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post-office fraud order by filing an
affidavit promising to discontinue the
use Of the mails in its sale. They
then continued to sell the stuff
through the drug stores.
X x X X
A RECENT modification of the obes-
"a ity cure scheme is to put out the
product in the form of chewing gum.
The advertisements declare that these
gums are wonderful new discoveries
that will take off several pounds a
week. They will do nothing of the
kind. but if they could produce any
such rapid reduction in weight their
sale should be prohibited in the in
terest of public safety. What is in
these chewing gums is not disclosed,
although some vaguely hint at poke
root, while others suggest bladder
wrack, the we'll known kelp of the
seashore. While this seaweed has
long been a common ingredient OF
obesity cures. there is not and never
has been the slightest scientific evil
dence that it has any value in reduc-
ing weight. On the Contrary, it is
fact that the Irish peasants feed it to
their hogs to fatten them. AS to
pokeroot, this powerful and poisonous
drug may produce convulsionS, ending
fatally.
The last of the three main groups
Of obesity cures are the so-called re-
ducing breads. These breads are gen.
orally sold under the claim that they
have positive reducing qualities. In
vestigation has shown that most Of
them are essentially a cross between a
whole-wheat bread and gluten bread.
Some of them contain agar, a sub
stance that has no food value, but
which when eaten abSOrbs moisture,
SWellS and acts as a laxative. Some
have been found to have ground flax
seed and still others to contain laXa-
tive compounds, such as castor oil
The purchaser is told to eat no more
than few slices of these breads daily.
Practically all of them are as high in
food value as ordinary white bread.
The trick lies in persuading the pur
chaser greatly TO curtail the total
amount of all food eaten, and especial
ly to cut to minimum the amount of
sugars, starches and fats. the weight.
producing foods. 1t Is quite evident
that If three or four slices of these
breads daily will result in reduction
of weight, the same number of slices
Of ordinary bakers bread would ac.
complish the same result.
X X X X
RY this time the reader is doubtless
- asking: "Why does not the Gov
"rnment protect the public against
these frauds?" The answer is that
the Government officials do the best
they can under the law. Fraudulent
obesity cures that are sold wholly
through the United States mails can
be and have been permanently put out
OF business as such by the issuance
OF fraud orders by the Postmaster
General. The public little realizes the
wonderfully effective work that has
been done by the post Office in debar
ring from the United States mails the
medical swindlers.
The Department OF Agriculture,
which has the enforcement of the
Federal food and drugs act. the ''pure
food law" can act against awfraudu-
NentIy exploited nostrum onf when
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might make her actually skinny. The
product when analyZed was found to
be essentially mixture of turpentine
and white vinegar. One can but stand
aghast at the preposterous foolishness
of 1t all. Is there no humbug too raw
to feed the fat?
Then there are reducing soaps"
which are said to wash away" fat,
to cause double chins to vanish and
to shrink the skin as they dissolve the
fat. Just what are in these soaps I
do not know. The conception is SO
fantastically foolish that it would be
an unwarranted waste of time and
money to analyZe them. This much
can be said without qualification or
mental reservation: They will reduce
the weight to just the extent that any
soap will, by the amount of foreign
material-dirt--that they remove from
the body surface.
MANY so-called reducing bath salts
ASA have been put on the market
had their day and disappeared. Some
are still sold. One product of this
type when analyZed was found to be
EPSON salt, alum, washing soda and
citric acid. The soda and citric acid
were doubtless put in for the purpose
of producing an effervescence when
the stuff was dissolved. This, of
course, for the mental effect. The di-
rections were to dissolve some of the
powder in an ordinary hot bath, lie in
the bath 10 minutes each night before
retiring, and, you were assured, within
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it is being used, the kidneys and the
heart action need to be watched.
