The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 HOME LL IFE — io Ann Rarton rent example of the d trick of fesding cir- the workers instead of bread, the exploiting to the fullest extent of every detail about the Dionne leads a Cali- He Dior he editorial states, are ¢ ingsters. The quintuplets are superior babies in every respect, and it all goes to show hat can be accomplished by environment. Mothers said, should not have withheld from them the means to translate love into the very best treatment for her child. The editorial ends with a wisecrack that makes a thinking person groan. “Many a child is raised” it says “without being elevated.” It does not trouble to ask why UR California friend says “We here, at various times, have dis- ity and ballyhoo ss to the Dionne to the attractive pictures of But newspaper readers realize that it is niy there children how many their special treatment that is the economic basis back of their devel- quintuplets y are born. opment Biologically, are ur but after th what there the difference is needs of a mother with five children of the same age and a mother five children of dif- ferent ages? Why not as much attention to all the five children families in the United States? with “THE exploitation of the Dionne quintuplets is becoming so ob- iovs! aw that the family is al- complaining of the neglect e old en. Last night the local Scripps Howa:d San Fran- cisco Ni let the cat out of the bag in the editorial which I have enclosed called a “Quintuplet Query.” The damndest thing about the editorial is that the writer doesn’t even mention the millions of other babies in the U. S. that have not proper food and care on account of the system! e here, think that it is most opportun? right now for the Daily Worker, New Masses, and Working Woman to grab by the neck the continental interest in the quintu- plets and focus it upon the economic story underlying and surrounding these children (their food. cars and training). Their story should be compared with that of the other mothers and children in tt try and with the mothers and chil- dren in the Soviet Union. Pictures showing the many, many nur: and childzen’s hospitals in the So- viet Union could be set opposite the one hospital for the quintuplets that has caused such a sensation, and featured also could be the many, and undernourished babies and many pictures available of starving children in the city and country sl of America.” Can You Make "Em Yourself? Pattern 2192 is available in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14. Size’ 10 takes 2% yards 36 inch fabric and %4 yard 3 inch ribbon. Illustrated sew- ing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for each Anne Adams pattern (New York City residents should add one cent tax for each pattern order). Write plainly, your name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, between | | New England Tradition By a Worker Correspondent HILLSBORO, N. H.—The little village of Washington, New Hamp- shire is state. With no industry, and the farms the sort which can only support a few moneyed New York retired coupon clippers, the Selectmen and Overseer of the Poor come forward with a glori- ous” traditi They feel that the people of Washington can stand on their own feet, and that the vil- lage will go on record as the one town in the state which will not | apply for state or government re- lief. The other side of the picture is not so cheery. There is a worker, !a former navy man, who is now| past seventy and too feeble to work, living with his aged wife far) off on a back road, who has no} means of support. There is the family of five children, husband and with no industry, no place to are some fifty kept alive by neighbors who are in nearly as bad a condition as they. the little church painted white and | ; have no worries, come only when | the weather is comfortable and are away no Today the unusual spectacle was seen in Washington of a delegation of ten marching down the elm lined | d snowy street to see the Over- seer of the Poor and demand that |they get fed. This group was | brought into action through the | initiative of local residents, Charles Chase and Harold Blanchard, They had notified the Overseer, and he |called upon the Selectmen to have the Town Constable on hand. But r arrived there was only Constable; Overseer Warren Adams proved himself too yellow, as one of the committee put it, to face the music. | Then and there the delegation voted to return td the square Sat- urady when the Selectmen are in session and to demand the removal of the Overseer and what is more jto insist upon relief for every |family in Washington who is in need, tradition or no tradition. Jobless Council | Forces Gains By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Since I have be- come an investigator