The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

a shovel to clean out the mud
from my eyes.
Now II you think you can adj
wise man Of 90 how to stop such
a bad habit, please say so. I
have confidence in you and may
be cured. but If you think there
is no help for it, just say that my
eyes will stop running when I
will be in Hell, mean, deep I'M
der the ground. That Is Hell!
You may have thanks for saying
the truth from under my Maza-
Yoh."
We print this not because Com.
rade I.NB.'s problem is Of general
intensive will write him per-
sonally about that-but to show the
"guts" the comrade has, in contrast
with another comrade who does
not sign his name and who has all
lowed capitalistic society to get
him.:
What do you think OF the idea
of forming a Society for tha
Painless determination Of Super
fiuous People, by which I mean
neither those whom the capital
lists or the workers consider SUE
perfuous but rather those who
are disguised with everything
particularly themselves and yet
lack the courage to put an end
to it all?
ITS easy enough to philoSo-
phize and say that I don't want
to live and if drown or hang
myself 1t will only be painful
about five minutes, while if I
continue to live I'll not only feel
wretched all the time, but prob
ably will eventually develop
rheumatism or some other painful
disease and suffer for longer than
the few minutes it takes 10 COM
NIT suicide, but all this philoSo-
phiZing doesn't make it any easier
to jump off the bridge.
The idea proposed by this uns
known comrade may be amusing
but he himself is not to be laughed
at. He is terribly unhappy and his
unhappineSs can be understood. He
finds no place for himself. Mo-
where is he wanted. Life becomes
merely physical living from day
to day without purpose. And the
tragedy Of 1t is that it is all quite
true. Not a one of us but has
felt it to some degree. Comrade x
is not wanted; there is no place
for him; and his life in capitalistic
society has no purpose and can have
no purpose that he can justify.
But Comrade x, while he would
seem to consider himself a comrade
in the revolutionary movement, is
really thinking in the terms of his
life as affected by capitalistic So
ciety. In these terms he is right
and the society he suggests forming
might be justified. But within this
capitalistic society there is reYo-
lutionary movement and it Is in
terms of his relationship to that
that he should be thinking Com
rade x has talents or abilities Of
some kind. OF that we can be
sure. Every individual has. They
may not be great but whatever they
are they are there. And every talent,
and every ability, no matter how
small-the comrade can at least
WRITES needed in 8 revolutionary
movement. There is place for
him, he is needed, he is wanted,
and his life, joined with the lives
Of other revolutionaries Of both
great and small talent, can have
very definite purpose. Before he
jumps off the bridge or forms his
Society for the Painless Extermina-
ton of the Superfluous he should
stop fussing about his place In q
capitalize society, for he has none,
and attempt to find his place in
the revolutionary movement where
he has one. If as the result OF
continued living he develops rheum-
atism, the Medical Advisory Board
will help him out. And has the
comrade considered that If he forms
his Society he will have to live in
order to run it-so where does that
let him out2
Contributions received to the
credit of the Medical Advisory
Board in its Socialist competition
with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Cannes,
Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and
Helen Luke, in the Daily Worker
drive for $4,000. Quota-s1,50
Total to date ....,...........,...s136.1B