Even then there are often serious dis
turbances of the nervous system, with
marked destruction of body protein.
Palpitation, excessively fast heart
action, sense of fullness in the head,
lassitude, trembling of the limbs.
fever, sweating and sleeplessness are
some of the symptoms that may re-
suit from the use of thyroid. Such a
powerful agent has no place in prod
ucts sold for Standardization, and it's
indiscriminate use by those who are
ignorant of it's dangers, and possibly
even of its presence, Is a distinct men,
ace to the health.
OF the non-thyroid type of cures
many are as harmless as they are
worthless, but others have powerful
drugs in them that will cause serious
digestive disturbances. One product,
sold as a purely vegetable compound,
when analyzed was found to consist
of pink sugar, pink tartaric acid and
baking soda. Then there was a prep
aration originally marketed on the
mail-order plan. It's most powerful
ingredient was chemical from whose
use. even when applied externally, a
number of cases of poisoning have
been recorded. Yet this substance was
Incorporated in q cure for obesity
that was to be taken internally. The
claims made for this product were so
fraudulent that the Federal authori.
ties were about to debar the exploit
ers from the use Of the United States
mails. They escaped the issuance of
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tween hat and face that we need now
that our hair Is no longer permitted
to show.
The thing, as we'll as the name. we
have borrowed from the fisherman's
kit. Hackel. which comes originally
from word meaning hook, has for
long been applied by anglers to denote
'he bit of feather used to hide the
fish hook from the fish. Some milliner
casting about in her mind for some
thing new to use to trim women's
hats. must have glanced in passing at
the display of some sporting goods
shop and there beheld the bit of soft
feather that has since become more
widely used as a hat trimming than
1t ever was as a fish bait.
One adventurous milliner has gone
so far as to make 4 skullcap entirely
covered with hackel, with it's sleek, ir-
regular fringe of feathers extending
all across the forehead and on the
cheeks.
French milliners never seem to tire
of the beret, and popular as has be-
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come the skullcap type of hat and
much as we like the new dropping,
wide .brimmed hats, we must not over
| look the possibilities for smartness in
the new berets. In these new berets
there is usually rather wide, straight
headband made to sit we'll down over
the forehead and eyebrows. and even
farther down on the back of the head.
The somewhat putting crown portion
| is not very large and is usually draped
somewhat backward as we'll as to one
side. French milliners usually feel
that this type of hat Is particularly
well suited to the woman with a
rather large head, since the size of the
head my be hidden beneath the puffed
crown portion.
Balibuntl, Bangkok, Leghorn, Pan
anna, Milan. Bengal, Tuscan---it sounds
like a lesson in geography, but it is
Just partial list of the types of straw
that milliners are using this season.
Straw hats, like cats, usually take
their names from the place of their
origin. But there are Bangkok hats
that would be as out of place in the
Siamese city for which the straw was
named as any Americanized Siamese
cat. We use these names, almost for.
getting that they have any geographf.
cal significance, and there are women
who would be able to recognize a Pan.
anna or Leghorn hat at a glance whv
would have bit of trouble in locating
the places on the map.
From the point of view of hat
fashions the important thing Is that
although straw is no longer consid-
cred the one material for the Sum
mer hat, there is nevertheless a wide
variety of straws to choose from and
almost every mlliner of note has some
one sort to which she Is especially
partial. Thus Agnes Of Paris makes
interesting use of ballibuntl, which
she manages to roll and drape as
deftly as though 1t were lightweight
felt. Practically every French mil
liner is working with this straw, which
Is decidedly well liked at present.
Reboux is partial to leghorn, both
dyed and in natural tone.
Once when the variety Of straws
was much narrower than it is now
most women were familiar with the
various sorts--panama, leghorn and
Evening star., 1927-05-29
IS 'Tis as easy to be right as
to be wr0ng--and to ones glory"

