The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1935, Page 4

. Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935 STEEL WORKER SHOWS NEED FOR OLD AGE PENSION LAW Toil k ills Aged Man | In Locomotive Shop Organized Struggle for Social Insurance Held Only Solution By a Steel Worker Correspondent ARY, Ind.—Fellow workers, can any of us say what the matter with Old Man W; ? Can any of y comotive > workers re- ca last rel ks Old Man Wright made? He told you fellow workers that he was going to leave his boots in the shop as he was going to be off the next day you know that for an old ma e Wright, it is aa the pretty hard to guess about next day. There w y next day for old Dad W: n old man of sixty-five or eight. You know how far he did go after he left the Jocomotive shon. You also know the bucket at the ‘s) wash house toilet. He stiff on the toilet seat was found ‘Well, something is facing us un- less we do something, and that Something is we must organize and ‘fight like hell for old age pensions. f we do not organize and fight. the company watchmen will find More like old Daddy Wright. They talled it heart failure, but it was more like old age than anything else How many more old fellows are there in the shop yet? When we fet so that we can’t get around any more, then you and I will find Ourselves thrown out on the scrap heap. Remember old man Willerton. He had 23 years service with the com- pany and the bosses told him that they could not use him any longer that he was too old and unsafe to do anv sort of work, and so they let him go. That was five years ago. What was the matter with Egan? Too old. He died unseen. And old Tom, and many more. Fellow workers, we must organize and organize fast, too. The bosses Charities Break Up Home | And Recruit By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—The united chari- ties serve as an advanced rank and file nucleus of the Roosevelt Gov- ernment in recruiting the youth of the nation into the C.C.C. camps. It also acts as government nucleus in separating the families under the _&uise of charity. Here are some ex- amples: CaceWo. 1 is that of W. T. Gam-| ble of 561%.State St. He is buying a home and running a business. Gamble has a family of five chil-| dren. | The bank closed and robbed him} Of his life’s savings, while the de-| pression robbed his customers and neighbors of their jobs. This inj furn killed his business, making it| impossible for him to meet obliga-| tions and to provide for his family. | He was recommended for relief | by the principal of the Carter) School. Throughout the four and a| half years of depression he received | only $7 to $9 of grocery relief, which | had to last the family for two weeks. Finally, he was able to fore an increase of budget to $7 for each week. Even though there was a/| lack of necessities, his wife and chil- | @ren opposed his effotts to fight for Extras Used In Dining Car Speed-up Plan ‘By a R.R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The burning ques- tion on the Pennsylvania Railroad, especially in the dining car depart- ment, is that the speed-up strikes the regular cooks and waiters se-| verely. While the cooks have a limited time to prepare for service, they are compelled to spend a greater portion of their time in re-stocking provi- sions in the cars. Due to the effi- ciency experts of the big bosses on the railroads, these brutal condi- tions have come into ez: -‘cnce. It! is no accident that you have regular dining car workers, regular extras and extra extras These men are used for various Teasons; a) They have equal expe- Tience in their respective class of Work. b) To create antagonism Among themselves so as to be fur-| ther exploited and divided. On the question of “dead-head- ing,” it is no accident that the men are forced to “dead-head” at night, | especially after 9 o'clock, as that is| when the dining car workers’ time} expires. By not caring for the wel- fare of the dining car worker, the| Tailroad forces the worker to give! ~. {All greetings, which must be | clothing and coal, he got into se-| | rious HAIL THE DAILY WORKER! Iith Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 A I send revolutionary greetings to the Daily Worker, the organizer of the American working class, the leader in the fight for a Soviet order, will be published in the Daily Worker.) don’t care what you were able to do or what you have done. They are just watching for a chance when you straighten up at the bench where you are working. If the boss catches up with you, then you know you are through. Furthermore, I am not only talking for the loco- motive shop but for all shops and departments. Again I am calling your attention to the graft. You know the clerk, Walter Henky, he takes anything | and everything that comes along, | and yet you can’t do anything with | him You fellows might as well| know why you can’t do anything. | It is because you are unorganized. | Once we are organized. we will know | how to deal with him and any other grafter. You know what happened to Edward Wall, the turn foreman at | the 44 inch blooming mill last | summer. Now there is another one that took his place, Robinson, work- | ing together with the Dean Superin- | tendent of 44 inch mill. Fellow steel workers, there are hundreds like Ed, Robinson and Bill, but we | steel workers are too weak because we are not organized into a real industrial union controlled by the | is a city of about 15,000 population | received notice of foreclosure; | with a Ford factory, a