The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1935, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, N 2W YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1933 HE March issue of the Working Woman, which is a special In- tional Women's Day issue, will the names of the winners cent Working Woman prize The first and sec- ill be printed from every corner of ng what they would isbands would not let g class meet- nswers came from farm ‘omen, from women in the shops, as well as in the home, working Class women and professionals. Let- ters e written on the basis of personal experience, homely, prac- tical rs attempted to and political basis band's attitude toward his of n told of hus- had finally been won the point of view that it a is of a class-conscious worker to involve his wife in ac- tivities for the betterment of the eonditions of her class 0 NE woman wrote: “The sanctity and peace of the home is the mportant thing of all. If you band, you will please er what he requires.” The majority of the women, how- e were of the opinion that re than have such a “peace” rere the wife submits to the ideas ¢ her agckward husband, they would rather have no peace. Other women told how when the meeting night came along, despite their hus- bends protests, they simply went. me woman s2id she had to bring the meetings to her house to con- her husband that married wemen with children had the right places in the fighting ir class. There were hemes as to how to bring ward husband to an un- derstanding of woman's role in the class struggle. One woman read her husband sentences and paragraphs out of Lenin on the woman ques- tion. He finally admitted he “hac never seen it that way.” Parasia vines «JE must beware of the signs of fascism,” wrote ons woman. The oppression of women is typical of fascism, she said. Fascism makes a wide -propaganda that women’s activity must be confined to the home, to child-bearing, The hus- band who refuses to let. his wife Participate in working class activ- it the victim of fascist ideology. © Istters show that the Work- ing Women hit a very tender Spot in the personal attitu of men toward their wives. The if compiled, would make a ivid document bespeaking the ig demand of women to be organized, to fight for their eco- nomic and political rights. “The pots and pans will not give me brains,” one wife said to her hus- bend. “In the kitchen,” said an- Be we grow old before our time, having done anything for ters show how very ripe period for the organization of women. They lay a task upon | every class-conscious woman, as! well as man. 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One y | histovy of the international prole- Blasts Auto ‘ By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—Last fall the Motor Products Corporation hired approximately 300 tool and die makers, running three shifts eight hours each. They were all organ- ized by the Mechanics’ Educational ety of America, and the plant 3 considered one of its strong- holds. | Motor Products Corporation man- ufactures a line of automobile hard- ware, chiefly small stampings and THE DETROIT AWARD FOR SKILL rolled sheet metal work used for mouldings and trimmings. It is housed in the plant formerly oc-/| eupied by the old Lozier Motor Company out on Mack Ave. The Chrysler Corporation and the Ford | Company are its principal accounts. Two months after placing these men on the job, a systematic layoff | commenced with the object of kill- ing the union, Some of t' most, active union men were neyer re- hired. The company offered the Mimsy excuse that they had been Communists and agitators. The union werked on a strictly 44-hour Southern Prisouer Appeals for Aid , | The following are extracts of a letter received from a_ class-war | prisoner in Birmingham, Ala.: | “I am Fred Walker, confined now | to the city jail of this city, and also on the chain gang for two} months. I have been on the hard- est gang this city got and with the | meanest or dirtiest guards they | have. | “In Alabama they put hell on a Negro, and when they find him put iing up a fight for freedom, they | give him hell, so that is what I} am catching... , “T am sick, down with rheumatism and lumbago, and this hard job I got at inhuman work will soon kill | me, .. . So send some money down | here and help me get out of this tough gang. “The guard had me beat up Iss‘ week fer nothing. So write me at once and just see what you can all do at once... .” This comrade is serving six months on the chain gang. In ad- | dition to that he will have to pay | $100 fine in order to gain his free- dom. If he is to serve out his sen- tence, it would mean an additional 200 days added to his