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The Coolidge examiner., 1934-08-03
Safety First Campaigns
Old Stuff Back in 1903

PhIladelphia.-Safety first cam
palgns did not start with the ad-
vent OF the automobile. They were
old stun In 1905. as revealed in one
OF a collection OF chIldren's books
recently exhibited here.
The old book published In that
year contains a number OF caution
airy stories in verse" One example
was:
Miss Helen was always too giddy
to heed
What aer mother had told her to
shun,
For frequently over the street in
full speed
She would cross where the car
riages run"
The moral. OF course, was
reached in the final verse when the
young lady who dlsobeyed her moth
er was struck by one of the many
carriages.
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-08-03
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

CHS and elghisl or. 70 be more spe-
cinc. The aces and elshts % spades
and clubs the black aces and elghis-
-how many q later player holding
that sinister comblnatiou. in some
Agaied. cheerful room. must have felt
a prlckllng % bis scalp as II an Icy
breeze famed his hands. or some
fnrk cold nrnsnnrr stAfarIT IN the
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-08-03
Tree Rings Show Dry
Eras Suffered by Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah.-Drouth pc
riods have come at various times,
often much inore serious than this
summer, F. w. Muir, naturalist, said
he learned from study of trees.
A study of cross sections Of cores
bored into trees revealed drouth cy-
cles ranging from o to IS years in
length, he said.
1.-The years 1873 TO 1850 were par
ticularly drouth stricken in Utah"
he explained. "The trees show by
their growth that in 1901 TO 1905 we
experienced another such period
We are likely to have wet years in
the future as In the past"
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-08-03
Michigan Robin Fights
Reflection in Auto Door

Battle Creek. Mich.-The long
known antIpathy Of the robin for
his own shadow was demonstrated
here when one OF the red-breasted
clan attacked his reflection In the
door panel Of the car owned by
Charles II. Scully. Scully returned
to his parked car 10 find the bird
clawing and peckIng at the shiny
surface. So Infuriated was the
bird at the interruption OF his bat
tie that he flung himself several
times at Scully.
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-08-03
Writes Backwards
While He Recites

In Rochester hotel then and n sort
OF dreaming | looked across the
street and saw a sign which said
Homeopathic Hospital / had a
piece OF paper in front OF me. and
all unconscIously wrote out
Homeopathic Hospital and then
before | knew It / had written Il
backward and upside down-an the
while thinking OF something else.
And ever since then could write out
anything at all from any angle with.
out even thinking about IT,"
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-08-03
Brain That Works Upside
Down Amazes Owner.

New York.-Private William w.
Lord. who has just finished an eight
months course In the quartermas-
ter school at Philadelphia. has been
assigned 70 the quartermaster corps
at Mitchell Field, L. l., and his asso-
clates there now are discovering
why Cornell university wrote TO
Private Lord two summers ago
when be was stationed at Madison
Barracks. n. T.. and asked him to
bequeath his brain TO the Burt G.
Wilder brain collection when he
died. Having a scientific nature,
Private Lord readily complied; he
drew up viii leaving his brain TO
the university. cerebellum. medulla
and all
In civilian clothes, Private Lord
dropped into the office OF the New
York Heruld Tribune to demon
strate just why his brain was
worthy OF inclusion In the Burt G.
Wilder collection. Plump. pink, per-
spring, he sat down at a desk and
asked for a pencil and paper,
Now give me the name Of
city" he said: any one at all
Heads were scratched and finally
some one thought OF city. Seizing
a pencil In chubby fingers, Private
Lord wrote:
olusmuI3US
As be Inscribed the word, upside
down and backward. beginning with
the letter 20" simultaneously he
spelled Il ont orally beginning with
the "S."
Next, a President.
Now the name OF a President"
he ordered. And also give me the
name OF some movie"
Suggestions were offered and,
without hesitation. spelling from
the one direction and writing from
the other, the visitor set down:
usIua uwA
.smBQ sIloN - E9uqqounH sVLn
This improves the penmanship."
aaid Private Lord. "Will some one
please give me a number in seven
dIgitsT
A spectator suggested 5.T32. SIC.
and as Private Lord set the figures
on paper upside down he com
manded: wow pick headline out
OF today's newspaper"
Nation Weighs Recovery Plea OF
Roosevelt some one suggested.
"Fourscore and seven years ago."
intoned Private Lord.
As he recited Private Lords pen
ell few over the paper rapidly. set
ting down figures and words alter
nately on separate pieces OF paper.
all upside down.
Long before be came TO the end
OF the Gettysburg Address. Private
Lord reversed his piece OF paper
and disclosed what he had written.
On one appeared: Nation Recovery
Plea Weighs OF Roosevelt"
You see | deliberately changed
the order OF the words" he ex-
planned.
on the other paper appeared the
following column OF figures:
523.6 .65G
I1l,73T
52l,111
7G4,145
214,543
1921
3,47G.343
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-08-03

