The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 HOME LIKE = Ann Rarton “WHE Road to Woman's Freedom name of a pamphlet newly ed by hers, It the Workers Library is the speech of a g woman Communist of the Seviet Union, K. Kirsanava, d livered the Thirteen Plenum of th before of the Comm Moscow, Decemb‘ ssity of t ing women at very valuable and should be widely n pages it gives a e of women's relation- istry and war in the Id and the task of the It is a pamphlet that wide discussion, and ish many more Commu- read. I keen r ship t rouse Serve to nists to work among the proletarian women. e can draw the masses arian women,” says Kir- “into the active political there can be no success on our part in the struggle against war and in the struggle for the prole-| tarian revolution.” Every Commu-| nist and every Communist sympa- thizer should read this pamphlet. Its price is three cents, and if there no Workers Bookshop in your| vicinity, can be ordered from Work- ers Library Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Sta. D, New York, N. ¥. In our preparation for International] March 8, this pamph- | ld be read and discussed HE United Council of Working Class Women. through its secre- | Clara Bodian, calls upon all| ts its members to support the subserip- tion drive of the Working Woman for 1,500 new subscriptions by April 1, (By the way, for the one who gets the most yearly subscriptions over 200, the Working Woman of- | fers a complete set of Lenin's! Works, in eight volumes.) “The Working Woman is the only Magazine that deals with the prob- lems of working class women in| shops, farms and homes.” writes Clara Bodian. “The magazine is therefore, ours, and we must do all| in our power to help build the cir- | culation. Our slogan should be:| “Byery working woman a subscriber to the Working Woman.” “In the sub drive, the quota of the United Council of Working Class | ‘Women is only three hundred subs, | two hundred of which must come from New York and the rest from other councils throughout the coun- | try. Our New York Councils can link this drive up very easily with the drive for new members which is being extended. In canvassing | from house to house, hesides leaf- lets, application blanks, always have the Working Woman with us. The magazine should be brought forward at house parties, | section and local council affairs. | Always he sure to have sub blanks | en hand. . Our organization must | get busy immediately. Each council | Must set a quota. See that all your members are subscribers. If we help fulfill the quota of 1,500, the Work- ing Woman will be self-sustaining. “And surprise! The Central Body @f the Councils received the rag | rug offer by the Home Life Column | for the highest contribution to the | Daily Worker Drive for funds some | weeks ago. The council that gets the most subs by March 8, will get this hand made rag rug. So get | busy!" we must | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? | Pattern 2071 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 16 takes 334 yards 36! inch fabric. Mlustrated step-by-step | sewing instructions included. | | | Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for each Anne Adams pattern (New York | City residents should add one cent | tax for each pattern order). Write | plainly, your name, address and giyle number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. ~ Address orders to Deily Worker Petiern Deparimeni, 243 West i7th DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935 Frem Factory. Mine. Farm and Office Old Age Alibi Used to Cover Discrimination Against Union By a Chemical Worker Corre- spondent NEW YORK.—I know that your a DI is interested in the conditions f the working people. I want to tell you what happened in the plant © | where I am working. For a long time the workers of Mean, vet THE NEXT ONE HES| Too, YOUNG Pfizer Chemical Company have been striving to build the Chemi- cal Workers Union, Local 19695 of the A-F.L. We have many in our union but our union and committee is not recognized as yet. When the union was formed the company got scared and they gave some of us increases in wages because they didn’t want to have a strike in the plant. The men were also told that no one would be fired for belong- ing to the union But lately some of the workers were fired for union activity. Re- cently an old man working for six years for Pfizer was fired. The com- {pany claimed that he is too old to work and that when he got the job six years ago he didn't give his right age. It's funny how it took the company six years to find that out. The worker passed the doc- tor's examination and was fit for work in the plant. Now the company has thrown him out and they don’t care what happens to him and those