sentence, The International Labor Defense | has pus this comrade on their re- | lief role, and have sent him some] They are appealing jor| to free this comrade a bat the general Help the Daily Worker secure 10,000 new daily and 15,000 new | Saturday subscriptions. United Action Forged by Heroic February Struggle in Austria | [Meeting in general conference, | the representatives of the Commu Party of Austria, the Revo- Intionary-Socialists, the Schutz- | bund, the Irdependent Trade Unions, the Young Communist League and the Socialist Youth, as well as the delerates from sport organizations and the Aus- trian Red Aid, resolved to carry fhrouch a program of nnited ac- tiens in connection with the anni- versary of the February struggles, The conference decided to issue the following appeal to the Aus- trien proletariat, to the inter- national working cl: and to the parties and sections of the Second and Third Internationa's.] To the workers and toilers of Austria! One year has elapsed since the a> since the whole world hung on the thun- der of cannon roaring out of red Vienna to the workers of all na-| tions. And just as the days of the | Paris Commune of 1871 remain un- forgotten in memory of the working class, so the struggle of the Schutz- bund in 1934 is now part of the | ae tariat. The battle ended in a de- feat, out cf which the red flag, now more than ever red with spilled blood, flew high in honor. Much was lost by the Austrian workers during those days: Freedom and their civil rights, strength and organization. A great deal, how- | ever, was pzeserved: Our prolcta- | rien honor, our proud defiance, our faith in socialism! What did we swear, as the hang- men dragged our Socialist martyrs off to the gallows, our Munichreitar, Svoboda, We! , ouv Walisch, Sta- nek, Reuchberger, Hois, Bulga:i? We will avenge our slaughtered comrades. | Whet did we swear, when they lundered our workers’ homes, when our shattersd community s rose the hated hooked cross? We will come back! We will sean onferl tha ted henner ever thee ro9°s azain! One year hes gone since then! | |pany unions, aids this suicidal ac- Lay-otf of Tool and Die Men Revival’ Talk’ week basis. Desirous of dealing a final blow and crushing the union the company developed a silly con- troversy by demanding a 48-hour week, which the union flatly re- fused. Thereupon all but 30 men were permanently laid off. Today only a small group of tool and die men may be seen coming in and| out of the plant. | An impression prevailed, which originated in the office, that the lay- off was a direct result of the union's determination to maintain a forty- hour week. Members of the union were led to believe that the com- pany was having its work done by F. J. Lamb, a seabby job shop run- ning unlimited hours. Soon after it became evident that these stories were designed te disrupt the unton jtanks as the scab Lamb concern never delivered a single die or fixture fo the Motor Products Corporation, and this is a well established fact. Thus, out of 300 skilled mechanics, 280 are walking the streets for months and still they have the crust to prattle about a “great re- vival” in the auto industry. The writer had been employed in the auto field for a good many years j and watched the progress of the in- dustry, I seriously believe that even if a twenty-four hour week had been established, there would not be jobs enough to go around all the year for all the men now available. In combatting the union move- ment, these manufacturers are cut- ting their own throats. The Auto Labor Board, in supporting the com- tion. As a factor in the buying | market, the earnings of an auto worker, skilled or highly skilled, borders along the zero mark. If the Auto Board doesn’t know that the laboring man must first of all possess buying power, it certainly |has no right to exist at all. ‘Must Buy W hiskey For Supervisor By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La. Mr. | Frances, the supervisor on project | 36, Bl-14a, at Printes and Pratts | Place, told me to go to ask each li man to give a nvenny to get him/ some whiskey. There are about 150 men on this job. TI collected sixty-four cents the firat time, and an hour later two other men came | around to make a collection saying | that they needed fifty-four cents more and that would be all for the day. If a man gets curious and asks why he musi contribute to the whis- key fund, somebody will tell him. “You know they can make it hard for you.” Fellow worke test against thes: orvanize to fight them. Romember, fellow workers, that | ene day we were born end one day we must die, One day, they give the white workers a bone with a little meat on it, and the next day