restaurants, and bakeries and their employees, until the time comes and it is granted us to make them cover every individual of the nation.

There is no disease whose conquest demands such attention to public and individual health as this disease; hence our attempt to root it out of the country goes with the winds if we confine our care to one section of the people while turning away from another, because it passes swiftly from one person to another and from one milieu to another — nay, from country to country.

In fighting this disease we must give special attention to the worker. Those responsible must limit the hours of work, and if laws have been enacted to this end, they must be upheld and observed. Attention must also be given to the question of housing: how many workers live in houses into which no ray of sunlight enters and no air penetrates, which exposes them to infection with this disease and helps its spread, especially among children — and it is well known that germs love darkness, foulness, and damp.

Likewise, those responsible must hasten to provide the means of nourishment among the ranks of the workers, for the greatest weapon against this disease is nourishment. And here we find ourselves colliding with an important economic point concerning the wages of the work-ers, and the necessity of examining and adjusting them so as to put the workers beyond the reach of want and destitution.

We should turn away from putting the young to work, and turn instead to helping them gain health, immunity, and sufficient growth. What, one wonders, will be the stand of those in authority on this question?!

There remains the matter of establishing medical centers throughout the country, so that every son of the nation may easily obtain — when the need arises — medical aid, health guidance, and the necessary treatment for a tri-fling fee, or for none at all if matters so require. Is it just that we should see the cities crammed with doctors, hospitals, health institutions, and pharmacies stocked with countless medicines, while hundreds of remote villages never see the face of a doctor or a nurse, and know nei-ther first-aid post nor pharmacy?!

It is — I swear by the truth — a grievous deficiency afflicting our social fabric; nay, a social crime!

Where, then, is the watchful eye

that tends the flock? Where are the sensitive hearts that feel the pains of others? Have those who revel in life's ease and its comforts thought of their wretched brothers in humanity?! Let them only imagine themselves deprived, as those are, of every means of health — then they would grasp the extent of the injustice, feel the enormity of the calamity, and behold the dangers that surround our social and sanitary structure?!

Is it fair that these thousands of the people should remain wedded to deprivation, floundering in the darkness of ignorance, suffering the bitterness of life and its pains?!

Let the good, then, and all whose hearts beat with human sympathy,

hasten to carry out reform in the true sense, cooperating with those who hold responsibility and author-ity, to come to the nation's aid and lead it along the paths of light, truth, and beauty... If they do, they will have answered the call of duty... and spared their nation the calami-ties of destitution and the scourges of disease... and carried it whole stages forward in the arena of true civilization and social progress... If not, they will have missed the right course, disowned their duty, and shirked the bearing of responsibility — and that is what free and faithful men will never accept!

Kotex: The Sanitary Napkin

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KOTEX HYGIENIC BELT

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