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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934 “= [To Crush Militancy Is First) Alabama Sharecroppers Deseribe Conditions’ Reno Henchman to AFL Aim When Union Joins Officials. Step In, After Affiliation, To Oust Those Who Talk of Struggle the This was Candy Co. y could many tac- the presi- qd a demonstration showing union, a Candy Worker Correspondent k a atement that prove that the boys would not together and walk out on After notifying the union here was no action the reason being that the knew that if they worked the president they could n out of the union. oust h: This was accomplished one week cause te or- I were to} 2° A special meeting was called - sshghie and the Board voted for a new! an president. Notwithstanding this, the could now. to the| © ing tactics. ganizers and their crooked . “| growing rapidly. Nothing has been is time the candy! done for the men, and all the de- & wonderful posi- | mands of the men have been turned rike because of the aside by the officials because they The officials | think the boys will wait. Their plan t the union pre- | is to oust all militant members from the boss until’ the organization and continue in The organ-| their graft motions, unless the boys 1 that they! wake up and cut out this grafting. o their side This is a lesson that all organiza- tions should heed when being affil- jated with the A. F. of L. or any of ts subsidiari meeting. workers were i tion to call a ter rush s sent any claim after the n izers were turned the men ime I was able to force immediate action on pre- senting our claims for recognition Order Daily Worker Now | for Steel and Railroad Articles NEW YORK.—In the issue of Friday, May 11, the Daily Worker | will carry the RESOLUTION ON RAILROAD WORK, of the National Conference of the Communist Party Fraction in the Railroad Industry. This resolution thoroughly analyzes the present situation in the railroad industry and presents the tasks of the railroad workers in the fight for better wages and working conditions. All party units and trade union organizations and individuals in railroad work should at once send in orders for bundles of the May 11 issue containing this guide to work in the railread in- dustry. On Saturday, May 12, we will print an important article by James Eagan, national secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial | Union. This article analyzes the results of the historic convention of | the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.), in which the rank and file opposition succeeded in taking action for the preparation for a general strike in the steel industry. Especially districts, such as Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and Youngstown should at once place orders for the Saturday, May 12, issue of the Daily Worker, containing Com- rade Eagan’s indispensible article. The steel page of the Daily Worker on this Saturday will also include an article on the anti-company union canference called for the Calumet steel region by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, to be held July 3 in Indiana Harbor, Ind. This article will give the program of the steel workers for the Chicago-Calumet area. the He CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE CHILDREN ED DEFENSE BY | parents’ committee, who, with the STRONG PARENT-TEACHER | help of the parents in that neigh- ASSOCIATION | berhood can and will improve the The following letter reveals sur-| Conditions in the school. prisingly vicious conditions in| Public School 96 is located at} Bronx schools, where a stupid bu- | Waring and Olinville Aves. Teaucracy rates its hide-bound Comradely yours, routines ahead of health, and vents | L. ROSENBERG, its spite against humanity upon Council 28. the innocent kids. I am sure all| EAR SETI parents in the tory will heed the call made in this letter for ree Can You Make Em Mediate union of parents and| Yourself? teachers against such practices. | | | Pattern 1838 is available in sizes fee tee Helen: Luke: |14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and In the upper Bronx the parents/ 49° Size ig takes 2% yards 36-inch of children attending P. S. 96 are| fabric and Se yard contrasting. Illus- ig a Parent and Teachers a wing inst = nm with the help of the | fone includes Ren eos eeyue 's Councils in that neigh- berhocd. Certain things have ere between the authorit sSchsol, and the parents, wi a@ bad reaction on the These issues demand a strong or- ganization with the right leaders! P| to be able to safeguard the hapni- | ness cf the child in school. example: | Mrs. Freedman, a member of our council, brings lunch to her child | because the doctor advises as little | exercise for this child as possible. The other day it happened to rain | @t lunch hour and the mother | stepped in the vestibule of the| &chool for shelter. The assistant principal, Miss Secore, told her to step out as she did rot allow any mothers in the school while the children were being dismissed. The mother ex- plained that she was not in their Passegeway and that it was rain- ing and that she had no um- breila. Upon the refusal of the mother to be ordered