common swindle in cheap shops jis to use over and over the little |pads that are not meant to be| | used more than once.) A permanent should never under any circum- | stances be given over hair that is dyed. The dye must be thoroughly ashed out, which is a difficult if not impossible job. After a permanent the hair may | be pushed up into loose waves after |@ shampoo, or “set” with a setting lotion. After a bit of practice this can possibly be done at home by those who cannot afford to have it done. For this, a set of three mirrors is jalmost a necessity. One can get | three wooden-framed mirrors from | the dime store, hinge them together with four small hinges, and fasten the center mirror fiat against the wall. The setting lotion may be had in liquid or powder form at the dime store, but the chemical composition of these is doubtful, the blue color of some of it indicat- ing that bichloride of mercury might have been used as a pre- servative. You can make your own | lotion at home by boiling a couple | of tablespoons of quince or flax seeds (obtainable at the drug store) in a cup or two of water a few minutes, cooling, and straining through a handkerchief. If you wish to keep a bottle of this on the | shelf, some alcohol will have to be added to prevent moulding. Not too much, as it tends to dry the hair. When using this fluid, after hair is set, surplus lotion may be pressed out by squeezing a bathtowel around the head. Setting with lotion is really a tedious business, and set- ting without any lotion is usually satisfactory, especially if a net cap is used to keep the hair in place until dry. (The wave usually lasts longer, though, when set with lo- tion.) The new “sculptured” coiffure now affected by the bourgeois para- sites is to be condemned flatly. The hair is held in place with a heavy mass of gelatine that seals the pores of the scalp in an airtight covering. If your eyebrows are set low over your eyes, making you appear to scowl whether you mean to or not, by all means wear your hair off the forehead. If worn low it will in- tensify the frowning effect. If the chin is short and the fore- head very high, better bring the air partially over the forehead. (To Be Continued.) MORNING FREIHEIT 2th ANNIVE RSARY Saturday Evening, April 14th, 1934 New York Coliseum, E. 177th Street Speakers: EARL BROWDER, Secretary, Communist Party M. J. OLGIN, Editor Morning Fretheit Program: Maxim Gorki's “STORM BIRDS,” presented by ARTEF', FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY and DANCE GROUP. NEGRO QUARTET, members of Hall Johnson Choir. Admission 40c in advance, 55¢ at door. Stan. R. R. Workers See Craft Union Failure LR.T. Guard Urges Fight on Racket of the Brotherhood (By a Transportation Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I am a guard em- ployed by the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. I run out of Hunt’s Point Terminal. By chance I picked up one paper of last Friday. I have a 5-day run, which pays me $22. Out of that I must pur- chase a summer uniform, paying $22. The price of the uniform will be $32 commencing May 15. I belong to the company’s relief, paying 75 cents a month dues in the Brotherhood, $1.50 every three months. The death benefit fund stands us about $6 a year. Now the Brotherhood is pushing the pension system on us. It will probably cost us between $20 and $30 a year. Previously the company retired you.when you reached the age of 70 years with 25 years service without any cost to the employes, but our dear officers of the Broth- erhood would relieve the company of this obligation and make us foot the bills. We are sick and tired of this kind of work going on among the hand- picked delegates. Fellow workers, go to your local meetings. Demand |a stop of all these things! Get | together and join a real union, such {as the Workers’ Union, where we | |can discuss real conditions without | being spied on by company spies. | At the next election held in No-| | Vernber, put up a candidate who will work for your benefit. Discuss con- ditions now amongst your fellow workers in all terminals. How Job Agency Cheats on Rates (By a Worker Correspendent) NEW YORK—It is important to warn all workers forced to use the Sixth Ave. agencies to know what the fees allowed by the N. Y. state laws are—for skilled labor and office work it is the first week’s salary (in three parts). For unskilled labor it is 10 per cent of the first month. The Academy agency at 50th St. and Sixth Ave. which recruited Seabs for the hotel strike, tried to charge me the skilled rate (more than twice as much) for an unskiled job, (but I didn’t get it yet, and 7 got my money back). C. W. A. Antics Having registered for C.W.A. in December, I received a double post- half be returned if working, or the other half to be brought with one if unemployed. The incompetent chair warmer has no work for me, but takes 40 minutes “to get a bet- ter idea on how to place you if something comes up,” and has the nerve to advise “to stick to your own vocation (statistician) even if you don’t earn a dime a month,” be- cause I’ve worked in over five lines since I graduated from college. Van Noy Interstate Co. Pays $20 a Month for 14144 Hours Per Day By a Railroad Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo—I went to day in order to get some information on the strike that had been post- poned to April ist. One of the men I'spoke to works in the round-house and said he was not interested in the strike because it would not affect him. He said it only involved the firemen, engineers, conductors and brakemen. I told him of the