The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 HOME irk —_ By.— Arn Barton K I just J read umn about the girl who fe married because Tt boy friend only makes $22 a week I know this is not enough for peo- ple to the thing ple going she can get bi live on decently is, are these two you! until she gets a job o1 e before they start living a , then they might as well| Things aren't going to just us standing back The thing to do her fight conditions. organizing h ; work in the women’s etc., for the lowering That way they will find hap- he can movements of prices on foods, rents, etc. he only dollars a week a and we li few months la ence. In this everlasting fight the right to live, we learned y things. We learned to be class-conscious workers, to study and to find our way out of the crisis together—the Communi: way o “NJOW we're married three years and we have a baby, ten months old. My husband is work- ing in a large shop and is doing his best to organize the workers so bet- ter conditions can be gotten. We live on $18 a week and that’s not steady. But I go to all the free eink and demand the things J know my baby should have. I had him in one of the best hospitals in town by demanding that they take me almost free of charge. When there's no work. we go to the relic?, and demand milk for our baby ard we fe If we can't get it alo We get other work to suppozt ou demands. We don't beg for charity, we demand the fruits of our labor. and that of the labor of the rest of the working-class “The sooner people lose their “pride” and realize they are not above, but part of a vast impov: ished class, that much faster will the bosses have to give the work- ers unemplevment insurance.” ROM P. M. “I write not what I would do, but what I have done, in a parallel situation. I dislike as much anyone else to live in the miserable rat, hole that millions of workers have to call homes. I head to adjust myself to such things as toilets in the halls, lack of daylight, insufficient furniture. Our income has not been greatly, if at all in cess of the $22 a week the gi! suitor is eavning. Starved as I am for music, art, etc. I find great ha s in my married life. But it is only as staunch comrades that ™man and wife can conquer. The girl must be sure however, that her fience means more to he standard of living. . .” 'HE letter of the girl who wrote the Daily Worke:, stated the problems of tens of thousands of | frustated youth, who feel they can- Pat 14, 16, 18, 42. 2147 is available in sizes 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and Size 36 takes 5% yards 39 inch fabric. Tlustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included. | | | parent than her | Describes Raid of Police On Chicago Workers’ Hall By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—This is an eye- is account of the raid at our 1118 W. Madison St., on Sat Jan. 26 by the plain clothes men For burly detectives came at about 7:30 p. m into They oF THE Quw looked around. Only about thirty people were there at that time. Sam Boyd and Eric Frank were about to come up the stairs then, when De- tective Lynch stuck a gun into the stomach of Boyd. Not recognizing the officer and thinking that this was a hold-up, they resisted. This was the signal or excuse for the raid. In all the-e were thirteen detec- tives, a block square filled with patrol wagons, machine guns and oH NS sESTy Squad cars. Sam Boyd was severely Of Fired Worker By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am working for the past three years for the Caruso! Restaurant, at 33rd Street where Sam Karris was fired for exposing the Company Union. This Company Union, known as the “Mutual Aid Association of the Employees of Caruso Restaurants” Was organized during the last gen- erel strike of the Hotel workers, in | order to prevent us from joining the rest of the workers on strike. Thi kitchen workers refused to join the company union. So the heads of the devartments started to work on their help. Mr. Dietz, the Head Waiter at the | 33rd Street Restaurant, told us at a meeting last October, “if want to work here, you have to in she Company Union or else get out Most of the dining room workers forced into the Company were Union. At the elections, however, we voted for Sam Karris as our rep- resentative. We knew that Sam will never sell us to the Company but the management refused to ac- | cept our choice and appointed some one else, The management decided to stop us by firing our leader, Sam Karris. The Hotel and Restaurant Work- ers Union Local 119 and our group | immediately issued a leaflet to all workers of Caruso Restaurants. We sent Sam Karris to register a com- Piaint with Harry Spiegel, the secretary of the Company Union The answer of this agent of th bosses was that “our” Association. beaten. The beating started in the hall and was finished at the Des- Plaines Street Station. To top it off Mr. “Murphy” Adair came into the cell of Boyd and Frank and threw a pail of ice water at them. Our hall was a mess of wreckage when the vandals got through with it. The detectives acted like bunch of dope fiends. They actually foamed at their mouths as they proceeded to beat up the workers in the