Labor, Farmers Must Move Beyond New Deal to Stop Tory Offensive
Labor, Farmers Must Move Beyond New Deal to Stop Tory Offensive Soldiers and Smokers By JAMES RORTY THE Army,o aided and abetted by the Red, Cross, the YMJ2.A., the Salvation Army, and our...
...Working farmers, wage-earners and progressive welfare, church, professional and business groups must not rely on the New Deal to stand off the Tory attack in the new session of Congress...
...Let us recognize the fact that for many millions the pursuit of happiness has lost in the past quarter of a century much of the plausibility it had throughout our Nation's history...
...I submit that any analysis which ignores this and other essential etiological aspects of the problem is to that degree unscientific...
...Ask the Chinese if the problem of opium addiction can be stated, let alone solved, by ignoring the forces represented by the British opium war" and the present even more ruthless compulsions of the Japanese...
...Third, develop an information exchange among labor, farm and other groups with a joint publicity program...
...Native fascists are preaching hate among economic, racial and religious groups, hatred of elected officials and of democratic government...
...Thel'e is lIuch 8 techniq...
...Thousands of others, with or without benefit of medical advice, have had a similar xperience...
...Synthetic rubbers also will soon be tailored like fabrics for specific needs...
...Actually our scientists, engineers, and technologists are about as smart as any in the world...
...supplied the "research" repeatedly exploded by a number of serious scientists—and Dr...
...However, the change was now of purely formal significance, as dollars and cents no longer mattered when weighed in the ^-scales against survival...
...The worst tax bill in history was substituted...
...and esp eeialh' t he !\rmv-where .cessive smoking mal' contr ibute' to " ,oldill'l...
...Make it a New Deal for prosecuting the war and for a People's peace...
...I f need be we can turn paper into weatherand waterproof cordage as the Danes have done...
...Indeed we have a veritable storehouse of tre-es and plants yielding valuable oils and medicinal products in this Hemisphere...
...Furthermore a new method has recently been perfected by which grain may be fermented directly to butanol which gives butadiene by_ an intervening process...
...Unaided, the New Deal remnants in administrative agencies and in the ramshackle Democratic Party cannot fight off reaction...
...The article is interesting not only for what it says, but for what it ignores...
...I t sets when cool, but can be re-heated and bent into new shapes at wall...
...The New Deal has always been shaped by the political, economic and social forces brought to bear upon the Washington anvil...
...When heated to 175-200 degrees Fahrenheit it can be bent or twisted into any desired shape...
...To this end it does the following things: 1-—It adopts merchandising and advertising practices designed to encourage addicts in their addiction, to make addicts out of moderate "smokers, and to induct new converts to the vice...
...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT showed his old " "spirit in the seven-point "indivisible" anti-inflation program...
...The first problem in making rubber is to juggle some common and readily available hydrocarbon around until butadiene is formed...
...They are alleged not to irritate the throat—"science" now lets you smoke as much as you like, according to Philip Morris, etc., etc 2—On the merchandising side, the industry has fostered slot machines, and the hole-in-the-wall candy stores and pinball joints that sell cigarettes to minors, often at cut rates...
...Fisnbein and the advertising apparatus of organized medicine are elements in the complex medico-socio-economic problem which is cigarette_addiction...
...THE same thing will be true of textile threads...
...Let's set up a People's Win-the-War Clinic and employ independent industrial and production engineers, economists and writers to set guide-lines, guide-lines for prosecution of the war by all farmers, all labor, all resources under an Office of War Mobilization or its equivalent, with democratic discipline insured by participation of all functioning groups and interests from top to bottom...
...It is also superior to natural rubber for insulating wires, as exposure to air does not deteriorate it so rapidly...
...These, on the one hand, disseminate deliberate and corrupting falsehoods, and, on the other hand, exclude and censor the truth...
...I t can replace hemp for rope, though we are already increasing oar own production of fiber hemp tremendously...