wood work- | rank and file. We must have workers from our | ranks forming the shop and depart- | ment grievance committees, not the | company union stools like Smith, Kirtan, Crosby and Johnston, who | are misrepresenting the workers. What have they done to improve the workers’ conditions? Nothing. With the exception that Mallinson | is trying to organize an “independ- | ent” union, which will be nothing but a fascist union that will help | the steel bosses raise their profits and supress the workers more and | more. | for the Army an increase of the budget. The cold weather came, catching | Gamble and his family without coal or clothing. In his efforts to acquire | arguments with the case| workers and supervisors, finally winning a concession to help his family. However, they refused to agree to help the united household | to get coal and clothing because Gamble owned his home and busi- ness. The case workers then proceeded to lay plans to separate the family by plotting with his wife and chil- dren to leave home so as to get! away from Gamble’s influence. Only | in this way would they be helped, they were told. The wife and chil- dren agreed to this and the case workers rented and furnished a flat | to separate Gamble from his fam- ily. In this way the Charities can hold the boys in their grip, which pre- pares them to thrust the boys into the C. C. C. camps and train them for cannon fodder for war. The| mother must not object and their father has been rendered helpless. This is how Charities help to build} up the army. break up the home | his time without pay, thus pouring more profits into the coffers of the big railroad bosses, | Neither do the merciless imposi- tiOfis end here. In holiday seasons, more extra help is hired which is called emergency help. In many cases, these men are given one or two trips, and are left in the cars of out-of-town agents where they are neglected. In many instances they find themselves in big cities like Washington, Harrisburg, etc. without funds and are forced to seek aid from the local city welfare, police stations, ete. This proves, fellow workers, that the bosses are organized and we are | not. Let us join the Brotherhood | and make it a rank and file fight- ing organization. If we do not, we cannot protect the bread of our wives and our children, neither can we ever expect to raise our standard of living. The special Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition of the Daily Worker, to be published on Saturday, Jan. 19th, will have significance for every American worker. Canvassers, take orders now! Organizations, don’t wait before ordering your bundles! I. W. 0. members should get their branches to send greetings to the Daily Worker on its Elev- enth Anniversary! A greeting from every branch should be the slogan! accompanied by cash or money 6th Avenue Scab Nests Must Be Cleaned Up By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Thousands of unemployed travel to Sixth Av- enue daily with the forlorn hope of landing a job. These quests are usually fruitless. The few jobs that do appear call for a 75-hour week at starvation wages, a skilled worker for the price of an apprentice, etc. This, coupled with the extortion rackets of fake agencies, adds more fuel to the already burning hatred of the un- employed workers. The agencies have a reputation for scab herding, and it was mainly through them that the 6,000 guards and elevator men were hired as scabs in the recent building employes’ strike. Be- cause of their state of mind, these workers are easy prey to fascist demagogy. This indicates the absolute necessity of concentrating work- ers’ forces to organize the unem- ployed of Sixth Avenue. Relief Strike Won by Ford Unemploye By a Worker Correspondent IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. — This ing plant, a chemical plant and one individually owned small saw mill. There were a few mines, but they are closed for a good two years now. The Ford factory, for the last five years, has employed, during the busy season, which lasts from two to three months, from 2,000 to 3,000 men. When they quit needing you, you are laid off and then rehired when they are ready to start. During the slack part of the sea- son, we are on relief trying hard to get by. We are allowed so much per month according to the size of the family. A family of three gets $21 a month on work relief, cr $11.80 per month on direct relief. Two months ago they made an at- tempt to cut the hours from 10 to 30 per cent, and in some cases even more. We have a Communist Party here. |About seven months ago the Com- munist Party members were able to organize a labor union with about 200 members in this county. When hearing about the cut, the union called a mass meeting. Another mass meeting was called at the county relief office. A Communist Party member, as a@ speaker, put the question to the workers whether they were going to accept the cut or whether they were going to strike. Every one voted for strike. First there was a committee elected to see the relief administra- tion, The committee not getting any satisfaction it was decided to call the strike at once. Here, the Party was a bit too hasty in not holding it off till the first of the month. It happened that this was towards the end of the month. It made a great many of those that were working the last part of the month think that those who were striking had already put in their time for the month. On the second day of the strike it was decided to let the men work what hours