The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 HOME LIFE a en Aan Rerten Today, SLAVA DUNN writes on Fear and the Child T IS very common for adults to regard children's f trivial. But if we try tor own dhood fears, we realize th while some of them were superfi- cial and passing experiences, others made a very great impression- lasted and tormented us for a long time, and in some cases were so terrifying that ite of all later fear It nizing and even para- easant emotions. can be the most destructive one. has a disorga lyzing effect takes away energy makes one weak. timid and lacking tn This effect may be only temporary, but children who are subject to constant fears may be affected for the rest of their lives. “HE most common fears in child- hood are: fear of the dark, loud noises, animals, bugs, strangers, new situations, et: There are also innumerable fezr\_.f some harmless objects or situations that acciden- tally become associated in the child's mind with some terrifying expe- rience. For example, a sudden and shrill whistle on a ferry boat might so frighten a small child that he will be afraid of ferry boats. What are the other reasons for these different fears besides the accidental causes which are usually impossible to pre- vent? One is the imitation of fears of adults. If anybody around the child shows a fear of the dark or of animals or thunderstorms, or any- thing else, it is quite natural that the child should have the fear too. General anxiety is also very conta- gious and children thus influenced by their parents often show indefi- nite fear of nothing in particular, but are timid and are unable to meet life freely and aggressively as normal children do. A similar kind of general insecurity and timidity might result from too much love and protection. A child who is al- ways used to its mother’s protection will find himself fearful and help- less when he ison his own. Coke Miners R efute Attack Of Hynes on Daily Worker By a Mine Worker Correspondent RONCO, Pa.—At of District No. 4 of the United Mine Workers of America held in Union- Billy the the convention town on Feb. 9 Hynes, ‘wis appointed District President made a sharp attack on the Daily Worker for the story that appeared What was the result of this belly crawling of Hynes when the miners were ready for action? Blacklist Instituted | Four hundred members of the U. M. W. of A. have been blacklisted at the Colonial No. 4 (Grindstone) and the checkweighman was abolished | in the Jan. 19 issue, which exposed | there. Hundreds of miners were : is blacklisted throughout the Frick Billy Hynes’ belly crawling tactics mina at our local meeting on Jan. 13. We Ronco miners who wrote that story still claim that Hynes crawled on his belly. What was the situa- The H. C. Frick Company) started the work in its Ronco mine. They called back eighty men who were members of the Frick Brother- hoods, and only a small group of U. M. W. of A. members The miners at the Ronco meeting were very angry. There was talk of mass picketing. The meeting of the Joint Committee of Commercial and Captive mines on Jan. 12 promised support and if necessary were coming down to Ronco to picket. | tion? The policy of belly crawling has brought us a situation where here at the Ronco mine some of the men pay the checkweighman $6 for two weeks and others pay $2 and $3. Billy Hynes attacked the Daily Worker. We want to ask Billy Hynes, is the Daily Worker respon- sible for the Frick Brotherhood, or | the policies of the leadershiv of Dis- trict No. 4? Is the Daily Worker responsible for the growth of the company union in Woodside, Sea-| rights, Trotter and the Republi¢e Steel mines? Is the Daily Worker responsible for the eviction of union men, including the president of the Alicia Local? Who is spending tens of thousands of dollars dues without any visible The Unemployment Counc 11s return to the miners for their pledged support. We were in a po-| money? Charges were made that sition to start a real struggle to stop you, Billy Hynes, slip 10 and twenty- discrimination against members of | the U. M. W. of A. | Hynes’ advice was “send a com-|in check. mittee to see the super, and if you can’t get satisfaction there go and see Hood and Lynch, but do no go in the name of the U. M. W. of A.| because they will not recognize you.” Municipal Workers “Red Scare” Bluff | To Demand Raise By a Municipal Worker Corre- spondent | SAN DIEGO, Calif. — These are | the minutes of the City Employes | Association meeting last, night | 1, Bills were presented to the com- | mittee and o. kayed and paid. | 2. New members; 12 cards were issued. 