The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1935 HOME LIFE satay yee Aan Barten JHY is it that even the ** Catholic church has late- ly endorsed a “method” of birth control. That it is the birth control? That it is the tha y during certain days of the month can a child be conc d), a method dubbed the most unscien- tific and unreliable of any l- able, is one question. The interest- ing thing is that unless the Catholic Church would an affirmative stand on birth con- take some kind of trol, they would stand to lose pres- tige among the millions of poverty stricken Catholic women. These five years of poverty for the working cl has brought with it a wide demand on the part of working class women for birth con- trol information. They have as- serted in growing numbers their Tight ‘to decide themselves whether or-not they shall bring another be- ing into the disorder of this capi- talist world. Therefore even reli- gi6us groups have seen they must take a stand s6MIRTH among indigent mothers in 1934 increased more than | 250,000 over the previous years.” This was the statement of the president of the American Birth Control League. Whether or not there was an analysis of the reasons for this I | do not know. But it is clear that the existence of federal laws against the dissemination of birth control, the impossibility of ob- taining birth control materials in many places, the prices charged by | many existing clinics and private | doctors make it more and more im- Possible to the increasing numbers of poverty stricken women to avail themselves of birth control meas- ures. Relief checks cover food and shelter scantily. The fact that in individual cases relief organizations give birth control information does not solve the problem of millions | of women. | Simpiy to have bills passed re- Ppealing laws prohibiting the giving out of birth control information, though good, will not solve the| question as a whole. The Working | Woman magazine has stated the problem very clearly. The basic need is for free birth control clinics for the wives of unemployed, free | dissemination of birth control knowledge. What is the opinion of you read- ers about the advisability of such a campaign? Discuss this problem with your neighbors, in your clubs, | lodges, fraternal organizations. What is your opinion of these things? Are the women you are associated with confronted with | this problem? Use this column as e@ forum. | AS your organization sent in to} the Working Woman your} bundle order for the International | ‘Women’s Day (March) issue yet? ‘This is the year's special number, ; and you should order early in order | to have it in time for your Inter- national Women’s Day meetings. Up to five copies the price is five cents per copy; from five to twenty- five copies, the price is four cents per copy; more than twenty-five copies, the price is three and a half | cents per copy. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2181 is available in sizes | 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 nd 44. Size 36 takes 3% yards inch fabric. Illustrated step-by- | fep sewing instructions included. Ad 218! e/ \ 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 style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, ae | Labor Unemployed Council of Di | Statistics shows the decline in week- | gan in June, 1933: Alteration Painter Hails Proposal To lerge Unions By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK-—I think that I am speaking for the overwhelming ma- jority of the members of the Altera- tion Painters Union, if not for all of them, when I say when I that heard about the plans of our union to unite the members of our organi- zation and the Brotherhood under one banner, I felt really enthusiastic and encouraged. Of course, it is true that at first) some of the members of the A-P.U. got up and hotly resisted this pro- posal, especially the old time for- mer members of the Brotherhood. They gave as their objections the main reasons they had for orginally leaving the A. F. of L. They hated the system of corruption and favor- itism, they disliked the lack of trade union democracy, and they were bit- ter about the high dues and assess- ments, but most of all they cursed, yes actually cursed, the policy of the Brotherhood, whereby their living conditions had gotten so rotten. And there certainly were some hot dis- cussions in the locals. But as always happens, when the raw and backward workers are shown the real correct thing, they follow it. The members of the union who had been most active, who were really sincere about organizing the trade and who understood the po- litical importance of going into the Brotherhood at this time, finaily convinced those of us who had hesi- tated at first and were skeptical One of the best arguments these leaders advanced—and particularly the Communists who seemed from the very beginning to see this very clearly—was that the bosses were trying. and very often successfully, to use one union against the other, at the expense of the workers. For they showed us that conditions in either one of the unions copld not be maintained when the other did not also maintain conditions. And we also saw that the great mass of unorganized were a constant threat to the organized workers, unless we made it our business to organize them also. But since the A. F. of L was always trying to destroy us and we were always trying to maintain | ourselves, this fight between us was} leading the unorganized to become disgusted with both unions and to resist organization in either. Today, I feel that the sooner we all get together into one big union and turn our attention to fighting the bosses and those who work with them, for better conditions and the maintenance of them, all the work- ers will be better off. General membership meeting Fri- day, Feb. 8th, Stuyvesant Casino, 8 p.m. Bring your union book. $1.80 Relief for Family of Five By a Worker Correspondent JOPLIN, Mo.