depend- ing on him. The members of the union took it up and a committee went to see the company. The company said they would call him back as soon as they can find some work for him. I believe it would be wrong for the union to wait until the com- pany decides when to take this worker back. Maybe they won't take him back at all. We saw other mem- bers of the union fired for union activity and because we didn’t put up @ real fight against it they are still out of the plant. I don’t think that we should make that mistake again. Our union and the execu- tive elected by the rank and file should get every gang together and put up a real fight against the fir- ing of this worker. Today it is he. Tomorrow it may be one of us. Only a strong fighting union can protect the worker on the job in Pfizer Company. Steel Workers Ask Support for A.F,L, By a Worker Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Here is something that concerns the wark- ers of the Connors Steel Company. We are writing this for the rank and file committee of Local 23 of the A. F. of L. 1. We know that the A. F. of L. is a workers’ union, and not the bosses’ union. We know that we have won certain demands through j the A. F. of L., and can win a great victory if we just control our union. 2. Our president, Mr. Semson, is 100 per cent union, and we as work- ers and members of the A. F. of L. should help Mr. Semson to put the union over. We can if we will. 3. We workers have seen the com- Pany rent our hall. They do this in order to break up the unity be- tween white and Negro. But we can't let that step our local from meeting or our children from want- ing bread and meat. 4. We know that the company thugs try to break the spirit of the Negro and white by organizing a company union. They saw that we were succeeding. Now they have rented our hall and think that will stop our growing spirit. Are we workers going to stand for that? No! We must fight for bread and meat, as well as union recognition, better working conditions, shorter hours. The Company thugs are talking about our treasurer running away with the money Why? Im order to break up the spirit of the A. F. of L. members, to make us work- ers say that it is no good. But we know that the A. F. of L. is a workers’ union and we are going to push it in Connors Steel Company. Arbitration Hoax Used In Enamel Strike By a Worker Correspondent BELLEVILLE, Ill—Over a week ago, six enamel works closed down here because the enamel workers went out on strike for a ten per cent increase in wages which was promised them six months ago. At a meeting, the leaders were able to fool the workers into ac- cepting arbitration, with an arbi- tration board composed of one doc- tor, one priest and three business men. This Board flatly refused the demands of the enamel workers, al- though some were given a wage raise in order to stifle the unity of the workers. This sell-out must be and will be | answered by a general strike in sup- port of the miners who are sched- uled to strike on April 1st for the six-hour day at $6 a day. April ist must be made the day of struggle not only for the miners |but for the entire working class in Southern Illinois for the six-hour day at $6 a day and the Unemploy- ment, Old Age and Social Insur- }ance Bill. Released Prisoner Praises I, L, D. By a Steel Worker Correspondent SAN BERNARDINO, Cal.—I was released on Dec, 21 from the River- side County Jail where I served eleven months since Jan. 13, 1934, for organizing a union of the orange pickers in order to demand an increase of wages. Six other workers were arrested at that same date. and eight others, including a woman, Comrade Agnes Partridge, were also arrested when they were waiting outside of the Courthouse to attend our trial. All of these workers were placed on charges of blocking the sidewalk. Other work- ers in Colton, San Bernardino, and Redlands were arrested and most of them released, except Comrade Dorothy Zadow of the Y¥.C.L., who is now out on bail. All of this happened at a time when the N.R.A. demagogues were proclaiming their great love for the workers and their Section 7-A was supposed to defend the right of workers to organize in any union of their own choosing. I wish to congratulate the com- rades of the I.L.D. for their won- derful solidarity and determination in defending our cases. Seven of us workers drew sentences ranging from three months up to two years, making a total of 93 months, but {the I.L.D, appealed aur cases and brought that total down to 36 months. Now that the sharpening of the crisis increases the bosses are pre- paring themselves to make addi- tional wage-cuts and lay-offs and for that reason they are pressing anti-working class schemes like the Criminal Syndicalism Law, to pre- vent workers from pratesting against the bosses. Therefore, it is our duty to fight against such laws. All workers, regardless of race, creed, or nationality, union or fra- ternal organization, or party, must support the International Labor De- fense in this struggle. Half the Population Of Lima on Relief By a Worker Correspondent JENERA, Ohio.