for the Home | Relief Bureau, the miserable con- | ditions of many American citizens jhave been brought forcibly to my | attention. I have been doing my | best to carry out my duty to the government and to the clients in Repeated attempts have many of the in- secure adequate clients without my care. been made by vestigators to clothes for the much success. On Monday, Feb. 11, orders were issued in my precinct in- forming investigators they could write clothing requisitions in the amount of $6 per day for the next two weeks. The necessity of first ‘supplying school children was par- icularly stressed. e conversation with my r, She admitted that this a result of the demonstra- led by the Unemployment tions Council during the preciding week. | I am 100 per cent American and do not agree with everything that the Communists do, but I must give them credit for the fine fight they put up for all American citi- zens who are unfortunate enough to be clients of the Home Relief Bureau. NOTE: Every Thursday we publish let- ters from farmers, sharecroppers; agricultural, cannery and lum- ber workers. We urge farmers and workers in these indsutries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Mon- day of each week. The latest person to join in the new anti-Soviet campaign launched by the English, Scandinavian, Bel- gian, Czech social democratic lead- ers on the occasion of the murder of Kirov is Otto Bauer. Writing in the latest number of the “Kampf” (Struggle), the monthly organ of the Austrian social dem- ocracy, in an article entitled, “Tri- umph of Capitalism?” (No. 1, Jan- uary, 1935), he denounces the “odi- ous relapse into terror,” whereby, he, of course, means the measures adopted by the Soviet government to defend the proletarian revolu- tion. And in a special article in the same journal entitled, “Return to Tetror,” he fiercely attacks these measures and represents them as “a return to the reactionary ideas and practices of the time of the Cheka.” Otto Bauer’s attack on the pro- letarian revolution is particularly despicable, firstly because, in words, he acknowledges the necessity of revolutionary terrorism, and rejects it, only in this special case because it is not necessary. Thus he writes in the article, “Return to Terror”: “When a revolutionary class is threatened by a counter-revolu- tion which, in the event of its victory, would wreak bloody ven- geance on the revolution, over- throw the revolutionary dictator- ship, destroy all the achievements of the revolution, and reduce the revolutionary class to a state of ‘ has come into the limelight | lrunning at full seed and it is all that will support them, There | about 10 or 12 pans a minute. But} families in Wash-|are the bosses interested in sav- ington and at least a dozen of | ing our health? these are stranded, being barely | This normal machine is never The few families who keep | too, and that’s why we can sympa- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 Pledges Solidarity | To N.B.C. Strike By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am a worker in| the Sunshine Biscuit Company 1 want to send a message to the workers of the National Biscuit Company from my fellow workers | in Sunshine. We are watching very closely the strike in N.B.C and are all behind the NBC. strikers because we know that their fight is our fight. We can fully appreciate their militancy and courage. Because of the strike in N.B.C. the Sunshine Company has in-/} creased its orders and also its profits. But as usual, the only ef- fect this has had on us workers is more speed-up. The machines are | | we can do to keep un with them. The machines are set at a speed of 16 to 19 pans a minute. You| wouldn't think we were human beings the way we have to work.| There is one machine, however, | which is set at a normal speed of | I should say not. | used! Oh, yes, we have our grievances, thize with the workers in N.B.C. who ars striking for better condi- tions. We too are preparing sagt strike. | Many of the workers in Sun- | shine would like to contribute towards relief for N.B.C. strikers. | We would suggest that a committee be sent over from the N.B.C. strik- ers so that the raising of relief funds from the Sunshine workers can be properly organized. Strikebreaker’s Reward By a Worker Correspondent HAINES CITY, Fla—Mr. Hall, the strikebreaker, who in last year's | strike at the Gentilie Brothers Cit- rus Packing House, when 95 per cent of the workers walked out, scabbed, was recently fired by the | Gentilie Brothers. This scab endangered the lives} of several of our militant ladies and children who helved in the strike. This Mr. Hall was sent for some scabs by Gentilie Brothers in one of the company’s cars. When} he returned with these scabs he went through our picket line at a speed of fifty