The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935 machine ; At Company FARST’S propaganda 5 - which brings its poison into a worker's home must be robbed of its power, shown for the |! diseased, destructive outpouring of capitalist hatred against the work- By a Worker Correspondent Pa.—A guest meet arranged by t as many aes Cork Comp: A io to invite of the wors' ing class that it is. How can we |} e department fight the effect of its lies against given by Mr the Soviet Union among individual company official. He apalee ee ih spoke on waste elimination. At the Hearst readers? Just emotional | ond of his talk he was asked whether loyalty to the principles u the company would divide its sav- ings with the workers. He did not answer this question squarely, beat- ing all “around the bush.” Mr. Prentis, the president of the company, reported on the profits of the Soviet Union ased wi The intensity of our devotion un-clasi one © workers press that what Hi the company for 1934, almost two ; ach of us| Million dollars, but told the work- ae et wes Tue. Each of Us) os that the stockholders come first must intimately know facts about in their distribution “for where the conditions of the Soviet work-| would the workers be if it were not ers, Am readers of Hearst we/| for the money put in by these stock- holders.” (!) Poor stockholders, were almost in tears at facts wid must learn how to pick the: z reports that xost to suppress them. circulate these ing questions asked by members of the Linoleum Workers Industrial he “New Repub! best warn readers ng the course of new busi- its ness, the shop committee chairman brought forward the question of a 10 per cent raise. They attempted must take care to realize that what |t> shelve this question. Objection is good for the Soviet Union may | was immediately forthcoming. After be foreign to Americans—an article | that the party got kind of rough es that is the sour, pained picture of vhich does its to stint ise, to that they one who finds it against his nature to praise the Soviet Union, we still find these figures. it “which unted to almost 70 per cent in has been all but, wiped out “Tiliteracy,” says, f : The pre-convention drive of the International Workers Order is| 75,000 Members is Goal of I. W.O. In Preparations For Convention, Fight for Pay Raise Pushed | Union Meeting the militant element upheld the 10) per cent raise. The workers participating in the company union should see by now} that the company will not grant them any demands and should rally to the only union which represents their interests, thus solidifying all live forces to the end that our de- mands shall be met, ! New Machines ‘Threaten To Displace Men By a Worker Correspondent PADEN CITY, W. Va.—A week} ago Saturday the manager of the | glass plant where I work notified us that on July 1, he was putting in| automatic machines on the con-| tinuous tanks, and that would mean | moving day for at least half of the} workers in the hot metal depart-| ment The American Legion and William Randolph Hearst have not been able as yet to take control of our school. A week ago Theodore Van Camp, an attorney, and I met two capi- talist politicians in a debate on the} question: “Resolved, that a Social- ist form of government wotlld be better than our present form of democracy.” We had a large crowd and the people were well pleased. have at its disposal a propaganda apparatus in all languages the CHALK UP ONE FOR JOHN BULL ‘Painters Intensify Struggle ‘To Enforce Union Conditions | | | By a Worker Correspondent accept a lower wage scale since the | Royal Shop painters is an example that they should abide by the seven- |that should be followed by all the | hour day. members of the Painters’ Brother-| The men were not discouraged. i rom | When pay day came they refused opd,: 7R0 AS DOW SURE or ee tine Wests tar We Whee conditions as bad as those a year they were only getting $6.50. The ago. In spite of the fact that Zaus-|men were fired. They went to the ner promised us last summer that| District Council and the council we would get $9 for a seven-hour | refused to take a stand on the mat- day, and forced a work tax of fifty | ter, The men went back to the job cents for every working day on us,|and found that non-union men had the union leaders do nothing to| been hired. Then they forced the stop violations of the agreement. | Council to act and the Royal jobs The Royal Shop was organized in| were struck. September 1934. The firm signed an! When the settlement was reached, agreement for a union scale ofthe union leaders agreed that only wages and hours. The men, finding | half the crew go back to work on that they were working under non-|the grounds that there wasn’t union conditions, complained to the| enough work. When the men went shop steward. They were getting | back