—A certain family were without groceries or fuel. The man wemt to the Welfare to get both, but they said they would have to send an investigator first. It was several days before she came out, and when she did she gave them an order for groceries at $1.88. On this a family of five was supposed to live for a week. They had three school children in the family, too. The family was allowed only one half a ton of coal for the month, and if they ran out they were sup- posed to freeze for the rest of the month. The investigator was asked how a family of five could live on that and fix lunches for the children. She said that she did not expect them to. They were just helping them along. This is in a land of plenty. Workers, organize rank and file organizations everywhere against such conditions. 5 Montana Farmers Jailed in ‘Penny’ Sale PLENTYWOOD, Montana, Feb. 6. —Five farmers and a worker weze arrested at Westby, near here, by U. S. Deputy Marshals on charges growing out of a “penny sale” held by 600 farmers in September to stop a foreclosure proceeding agalnst Victor Nelson, young farmer. The defendants, Victor Nelson, Alfred Hjelm, E. C. Ferguson, Elmer Bodin, Carl Christofferson, Westby farmers, and Simon Swanson, Plentywood worker, are to appear before Federal Judge Miller, Fed- eral Court, Minot, N. D. The defense for all seven is being arranged by the International La- bor Defense. A United Front De- fense Council, composed of the United Farmers League, the Farm- ers Holiday Association, the Farmer- yide County, N. D., and the Farmer- Labor Council of Williams County has been formed. Teamsters Union of Reading Endorses H. R. 2827 READING, Pa., Feb. 6.—Local 429 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Helpers, endorsed the Workers’ Unemploy- ment, Old Age and Social Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 2827, They also voted support to the Pittsburgh teamsters on strike against the At- lantic and Pacific stores. A cam- paign to secure the endorsement of trade unions, social and fraternal bodies as well as the Socialist Party is being put into effect here. Describes Robbery Of Sharecroppers By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—In a recent issue of the Daily Worker, I read an article by a sharecropper correspondent from Chambers County, Ala., des- cribing the condition of the poor} laboring people in that area who| work all year round, at the end of which these impoverished share- croppers owe the landlord more than they have made. I used to live in Bolivar County, | Miss., and the same conditions pre- | vail there. I was employed by a commissary on an estate which had | 200 acres in cultivation, including | for the most part cotton, a little | corn and alfalfa. | The Negroes were given dilapidat- | ed shacks of two and three rooms to | live in for families ranging from three to twelve without anything in the way of sanitation or even run- ning water or lights, We used to overcharge them for everything they purchased (food, clothing, against their account. We sold the cotton and told them that we could not sell it at all, or that we got very little for it. We also Joaned them money on any valu- ables they left with us and charged them interest ranging from 50 to 100 per cent, which they never could pay, and after having paid us many times the value of the article they had to leave it with us. Then we| sold the valuable to somebody else. I haven't the patience to write, otherwise I could tell you of hun- dreds of cruelties and swindles which we inflicted on these poor people. New England Legion Bill Is Opposed CONCORD, N. H., Feb. 5.—Mrs. Elba Chase, prominent New Hamp- shire Communist, and the Commu- nist Party's candidate for Governor in the last election, led a strong op- Position against the fascist forces of New Hampshire at a public hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives here. The occasion was the public hear- ing on a bill entered under the sponsorship of th American Legion denying the right of place on New Hampshire election ballots of “any party which advocates the over- throw by force or violence, or which advocates or carries on a program of sedition or of treason by radio, speech or press, of our local, state, or national government. Win a free trip to the Soviet Union, a free vacation in a work- ers’ camp, or cash. Join the Daily Worker subscription contest. Write to 50 E. 13th Street. WAGE SLASHING IS CORNERSTONE OF NEW N.R.A. CODES | By CARL REEVE EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the fourth of a series of articles on the results of the N. R. A. Bee Latest government figures reveal the startling fact that not only have the real wages of the workers de- | clined, but that the wages of