The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-22

colored water the antimedic viii fill your head with
illusions and your stomach with gas.
The official magazines of the quacks just as
strong for the present social system the Of
ncial organs of the medical associations Both are
in the healing" business for what they get out
Of it. That these are honest exceptions only prove
the rule.
Dr. Abrams of California was hailed a few years
ago as the deliverer of the human race when he
perfected machine that supposed to locate
the whereabouts of any disease and tell its nature
by system that will not take the trouble 70 de-
scribe here The fact that Upton Sinclair espouses
it made instantly suspicious of it. Sinclair fell even
for woodrow Wilson. The Quacks stocked their fac
tories with the machines and at ten dollars crack
any customer could have his blood tested, and win
his favorite disease.
Before the abrams method" finally proven
to be a fake the quacks had separated the suckers
from hundreds of thousands of dollars These health
shops hummed like dynamOs in central power sta
ton as the electric current chasing tubercuis,
syphilis or diabetes all the patients body. Now
the Abrams machines going TO the junk pile or
being converted into graphophones.
The U. S. rs the most fertile field in the world
for quackery and not all the gulls segregated in
Los Angeles Neither are they all followers of Krsh
namurt the Hindoo Jesus" Some people fall for
anything that has the brand of science its brow.
Others will come across with the sponduliks for any
new religion which promises democracy and a
straight connection with God Political radicals who
think that under socialism Heas will not bite, long
as there feas or that grapes will suddenly grow
virtuous and refuse to fermen are liable get sick
deliberately in order to show their hostility to the
drug trust" and refuse to eat meat in crusade
against the packers
1 heard chiropractoryegetarian say that the
main duty of the Communists should be to preach
health to the masses; that is, to patronze his own
stalls A healthy proletariat would be in posi-
did 1t matter since no social system could do
more for the human race than contribute to their
well being? This same health radical" claimed
that the workers eat too much food The capital
lists think they do and are always ready to hammer
down the workers standard Of living that they
(the captalists) nave more to eat, drink and
wear. The Chinese coolie who live on a bowl
of rice day is preferable to the employer to the
worker who is accustomed to living not less than
the equivalent of twelve bowls day. Too much
food is not the OF the workers misery II Is
rather too little food and everything else that goes
to make up standard of living.
Eat all the cabbage celery, figs, onion and turnips
you want Eat them exclusively If you feel that way
about 1t. Your Individual regimen does not neces
sarily concern the public. Shun the contents Of
the medicine bottle and stretch yourself on the
osteopaths rack often your backbone and
your pocketbook can afford It, But when you begin
- confuse health quackery with political radicalism
vos ere SIMPLY confusing the main Issue that b q