they found new workers. The $6.50 for an eight-hour day instead | men, indignant at such a betrayal, of $9 and they were working Sun-/|are carrying the fight into every day for straight time. | local, Harry Rosen, a business agent,| During the entire struggle, the came down and called a shop meet- | Painters’ Rank and File Protective ing. He gave them a spiel on union-| Association supported and aided | ism, saying that they would have to' these men in every way. ‘= Soviet Worker Recounts Advances In Socialist Construction in Odessa By a Soviet Worker Correspondent | if he manages his work badly. Every |one, even without being a deputy, SEVASTOPOL, US5R—T nave | may take part in the different sec- | Just come back from a sanitarium in| tions of the town soviet. Our Red | Odessa, a place for which our fac- Army and Navy, the foreign work- \tory committee had given me a per- rs, all have the same rights in the 1 eae | elections for the town soviets. |mit and where I spent a whole| NEW YORK—The struggle of the |Shop had just been organized, but | | What is a Wassermann Test? HEALTH ey Medical Advisory Beard NOTE: Today's column is de- voted to the treatment of Genor- rhea and Syphilis. EVERAL comrades have written us to know they must un- | dergo further treatment for syph- ilis when their Wassermann is re- | ported negative. The doctor in- | sists on more treatment to elimi- | mate all chance of the disease still being present. ; To clarify this, it is important | het certain fects about syphilis and the Wassermann test be made clear: Syphilis is a disease caused by a | micro-organism (germ, to put it | regularly) called spirocheta’ pallida, | This organism has the power to in- | fect. the entire system and lodge in various places. It does its work slowly without the patient feeling sick at the onset. Often, its results are noted Nily after many years (even ten or twenty years later). At the onset of the disease (first or chancre stage) the Wassermann test is negative, although infection exists already. This requires some explanation. The Wassermann test is not a test for the micro organ- ism (spirocheta) directiy, After the spirocheta enters the body, it re- acts with body tissues and produces substances which are thrown into | the blood. It is these substances so produced that give the ‘positive Wassermann.’ After vigorous treatment, the spirochetes may be stunned or weak- ened and as they do not attack body tissues much at this point, the Wassermann becomes negative. This is the danger point because patients think that at this stage | | month. | SOVIET RECORDS PROGRESS | they are cured and so stop treat ' i i by pre-sehool sehe institutions, which scarcely existed at the time of the revolut reached almost 9,000,000 ti ject of | Am s . © numbers of youngsters served gaining momentum, The object | American workers speak. There are the drive is to build the Order to! large sections of foreign-born work- 75,000 members by May 5th ers in the basic industries, We must On February 1 the total member~-| reach these workers, The Order ship of the Order was 62,721. Since | cannot reach them through its gen- in 1932; the enrolment in primary | February 1 the national office has and secondary schools has increased |Teeeived 2,481 applications. One from less than 8,000,000 in 1915 to|more week is left in February, In- an 25,000,000 in 1933. The/| dications are that this week will dance at higher technical| not be behind the total of last week. more eral plans. Representatives of the | various language groups must dis- | cuss the best methods of reaching them. They must plan their cam- paigns, They must mobilize their ools and universities has grown during this same period from about 50,000 to 500.000. Also in 1933, there w approximately 800,000 students in the lower technical schools of the Unicn, The gro of scientific re- Search has been even more remar! able. Between 1929 and 1933, the number of h institutions grew from 441 to 1,243 and the number of persons working in them from 22,600 to 53,000.” | Therefore, the recruiting during the | month of February will surely reach about 3,500, children included. With | unavoidable suspensions, this would raise the membership to a minimum of 65,000 by March 1. This leaves 5,000 new members to be recruited each for the remaining two months of March and April, if we are to reach 75,000 by the opening of the | convention. Such recruitment in the remaining two months is entirely members. They must organize the leadership for these campaigns. They cannot do that withovt hay- ing effective language conventions. The work of such effective lan- guage conventions cannot make it- self felt if not every part of the country in which branches are located is represented. | It is the duty of every branch of the Order to take up within the next few