need of belong- ing to a railroad industrial union rather than being divided up into craft unions. He told me to go to the beanery run by the Van Noy Interstate Co. for more information. Here I got into conversation with a man about 45 years old who used to work on the K.C.S. as _boiler- maker and who fought in the last world war. The Van Noy Interstate Co. pays him $20 a month and food, for 14 and a half hours work a day. There are three more men working in the beanery 12 hours every day. They used to employ eight men; now only four. He said he is under weight and needs medical attention, but cannot get any bonus allowance or hospital attention from the com- pany or the government. —G. K. Start Rank and File Princeton R. R. Union | By a Railroad Worker Correspondent PRINCETON, Ind—I have been a reader of the Daily Worker for some months now. I find it is the only paper that defends the man in the street. I have read and voted the Democrat way for 20 years, but no more for me. Just a few lines in regards to or- ganizational work here. There has never been a common labor organi- zation here, so we met last week with the Central Labor Union. We already have about 100 membership. We have applied for a charter. I think they are taking it out under the American Federation, but you can bet it will be a rank and file control. We intend to canvass all of the county. We have a committee of 5 to write out our resolutions and they are real workers. The dictatorship of the prole- tariat must be a State that em- bodies a new kind of democracy, for the proietarians and the dis- Possessed; and a new kind of dictatorship, against the bour- geoisie—Lenin. | F. of L. strike been won, or at least card before the 15th asking that one| the Kansas City Southern yards to- | > Ask for Guidance on Combatting Influence of | “Wobblies”” and Other Misleaders By a Railroad Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—Craft unionism has proved such a failure, and it is| so obvious that our railroad labor| chiefs are betrayers, that many of | us railroaders are confused. The} Brotherhood of Locomotive En-| | gineers lost 1,505 members in one |month, men are being laid off, |mergers are pending and a great | number of railroaders are demand- | ing industrial unionism. | One brother mentioned the I. W.| W., so that started questions. , We remember that the Railroad En-/| |gineers’ journal told us last March | |about the Auto Workers’ Union| | winning four big strikes here in| | Detroit. Then we know that the| | Briggs-Mack workers struck and| | Cedervall of the I. W. W. stepped in. | He and Martell of the A. F. of L. and Preacher Norman Thomas and some paid stool pigeons of Briggs, | | with the help of a couple of Con- | gressmen, and the Mayor's Inve | tigating Committee broke the Briggs strike. Well, we looked through our standard railroad labor journals for several months past (dating back | from this month) and could not find | | one single case where the I. W. W. |is leading or has won a strike in| | years. And neither has a single A. our railroad journals do not men- tion any! However, we did notice in our Journals many strikes led and won by the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union, the Auto Work- ers Union, the National Miners Union, ete. We always thought the I. W. W. was very strong out west. Why is there no mention of the I, W. W. leading the miners out west, especially in New Mexico? How come it is the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union leading thousands in Cali- fornia? In one Brotherhood journal we saw that the U. S. Sanitary Mfg. Co. of Monica, Pa., and the Walworth Manufacturing Co. of Greensburg, Pa., strikes were being led by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. So we got the S. & M. W. I, U. offical paper, and sure enough, they were leading these strikes and also had won many others in the Youngstown, and Buffalo districts and elsewhere. We got a copy of the I. W. W. official paper for the same period, October 3rd issue. There was not jone single strike mentioned in the TI. W. W. paper except the small Murray Body Co. action in Detroit! And we now know that this was a complete flop. Our rail unions are losing mem- bers daily, the Pennsylvania Em- ployes representation plan, the B. & O. plan, the D. & H. plan, Loree anti-union contracts, which will also go into effect on the K. C. 8. March 1st, the strike vote on the Southern Pacific and the news that the Frisco, the Rock Island and the Katy proposes merging, the addi- tional 5 per cent cut on the Cana- dian lines, which will again act as a forerunner for our U. S. lines (just like the last cut), lead us to see the necessity for action, and we are writing for information which will clear our minds from confusion. —PERE MARQUETTE EMPLOYES yee ee Editor’s Note—Briefly, the I. W. W. and the Socialist Party are “shells” of former militant organizations. Their history is parallel and they | form a perfect team. The I. W.W. | stresses industrial action ONLY and the Socialist Party runs alongside with political action ONLY. Both have long ago fallen into the hands of the petty bour- geois henchmen of the bosses, pre- tending to give the workers what they have long desired, and under the present leadership simply cap- italizing on the misery of the workers and their growing class consciousness and determination to fight, and fight shoulder to shoul- der. Yes, it is true, the only unions winning strikes for many months past (with a very few minor excep- tions) are those affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. This