Lace is very much In the fashion
picture today. Young girls and
young brides, as well as their moth
ers. all know the charm and soften
Ing influence OF lace especially In
the boudolr. The lace negligee pic
tured. or others OF its type. should
prove a popular item in every
smart trousseau. for the modern
bride knows as well as did her
grandmother just how romantic and
sweetly feminine lace always Is.
Lace is ideal for leisure hours. II
Is especially attractive and prac-
teal for lounging In that 1t does
not crush or wrinkle, always retain
Ing its fresh and dainty look. The
negligee illustrated is very easy TO
slip into and is very fattering with
its ruffles and sash Of flesh-colored
chiffon to match the tint Of the lace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18
CP UNIT HELPS BRING MILITANT PROGRAM NINE STRIKERS
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

In more severe cases when the
skin is raw and oozing, you will not
be able to apply this ointment at
first. You must rest your feet as
much as possible and keep them
dry. Gauze pads between the toes
and talcum powder help. When the
skin has become dry and soothed
you can start using Whitf1elds.
If a great deal of skin has be-
come raw, red, oozing and sore,
you will have to stay in bed a few
days. Apply wet dressing of boric
acid solution for one day. Then
sponge with calamine lotion every
few hours. When the rawneSS has
gone you can start treating it as
you would a mild case.
In severe cases, with rapid spread,
pain, swelling or a feeling of be-
ing generally sick, or any other
complication. you must, of course,
call doctor
The most important thing you
should know about taking care of
ringworm OF. the feet is to avoid
using any medicine that your
friends or drug advertisers suggest.
Many very serious complications
have occurred from the use of med
icine like iodine, mercury, lysol,
carbolic acid, etc, Don't make
trouble for yourself by performing
experiments on the only feet you
haVel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18
BROTHERS
Continued from last week.

IIOHi tdSb NCChl
"All of US will Just stand still when
they tell us to fire. Remember last
time when we had to fight with the
strikers at that automobile factory?
We didn't like it, did we? And some
of us didn't shoot when we were SUI
posed to. Let's make it all of us
now, There are not more than 40
of us. If we all stick to it, we'll be
all right. How many of you are
with me?"
Almost every hand went up.
Its got to be everyone" con-
tinued Bill. Il spoke to the other
fellows today They're with us. How
about you, Charlie?"
'I-oh, that's what we're here for
I suppose, to keep law and order
Whose law and whose order? The
factory owner wants us to protect
himself, his property and his pro-
fits. Don't all of the people pay
taxes to keep the National Guard?
And yet he gets all this protection
Why don't we protect the strikers?
They pay taxes too. But they have
no property to protect. They have
only their two hands which do the
work and make profits for the boss
And the boss can squeeze the work
ers as much as he likes and cut
their wages still lower. When the
workers can't stand it any more anc
they see their families with moi
enough food or clothes, they stor
work and go out on strike. That il
their only weapon. But when the
boss doesn't want to give in to theil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18
PARTY LIFE
YCL Mobilising against Var
National Youth Day, Sept. I
Leadership Issues Directives for Carrying Thru
Preliminary Demonstration