Unless we are sure that our men,
ory is an excellent one. we had best
always bow and smile if face is
familiar-for it is better to greet a
person whom we do not know that
to fail to greet one whom we have
met. lu .;.. 54..
There is a saying abroad among
men that a man may not speak to
a lady when passing her; that the
gesture must be on the part of the
lady always. But can you fancy
man who has known a woman for
some years we'll enough to converse
with her at length at social gather
ings passing her on the, street be-
cause she happens to be engaged in
conversation or preoccupied or some
such thing and fails to see him? OF
course, he may do the initial nodding
in this case and, in direct answer to
your question, r. L., may add that
If he has something that he very
Evening star., 1927-05-29
BY MARY MARSHALL.

F 1t is the hair. not the hat, that
makes woman beautiful, then
beauty nowadays must be at a
II low premium, for with few excep.
tions well dressed women wear
hats that leave you guessing whether
they are red.haired, black haired,
golden-haired or gray.haired. Ear
locks that used to give you little
sample OF hair at the sides of the face
seem to be out of favor, and many of
the new hats extend or droop down so
Tar at the sides that you couldn't see
these wisps of hair anyway.
The mos important fashion devel.
opment Of hats for the season is with
out doubt the increa Sed- and increaS sing
vogue of the very wide hrim. 1t makes
a strong appeal to American women.
many Of whom have not waited until
strong sunshine makes it's shade q real
blessing. This is the second season of
the revival of the wide hrimmed hat.
for both here and abroad they We're
We to some eXte~' last Summer
worn enough to rob them of any ap-
pearance of oddness this season.
Early last Spring some observers
aired the opinion that the wide
brimmed hat simply couldn't be worn
so long as abbreviated skirts manned
in fashion. They cited historic prece-
dent. and drew diagrams to show what
bad architecture it was to combine the
wide brim with the short skirt. But
fashion k pws no such word as
couldn't. and since it still pleases
women to wear their skirts almost as
short as ever, and since they have a
mind TO wear wide brims. he simplest
wav to get around the difficulty is to
go ahead and wear them together. At
first the effect may have been a bit
odd--hat brim wider than the shoul-
ders and skirts almost above the
knees-but all changes in fashion look
odd to begin with
There was another thing that some
observers last Spring said couldn't be
done. They said that so long as
women persisted in wearing exces-
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Wide Brm Becomes Important Detail of Millinery for Season

sively small hats they couldn't wear
trimming. There was no place on the
small hat to put the trimming. Well.
the excessively small, close fitting hat
is still worn by we'll dressed women
side by side with other well dressed
women wearing wide .brimmed hats
and it not infrequently happens that
the very small hat carries more trim
ming than the wide one. There were
toques earlier in the season covered
entirely with vio,ets or other small
flowers. There were little cutfed hats
with the cuff completely hidden with
fatty applied small flowers There
are small hats now with one side
laden with flowers of one sort or an.
other and narrow brimmed hats en-
circled with wreaths of posies.
Most popular phase of feather trim
ming is the hackel pad. which seemed
to achieve popularity almost over
night. 1t is I g accepted trimming for
the still popu ar skullcap and the ir-
regular outline of its fine feathers ca.
ressing the cheek gives a soft line be-
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milan. Now there are new straws
aplenty every season-and old-time
straws are treated in various ways so
that they are well past recognizing.
The result is that most women-even
those who take considerable interest
In clothes-have but a vague idea of
the nature Of the different sorts. They
know the appearance of the sort of
hat they want without very much
bothering about the milliner's way Of
designating it.
tCopyright. 1917
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BY ARTHUR J. CRANE. M. ID.
Director of Bureau of Investigation of tn
American Medical Association.


Director. of Bureau of Investigation of the
American Medical Association.
~ UACKERY is versatile. The
medical charlatan adapts his
methods to take advantage of
~ any passing fad or fancy.
~ Women's fashions during the
last few years have given a wonderful
stimulus to one branch Of charlatanry,
that of selling alleged cures for obe
sity. With the possible exception of
the credulity of the bald-headed man
in the field of hair-growers there is
nowhere to be found such simple
trustfulness in the verify Of printers
ink as that possessed by the obese
woman in the realm of fat cures.
1t would be neither fair nor correct
to say that all overfat persons eat un-
wisely and exercise too little, but il is
Il fact that most of them do. And Usu-
ally the woman who exercises too little
and eats unWisely is the one who be-
lieves that somewhere there must
surely be available a panacea that
without personal effort or a change in
habits will transform her from a
stylish stout" to lissome "boyish-
form" With Hamlet she cries: "Oh,
that this too, too solid flesh would
melt!p. 4 The wish is father to the
thought.
This belief that science should make
II possible for human beings TO Vio-
late physiological laws with impunity
explains why those shrewd individuals
who put out ''anti-fats" nearly always
emphasize the claim that when using
!, their preparations or devices it is un.
necessary to diet and a waste of time
TO exercise.
To read obesity cure literature"
one would think that the problem of
obesity is as elemental as weighing
out sack Of flour. That is the lure
or al quackery--a seeming simplicity
and an easy plausibility. Yet the
question of overweight and under.
weight is really one of great com.
pleXity. Sometimes it is the thinnest
woman Of ones acquaintance who
apparently eats the most. The phleg.
matte, jolly, slow moving woman NAV
convert much of her food into fat
: while the nervous, high-strung, hu.
man-dynamo type turns her food into
energy.
The life habits play an aIl-important
part in determiGirg the tendency tc
overweight--thS activity or lack of
activity Of certain glands, the kind as
well as the quantity of food eaten, the
amount of exercise taken. All these
play an important part in the prob
lem Of obesity. But to the vendors
of these advertised easy cures no
such factors exist. TO them the
causes OF oVerfatness are either ig
nored or they are made to fit into the
absurd theories on which the cures
are predicated.
X X X *
IF one were to indulge in the some
i what dangerous pastime Of general
izIng, it might be said with a consid
cradle degree of accuracy that in 81
far as their action on the body is con
! carned obesity cures in general fal
within one or two classes-those whicl
contain desiccated thyroid and which
while dangerous, may reduce: an
those that do not contain thyroid an
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Strawberry Ice Cream.