weeks the question of Another dove of peace is hatched. Britain gains a few yards in the ceitfulness of the Social-Democracy naval armament race as the H.M.S. England. Push Jingo Drive In Chicago By a Student-Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill, — The Chicago | Board of Education, in an effort to It is needless modesty on your part to say that your letter is of little interest. On the contrary, we} all read it with the greatest interest Here are a few facts from the | work of our town soviet during the period of the last three and a half |years: Dozens of workers’ houses ‘because we are greatly interested | have been built. The workers’ sub- in the process going on in the minds | yrbs have been put into good order jof such proletarians as you who| and have been planted around with |have learned by experience the de-|trees. An autobus service has been |and bourgeois democracy and re- jalized that the only way to liberty is the way shown by the Commu- nist Party. That is why all you are telling of your struggle and of the | difficulties you have to experience jis so familiar to us, We have all experienced as much ourselves, I myself have stood all the “joys” of * : intervention, a flogging which has By a Worker Correspondent — | tert its indelible marks upon my MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.—I am en- health, . Deptford is launched at Chatham, Lollypops ‘eed re Relief Stall | within our pessibilities. The last two weeks have shown a i Ned ee | increase in the recruiting. The pressive has been the expansion | | ting for the week ending Feb. Gh cuttaral noemerastie educationsl | sy prought 998. and the week ending he Bencies. Prom 1913 to! rah 18 brought 1.052 applications. 1983, the number of titles of books / printed increased from 98132, ta| The English Section with a neces- 49,880 and the number of copies | SY Weekly quota of 130 applica- from 113,400,000 to 518,319,000, at| Ons recruited in the last three eff BA - weeks an average of 152 members the same time the number of news- | papers advanced from 859 to 6,674 | Per week. The Jewish Section with 3B achieving the right to representa- tion, or increasing their right to representation. The adding of a few new members to their branch can achieve the object. Any branch that does not yet have 35 members can recruit the missing number and achieve the right to representation. | Any branch already entitled to a delegate can get an additional dele- |gate by recruiting 35 or 40 or 50 and total circulation from 2,729,000 to 35,500,000. Figures of similar im- port might be given for magazines, libraries, theatres, moving pictures, radio, telephone, telegraph, post and travel... .” Burck’s cartoon book, “Hunger and Revolt” is now offered in a $1 edition with renewals and new |a weekly quota of 240 per week re- cruited an average of 295 per week during the three weeks of February. Hungarian Section Improves Work | will put the branches into the ad- There are very definite signs of | vantageous position of being rep- an awakening of the Hungarian | resented, or better repupsented, at Section. That Section trailed at the|the convention. It is also building tail end of the procession in the| the Order. The growth of the Order |More new members in aceordance | with their present membership. To last drive. In the last few weeks,| improves its ability to serve its! however, it achieved an average | members. The improvement of its weekly recruiting of 71 as against its | service to its members will make weekly quota of 72. The tendency is|the Otder more available to the recruit these new members not only | do its bit toward the preparedness drive, has launched a program for |the militarization of the high schools. The following recommenda- tion presented by Superintendent William J, Bogan was adopted by the board: That the United States Army sergeants assigned to R. O. T. C. duty in the high schools be paid $45 per month for full time service, Military sergeants in R. O. T. C. work are paid at the rate of $90 a month by the Federal govern- ment. This salary, while it may maintain a man and femily at a military post, is inadequate to do so in Chicago where living costs are much higher, Sergeants per- form many school duties in con- nection with their R. O. T. C. work | for which they should receive subscriptions. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? | th Ww on the upgrade. The remaining Sections must pick t to nd satisfv exvectations. The Po! ive up to their promise. h Patiern 7 is available in sizes Section filed only three-fifths. 