...We are finding the Mexican and Ecuadorian kapok superior to the Java product...
...Speed in arming for war seemed to dictate compromise and surrender to anti-New Deal forces and persons in industry and business in the matter of five-year amortizations of war plants, in staffing of the new war agencies, in the shelving of labor proposals for quick conversion to war production, for expanding outputs of raw materials and for labor participation in management...
...I renew a suggestion that I've been making since last August, with an interval of silence when it seemed that either (a) the Kilgore-Popper-Tolan Bill might be adopted or (b) the Administration might accomplish the same ends by administrative reorganization...
...But these medical lights are not strong J**^Sh, nor is th'.re illumination sufficiently °*°*d to satisfy this writer...
...Fourth, harp morning, noon and night on the fart that global peace will be impossible if the people's war is lost in the Middle West or South in 1944 or earlier...
...Buna N is oil.resistant and is beat for use in self-sealing gas tanks and in gasoline hose...
...What could we do...
...1 could and did stop smoking entirely and permanently...
...It is strong, elastic, and impervious to water, ail, mold, and moths...
...If so, that's over...
...Meantime, ride herd day by day on the new Congress, reporting to the people the legislative and administrative good and bad, making a record for 1944, the year of judgment...
...We shall no longer ask for oils by names of plants, animals, or fish...
...Scientific and technical progress have equipped nations relatively poor in natural resources— like the original Germany, Italy and Japan, for instance—to become powerful...
...In other words it is...
...They have heard talk of the Four Freedoms, the Atlantic Charter and a great day when every last farm will have one hog, some chickens, maybe even a milking cow...
...CRAMPTON a'dopts the typical medical *^ approach to the problem...
...We have acceptable substitute...
...But the Tories won...
...Meanwhile the great RAF offensive against Italian - industrial centers continues...
...We must go beyond the rationing of scarcity to the practical provision for the fair and healthy distribution of abundance—abundance within the U. S. A. for all people, for farmers, for wage earners and the middle class, for North, for South, for white and Hack...
...Instead chemists and physicists are learning how to attach molecules together in...
...Similarly abetted, the Army will make chain npokers out of thousands of soldiers in this war...
...It includes large areas of semi-statistical observation...
...labor unions, civic, welfare and religious groups slipped into the habit of expecting "the New Deal" or "the Administration" to do our jobs for us...
...Functional finishes have been developed wrhich extend the use of fabrics...
...djjjth these recommendations, plus the sug-¦Wiori that neurocirculatory invalids in hos-Rfchrbe denied unlimited supplies of cigarettes, Crampton obviously feels that he has done "•"duty, and doubtless he has, according to his ¦this...
...There was no sense to it...
...Such war aims need a spokesman, philosopher and leader at this hour when the tom-toms are beating and the war paint is being smeared on the medicine men of reaction...
...The cigarette industry is not in business- for your health or my health or the health of our children...
...Then, coconut oil contained substances which went to the pharmaceutical industry, to the chemical industry to be made into a plasticizer for the vinyl resins used in shatterproof glass, and to the synthetic rubber industry for making their product...
...In the Spring of 1941 the British threatened to raid Rome if Athens and Cairo suffered air / imbardments...
...Wood and plastics are replacing many critical war materials in the construction of automobiles and airplanes...
...The search for truth about- tobacco," he writes, "begins in the laboratory of pure chemistry and physics...
...But buna S is better than butyl rubber for tires...
...So what...
...i t neither shrinks fn laundering, nor deteriorates in sunlight...
...Rorty, one of the nation' leading social analysts and a crusadin journalist, offers his own comments an criticisms...
...He will simply increase the number of cigarettes consumed, thereby profiting the industry...
...for...
...Until war with Japan threatened our tin imports, we had been making tin plate in essentially the same way as the first tin plate was made about 120 years ago...
...Can we stir their minds and hearts...
...B) With the federal and state governments which collect important revenues from the racket...