will give the Negroes a bone with- out any meat on it. They will con- tinue this as long as we are sauabb- ling among ourselves and do not unite against the bosses. we should pro- conditions and NOTE: Tuosday let- meaial, and auto workers in these industries to write us of their con- ditions and their efforts to or- ganize. Please get these letters to us by Saturday of each week. A year ago they bombarded the | place, a chapel is being built. A year ago they looted Vienna, | The dofencelessness and unexampled | even one of the dragged Seitz to prison and Weissel misery of the workers, wage-cuts fascist dictatorship, Herr Kun- | to $6,000,000 schillings! Mass misery | to execution, and now they are com- and greater unemployment, greater chak, admits that. unemployment | strikes everywhere. |quate to pay the usual rate. “I said the Daily News. Do I look like a worker?” Socialist Worker Denied Relief Coal pared Jobless Council Wins Reliet | For Aged Ohio Steel Worker | For Refusing Job at a Dollar a Day, By a Worker Correspondent DURHAM, N. C.—Not long ago a friend got me to reading the Daily Worker, I have noticed how work- ers from different places write about the conditions and whet they are doing to better them. For a long time I have been a socialist and active in unemployed work in Durham. But for some months our unemployed organization has been ve. I want to write now about ie nt situation. A little while ago a certain Mr. Vonn was employed to look after mules and horses by the Durham relief administration. He resigned is job to become farm superin- tendent for a multi-millionaire, Fe H. Wright of Durham. The Re- lief Administration soon after claimed it had no more relief ade- Mr. Vonn, working through the relief officials, send us relief workers to grub new ground for this millionaire at a dol- lar a day. We were told to meet the truck at the old noct office and we would be driven out to grub the new ground. About 15 or 20 of us met there that morning. The workers got to grumbling among themselves about having to grub new ground for a millionaire at a dollar a day. Some one said: “We should not be forced to work for a millionaire at a dollar a day." The word just kept golng around. The more they thought the more determined the not to do So k came no cne would ‘nen the tru " Beeause I have a record for or- ganizing the unemployed, the relief officials blamed me with this and are discriminating against me. They got them to arrange to | usual, to the other men who refused | to go out on that job. When I ask them for coal they | say: “You had a job at a dollar a day and you refused to work.” I | told them it would just be setting | a precedent for lowering and break- | ing the standard of living for us | workers, and I had been told that the “New Deal” was supposed to raise our standard. But they said that the union wage and “New Deal” was not feeding me. Today is very cold. I have a half bucket of coal and no way of get- ting any more. One of my little children is down sick with a cold. My wife is sick and very -soon is due to have another baby. I only | get to work enough to make around six dollars a week, This we have had to stretch to keep my own family and an unemploved brother who stays with us, We need an organization in Durham that would really fight for the unemployed. We | know that unless we do get together, | both Negro and white workers, they will keep us down in hunger and poverty. I am for such an orzani- zation, And I am for a united front between the C. P. and S. P. I want my name signed to this.| letter, Fraternally, PETE LONG. Negroes Forced to Pick Moss for Living By a Worker Correspendent PALMETTO, La.—Here is a little ‘ pic of the workers hore in Pal- |meito on the relinf role. Tho be {only wo the white and don’t |work the Negro, The Negrocs are | forced to go to the wocds and pick | moss and sell it for food in the |have also refused to give coal, as|boss store, so that they may live. | Karl Marx House, and now, in its | tendom” with their gallows. A year ago they “rescued Chris- | opposite of everything promised by | climbed from 89,000 to 188,000. Of | this call to struggle and opposition Now the fascist liars has come to pass.