The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 HOME LIFE ir Ann Barton HEN, in the future has been a Soviet many years, there will no doubt be after there America for many students of capitalist America And just as the Soviet youngsters find it hard to understand why workers in capitalist countries do post not make a revolution to solve their needs, will wonder at a t —which thi imsane, as wel blind and b 1 But, of course, the existence of a Soviet America will prove to these youngsters re were many bei’ 38 in that fantastic age who could not stand its insanity either. I am moved to the foregoing af- ter looking over a batch of news- paper clippings which column read- ers have sent me. Here they are! 'ASHINGTON, D. C. (F.P.) ~——"“Many of the southern Ap- palachian mountaineer craftswomen earn less than one dollar a week and average under $25 a year, ac- cording to a report of the U. S Women's Bureau Atlantic City—New York Sun. “College girls have had more op- portunities than ever to get jobs since the depression, though the jobs themselves, Agnes Allen Harris, dean of yomen of the University of Alabania, believes, are not so good. “Since the depression, college girls are in demand everywhere,” Dean Harris, president of the National! Association of Deans of Women, said. “College degrees are even de- manded now in department stores and to run elevators.” | eke le San Francisco—San Francisco News. “Knowing the gas heater was leaky, Mrs. Marion Tobin, 919 B Florida St.. preparing a bath for her two children today, left the kitchen door open for ventilation. | She had asked the landlord two| days ago to have the heater fixed, she said. “The whimpering of June from her bedroom attracted the mother’s | attention. She found the little girl | unconscious, seized her in her arms, carried her to a neighboring drug store. Meanwhile, Jerry collapsed | on the sidewalk. Mrs. Tobin claimed | undernourishment of the children | had weakened their condition so as to make them susceptible to the gas | fumes. She charged the S. E. R. A.| had not provided them with enough | to buy sufficient food, or any milk, | that the children needed blankets and a mattress. er Bee te AN FRANCISCO--San Francisco News. “Jim, the 17-year old, | 230-pound orang-outang fro m_| Sumatra, is quite a business. He's | the articular business of Fred | Chaiten, a head keeper at the Zoo. | Fred watches Jim’s diet as he would | that of a child—feeds Jim vege-| tables, milk with cod-liver oil, crange juice and other body-build- | ers. Jim is the most valuable animal owned by San Francisco. Due to lack of a prover cage, he is allowed out only on warm days. That's one of the reasons the Park Commission's plan to add 69 acres | to Fleishhacker Zoo and Playfield has just won the approval of Mayor Rossi. The added land will cost $364,000. The city will pay for it cver a 19-year period.” Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2198 is available in sizes | 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 | and 40. Size 16 takes 2% yards 39 inch fabric and 34 yard contrasting. | Weitere berms Bere. They go acouhid's Tilustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. |workers for its inability | against | large, Shoe Worker Urges Vigilance In Coming Union Elections By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.—As the date for elections in the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union is nearing, it becomes more and more clear that the sentiment of the shoe workers is against the present of- ficialdom continuing to lead the organization. Fred Biedenkapp, known devoted and militant fighter, is the choice of many locals who have nominated him for the office of General Or- ganizer and is gaining much sup- port from the rank and file. The present officialdom which is discredited in the eyes of the shoe and un- faithfulness to the interests of the shoe workers is nevertheless tempting to perpetuate its rule. Rumors are spread that Bieden- kapp will be taken off the ballot by the Resident Board. The shoe workers must be on their guard against such moves. The shoe workers who are in- terested in honest and sincere elec- tions should take precautions against repetitions of last year's juggling with the election ballots. Every local should elect an elec- tion and objection committee to look the ballots over before they | are sent to the locals and super- vise the elections and not to give anybody a chance to frame up can- didates. Shoe workers be on guard! at- Joint Council Acts to Tie Hands of B By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.