...Wh1 then do they not s upply the p rofession , die aIty...
...The principles of the Tolan Report and Bill and the largely unheeded findings of the Truman, Murray, Kilgore and Pepper committees can be our ammunition dump...
...The people are ready...
...The manufacturer will then state his need for an oil of specific properties to be used in making soap, or textiles, or lubricants, or cooking fats...
...The pleasure factor in smoking must be recognized, he con-dories...
...Plywood, bonded with synthetic resins, and impregnated with them through and through, becomes so-called coimpregnated wood, a grainlesss plastic that can replace metals in many airplane parts...
...It will ba bought by number or symbol which expresses its properties...
...When crystal structure is fully understood by use of the X-ray,'internal rearrangements of molecules can be made at will which will provide strength in any desired direction...
...Start at the national level...
...It also gives 30 per cent more service than natural rubber, provided speeds are low...
...The very cells in textile fibers can now be altered to expand their usefulness and increase their durability...
...A modified wool has been made which strongly resists insect attack, bacteria, molds, and other biological agents...
...As the year ends, Leon Henderson seems to have been sacrificed for his virtues, not for his shortcomings...
...I ha\'p nne fi na l po int...
...heart" and heavy post-"'ar charges for dieabled veterans-with a tested technique f« smoking...
...The second problem is to coax butadiene molecules to link together and form rubber quickly...
...A TVA on the Danube will feed a power grid of abundance that will inter-connect a dozen nations in a community of interest and enduring peace...
...Get this fact into the heads of Washington administrators: the people who will win our war live...
...Crampton...
...Let plans he definite for electing Governors...
...We live by our vices," as that wooden-headed wise guy Westbrook Pegler sagely remarked -in a recent column—yes, we do, even if it kills us...
...Some U. S. doctor are already engaged on this problem, an recently an Army journal published son medical-military analyses...
...Political democracy is at stake...
...In large areas within our nation it is not yet a reality...
...D) With the rear or business end of the medical profession, as represented by Dr...
...And in the Jount4l 01 eM Medical A"ocUJtioll ! You tell a.,: NewLiberalismNeeded To Win and Peace James G. Patton Says By JAMES G. PATTON President, National Farmers Union AS surely as the world is'-fn revolution, torn between the idea of slavery and the idea of freedom, between the idea of planned scarcity, monopoly and exploitation and the idea of abundance and cooperation, so surely are these ideas in conflict here in the U.S.A...
...The cigarette industry, like the opium industry, is a vested interest with a will not merely to live...
...A new series of synthetic resins has been made from common resin and turpentine which replace many gums and resins we imported from the Far East...
...Crampton tells us, cigarette consumption in the United States more than doubled, rising from 2*6 billion t»53 billion annually...
...It was not to be understood as a pledge not to bomb Rome if the Allied cities remained untouched...
...Many of these imports had multiple uses...
...Our scientists and technologists will not be found wanting...
...That is ordy the beginning...
...Are we...
...Should the Army be uncor eerned about the operations of a vac propaganda • and - vested • interest m achim irresponsibly cultivating its b u s i n e s i which involves the physical well-being o . millions of ¦ Americans, and even perhap ear military strength...
...In time we shall make a rubber that will be superior to the natural product for each need...
...Will Rome Be Bombed] DOME is net an open *^ city, and it is no* immune from aerial bombardment...
...Crampton then ?oes on to recommend PpM'tes looking toward (a) a low nicotine Wtiftrt in cigarette smoke, (b) slower burning, w) discarding of cigarette butts, (d) avoidance ** closed room: smoking, (e) wider time, interns between cigarettes...
...Cigarettes are alleged to give you an energy "lift," to aid digestion, ,to reduce overweight (true, that one, as any haggard sub-deb chain smoker will tell you...
...Moreover, the industry is not alarmed by Dr...
...Even at peace we produced new synthetic textiles which were far superior to silk, and new methods of processing cotton which greatly improve its appearance and eartend its use...