out of the school, . Miss Secore turned the children abeut face ard dismissed them throngh another exit. The mother was told that her child would be | kept in school till 1 o’clock and | not allowed to return to school | any mere. | *Can yeu imagine how this mother | felt, when she realized that her | child was kept in a locked yard,| alcne, until the hour when she| would be allowed out. The poor child did not understand what was | happening to her: that she was/ being punished for something she | did not do. | To revenge herself on the mcther ‘who refused to expose herself to the rain at her command, Miss Se- ccre punished the child, depriving her of lunch, and kept her locked up in a yard. This is only one of these kind of experiences; there are a number I could relate, where the mechanical discipline of the school hinders and | coins or stamps (coins preferred) does not help the child’s psychology | for this Anne Adams pattern. Write in the school. |plainly name, address and_ style The first general meeting of | number. BE SURE TO STATE THE et Parents’ organization will be | SIZE. eld May 10 (totlay) in the schcol maitorium, It will only. show re- Address Orders to Daily Worker when all parents respond { ote for a real working class | Street, New York City. 4 For | | | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (5c) in resident made a speech knock- | Up to the present the union is} "|. Here is how the “New Deal” Pattern Department, 243 West 17th | Squeezed Between High Prices, Low Pay in Alabama By a Farm Worker Correspondent GOLD HILL, Ala—I am writing a protest against my landlord. I am _a farmer and I run two My landlord only gives me 0 a month to the plow. I have two helpers with me, who run only one plow each I have eight in the family. The landlord sells his groceries as lows: Flour, $2.75 for 48 pounds; fat back 10 cents a pound; lard 8 cents a pound, and not pure lard but compound lard; pure lard, 10 cents; sugar 10 cents a pound, 10 pound sack for $1. We can’t get very much out of $7.50. I don’t get ;enough to do a month, but only three weeks. M. M. Jackson is the landlord. Lyman County Is Hit by New Deal And the Drought By a Worker Correspondent | OACOMA, S. D—Owing drought and grasshoppers, | farmers of Lyman | had any crop for several years. to is hitting us here. The head of the family has the privilege of doing |$5 worth of work per month and/ |50 cents worth of extra work per| week for each child in the family.| The worker gets paid at the rate | of 35 cents per hour for himself, and his two-horse team draws 25 cents per hour to be spent for feed, | | the feed to be bought from the| | government store. Hay, very poor | quality, is $10.50 per ton and corn is cents per bushel. le P. W. A. is 12 miles distant. lwe Tae with the Township Board to try to the work nearer to heine, so as to be of more benefit | to us, but without any success. I am an cid semi-invalid and |have been getting some food stuff jon direct relief. Some of the eggs | Were so rotten that they exploded | when I broke them. The corn which was issued to th: farmers| was so full of gravel that it could| jnot be ground, and it was hard on | the horses to eat it. | Election Tricks In La Crosse, Wis. | By a Worker Correspondent LA CROSSE, Wis—We had our 3, There were two men running |on the ticket for chairman. | Jolivette and a man by the name | of Townsend. was in saloons day and night buy- ing drinks (I mean votes—excuse me). You see, Jolivette has been chairman here for only 15 years and really couldn't make a living ing, truck gardening, so that he can take away the business from us small farmers. On election day, Henry was at the Hall in person, greeting everybody who wanted to greet him. He stopped almost everybody that he knew wasn’t going to vote for him and they had to prove that they | Were citizens of the U. S. A. | Townsend, a contractor by trade, | isn’t as rich as Jolivette. He couldn't afford a couple of cars to haul people to vote for him. Henry had nine different cars taking people | down. He even had old men, who had to be supported by somebody when they walked, coming down there to vote. Well, he only got 23 more votes than Townsend. When some farmers’ boy goes and asks Henry for a job on his farm, he doesn’t hire them. He says he received word from the government not to hire farmers, but city boys. Farm boys are supposed to stay home and work. A rich farmer living near here has a boy working for him by the month. In figuring out his wages, this boy found out that he gets exactly four cents an hour. the | County have not} | election for chairman here on April| Henry | Six months before elections Henry} | by running his farm. He does farm-| None of Us H Has Chetan Of Clothes, Writes Wife Of Negro Sharecropper (By a Sharecropper Correspondent) | CAMP HILL, Ala.