International Youth Day marks
its goth anniversary on Sept. as
day of struggle against imperialis5
war of the toiling youth in all coun-
tries. At this time the danger of
war is more real. This is seen in
the sharpened relations in Central
Europe, in the desperate attempts
of Hitler to throw the starving Ger
man workers and peasants into war,
in the increased provocations of
Japan against the Soviet Union. In
the United States rapid strides to-
ward war are shown by increased
war preparations, by the growing
fascist terror, and the increased
lynchingS of Negroes. Here in New
York, too, the brutal attempts of
the San Francisco bosses to smash
the Party, Y.C.L. and other workers
organizations, are aped by LaGuar-
dia in his attempt to register all
regular" labor leaders and the es-
tablishment of Police Rifle Corps
of 1000 TO handle labor troubles
In the light of these develop
ments, the YCL. and Party must
energetically come forward and mo-
Billie thousands of youth. es well as
adults, for International Youth
Day.
On this day, not only is it neces-
Sary to express our desire to strug-
gle against war, but also to demon
strate the spirit of internationalism
which binds the working class youth
of all countries.
The Communist Party of the New
York District is continuing it's gen
orally healthy approach towards
the youth in helping to mobilize
for International Youth Day. The
enthusiasm of the splendid Nation
al Youth Day demonstration no
doubt is still fresh in the minds of
the Party members and has already
marked a new conception Of the
role of the Party among the masses
of youth in New York. In the light
of this the Party has undertaken
the following steps in order to in
sure mass demonstration on Sep
TENDER 1
1. To initiate broad discussion
among the Party membership on
the significance of international
Youth Day
2. The Sections of the Party, to-
gether with the YCL. to organize
preliminary demonstrations for
International Youth Day.
3. That statement be printed in
the Daily Worker in the name of
the Party District Bureau, mobiliz-
ing the mass organizations for sup
port of International Youth Day.
4. That the Party fraction of the
TU.U.C. undertake to mobilize va
rious trade unions for International
Youth Day and see to it that the
Trade Union papers contain ma
terial on International Youth Day.
5. That leading Party comrade
write an article for the Party press
calling for a mass mobilization.
That all Party shop papers in
clude material on International
Youth Day and wherever possible
special international Youth Day
issue be turned out.
7. That the Party issue a leafet
of $4,000 copies for International
Youth Day and 10000 stickers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18
Negro-White
Solidarity in
South
By a Mine Worker Correspondent

By Mine Worker Correspondent
BESSEMER, Ala.-The night of
August 1st marked a large step for
ward toward the unity of the Negro
and white workers.
Local No. l formerly the unem-
ployed locaD of the Mill, Mine and
Shelters Union staged a little min
strel show to raise money to send
delegates to the unions National
Convention. Both Negro and white
workers participated in the pro-
gram. 200 workers were present, of
whom about 10 per cent were white
workers.
The singing was contributed by
Negro women, two qua-tets and two
soloists. The Negro songs, which
express the deep revolutionary
spirit of an oppressed people, were
well received.
The refTeshments-ice cream and
peanuts-were all served from the
same freezer to the Negro and white
alike.
Another significant thing was
the workers discipline. Three Ne
gro and four white workers ap-
pointed as guards to keep order in
case anyone came drunk and started
fuss. AS it was, no disorder of
any sort occurred. The object of
worker discipline was to keep the
police away.
The Negro vice president of the
union acted as Master of Cere-
monies. Hobson, a white worker
and secretary of the union, spoke
on the value of organization. He
referred to Wilson's war admins
tration as having offered the
workers a chance to organize-but
he claimed the workers refused this
chance. Now Roosevelt has offered
labor the chance to organize and we
should grasp it. Hobson, although
honest in his convictions, does not
see through the lies and fakery of
Roosevelt. Right here in Bessemer
the T. c. 1. and other companies
are openly trying to smash the
bcnaflde unions while already the
company unions have started with
scabs as the nucleus.
This is the same Local of the I.
U. M. M. S w. that unanimously
endorsed the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill H r. 1898 few
weeks ago.
The growing solidarity of white
nd Negro unemployed workers will
'-oVe to be mighty weapon in the
j.uggle for decent relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18
By a Worker Correspondent