...Experienced physicians must ' know it betWr : th.iI I do...
...Today, we look into the future and plan boldly —for what...
...The loss of this and other imported oils seemed catastrophic...
...from here on, we're on our own...
...until in 1M0 it was 183,000,000,000...
...Not for happiness, but for mitigation of wholesale misery, for stabilization of poverty—a Beveridge plan for social security, if you will...
...But the decisions to bomb Rome, capital city of Italian fascism, or to abstain, need be taken only on purely military grounds...
...composed of chains of molecules containing atoms of hydrogen and of carbon...
...Crampton recognizes when be writes: "If the nicotine of cigarette smoke is harmful ~^and it is if soldiers smoke more than civilians, and...
...Only thus can the fall life science and technology have made passible for all on the -earth ba realized...
...The product will be tailored to specific needs...
...A new architecture.- with- bridges and buildings made of strong materials of feathery lightness will result...
...The use of laminated wood in unsupported arches for the roof spans of hangers was developed some time ago...
...Meanwhile we are learning to get along verywell writhout the jute and burlap we formerly imported...
...Fishbein personally consummated the deal whereby the prestige of 130,000 doctors was sold at so much a head to the Philip Morris Company...
...However, paper-cord substitutes for rope can be used in reaping and binding machines as well as on shipboard...
...PIRST, develop an orea-of-agreement group *^ from labor unions, farm organizations, churches, schools.some businessmen,some industrialists...
...Crampton and other med ica l students of the problem recognize se!'minl1:l y t hat cig'8rettel are contra-indicated f or at l ea ~t a substantial number of nicotint'-su!!C'e ptible smoke rs...
...they do—the physician's duty in the situation is clear...
...Crampton's recommendations, some of which, in fact, are definitely helpful to it...
...On the other hand a new transparent elastic plastic is taking the place of rubber in garters, suspenders, and certain other articles...
...Why should they...
...Since both petroleum and ethyl alcohol are hydrocarbons either may be used as the starting point from which to produce butadiene...
...just such a way as to form threads or fabrics of precisely the strength, luster, durability, insulating quality, or other characteristics desired...
...spread outward to states, counties and precincts, insuring democratic participation throughout...
...THERE is another point on which I wish to * challenge Dr...
...perhaps, in dangler of contracting a "company union" attitude...
...the past year-and-a-half, cigarette consumption has been gaining at the rate of 3 per cent a month...
...But ten cigarettes a day is already above the tolerance limit of a substantial percentage of smokers, according to the testimony of responsibly medical observers...
...For example, the true addict will soon make up for any reduction either in the nicotine content <Jf the cigarette or in the portion of it which is smoked...
...Certainly it seems dis-heartingly futile...
...We can use science and technology to wriggle out of the grip of any nation or group of nations which tries to weaken us by withholding materials we customarily import...
...If so, then we can organize, educate, elect and legislate...
...We need tin, rubber, silk, camphor,:quinine, and a large variety of oils and drugs that could be named, but can we substitute and synthesize our way out of the dilemma...
...And, solely as peace-insurance, leaving aside all altruism or humanity, we must attend to the distribution of minimum abundance throughout the world...
...It is this will ¦which principally generates the spreading and intensifying addiction that ultimately becomes • medical problem—even a military problem, *» Pr...
...Such political democracy as we have—and few nations have as much—is threatened by stubborn refusal to accept economic democracy in agriculture and in industry...
...C. Ward Crampton...
...But if we are in time offered the far greater benefits of completely free world trade", we shall accept than gladly...
...117AR with Japan threatened our supply of ** certain fats and oils, among them coconut oil which we use in a great variety of ways, principally for food, for soap making, for protective coatings, and for making candles...
...As the People awake to the meaning of this war, so do their exploiters in this and in every nation...
...The Mulinos-Flynn research subsidized by the Philip Morris Company is a particularly corny example of this...