miles per hour. Sev- erel workers were bruised trying to get out of his way. Now this Mr, Hall admits to people that he will never scab again for he has learned that the bosses have no use for scabs after the strike is settled. We are glad that this fellow learned a lesson and we are sure that it has taught other workers a lesson, too. So, next time Mr. Hall use your | militancy for the working class and | not for the bosses. Burck’s cartoon book, “Hunger and Revolt” is now offered in a $1 edition with renewals and new subscriptions. A RESOLUTION The following resolution should be sent to: Dist. Attorney N. McAllister, Att, General U. S. Webb, Governor Frank E. Merriam, Superior Judge Dal Lemmon. All at Sacramento, Calif. I (we), the undersigned, pro- test against the frame-up of 18 workers in Sacramento, Califor- nia, under the vicious anti-labor Criminal Syndicalist Law. I (we), demand their immedi- ate, unconditional release; and further demand that the Crim- inal Syndicalism Law be wiped off the statute books of the State of California. This law denies workers their fundamental rights to organize. strike, and picket, and the right of free speech, press, and as- semblage. | 1933, 1,671,000 square meters of liy- ing quar built and occupied. i In. 18 another 1 000 square | The Ruling Clawss “,..from the City of New York for Soviet Workers Describe Election in Metal Plants) Dear Comrades: No doubt you have already heard | of the elections which took place | recently in the Soviet Union, All| workers 18 years old and up have} a right to vote in the elections for | candidates to the Soviets. This year | nineteen million young workers voted for the first time. In this letter we want to tell you of the way in which the elections | took place in our pdant, “Freser,” where 4,000 workers vote. At the| opening of the election campaign for the Moscow Soviet, we heard | the report of a representative of the Moscow Soviet and the Stalin Dis- trict Soviet, Since our factory is| in the Stalin district, it is called} the Stalin Soviet. Everyone of us knows of the| colossal achievements of Socialist construction in our country. Nevertheless, when we heard the report of the results of the work in the past few years, we were sur- prised, as you will be, and we asked ourselves the question: When were we able to accomplish all of this! Let us take, for an example, Moscow, and first of all the city budget. In the vast four years, the popu- lation of Moscow grew 1.3 times— from 2,724,000 persons to 3,628,000. Moscow now ranks after New York, London, Paris and Berlin. Old Moscow, mercantile Moscow, con- sisted mainly of low buildings or wooden houses. Workers found shelter in the cellars or in dirty lodging houses, so well described by our proletarian writer, Maxim Gorky, in many of his stories. Old Moscow is unrecognizable now. Dur- ing the three years from 1931 to meters were constructed. During these three years, 1,857 new houses were built, supplying half a million workers with beautiful, comfortable homes. The workers of our factory also received new homes, On an empty lot, where cows used to graze, three large five-storey apartment houses were built, totalling 440 rooms, and 17 other houses, each containing 12 apartments, The workers receiving these new homes wanted to furnish them well. When you look into one of these houses, it warms your heart to see how much better our living condi- tions have become: gas ranges, hot water, sunny rooms, lace curtains Indi slavery, then the revolutionary class must defend itself on the ground of the right of revolution- ary self-defense, with the weapon of terror against the immediately threatening counter - revolution. The bitter necessity of revolution- ary self-defense could justify the red terror in the Soviet Union at the time of the civil war, and perhaps also in the first years after it. Today, however, the Soviet dictatorship is by no means in a situation in which it has to exercise revolutionary self - de- fense.” Bauer's Hypocrisy Secondly, Otto Bauer accom- panies his vile attacks on the pro- tective measures of the Soviet Union with an allegedly generous recognition of its socialist achieve- ments. In his article, “Triumph of Capitalism?” he contrasts the capi- talist world with the Soviet Union, with the moral aid of which capi- talism will be overthrown through- out the world in five, ten or fifteen years. The article “Return to Terror” concludes with the words: “For those to whom socialism is the realization of the high- est ideals of humanity, a govern- ment terror of this kind renders it simply impossible to counte- nance Bolshevism, no matter how much they may appreciate the achievements of Russian Bolshe- Bu Redfield bravery at a Home Relief Bureau.” (From the Moscow “Freser” Plant) | case filled with ‘books, to