3. Two patented medicine men ap- peared and tried to bleed us under- | paid rank and filers of our starva- tion wages. This discussion lasted VERY common reason is the | for one hour and 25 minutes, and deliberate threatening of chil- was decided to pass it on to the dren with a “bogeyman,” a bear, a | Board of Governors of the Associa- doctor, dark closet, or even on over- strict father! Some children as a tion | 4. ‘The Chairman asked if there result develop night terrors, crying | was any new business. Then John spells, nervous habits. of some punishment fears should be avoided. Other chil- dren may resort to lying when afraid | employes, Hanna, representative of the Park asked. for the floor. Most of these |Brother Hanna said, “These patent- In helping | ed medicine men have to quit a child to be courageous, it is useless | coming in to our meeting and taking to ridicule his fears, or to tell him | to forget it. up time while we should be taking The best thing is to/|care of our employes’ business. The talk it over quictly and to give him | group of men that I represent in the an example by your own calm lack | Park are being paid starvation wages Of fear. Also try to associate re- peatedly, some perience with the feared object, animal, person, or situation.” very pleasant ex- | present time. way below the cost of living at the Something's got to be done about this.” Brother Hanna | made a motion that a committee be (Slava Dunn will continue her elected and sent to the City Man- mages article on “Fear” next Saturday, | ager and the Civil Service Commis- | fore the Senate. The workers have giving some examples and how to/| sion to demand $100 per month for| Visorously protested against this deal with various types of fear.) Burck’s cartoon book, “Hunger and Revolt” is now offered in a $1 edition with renewals and new subscriptions. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? | fi Pattern 2194 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 344 yards 36 inch fabric. Tilustrated step-by-s tng 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, “a oo) the workers. One of the white col- |lars from the Water Department | tried to block the motion. He said | this is no time to ask a raise, “I | wouldn’t doubt if the firemen that | are organized as strong as they are | would be afraid to ask a $2 per day |raise,” he said Representative Woodson from the remen, jumped to his feet without | asking for the floor and said, “We | are not. We would go down to- | morrow, if it was necessary. I de- | mand that something be done.” The white collar said, “We are not or- Sew- | ganized strong enough yet, wait.” | Woodson said, “You are to wait nothing.” So the motion was made again and carried, and presented to | the Board to act on within the week. | This was caused by the pressure of | the rank and file in our association. ‘We are getting mad enough to fight. Fight Hungry Children, |Burn Chairs for Heat |. CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (U.P.)—Kight hungry children, their mother dead |and their father in jail, were taken |in eharge by police today after they jburned the furniture in their home jin an attempt to keep warm. The mother died at County Hos- | pital of complications resulting from |expectant childbirth. The father, Joseph Sheehan, is in Bridewell Prison because he turned |to theft in desperation over his family’s plight. When the ragged children were found they were breaking up the last of the few chairs in the im- | poverished house to keep warm, A few crumbs on a table was all that was left of their last meal, eaten |Nearly three days ago. The children are Richard, 18; | James, 15; Barbara, 14; Vincent, 11: Alice, 10; Peggy, 8; Rita, 5, and Shirley, 4, | Police Mo ve to Baik | Workers’ Club By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am « member of the New Lots Athletic and Cultural Club, affiliated with the Associated Workers’ Clubs. A few nights ago two Police ser- |geants came down to the club and | Said that it was against the law for | | clubs to exist in basements. Other | |clubs on the same block were not | visited by them. We must fight | against these fascist attempts to break up workers’ clubs. | NOTE | Every Saturday we publish let- | ters from mine, oil and smelter | workers. We urge workers in | | these Industries to write ns of their conditions and efforts to or- | ganize, Please get these letters to us hy Wednesday of each week, dollar bills to a select group of your | booze hounds to keep their locals Hynes, you stand con- demned as misleader by the bulk of the coke region miners and no amount of white washing will clear you. Only action to smash the {company union will convince us. In New Mexico | Ry a Worker Correspondent | CLOVIS, N. M. — After a long train of protests about the relief ;over a period of two years by pet!- tions and delegations to the Gover- nor of New Mexico, finally the Gov- |ernor called for a committee of two |representing the N. R. A. United DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935 “Quick, sir! the scabs in!” Rank nad File Gains in Poll RUSSELLTON, Pa.