| work no mention | | we understand what that signified: | They promised work and bread. but bread? The monthly total of wages appeal for a tremendous demonstra- supporters of the | has sunk from 185,000,000 schillings | tion against this hangman's fascism. memorating the anniversery of their | taxes for the poor and huge revenue continues to rise: A monthly aves | bloody vietery with the gallows. g-eat | gifts for the rich, the robbery of so- | age of 163,000 unemployed in Vi- | Vienna ball, waltaing and dancing | cial rights, brutal sternness against | enna in 1933 increased in 1934 to £0 soon after the cannon and the the unemployed, and the disappear- | 190,000. Likewise the number of ap- ance of all economic security. The Appeal of the Austrian United Front To the workers of the world! To the parties of the Second and | Third Internationals! One year after the great February struggle of the Austrian workers, one year after their bloody defeat, the Ausirian working class is con- tinuing its unwavering fight ageinst fescist dictatorship. Robbed of all rights, beaten into fascist slavery, we carry on the battle in our illegal organizations. Out of the fascist, prisons we send brotherly greetings to the workers of the world. On this first anniversary of the February struggle, we have con- solidated a revolutionary united front. With thoughts full of our heroes and martyrs, in recolléction of the heroic fighting Schutzbund, and bound by the deepest conneéc- tions to our best spirits, now lan- guishing in the dungeons of fascism, we have put aside all unfortunate uncomradely dissension and built an Alliance of Unity, convinced that fascism will be overthrown only by a united working class resolved upon revolutionary tactics, We know that only we ourselves can crush fascism, but in this strug- gle, which none can carry on for us, you, the workers of the world are in a position to aiford us tre- mendous practical aid. It is on this solidarity and aid that you have so often rendered us in this last dif-|egrant no appeals. ficult year, and for which we here not only orders \plicants for old-age pensions | while their families are in need! Think of the victims of illegal work, whom the fascist regime deals with special brutality! Demonstrate in behalf of the Aus- trian workers on Feb. 12! On this day join us in united demonstra- tion against fascism! Remember the legacy of the February ieroes who sacrificed their lives for the revolutionary strategy of a united | proletariat! Do not allow the 12th of Feb- ruaty to go by without spreading | before the world the shameful deeds of Austrian fascism, the complete loss of all rights of the Austrian people, the entire destruction of ail freedom and all working class or- ganization, the enslavement of workers in industry, the growing poverty and exploitation! In Aus- tria not a trace remains of the free- dom of press. Any possibility of legally. presenting the condition of the nation is forbicden. When we desire to meet our own comrades, we can only come together secretly in the forests. There are no rights of union or assembly for the workers, The con- centration camps, for all the swindle and talk of “a Christmas amnesty,” are still maintained, And each day new victims are brought to Wol- lensdorf. Holding the whip of un- limited punishment, the police The government dismissals openly offes our thanks, to which we now | but extends pressure in order to appeal. Remember our victims, the discharge individual child: ef the fallen, the hund ‘© sentenced to life-tims—j workers and 8 for the slishtest political . All decvess of special die- tatorial power heva heey prolenced Broadcast this shame of civitiza- | | tion in fascist Austria throughout | the world! Show your mass) strength everywhere, so that every | support of the hateful anti-working class regime in Ausiria is with- drawn. Draw a moral plague belt around jlying hypocritical Austrian fascism, | | Which, with “Christian” morality, refrains from battling against the |berbarism of the Taird Reich and at the same time acts as the truc /copy of Hitler-fascism, aiming at. the same goal. On the 12th of February fight in unity with us against fascism, which jhas for the moment beaten us and | threatens you! | Fight with us against the danger of war, a danger that fascism stead- | lly increases! Demand with us: Freedom for | all imprisoned proletarians! | Down with the shame of concen- | tration camps! | For the return of all political and economic rights of freedom to the | Workers! | We solemnly swear by our heroes hye by the international working class: | We continue to siruagle for the , Schutzbund. the youth organiae-_ | proletarian revolution, for the down- fall of fascism, and for the estab- Hishment of power by the working class! Vienna, January 15, 1935. COMMUNIST PARTY OF | AUSTRIA (Section of the Third International) | REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS | proachinz victory. Therefore, we r>- | OF AUSTRIA | It would seem on the surface that | president of the Owners’ Associa- | By a Worker Correspnodent YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—A_work- | States for thirty years and who and Tube Company for twenty | |himself living in a “recovery shack” night. His bed is composed of a few burlap sacks, filled with grass.’ tified of his case, and they brought him a grocery order. a pair of shoes | and a few pieces of clothing. company, on Sept. 1, 1937 he got} burt. He fell from a place thirty | feet high and he was taken to the | hospital where he remained fer | four years and eight months. He Discuss Approach | To Petty Business | By a Worker Correspondent INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn, the fight between the International Falls Restaurant Owners’ Associa- tion and the Waitresses and Maids | Local No. 349 of the A. F. of L. was | merely over some minor points on their agreement. The deeper is- sues were obscured in the general confusion. This three dav struggle, which re- sulted in the cafe owners closing all their business places as soon as the waitresses started to nicket the Sugar Bowl whose owner is the tion, was really a test of strength between the militant eight months’ old waitresses’ union and the cafe owners. This struggle in International Fells was not large in that it in- valved only 50 waitresses (organized 100 per cent) of the 17 restaurants in town. But it is imnorlant in that it deals with one of the first strug- gles of a category of workers, and in their entirety, working for vetty bourgeois bosses of a small town that has no big chain outfits as Mil- lers, ete. In this case, perhaos more so than in some other strusgies directed directly against the big corporations, clarity is needed. Con- fusion lies in the fact that workers correctly understand that these small business men are not their real enemies, the cavitalists, and do not understand the role nlayed by the small business men in the gen- eral class struggle. The small business men generally | play a reactiona:y role. and in this case in Falls, they had to be mili- | tantly fought, There can be no} retreat or compromise for the food workers in their struggies for better conditicns, the same as there can never by any compromise in the principle or ideology to the petty bourgeoisie. As soon as these work- ers would try to save their bosses’ businsss by accepting worse condi- tions, they would only place an ob- stacle in the wavy of solidarity with sers and in the final an Ebel Ba | t true cl thet ho| follow the icad of the vs in a revolutionary fight ewainst capital- | ism. That is why it was correct | that the waitresses started picket- ing and used militant tactics. is made. And > Tt is one year now that our dead | lie in their mass-graves, that those imprisoned languish in dungeons. Fo> one yeaf we have felt the arro- gance of the victors. But we forget nothing, comrades! The cays of February. 1934, were a penetrating lesson. Then we not only buried our dead but at the) same time we burled illusions also and errors. An entire epoch in the history of the Ausirian working class movement was completed. The | g:eat mass of Austrian workers was | convinced that socialism could be atiained peacefully along the road | of bourgeois democracy. Democracy | was dynamited by the fascists. They taught the Austrian working class on the battlefield how “democracy” nurses dictatorship to brutal pre- | Portions. No cther cho'ce is pos- (sible than between the dictatorshin lof fascism and the dictatorship of the proletariat! The fascist, regime has demonstrated how a victorious class deals with the conquered. ‘vuly, we shall mect like with like! Between fascism and the working class no cenciliation is possible, only implacable struggle. Every step to- wa'd conciliation will be bitterly fought by the working class, as wi!l every illusion thrown forward by the reformists. The first. anniversary of the Feb- ruary revolt finds the revolutionary Austrian worke:s united in their dedision to wage a relentless strug- gle ageinst faccism. - The proletarian varties, the | tions, and the Red Aid have organ- ized in a revolutionary united front to carry cn the battle against every form of fascism. Therefo:e, on this day of remem- brance of our defert. we feel neither |the workers have to spend carfare. \ couldn't collees any insurance. When he got out of the hospital eight months. The conditions there though he were in the State and meals which weren't enough. social insurance there. ‘When he who wanted him to go back to the right te get protection and so- cial insurance. although I am not a When he was working for the |citizen.” He then showed them his | ggg; bruised and scarred body. i This case onee more brings for- ward the need of pushing the fight | for the Workers Unemployment and | Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. | Pay Cut 50 Percen On Relief Joh By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La.