The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
That Column on Constipation
By Michael Gold

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That Column Constipation
READER pledged column on construction
If beaten by our favor b. Luttnger socialist competition
to raise funds for the Daily Worker
Constipation is the condition OF the nody Wnn e
mduy difficulty in evacuation 1t may be
diet muscular anv nerofs etc The treatment individual
according work axatves dieting massage to
hope Dr. Iung impressed medical knowledge To tell
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ginning don't like find cheap Chic Sales huno
They are right But whoever said constipation
the illness from which Americans suffer Every immigrant
first in newspaper
platfomand sky poster and theatre program ad
Hsen to believe there many
conipated Europe suffer that China Africa
problems So the healthy immigrant laughs
But two years. Ameanized he doesn't
laugh any longer earnestly and buys
feenamn exax cascares pluto water EPSON salts sal
ha krschen salts castor oil and crotn oil But nothing helps He
caught the American ament He is at last conaed 100 per center
DEoPE ages sickness punishment
struck BY Lightning constipation because you had
given monthly graft to the priest and RABBI SO you Went 70
lit candles and slipped the holy all had He
prayed your rupture gastone disappear And
maybe sins and helped you Maye ne didn't help
still sinner So handed out more Of your cash
physician No no it was your own m Even yearoo pany ouo SIN
punished with sickness and death.
wiped the City of London god
physician he certainly asbad and hearless one
TO-DAY science point pdemcs
The germs Cholera was discovered garbage
Sanitation than god and his preachers
typhoid and other plaques have
been eliminated of the advanced parts Of the world
capitalist all
social Deaeis not by individual sin but
well the social sins Why should there be for example
ike Mexico such high rate syphilis that
almost half the POPULATION affected 1t not because Mex
leans are more sinful or careless even Ignorant individually than Ae
Not by shot No. because in all such agaan and church
necessary the ruling
ndustazed countries the bougeoe have needed
degree progress
begun repudate Only
oishing today yet bourgeois indriasm enough
the of syphilis It disease
that mainly in agrarian and and
pre-indusrtaIzed ands. rtrs
TEE are hundreds Of that have as simple an expana
ton They are the not of any individual but
tuberculosis instance mainly from
bad and living conditions But the solemn bourgeois
after treating the individual by the familiar
methods
majority themselves
prevents yellow
choleraq
u Of city and that nobody shaved for long hours day in
would minimum that
would enable himself and his wife and children all
the good food and warm clothes that alone can prevent this disease There
have fanes like the unemployment crisis
in America when because the evil Of capitalism millions Of children
grow up rickety
In short the real answer to tuberculosis is revolutionary one and
ntela
anything out to its logical conclusion it smells of Communism
The Reason for Constipation
THEORY, Dr. Luing why constipation found widely
IVA America, speed
greed for profits that humanity
machine That Henry Ford has destroyed
happiness print
power profit
hospitals filled wreckage
plants
Strong boys from the farms for hundreds Of miles attracted by
bayhoo lasted Fords
then transformed into useless old
the outstanding this speed
this matrx American diseases considered
the factories mills would hire him
days ~
Constipation authority, sedenay
habits nero The American worker has pushed
limit these neuroses conipations
the history Of the world
watches time the worker the toilet
if persisted human practices?
Well doctors America,
like Dr. Lutnger beginning prescribe social
constipation tuberculosis syphilis teach
disease to be eliminated that when low
poverty longer
hospital will strong
children strong fathers and mothers will build In
the natural heritage of the human
y erage