...By doing so only one-third as much tin was required for plating...
...I firmly believe not only that I was one of those cases of exaggerated susceptibility, but that in my case and similar cases the orthodox medical recommendation of moderation is inept and futile...
...It is wasteful for us to use whole natural oils for purposes for Oils will soon be prefabricated and bought on technical specification...
...general prohibitions are not indicated...
...We developed other coatings made of noncrirJcal materials which replaced tin in many cases...
...There are conflicting views about the expediency of bombing Rome, but the right to do so under international law and existing conventions is beyond question...
...A new plastic yam has been prepared from rubber hydrochloride...
...What has happened ? In the production of fibers for rope and for burlap fabrics a powder is extracted as a byproduct which contains a lathering agent that can be substituted for the components of coconut oil used in soap...
...There is no end to what science and technology can do and, in time, even nations that lack the old standbys coal, oil, and iron, can get by very well as we shall have new alloys, new sources of power and energy, totally new fuels...
...A few years ago, when shortages of Spanish and Italian olive oils threatened, the textile industry also had no idea what to do...
...l\R...
...Senators and Representatives who will vote a people's program...
...Life and liberty are at stake...
...Why then doesn 't a descrlption.t , proved techniques rate .pace in tile Mil1ta1ll SUTllfJO"It...
...fliat is to say, its methods are strictly logical, ruthless, and as totalitarian as possible...
...Not a word, note, about the economic, social and cultural dimensions of the problem...
...It is hardly likely that Rome—seat of the Fascist government and nub of Italian railway traffic-will be spared...
...Rayon can now be crimped to give the appearance of wool...
...Labor, Farmers Must Move Beyond New Deal to Stop Tory Offensive Soldiers and Smokers By JAMES RORTY THE Army,o aided and abetted by the Red, Cross, the YMJ2.A., the Salvation Army, and our patriotic cigarette industry, made a chain smoker out of me during the last war...
...I could not smoke moderately...
...Much less can they shake off chronic bureaucratic brainfag long enough to think out, launch and follow through on a People's Program to make this a People's War, a People's Victory and a People's Peace...
...At that rate, if we smoke all-out for the duration, and if every man, Woman and child does his or her bit for George Washington Hill—and the Federal Treasury—the per capita average may reach at least ten a day by the time the war ends, with many new thousands of chain smokers...
...Let the men in the armed services know we are making an all-out fight to;pf»-vide a decent world for them to come hack to...
...But the glycerine extracted in these processes went to a dozen industries for another wide variety of uses...
...Osnaburg bags replace bags of the latter for many purposes...
...Since alcohol may be derived from such a wide variety of sources this process obviously makes the base raw material one which is abundant and cheap...
...A final complete answer is yet to j* formulated...
...If we confine ourselves solely to the observations and measurements of the statistician, the chemist, the biologist, and the physiologist, including the physician, we cannot even achieve the comprehensiveness of statement necessary for accuracy, let alone make a beginning at solving the_ problem...
...Wood that was formerly discarded as of inferior quality is the base material...
...It is even more interesting to consider the great progress our own technologists are making during the war, progress that will produce a changed world tomorrow...
...Crampton doubtless recognizes that the prostitute and the bawdy house are important elements of the complex medico-socio-economic problem which is syphilis...
...Soybean fiber has been produced at about half the cost of sheep's wool...
...A quart of milk—or a pint—for every Hottentot and every hungry person in the world is the surest and cheapest insurance against World War III...
...It then becomes dissipated in glowing ¦ atmospheric clouds of pure speculation...
...That's 2,000 cigarettes apiece annually, or almost five a day for every man, woman and child in this country...
...Such qualitiess as crease resistance, partial resistance to fire, softness, warmth, stiffness, smoothness, crispness, and luster can be made to order...
...Total war recognizes no aesthetic and sentimental hesitations...
...It makes excellent automobile upholstery...
...The properties will be defined at will...
...work...