say noth- | ing of a house with a gas range? | Three thousand eight hundred and eighty-three workers and their | families live in the houses. belong- | ing to our factory. The suburb, Leninskaya Sloboda, | which is near our factory, was called Simonoyskoi Sloboda before the rev- olution. In this suburb the famous Simonovski monastery once stood, surrounded by churches and saloons The Czarist government was very generous when it came to giving the workers two cultural recreations; the church and the saloon, On the very spot.of the destroyed Simon- oyski monastery, the Palace of Cul- ture is being erected. If it will be of interest to you to know more \about the Palace of Culture, we will | write you a separate letter about it. Despite all these achievements, we | have instructed the Moscow Soviet | to build a house of technique and additional dining rooms. After we had heard the report, and given our instructions to the Moscow Soviet, the elections began. They took place by open voting. Hands were raised “for.” “against,” or “refraining from voting.” Our factory elected five deputies to the Moscow Soviet, and 13 devuties to ‘he district Soviet. We entrust ‘hese workers with the job of ad- ninistering the canital of the So- viet Union, and have told them to transform it into the most highly developed culturally and the most beautiful city in the world. It was with a feeling of victory and exultation that we elected our deputies to the Soviets. We were electing our own government. ‘We owe our success to the Party of Lenin and Stalin, which surely and firmly leads along the only road to a cla society. Any- one, within or outside our country, who allempts to hinder us, will be mercilessly crushed by the prole- tariat of the Soviet Union. No pity for the enemies, who waht to hoist the landlords, the capital- ists and priests on our backs once more! Now we have finished our letter. Write us, dear comrades, about your life and work. Tell us what ques- tions you are most interested in, and we shall answer you with pleasure. With proletarian greetings, YOUR FRIENDS FORM THE SOVIET UNION, THE WORK- ERS OF THE FACTORY “FRESER.” Editor’s Note: Workers who wish to correspond with these Soviet Workers should write to the fol- lowing address: “Freser” Factory on the large windows, mirrors, divans, book-cases. How many workers were there before the Revolution who had their own book- these achievements in the fight of the world proletariat for emanci- pation.” It should be remarked in pass- ing that even the conditional recog- nition of revolutionary terrorism by Otto Bauer is a piece of miserable hypocrisy, as he consistently fought against revolutionary terrorism even in the years of fiercest civil war. And even today he speaks contemptuously of the “reactionary ideals and practices of the time of the Cheka.” When the Citrines, the Stivines and Vanderveldes, these open sup- porters of imperialist slaughter hypocritically come forward in the name of humanity on behalf of the barbarous dregs of human- ity of the counter-revolution- ary terrorists, whose admitted aim is to involve the Soviet Union, and thereby the whole world, in a war and to let loose all the forces of the counter-revolution in order to perpetuate capitalist bar- barism, then it is not difficult to oppose these old misleaders of the workers, More dangerous, however, are the wolves in sheep's clothing. They are much better able to de- ceive the workers, to lull their revo- lutionary vigilance and thereby in- crease the camp of the Soviet ene- mies from the ranks of the workers. This sheep's clothing, however, has become rather threadbare. The vism in building up a socialist, economy and the importance of article, “Return to Terror,” itself enumerates a number of dangers Committee, 24 Karacharovo Pole, Moscow, U.S. 8. R. threatening the proletarian revolu- tion. “There still exist resistance and feelings of hatred, which from time to time find expression in at- tempts on the lives of Soviet func- tionaries. In addition to this it may even happen that white guard- ist conspirators abroad send assas- sins to the Soviet Union.” And in the article “Triumph of Capital- ism?” Otto Bauer says: “A war in the near future could still be very dangerous to the Soviet Union.” But the Soviet Union should handle with kid gloves the murderers of Soviet functionaries with whose bullets even members of the high- est Soviet bodies are shot down, who, as has been proved, made preparations to assassinate Comrade Stalin; it should bring before an ordinary criminal Court the white guardists who have -been equipped with revolvers and hand-granades abroad and who are working in the service of foreign powers in order to let loose war. And because the Soviet Union naturally refuses to follow this suicidal advice, the bar- barous henchmen of counter-revo- lutionaries and white bandits are represented as workers, and Otto Bauer joins in the anti-Soviet in- citement, the pu of which is to increase the inner and outer dangers threatening the Soviet Union and even to stir up the in- ternational proletariat against it | | | Militaney Wins Foundry Strike By a Worker Correspondent MASON CITY. Ia.