— The stitchers’ local in Boston is known through- out the union for the militant fight | it has put up against any form of wage cut. It is the only local that has unanimously rejected the State Board of Arbitration and its wage cut decision. Only a short while | ago it was the first local to reject the proposal of the Joint Council |for a 10 per cent cut. This had a mighty influence on the rank and file of the other locals which was expressed in the referendum vote of 800 to 300 against the cut. The season is drawing to and end and the manufacturers are demand- ing their “pound of flesh,” the wage cut that was promised them all along by the Joint Council and the Resident, Board. In order to open the road for this wage cut they were determined to start their at-| tack against this militant local. A week ago Wednesday a regular meeing was called which was sup- posed to take up the resignation of the business agent. The busi- ness agent ran in the last election jon a left wing slate and actually tried to carry out the program in fighting for better prices for the stitchers. But the pressure of the reactionary clique in the Joint Council and the Resident Board was too much for him and he gradually began to acept the prices handed down by the State Board. He therefor came to the meeting with a speech all written out for him in which he blamed the Com- munists for the fact “that the workers threaten with stoppages the low prices,” and he therefore demanded to be given full power to settle prices. He knew that this the membership would never accept and he therefore de- manded that the G. E. B, reorgan- I. Sinel Wickets Buy ‘Daily’ By a Worker Correspondent McKEESPORT, Pa.—The city of- ficials haven't bothered us any since we have started selling the Daily Worker on the streets here. The steel worxers are a bit shy on account of their jobs, but many of them buy the papers. While sell- ing the paper, some steel worke: saw the headline about the New York elevator strike and said, “There are strikes everywhere, but none here.” The Unemployment Council is having a lot of trouble with the and tell the workers that if they | quit the Unemployment Council, | they will get more relief and back | clothes orders. They tell them that | it is a shame and a disgrace to be- long to the Unemployment Council. is going to be a hearing on all relief officials. It will take place in the t | chauvinism by the great This week in Pittsburgh there|the workers that attended. oston Stitchers meeting used an old worn-out trick and closed the meeting when it got too hot for him. It was then that P, Salvaggio, chairman of the Joint Council, took over the chair, not for | the sake of bringing harmony | among the workers, but in order to | complete the job. The Executive Board, some real | honest rank and file elements among | them misled by the Kessners and| Rosens, pulled a cheap trick and| also resigned, thus playing into the | hands of the manufacturers. | The stage was all set and pre-| arranged for the attack. The Gen- | eral Executive Board was there in| | the person of the General Sec- | retary-Treasurer Wilson and Rose (Cutthroat) Gautreau. The whole Joint Council was there. There were workers there from other depart- | ments who had been urged to come because it was going “to be better than a circus.” | A motion was passed by a vote! | of 173 to 129 that the Joint Council reorganize the local. This vote was) gotten through miscount and the | voting of many outsiders. | | The workers are thoroughly dis- | | gusted with these corrupt Boot and Shoe tactics, and many rank and | filers who were passive till then | are now beginning to understand | | the warning of the militant leader- | ship and are determined to fight against such brazen tactics. Rank and file, demand that a special meeting be called at which nominations will be made for local officials. All shoe workers in the “United” | must see in this attack on the| sitchers’ local an attempt to smash the rights of every local, and | 2 mighty protest must arise through resolutions and other means to help | | the stitchers fight back these Boot | and Shoe tactics and maintain their local as before. relief and those that were in need | wren't getting any. | Councilman Ben Rosenberg of this | | town used to be one of the Poor | Board workers. He got elected City | Councilman by telling the wozkers | that he had done everything pos- |sible for them. Before he got in, 200 people were eating their meals from the city garbage furnace be- cause they could not get relief. Now | he has stopped them from eating | there. If you want to get some | Sarbage eats you have to help push the garbage over there. \Chauvinism Trial In Grand Rapids By a Worker Correspondent GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—A trial on race hatred was held here by the Communist Party and Comrade Mikis was found guilty of white majority of The charge arose out of an in- cident at a dance held for the Court House. They have caught up on their graft. They were getting checks for people that were not on MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.—Several cor- | respondents, yours among them,| were drinking tea around a table! in the Kremlin, during an inter-| mission in the Seventh Congress of | Soviets of the U. S.S. R. A slim young fellow came up and| sat down. He had a lean face and expressive, almost luminous brown eyes, close cropped hair, boots | and blue breeches and khaki coat | with the insignia of the air corps on | its collar, and on the chest the small enameled flag-shaped badge of a member of the Central Execu- | Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins 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 h Pe 3 City etreet, New York 17th } tive Committee of the Volga Ger- man Autonomous Republic. | PROBLEM OF GERMANS Somebody else came up and in-| troduced him all around: Arkady Chapaiev, son of THE Chapaiev, the most famous guerilla fighter of the Civil War, towards the end of his life one of the