—On the re- | lief project at 205 Chartres Street | the Negro women make quilts for | 12% cents an hour, working from 6 a. m. till 2 p. m. with fifteen minutes for hineh. One erew of a hundred have to put out forty quilts, sewing by hand, in the eight hours that they are required te stay on the job. The rate of vay on these jobs| haa been reduced from $2.10 a day to $1. Even those who have not had their monthly budgets reduced because they get more days have had their exnenses raised. About 97 per cent of the workers have to spend fourteen cents a day on car- fare. All the’ relief projects in this city are arranged so that most of t } i It seems as if the relief work is run for the benefit of the Publie Utili- ties as they get the biggest part of the relief mone; But the local organizations, al- though they were militant, acted quite weakly because they were not headed by a leadership. that was) armed with a clear understanding of the relatioashiv of class forces. | Great confusion exists even amongst | the most militant waitresses because they see beyond their netty bosses, | but not with clarity, and do not have | any hatred against their boss who works with them and is economi- cally almost as bad off as they are, in fact many are right on the verge ef ruin. This confusion was greatly offset by the resolute position taken | by the other unions. This copfusion can be overcome by @ conscious mass education, mass meelings, and a clear class program which will create a firm revolution- | ary consciousness which the small business elements will be forced to cater to. What we failed to do be- fore and at the time of the strike we should do new. We must make them understand that correct tac- ties are for the workers to remain firm and to go forward in their fight against poor conditions which | means resisting all attempts of the | all business men to pass on their lens cavsed by the capitalists on | backs of the workers and at! the same time helping lead these | business elements into a fight | against capitalism, for unemploy- ment insurance, against war and | fascism. | during these February days, and | We demand: Freedom for all imprisoned pro- letarians! The return of all working class cights! | An end to wage-cuts and the rob- | bery of the means of subsistence! | An end to the lowering of social | security! The halting of imperialist wa’ preparations! We solemnly swear by: The honor of our Sccialist mar- tyrs! Undying toward their | murdere:s! | The loyalty of the working class! _ Struggle against its fascist op- pressors! The victory of socialism! Long live the dictatorship of the | proletariat! The Russian revolution has taught us that a red October fol- lows a red February! With us, teo, the red fiag shall wave ove: a free red Vienna, over red Austria! Thus we ceil upon all comrades, and give grim notice to our enemies! We're coming back! Communist Party of Austria The Revolutionary Socialists The Schuizbund Young Communist League of Austria Indenendent Trade Unions Revolutionary Socialist Yeuth Workers’ Sport Organizations The, Red Aid of Austria | enmity Scottsboro-Herndon Fund Internalional Laber Defense Room 610, £9 Enxst 11th Street, New York City | | YOUR HEALTH nities Medical Advisary Beard What's Te Be Done 'OMRADE S. B. seems quite con- fused. He asks us “Why write to jer whe has lived in the United he went te a country home for | you for advice when the only an- swer we get is to go to a doctor or worked for the Youngstown Sheet | were very bad. He had to work as |a clinic?” When we refer you to a doctor or a clinic, it is because we years, at the age of sixty-five finds | Penitentiary for oniy his tobacco |feel that it is essential—under all |circumstances—for a patient to be |at 95 Shehy Street in a room eight | This immigrant from ‘far-away examined by a doctor. Many peopie |feet by ten feet and six feet high. | Roumania, has seen eight presidents seem to think that just the asking The floor of the room is all full jelected in this country. He says it |and answering of questions is suf- of holes, and through the ceiling |is useless to go back to his native | ficient to make a diagnosis—which, you can see the stars on a clear |country as they have no system of |of course, is incorrect. A diagnosis can only be made by combining the |few boards nailed together and a jwas interviewed by the case worker, facts obtained by sueh questioning with the faets obtained from an ‘The unemployed couneil was no- |Roumanis, he said, “I may not be | examination. }a citizen, but I have worked here it to the Relief Office. They got |for