hall. The detective that stood al | at the door was so heavy with whis- | key that his stinking breath could be smelled half way down the stairs. Women who ceme to the dance were told to go home. Some were cursed at and insulted. Workers standing on the sidewalk were indignant. Comments such as, “You can’t even dance any more, and “T never saw such brutality,” were heard ti(reck ETAOI AOIN AOIN 2fififf Floyd Walker, candidate for Al- de:man in the 27th Ward, now srv- ing fifty-three days in Bridewell for demanding relief at Union Park Relief Station, is the organizer of branch No. 1 of the Unemployment Councils, located in this hall Precinct captains in this ward have been intimidating the signers of petitions circulated in his behalf. This hall was known throughout the city as a place where action could be gotten when grievances were presented and whe:e workers could have a good time at our affairs It was a menace to the political | machine in the 27th Ward. They | thought that through terror and intimidation they could stop the workers from organizing, |Pay at Hospital | | By a Worker Correspondent UTICA, N. Y. — I am enclosing | copies of two letters, one request: ing information from the N. R. A. as to what are the regulaticns con- cerning hospital employes, and the jother a renly we received from. the |office of the State Director of ihe N. R. A. Our letter follows: Dear Sir: We are |N.R. A. | working hours? My husband is em- ployed as fireman at St. Lukes Hos- pital, His pay is forty-five dollars per month besides his room and board. He is employed as night fireman writing in regards to the and works twelve hours every night | with the excention of Friday night | When he goes to work at twelve | midnight and works until seven in the morning. He works at the rate of 12% cents | per hour and it looks very unreason- |long hours a day at such low pay. | A man is a human being. His |body needs rest. Besides, what can be done on such wages? Groceries and food are getting higher from week to week. You can’t help but notice that the price on butter and meat and other foodstuffs is three or four cents higher. are rising, they pay twelve and a half cents an hour for a twelve- one to pay rent, buy fuel, vay for jelectric besides ot iting. We want to know ie; and the number of w While prices hour day. How do they expect any buving food and) ay zessities? Now that is why | white lawyer who has four in ais WinRe-instatement 121% Cents an Hour| | The Ruling Clawss “I'd like to ask Brother Jones picket line yesterday?” Thousands Deprived of Franchise In Effort to Block Workers’ Vote! By a Worker Correspondent SAN DIEGO, Calif—Out of the 121,527 vegistered voters in San Diego county, 27,271 have been | stricken off the rolls, about 23 per cent! prive these voters of their fran- chise, is that they didn’t vote either at the primaries or the general elections of last year. There is great significance in this move to the working class, for the real cause What are the rules and | of this promptness in striking off names of voters from the registered Communist votes of over 100,000 for Whitney, and the huge Sinclair votes of last fall. Imperial county. in which lies the Imperial Valley, scene of the now | historical struggles of agricultural workers for the right to live and for better conditions, was even more in able to ask a man to put in twelve | |@ hurry to strike off names of voters from their register. | Out of a total of 22,000 registered ‘ReliefAdds Burden To Home Worker By a Worker Correspondent AUSTIN, Tex.—The conditions of home laundry work are of such nature that they are actually un- livable. do the laundry for a family. The laundry is in my house four weeks before it is called fe The technical reason used to de- list, undoubtedly lies in the huge | By Redfield | | | why the hell he was standing on a | voters, 6,500, or over 33 and 1-3 per} | cent were stricken from the great | register of Imperial county! 3,000 of the names stricken off, were of | voters in Brawley and El Centro| alone! The state league of municipalities | has recently been engaged in| making a survey of election officials | | throughout the state asking sug- | gestions on changes in election laws. | |The workers of California should | | keep a sharp eye on this outfit and | their attempts to disfranchise the} | working-class vote, legally or ille- gally. For example, City Clerk Wright of San Diego, in response to the} league's queries, recommends that a ‘change in hours at the polls 2/ made. Instead of having the polls open like at present, from 6 a. m. to | |7 p. m. which gives the workers | | who actually have full time jobs, a ‘chance to vote, Wright wants the | | Polls opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 6 p. m., a direct move to disfran- chise workers. | Macy’s Plan Is Blow At Wage Standard | By a Macy Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — “Land of oppor- tunity,” was the slogan which paralyzed us for action. But Macy’s has made the first move in a plan to level all jobs and destroy what- |ever difference there was in wages ecn skilled and unskilled work- | Unemployed Youth | Pullman CarPort _ | families have small children in