they had coming for the month, and all were to go out on Nov. 1. On that day another mass | meeting was called with 700 to 800 present. strike. On the first day of the strike the workers were militant and the ranks were solid 100 per cent. On the second day the picket line was already only half as big as it was on the first day. The relief administrator and his agents were able to raise the “red scare” among the workers through the local papers and so forth. In a small city named Norway, nine miles from here, with a membership in the union which the Communist Party of Iron Mountain organized, they were not able to raise the red scare. The jobs were completely closed down until the strike was called off. The main demand, against the re- duction in hours, was granted. It was decided to call the Unemployed Youth Get Harsh Treatment By a Worker Correspondent WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Among the most unfortunate in this coun- try today are the young unemployed people. - For instance, the other day I went down to the relief bureau with a grievance of mine and as I entered the relief office to put my complaint in, I was told to sit down and wait as usual. There were only a few benches around and these were filled with young men. There was an adjoin- ing room to the one I was in and this, too, was chock full of young people. This looked strange to me, and 1 asked some of the boys what the crowd was there for. They told me that they had come to register for the C.C.C. camps. When the relief Officials started to register these men, more kept on coming, About 10 minutes later, the relief officials | called a policeman who chased all of these young men out, after they had received notice to come register. NOTE | Every Tuesday we publish iette>~ from steel, auto and metal workers. We urge workers in these industrie to write us of their conditions and efforts te organize. Please get these letters to us by Saturday of cach week, Machinist Finds Apparat By a Worker Correspondent BEDFORD, Ohio—On Dec. 24 I | received a letter from the Home | Owners’ Loan Corp. stating that the | present resources of said corpora-| tion will be exhausted before my | application can be handled. | When the letter reached me on| | Christmas Eve, I opened it with) | great joy expecting to find the news | |that the loan was finally granted | | to me, Taking in consideration that since | it was vacation for the officials during the holidays, I decided to! postpone the working out of my | problems until after the New Year. | But on Dec. 28, I received a letter | | from the Cleveland Trust Co. stat-| ing that the property was recently | taken over through foreclosure. | In those proceedings there is| something wrong. I know that the | Home Owners’ Loan Corp, was es- tablished to save homes and con- | sequently keep the family under a | roof: | 1—Save the home of those whose | home was already taken away by foreclosure; 2—Save home of those which have 3—Save home of those that the | mortgagee have everything ready for a foreclosure. | I received a notice of foreclosure in October, 1932, for past due pay- ment on the sum of $1,010 with in- | terest from September, 1931. On the day I was to be in the court, I was in the local hospital to be operated for a double rupture. But I notified the Cleveland Trust to take in con- | sideration my circumstance. | In August, 1933, the Home Owners’ | Loan Corp. was established. I was almost one of the first to fill an application through the Cleveland Trust. Months went by. Every time |I called at the corporation's office | to know something about my loan, of the volume of letters re- the tment, we can print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers. However, all let- ters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and eriticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used | for the improvement of the Daily Worker. | | |The Report of the Hauptmann Trial ues | JOHNSON’S STORIES EVOKE) INTERESTING COMMENTS New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: ‘Though I have often been im- | pelled to write you a word of com- mendation regarding various articles —yes, and even entire issues of our “Daily,” shyness or something close to that has often held me back. But this time you must know my | appreciation for your treatment of the Lindbergh trial which is being played up in so miserable and re- volting a fashion by the capitalist | press. Allen Johnson’s reporting | was splendid—particularly his con- cluding, paragraph regarding Harry | Simms. Too often we are apt to be swayed, despite knowledge to the} contrary, by the loud ranting of the | boss sheets. | In these days of sharper conflict, | of increased and intensified con- | flict, the other papers, from the New York Times down, are so obviously | carrying on a bitter attack against | the workers, that it surprises me that they have not been more ex- posed than heretofore. Is it a com- paratively sudden desperation on their part. or is it merely that I) have begun to see their method and understand it today? The radio, too, injects anti-working class slander at every opportunity; and subtle attacks against the Soviet Union: a word here, a word there, |no more—dignified capitalist “psy- chology.” These things have come to my attention with increasing frequency in the last few months. Are they afraid? Do they see that we are beginning to learn, and by learn- ing commencing to do and act for the betterment of our conditions? Are they afraid of