—I am enclosing a clipping from a local capitalist sheet. The clipping, when trans- lated into plain English, says the following: The City of Lima and Allen County, Ohio have three thousand families on the relief rolls. This means that about fifteen thousand people are on relief, which is about half of the population of Lima. The dispatch also states that this is an all time high. This is the re- sult of two years of the Blue Buz- zard and the great advance towards “recovery.” The story also states that all re- lief had been cut off for one week so that the country would not go over its budget. I presume that F, E. R. A. workers had to fast for the pericd of a week to ten days. Speed-Up Causes Death of Crane Man In Blooming Mill of Illinois Steel By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—What is the mean- ing of speed-up and the disregard fer safety rules? What happened on Saturday, Jan, 26 in the 44-inch blooming mill of the Illinois Steel Company? They say accidents will happen, and sometimes they do, but this wasn’t just an accident. The side crane operator, Nick Voich, went up to oil the machinery of his crane. That left one crane to do the work that was left. This other crane man knew what was going on on the other crane. He also knew that the crane man was on top of the bridge. But, the bosses got excited and began to run around like wild dogs. They got the other crane man exgited and moved the crane at full speed. When it came ciose to the next erane Bixee:, New York City, where the man was oiling he couldn’t stop in time. He bumped the other crane full speed. Now, can any of you steel work- ers decribe what happened to Nick? I know what happened. Nick fell forty feet to the floor {which is laid up with iron plates, and Nie was crushed to nothing. Yet the bosses tell us steel work- ers to obey their safety rules. What is to be done to stop this killing of workers? I would say that un- less we organize and fight the bosses there will be more killing done. Especially now that praduction is up to 40 per cent, there will be no end to it. With the increase in production, the speed-up has also been increased two and three times over. The only thing for us to do is {set in line and let ail of u3 join the Amalgamated Association in Gary, ' The Ruling Clawss SN SS =e By Redfield “Now, don’t you worry your little head, Mr, Mauzer—you supply the strike, we supply the scabs. Militants at Yale Score Victory By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn.—It is obvi- ous that the class conscious stu- dents in our American universities who realize that their place is in the ranks of the workers, fighting side by side with them, are in a strategic position to be of assistance in the class struggle. This letter comes from ultra-conseryative Yale, with its endowment of $90,000,000, where fascist students from Italy have been royally welcomed, and where class distinctions are empha- sized both among the faculty and student body. Here last night the Yale Politi- cal Union, made up of 160 students, held its first meeting. Blessings were sent in the form of a long telegram by President Roosevelt; the president of the University, Da Angell, was present to add his wish that the students reach a “higher level of political development” (meaning, of course, something quite different from what we have in mind); and dinner-jacketed youths were sprinkled throughout the membership, The vroposition to be debateli was, “Resolved, that the United States Should Balance Its Budget.” For an hour and a half four speak- ers gave conventional arguments for and against the proposition; the millions of unemployed were treated as an abstraction, simply a group to be considered. As soon as the formal arguments came to a close, the Conservative wing of the Union (which is divided into Conserva- tives, Liberals and Radicals) pro- posed in a motion that the Federal budget be balanced “without any increase in taxation.” No discus- sion was permitted, and the amend- ment was vated down. Then the radical wing went into action, as inspiring a sight as I have seen in many years. Led by David A. Hedley, a graduate student, they pointed out that not less, but more must be spent on relief and unem- ployment insurance; wages, they said, must rise, and not fall. Funds must be obtained, not by borrowing, but by increased taxation of the rich. Capitalism is not the fairy- godmother of the working