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YOU CAN END THIS SORROW
To lose their children at birth, or
before, or to bring them into the world
• diseased and possibly blinded, is the
tragic prospect of hundreds of thou
sands of American women. Over a
million women of child-bearing age
have contracted syphilis, many of them
innocently. Five times out of six,
mothers with untreated syphilis bear
dead nr diseased babies.
Nine out of ten of them—deaths,
abortions, stillbirths, and' cogenital
9 syphilitics need not have happened.
Modern medical treatment given—not
to the infant—but to the m jther dur
ing pregnancy will insure the birth of
a healthy, living baby in practically
every instance.
Prenatal syphilis can be stopped.
Why then, you ask, has this yearly toll
of dead or syphilitic babies been allow
ed to continue? And the answer is,
that mothers do not know they are
infected with syphilis.
Syphilis infects more men and
* . women than any other serious disease.
Half the infections are acquired in
nocently; many are accidental. Syphilis
is a sneaking disease; often there are
no visible signs at all. Especially is this
true of women. It is not enj'ugh to treat
only those pregnant mothers with
visible signs of syphilis
The blood test —
Fortunately, we have a test for
syphilis—the blood test. Unfortunate
ly, it is not always used. Many expec
tant mbthers in poiV’ families or in
farm areas have no medical or prena
tal care—blood tests for syphilis are
not given to them. Even when mothers
can well afford testing and treatment,
v doctors and clinics do not always un
derstand how important a blood test is
for every mother for every pregnancy.
No mother lohjects to\ a drop of
silver nitrate in the eyes of her baby,
which has wiped out infant gonorrheal
blindness. In fact, she Would complain
if the doctor fdjrgot the drop. Prenatal
syphilis may be wiped out in the same
way, if routine blood tests and medical
treatment are given. Every expectant
mother must insist upon the blbod test
early in every pregnancy, as soon as
she suspects she is pregnant.
Just as the law requires the drop
of silver nitrate in the eyes at birth,
* so several States now require a blood
test on every pregnant wbrnan.
Begin treatment early
Having a baby is a big job. It is
easier for you if you have the advice
of a doctor from the very first day
you suspect you are pregnant. Your
own health and the health of your
baby depend very largely on the kind
of care you give yourself during the
9 months of pregnancy. Do not wait
6 or 8 mdnths before going to your
doctor. No matter how hard he tries,
or how skilled he may be, he cannot
undo the harm that months of neglect
have brought about. Give him and
P your unborn baby a fair chance.
If you should happen to be infected
with syphilis, waiting may be fatal.
Time is the most important element
in treating pregnant mothers for syph
ilis. Every treatment that can be given
before the baby is born is an additional
safeguard against disaster. Hence, it
is necessary to disiover the infection
in the mother as early as possible.
When the infection is discoverd before
the fifth month of pregnanry, and
treatment is gven continously until
birth, in nearly every case the baby
will be t) rn healthy, untouched by
syphilis.
Pregnancy is good for treatment
It is curious fact, but pregnant
women respond to the drugs used in
treating syphilis far better than non
pregnant women. Not'cnly does treat
ment protect the baby from being in
fected with syphilis, but it aids the
mother at the same time.
Many people believe that pregnancy
cure syphilis. Have enough pregnan
cies, they sa,y, and ^»^ur syphilis will
be cured. That is incorrect. The only
sure cure for shyphilis is adequate
medical treatment.
Consult a good physician or clinic
Syphilis can be cured and prenatal
syphilis can be prevented by modern
treatment. However, only a gpod phy
sician or clinic is able to give the prop
er treatment. Self treatment, drug
store medicines, and quack doctors are
worse than useless. They cannot cure
the disease, and valuable time is lost
during which competent treatment
could have been given.
Facts for every woman
1. Insist upon a complete physical
examination before marriage for both
the husband wife, including a bl,o»od
test for ^philis. Syphilis wrecks mar
riage.
2. Go to the doctor at the first sign
of pregnancy. It does no harm to see
a doctor after yjoi have missed a period
even though you should no be preg
nant. The sooner you are in the doc
tor’s care, the mbre he can help you.
3. During each pregnancy insist
upon a blood test for syphilis as early
in pregnancy as possible. The test
should be repeated at the seventh
month.
4. Start treatment immediately
upon detection of a syphilitic infection.
Treatment must be continued without
interruption until the birth of the
child.
5. Careful periodic examinations
and supervision of the infant after
birth are necessary to guard against
possible late symptoms of congenital
syphilis.
6. Treatment for the mother must
continue after the pregnancy period
to sure permanent care.
7. Syphilis can be cured only by
competent treatment. Consult a good
physician. Avoid) Iself treatment and
the quack doctor.
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BILBO’S IMPUDENCE
by William L. Patterson (CNA)
“I AM a friend of the Negro” Sen
ator Bilbo of Miss, made this an
nouncement, as he prepared the latest
evidence of that friendship—“Back to
Africa” bill.
Bilbo is excessively modest. Well
might he have added, as further proof
of his friendship: “I am indeed a
friend of the Negro. Do I not owe my
very presence in the Senate Chamber
to the fact that I have vilified and spat
uflon the Negro people? Have I not
bidden the glorious traditions of strug
gle that black Americans have created,
and have I not proclaimed them docile
slaves and cowards?
“Have I not advocated a generous
use of the ‘rope and faggot’ in order
to terrorize black folk so that they
might be more easily robbed of the
friuts of the labor?
“I have condoned the ravishment
ci Negro women. The South is filled
with mulattos as a result. Yet have i
not kept this from the world at largo
by declaring all black men to be rapist
and all black women to be immoral? I
have supported the chain gang reli
giously. I have appeal to the courts for
legal lynchings w’hen the voice of an
outraged nation condemned the open
lynching too loudly.