the youth who are beginning to follow the only way out — the revolutionary way out—of their miseries? Well, their fear is not yet great enough! They shall tremble and quake in the face of our justice— class justice. To us, it is not a question of Lindbergh, but kid- napping and robbery and murder, per se. To us, it is not the ques- unhappiness, undernourishment, and worse, of millions of children. The electrocution of Hauptmann would most assuredly do nothing to alter materially the vicious problem which he represents. For this reason, the courts of these United States are not a symbol of justice, are not an indication of a sincere desire to eradicate the wrongs upon which they pass judgement. There is but one remedy — and eventual cure — Build our Daily Worker! For more povular reporting of this sort (which prompted me to write | vou and tell you how really swell it is!), a svorts section, and before ™ close, a big cheer for Del for giy- “-= ng Lefty. MR. 8. | ““TAT’S WORKING CLASS REPORTING! My.s0-; Iaitor, Daily Worker: Allen Johnson's story in \n> Day Worker of Jan. 4, headed “Sensa- i bee ‘Home Loan Cor Won’t Aid Jobless Him Off While Company Grabs Property Letters from Our £°<aders | destroy the entire labor movement. tion of one youngster alone, but the | P@Pe! | sketch depicting the Soviet method ion cf Hauptmann Trial Covers Sordid Lindbergh Story,’ will prob- | us Is Used Only to Stall] I was told to inquire at the Cleve- land Trust Co. Several times people of the cor- Poration came to see my home and/ take other information. Finally on| May or June of this year (1934) I| was called by the main office of the Cleveland Trust to know that the loan to be granted was not enough | to pay up the second mortrage. | After a few days I went to the| Cleveland Trust with my brother- in-law (who holds the second mort- | gage) and we made an agreement | that my brother-in-law was ready at any time to release the second| mortgage and I was assured by the| bankers I was to receive the loan in one month or so. Again months went by. Once I was told that the loan was delayed because activity of the Home Own-| ers’ Loan Corp. was temporarily | suspended, Then I was told to wait | two or three months . . . Finally I/ received the beautiful news on| Christmas time! Yesterday (Dec. 29) I was told that maybe the loan was not granted on account of my unemployment! Now I would like to say this: Were I working I would not have need any loan, For instance: if I begin working tomorrow at a steady job, | I would not need the help of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. Instead I} would make my payments at the| Cleveland Trust. I hope that you will consider that I have brought up before you and find out why my case was not taken | in consideration on time. I have only | one house and I need a roof for my | family. I hope that you will consider also that if I am unemployed it is not | my fault. The company where I} was employed for 13 years went! bankrupt five and one half years ago (May, 1929) and so far I am unable to get another steady job. Iam a machinist mechanic by trade. | ably go down in the record as a classic. That’s reporting. It’s swell. Yours for more of same, Ac. | A UNITED, MILITANT WORKING | CLASS STOPS FASCISM Milwaukee, Wis. Comrade Editor: I have met many workers who | have said, “Well, what the working class needs to wake up is a fascist | dictatorship.” Among them are! some who are Communist sympa- | thizers. Now this, in my opinion, is a very bad attitude to have. It means to say that the working class will learn a lesson from fascism, but if we allow fascism to get into power, we are going to pay very dearly for our lesson. We must make up our minds to stop the fascist mon- ster. We can do this by fighting fas- cism every day, by talking to all whom we come in contact with, ex- plaining how fascism is trying to I have even noticed some work- ers jokingly using the Hitler salute. I hope the workers still remember how famous the military salute be- came over night back in 1917, This is a very serious issue. Let us not take it lightly even for a pga There is a great deal to 10. E.G. WHAT H. R. 2827 MEANS Russelltown, Pa. Dear Comrade Editor: I have read Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2827 and vote for it without delay. I realize what it means for me, and can’t see how workers everywhere wouldn't realize what it means for them. This is true also about the Daily Worker. As for myself, I never knew this paper until the day of our strong organization, and I am very proud of it. Since I started to read it, it has given me more courage and faith in the workers of the world. May it grow stronger every day as long as imperialism exists, H. A.C. THE CHILDREN KEEP IT UP New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: Enclosed is two dollars and a quarter for the Daily Worker, from the children of the Tom Mooney School. We held a party because we wanted to help the workers’ is We think all children’s groups should do the same. E. 8. THE KING'S JESTERS New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I am one of those who heard the Alea-Seltzer Company sketch over station WOR which is usually a meaningless hodge-podge of playing on words in order to bring out the name of their product, but there is a limit to natience and disgust. The ef justice was to say the least the most contemptible method of creat- ing a falsehood upon the most modern of nations and vpon 170 millions of people. This is how they poison peovle’s