class, they said, and if it cannot provide for the workers, it must be replaced with a system of planned produc- tion for use. The success of the Soviet. Union was pointed to as an example of what workers can achieve. Hedley pointed out that the conservatives and liberals were one and the same to the working class, unless the liberals were will- ing to throw their strength behind the workers. He then moved an amendment to the subject of debate as follows: “Resolved. that the budget of the United States should be balanced by slashing expenditures for war and by imposing a graded system of income tax on the upper brackets and in no circumstances by meas- ures which will depress the living standards of the broad masses of people by a sales tax or by cutting relief.” In this he was supported by George H. Soule, editor of the New Republic, who was present as a guest speaker. The amendment was lost by a vote of 77 to 48. The radicals were not through, however. They made a strong plea to the liberals, again showing that by their very inertia they were a danger to the proletariat, and called upon the liberals to abstain with them from voting. The formal vote was taken, and here are the results: For the proposition that the budget be bal- anced, 43; against 46; abstaining from voting, 51. Roosevelt Policy Cuts Relief Pay By a Worker Correspondent FARIBAULT, Minn. — Workers here opened their eyes when they heard that the N.R.A. code wages for cabinet makers in a wood work- ing mill here were as low as 35 eents per hour. of an investigating committee work- ing locally here to determine the average minimum wage paid work- ers in this community. This committee, one of the many set up throughout the state, is to determine the average wage in their community and these are to be sent to the state E.R.A. office where a statewide minimum wage for pri- vate industry can be worked out. This is a result of President Roose- velt’s demand that the relief wages will have to be lower than the pre- vailing local wage in industry s0 that the workers will want to work in the private jobs instead of on relief. In the instructions sent out from the state E.R.A. office to the local committees there is a point about not using SUPPRESSED wage seales. This is only an attempt to make the workers think that this average state wage will be figured out fairly. Throughout the state there are hundreds of small industries. These small plants pay a much lower wage than for instance the large plants employing thousands of workers in the larger industrial centers. By figuring the ayerage wage on the basis of industry and not on the basis of the majority of workers the ERA, state office will come to a much lower wage rate than is paid to the majority of workers. The hundreds of small plants will out- weigh the larger concerns even if they employed only a fraction as many men, As in Faribault, where the average will most likely be be- tween 40 and 45 cents per hour, so will most of the small towns drag down the state-wide average far below the present scale of 55 cents per hour on E.R.A. jobs. F.E.R.A. Workers Organize By a Worker Correspondent NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—F, E. R. A. and unemploy2d workers met last. Thursday at the Lithuanian Hall and took definite steps towards es- tablishing a permanent organiza- tion. Raymond Carlson was elected President, Oliver F. Lincoln was elected as Vice-President, and Frank Gallagher as Secretary- Treasurer. The next meeting is called for Feb. 7 in the same hall. About 60 men have been laid off or fired from the F.E.R.A., and relief is being cut to the bone. During the month of January we had sub-zero weather, with the re- sult that we used up extra fuel for heating. The relief bureau will not give us any more fuel than the regular allotment. These and many other problems make it vitally necessary for us to organize. At the next meeting an execu- tive committee will be elected. It has been suggested that those work- ers who have been discriminated against should be elected to this committee, as this committee will compile grievances, formulate de- mands and call upon the city au- thorities to give its members ade- quate relief, and demand that those who haye been fired be rehired. A.F.L. Leader Delays Strike Action By a Worker Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The work- ers at the McWane Cast Iron Pipe Company heve voted to strike against the firing of nine uni men. V. C. Finch, Alabama rep: ceeded in getting the workers to de- lay action and appeal to the Regional Labor Board. The workers agreed, but no doubt the strike will be on soon in spite of the fakers. The Regional Labor Board has not decided in favor of the workers once since it was formed. The workers have experi- enced the defeats caused by delays nd are not going to tolerate much from the fakers of Roosevelt's resentative of the A. F, of L., suc- strike-breaking apparatus, ¥ This is a claim | Company Union Delegate Makes Triumphant Entrance) By a Worker Correspondent EAST CHICAGO, Ind.