Sugar one quart of Strawberries we'll
and let remain overnight to soften
them. The next day press three
fourths of them through a colander
and allow one-fourth to freeze whole
with cream. Boil a pint of cream
with four yolks of eggs. and stir in one
cupful of granulated sugar. Let It
cool. then add the Strawberries and
freeze. This will make two quarts of
cream when frozen.
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THE HOW-THE WHEN-THE WHY
BY ANNE ARDEN.

much wishes to say to this lady he
may indeed pause. attract her atten-
ton and impart his information.
How silly to think that because
she has not noticed that he is pass
ing. he may not speak at all. To be
natural is the important thing In life
and to forget self.
Miss Arden answers questions on the how,
when and why of good taste. Address all
communications to The Evening Star.
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THE SMALL HAT AT LEFT is OF BEIGE FELT TRIMMED
WITH LACE
STRIKINGLY M In M NE NEW AND SMART IS WIDE HAT BELOW OF
NANlBLUE STRAW WITH THE BRIM FACED WITH PINK
NE!NET AND TRIMMED WITH TWO PINK BALLS 1T IS
WON WITH PINK CHIFFON FROCK AND NAVY.BLUE
BEADS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-06
Are You Doing Your Bit for the
Big Red Bazaar?
The Rise Of Reaction in Wuhan

unto each other; their methods are
the same, their fate is the same
oblivion.
THE Chinese working class has adj
= vanced too far forward on the
path of revolution to be driven back
or crushed so easily for any length
of time. The Chinese Revolution
lives in the millions and tens of
millions of exploited workers and
peasants. Temporary reverses may
take place. The final victory though,
is assured, for once arisen, the giant
proletarian and peasant classes will
not be downed.
The Chinese working class is
gathering its revolutionary forces, and
together with the peasantry will lib
crate China from all oppression, re-
action and cOunter-revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-06
u. S. Marines Murder
NiCaraguaDS, Diaz
Gives Them Medals

MANAGUA, Oct 5.-The announce
ment that Adolph Diaz, former en-
oloye of an American coal company
and now the official tool of Amer
ican interests in Nicaragua, is going
TO decorate so of the officers and en-
listed men Of the marines and Amer
lean differed constabulary which
massacred 200 Nicaraguans at Tel
paneca last September, has famed to
fury the smouldering resentment of
The Nicaraguans against the powerful
American invaders now controlling
their land. The awards are being
made in an effort to encourage more
renegade Nicaraguan adherents OF
Diaz to fight against their Liberal
rountrymen, who have been declared
outlaws by the United States.
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consume their own vitals.
THE temporary bloody glory of the
reaction, whether under the turban-
ship of Chang Kai Shek or Tang
Shen Chi, are but passing episodes
in the drama of revolution. No
political power can last long without
the support of the two mainstays of
the revolution, the workers and peas
ants.
The Chinese Revolution cannot be
reduced to naught by ever so many
DEGREES of the old or new militarists.
The cry of Communism and Bolshe-
yism and Nihilism cannot blind the
workers and peasants to the fact that
they are being oppressed, their or
CARNATIONS destroyed and their lead
ers executed.
THE bourgeoisie and all it's auxiliary
forces are scared to death by the
prospect of the Revolution being ac-
complished under the leadership of
the working class. 1t therefore sup
presses the labor movement and ire
organizes" the trades and peasants
unions.
But Chang Kai Shek and Ii Chi
Hsin were ahead of them in this re-
spect. And WI Pei Flu and Sun
Chuan Fang, though they are not so
well versed in the three principles
of Sun Vat Sen, were even ahead of
these. Their logic is common; their
words are almost Identical; their
deeds are as drops of water alike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-06