—A month ago | the elections for the Valley Central Labor Body of New Kensington took place, The rank and file put up its slate and fought on the floor for its can- didates. The reactionary gang tried | to rule off as a candidate the presi- dent of the Russellton Local of the U. M. W. A. They were defeated in | this attempt. In another instance they tried to | | Keep from voting three delegates of |the Curtisville No. 2 Mine, Local | Call ont the National Guard! By a Mine Worker Correspondent | The strikers won't let Gangsters Get ‘Their Due By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, ITll—Two professional gangster gunmen who admitted un- der oath on the stand that they had been employed by the owner of a large Chicago bakery !n connection with “labor troubles” are facing penalty for murder, not because of their terrorism against workers but because they made the grave error of allowing themselves to be hired by the same bakery owner to shoot down a Chicago business man. Crafts of Clovis and the Unem- | No. 2262. T appealed against the de-| ‘The two labor terrorists, Arthur ployed Citizens League to confer with him, The committee was told that the Communists had an underground organization here which was pre- paring to overthrow the government. The committee was’ also told that the governor would recognize the Unev coved Citizens League and that their demands for the removal of the corrupt relief administration would be granted so long as the Communists were kept out of the workers’ organizations in Clovis. There is no Communist organiza- tion in Clovis and the “red scare” is raised merely to bluff the workers. The reactionary State Legislature is trying to force the passage of Criminal Syndicalism Bill which has | Passed the House and is now up be- bill. All working class organizations | are urged to send protests to Gov- |ernor Clyde Tingley and the New Mexico Senate demanding that this | bill not become law to crush what little freedom the workers have, Syndicalism Bill HB 178 to Senator |Lee Brown Atwood, Santa Fe, New | Mexico, Send all protests against Criminal | cision of the chair and I won my} point in the seating of the dele- gates. | The reactionary gang did every- thing in their power to break up the | meeting and to keep from going through with the elections for they felt. that they would lose all posi- tions. The rank and file made some real | gains in the elections. Our candi- didate for Vice-Chairman won, while our candidate for president | Just lost out by three votes. We jelected one out of three trustees. | On the executive board we got three out of four, and one rank and file | candidate was elected on the griev- ‘ance commitiee. All in all we | elected six men where before we had | none, Four Days Work Nets Girl One Dollar By a Worker Correspondent | CHICAGO, Ill.—T am a young girl who worked for Hoyt Brothers from |7 am. to 7 pm. for four days in zero weather and received one dol- \Tar. I got $2.26, but I had spent $1.26 \on car fares and lunches, WITH OUR YOUNG READERS | LETTER FROM A HAPPY LAND Dear Comrades, Pioneers and | Schoolchildren of New York sCity: | We, the Pioneers of School No. 10, |of the Narvsky District of Lenin- grad, members of Section 3, Platoon No. 18, send you our hearty Pioneer greetings! ! ! On the Ist of December we visited |the International Seamen’s Club and got acquainted with the rep- |resentatives of the different capi- talist countries, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Great Britain, We learned much from this con- | versation about the conditions of | life of the toilers and their children |in the capitalist countries, and we | visit. | Now, dear comrades, we have de- |cided to establish close connections with you. We are going to write |to you about the life of the Pioneers and school children in the | Soviet Union. All the children start | to go to school when they are eight years old. Now all the schools are introducing ten year After graduating from school, every- jone may freely enter any Techni- |cum, University, Institute, or take | special courses. The schools have dining rooms room where one doctor and one or two nurses are always in attendance. | Our study rooms are large and well lighted, Our teachers do not beat us and they look upon us as their younger comrades. In our schools | Were very much satisfied with our | education. | where all the children receive hot | breakfasts. There is also a medical | there is a committee which consists of the parents of the school chil- dren. This committee watches daily the conditions under which the chil- dren live, and inspects their houses. The best shock-brigaders are be- ing awarded briefcases, foot-wear, | a term in a Pioneer camp, and even | | bicycles. Last year, one of the girl) | shock-brigaders was sent on an ex-| |cursion to the White Sea-Baltic | Canal, In school we have the Pioneer organization which embraces almost | all the school children. We also have a large Pioneer Club attached to the school where we go during | the recess to play and to read pa- pers. The Club is also our place of | assembly. At our meetings we take | up such questions as, for instance, the results of our studies. And all the children take part in the dis- cussion. There are some children who are not keeping up with the rest in their studies and then the more advanced are being charged with the task of assisting the weaker. The Pioneer organization also give awards to the best activists of the Pioneers. The older Pioneers are working with the Octobrists (younger than Pioneers), We have also a Club of “Merry- makers” and during the long recess a band of “Bayanists” (Bayanists are concertina players) play and we dance. In the Club there is also a | grand piano which those who know how can play. Dear comrades, the Ist of De- cember Comrade Kirov was killed. Comrade Kirov was the Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee Emblem and Walter Murphy, stated |in testimony that as a result of their good work in handling “labor troubles” at the bakery of Irving Weitzman, they had been employed laver by Weitzman to murder Fli | Daiches, a well-known business man | Whose life was insured in favor of Weitzman for $300,000. The murder ot Daiches’ was j carried out with their usual effi- ciency, and a fat slice of the in- |@ reward for diligent and faithful |service. But the law, which ap- parently had seen no reason to.in- terfere so long as their efforts were confined to Workers, suddenly and unexpectedly stepped in. Now Mr. Emblem, Mr. Murphy and their op- portunistic employer Mr. Weitzman are staring morosely down the One Way Road toward the Death House. If and when they are executed, their passing will be a shocking | blow and a great loss to those | workers who knew them so well | during their affiliation with the {labor movement. Certainly, they would have made wonderful mate- | rial for a public hanging after the revolution, By adie ate of the Communist Party | loved leader, and we greatly mourn his death, At school we had a meeting at which we decided to do still better in our studies and general work, We are now going to await your answer. Write in detail about your school life and your struggles in the interests of the working class. In our next letter we will write up the work of our Pioneer organization. Do not believe the lying articles in the Fascist papers when they write that everyone in the Soviet Union goes hungry and that all the cats were devoured by the children. All these stories are untrue! ! ! Struggle harder, help your parents to overthrow the enemies of the working class! Pioneers of the United States of America, for the struggles in the interest of the working class—Stand Ready! Pioneers of the 3rd Section Lucy Gromova, Section Leader, | Zina Lookyanova, Nina Michel, Jen- ny Lookyanova, Zoya Medvedeva, Tosa Philipova, Tosa Samohina, Yanya Peotrovich, Ada Klepper, Musia Sakastool. Our address is U. 8. S, R. | Surance policy was handed them as/ The Daily Worker, 56 East 13th St. New York City. ee 14 Boss Paper Drives to Cut Relief in Fayette County, BROWNSVILLE, Pa. — Recently, | opinion” the Brownsville Telegraph | carried two editorials attacking the Communists and the Unemployment Councils. An editorial appeared on Feb. 8 in which the “Tele” again bemoaned the fact that the County Emer- gency Relief Board was compelled to resign, and that the “social work- ers” were ruining the unemployed by their treatment of them. The/| editorial supported the resigning | | Emergency Relief Board’s proposal relief, and return the relief to the | hands of Local Boards as in the | past! What is hidden behind these proposals? The relief in the past! With 14,-| 000 families on relief at the end) of 1932 and in 1933, according to | the “Tele,” the relief spent $19,000 a month. Nineteen thousand dollars| a month for fourteen thousand families would not equal one dollar and twenty-five cents a family per | month. Under this set-up two chil- | dren died in Brownsville from | starvation. But, this is the set-up, supported by the “public spirited” Brownsville Telegraph. of Commissary food. The unem- ployed were compelled to travel ten to fourteen miles to get their two ibs. of mouldy rice, wormy beans, ete. They had to have sacks, and they had to carry these sacks on their backs. | Composition of Relief Board The proposal to turn the dis- tribution of relief into the hands of the local relief boards is ene to us unemployed.. For instance | ‘here in Brownsville we had a Board | composed of Red Baer, who. was the | {chief of Monongahela — Railroad |police, and whom. the Railroad | “loaned” to the local relief. Red | Baer used to “knock them cold.” And when some worker resisted, as | | was the c: of Barksdale, he was | charged with “rioting.” We had an | Attorney, Vance Cotton, who made a statement in front of 400 work- | ers: “Any man that strikes need not | come to the relief for help.” We j had Alva Keefer, formerly Assistant | By a Mine Worker Correspondent | Super at the Frick Bridgeport. mine, | who used to go round drunk for the local “expression of the public| ays, exchanging the relief flour, | ism. and decent canned food stuff for booze. When some workers asked him how can he get away with it, he replied. “If the County Commis- sioners can feed their pigs, cows | living. and chickens with the relief flour, and take hams etc. by truck load, Vegetarianism, Fact or Fancy? WAXY letters have come to the Board concerning vegetarian« Workers want to know |whether there is scientific basis for this form of diet. Some people ara | vegetarians on principle, not wishe ing to eat anything which was once Others, and we hope the | majority, are vegetarians because they believe it is a healthy and why could not I sell a ham for a/ economieal diet, because they believe pint.” The “Tele” knew of all these con- ditions, but never editorialized against them. Now, that we changed these un-American condi- to cut down the expenditures for | tions, and through struggles led by the Unemployment Councils and the UMWA locals in 1932, 1934 succeeded to smash such in- jhuman acts, the “Tele” accuses us of being “pressure groups” led by “well known Communists.” Of course there are Communists in the Unemployment Councils! The Communist Party had candidates in the recent elections; it polled hundreds of votes, despite the lying appeals by the various stripes of Politicians. These votes were not cast by Frick supers, Red Baezs or cronies of Tilton; they were cast by unemployed, blacklisted miners and small farmers who are ready to} This relief was given in the form|smash the whole damnable system | of capitalism. These Communists, understanding that under the present system we can not get last- | ing benefits, make the best leaders, because they can not be fooled by | promises of either Roosevelt, Billy Hynes, Cavalcanti, Cole or any one else. And they are not scared either by jails, beatings, threats of depor- tation, clubs, tear gas or anything else. ‘We unemployed understand this so well, that my Council in Browns- ville passed unanimously a motion to boycott the “Tele,” and even though attacked as a Communist organization, we grew in the last month and a half to oyer 100 mem- bers. We shall continue to grow, fight against relief cuts, for more | relief, for all the needs of the un- employed and the part time em- Ployed, against Frick agents and | Brotherhoods, Communist scare of Tilden and the | rest of the capitalist agents. regardless of the { | Mine Heads Expert | At Check-Off | By a Worker Correspondent HELPER, Utah.—Well, St is quite | some time since I have seen any~| thing in the Daily Worker from | Helper. Here in the coal fields the mines | are working, some work five days, | others two and three days a week. | But, all are working. Of course, some | of the camps laid off the majority | of the men. The situation is the same as usual. You know the U. M. W. A. leaders are not much on getting conditions but they sure can check off. I was talking to a fellow worker | yesterday and he told be that they | checked off $28 of his wages in the last five months for dues and ini- tiation, and it will be that way till we get a rank and file organ- ization. I just heard that one coal com- pany takes the check off and keeps the change. They don’t turn it over to the local and they already have $1,400. Mary Morrow, Children’s editor, U. M. W. A. Loeal Recruits 200 By a Mine Worker Correspondent RUSSELLTON, Pa. — Our Local 3506 of the United Mine Workers of America has taken in 200 new mem- bers in the last six weeks. This was made possible through the work of the Rank and File supporters. We| decided to open the charter and in a short period most of those who had not lined up, did so. The local issued two leaflets deal- ing with the campaign of recruit- | ment and they helped. At the mine we had a bulletin board, but when there was anything there that the boss did not like he tore it off. This happened twice. We took the matter up in the local union and a decision was made that We would strike the mine in protest. When the super heard this re- port, it was too much for him and he tore the whole board off and put a small one in its place. The committee went to him and demanded a bulletin board. He put up a board larger than the one that was there in the first place. Our local had five delegates to the | Feb. 3rd Steel Convention in Pitts- burgh. We are now preparing and will send out material for a spe- cial Distriet 5 convention for March 15 and 16 in Pittsburgh, Earle Administration Aims to Cut Relief By a Mine Worker Correspondent UNIONTOWN, Pa.—At a recent 1933, GF istic our be-| Directions Roosevelt with the 19-6-8 cuts our fathers’ 16-8-3 2-5-22 yours and mine 4. 11-4-12 farm @&ol 18-18-21 trouble meeting with the Fayette County relief director, the cases of workers whose relief was reduced were brought forward. In one case a family of five was cut $1.15 a month, and they were told by the investi- Gator, “You have the choice of hav- ing this cut from your food, clothes, or coal check.” MIXED SENTENCES Sent in by Murry Krumholz Here are two sentences with order. teh ilyda rekrow. 2.—noiprese rea wsalay yeard. son, Frederick Garlech, dresses. send you both membership cards, letters mixed up. See if you can juggle them around to the correct | 1,—adercmos ouy tusm hple diulb You can become a member of the Daily Worker Puzzle Club by working out either puzzle and mailing it in, You can write the answer on the back of a penny postcard. New Puzzle Club mem- bers are Gretta Smotrich, Rita Shavle- The Relief Director told us, “We have to tighten up. all along the line, as we are spending a tremen- dous amount of money.” He also told us that a new budget is being pre- pared for all the unemployed in the county, and some families will receive a cut. These cuts will be based on the new “deficiency” budget worked out by the new State Emergency Relief Board. Thus, the first. step of the Democratic Earle administration, from which so many workers expected so much, is to the To Charles Wallowitz of New York, |cut from those who are the poorest and Henry Tucker of Paterson, N. J.: You are enrolled as puzzle club mem- bers, but you did not enclose your ad- If you mail them in, I will | and most needy in the county and state, Lentngrad ‘ Kirov District, Plan Election Rally In Chicago Care of Lucy Gronova, You can