ARTINIS, KY am a coal
miners wife, and was born and
raised in Kentucky I will tell you
how the capitalists caused the
death of my baby girl.
Before the baby was born my
husband worked in the coal mines
for % cents a ton. and half the
time I had to go hungry. My hus-
band worked hard all day and then
sometimes didn't have anything for
supper when his days work was
done Before the baby came I had
to go hungry for days at time
and when I could get anything it
was something I could hardly eat.
Corn bread and pinto beans is reg
ular with the miners.
So baby came into the world a
little half-starved child. My two
Oldest children had stood by the
bed and cried with hunger when
baby was coming. After that my
husband got t. B. and We sold
everything we could sell to try to
get food for our children and med
icine for our baby. AS long as
the money lasted we could get med
icine but when the money was
gone, the doctor (my husband had
been cut to pay for the doctor
through the company office for
three years., DR.. Brezill, fatty re-
fused to doctor our baby unless
We had the money. He said, II
guess the baby needs milk"
I went to the relief office to try
to get milk but they told me they
just couldn't give me anything to
buy milk for the baby. So just
what little milk l could borrow from
the neighbors is all baby had.
Just before baby died I tried to
get the doctor to come to see her
He said, Il can't fool with that
kid, I'm going to the show. So
baby struggled along and tried to
live so hard till she was IA months
and nine days old, but she finally
had to die, and the dirty bosses
are to blame.
They are starving little children
to death every day, so I am begging
to workers everywhere to unite and
help me to fight against having
your children and mine being
starved to death by the dirty cap
italiSts in Harlan County. Miners
and their families haven't got any
privilege there.
A little 13-year old boy went to
peanut stand and bought him
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18
Rank and File
Revolt at ROda
Local Meeting
BY Mine WORKER COrrespondent

ny WINE WORKER correspondent
RODA. Va. - Last Saturday was
our regular meeting day. The rank
and file committee decided to bring
up the question of demanding a
closed shop in the local. Mr.. Sax
ton, the new District President. had
been promising to visit the Roda
local Someone tipped him aad
Bill Minton, district secretary, off
to what was planned, and while the
meeting was in progress they both
came in.
The local president Immediately
turned over the meeting to them
and they began making their flow
cry speeches, telling the miners
what the New Deal had done for
them, and what their great leaders,
John L. Lewis, and so on, had done
to get the New Deal for them, and
how their pay had been increased.
When the miners began to take the
stand and expose the true condi-
lions, however, Saxton said we
ought to be willing to share our
little bit of work with the thou
sands who have no jobs at all.
A Negro worker had been elected
to the mine committee. Mr.. Min
ton expressed his pleasure at this
election, and then on Saturday he
said the company had this Negro
worker on the spot and was lsyinG
for chance to fire him. and ad-
vised him to resign from the com
mittee. A comrade then told him
that the whole committee had bet
ter resign. and let Mr.. IngleS, the
superintendent, appoint whom he
wanted The miners gave Mr.. Mini
ton to understand that they would
have whom they wanted on the
committee.
When the chairman Of the mine
committee made his report he told
that the miners had lost every case
they had before the board and told
of one case where the board failed
to agree, and an umpire was called.
who was an operator, and the
worker was discharged.
He then said we would not take
eny more cases to the board. hut
would settle them at the drift
mouth. Then Mr.. Minton said he
thought we had done pretty we'll
at the board, that these were the
first cases we had lost. Our COM
rade told him we would not lose
aNv more
Mr.. SaXton said he could promise
nothing but to enforce the con-
tract. One miner told him the con-
tract had only loopholeS for the
operators. and shackles for the
miners. He replied: Il CUES you're
right, son. I hope you'll get to
write the next one" The miner
said Il do intend to, or at least
help write it, and if I couldn't write
better one than this I wouldn't
have any. We are only working
two days a week, and we can't get
scrip half the time, much less the
fat pay days these takers talk
about"
Now the workers in this newly
organized field. where there was
never a union before, are beginning
to understand these officials lies.
and now they are saying we will
have to do the same thing the min
ers of District 2 in Pennsylvania
are doing. take the leadership away
from these crooks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18
ATHLETES FOOT