most famous corps commanders who took part in the smashing of Kolchak's White| Army. Arkady Chapaiev is a delegate to the All-Union Congress of Soviets. | He talked readily enough. He is friendly to the friends of the Work- ers’ State. He has the same nervous | energetic gestures that the actor who impersonated his father in the Chapayev, son of the Chapayev,! He began immed:ately with what | Worker | ture of » delegation of worke: I speaking autonomous republic on was most on his mind, the appear- ance at the congress in the near fu- and | 130 el y* farmors from ihe G ‘ « | jof Nazi benefit of the Daily Worker at the Ukranian Hall by the Polish, Rus- sian and Ukranian Clubs. $$. the Volga. He told us of the great interest among these Germans (de- scendants of colonists who came here many years ago) in the con- gress. He had received letters from farmers who told him they heard all the speeches and reports over the radio, “as well as you did, and we feel that we are participating in the congress too.” The change in the constitution of the U. S. S. R. proposed by the Communist Party will be welcomed by the German speaking citizens of the Soviet Union, Chapayev thinks. He told how the Germans had reso- lutely repulsed every attempt agents to stir up dis- satisfaction among them, to in- troduce racial chauvinist theories, to prevent the children from study- | ing the Russian language and sow dissension between Germans and Russians, Nazis went so far as to send sums of money to the best udarniks of the Volga Republic, evidently honing either to bribe them, or, failing that, to cast sus- Picion upon them in the minds of other Soviet citizens, All these tricks have failed—the German Republic is today as solidly behind the Soviet Government and the Communist Party as ever before. FILM AUTHENTIC The talk drifted onto a discus- sion of the film and of Furmanoy’s beok about Chapaiev, the Civil War hero. Arkady Chane although | vers ig, was with tat army part | of ihe time, and has since made at ‘ The Ruling Clawss Morgan: “‘Hunger and Revolt’! from, Jepson?” Atlanta Workers sk Protest By a Worker Correspondent ATLANTA, Ga—We here at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills have been locked out ever since the General Textile last September. We have fought back in spite of the sellout of Gorman and the ter- rible conditions forced on us by the owners. We are in a fight to the finish, but we need the support of the Communists everywhere, Because if we lose then, all is lost. Dozens of families defied the boss and the law and are living in company houses for which they are unable to pay the rent, They began throwing us out with disposses warrants but we managed to get a bill of injunction which stopped the bosses from kicking us out of our homes. But we must beseech the com- rades to rush to our rescue. We! are not asking you for money, we ask you comrades to sit right down and write a letter of protest to the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, At- lanta, Ga. Demand that they give us our jobs back, drive the scabs out, and not charge us for back rent. 200 Laundry Workers ‘Locked Out \By a Laundry Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—About 200 workers from the Independent Laundry Company of 361 Herzl St., Brook- lyn, which is owned by I. Boslow and M. Golinsky, were locked out | without the payment of two to three | weeks wages, the total of which amounts to about $5,000. The bosses voluntarily gave the | place oer to an assignee of credi- | tors, who are their relations. In so | doing, they are trying to rob the AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED Where the hell did this come F ight ube Frame-Up In South Spreads By a Textile Worker Correspondent | BURLINGTON, N. C.—Members | of the Workers Defense Committee | with John Anderson and J. P. Hog- gard, defendants in the Burlington “dynamite case spoke at mass | meetings in Chapel Hill and Dur- | ham on Feb, 20. In Chapel Hill a good audience of students and professors came out to listen to how six innocent men had been framed on a charge of dynamiting the Holt Plaid mill of Burlington. Sympathy for the defendants is spreading into even the circles of the churches, schools, colleges and universities. In Durham the defendants, after leaving the Chapel Hill meeting, spoke to a meeting of trade union- ists in the court house, Their re- ception showed that workers are more and more coming to see through this frame-up scheme as a part of the whole boss plan to break unions, cut wages and lower living conditions. The Durham workers pledged their support in the fight to free our brothers. They con- tributed a small amount at the meeting and pledged to carry the fight into every local and working- class group in Durham. The Workers Defense Committee is hard at work in its efforts to raise funds to fight the appeal. The address of the local branch is Box 421, Durham, N. C. Write or send | contributions to this address, unions to which the workers be- long, namely the Laundry Workers International Union, Local 135, A. F. of L. and the International Un- ion of Chauffeurs and Teamsters, Local 810, A. F. of L. The workers inside and outside agreed to work together, that is not to scab while one is striking. This was agreed upon unanimously by the workers at