—I am a farm- er’s wife and he is a sharecropper. I am a mother of six children, four small ones. My baby is only nine months old and I have to work here and yonder to help my hus- band, and it is a very little that they pay, only something that they don't want And right today none of us has change of clothes. I patch from one week to the other. I wash my children’s clothes at night trying to keep them passable. I only have one dress myself, and I have nearly | washed it out. When I go to the | Iecal, I go dirty nearly all the time. And when my husband was on | the relief in Camp Hill they only gave the Negroes oranges and but- ter and giving the white peoples groceries, flour, meat, sugar, coffee, meal, rice. Some time it do seem so hard. I am doing all I can in the local, for if ever there was a time we need help we need it now. Many are in the same shape. | ern people are organizing. | and have hardly enough to eat, liv- $7.50 a Month Is Pay in Alabama | For Family of 5 By a Farm Worker Correspondent | GOLD HILL, Ala—I am writing to let you know just how we South- We are in serious condition for clothes and! also food. We get a little food, and no clothes at all. The Big Boss rides in his car and his grandchildren are in fine clothes, while my children and I wear rags! ing in a house not fit for insecis, not fit to look at. When it rains we have to move our little furni- ture {rem one side of the house to the cther. The wind blows in} us have} $7.50 a month, and we e five in the family. They sell flour for $2.75; whi. meat is 10 cents a pound, sugar, 10 pounds for 10 cents; lard is eight pounds for 80 cents. We work from sunrise to sundown for only 60 cents a day. The landlord's name is J. E. Elling- ton. Families Ba Active Workers Put Evicted ck Into Homes By a Worker Correspondent | DECATUR, Il—In the past | month and a half, we in Decatur are coming to life. Our unit is functioning better. It seems like | the comrades are willing to do | work that is laid out for them to do. In the many evictions that have taken place in the time mentioned above, as soon as the furniture is | all set on the boulevard, great} |mumbers of workers are on the | scene and set it back in the {houses much faster than the constable can have it set out. About four weeks ago, three un- employed families who had been} evicted and bossed about from | one place to another because they | could not pay rent, moved into houses without consulting Mr. J.! L, Burtschi, who owns more empty houses here in Decatur than any | other individual. The families had | lived there about a week when one |of Mr. Burtschi’s employes came out, and seeing the houses ten- anted raised a fuss. Immediately, | the fathers of these families were | arrested and thrown into jail; | first on a tresspass charge, then on a conspiracy charge. Bond was secured, and the men are out on a@ $1,500 bond, just because they wanted a roof over the heads of | their families. Letters from | BOSSES’ INJUNCTION AGAINST, STRIKERS New York City. Dear Editor: You reported in Thursday’s issue that an injunction has been taken | out against the strikers at Nathan's Cafe, 1310 Surf Ave., Coney Island. | |I have definite information that this injunction was obtained by Nathan through the buying up of witnesses for $25. These people ap- peared before the judge and told deliberate lies about the strikers, | charging them with intimidation of customers. One of these rats is the owner of a drug store on Mermaid Ave. near 35th St. This man had never been near Nathan's, for he is al- ways in the store, and yet he signed an affidavit accusing the strikers of intimidation. H. B. THE Y. C. L. WELCOMES YOU Brooklyn, N. Y. Congratulations to the Daily Worker upon the installment of their new press. I am a student who is keenly in- terested in the activities of the Communist Party. I belong only to the Film & Photo League, but wish to get into the Y.C.L. Will you Please get me in touch with the nearest branch to my address? This would be either in Flatbush or Boro Park. Send me their address, that will be enough. I have never seen published in the Daily Worker yet, the pledge required from high school students upon graduation, which goes as fol- Jows: “I hereby declare my absolute and unconditional loyalty to the government of the U. S. and the | set. out, |LE.R.C. have the houses. Of course they were evicted. A constable by the name of Thomp- son kicked in the doors of each place. He had eight or ten other constables along for body guards. I guess he was scared. About 200 workers had assembled and then speeches were made from trucks. After the furniture had all been one comrade asked the | constables to leave, which they seemed glad to do. In 20 minutes the furniture was set back into the house. The outcome was that the Il- linois Emergency Relief Commis- sion got busy and found the three families, houses at the rate of $15 a month. Three months had to be paid im advance before the landlord would agree to let the Also, an agreement to continue to pay the rent until these families got in a position that they can pay their own rent. But they are having hard times keeping their lights and gas. This is another thing the comrades are putting up @ splendid fight for. A comment on the Daily Work- er. May the good work continue. I certainly hope it spreads further and sinks deeply into the minds of every worker who comes into contact with its splendid educa~ tional pages. I cannot write or Say enough good for it. Our Readers State of N. Y., and promise to sup- port them with