—Immedi- ately following lunch time, a very boisterous individual rushed into the machine shop at the Inland Steel Company. He climbed up on a box, and with the tacties of a carnival speiler, directed the atten- tion of the workers to himself, “The company allows me twenty minutes to speak to you men,” he informed the workers with an ex- aggerated air of importance, at- tempting to leave the impression that his time was quite valuable, while the time of many workers was quite unimportant, ‘T am the man that you men elected to represent you last sum- mer,” says he, introducing himself as the company union representa- tive. The workers in the machine shop were dumbfounded. None of them knew the man, and as for voting for him, many workers did not vote in the company union election, Yet, now six months later they are in- troduced to the successful can- didate. Why the delay in getting ac- quainted? The workers would cer- tainly like to know the man that is to represent them. Is it because the company could not spare a few min- utes of his valuable time? Or is it because of the growing discontent among the steel workers and the increasing interests shown in the Feb. 3rd steel conference in Pitts- burgh, and of the mass sentiment in faver of organizing the steel workers and adopting a pragram of action, | “With my ability and you men| 100 per cent behind me, I have won| you an annual vacation with pay,” he continues, referring to the newly adopted policy of Inland Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and| other steel companies of granting| yacations with pay to their older employes. The workers gave him! full credit for his ability. As a! ballyhoo man he is A number one.| But the workers know that it is not ballyhoo that caused the steel companies to decide to give vaca-| tions with pay. It is the knowledge of the steadily improving conditions| of the steel workers in the Soviet! Union brought to the workers through the Communist shop bul- letin and other means. Along with the steady decline of our own liy-| ing standards, that ‘s causing the! workers t» ask questions that are! very embarrassing. | The entire machine shop sat idle for twenty minutes while an at- tempt was made to pacify the work- ers with words, In the eyes of the company it is preferable to lose money by leaving machines stand idle than to pay the workers higher wages, NOTE Every Tuesday we publish let- ters from steel, auto, metal and chemical workers. We urge work- ers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Friday of each week. Hospital, Job Shark Unite in Swindle By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Tll—t paid $10 to the All Trades Employment Bureau, 309 LaSalle Street, for a job at Mercy Hospital. After five hours I had neither the job nor the money, but I had learned a lot about the “sis- ters of Mercy” and their way of do- ing business at Chicago's famous hospital. Other sweat shop employ- ers could take lessons from them. I got the job at $30 a month, room and board. The sister refused to show me my living quarters, how- ever, until after I came to work. No wonder. I wouldn't unpack my clothes. About sixty-five girls were quartered in a narrow, condemned, building. Their quarters were par- titioned off like a beehive. There was no room to turn around. The plaster was off the walls. Every- where was filth. I gulped, but since I needed the job decided to make the best of it. When I turned down the bed I asked for clean linen. I was told that the bedding wouldn’t be changed until the beginning of the week. There was no bath. The basin was so filthy I couldn't wash in it. And the toilet likewise was filthy. I decided to room elsewhere, but still had hopes of getting my money and the board. I was hired as a tray girl, but was put to work washing dishes. When one of the girls found out I was Promised $30 a month, she tipped me off that perhaps I wasn't to get that much. I stopped work and asked questions. Again I was told I was to get $30. Then I got the “board,” what was left after the pa- tients had eaten. And then some one came from the office to tell me a mistake had been made; I was to be paid only $18.50, but because of the misunderstanding they would give me $22. I refused. Then they begged me to stay, promising they would pay a dollar a day if I stayed, until they could get some one else. (That way I was to work off the money paid to the employment agency.) They told me I would get used to the work after a