— The strike that’ was called at the Monday, Feb. 4, was won late Sat- urday of the same week after a | great battle. The local sheriff and deputized company union scabs were unable to break the picket lines which were supported by the unemployed. As there were not enough members of the Indenendent Union to hold the lines, they asked the unem- ployed for support. The workers won all their de- mand with the understanding that the Independent Union of All Workers would represent them. During the course of the strike, the Albert Lea authorities wired to Mason City, Ia., for machine guns with which to fight the pickets. They got the machine guns. strikers learned of this and called | to Austin, Minn., where almost the {whole town is organized under the Independent Union of All Work- ers, and told them to send all the men they could to help fight the machine guns. They surrounded the jail where two of the pickets were held on trumped up charges of inciting to riot and told the sheriff to come fight it out with them. Before the Austin boys came, the | sheriff struck one of the pickets with a rubber hose with some lead at the end of it. The hose is now in a glass frame in the workers’ hall at Albert Lea. The boss at the foundry refused to walk out of the office when the strikers told him to, so they put him out with | the result that the boss got a black eye for his stubbornne: Girls Rebel at | Bad Food By a Worker Correspondent HAINES CITY, Fla.—The Polk Canneries sectionizers who are boarding at Polk's ten-story boom time hotel, which is under the man- agement of J. M. Chapman, the United Citrus Workers president who turned fascist, rebelled against the bad food. This hotel is the finest in Haines City. Polk has about 250 girls stay- ing at the hotel and he charges them five dollars a week for his rotten food. Polk thought these girls would be satisfied with just getting enough to liye in a fine hotel. But these militant section- izers woke un to the fact that they had to have decent food to eat, not just hot cakes and Georgia syrup. They also realized that the fineness of the hotel did not stop the gnaw- ing at their empty stomachs. We, the membershin committee, are glad to see these militant girls | rebel over the food and we are sure that they will keen doing so until they get better food. They should now ask the Polk Company Union for a raise in wages so that they can save money to get by on during the summer and buy themselves some pretty clothes. C. P. Vote Increases 100% in East St. Louis EAST ST, LOUIS, Tll—Commu- nist candidates here polled a total vote of 1,028 in the lest primary elections, an increase of more than 100 per cent over the 1932 presiden= tial elections. ‘The fact that 34 per cent of the registered voters failed to cast their ballot indicates the growing lack of faith in the candidates of the old parties and at the same time the inability as yet of the Communist Party to reach the large section of workers who refused to use their vote. The work of laying the organi- zational base for a mass Labor Party is finding expression in the preparations for the Spring elec- tions in many of the sections in District 21. The most advanced activities can be seen in the forma- tion of the Workers’ Ticket in Madi- son, Ill, which is being initiated and guided by the Communist Party. Otto Bauer Joins Fight Against Defensive Measures of Proletarian Power We have not forgotten for a moment the nefarious role which Oito Bauer played in the fight against the Bolsheviki, against the Soviet Union, the’ aid which he rendered in throttling the January strike in Austria in 1918, his active aid in overthrowing the Hungarian Soviet Republic, his articles, his pamphlets: “Bolshevism or Social Democracy,” “The New Policy,” etc. It was not the Noskes and Scheide- manns who were the most danger- ous enemies of the Soviet Union. They would have accomplished very little among the working class if their campaigns had not been ideo- logically supported by Otto Bauer. The master of sham Marxist “Left” phrases, Otto Bauer is more respon- sible than anybody else for the fact that Wels and Leipart suc- ceeded in helping Adolph Hitler to obtain power, that fascism tri- umphed in Austria. But he goes farther. He wants to play his dis- astrous role right up to the end. After history has given the social- democratic workers a plain answer to the hypocrtical question, Democ- racy or Dictatorshin?