the! workers in dollars have declined in| most basic industries under the N./ R. A. When the N. R. A. started, | Roosevelt, said that one of its main | purposes was to increase wages, to “raise the purchasing power” of the workers. The following extracts from a re- cent table of the Bureau of Labor ly average wages since N, R. A. be- Nov. | June 1933 June 1934 1934 Automobiles $23.05 $22.54 $22.80 Boots and Shoes 15.68 17.20 «14.51 Tobacco (and snuff) 1343 13.70 12.84| Iron and Steel 18.33 23.86 17.43 | Rubber Tires | (and tubes) 24.28 23.48 22.67 Wooten Textiles 16.85 16.07 16.25 | In those industries where the average wage went up a little, it went up (silk and rayon) at the expense of large sections of skilled |bor Statistics is interested in mak- | | and semi-skilled workers whose wages declined. These figures are | than wiped out in the above indus- | velt said, “ remembered that they are the aver- age wage, including the highest paid workers, and that the bureau of La- ing out a case in favor of the N-R.A. These figures show that in most of the main industries, not only have the real wages (as shown in a previous article) declined in all industries at least 3.2 per cent by admission of government figures, BUT THAT THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES IN DOLLARS HAVE GONE DOWN UNDER N. R. A. IN MANY BASIC INDUS- TRIES. In the auto, boot and shoe, to- bacco, iron and steel, woolen tex- tile, rubber tire, and many other industries, the average wage in dollars has declined. Add to this the fact that the cost of living has gone up by the admission of government figures, 11.3 per cent for clothing and 15.3 per cent for food, and the condition of the workers under N, R. A. can be pictured. ‘The N.R.A. publicity department, as well as the Department of Labor, tries to cover up these figures by ballyhooing the slight increase in HOURLY rates under N. R. A. But furni- | ture. etc.). All of this was charged | The Ruling Clawss By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBUS, Ohio — For many years the Columbus Chamber of Commerce has pushed a “Civic Cen- ter” on the banks of the Scioto, The center now includes the State Office Building, Central High School, a new Federal Building, the City Hall, and a jail with an artistic exterior. The first addition to this imposing group will be a naval armory. a site on the north bank of the The construction of a naval armory at this time is, of course, in step with the growth of American fas- cism, As in other cities, the river banks in Columbus have been nests of tenements and dilapidated homes, the most poverty stricken section in the community. The realtors’ purge | drove south on Front Street, and jup the side streets. Disgraceful | dwelling places have been razed, but | the workers who lived in them have found others just as bad. At the By Redfield Mr, Van Gelt 1s a pacifist—he couldn’t muscle in on the munition industry.” Armory, Jail, School and Offices Comprise Civic Center in Columbus center of Columbus, however, the tourist now will see nothing insult- ing. ‘The naval armory will.make the Columbus Civic Center a complete monument to capitalist democracy— @ navy armory, office buildings, a jail and a school. Beside these, the observer may stand on West Broad Street bridge and see to the north the filthy gray walls of Ohio’s over- 5 |crowded penitentiary. The Civic The City Council recently deeded | Genter must certainly gratify the Scioto as a location for the armory. | heart of every Columbus citizen who, like Candide, feels this the best of all possible worlds. Public works are supposed to pro- vide work for the poor, one more system of outdoor relief. The City Hall, an important part of the cen- ter, will have a new wing soon, a P.W.A. job. At least one of the com- panies under contract for a part. of the job, working presumably under N.R.A. conditions, pays its workers less than code wages, One can reasonably expect similar arrange- ments for the construction on the armory. | Jobless Council Member |Dies of Malnutrition By a Worker Correspondent AMBRIDGE, Pa.—Paul Wukelich, member of the Unemployed Coun- cil and the John Reed Branch of the International Labor Defense in Ambridge, died a week ago in the Monaca Hospital. Comrade Wukelich had been ill several weeks, having been sent |home from an R.W.D. project. His | regular doctor refused to see him in his home, stating that he was {well enough to come to the office to see him, The case was criminally neglected by the relief authorities as well. It Was only through the militant ef- forts of the Unemployed Council that another doctor was arranged for and the relief authorities forced to take him to the hospital. Upon the death of the comrade, hospital officials said that if the pa- tient would have been brought there a bit sooner his life would have been saved. The doctor that was brought into the case analyzed it as a case of malnutrition and im- proper living conditions. A case like this should steel the workers to more determination in building the Unemployed Council, which through mass action and militant struggle fights for more relief, medical attention and decent living conditions for the unem- ployed workers. the yearly average of hours worked per week declined from 49.4 in 1929 to 36.4 in 1933 and to 34 in October, 1934. (Figures of National Indus- trial