is because of a correct union policy and principle and program of action. The T. U. U. L. are not on the job for the purpose of collecting dues, and we advise you railroaders not to join ANY established industrial union nor any other union except your own standard organizations where these exist. Remember the mistakes of 1920-22. The first principle of unionism (and Communism) is to protect the workers. So we advises as follows. The Emergency Transportation Act and approaching mergers will lead the companies to fire all employes they can, which number is not in- cluded in the labor restriction pro- visions of Section Tb of the E. T. A. } So, if you carry a card and put your name on the books of any organiza- tion (as a member) you lay your- self open to spotters and loss of your brotherhood chiefs’ grounds that you advocate principles against the welfare of the company, and on brotherhood chiefs grounds that you advocate dual unionism (which only the chiefs are allowed to do). In this way the comany will get rid of all those class conscious mili- tants who show a leaning towards REAL labor unionism. (Just as they did on the Southern Pacific years ago, and recently in the Detroit Murray Body action, in both cases under I. W. W. leadership, where hundreds of militant workers were alowed to join the organization and then pulled out on a so-called strike. In this way the company got rid of all those workers who showed an awakening spirit and desire for union ACTION). To protect yourself, and to make progress, form progressive groups in your locals and fight for the daily grievances, with other future ob- jectives that will strengthen and draw together the rank and file, and bring your existent unions into rank and file control in such a man- ner, that you can, later, in the crisis fast developing, act unitedly with rank and file delegates from all unions, unorganized and company union groups, and with the unem- ployed. Write to the Chicago Railroad Brotherhoods Unity Commitee, Room 309, 209 N. Wells Street, Chi- cago, for more information. NOTE We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transportation and other communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companizs, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete—and from the communications industries—post office, telephone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their strug- gles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week. Missouri-Pacific Reitioas Workers Ready to Struggle Feeling Is Bitter Against Pay Cut and Against the Reactionary Leadership By a Railroad Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Railroad work- ers here are getting ready to act against the 10 per cent cut agee- ment, as well as against the in- tense speed-up developed in the railroad industry recently. They will not tolerate the continuation of this agreement and will demand an in- crease in real wages. Hundreds of railroad workers here are fighting the attempt of the A. F. of L. to bleed them dry. Feeling against the A, F. of L. here is bit- ter; against the officials who refuse to pay benefit claims on various grounds; but especially on the ground that they have no money with which to pay, although they are receiving high salaries and big sums for expense accounts to tour the country to disorganize workers, by dropping them from the union because of inability to pay, as well as disregarding and often selling out the interests of the workers. A fight for the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) has already started by joining hands with the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance. Gate watchmen here earn $52.60 @ month and out of this must pay $22 a year dues and a $5 initiation fee. Machinists must pay $7.50 in- itiation fee, $2.50 for insurance, $1.50 for dues, and 50 cents for what is called “labor” out of about $14.50 a 3-day week wage. ‘The workers at the Compton and Chouteau yards of the Missouri- Pacific do not want to join the A. F. of L. unless forced to do so to hold their jobs, due to the corrupt Officialdom. There is also intense feeling against the A. F. of L. tac- tics at the Lesburn yards of the Missouri-Pacific. The separate lodges major grievance, and the discrim- ination in the giving of jobs. The workers at these yards want to or- ganize a rank and file union on the industrial basis. The discontent re- flected here is widespread on the various roads in’ this railroad cen- ter, including the M-K.T., Gulf lines and Rock Island. The railroad work- ers feel that if they are going to strike and win their demands, they must do it now. The speed-up on the Missouri- Pacific, as elsewhere, is terrific. Whole shifts have been laid off. Work that five machinists did in 8 hours is now being done by one in three hours, Where three and four men were employed as machinists, there is only one now. Some Daily Workers and other literature have been distributed in the Compton and Chouteau and Lesburn yards, but as yet this has been done on a small scale. The workers here are eager to know what the railroad situation is else- where, and are very much interested in the Daily Worker, the only daily working class newspaper that fights for them. Pe aes NOTE:—We advise this worker to read the note attached to an- other worker correspondent’s let- ter on this page, where he may get suggestions on organization. in the ocean, and we can- not rule unless we give accurate expression to the folk conscious- ness. Otherwise the Communist Party will not be able to lead the proletariat, the proletariat will not be able to lead