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 3 ithe Rw n Section two-thirds, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 314 j and the Italian and Ukrainian Sec- 39 inch fabric. Tlustrated step-by- tions each only one-half of their step sewing instructions included. weekly quotas during the three Feb- ruary weeks, There is no reason for this lagging behind except inatten- tion. The leaders of these sections must keep in mind that the quota shortages of past recruiting weeks cannot easily be made up in the future. The pre-convention membership drive of the Order is giving the tunity to achieve the right to larger delegations to the convention, or the right to any delegations. Espe- cially the Section lagging behind in the Italian Section will not energize its drive, its 87 branches will he represented at the convention by only 24 delegates. The 89 Ukrainian branches will only have 54 delegates, and the 64 Polish branches are at present entitled only to 21 dele- gates at the convention. Convention Must Be Made Repre- sentative | Such under-representation would | be a calamity. Great problems con- front our Order, because the prob- lems of the working class are grow- | ing. The future of our Order will | depend c. our ability to be of serv- ice to uc members and to the work- ing class. The ability of our Inter- national Workers Order to serve the | working class does not depend on planning only. It can only be the result of a perfect blending of plan- ning and action. Our convention therefore must not merely be a deliberative body to plan the best possible policies and activities. It must also be the in- strument of mobilization for action. Tt must prepare the delegates to} take leadership in carrying out the plans adopted at the convention. The delegates must be the bearers | of the experiences of the members | and the needs of the workers to the convention. They must be the bear- ers of the spirit engendered by the convention and an understanding emselves up energetically if they | branches of the Order an oppor- | the drive should consider this. If| | Working class as & whole. That is our final aim. Forward to 75,000 members by the opening of the convention! Chicago English Section Jumps Ahead The Chicago English Section de- serves honorable mention, Having | been the black sheep of the family | of English speaking branches be-| tore and during the last campaign, it now promises to become the ban- ner city in the pre-convention drive. Our Chicago English brahches have | Shown that they can do even bet- | ter work than Cleveland and New | York. In a two-week drive, with a | membership of only 400, our Chicago | English branches recruited over 150 new members, reaching about 45 per cent of its quota. This is prac- | tieally as much as New York, with forces five times as large as Chicago, achieved only on two or three spe- cial occasions. Our Chicago comrades did excel- Special drive. Especially must we Branch 565, Abe Grey Branch 589, and Branch 169. Most of the branches participated in this two- week drive, although some very | poorly, such as Branch 546, Branch 546 will surely realize that its failure to recruit its share hinders the growth of our English Section in Chicago. We are confident that Branch 546 will not allow itself to | hold this position, but will put its shoulder to the wheel, take imme- diate steps to improve its work, and become entitled to am honorary delegate by April 1st. The National Committee hails the achievements of our English Section in Chicago, We are confident that these achievements will be an in- | Spiration for our comrades there, and will be made the starting point for the complete liquidation of the heretofore stagnant condition, for the building of a mass English Sec- tion in Chicago. How about Chicago challenging New York again, and this time showing New York that it not only can take but also give a good beating? Workers Back Strike At Ohrbach Store lent work during this short-term | commend the work of our Painters | compensation. Further, the board has issued cer- tifieates to 23 additional army of- ficers qualifying them to take charge of the R. O. T. C. units to be introduced in the remaining high schools, ‘To this move for turning the high schools into military camps, the | ever-growing numbers of class con- scious students have already giyen concrete evidence of their vitention to unite students, parents, and delegation of students, ineluding representatives of the Youth Sec- tion, American League Against War and Fascism, wént to the board protest the action. The speaker for |the delegation asked permission to express the opinion of thousands of students in regard to the R. O. T. C. The president of the board, Mr. Mc- |Cahey, stopped him short with, “Aw sit down,” which was the signal for jthe “Red Squad” to begin man- handling the young student. A dele- gation from the Women's City Club, who had come to observe the board in action, were horrified by the brutal treatment accorded the stu- dent, and voiced their protest and | resentment. Flop House Hospital Called Death House By a Worker Correspondent OHICAGO, Ill.