Conference Board.) Some idea of the tremendous speed-up inaugurated under N. R. A. can be obtained from the foi- lowing statement of William Green (based on government figures.) “For every 100 units of product turned out by an average factory worker in 1919, 171 are turned out today in the same amount of time.” It isno wonder that while the real | wages of the workers declined and unemployment increased (see ar- ticle 1), that profits went up one thousand per cent in 1933 and 112 per cent in 1934 over 1933, making | $430,500,000 profit for 290 big cor- porations in 1934. New Wage Cuts Planned Now that Roosevelt is reorganiz- ing the N.R.A., a new wage cut | drive has been launched. Already | the wage cutting principle of the bill Roosevelt is preparing for Con- gress, to reorganize the N.R.A., has been made clear. | The intention to cut wages fur- ther in the reorganized N.RA. was made clear by Roosevelt in his mes- this increase in hourly rates is more | sage to Congres on Jan, 4, Roose- pensation on emer- a the more striking, when it is| tries when it is zemembered that gency public projects should be Negroes Jim-Crowed In Relief Office By a Worker Correspondent CACHE, Ill.—People are being cut off relief here, and still they have people sitting down all day, draw- ing money %soth in Cache and Cairo. They Jim-Crow the Negro people in handing out their orders. The whites can go inside and get their orders, while the Negroes have to wait for theirs on the outside. They are keeping the people off relief here because they have no organization, They haven't even got as common a thing as the unem- ployment council here, Work Becoming Scarcer Every Day By a Worker Correspondent GREENVILLE, Mich, — Out here work is becoming more scarce every day, and the cost of living rising higher. The shops are running very light that are running, and some are not running at all. The state and federal jobs amount to very little in Greenville. We are just half way living and that is all. j Some families are very near starv- ings larger than the amount now re- ceived as a relief dole, but at the same time not so large as to encour- age the rejection of opportunities for private unemployment or the leaving of private employment to engage in government work.” Roosevelt emphasized this wage cutting principle further, “The proj- ects undertaken should be select and planned so as to compete as little as possible with private enter- prises.” Roosevelt has been making use of the low and decreasing wage on work relief in order to lower the whole wage standard of the workers. The work relief wage set by the Roosevelt government was previously the magnificent sum of 30 cents an hour. A full week was not worked in most cases. But Roose- velt considered that this: starvation wage “competed” with private in- dustry. So his relief director, Harry Hopkins announced on Nov. 22, 1934 that the thirty cents an hour minimum on work relief was aban- doned, and no minimum would be set. Since that time the work relief wage in the South has been cut in half in many cases and drastically reduced in other sections of the country | If you leave a few pin feathers you BOSTON, Mass. — The Banner Shoe shop crew of 300 went on strike Wednesday of last week, demanding the 15 per cent of their wages that had been deducted from them for the last three weeks. When the crew appeared for their pay on Friday they were told by Mr. Beareck, the Socialist lawyer of the union and at the same time acting as the lawyer for the firm, that the shop had been turned over to the cfeditors and only by Wednes- day when the creditors were to meet will the workers be informed as to when they are to receive their pay. Mr. Barney Feldman, the “radical” boss, has been after the union for the last two months for a 15 per cent reduction which he did not get. A few weeks ago he called the work- ers in the shop and told them that unless he was granted a 15 per cent reduction he would have to close the shop down, This “radical” went fur- ther than that, he started to take the machinery apart and move it to his farm in Lynnfield, Mass. When the workers saw that their jobs were at stake, many of them demanded that the union grant the boss a re- duction, At that time, the union was con- fronted with similar demands from all the manufacturers in Boston. The workers voted against giving any such reduction. Despite that, the Boston Joint Council decided to notify the Banner to go ahead and manufacture shoes and “that a sat- isfactory adjustment of wages to ' |Boston Shoe Shop Strikes For Back Pay, Against Cut By a Shoe Worker Correspondent j both sides would be reached.” The amount or the date were not set by the Council. In the middle of January. the | Boston shoe manufacturers deducted 1 per cent of the wages of all shoe | workers, This attack of the manu-| facturers aroused the workers to the point of demanding strike action to restore the cut and the back pay.} Following negotiations, the Eastern Shoe Manufacturers Association | agreed to pay back the 744 per cent reduction and the Council agreed keel take a referendum on whether the | manufacturers shall be granted a/ wage cut not to exceed 10 per cent. On Thursday, Jan. 24 the referen- | dum was held and by a vote of eight to three the Boston shoe workers yoted down the recommendation of the Joint Council to grant a wage) cut of 10 per cent. As a result of| this referendum, no wage cut was! granted to any of the manufacturers | and all the back pay Was given back to the workers. | Only in two shops, the Banner | and the Prospect, a wage cut of 15| per cent and 744 per cent respec- tively was enforced. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the workers | of the Banner Shoe at a shop meet- | ing with the Joint Council voted to} demand their back pay of 15 per | cent and empowered the Joint Council to take strike action imme- diately upon the refusal of the firm | to accede to this demand. On the/ following day, when the firm refused | to comply, the workers struck one | hundred per cent. | | Armour Pays Girls! Below Code By a Worker Correspondent WICHITA FALLS, Tex.—I am writing this article at the request of a girl who works in the Armour Creameries. This young woman has begun to see that only through or- ganization will the workers be able to obtain any improvement in wages and conditions. “Maybe one of those papers you | are always showing around will print a piece about the place where I} work,” she said to me. Certainly | something should be said about this | place which counts dead chickens to be of more importance than living human beings. | | One hundred and fifty women! and girls and a few men pick and clean the chickens for Armour} creameries. Their bodies are smeared | with blood and offal from the dead birds. These workers pick a shackle of four chickens clean for nine cents. must go over it on your own time. It is hard for a fast picker to earn over a dollar a day; and then you may find that the foreman has fig- ured something out of your pay envelope at the end of the week. The chicken code provides a mini- mum of two and a half cents for each fowl picked. But the N.R.A. is a pal of Armour and Company, so these Wichita Falls workers are cheated out of a penny on each shackle. “If you women don’t like it,” the) manager bawls, “there are plenty of Mexicans and Negroes who will be glad to take the job for less than what we are paying you.” Here is a good example where the bosses use the question of race to keep down > the wages of the workers of all races. | The rest rooms provided by Ar- | mour are filthy, being nothing but dark and unsanitary purveyors of disease. When a worker has occasion to go to the rest room, she is told by the foreman to “make it snappy.” The women must clean up the rest room on their own time. There is no provision for compen- sating injured workers. If a knife slips and cuts a hand to the bone, the worker receives a smear of iodine instead of cash for lost time. What does Armour care about one working woman more or less? NOTE Every Thursday we publish let- ters from farmers, sharecroppers, agricultural, cannery, and lumber workers. We urge farmers and workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. “Flexibiilty” and “Yearly” Wage Roosevelt has attempted to force further wage cuts on the workers in the reorganized N.R.A. by putting forth the idea of a “flexible” wage in the reorganized codes, and prop- agandizing that a lower wage scale would increase yearly average wages. President Roosevelt said in one speech, “It is not very useful to pay a man ten dollars a day if he is em- ployed only sixty-five days a year. (New York World Telegram editorial Jan. 29,) Of course, the plan is to reduce the wage scale under cover of this propaganda, and thus reduce the whole living standard of the work- ers and increase profits. The yearly average will be lowered and not raised. The intention of Roosevelt to re- duce wages was further seen in the statement of Ickes, secretary of in- N.G. Recruits Faint} On Drill Floor By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—A few nights ago, | when a detail of about forty recruits | was being drilled by Lieutenant | McQueeney in the toilet room of the 165th Regiment Armory at 26th Street and Lexington Avenue, three young recruits fainted, apparentiy | from malnutrition and had to be taken from the ranks. The first young worker showed | symptoms of fainting and was taken aside shortly after his detail was} moved from the gym hall to the} toilet room which was the only space available as the main h was being used as a tennis court by some idle rich. Shortly afterwards, the second | young worker showed signs of weak- | ening and was placed with the first victim who had already made two unsuccessful attempts to rejoin his} detail. At about ten o'clock the third young worker fell, face downwards, and was carried off, to add one more to the list of casualties for the night. All were attended by what appeared to be the regimental doc- tor. All three appeared to your} correspondent to be under age. The Lieutenant made the remark to one of the victims, but meant for | all of us, that he should eat before | coming on the drill floor. | Mortgage Foreclosures On the Increase By a Worker Correspondent BRISTOL, S. D.