a shop meeting. The workers are going to fight this out to the limit. Either we work to- gether as a union shop, or the shop workers of their pay and break the study of his father’s campaigns, which he now discusses “in a mili- tary manner.” He made certain corrections in the book, but said the film, as far as he knew or could find out, was “true in spirit” and quite accurate in fact. After his father was killed, there was a period of famine and to some extent of disorganization in the Volga regions. Chapayev’s wife, this boy’s mother died, he, another brother and his sister lived in a village with grandparents. “No one knew who we were.” he said, and only when the children grew up did Frunze, Chapaiev’s old com- mander in the Oivil War, find them and persuade them to move to the city, where the children went to school. Such things could not happen now, of course, when the Soviet land has become a country of telephones, newspaners, radio, and with schools everywhere, coun- try as well as city. A NEW PROFESSOR Arkady is in the aviation school, and in two months will graduate as 4 commander in the air corps. The other brother is also in the Red Army. The Chapaiev family seems to take naturally to military affairs, and until the World Revolu- tion removes from the Soviet Union the constant menace of imperialist attock on it, there is alwaysa place for military ecnius, That's one type | by proper management, “without | additional funds from the state” | Were raising two or three times as wil never be run. of the universities, run by the Peoples Commissariat of Light In- dustry. The bell rang, announcing the opening of the next session of the congress, and we went back into the big white hall where over 2,000 delegates were sitting listening to Professor Droshkin of the Academy of Sciences, an agronomist. Now this Droshkin was once himself the poorest, most overworked and un- derpaid (in the old regime) type of agricultural laborer. He was a sheep herder. Now, in a voice of a man who knows he is an authority on the subject, he was very ener- getically campaigning for better live stock breeding in White Russia, that area over near the Polish and Baltic border. He was outlining a whole plan for replanting the swamps and meadows of the White Russian Republic with better fodder grass in the place of the wild grasses now growing there; he was giving the names of collective farms that many cattle as their neighbors, he was proving that the potato is one of the best hog foods, and that so and so many hectares of land in White Russia now unused could grow potatoes and raise pigs. Professor Doroshkin is also one type of delegete to this congress. The very next person to speak was a woman named Zakacheva, 62 years old, an active member of the Kolkhoz “First of May” in the Saratoy region, not far from the 5 congress, | Volza G fh The sister is a graduate of one | Chepaiey. Zakacheva is ‘inspector sans and the home of | during the strike tried to drive the | Daily Worker Red Builders out of DAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1935 Join to Quel By a Shoe Woker Correspondent LOWELL, Mass. — Last Monday night the shoe workers in this city decided by unanimous vote to de- |clare a holiday until the strike at | the Laganas Shoe shop is settled. | They elected a committee of five | to take care of the strike situation. | They almost had clashes with the |the manufacturers and they started a | campaign through the press to scare | the workers into believing that the | open shop basis, etc. | Finally, Captain Conovan from | the boot and shoe code was called |and between him and the mayor, | the union officials and the manu- facturers had a meeting on Feb. 21. While the shoe workers were massed at a hall waiting for the outcome, about 11 a, m. his honor and Cap- | tain Conovan came over and told | the workers that the manufacturers agreed to take back their help with f \Lodi Ward Heelers Attack _ Militant Dye Shop Chairman By a Dye Worker Correspondent LODI, N. J—The same mislead- ing Democratic ward heelers who Lodi, who opposed the admission of 5, Saller into Local 1983, are now circulating petitions in Mill A to have the militant and honest chair- man, Leo Courter, ousted. This Leo Courtier was criticized by a worker in the Daily Worker some time ago, but now this worker admits that he was wrong and that | Courtier is fighting for the workers. The members of the local at the} last local meeting showed that they | were behind Courtier and not be- hind such misleaders as Sall Li- cascio, self-appointed chairman of | the Executive Board and Dominic Paladino, who are bitter enemies of Care Is Refused To SickVeteran By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill—I am a veteran who enlisted in 1917. At the front in France I contracted influenza while in the M. D., administering aid in the great epidemic. I have never been in fair health since and was a patient at the Ed- ward Hines Hospital in Hines, Il. A week ago, I had another attack of iness. As I was in great pain, my wife telephoned our veterans’ hospital and they told her rudely to wait another day or to call the patrol wagon at the police depart- ment which would take me to the Cook County Hospital. Knowing through the experience of others who have been stalled off and neglected by