while, I told them I didn’t want to get used to such conditions, and walked out. Back at the employment agency my $10 was refused to me, because I had actually worked five hours, A protest, so far, has led only to the Promise that the agency will help me find another job. These are the conditions. facing young girls who are scrambling for jobs in Chicago today. Fight for Thirey-Hour Week Urged At Meeting of Machinists’ Lodge By a Metal Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — A_ noteworthy meeting of Lodge 556 of the Inter- national Association of Machinists was held on Jan. 24 at the Brook- lyn Labor Lyceum. This lodge em- bodies the organized machinists at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A questionnaire to the goyern- ment workers has been sent out by William I. Siroyich, member of the House of Representatives, The questionnaire asked almost every question under the sun, from the time and place of your birth up to the present. The union had ad- vised its members against filling out these questionnaires, This questionnaire also asked questions regarding working hours and provided a space of four lines for remarks. - Under good and welfare a mem- ber got up and stated that if the questionnaire was to be sent on, he would write the. following in the space allotted for remarks regard- ing working hours: “As to regular hours per day and number of days per week I favor, without reduction in pay, a work- ing week of five days and a work- day of six hours for each day, total: thirty working hours for each week. This to apply to every industry in the country. “Mr. Sirovich, please take note that the last convention of the A. Transient Hospital Likened to Morgue By a Worker Correspondent AKRON, Ohio. — I, the under- signed went to the Transient Bu- reau for Negroes located on N. Howard Street, Akron, Ohio, Sun- day night, Jan. 20, 1935. Being very ill from a near lynch- ing in Franklinton, Louisiana and | from exposure from riding freight | trains, dodging the Southern police, the Federal medical officer sent me to the Salvation Army Hospital for | treatment and instead of a hospital this is what I found. A long barn-like room with a loud printing press overhead, going night and day. Old feeble men, three of which died in the first three nights that I was there. Toilet | facilities, two wash bowls, two toilets stopped up at all times, water three to four inches under- foot with the filth of the toilets floating around like little boats. The food, if it can be called such, is not fit for human consumption. Mornings: cold oatmeal, skimmed milk or synthetic milk, about eight | raisins cold, too; two cold slices of toast, piece of margarine, cold or Juke-warm coffee. Lunch: some | kind of embalmed government | issue meat, cold gravy, half done, cold potatoes, cold cabbage or tur- nips, sour cottage cheese, cold cof- fee, bread and margarine, some- times a cold pudding without any kind of sugar. Supper, is the cold stuff left over from the noon} period. | As far as night gowns or sleep- | ing apparel or a towel goes, you! use the same things from the time | you come in yntil you go out. i This “butcher shop and morgue” | receives one dollar a day for all state patients; $1.50 per day for all transient patients. Yet, the un- employed are forced to work as or- derlies in this place for $10 and $15 per month. Others are foreed to mop, wash dishes for the lousy bunk and food they receive. The patients in Ward “D” and the T. B. Ward have complained to the Federal officers for relief from this treatment. No action has been taken. Do you know unemployed work- ers who can give some time to selling the paper and earning ex- ; Renses? Ask them to write to Daily Worker, 50 Eeast Thirteenth FB. of L. went on record for such a thirty hour week. “Ef would ask that you introduce | a bill in Congress to the effect that | the thirty-hour week become a Na- tional Law, covering every industry in the country. i “You being the sponsor and the bill becoming a national law would | make your name rise in highest esteem in the minds of all clear | thinking workers in the United States.” Under this good and welfare head, Brother Stibzenbauer, who has for {many years been the business agent | of this district asked for the floor jfor five minutes, but before he was ‘through his used time could easily have been multiplied by five. However, he must be given credit for expressing some sentiments for people outside the realm of scien- tific machinistry. centered around the union label and , the union label store, which due to the lack of patronage, faced bank- | uptey. A union made collar can no longer be had, he said, and the scab collars he now is compelled to | wear develop boils on his neck. | He lamented the