them meaning the Company Unicn, “did net and will not protect anybody | on the job.” This convinced even those workers who were sceptical before | With reference to your letter, re- | Ou» Union pressed the question | Westing information as to hours of the reinstatement from the out-|®0d wages due a hospital employe, | side, we from the inside intensified | We Tearet to advise establishments our agitation; recruited members |°f Such classification are not sub- into our Union, got connections and | ject to provisions of the N. R. A. established organization practicaily |*"4 therefore this office has no in all Caruso Restaurants. | Jurisdiction over the matter. The management now began to} Very truly yours, bribe us with steaks; but it was too | W. J. MURRAY. late. Before they fed us with food | - that was fit for the garbage can. NOW STEAK DINNERS! We accep‘ed the steaks but we ing hours the N. R. A. calls for. here is the answer we got Daily Worker Sellers: Tell us | about your experiences in selling the Daily Worker. Send your let- He pays $1. This means that Ian) paid at the rate of 25c per week to | &S: ‘ : | do laundry for a family of four, and| “Sparks,” the company magazine, | I heve to wait four weeks for the | presents the plan—‘Internal Per- | pay. Every day some member of |Sonnel Exchange a carefully | his family comes by to get one or | Selected grovy trained to do several two pieces of it, and this stops my | Kinds of work. One part time sales work and wastes fuel because of | Clerk was found to be an excellent these little amounts wanted, When | Stenographer as weil. She is now the week is gone, the money which |@0 I. P. E. and svends vart “ her the work is worth is all gone for ex- | day selling, part of it doing steno- cess fuel, | graphic work.” Two other workers I worked one day cleaning and pees also mentioned, one a tiles | washing for a woman. At the end Salesman,” the other an exper of that day, as the. woman and her | “comptometer operator. husband were bringing me home in| The I. P. E. is “to cope with tem- | | thei: car, she asked me how much | borary emergencies when extra work | I wanted for the work. I said $2.| requires more neople” (that is in| |continued the fight for the -ein- statement of Sam Karris, until Mr. | Bloom, the president of the Caruso Restaurants was forced to rein- | state Sam Karris at the 34th Street Restaurant. ‘Child’s Death, Frame-up ~ a, Give Lesson in Capitalist Justice ters to 50 E. 13th St. Subscriptions are the important need of the Daily Worker. Get subs from shopmates, members in your trade union or fraternal or- ganization, Her husband said. “Two dollars? Why, peonle in Houston are glad to work all day for what they can leat. You ought to be glad to get |50 cents. What do you think about those people in Houston?” I told him. “I think that is why they are having to work for food—because they aren't paid.” I was working |for money, I said, so I could buy food. He was so angry that he drew | up at the curb in the middle of the By a Worker Correspondent NORFOLK, Va.—It is no concern of the ruling class when the chil- dren of the unemployed die from lack of medical attention; but they call forth all their forces to crush any attempt of the unemployed to organize; to tighten their hold at the throat of the Negro people. Here are three pictures depicting what existence under the capitalist System means to the working class. Little Deserie Scott died. For six- teen days she laid suffering from appendicitis. The City doctor, Dr. Roper, advised a mustard plaster and left. After days of continued agony another Welfare doctor, Meade, arrived and he too left De- serie to her misery. The day after she was buried, Dr. Meade cynically told Deserie’s father that he knew the child was dying; that Dr. Roper knew from i _ Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coi fs | Stamps (coins preferred) for each} ¢ Adams pattern (New York a residents should add one cent f for each pattern order). Write ainly, your name, address and y12 number. RE SURF TO STATE | s to Daily Worker ertment, 243 Weert 17 ts Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, "New York City 1 enclose $... ..as omy immediate contribution to Seetichero-Herndon the Defense York City. | Fund, Tansee boners! yi i | block and asked me whe:e I wanted jthe beginning of her illness that | '0 get out. I told him “on the cor- |she was suffering from a bursted er.” and this is where he left me. appendix. But instead of immedi- | 1” addition to laundry work, I am ately sending her to a hospital, Dr. | Keeping clean the halls, stairways Roper advised a mustard plaster! |@nd porches of two apartment The Negro worker, Johnson, 53 )ovses, one three stories high, the | years old, was a coal vender for | %her two, with a porch to each years, always worked hard for floor. I am paid $4 per month for living and was known by all who | both houses, Finding it so hard to knew him to be a quiet “law-abid- live unde= such conditions, ill and ing” citizen. On New Year's night in need of medical attention, I de- (he was lying asleep when he was brutally awakened by the police, After giving him a thorough beat- ing they dragged him to jail