—The conditions at the flop house for single men at 509 N. Union Ave. which 1s run by the Salvation Army for the Tlli- nois Emergency Relief Administra- tion are almost beyond description. Many of the men are so sick from the overcrowding and bad food that they can hardly stand in line for the pig feed. Any one who cannot stand up any longer is sent to the hospital (called the death house) on the fourth floor. This hospital has been named the death house be- cause it is a common sight to see the police patrol carry dead men out of it. Some are sent to the County Hospital after it is too late and they die there. On the main floor there are about 300 chairs for the 1,600 men staying \there. But to sit in them you are teachers in active opposition, A) meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 13 to} Send for your copy of the ANNE ADAMS S8PRING FASHION BOOK! PRICE OF BOOK FIF- TEEN CENTS BUT WHEN OR- DERED WITH AN ANNE ADAMS PATTERN IT IS ONLY TEN CENTS. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS FOR BOTH (one cent additional on each order must be enclosed by residents of New York City in pay- ment of City Tax). Address orders to Daily Worker of the decisions made by the con- vention back to the members. It is clear therefore that the success of the convention will depend in a measure on the fullest representa- tion of all branches at the con- vention, Language Work Important With the language sections the need for a full representation of the membership is even more evi- dent. The Order does not have the Pattern Depaviment, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, apparatus to penetrate all sections | of the working class if it does not |forced to listen to the regular Sal- NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 24— | vation Army line of sermons. Members of the Office Workers | Union here have passed a resolu- | tion pledging aid ‘to the splendid, Young Liberators’ Head strike of the Ohrbach depattment | store workers in New York. Seized at Relief Bureau, The Office Workers Union here has initiated an organization ane Arthur Lee Owens, president of | among all white collar workers in |the Harlem Young Liberators, was | the stores and offices in New ordered held without bail at the | Haven. The union meets on the|Fighth District Magistrates Court first and third Monday every |in Harlem yesterday on a charge of month. All white collar workers are | “felonious assault.” following his urged to attend, arrest Thursday morning at the closing a clipping about the terrible | conditions existing in Hazel, N, Y. as a result of the closing down of the acid plant. The houses of mere shacks which are very hard to keep warm. The clipping says that the workers have to pay two |dollars more for fuel when they don’t work, and they have to cut. | their own wood. To think that these | workers who live in the woods still ‘can't get wood to keep themselves | warm The plant had to shut down be-| fore the Middletown papers would | say anything about the conditions |of these workers, as if they did not |have to go through hell befere the | shut down. The wages were $9 a week for a wood cutter, and even that you could not get if it was bad weather | out. As for the’ workers at the plant | they did not get much more. To think that a woman had to} get sick before the welfare office | would do anything to help these) poor people out. They gave the kids| loliyy > and the papers played up| the tact that this was the first candy the kids had eaten since Christmas. | Maybe they figured this was a good | way of making other people forget | about the relief that they should be getting. | the workers are | ‘Relief Workers Make Demands By a Worker Correspondent BEMIDJI, Minn.—The relief sta- tion here moved up on the third floor a few months ago into a swell quarters. Then they began to cut | the relief and every month the re- lief was cut a bit. A few weeks ago there appeared at the relief station nearly one hun- dred workers who had talked it over on two relief jobs. Although a hun- dred got up the stairs without any trouble with the police who knew nothing about it, it was decided that only a committee of five go in. This committee went to the head office and made the following de- mands: 1, That every one in the county get a 40 per cent increase in budget. 