fact that the | Navy Yard machinists could not slap a union label on the war ships they build. Of significance, was a statement ihe made that the behavior of the His main talk | ‘= YOUR HEALTH fee ee Medieal Advisery Board Periodic Vomiting With Headaches Comrade J. F. of New York writes:—““My mother is forty-four years of age, and is suffering from some sort of ailment we cannot un- derstand. Physically she is fit, meaning, no ear-aches, good teeth, good constitution; the only thing wrong is that she had rheumatism in her arm for the last fifteen years, She complains of headaches, and vomits a yellow liquid and she says this usually happens* about once or twice a month, and she thinks this may be from nervousness. oy a ee Our Reply Your account of your mothet‘s illness would seem to fit into a type of attack known to physicians as migraine, which can be caused by many things, one of them being “aggravation,” that you mention, However, the symptoms you describe are also present in more serious ail- ments like actual disease of the stomach, (ulcer), inflammation of the gall-bladder, or the appendix, or of the colon. To make sure that some more serious condition, such as mentioned above, is not being overlooked, it is necessary: To go very exactly into the his- tory of these attacks, with your mother—in this way getting addi- tional important information; to ex- amine her generally to determine if she really is physically fit, as stated; to X-ray her gall-bladder, stomach and intestines. Thereafter, on the basis of what is determined by these studies, the condition can be treated. Diet, the use of certain special drugs, as well as of sedatives, and attention to emotional factors, are of real help in controlling and elim- inating these attacks. It is neces sary that you seek able advice, | whether that of a physician (if you |can afford it), or at a good general hospital, ek eee | The question has also been asked, incidentally, whether the children of an epileptic brother or sister in- herit the disease. Generally speak- ing the children of an epileptic’s brother or sister would be very un- likely to inherit the condition. Ac- cording to L. S. Penrose, the in- cidence of epilepsy in the family of | epileptics is very low and the chil- dren rarely exhibit a tendency to this type of reaction. The part Played by inheritance in causing epilepsy has been greatly over- emphasized. he 88 Acne Scars F. M.:—There is no treatment which will remoye these scars, Some dermatologists report an im- provement with the use of peeling | pastes, but this treatment must be given under the direct supervision of a physician, The bgchure which you sent us is undoubtedly another one of the usual fake cosmetic advertisements. We shall discuss it in more detail in one of the early issues of our magazine. Pe é - Scented Cold Creams M. T.:—Olive oil rubbed into the skin of the face or elsewhere does not and cannot cause the growth of hair. So far as we know today, no substance has the power of stim- ulating the growth of hair when added or rubbed into the skin. Scented cold creams are usually harmless to most people. Certain individuals are very sensitive to some scented cold creams, usually to the perfume in them. An acute inflammation of the skin may fol- low the use of a perfumed cold cream in sensitive individuals or those places on which the grease was spread. It is impossible to know this in advance. By placing @ little of the cold cream on the skin, covering it with cellophans and then adhesive tape and allow. ing it to stay on for 24 hours, it is possible to test out whether a coid cream will prove irritating. A red or blistered skin where the cream was applied shows it to be irritat- ing to the person on whom the test was performed. Any reliable druggist can let you have the U.SP. cold cream, either scented or unscented. Hither of these is as good as any of the exe pensive advertised cold creams. eo ee Are ‘Hair Removers’ Reliable E. M., High Bridge, Wis.:—There is no “hair remover” on the market which can remove hair permanently or safely. Electrolysis is the only means of safely removing superflu- ous hair. This consists of destroy- ing the hair bud and hair sac with an electric needle. The treatment should be done by an experienced operator. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK For the Medical Advisory Board Magazine I wish to subscribe to the Medi- cal Advisory Board Magazine Enclosed find one dollar for a year’s subscription, Address City... . State.. Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room G10, 80 East 11th Street, New York City I enclose §........-...a8 my immediate contribution to the Seettsboro-Herndon Defense eapiains of indvsir wes turning tout Communists by the thousands. | Fund.