the a and the whole machine will fall for Negro and white workers is a to pieces—Lenin at the Eleventh Party Congress ‘on Negro Workers | (By a Postal Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK—I am employed in Uncle Sam’s Post Office, where all workers are supposed to be free and | equal, but what do we find? Dis- crimination of the worst possible sort. Wherever there is any dirty | ception given to the colored workers. | Whenever there is any hauling of | heavy bags of mail and packages, it |is mostly done by the colored work- ers. | Fellow workers, it is not the dirty | work or the physical labor that we |mind, but why should the workers not realize that these workers are discriminated against so as to keep the colored workers apart from the white workers? To make one class believe it is different from the other | and keeping them apart, so that in- | stead of getting together and show- | ing organized strength, we are kept | apart, weakened and unable to bet- ter our miserable conditions. Letters from Our Readers WHAT IS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING? Clatskanie, Oregon. Dear Editor: I have one question I would like to ask you, and that is what do the American Federation of Labor offi- cials mean by collective bargaining? I would like to know because there are several fellows here that don’t know exactly what is meant by that word. Now the idea I have is that the workers should not go too strong on their employers. For instance, a worker goes up to his employer to ask for higher wages, and then, of course, if the employer says no, that he cannot raise the wages because he is not making anything with his products, is that what they mean by collective bar- gaining? U.K. EDITORIAL NOTE: William Green, President of the A. F. of L. has repeatedly made it clear that by collective bargaining he means the officials of the A. F. of L., in case of a grievance or dis- pute shall be the recognized rep- resentatives of the workers, and have the right to discuss all such problems with the bosses. The main object is to make the workers feel that their demands and grievances are being considered. In reality the A. F. of L. leadership use the so-called collective bargaining as a weapon against militant organiza- tion of the workers and preparation for strike, which is the only method, when the bosses refuse to concede to demands, to win them. The A. F. of L. officialdom started in by telling the workers to depend on cOllective bargaining or arbitra- | tion. When the workers find they cannot gain anything in this way the A. F. of L. officials tell them jnot to strike. They urge them to ;depend on the National Labor Board or the Regional Labor Board. In this way, by the use of the idea | of collective bargaining they try to | dissipate the workers spirit for | struggle. Where a strike has broken out they continue to use the idea of appealing for collective bargaining under the form of arbitration, urging the workers to come back to work and allow their “representa- tives” to arbitrate or carry on col- lective bargaining on the demands, with the workers safely back in the shops. Collective bargaining is used by the A. F. of L. officials as a cloak for their class collaboration. The Communists believe that the bosses will grant the workers nothing ex- cept when the workers organize in their own class trade unions, or if they are in the A. F. of L., in the rank and file opposition, with con- trol of their unions and by their own united forces, through strikes or other actions, compel the bosses to negotiate their demands. The bosses will never negotiate collec- tively or otherwise unless the work- ers have the power and force of their organization to compel them to grant their demands. The Communists are for negotia- tions with the bosses by organized workers, putting their demands. They are for “bargaining,” but with the organized power of the workers behind it, ready to carry through their demands into action by strike and other forms of struggle. The A. F. of L. leaders bandy about the words “collective bargaining” in order to weaken the bargaining and negotiating power of the workers by trying to keep the workers from struggling. WOULD LIKE TO HELP ON PICKET LINE. Superior, Wisc. The Daily Worker is sure a real bombshell in these trying times. Step on the gas. Comrades and fellow-workers, you sure are doing some real work in regards to Party life. Detroit open Party meetings applies 13th Plenum thesis. Pledges to concentrate on the biggest auto plants to build union to prepare the Party and the mass for an intensive campaign of shop activity as our immediate perspec- tive, especially in the decisive auto- mobile plants, such as Briggs, Ford, etc., for united and direct action of all workers in the automobile shops, mines, mills, factories and railroads. ‘You couldn’t even buy a job here. I sure would like to be on the picket line with my comrades and fellow- workers. % 405 ‘A real old-time 1, W. W., on the barricades, | Post Office Places PARTY LIFE ‘Lackof Forces,’ Poor Defense AgainstLack of Party Activity B i g g e st B ur d en Proper Co-Ordination of Work Will Overcome Age-W orn Excuse The cry of “lack of forces” is a false one, and a shameful defense of poor activity. Instead of making @ lot of noise about lack of forces,| let us at once look into our neglect of all the forces at hand and wipe this neglect out in an organized take i ” | manner. work to be done, it is without ex. Take the striking example of our| activity in Boro Park, Brooklyn. The two Y. C. L. units in Boro Park, in an earnest effort