—with which no man juggled more than Otto Baeur—and they are now begin- ning to follow the path which Lenin and Stalin pointed out and are still pointing out, Otto Bauer comes forward hypocritically and prophesies, the world victory of So- and lead it into the anti-Soviet camp. cialism with the moral aid of the Soviet Union in five, ten or fifteen out with all his machine guns and | | Repair Shop Speed-Up | | | By a Worker Correspondent PORTLAND, Me.—The Cumberl- | repair shop went through several changes since last year. With the abandonment of the | Westbrook shop, the repair work on | the Westbrook cars was transferred |to the Portland shop, but’the force was not increased. Jut *e oppo- site happened. Since then approx- imately'25 men were “released” and }no help has heen hired. There are two A. F. of L, locals here. motormen and electricians, }but they are old age and insurance | societies and little else. The locals |are more occupied in fighting each jother than in helping the workers. The men used to work 54 hours a }the hours were cut to 40, and so were the wages, Then the com- pany announced a 10 per cent in- crease, with the result that the men are receiving 30 per cent less than they did before. Of the four winders that used to work there, one has been “released” and the work stretched among the remaining three. The same was done in the painting room. Which room is next? The Oentral Maine Power Co., which is operating in the Eastern part of Maine, is affiliated to the Cumberland County Power and| Light. It is charging 10 cents per | kilo and pays its linemen (very dangerous work which includes | climbing posts) 23 cents per hour, To Piece Work By a Worker Correspondent LOUP CITY, Neb.—The farmer has been working under the same conditions as the piece worker in the city. When they cut the price on the piece worker he had to put on more speed and make every step count. Then they cut his price again until at last he was unable to make a living. When the price of grain was cut below the cost of production, the farmer plowed more land and milked more cows trying to meet expenses, Still unable to meet them he went in debt for a tractor and rented more land. When he then could not pay his debis the court and the sheriff took his farm and home. We have all sorts of chemicals to destroy parasites of all kinds, let us organize and eliminate the hu- man parasites, the bankers and capitalists. Farm Leader Held By U. S. for Protest MINOT, N. D., Feb. 19,—The drive against the Communist Party and | the militant farmers of North Dakota continued with the arrest of K. Heikilla and Hy Wallace, farm- ers’ and Party leaders on a charge of “intimidating a Federal court.” The arrests were made on the basis of protest wires demanding the release of seven Divide County farmers arrested on charges of “conspiring to defraud the United States government” for participa- tion in a “Sears Roebuck” farm sale in 19338. The indictments against the seven had been quashed, but they were held on order of Federal Judge Andrew Millar of Fargo, North Dakota, for the next grand jury. Heikilla and Wallace are held under $2,500 and $1,000 bond, re- spectively. | NEW YORK.—Telegrams protest- ing the holding of the seven Divide County farmers, and demanding their release and the release of Heikilla and Wallace, were sent to- day by Anna Damon, acting na- tional secretary of the International Labor Defense, to Judge Andrew Miller and District Attorney P. W. Hertieal both at Fargo, North Da- ota. years, and at the same time advo- cates a policy which if it were fol- lowed would ruin the Soviet Union in five months, Marxism-Leninism, the Only Weapon The moral aid rendered by the Soviet Union is exceedingly great. But not this moral aid but the reyo- lutionary class struggle can achieve the international victory of Social- ism—a struggle which must be con- ducted not according to the stand- point of Otto Bauer, but only ac- cording to the directives of Marx- ism-Leninism, a struggle which must be waged not in five, ten or fifteen years’ time, but daily and hourly, and upon the development of which victory depends. If Otto Bauer's recipe were foliowed, then in five, ten, or fifteen months’ time not Socialism but fascism would triumph internationally and the Soviet Union would be overthrown, the Soviet Union which is the ac- tual basis of the world-historical fight of humanity which wishes to emancipate itself, the Soviet Union which is herocially building up So- cialism, and is only able to do so because it holds down with an iron fist the enemies of the revolution. He who opposes the protective measures of the vroletarian revolu- tion thereby helps to perpetuate biiet elle barbarism of a so- ciety which is dripping with blood and filth, (oo | week, With the coming of the NRA | ie Compares Farming, YOUR HEALTH — By — Medical Advisory Board | | Fat in the Wrong Place . R. New York:—You state that after your womb was removed, Potter | land County Power and Light Co.