of Wuhan and Marking, of Wong
Ching Wei and Chang Kai Shek.)
--(This has now taken place. Chang
resigned" to save Wong Ching Wei's
/ face.-W. F. D.
FOLLOWING upon the resignation OF
Nine. Sun and Tang Yeh Tab
came that Of the Labor Minister who
pointed out that the new masters of
the Wuhan Government have hindered
every move of his in favor of the
working class. Sou Chao Cling is
Chairman of the All-China Labor
/ Federation. He is a true proletarian
and famous for his splendid leader
ship of the seamen in the Canton
Hongkong strike He is a member OF
the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secre-
tariat, and he delivered the report or
the situation of the Chinese Labor
Movement at the Pan-Pacific Trade
Union Conference.
The Wuhan Government has already
issued warrant for his arrest and
the arrest of Li-Li-San, Secretary OF
the ACLF.
WE have before us the draft of vari-
w out labor laws worked out by Sou
/ Chao Cling, which were. stranded and
pigeonholed by the Kuomintang Exec
utive. A new Labor Ministry has
been set up, and what do we hear
from it when it is inaugurated?
In his inaugural address, the brand
new Labor" minister, a certain Wang
Fa Chin, declared that the difficulty
in improving the condition of the
workers was entirely to blame on the
"so-called leaders Of the trade union
movement"
He also spoke of an 'unbridled'
labor movement in recent times.
THE first act of the new Labor Min
istry was directed against the
workers and their trade unions. In q
proclamation issued by this ministry
in the beginning of August (see
peoples Tribune" of Aug. ~, we
find the following shameless words
g. . 1t has been learned from vari-
GUS sources that there are many re.
dictionary @ elements who have re-
Gently coined all sorts of rumors and
have tried to instigate general
strike. Any laborer whose con
duct is detrimental to public peace
and order will be severely dealt
with"
Such is the new '1abor' policy Of
this new labor ministry.
Conclusion.
( THE Chinese Revolution is not "over'
as so many who wish it were
believe. The Chinese Revolution is
on 1t is not a passing wave; it is {
deluge which, once started, will sweeI
away the last semblance of the ole
order of things.
The main forces of the Chimes
Revolution remain the proletariat ant
the peasantry Against the uniteC
front of these two classes every re
dictionary and militarist will shatte
his skull and the petty bourgeois ia
tellectual worms who now theoris
on National Revolution without elias
struggle" will die Of starvation o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-06
Bridgeport Workers
Driven From Hall,
Meet and Join lid
(By Worker Correspondent


BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Oct. s.
The police authorities of Bridgeport,
Conn, once more showed the workers
of the brass and munition city a
sample of free speech allowed to
workers.
On Sunday, Oct. 2nd, a squad of
police under Captain O'Connor sta
toned themselves at the entrance of
Red Mems Hall to zealously guard
the "inalienable right of freedom of
speech and assemblage" in the inter
ests of the American Brass Co.
mo Strikes Allowed"
The mass meeting which Captain
O'Connor said he had instruction to
prohibit, was arranged by the Inter
national Labor Defense of Bridgeport
with comrade De Fazio as speaker
on the subject "Why Did the Ameri-
can Capitalists Murder Sacco and
Vanzetti."
This is not the rst time the
guardians of the law violated the
rights of the workers of Bridgeport
During the strike of upholsterers two
weeks ago the chief of police did not
allow any picketing, and declared
that there would be no strikes in
Bridgeport.
A group of workers who came to
the mass meeting, upon the invita-
ton of the committee assembled at
the Hungarian Workers Hall, and
were addressed by De Fazio and
George Siskind. All the workers
present enthusiastically responded to
an appeal to join the International
Labor Defense. A new branch was
thereupon formed.
The workers present and the local
I. L. D. are determined to fight for
the right of free speech. Another
mass meeting is being arranged. The
committee is prepared for test case,
and will fight for the workers rights
in Bridgeport.