The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-03
John Rockefeller's Hookworm.

Recently great deal has appeared in the public
prints of the north about the general laziness and
trifngness of the people of the south-a lie and an
insult which, strange to say nobody has shown dis
position to resent-allegng it to be due to the
called hookworm, and along Mr.. John D.
Rockefeller, the oil king and "rubs it in by making
contribution of $1,000 900 for the purpose Kidding
of the Stranger still, he is hailed by repre-
sentative southern newspapers great benefactor,
and given to understand that never
bow and scrape around and salaam enough to show
our appreciation of this man who would lift out
of the depth of Incidence and make energetic ambi-
tous and progressive people of There is excep
ton, however, among the papers-the Macon Tele-
graph, in whom the manhood and the self-respect of
the south ever have an able and fearless champion
and defender. The Telegraph well expresses our
view of this matter that print below what
it says:
In the first place we want it distinctly under
stood that The Telegraph is not subscribing to
this hoOkwOrm business until they show u.s.
But if there is really such thing in fact
we'll theory deny-judging from
knowledge among men of sense and experience
that there any more of them in the south than
in any other part of the world. Go into the fac
tories the fields, the workshops and in the slums
everywhere and one finds degenerate specimens of
humanity-no more in the south than in the north,
elsewhere.
But all this talk has simply been used to
revive the old SANDER about laziness in the south
the south that built this nation that made it
success for seventy years, and furnished nearly
that period. If the south has not kept up fully
during the last forty years with the advancement
of this whole country it is because of the paralysis
of and reconstruction.
1t is all monstrous lei
We presume that the commission appointed
by Rockefeller, and endowed by him with million
punks, will find trouble in ascertaning the
fact that kerosene oil is 'surepOp against bugs,
mites parasites, and the like; and after further
investigation We reason why they should
not prescribe teaspoOnful before breakfast every
morning, taken internally and a smidgin rubbed
in thoroughly upon the small of the back, for
every mothers of us living south of the Poto-
mac and east of the Ohio river Have you taken
your e?" will be the sautation at breakfast every
morning.
Kerosene oil to restore lost manhood and
womanhOod in the south! What a glorious
thought! Who but Rockefeller could have con-
ceived such mammoth idea. 1t is enough to
split the little contracted brains of the warm
hearted people of the south to entertain it.
Oh, wonderful benefactOr, how shall we re-
ward thee, unless, in the magnitude of our graft
tude, agree to pay two prices for "ile!'
In view of what the south has Accomplished
before the war; and since and in spite of deyastat
ing armies and nodes of political vampres-what
masterful race these southrOns would be were 1T
not for these hookworms And to think that we
are going to be delivered. Let mothers rejoice in
the salvation of their sons and let fathers thank
God and Rockefeller!-and buy more 'ile