2. That the office force and in- vestigators be reduced 20 per cent. 3. Now that the state had a doc- tor examine every one of us they should supply free of charge dental and medical care required. The relief administrator Glenn A. Wheaton talked very nicely to the committee. He told them how he had worked his way through col- lege and now was trying to work his way up to a job that pays $500 a month. He admitted he was living on relief money now, When the committee asked for an answer to their demands, they were told that he had no power to grant them. He told them that he would communicate with the head office and that they should come back in a week. The workers are determined to stand by the demands and if they are not granted the next demon- stration will not be as quiet as this one was, * | Harlem relief station, 74 West 124th Street. Another young Negro, De- Silva, was ordered held in $1,000 ‘bail. Both will come up for trial |Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the ;Same court, 170 Hast 121st Street. Police are trying to frame Owens claiming that he served five. years in Sing Sing prison. All forsee | are urged to pack the court Monday ‘morning, Now a few words about ourselves. | Together with many other Sevas- | |topol workers I went on board the! splendid motorship “Abkhasia,” \called so after one of our republics, | to Odessa for some rest and medical treatment. MEMORIES OF ODESSA About 50,000 workmen and em- ployes were enjoying it there this summer, Bighteen years ago, in this same town, I, then a soldier in the Ozer’s army, met the February rev- olution with a gun in my hands and took part in the preparation for the October Revolution. In_ this | same town, as you know, the French sailors rose under the heroic lead- ership of Andre Marty and made the interventionists call their ships home, How changed now both this town and our country as a whole! Thou- sands of workers are now taking their rest in the palaces and villas of the former money bags. The town, which used to be the scene of atrocious massacres of the Jews is now, together with the rest of the! towns in the Soviet Union, inhabited |by peoples of the most varied na- tionalities, all living in close unity and friendship with each other. The election campaign for the town soviet is just over. It has reached wide masses of the work- ers. Not one among them all, be it @ scholar, a workman, a Red Army man or a housewife, but took active part in discussions upon the work of the old soviet and the election of the new one, Where else can workers enjoy such real freedom and participation in the management of the country as we do? We elect as deputies to the town soviet our own comrades at the working bench. During the whole year we may examine his work, his efforts to put into prac- tice our directives. We may recall him and put another in his place introduced, connecting the suburbs with the center of the town, a new water sport station “The Dynamo,” la park for rest and culture, public | nurseries, kindergartens, new schools, |a bread factory have been opened. |Our local industry has been | strengthened and reconstructed. A |new eleetro-station is being built and a grand new Army and Navy | club, etc,, ete. One cannot enumer- | ate it all. The requarements of the workmen are growing. Much has been left undone yet, That is why the work- ers criticized severely the work of | the old town soviet and gave a series of suggestions in their directives to the new one. At the last plenary sitting of the town, soviet was present one of the personages of the Leipzig trial for the Reiehstag fire, Comrade Tanev, |on his way back from a south coast |Sanitarium where he had been under medical treatment. He met with the warmest reception, NAVAL SHIPBUILDING WORKS LEAD The best of our concerns as re- |gards the accomplishment of the in- dustrial and financial plan were given the right to report of their achievements to the plenum. Two of these were our naval shipbuild- ing works, which had already been awarded the Order of the Red Ban- her and which has already given |our country 22 ships, and the best |of our collective farms, In the lobby there was an exhibition of all the |achievements of our town in the last years. Dear Comrade Charles, you have asked me to write about the psy- chology of the new man who is building up socialism in our coun- try. Well, all the facts mentioned above characterize vividly enough the fact that the whole attitude of our workmen towards their labor, their factory is quite different from what it used to be at the time of the capitalist order or society. The shop in which I am working has over-fulfilled its plan 120 per |cent. Our concern, the military har- bor as a whole, has attained an economy to the amount of 146,641 rubles owing to the different inven- tions of our workmen for the im- provement and acceleration of the Process of manufacture, Three hun- dred and nine premiums have been awarded to these inventors, Fascist Measures Against N.S.L. By a Student Correspondent NEW YORK—For the past few months fascism has raised its head in Newton High School in Jackson Heights, L. I. The newly formed National Student League Group in that school has already been severe- ly disciplined in several instances. After the distribution of a leaflet, one student was forced to resign from the Arista honor society on the threat that her diploma would be withheld, and that she would lose a scholarship she was trying to win. Mr. Baker, the disciplinarian of the school, has shown himself to be an out and out fascist. In one case he told an Irish boy who was a member of the N,S.L. that he should “stop going around with those sheenies.” When, depite all of Baker's threats, leaflets exposing him went out, he placed three gag rules on the students, 1. No one can speak about any teacher—penalty one discipline card. 2. Anyone spreading any unrest or propaganda in the school would have his diploma withheld. 