...It continues in the laboratory of experimental biology and expands into several fields of sociological research and clinical experimentation...
...Have our people's organizations, farmers...
...Hence...
...h that something to worry about...
...Smoke in Your Eyes ™ IJERE ace the confessions of a nicotine " eater — with no lurid DeQuincya lights to be sure, but with an authority tire ring...
...DY all means let's have our own version of the Beveridge plan and challenge the Tories to say Yea or Nay to it...
...Fishbein supplied the brazen effrontery that for years collected so much a page for peddling this stale "scientific" hokum in the medical press...
...The Chemico/ Revolution New 'War Synthetics' Lays Basis for Vast Changes in Social and Economic Life By T. SWANN HARDING 1I7HEN we went to war many of our imports " were threatened, and we normally import about four thousand raw materials derived from minerals, earths, woods, leaves, fruits, roots, plants, animals, and products of the sea...
...vote, dream and hope in every precinct in the U. S. A., not rn Washington alone...
...Even if we have to get along in relative isolation, we shall be able to do so without too much privation...
...Logically, the cigarette industry is concerned to induee as many people as possible to consume as many cigarettes per capita as possible...
...War came and we changed...
...and it should be reasonable, **eatific and, above all, human-wise...
...We can do this but, I submit, to make sure of It, we must do much better than this...
...The chemist will give him an oil which precisely fulfills his requirements...
...for Chinese tung oil, in addition to producing some of our own, as well as for the camphor and the perfume oils we formerly derived from the Far East...
...Were we...
...j. -Soldiers smoke 70 per cent more tobacco than civilians...
...But we had a vested interest in dip tin prating and it just seemed too expensive to change over to electroplating...
...There is more rSjoicing in the councils of the industry overdone new customer—regardless of his or her possibly dangerous susceptibility to nicotine —than over a hundred sales to addicts...
...Already we have rayon, nylon, vinyon, and cast'n fibers and fabrics composed of blends of natural and synthetic threads...
...For millions of Americans it has never been real...
...If was launched by Prime Minister • Churchill last Summer, who said: "We should not hesitate to bomb Rome to the best of our ability and as heavily as possible if the course of the war rendered such action convenient and helpful...
...ML Butyl rubber is not a good substitute for natural Ha rubber in some items but is superior for inner tubs and blimps because less gas or air seeps through...
...Should the Army do anything about it...
...Wages were controlled, farm prices were controlled, a beginning was made at price fixing and rationing, instalment buying was tightened —but the Congress made hash out of the Administration plan for limiting profits and incomes by a tax policy based on the ability to pay...
...Babassu and cohune nuts yield substitutes for many oils we imported from regions now closed to us by war...
...Fifth, dare to lift our People's Program above the pseudo-scientific, analytical, factual level up to the level of people's spirit and emotions...
...Hydrocarbons can be juggled around by skilled chemists so as to form one from another...
...They threaded an intricate way through our industrial life...
...Other sources of the new fibers are peanuts, corn, fish protein, yucca, glass, and the bark of redwood trees...
...It is, of course, a treasury of art and historic sites and, it is the center of the Roman Catholic World...
...Like sugar, rubber is a hydrocarbon...
...but to expand...
...They are being asked to fight for a right they have never fully enjoyed...
...Mulinos-Flynn and Co...
...Meanwhile we developed new types of food containers which were as satisfactory as tin for many purposes and new kinds.of food processing which required no.tin...
...Just recently also, a tire of ash wood and steel has'been developed to replace pneumatic tires on delivery trucks which it does very well...
...the technologist will produce the fabrics endowed with them...
...The people must know the facts if they are to organize, act and vote intelligently...
...But our oil chemists and fractionaters have gone further than that...
...Crampton sees it, is to face toe reality of the problem and to search for Practical "human-wise" solutions...
...But it is "no longer worried...
...yBE cigarette industry behaves like any other vested interest, in a "free" capitalist economy •"d culture...