minds while they act like clowns to provoke hilari- ous laughter. All workers cud professional people who resent this miserable ef- fort at “fun” should show their re- comment. I and the members of my family will do everything we can to make the name of Alca- Seltzer infamous, M. G. Steel Workers Learn About Company Union By a Worker Correspondent COATESVILLE, Pa. — Enclosed is my vote for the Workers’ In- surance Bill. I hope the mass pressure behind this bill makes this session of Congress recognize the advisability of its immediate passage. As I wrote recently, there is considerable industrial unrest in Coatesville. Particularly, at the moment, is this the case at the Lukens Steel Co. Cranemen and machinists have well defined grievances, and they are pretty well disillusioned with their company union. Their pleadings and petitions have gained nothing at all for them The I..L, D. is showing progress among the Negro workers here. Poor Farm Made Federal Institution By a Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—In the United States, it used to be the County Poor House or the County Poor Farm, that we were familiar with. Now, we have the Federal Poor House in the form of the Transient Bureau and the Federal Poor Farm in the form of the Transient Camp. So, you can say that the Poor Farm industry has advanced from a county unit to a national unit. Because such a great percentage of the American people have be- come paupers, it requires a cen- tralized capitalistic control of the unemployed workers in order that centralized wealth will be protected | and the unemployed will be trained to be content with crumbs from the tables of the wealthy. Transient bureaus have, in con- nection with them, a transient camp several miles from the centers of population. Men sheltered in the City Bureaus are sent to the camps. This reduces the numerical strength of the unemployed in the industrial centers and prevents organization. Men who are isolated in these | Transient Camps lose all connec- tions with the outside world and are trained to be content with their conditions. These camps and bureaus are con- ducted in about the same manner as a penal institution. If a man is not on hand for six consecutive meals, or is not in his bed for one night, he is checked out and has no place to stay. These conditions can only be changed by united ef-| forts, and it is up to the unemployed to organize, as food is steadily get- ting worse and bureau officials are | riding the men. Messengers Win a Few Concessions By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The coming of the Christmas holidays, involving a tremendous influx in telegram ser- vices, found the Western Union Telegraph Co. fearful of the rising sentiment for militant unionization and \struggle among the messenger boys. A stonpage of service at this stra- tegic moment, or any possible action by the messengers at this busy season, would have meant a serious decrease in the company’s profits. Together with this, the fact that the Telegraph Messengers’ Union issued a leaflet calling for a dis- cussion on the advisability of action the week before Christmas, caused the officials of the Western Union to bring their company union (As- sociation of Western Union Em- Leto back to the scene of sell- out. We had seen numbers of mes- sengers leaving the Western Union company union; had seen them openly ridicule and make sport of it. The Association of Western Union Emploves began to lose its stranglehold on the fellows. The boys, under the pressure of worsening conditions and speed-up and faced with the rapid advent of a merger in the communications industry, began moving towards the Telegraph Messengers’ Union, an indevendent rank and file union. They began stubbornly taking the line of militant pressure against their bosses, and a heavier recruit- ment began in the Telegraph Mes- sengers’ Union. The Western Union got the jitters. Suddenly, a week before Christmas following a leaflet distribution of the Telegraph Messengers Union, notices were posted on all city of- fice bulletins. It came from the company union, and was a conces- sion! In short, the bulletin said the fol- lowing: 1. All night messengers and early night messengers to receive 50 per zent of errand services, instead of 40 per cent as before. 2. All messengers in service one vear or more to receive three days vacation with nav each year. (The demand formulated by the Tele- ‘raph Messengers’ Union calls for two weeks vacation with pay for all messengers in service.) But now the messengers are pre- yaring to turn these smell conces- sions into a general victory. The roncession displayed the panic mong the company officials, and ‘t clearly was a demonstration of ‘he fear they have of the sentiment ‘owards organization among the nessenger boys. This concession, therefore, is a victory for the Telegraph Mes- vengers Union. ‘This concession, then, shall only oreshadow what the vear 1935 shall bring for the messenger boys ‘der the leadershin of the Tele- graph Messengers Union, | WORKERS’ HEALTH | Conducted by the | Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) Further Hints About Acne | A. A» New York, N. ¥.: X-rays are still the best form of treatment for Acne, because they will cure many cases and improve most, a small percentage only not being benefited. It is too bad, however, treatment, because the fee asked for is beyond your means. However, there are clinics which will give X-ray treatments at a low price. | Cosmetics do not cause or