3. Anyone speaking against the government, president or flag will be disciplined, Many groups have taken up the fight against this vicious anti- semite, and the students have raised the slogan, “Oust Baker!” Relief Officials Come to Blows By a Worker Correspondent EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — The relief administration in Columbiana County has become so corrupt that the officials in charge have resorted to the use of fists and chairs in order to settle their disputes on how they can deny relief to the unem- ployed. Mr. William, who has always shown courtesy in all his dealings with the unemployed, was attacked by one Jack Johnson, assistant re- lief director. Mr. William defended himself by using his fists against Jaek’s face. These relief czars in Columbiana County are being supported by the administration in Columbus through writing to the chairman of the grievance committee of the unem- ployed workers and stating that the plea of the workers cannot be con- sidered against the desires of the relief chiefs without greater proof than the needs of the workers in the county. This means that we can only prove the corruption of the officials through a mass demonstration of hundreds of werkers at the relief station in Lisbon. They are mot only cutting out relief but they are in- sulting us and treating us with scorn, ment. Unfortunately, this is a mis- take, since the spirochetes may be | stunned, but not dead. Experience has shown that treatment must consist of at least four courses of salvarsan (ten injections each) and four coures of bismuth or mercury of fifteen injections each, regard- less of the Wassermann, This is a minimum, If the Wassermann continues positive, much more treatment may have to be given. Further, Wassermann’s must be done over a period of several years to eliminate any slip-up. Finally, @ spinal-fluid examination is made, to make sure that the brain and nervous system are not involved, since the negative blood Wasser- mann gives information about the rest of the body, but not necessarily about the spinal cord and brain, * * Self-Treatment for Gonorrhea. . §,, Sandstone, Minn.—If you are |™ still afflicted with gonorrhea in | spite of treatment, there is prac- tically nothing that you can do yourself. Treatment must be given by a competent physician and varies according to the needs of the par- ticular case. 3 Home treatments in gonorrhea are not only valueless, but in many eases do much harm and lead to | complications. You should see a good doctor or go to a Genito-urinary clinic in a recognized hospital where you can receive adequate freatment. Medicine By Mouth for Gonorrhea (. 8. M., New York City:—The use of drugs by mouth in the treat- ment of gonorrhea is by no means a curative procedure. In fact, it is very doubtful whether any drug by mouth is very effective in the treatment of gonorrhea. One must be very cautious in reading enthusiastic reports in the capitalist press concerning any medical treatment, Too often scientific reports are misinterpreted or falsified for one reason or an- other, It is considered doubtful to- day that genito-urinary infections, especially gonorrhea, can be effec- tively treated with medication by mouth alone. In spite of high pres- sure advertising and many reports, we still believe today that plain water is as effective an antiseptic in gonorrhea as almost any drug taken by mouth... It is true that sandalwood oil in early cases does give some relief and allays the inflammation, but the antiseptic effect is practically absent. The same is largely true of pyridium, caprokol and the hun- dreds ‘of others on the market. Al- though all of these drugs lull germs in the test tube their action in the genito-urinary treet is very 1 and certainly doeq not warrant the expense. We feel that in the ordinary acute case of gonorrhea a little sandle- wood oil with large amounis of water is helpful but in long stand- ing chronic cases oral antisepties are of no value. In these cases if infection is actually present, local treatment is necessary. 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