where | they informed him that he hed killed Officer Butts. On this frame- up he was railroaded to 20 years— life sentence for Johnson—by an all-white jury. Then we have the picture of the bosses’ court sentencing Van Chase, young militant unemployed organ- izer, for daring to organize the | workers against the graft and mis- jerable relief of the Welfare. For | this he was fined $25 and costs or (65 days. | The Unemployed Councils and |the International Labor Defense are organizing the workers of Nor- folk and Portsmouth to expose this treatment of the unemployed and {to fight for adequate relief ana Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill H. R. No, 2827; to free Johnson and Van Chase. And the workers ere rallying their forces around this leall for they cee that the time has ‘come for them to act. ‘cided to seek help from the relief headquarters. They first turned my | daughter down twice. Then I went After my second visit the case worker came and left me impressed that everything would be all right. An hour later he came back and sent me out on a job keeping house for a family of nine, a mothe:, four sons, four daughters, all grown ups except one, about twelve or thirteen years old. The house, was three | sto:eys high. There was a heavy grey congoleum carpet on every hall, stairway, and floor of all nine rooms. |Theze were two baths to be wet | mopped every day, and waxed. f Was to also do the laundry, sewing | and cook three meals every day for these wealthy people. sons is a hospital physician. They ; Said they expected first class service for $5. per week, as this was a big salary. I refused to take the job be- cause I knew that I could never hold un to such work, Conditions like tiis meke realize that the Negro and white | people must unite. One of the! me | |the places where the work loads are the heaviest). Thev forget to |menticn that the wages paid are jas low as seventeen dollars ner week. | Also, that I. P. E.'s on sélling as- |signments do not receive any com- ‘missions for sales. | ‘Thus. at one stroke Macv’s de- Stroys the wage standards of many classifications of workers in the store, at the same time killing all | incentive for advancement. If |sales people and machine overators {who have studied fo: vears to ac- quire proficiency at their trade can \be paid seventeen doilars, what can | the many workers who are unskilled |expect? Probably ten dollars! Macy's Internal Personnel Plan is the beginning of a further offensive on our already low wages. Sales people will be the first to under- stand the menace that they face. I. P. E.’s working alongside of them without a commission on sales are |a threat to their jobs. | According to the same cheerful “Sparks” which claims that “the \facts are straight,” over four times as many Denositors’ Accounts were | solicited by Macy's clerks in Decem- jber, 1935, as in the same period of 1933. Elsewhere in the ducky-wucky “Sparks.” which is sold for one cent, Mr. Golts on the sixth floor is con- gratulated for onenine thirty-three D. A's in one week. He got a half gellon of sherry. It seems that the methods of keeping people contented haven't changed much since Man- hattan Island was stolen from the Indians. Alcohol is still used to dove peonle into insensibility. Macy's good cheer mofazine | “Sparks” is studded with similar in- cident. Competent workers have their photographs exhibited in its pages and given lisuor instead of | | meney. Try that on your grocer ‘or landlord! Macy workers! The I. P. B. plan is a threat to your very existence. Destroy +" Trail of Corruption Marks Career of ‘Hit and Run’ Mayor By a Worker Correspondent |@ few hours later than the Pickett ‘ .| accident) it was definitely proved SAN DIEGO, Calif—The SPe°- | ns the reports of two police officers tacular and to the workers of San r < 5 who interviewed Irones after he had Diego, infamous career in office . |Tammed the telephone post, that (and out of office) of Mayor Dz. + sae he had been drinking. However, in Rutherford B. Irones, came to an spite of the fact that a campaign end on Feb. 1 in the Superior | SP! 4 seeks 2 Was being held against drunken Courtroom of Judge Scovell, where ari ‘ 7 % * . rivers, and many unimportant he was unanimously found guilty by a Bg 7 4 “ | pesons and workers were being ar- the jury, of being a “hit-and-rua : . lO * rested on this charge, “his honor driver, as a result of an accident in ” f | the mayor” was not jailed. which Geo:ge D. Picket was throwa | " é n hi d his wif The official car which was SO. feet from < car and his Wife | wrecked when he rammed the post, ceeey nares had been specially ordered by the Charged under section 141 of the city council for the mayor. Tt was state motor vehicle act, violation of stipulated in the specifications for which is a felony, conviction auto- the car that its cylinders must be matically releases him from pubdiic in two banks of 67 degrees, which office. Irones’ cowardly act was a most | coln. When the mayo> wrecked it, putrid one, since he is a practicing | it hadn't even officially been bought physician, and his assistance at the yet. time of the accident might well, This and other official and unoffi- have saved