all my power in their measures for carrying out the | law.” I wish you would publish this| pledge over my initials in the “Let- ters from Readers’ in the Daily Worker. H. B. CREDIT HELPS THE USSR Little Falls, N. J. Some time ago the Daily Worker carried a small item in its foreign news on page two about the U.S.S.R. having established a credit with Sweden. As a new reader of your Paper and not fully acquainted with Communism I misunderstood this, and took it for granted that the U. S. S. R. was slowly turning back to the old capitalist system. A friend of mine explained to me why those credit systems are used. A few other readers may have this same misunderstanding which is harmful to the movement. A few lines of explanation under- neath such a piece would be of help to the new reader. I hope my sug- gestion is not out of place. Thanks Sor your attention. aig C. DeB. EDITORIAL NOTE. — Directly after the revolution the Soviet Union was not an industrial coun- try. It was undeveloped industri- ally. It depended almost entirely on its agricultural products. In Stop depending for news and information on the capitalist press that favors the bosses and is against the workers, Subscribe to the Daily Worker, America’s only working-class daily news- | barefooted and hungry, jcents a dozen. | “They Take Our Corn | for Debt, and We Have No Bread To Eat By a Farm Worker | Correspondent | GOLD HILL, Ala—They make} | us pay 24 cents a sack for flour| and 10 cents for white meat and| 10 cents for lard; 10 cents for sugar, | 25 cents for cotton dry. goods and | $5 for work shoes. We have to work half naked and and never because they only see any money, and on pay day we owe it all. And/ since we can't get any money we don’t even have two cents to pay| our dues, We have to sell eggs and get seven We farmers don’t! ever get out of debt. They take our corn for debt, and we don’t have bread to eat. J. E. Ellington is the big merchant and landlord. Negro Children Forced to Walk | Miles to School DADEVILLE, Ala.—I am a young | worker living in the Black Belt. | Under the instructions of the Young Communist League we are discussing our many problems here in the South—of how we can bet- ter our conditions. Under the leadership of the Com- munist Party, the Sharecroppers Union and the League are rapidly growing. I go to school six miles away from home, I live with my grand- parents, as my mother died during | the war when I was 15 months old, | so I am told. My father was away in the war fighting for his country and Democracy, as the bosses told him. Today he has nothing to show for his loyalty. I never hear or see him as I was only an infant when he was taken from me and my mother. So I am just here, reaping the result, of the war with the others, which is more lynching, jim-crow- ism, poverty and terror, with an- other war on foot. The colored children walk long miles, eight or nine, to school, while the rich planters and landlords, also a few poor whites, rde by n school buses, splashing mud or raising dust. Our principal went to ask for buses for us. They told him that they could not give the Negroes buses, because they did not pay tax like the whites. He failed, however, to point out that the sharecroppers, tenants, are the ones who work to} make the money, while the bosses’ children play under the shade trees. I would appreciate anything any- one can send in the line of litera- ure on youth work, hints on how to best interest the youth in the revolutionary movement, or cloth- ing, or anything they may send. Challenges 999 To Aid in Getting Ten Thousand New Subs Are there 999 class conscious workers who will help G. E. Mc- Grath, a California worker, ob- tain 10,000 new subscribers for the “Daily’’? Comrade McGrath writes: “I pledge to secure ten new subscribers for the Daily Worker. I challenge 999 other workers to do the same. Each one of us getting ten new subs will mean 10,000 new subscribers for our Bolshevik newspaper. Can I get my challenge accepted by 999 workers”? Comrade McGrath has already secured two new subs on his pledge. Every comrade that ac- cepts his challenge is asked to write at once to the Daily Workef, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Let’s go, comrades! Ac- cept this splendid challenge! order to safeguard the Proletarian Revolution and raise the economic level of the country it became necessary to develop industry, to make the Soviet Union an indus- trial country. Machinery had to be bought from the countries who make them. Since in its essence money is com~- modities, trade relations had to be established so that machinery and other necessities for building indus- tries could be exchanged for Soviet paper. products. (By a Worker Correspondent) HONDO, Cal—The taxpayers of Los Angeles County have an in- stitution here of which the high- salaried officials are proud—indeed enthusiastic! Imagine a poor farm with the high-sounding name Rancho Los Amigos, for old, sick and crippled folks, with exotic plants from the African and Malayan jungie—and not one fig, plum, peach or apricot tree for fruit to nourish the worn-out bodies. From 640 acres of tillable land we have 26 acres in flowers to decorate the