thirty years. Therefore, I have |answer. There are However, that is not only our many conditions, described to us in letters, for which we can and do give general and asionally specifie instructions. Nor must you forget that our tasks are many. Besides helping our comrades with their medical prob- lems, we try to give them mueh needed education in health. We try to break down the many supersti- tions, the false ideas which people get from each other (and from some doctors), the quackeries and fads. You also complain that we send you to clinics—ane yet tell you that ¢linies and clinic doctors are no good. We never said that clinic doctors are no good. We do say, however, that conditions in elinies are so poor that the resulting over- crowding, the lack of space and equipment, the actual “speed-up” by doctors in order to see ail the Patients—all these conditions make it impossible for docters, no matter | how capable they are. to give good medical care of the patients. We send you to clinids becaue we all should use the medical facilities already existing to get diagnosis and the treatment we need. Where these facilities are poor, and where we resent the handling, this must then stimulate us to demand the best kind of treatment and to force the government to make adequate provisions for giving this. We send you to clinics because that is the best we can do today. But we do not stop at that. We, doctors and patients, try to remedy these conditions. Al of us, individ- ually, and collectively, through our unions, our fraternal and mass or- ganizations, must fight for the passage of the only Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827) that will make possible en improved standard of living. Alt of us must fight for a Health Insur- ance program under workers’ and doctors’ control—a program which will provide sufficient hospital fa- cilities for patients, and pay for all professionals, a program which will make the practice of medicine what it should be a social need, socially administered, * ae Treatment of Chronic Gonorrhea iF you have had gonorrhea for two years, as you state, then you prob- ably are at present suffering from @ chronic stage of this disease. The extent of the progress of the disease in your system must be determined before treatment ean be started. That is, we must find out whether the prostate gland is involved, whether the testicles have become infected, or whether the condition is simply limited to the cana) of the penis. However, as a rule in long standing cases there is an in- flammation of the prostate, Treatment for these conditions is fairly prolonged—often taking three to four months for a cure. In the early cases, however, a complete oure can almost always be accom- plished in from six weeks to three months. In chronic gonorrhea, even more so than in the acute type, self- treatment by druggists or quacks is futile and often harmful. The es- sential point in the treatment of chronic gonorrhea is through ir- rigation of the back part of the canal and bladder, associated with fairly frequent (two or three times a week) massages of the prostrate gland. This must be followed by 2 thorough stretching of the canal by means of sounds. Injections of one kind or another are valueless. If \the testicles have become involved, diathermy or electric heat, is of some value. * we are people ashamed of sex? Why do they consider the va- rious sex problems which confront the majority of the workers as problems which are not to be dis- cussed? Why is sex generally only the subject of a dirty joke and rarely talked about seriously? These questions and many others will be dealt with in one of the leading ar- ticles in the forthcoming. first, is- sue of HEALTH AND HYGIENE, the Medical Advisory Board’s ma- gezine. The title of the article is: “Sex and Guilt” and will be written by one of the psychiatrists on the Board, To be sure of getting this and many other important articles which will appear in the first issue and subsequent issues of HEALTH AND HYGIENE, take advantage of the special advance subscription offer of one dollar for a year. Clip a dole lar bill to the coupon at the bot- tom of the column. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK HEALTH AND HYGIENE Medical Adisory Board Magezine T wish to subscribe to Health and Hygiene. Enclosed please find $1 for @ year’s subscription hoaten nor dispirited, but rather like those who are certain of 29- cal the memory cf cur batttes in iC ‘ Ser. of the Sseend Inte-national) AUSTRIAN SCHUTZBUND Pesevary wi'ty rite’ hearts and |cenched fisis, Therefe:>, yo ics i I enclose §....... immediate + as contribution to the ertfen Defense Name .... | | | | | 1 wert ee we