“I i ok at me. I stand upon my rec
ord, wdthout honor and without shame.
Am I indeed not a friend of the
Negro?
NOR IS Senator Bilbo less a friend
of w hite America. Only 18 per cent of
those of voting age exercised the right
of franchise in the last election in Miss.
Bilbo voted. But the majority of whites
were unable to pay the jpll tax, one
dollar a year, and were franchised.
That is 18 per cent who voted, and
who year after year have held power
in their hands, are the landlords and
industrialists.
Did I hear some one say dictator
ship? Perhaps, and yet Mississippi is
also still a democracy. Buts its people
have been robbed of their heritage.
But I must come back to the bill.
Bilbo’s latest expression of friendship
provides “free and voluntary resettle
ment ,of all persons of the United
States of African descent in their Afri
can fatherland.”
Bilbo, n*y “friend,” the United
States is no less the fatherland of those
persons of African descent than it is
of those, let us say, of Irish, German,
English, French or any^other descent.
The forefathers of black America
first arrived in 1619. When did yours
arrive, Bilbo?
It is the fusion of bloods that has
made these United State the great de
mocracy it is. It is the inestimable con
tributions of the many racial stocks
that as made of OUR United State a
mighty power. We wrho are disfran
chised, white and black alike, wre wrho
are ill-fed, ill clothed and ill housed, wre
the peope, love our country.
WE VIEW your bill in the light
of fascism’s murdous uprooting of the
Jewish people of Germany, Austria and
Czechoslovakia. The bill fits into the
fascist pattern.
We view your bill in the light of
the program for the unity of the black
and white South, put torward by the
Southern Conference for Human Wel
fare. It—your bill—stands in all its
un-Amerilan, undemocratic nakedness
as we make that comparison.
We kno*w you dp n|:t speak for
yourself alone, Bilbo. Is this the ans
wer of those who have brought the
South ft} the brink of ruin, to the call
of the New Deal to rebuild the Sputh?
Black hands will help rebuild our
country. They made cotton king, they
paved with blood the streets of Missi
ssippi. They will have a word to say
about the New America.
We remember that recent Presi
dent Roosevelt called upon the Negro
boys and girls of Tuskegee, to “cooper
ate.” The President told them to co
operate with those of the white South
who had been robbed of their birth
right to reclaim their own.
Are you seeking tbi divert atten
tion from that democratic New Deal
appeal? Speak out, Bilbo, you are talk
ing, you know to “your friends.”
Senator Bilbo, we know you. In
your shadow lurks the great bankers
and industrialists who have denied to
black America, and hardly less to
white America, the right to an Ameri
can life. You have pros.titued the Con
stitution to yofur own mean and covot
eous ends. The unity of a white and
Negro South will bring your career to
a timely end.
Bilbo, we heard ycur vile defamation
of black America in the fight to pass
an anti-lynching bill.
Eilbo, in smashing this new bill,
white and black America but paves the
way for the “W orld of Tomorrow.’’
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DO WE WANT DEMOCRACY?
“If we want democracy we cannot
dispose of our responsibilities by
marching to the polls once in a while
and giving lip service to the Bill of
Rights,” writes Carl Dreher in Har
per’s. If we want democracy we have
to work at it. We have to accept the
idea of politics as every citizen’s pri
mary and unremitting concern, as our
business in a very concrete and per
sonal sense.”
We have left politics to the poli
ticians—and what mess has resulted!
We have regarded government 'as
something in which we do not
have no direct interest, and the con
sequence has been a steady extension
of bureaucratic power at the expense
of us all. We’ve worked on the princi
ple of “Let George do it”—and Georgo
has done us in, good and plenty.
No until we all realize that govern
ment is our business, will we have the
fair, efficient and economical govern
ment that is essential to democracy.
-UV7U
THE MAP- MAKERS
Map makers are your genuine up
holders of things as they are. In a
world of rapidly changing boundaries
who wants lb invest in a map? And
when even make them, when they may
have to be altered by the middle of
next week?
For this reason, if for no others,
the cartographers do niot like Hitler. .
They d> not like Mussolini, or the
Japanese or, for the matter of that,
the Russians. Boundary commissions,
crawling dispiritedly through the
years are one of their pet hates.
And they do not cede territory half
as blithely as a government might.
Some have given Hitler the Sudeten
land, but there are many holdouts.
They have peen willing to accept the
merging of Ethiopia with Eritrea and
Italian Somaliland, but are still with
holding Albania fj*.>m Italy. According
to the map-makers, the fate of Bohe
mia, Moravia and Slovakia is not yet
decided.
Propagandists are less reluctant
to accept change. They have made
maps showing almost the entire rim
of the Mediterranean as Italian. They
have extended the borders of Germany
down to Rumania, or even to the Per- ..
sian Gulf. They have shown Japan in
possession of China, most of the rich
islands of the South Seas.
The map-maker who prefer to
stick approximately to the facts refuse
to o,>mpete with these gentlemen.
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PROBLEM—
i
The human body is a marvelous
machine. The home economics depart
ment of an eastern university recently
calculated that a 150 pjound person
who walks at the rate 2.6 miles an hour
Would have to walk four miles to use
the energy from a five cent chocolate
bar; five to seven miles to use that
from an ice cream sundae and six and
one half miles if stoked with a piece
pie.
Problem: What becomes of the sur
plus of energy when a 150 pound citi
zen finishes off a turkey dinner with a
portion of pie a la mode, climbs into
his car and rides to the movie and
munches chocolate bars during the
show?
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