the Illinois Emergency Relief. I was assisted to the elevator line for a painful jour- as to the Hines Hospital in Hines, Tl. When I applied for admittance, I was asked why I didn’t go to the County Hospital! I answered that the county hos- pital was overcrowded to the ex- tent that even the hallways are filled with patients and I felt that I had the perfect right to choose “our” Veteran Hospital. I was refused admittance, and instead they took me down and gave me a superficial examination. | Soon three big guards came and \led me away. As they did so, I cried so that every one could hear, “So, it’s the dungeon instead of hospitalization that my government offers me! Was it for this that men like me volunteered to fight to set men free?” “Our country is a beautiful and | police. This worried the mayor and | shops were going to operate on an | I Lowell Strike |no discrimination, and that they | were to go to work at 1 p. m. The leaders came out and said the same thing, urging the workers to accept and saying the Laganas Shop had also consented to start negotiations with the union, Then the representative from Washing- ton came and told them that he j had the power to have the shoe |code reopened, that till then his sympathy had been with the work- |ers, and that to prove that they were law abiding they should go back to work, so that when he goes back to Washington he will have believing what they heard, agreed with very little op- Position to go to work Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They oyer- looked entirely the fact that in their contract with the manufacturers it is stated that under no condition were they to work on holidays or Saturdays. } the Daily Worker, who never at- |tend meetings sober minded, who act like fascist dictators. The last meeting showed the workers how some executive mem- dyers convention, without putting it clearly to the membership for ratification. The Lodi workers are slowly be- ginning to understand who is fight- ing in their interests and are back- ing up their rank and file leaders, The workers in Lodi are looking forward to the coming Boroough Election to put their own worker candidates i the field on a labor platform, instead of following the capitalist parties. The members of Lodi Local 1983 should endorse such a Labor ticket. No Security At Macy’s By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Security of jobs is unknown at R, H. Macy & Co, It is a well known fact that an em- ployee who has worked there for four or five years will suddenly be called to the employment office and told that he is being laid off as his work is not satisfactory. This worker has given his very best to Macy's. He has worked hard and done good work. He had to do good work to be kept so many years. This firing of old employes is not a new practice. The purpose is of course to hire new help at lower salaries. An employe who starts working for $15 a week, after working for a number of years, gets periodic raises. After four years this worker makes about $18 a week. Not only does he get a higher salary but a two week vacation as well. In order to cut down on expenses, this old employe is fired and the person taken on in his place gets only $15 a week and no vacation. All these years this worker has been paying one per cent of his salary every month to the Macy Mutual Aid Association. This is penses and measely compensation when he is out sick. When fired, the worker does not get one cent of this money back. Macy workers, department store slaves all over, organize. Join the Office Workers Union, 504 Sixth Avenue, for security of jobs. NOTE: J Every Wednesday we publish letters from textile, shoe and needle workers. We urge work- ers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to wonderful one, but it is in the hands of the enemy,” I concluded. of quality” of the work done in the fields of her collective farm. FAITH IN LRADERSHTP | Zakhaccheva began her remarks by bringing greetings to “Our Lenin- ist Congress” from all the collec- tive farmers of her vicinity, She went on to develop this theme, say- ing that all see that the congress and the country is firmly following the path marked out by Lenin and Stalin, and that through this they have gained great victories and will gain more. She touched on the threats of the class enemy and brought to the congress the pledge of all who elected her that they will rush to the defense of the coun- try, which does not want a bloody war but may have to fight one if attacked. “We grcwn men and women,” she said, “will say like the Pioneers, ‘Always Ready!’ ” She told how in her vicinity the assassination of Kirov, which the class enemy thought would bring consternation, brought only sorrow, and hatred for the country’s foes, but no weakness. “We heard with joy the words of the wise Stalin, ‘To make all the kolkhozes Bolshevik, and all the kolkhozniks well to do,’ and in an- swer we carried out our sowing and harvesting in a udarnik way.” She described how, as a woman, and as an elected insnector of quality, she won the women also to organize. Please get these letters to us by Saturday of each week. A Peasant Woman. a Professor. and Chapayev’s Son! By VERN SMITH the collective farm. “I told them,” she said: “Bad work is service to the class enemy. Think how much labor others have put into this soil; we mustn’t waste it.” ACHIEVE QUOTA The sheaves were well bound, the dropped grains were gleaned from the field; in harvest they did not waste an hour but put off their rest days to finish it quickly and avoid loss through a change in the weather. Those who did not want to rise earlier and sleep later were shamed into better ways by the ex- ample of the majority. “Our col- lective involved them all.” This kolkhoz finished its harvest by Oct. 7, made its grain deliveries and paid its debts before the time set, and then sent 28 of its best workers to assist two other collec- tives that had not done as well. “I am 62 years old, but I have lived seventeen years under the So- me seventeen years younger,” she declared, and ended by calling for cheers for “our dear comrades Lenin and Stalin, for the Soviet Union and for Voroshilov, leader of our splendid Red Army!” Zakhevheva is anothe> typical Soviet congress delegate. There are many more, and especially there are nearly a thousand workers from the factories, mills, railroads, mines and other working places — I wil! describe some of them in another full activity in the common werk of article, bers railroaded through the ap-| pointing system for delegates to the | supposed to pay for hospital ex- | viet Power and feel that this makes |! TN VIRGINIA, Tennessee and Arkansas been quarantined because of an transient camps have epidemic of meningitis. Six deaths have already been reported and others may follow because of the dread character of the disease, Such a situation is possible because |of the conditions in the Southern | transient camps, where there are |no safeguards and there is inade- | quate medical care. One of the things HEALTH AND HYGIENE, |magazine of the Medical Advisory Board, will do will be to expose the | public health situation as it affects the workers of the country. | The prevalence of disease withe | out any Federal action, the lack of jany campaign against many ex- | tremely contagious and serious dis- jeases, the conditions under which workers’ contract these diseases, | will be dealt with. Articles will also present the positive side of the _| picture, telling what workers can | do to offset these diseases and pre- vent epidemics, meer Soe Getting Rid of “Bay Window” OMRADE M. Z., of New York, writes:—‘I am a young man | Rinetemn years old and in good |health, but my belly seems to be | protruding more all the time. As yet it is hardly noticeable, but I |should like to reduce it and keep |it there. Will you please advise me how to do this?” 5 aie Our Reply recommend the following to aid in getting rid of a protrud- ing “belly”: 1, Exercise, Try to join an ath- letic team or club. Play some form of athletics, like handball or basket- ball, If you cannot do this, at least walk a few miles every day. Do some exercises daily, deep breathing, deep knee bending and body bending, raising yourself to a | seated position from flat position on the floor. t) 2. Diet. Do not eat cake, candy, whipped cream, potatoes, nuts, malted milk, chocolate or cocoa. Eat three square meals a day, but nothing in between. Eat very little bread, butter and cream. By these two methods you prob- ably will not get fat. Naturally, comrade, we believe by belly, you mean abdomen. If you mean something else, like rupture, please write us and we will advise you. Tee Syd Diabetes and Early Hardening of the Arteries 8., Brooklyn, N. Y.—You inquire * as to the cause of the shaking of your father’s right arm. He is fifty-five years old and has diabetes (sugar in the urine). He probably suffers from a condi- tion known as “Parkinsonism.” In this disease a certain part of the brain changes with advancing years and the ability to control the limbs steadily, to co-ordinate the fingers and hands for delicate acts, is lost. In many cases the brain center con- trolling this ability deteriorates be- cause of hardening of the arteries, and such hardening occurs earlier in diabetics than in people without diabetes. Unfortunately medical science has not yet learned how to help such patients. | ie dens Feminine Hygiene 'OMRADE F. C. of Chicago writes: “I would like to know several things about feminine hygiene. Is it necessary to douche after men- struation? Occasionally I have a discharge which has a strong odor. Ts this due to neglect?” The term “feminine hygiene” is a misleading one, All the advertise- ments about feminine hygiene claim to cure infections of the female or- gans. Actually this is a blind for the true purpose—the products are really sold for use in birth control. All of them have shortcomings; some are dangerous; most of them are expensive, and none of them are as effective at other methods. By feminine hygiene, you prob- ably mean cleanliness of the female organs. It is not necessary for the healthy young girl to douche at all, In your case, it will do no harm to douche one or two days following menstruation with a quart of warm water to which may be added a tablespoonful of sodium perborate (a large quantity of which could be bought very cheaply in any drug store). If the hymen is still intact, the nozzle with the single perfora- tion should be used when taking a douche. 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 ... 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