Pickett’s wife much pain cial actions of the “mayor” have since her back and several ribs caused a big stink. In the fir wee broken by his careless driving. | place he was never elected by the Although at the trial no evidence | peop'e. The former Mayor, a weal- was introduced that the “mayor” | thy land title shark, John Forward, was drunk, it is the popular con-| resigned, and the council appointed tention that he had been drinking. | Dr. Irones his successor. The story Only slight mention was made at! goes that at the very hour of his the trial, of his notorious meeting appointment, a sign-paintes was with the telephone post, a few hours | placing Irones name on the door cf later on the same day of the ac- | the office he would occupy. One of cident, where “his honor the mayor” | his early actions which aroused the unofficially ruined his “official”| public against him, was his at- chariot of 67 degreed cylinders, ihe | tempt to bring back into effect the telephone post, and the dispost- | spo! system by discharging the tion of seveval drivers of other c: | civil service board and putting into who had to dodge the ‘“mayor's” | office one of his own. Public in- weaving about, |dignation frustrated his corrupt On this occasion (which was only | notions. er Attempts Suicide ‘Thrown Off Train By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES.—Hope gone be- cause he could not find a job through which he could help his 19-year-old brother support 1 family| One of our brothers was aboard a of eight persons, Joe Apodaca, 17,| train operating from Detroit to resorted to a suicide attempt as the| Florida. He was asked to drink with some railzoad officials, which only means of relieving the suffer- he refused to do. He was then ing of his brothers and sisters, | sent to the Club car on the pre- Writhing in pain from the poison | tense of geiting something. When he had swallowed, Joe, who resides | he left, the officials opened the door, with his family at 1829 East Eighty-| When Brother Quinn came back, fourth Street, was rushed in a police| the train was rocking and he fell ambulance to Georgia Street Hos-| out of the train. pital, where he told attendants the| He was picked up by a farmer in reason for his act. Kentucky. Being very frightened at “If I were out of the way,” he| is experience, he told the farmer sobbed, “it would mean one less/ that he hac just fallen off the train, mouth to feed. There are eight in| Knowing what would happen to him our family and the only money that | if he told the truth, comes in is $10 a week earned by| Brothers, this should convince us our 19-year-old brother. I looked | that we must organize and be abie everywhere for a job and couldn't ‘© fight this brutality of the rail- find one. Ten dollars a week can’t 109d officials. Possibly be stretched far enough to feed eight persons, especially when By a R.R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — Something has happened on the Pullman Company which we workers should discuss. All porters should hear about this. as ours has.” Joe was gotten to the hospital in | time for the first aid treatment to take effect and nurses said he would | By a Worker Correspondent recover. |. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Jackson, But Joe’s recovery will not solve | boss at the American Casting Com- the Apodaca family’s economic | Pany, is putting on more speed-up troubles. Neither would his suicide, | following the firing of Parker, mili- had his attempt at self-destruction |tant union leader. The men were been successful. ordered to get out 110 pipe a day Joe’s case is only one of hundreds | instead of the usual 100. in which victims of decaying cap-|_ Two — stool-pigeons, Four-Eye italicm try suicide to end the suf-| Ray and Wess Morgan, are spread- ferings of themselves and alleviate | ing the Red Scare, accusing Parker the miserable of their loved ones. |of being a Communist, and trying It also is one of. the strongest | to split the ranks of the union. A arguments for unemployment insur-| Union meeting is being planned for ance, of the type proposed in As-/ Saturday, where the workers will sembly Bill 791 and H. R. 2827, Had | take up Parker's case and elect a Joe's family been receiving insurance | Shop committee to present demands funds provided for in these bills, the | for better conditions for the work- youth and his parents and brothers | Ts. and sisters could be living in some semblance of decency and their minds and activities could be di- rected along the path to scientific economic and social construction. Firing Militant — | Money for Relief Flunkeys | But None for Applicants By a Worker Correspondent GLEN COVE, N. Y.