...In certain respects, they are not, but in certain other very Important respects they are...
...They and their sons defend it with their lives because the Hitler alternative is even worse than the twilight zone they have known...
...Moreover knowledge of the chemistry of coconut oil has enabled us to obtain ---~ I a good substitute derived from a nut grown in Brazil...
...We are obtaining high-quality cordage fibers and woven burlap from Brazil and elsewhere in our own world region...
...The method was wasteful of tin...
...For World War I made a chair smoker oaf of Jim Rorty, and he's aer ously bent ion seeing that this time th . bays don't burn their fingers (and so muc -store) as thousands did last time...
...Soldiers,: yon see, smoke about 70<j more tobacco than civilians, and cigarett consumption is on the rise all- the timi Will all this be without medical const qnences...
...Second, discuss in these clinics what is to be done about war housing, transportation, food, the maintenance of the working farm family en the land, urban and rural health, transition from high level war production to high level peace production, formulation of the terms of peace...
...But to get the economic equilibrium necessary to make its payments certain, we must go more than half way, we must pass from the defensive to the offensive...
...Labor, working farmers and public generally supported it...
...During the-World War years, Dr...
...Here also wood is used that formerly went into the discard...
...I n my exper ience and at of ot hers it is ra the r ea"\" for even a confirmed addict t o stop snlOkinl1:-dan,erfuIl1 easy from tne pOin t of \'iew of t he indu-itrJ...
...I think so, bot since I speak as a brand from the burning— I quit entirely four years ago, to the great benefit of my health—I am perhaps prejudiced IB& a little evangelical on the subject It would seem, however,,that the Army, too, is a little worried this time, as evidenced by an article in the Military Surgeon, entitled "The Cigarette, the Soldier, and the Physician," by Dr...
...Wood when soaked in a solution of urea becomes a new kind of synthetic plastic altogether...
...If butadiene is merely allowed to stand around itforms rubber but the process can be speeded up by the use of catalysts...
...j • This duty, as Dr...
...3—The industry has an established community of interest: (A) with the advertising supported daily and periodical press and the radio...
...At high speeds Buna S undergoes rapid heat deterioratian...
...Spell out in people's language and in specific steps what we, the people think of the Wallace-Perkins concept of "The People's Century...
...There are plastic tubes and containers for food, while the hog brush bristles we formerly got from the Far East are replaced with nylon bristles...
...Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and chairman of its advertising committee...
...They now rebuild and remodel oils, they also produce synthetic oils which some fraction of them only is required, tailored for specific purposes...
...During the twenty-year interlude between ttars, this consumption rose steadily...
...In much the same sense, Dr...
...It has a warm soft feel and is highly resilient...
...But these are the crucial dimensions...
...Abundance, cooperation and peace—here is a war aim that makes as much sense in Chungking as in Kansas City or Chattanooga...
...In the follow tag article, Mr...
...C) With "science" as represented by the academic researchers—physicians and bio-chemists—who are not debarred by the hungry "ethics" of their respective institutions and professions from accepting subsidies offered by commercial interests for investigations that somehow usually find what their sponsors want them to find...
...But opium and tobacco addictions are not comparable, you say...
...We shall shortly have 7,500,000 to 10,000,000 citizens under arms, not counting the WAACS and the WAVES, who smoke, too...
...Let us use -the J^hUght of a socio-economic critique and see WM we see...
...Granting the unde-sirability of a ''general prohibition" of cigarette smoking in or out of the Army—such ah attempt would doubtless be as disastrous as the great prohibition experiment of the last war— is it not true that total abstention, where moderation is impossible, is medically indicated in those cases' of exaggerated susceptibility to nicotine poisoning which he describes and about whom, in his view, the problem centers...
...have demonl!trated it wit h mygelf and othen...
...Japan can never hope to recover her natural silk market...
...It is assumed that the great landmarks of life—birth, marriage, illness and death —are risks that will break the individual and must be socially insured...
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