to take the lead in organizing the youth for unem- ployment relief and insurance, de- cides to call a “Youth Conference.” That's fine—but—. The Party is interested in building the youth movement, the Unemployed Coun- cils are interested in the struggles of the unemployed, and the I. W. O. is campaigning for unemployment insurance. Therefore one would think these are organizations that! must be gotten to actively help organize such work. But that was not done. So little cooperation was shown in this, that although our Party section here had a list of names and addressess of two hun- dred and fifty (250) neighborhood organizations, we Y. C. L.ers went out night after night to discover if and where such organizations ex- isted. Result. first Youth Confer- ence of Unemployed in Boro Park was a Flop! At the same time the Y. O. L. unit 702 in Boro Park is assigning com- rades to study the program of the League Against War and Fascism and calling at the District office of this organization to find ways and means of starting a Youth Section in this territory of the League Against War and Fascism. The adult comrades are calling a con- ference for building a Boro Park section of the League Against War And Fascism. Is the Y. C. L. drawn into the work of organizing this conference? No! Had you asked “how is the work for this con- ference getting on?”—you would have gotten the worn out reply of ; “We have not enough forces.” That's | the bunk, comrades! We have great |forces. But they have not been set into motion. It was not until ten o'clock on the night of the confer- ence that our Y. C. L. unit was | notified of this important confer- lence which was being held a few blocks from our headquarters. And | now the comrades sadly report that the first conference for building our section of the League Against War and Fascism was a terrible fiop. We can report the same inex- cusable negligence in preparation for May Day. A provisional com- mittee sends out a call for a con- ference to mobilize this section for May Day. The Y. C. L. unit in the territory is not on the provisional committee and is not even asked or notified about the conference. Efforts have just been started, and the Party and the Y. C. L. must see to it that they are intensi- fied, in organizing our own forces for a united effort to bring every ounce of our strength to bear in mobilizing the masses of toflers in a counter-offensive against the cut- ting of wages, raising of prices, and violation of our righ’ of Stalin “For a new form, method and content to our work.* For Bolshevik work! For arousing and leading the masses to the str ! BW, ¥.Ob Join the Communist Party 36 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. €. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Parby. NAME seecccecseessccesssceccees Street City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS The Rice Rupture Cure—An Old Bunko Game John N., Chicago and David M., Brooklyn.—From the clipping you sent use we note that the Rice Rupture Cure is on the market again—after an eclipse of many years. Every cent you “invest” in this fake cure is thrown away. The claim that it is not a “truss” cure is fraudulent. His “method” con- sists in the application of a fiuid which he calls “Developing Lym- phol.” This concoction was an- alyzed years ago by the British Medical Association and found to consist of an alcoholic solution of pepper and red dye. After the vic- tim has applied this concoction to his rupture, Rice sends him an appliance which really is a truss consisting of an elastic band with a pad and understrap. Thus you see that the claims of the advertise- ment and his vociferous indictment against the wearing of trusses are most hypocritical and fraudulent. There are no permanent cures for a rupture except the surgical method. A truss is merely for tem- porary relief and if you need a truss you can get one for a tenth of the price that Rice will charge you. No intelligent person can be- lieve that the painting of the sur- face of the skin with any kind of a fluid, no matter how red it is, will cure an abdominal rupture, Malarial and Diathermy Treatment of Syphilis Fred S., Chicago.—You ought to wait and find out what the result of the blood test will be after you have taken the twelfth injection. We suppose that you have taken injections of salversan (“606”). If your blood test shows * * *, then you ought to take several series of By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. trhelve injections each until the lood becomes negative. You must take a blood test after each series of injections. If your blood does not improve after two series, then it would best to take another kind of treatment. It is true that the malaria treatment has been used in syphilis. Your doctor was right in saying that he will cure you of the malaria by giving you quinine (not strychnine, as you wrote). The only trouble with the malarial treatment is that the results are not very good in people over thirty-five. For this reason we are using another method now, known as the dia- thermy method. By this method we can produce an excessive amount of heat in the body; even higher than with the malaria method. The diathermy heat is not as dangerous as the malarial fever. We regret that you did not take care of your condition years ago, when you could have been cured much more rapidly and with more certainty. Whether you take the diathermy or the malaria treat- ment, you must be sure that your physician is an expert in this line of treatment. ae pi Hemorrhoids A. 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