executive desks and tables. In- mates caught picking flowers are! given the dickens or put on a fare| of bread and water. Modern, and in Mission style, is ithe “Ladies Home” for show pur- poses, decorated with cheap but | showy prints, reed furniture to give | @ showy effect when tax payers or curiosity seckers visit the home. “Bring them to the Ladies Home,” Showy Front Hides Hunger and Forced Labor on Los Angeles County Poor Farm a are the manager’s strict orders. An | overheard telephone conversation runs: “Hello, hello, tell Mr. So- and-So. the kitchen is fixed up and he may bring them in.” Yes, we have show horses, heavy Percherons for the yearly Pomona show, fed far better, accordimg to the standards of animals and men, | than the sick, old and crippled in- mates. We have show bears, fed very often with ham and eggs; that’s an actual fact. We have a big. chicken show farm, from which in the last six months we have had scrambled eggs just three times. | High-salaried farm officials get their ; eggs daily, gratis and regular. We | have show monkeys, show cows, | show pigs, executive show offices, and, pre-arranged in our dining- room, show food, when taxpayers visit or inspect the farm. Such a show is arranged and ex- ecuted by the able management, and is in charge of two highly paid i but inefficient “stewards.” Mind you, two stewards and an assistant for a poor farm of about 3,000 inmates. None of the stewards knows how to cook rice, macaroni, beans, mush, spaghetti, carrots and turnips, and twice a week meat which is our daily bill of fare. No wonder the drug department puts out daily a frightening amount of cascara, epsom salts, castor and mineral oil, Since the depression, and espe- cially since the number of unem- ployed has been increasing outside, they have adopted here on the poor farm a system of forced labor. Pre- viously, they paid the working in- mates $2.27 to $4.50 or more per month, according to your standing with the officials. When they cut down 15 per cent of the employees’ salaries, they also cut down our little pocket money, and when Jensen en- tered the welfare division, thoy made a second cut in the inmates’ pay- ments, eliminating all pay over $4.50 the payroll from 800 to about 140. So now, the pets and the priv- ileged, the snoopers and the stool Pigeons get $2.27 to $4.50 a month, and the rest that are necessary for the work are coerced and forced to work. You will not be surprised to find old cripples digging with the shovel in the garden, shaky in- mates over 70 and 80 years old, pushing the broom. I have seen asthmatics having a_ coughing spasm during work and dying right in the street. I have seen old fel- lows afflicted with Bright's disease dying on the job. The officials parade on duty in county automobiles, from the wards, kitchen and so on, to the admin- istration building two blocks dis- tant, and the old inmates wonder with beady eyes who will have the next ride in the county hearse. Under brilliant California sun- Metal Strikers { (By a Farm Worker Correspondent) | jto speak before the Vegetarian Run for Congress In Minnesota Poll Townley Has Record as) Strikebreaker in | Farm Strike (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, May 9—A. C. Townley, ex-henchman of Milo} Reno, notorious strike-breaking | president of the National Farm Holiday Association, has announced | 9th Minnesota district. Townley has a long record of be- trayal of farmers and workers. He | was completely discredited a few years ago for his activities as head of the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota. In 1933 he was resurrected from the political scrap heap by Reno, who used his demagogy about unity of farmer and worker to ayer | militant farmers from the militant | farm movements in the Middle | West. Townley was used as a figurehead in connection with the ‘General Farm Strike called by Reno last spring which was called | | off by the lJeadership a few hours} before it was to sitios eter effect. | In Cincinnati Tie Up Factory Organize Broad Strike Committee; Build Industrial Union (Special to the Daily Worker) CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 9.—The first meeting of the four hundred strikers of the Formica Insulation Co. workers was held tonight. A broad strike committee and finan- cial and publicity committees were elected by the metal workers. Thirty Picket captains were elected and picket squads organized for all three shifts. ‘The morale of the strikers is high. The entire plant is tied up, with 98 per cent of the workers on strike, most of them already organized into the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union. The strikers are demanding a five cent an hour increase in pay, and the forty cent an hour minimum rate’for all women workers and fifty cent minimum for all men workers (the men and women are on differ- ent kinds of work). They demand recognition of the shop committee, time and a half for Saturday and double time for Sunday work. The wages have been as low as thirty-two cents for wo- men and forty-four cents for men. Safety devices are inadequate. Many shops are watching the out- Hungry Child of Four Dies from Poison Diet Of Plants and Weeds SEATTLE, May 9- 9.