—The increased | need of more active farmers’ and | workers’ organizations is shown by the renewal of mass mortgage fore- closures here in Day County, South | Dakota, i Because of the farmers using| mass action in stopping mortgage foreclosures, our county papers have carried but few of these ads for the past several months, until the last few weeks, when they increased to around fifteen and seventeen in one paper alone, besides those carried in other papers. ‘This along with the large number of farmers and lesser number of workers (because they are more ac- tive in fighting for relief) that are being laid off relief work here, shows the burning need of us farmers and workers taking a more active part in building rank and file controlled organization, and putting more push behind the Farmers Emergency Re- | | lief Bill CHLR. 3471) and the Work- |ers Unemployment Insurance Bill | (LR, 2827). To do this we must more generously support our. press and give it wider circulation. would be given “fair consideration.” The N.R.A., in its statement giving the basis for the hearings now going on in Washington regarding reor- ganization of the N.R.A., hinted at these coming wage cuts. The Na- tional Industrial Recovery Board statement this month declared that, the wage differentials, which makes particularly Negroes work for less pay, “are to be treated as signifi- cant realities of the present situa- tion.” In other words, it has already been decided to maintain the dif- ferential and thus assure the manu- facturers of a supply of cheap labor. The N.LR.B. further declared that “greater simplicity, flexibility and uniformity are possible and desir- able” ix the new codes. This flexi- bility means that new wage cuts will be enforced. The Roosevelt government, in re- terior, that building trades workers who are employed on P.W.A. works must work below the union scale. Ickes said, “Conceivably we can make an agreement with labor so that we can pay lower raies and offer year round work.” (New York Times, Noy. 23, 1934.) This wage cutting proposal was made to the A. F. of L. leaders and William Green responded that it organizing the N.R.A, while reject- ing the thirty hour week with full pay, intends to revise the codes so as to decrease wages still further. The Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Association, in their White Sulphur Springs conference, ordered a wage cut, drive, Reosevelt is now putting through this wage slashing drive for the Medieal Advisery Board Repeated Colds in Children . S. of New York, Inquires how she develop resistance against colds in her child, now past four years of age. The inquirer failed to mention a number of things about her child that would be necessary for us to know before attempting any satis- may |factory reply. Among other things, we should like to know whether there is a family history of sensitiv- ity, such as hay fever, asthma, eczema. Also, does the child have colds at all times of the year, are these colds accompanied by an ele- vation of temperature? If so, how long does the fever last and how quickly does the child recover? Is the child subject to mouth breath- ing? Further. has the child large tonsils and adenoids? If the tonsils and adenoids were removed, how long ago were they removed? Is the child subject to frequent headaches and profuse nasal discharge? Tonsils, Adenoids, Sinus Trouble Ts two most frequent causes of recurrent colds are enlarged ton- sils and adenoids, and sinus trouble. Often the sinus trouble is secondary to enlarged and infected tonsils and adenoids. Even after the tonsils and adenoids have been removed, they sometimes grow back, despite the fact that the original operation may have been performed by an excel- lent surgeon and well done. The sinus infection in children can best be proven by thorough ex- amination of the nose and throat by either a competent child special- ist or ear, nose and throat specialist. X-rays of the sinuses at four years of age are notoriously inadequate, in view of the fact that frequently the sinuses at this age are not suffi- ciently developed to show up on X- ray. If your child has enlarged and dis- eased tonsils and adenoids, the first thing to do would be to remove them as soon as the general condi- tion of the child permits. If the child already has had his tonsils removed, an attempt should be made to determine the status of the sinuses. If the sinuses are involved, no radical treatment should be at- tempted, rather the child’s nutri- tion should be taken care of and a blood examination made to see whether or not the child is anemic. If anemia exists, appropriate treat- ment should be undertaken. In some cases vaccines will prove of value in raising resistance against colds. RCA © Ultra-Violet Rays 'HERE are some who advise the use of ultra-violet rays for in- creasing an individual's resistance against colds. The whole business about these sun-ray machines has been overworked, although for cer- tain specific conditions, such as the prevention and the cure of rickets, in certain skin conditions, etc., ultra violet light is of specific benefit. The companies manufacturing these lamps have created the impression among lay people that they are a cure-all for all sorts of illnesses. Of course, taking your child to a warm equable climate during these rigorous winter days would be of great benefit not only to your child, but for yourself; but such advice while very rational, would be a mockery from working class doctors to workers. * Chasing the Devil SUBSCRIBER to the new Med- ical Advisory Board magazine, “Health and Hygiene,” sends the following letter with his dollar: “T realize the value of your Health and Hygiene magazine. 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