write to these boys and girls and they will answer your let- ters, and any questions you want to) ask them, about the way they live, By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill. — We of the 8th Ward are coming into the Alder- and so forth. i fo SAID. NIGGE a “WAIT <s e D THE ADVENTURES OF MARGIE, TIM & JERRY — WE’VE HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE manic Election after a hotly con- tested fight to get the Communist candidates on the ballot. Although we had collected enough signatures and followed the legal re- quirements the fakers tried to rule us off on some phoney technicalities. They tried to say that the signatures were faked. Well, we decided to demonstrate and mobilize all those people that had signed the petition and when we got to the commission- ers’ office we looked like a thousand, twice the number required to get our candidate on the ballot. We are planning a mass meeting to be held in the Burnside K. C. Hall, 9231 Cottage Grove Avenue on Feb. 25 at 7:30 p, m, |that they can best keep their health |by being vegetarians. The first ise Sue of HEALTH AND HYGIENE, the Medical Advisory Board’s magae zine, will carry as one of its feature jarticles, an analysis of vegetarian- jism. The subject will be analyzed from the medical viewpoint, by the specialist in diet and nutrition, of |the Medical Advisory Board. The |article will particularly answer the question: Is a strict vegetarian diet | healthful? To be sure of getting this article, subscribe now. Advance | subscriptions, one dollar a year. . . | Doctors and Free Drug Supplies beer aee) G. P. of New York, | ¥ writes to us saying that she is anemic, and that her neighborhood | doctor gave her samples of “Hema- |boloids” and of “Feosol 8. K. F." |She wants to know which to take. It is important to remember that |the diagnosis of anemia is not one | to be accepted too easily. We will jassume that it was made following an examination of the blood from |the finger, since this is essential. | Secondly, was the cause of the an- emia determined? As to the preparations given, |Hemaboloids and Feosol 8. K. F, both are iron preparations and no |better (but more expensive) than tablets of reduced iron obtainable in any drug store. Why then do |doctors prescribe the more expen- sive (but no better) patent medicine or proprietary formula? The answer is that doctors are as |much subject to a type of mislead- jing advertisements about special drugs as are the unwary workers who read the subway ads and hear jthe radio announcements about | “the remarkable qualities” of “Rem” and “Vicks” and “Cascarets,” etc. The advertising is done in a slightly different way, that’s all. Detail men (salesmen for drug houses) bring samples and report marvel- ous results. The great drug firms (corporations with millions in in- vestments and income) print their own house magazines in a scientific sounding fashion. They tell what |Drs. A and B said in praise of | product X (which it happens to be pushing), but not what C and D said against it; or, if the product |has real value, they advance reasons |why their product is the only one |to be used (it is purer, it is pleasanter ‘to take, ete.); they use |names so near in sound to the phar- maceutical terms that their names are mistakenly used; or if need be, they get the sole right to a certain product and they establish a sort of monopoly over it. Is the doctor to blame? Partly, if you claim he should know better; but that is forgetting that he knows only what is taught him, whether inside a medical school or out. He too is another phase of the capital- ist law of production for profit, to which there are no _ exceptions. Only by the cleverest vision can he steer clear of or realize this him- self, and alone his hands are bound. Each evil such as this, each minor |failure spurs us to ever increasing efforts to strike at the cause of the evil, more than against the hard- worked and harassed neighborhood doctor, bet Sais Shreds in the Urine |. B., Bethlehem, Pa.:—Shreds in the urine in the majority of in- stances are due to gonorrhea, but long standing bladder inflammation, not due to gonorrhea, may produce shreds. To determine whether these shreds are due to gonorrhea, they should be examined under the microscope to see whether or not pus or gon- orrhea germs are present. Then also, the secretion from the pros- tate gland, obtained by massage, should be examined under a mi- croscope. If there is no pus and no germs in this secretion and if this test is repeated three times with the same results, then you can be sure that you do not have gonorrhea even if shreds are present, In your case it is very probable that you have been cured and have no ins fection. You should have the tests de- scribed above, performed, and if these show the absence of gonor- thea then you can forget about the shreds. If, however, these tests show the presence of pus or gonor- rhea germs, then you should have vigorous treatment. 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 Name .. < Address Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 80 East lith Street, New York City T enclose $,.... 04.5.4... as my immediate contribution to the Senttsbora - Herndon Defense Fund,