-In this J. P. Morgan controlled city, when some one goes to the relief station and asks for home relief, the an- swer is we have no more money. But, in the store room they keep and pay three men to hand out a half pound of cheese to each ap- plicant. Demand for the Daily Worker has increased since publication of the series on “Wall Street's fascist Conspiracy.” Ask your newsdealer to take a bundle. Send his ad- dress to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th Street, After dispersing the Square Deal Assoriation, Husy Long kept thece ; to it that sovern- | troops in Baton Rouge, Loniciene's eonital clin, (> of Louisiana, Jet out any other car than a Lin-| ‘Increase Speedup After | { | YOUR HEALTH — By — Medieal Advisory Board cc DE 8. G., writes:—'T am roubled with an irritating skin condition. For the past six weeks, whenever I make an entrance from the cold outside to the warm inside, I experience a condition similar to that of ants c:eeping over the upper part of my body—my chest, back, shoulders, neck and ears. I work in an office which has a poor and de- {fective circulation of air, whose average temperature is about eighty cr eighty-two and sometimes eighty- four. The employees refuse to open the windows for fear of draughts. I, thecefore, have to suffer in silence, “Oocastionally when 1 discuss my j condition with a friend, it has an adverse psychological reaction whith causes another outbreak. I have even dispensed with my under ; Shirt, only wearing & shirt. I was jcxamined by a doctor before this ir- ritating condition occurred and wes | pronounced in good physical condi- jtion. I visited the U. 8S. Navy Doce j tom recently, whe informed me that I have a dry skin and advised me to take a shower before retiring and then rub in cold cream or olive oil. I have rubbed in olive oil, but to no avail. “Last Saturday, in desperation, I visited the Skin and Cancer Hos- pital and I was advised that I have hyperthesia, secondary to heat and was given an intraveinous injection of calcium gluconate in my right a:m. When I came in today to work, after walking for twenty minutes, my skin itched worse than before.” Tee Ge IS necessary in your case to make a correct diagnosis before any treatment is started. Severs] conditions should be considered. First, you have had hives. A very Slight degree of hives may cause itehing without showing the usual red-white blotches resembling mos- quito bites. This may be due to some food to which you may he sensitive. Secondly, there is a form of hives which is due to sensitivity to cold, Thus, itching may be caused by cold water, cold air, etc. This may be tested by applying ice to the skin and watching for a reaction in the form of itching or hives. Both of these forms of hives are said to be due to “allergy”; that is, an unusual degree of being sensitive to foods, chemicals, or physical agents, such as, heat and cold. Third, you may have a very d:y skin which usually gets worse in the winter and causes severe itching. In such cases, hot baths and oily substances rubbed into the skin usually give relief. The advice the naturopath gave you is unsound. He performed no chemical tests to determine whether you had an “excess of acids or al- kalis.” Moreover, a person with an excess of acids or alkalis is on the brink of death. So-called acidosis for which you are told to take all kinds of alkalis in newspapers, magazines, subway ads, radio talks, etc., is one of the big fakes of today. It helps high-pressure fakers and quacks to exploit you. See a good doctor or clinic for the diagnosis. « Possibility of Recovery From Blood Disease A. 8. CORRY, Pa.:—In your W letter you inquire concerning you: forty-two year old sister-in- law who has had several strokes, loss of memory, mental changes and headaches, and who was found to have syphilis You want to know whether she can be restored to a normal state after treatment. Whether or not recovery will be complete depends on several fac- tors: The severity of the damage that has been done; the exact lo- cation of the disease process; the kind and amount of treatment re- ceived. There is, for example, a form of syphilis of the brain known as “General Paresis” in which patients have very severe symptoms, So severe that they may seem to be on the point of death, and yet with proper treatment some can be restored to a practically normal state. There are other forms of syphilis of the brain and spinal cord where similar results can be obtained. From the information you send us, however, it is difficult to state the outlook in this case. The:n apvears to b> cause for op- timism, however, judging by ber favorable reaction to treatment so far. We can only state definitely that. she should have treatment for at least two years and preferably three, and should have her blood and spinal fluid tested each year for the rest of ber life, no matte: how well she responds to treatment. The false morality of a bourgeois socie‘y, unfortunately, makes peo- ple blush at the thought of being tested for syphilis, If it were not ment of Long, by Lang and for Long shall not be banished from the face \ \for this disgraceful attitude, tae {terrible effects of this disease could ; in many caces be prevented by early diagnosis and treatment. Monop- lies in the manufacture of some of the necessary drugs makes troat~ ment exnensive. The prover educc- tion of the nson'e, as carried cut it Russia tedey, crn lead to a tremen- dous reduction in the incidence of this disease. SUBSCRIPTION - BLANK HEALTH AND HYGIENE Motlical Adisery Board Magazine I wish to subscribe to Health and Hysiene, Enelosed please find $1 for a year’s subscription Name .... Address tee eeeeeevecsreeteseeges City...