—Four-year-old fogele d@’Ambrose died last week ym. poisons contracted when she eet) in satisfying her hunger with weeds and shrivelled plants that grew in her yard. For more than a year Angelo d'Ambrose, the child’s father, had been unemployed. For the entire length of time his wife and only child had been subsisting without relief. The house reflected all its wealth in nutrition when investiga- tors instituted the usual red tape to |find possible criminal action or neglect. The cupboard had only | allow us 30 cents a day for work | his candidacy for Congress in the| half a can of pees! the mother’s purse, only four cents. Gang-Terror Used ‘Against Students In Imperial Valley Glassford’s Promises of Protection False BRAWLEY, Calif. (FP.)—A dele- gation of students, teachers and preachers which tried to hold a | civil liberties meeting May 6 in the Imperial Valley under the protec- | tion of a recent federal injunction was driven from Brawley by a mob, threatened with death and fired upon 12 miles north of here. Gen. Pelham Glassford, federal mediator, had promised to meet | them but when they arrived, the good general “was out of town.” In- stead a mob of several hundred ranchers who are opposing union- ization of the melon pickers greeted the visitors with death threats and drove them from town. Socialists Celebrate May 1 on May 2 PROVIDENCE, R. I—The So- cialist Party celebrated May Day on May 2 because they could not get the “Hall.” The United May Day Committee, who also “could not get the Hall,” held two success- ful meetings in addition to a dem- onstration of 500 in City Hall. The socialist meeting on May 2 was very poorly attended. Only 75 people were at the meeting. Joseph Caldwell, the chairman, had turned down all proposals for a united May Day celebration and had threatened that he would tear up any communication he received from the Communist Party. Cald- well is a renegade from Commu- nism. come of this strike, Shop delega- tions are appearing at the union Office, pledging full support to the strike. It is the first strike in the recent period, in Cincinnati, led by the rank and file. The company is using the capitalist press to mini- mize the strength of the union. The strike 1s well organized and caught the company by surprise. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS “Doctor” Shelton Margaret F., New York.—The Dr. H. M. Shelton, who was scheduled Workers Club is not a doctor of medicine. As far as we know he is not entitled to the title of “Doc- tor.” His full name is Herbert M. Shelton and he has the following string of initials after his name: DP., N.D., D.N.T., D.N.Sc., which do not mean anything and which the “Doctor” had conferred upon him- self. Although he is not a physi- cian, he has written numerous book- lets and articles and has invented quite a number of cults. His latest cut is Orthotrophy, a non-existing “science,” which is as imaginary as his titles. He is also the “founder” of the International School of Orthopathy. This is a brand new medical fake which does not seem to be doing very well from a finan- cial point of view; hence his re- appearance in New York, where he is trying to ingratiate himself with the more gullible working men. He used to be one of Macfadden’s Jackeys in the “Physical Culture e” and the “Evening Graphic.” It was a slip on the part of the business management of the Daily Worker to allow an an- nouncement of this quack’s lecture to appear in, the paper. Skeletons of Babies in a Church Morris F., New York—The finding of a number of babies’ skeletons in the cellar of a church during the war, does not necessarily imply im- morality among the priests and nuns attached to that church. In many parts of the world, adults as well as children, have been buried under the floor of the church. At one time it was considered an HISTORY D @ advites: By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. FOR GIRLS and BOYS I claim that this is the first book of its kind honor to be interred in so “holy” a place. oN M. F., Providence, R. 1—We are not sure that you are suffering from lumbago. We regret that we cannot diagonse your case without further detail. You might think that we are dumb; but if you stop to think that backache might be due to many causes, you may de- cide that we have a right to be cautious. For instance. your pain in the back might be due to being underweight. because the lack of fat in the tissues and around the kidneys means that there is not sufficient padding for the internal organs. When the kidneys or in- testines drop for lack of padding, you are liable to develop a pain in the back. The opposite might also happen. When there is too much fat in the tissues, the bones, liga- ments and muscles of the back are put to a strain due to the excessive weight. Bad posture, faulty stand- ing or sitting at a desk will cause muscular strain and backache. We know cases where a chronic appen- dix caused backache for several years. This was treated as lum- bago with various pills and pew- ders; but the backache always re- turned. It disappeared after re- moval of the appendix. 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