We have received so many ques-
tons about athletes foot" that we
will try to answer them all in to-
days column.
This condition is also called ring
worm, and technically "dermato-
phytosis." It is caused by an in
--r-uon OF the skin by a very tiny
organism called fungus. 1t has
very little to do with athletics and
and mild to cause you worry in
nothing to 90 with worms.
1t is contagious. but too common
your daily life. At least half of all
people have it at some time or
other, but only a few are made un-
comfortable. Even when complete
" cured, it sometimes recurs. 1t
is not serious.
In the mild cases the skin be-
tween and under the toes begins TO
peel and scale; it may become soggy
and cracked, and very tiny blisters
are common. The disease may
spread to other parts of the foot,
appearing as patches of redness,
scaling, blisters and pimples.
To take care of this condition,
keep the feet as dry as possible
by frequent changes of socks and
occasional sponging with alcohol.
Get Whitfeld's ointment and apply
it every night to the affected parts.
CThis is not a. patent medicine, but
may be obtained by name at most
drug-stores) This will cure most
cases within two weeks. If the ONT
ment is too strong for your skin
and irritates it, you can mix it half
and half with vaseline.
Ringworm sometimes appears in
the groin. It can be treated with
the same ointment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18

and the thug shot him in the bacl-
and said he thought he had stolei.
the peanuts.
There was a poor Negro who wen
to Harlan to get work. He askc
some of the men if they had
union there, and the thugs heart
him and took him for a ride. They
took him across the mountain and
cut him all to pieces with switches
and the next day the poor fellow
was found there dead.
1t will make any honest person
thai has reasonable sense wake up
and unite and fight for the right
to live. I am the mother of two
little, naked. half-starved children,
am one of the poor mistreated
company of miners wives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18

was a member of the Illinois Work
ers Alliance, so he notified the cr-
ganization OF his predicainent.
Many workers were notified to come
to the scene of the eviction at eight
O'Clock that evening to set the fur
niture back into the house.
At the specified time they came
together in front Of the house. A
young worker suggested that they
begin setting it back at once 50
the family could get settled for the
night, but Joe Good, one Of the
leaders, maintained they could not
set it back. When asked what they
could do, he suggested they spread
a tarpaulin over the furniture. let
it set until morning, then look for
a house for the worker and his
family. This same young worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-18

Digging about Tor. the cause OF tne
catastrophe" low birthrate of Ger
many. the author of the September
Pictorial Review article gingerly adj
mits that economic distress has
been gripping Germany and
instead of taking their little Hansels
and Gretels out into the forests, the
fathers and mothers have decided
not to let them come in the first
place. That is why the 100000 little
soldiers are missing. They never
even reached the recruiting Office.
Reading further we learn that un-
til recently knowledge and gadgets
for birth control, formerly the mon
opoly" of the rich, had spread to
the working class, so that noble
marriage and babe-loving (bache-
lori leader, Herr Hitler, Mortified by
this immoral state of affairs, closed
the stations giving information Ito
the Masses and banned advertising
and sale Of devices. The sanity
Fuhrer also banned abortions, which
investigators said equalled births in
number.
After pages of this and similar
stuff, with additional talk about the
new Sterilization Law, the author
CDR. VIM. Seaver Woods proceeds
to describe the Reich's enormous
efforts" in behalf of the mother and
child. They pan out to be nothing
special beyond the few mother-a
child centers and ordinary hospital
and nurse services common to any
large capitalist land, plus a pain
fully inadequate insurance (for only
some mothers, evidently which
provides a minimum of care and
time at birth, giving the mother
a magnificent allowance of four to
ten dollars cash, the fund being
supported by the workers and en-
ployers, the former paying two
thirds of the expenses"
Don't imagine the proud papa is
neglected If his family is large
enough he can get pretty badge
decorated with an eagle and five
eaglets to show that he is rich in
children"
Marriage loans are described, and
many maudlin paragraphs devoted
to the new "Women's Movement
(back to the cookstove IF any.
This series on birthrates and
sEcn serves as cloak to put
across propaganda for the pres
ervation of the old-style individ-
uGlistic home, on which with
its myriad OF household prCb-
lens" that disappear under social
ism these ladies' home magazines
depend fer their existence and
profits.
1t serves to stir up nationalistic
feeling: to conceal, not reveal the
relation between infant and
mother death rates and economic
system; to confuse carefully the
issues, leaving the impression that
Russia's high birth and low death
rates are achieved in spite of and
net because of her socialistic sys-
tenn.
Following the spiteful article in
the August issue on the Soviet
creche-systems, etc, this issue pre-
sents Fascism in highly sympa-
thetic light, adoring Hitler. and not
merely whitewashing Mussolinis
treacherous betrayal of the masses
but actually gliding and performing
it. The article by Won ziekursch,
Remove the Profit from LOCALIZED
Killing" calling for naturalization