ag- grayate the condition. Regulating not cure Acne. Use of soaps on the face is beneficial. Do not be afraid to use soap. For the oiliness of the face, X-ray treatments are the best. If you cannot get them. use lotio alba at night and wash it off in the morn- } Ing. | Diets have little or no beneficial | effects in most Acne cases and cer- tainly have no curative power. The disease changes so of its own ac- cord that you may be fooled into believing a certain diet is respon- | sible for the change. Fluid From Male Glands 'OMRADE D. S. of Philadelphia, asks: Will you please answer a matter of urgent controversy? Tf would like to know if the fluid com- ing from the penis a comparatively long time before the actual orgesm is potent? If it is, then coitus in- terruptus (withdrawal) would be dangerous, wouldn't it? arent. Our Reply HE fluid you speak of is a secre- tion from one of the male glands. By neutralizing the usually acid condition of the uretha (canal in the penis) it protects the male sex- ual fluid, the reaction of which is alkaline (opposite of acid). Your question about the potency of such a fluid, which comes from the penis long before the actual orgasm, can only be answered by stating that it (By a Worker Correspondent) LANCASTER, Pa.—We were sit- ting in the union headquarters chewing the rag. Somebody told a story about one of the bosses over the Armstrong plant who came around asking the men their sug- gestions for increasing the sales of linoleum, Finally, the boss got his answer. It came from one of the fellows who knows the Daily Work- er... This worker said, “We are 1,400 workers producing linoleum. Al- most every one of us has a home that is in need of new linoleum. But who can buy linoleum on $15 a week? Raise our wages.” The boss didn’t want any more “suggestions.” We then got to talking about the future that capitalism offers the American working man. We were disturbed by a visitor, an old work- er, who walked in and bummed us for 35c. He wanted to get a bed By ANN “Inside of Me” ITH the end of the Working Woman Contest only two and a half weeks away, you'd better hurry! Letters are coming in every day to the Working Woman magazime. The problem raised in the contest has aroused wide dis- cussion, Haye you written your point of view yet? The question raised is “What would you do, if your husband would not let you attend working class meetings, though he has many interests outside his job?” You must write your answers direct to the Working Woman, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. And now is as good a time as any to say that the printing of a letter here in no ways bears upon its chances in the contest. The com- rades on the Working Woman have simoly allowed me to select those I thought would be inter- esting to the readers of the column. It does not mean they are better or worse than other letters received. And with that clearly stated, here’s part of a poem written, not exactly in response to the contest. but in reference to women’s activity gen- erally. It is written by S. B. J. of Leslie, Michigan. eee “f can’t be no clingin’ vine! Why it’s as plain as day, When storm and wind and hail beat down, i T've had to grow this way. “There's somethin’ just inside of me ‘That tells me when I'm right An’ beats against the inner bars To get into the fight “For helpless, hungry children An’ mothers wan an’ thin There’s somethin’ inside of me Says ‘Fight until we win.’ “There’s somethin’ just inside of me That cries and cannot be Put down with any premises That will not make us free. “There's somethin’ just inside of me ‘That tells me that we can Win in this fight for justice For each and ev'ry man. “By standin’ close together And fightin’ each for all We must not lose this battle! Come workers! Join the call.” that you cannot afford to get the! the bowels is good hygiene, but does | A LIVING ANSWER is relatively potent. In the normal man there is a constant stream of sperm cells com- |ing from the testicle, through the canals. Obviously then, the fluid | you speak of contains some sperm cells. Of course, the number is very slight and the possibility of concep- | tion even slighter—but the possi- |bility is there. Aside from this, other dangers, associated with coitus in« terruptus (withdrawal) are more jimportant. This method of sexual |intercourse has an ill effect upon the health of, both, men and women, | Changing Hair Texture | (OMRADE A. P. of New York, | writes; “I wonder whether there |is any way of thickening the texture | of one’s hair. ' |. “My hair is very thin. Besides | having very little hair, I am also | afflicted with an oily scalp which |makes my hair very stringy that it jis almost possible to count the hairs on my head. “T’ve even resorted to a permanent | wave, thinking that that would make |my hair manageable, but that also did not help. Because of the ex- cessive oiliness, I have to resort to a headwash at least twice a week. My scalp is very clean, almost no dandruff at all. I brush my hair | daily.” Our Reply HERE is no way of changing the | 4 texture of the hair known to science at the vresent time. It is inherited, just as is the color of the eyes, shape of the nose, or any other personal trait. | Excessive oiliness of the scalp is |known as “seborrhoea.” The best | way to check it is to shampoo the hair twice a week with any face soap, and to rub into the scalp twice a day a three and a half per cent solution of resorcinol in 70 per cent |alcohol. 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