| because of a tumorous condition, | Foundry at Albert Lea, Minn, on your menstzuation stopped and now you have begun to put on weight | around the buttocks, in spite of the | fact that you eat but one small meal | a day. You ask whether a reduction | corset would help you in getting rid | of the fat from the place you are so sensitive about. | When the menopause (change of | life) sets in either naturally or arti- ficially as after an operation, | women have a tendency to put on | weight. This is due to the fact |that when the ovaries no longer work or are removed, the other glands of the body which are all | interrelated and delicately balanced are thrown out of gear, including | those glands which control the utili- | zation of fat. Why fat accumulates in one spot | and not in another is not known to | medical science. There is also little that can be done to cause weight | reduction in one particular section |of the torso and not in another, And there is no medicine at our | disposal that we can direct specifi- | cally to the buttocks and expect it | not to effect any other part of the | body. | The best methods of weight re- | duction are by diet and exercise, |The widely advertised weight-redu- cing patent medicines are, in the main, fakes. Most of them are nothing but saline cathartics such as Epsom Salts and they produce | diarrhea and rid the body of water. A diet is enclosed in the package of medicine you buy and it is this diet, which if followed, causes the loss of | weight rather than the “reducing machine.” Some of these reducing drugs contain thyroid, which is very dan- gerous to take without medical supervision. Recently there was a great deal of hullaballoo in the newspapers and in the medical literature about “Dinitrophenol.” Claims were made that this chemical was ideal for weight reduction. Because it helped burn the body fat without the neces- sity of exercising and without the harmful effects of thyroid. But lately, many reports have appeared in the medical journals describing the danger of “Dinitrophenol” and warning against its use. Numerous cases of severe poisoning and even deaths have resulted from this sup- posedly harmless weight reducer. So-called weight reducing corsets do not possess the uncanny ability of making one thinner, actually, The “harness” is usually made of rubberized material, and any ap- parent weight loss is due to the fact that they make you sweat, but do not cause fat to disappear, A tight-fitting corset helps psy chologically in that it has a slander- ining effect, but the fat still remains, * * Vomiting in Infants . C., Brooklyn, N, Y.:—Vomiting in @ young infant may be due to one of several conditions. If the child vomits very forcefully, through nose or mouth, and does this almost aftor every meal, and in addition has no bowel movement or very little, then there may he an obstruction (block) in the bowels. This requires the attention of a physician. In most cases an operation is necessary. However, most cases of vomiting, spitting up of food or hiccoughs, are due to improper feeding of the in- fant. They are either over-fed, or fed lying down. The infant swal- lows a tremendous amount of air in proportion to the size of the stomach. This air is mixed with the swallowed milk. The bubbles of air rise to the top and on being expelled, carry along with them milk and its curds, It is for this reason that every in- fant must be held in the proper position during the breast or bottle- feeding. Hold the infant on your lap with your legs crossed, so that he is about half-way between the vertical and horizontal positions. After the infant has been fed for twenty minutes (which should not be much more) hold him up in the erect position, against your shoul- ders, for about five to ten minutes. Pat him gently on the back. Under no circumstances should you feed him lying down. It is advisable to add solid food as soon as possible to babies diet, particularly those who vomit. We, therefore, advise you to feed the baby cooked farina, two or three times a day beginning with two teaspoonful and gradually increas~ ing the amounts until the baby gets two tablespoonsful two or three times a day. Place the baby on a four-hour schedule. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK HEALTH AND HYGIENE Medical Adisory Board Magazine I wish to subscribe to Health and Hygiene. Enclosed please find $1 for a year's subscription . NOME 6. ssks Se seees ecesacdees Address Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 89 East 11th Street, New York City I enclose $....... ...a8 my immediate contribution te the Seottshoro - Hernden Defense | Fund.