The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-10
HE TALKS OUT
Bishop Gambler Takes a Shot at John D.
Rockefeler's Gift to
ERADICATE HOOK WORM
lie Does Not Like the Movement
and Glasses it With Others Made
to Humilitatc and Belittle. the
South and Says We Can Take
Care Of Ourselves.

South and Says We Can Take
Care Of Ourselves.
Bishop W. A. Gambler calls at
trntion to the following article which
appeared in the New Orleans Picay-
uue the morning after the press
dispatches announced the formation
OF Mr.. Rockefeller's vermifuge COM
mission:
The necessity for creating Sec
tional prejudices against the South
EN- people and States did not stop
With the end OF the civil wal OF
~lS6l-'65.
The old hostility engendered then
has passed away so far as the men
who fought were concerned, and the
rAllying of the young men Of the
south to the national flag In the
Spanish war. where they stood shoul-
Ger to shoulder with the men Of the
North. went far TO exringuish the
ancient sectional feeling against this
part of the country.
But for some reason mo- fully
understood it has come to light
that self-professed and self-apposnt-
CT philanthropists have taken II w
on themselves t discover and pro-
claim conditions In the South CAL
cilated to create further prejudices
against the States and people Of the
South so as to diverse immigration.
to alarm the resident population
aud to place this section Of the
country before the world as an af-
ricted and accursed region.
NO sooner had the South begun
70 manufacture its cotton on an en-
tcnsive scale when it was given ont
to the world that most Of the work
was done by youths of both K
and largely by children of tender
age, and at such pitiful wages that
the manufacturers of the North.
who employed persons Of full age
at high rates Of compensation. could
not by any possibility compete with
them, and such a hubbub was raised
in the North about 1t that Senator
Reveridge, Of Indiana. offered IN
congress a bill to prohibit transport
tation by interstate railroads OF the
products of Southern cotton mills
where such alleged conditions OBJ
tanned.
"a great deal of eXertion was
required to establish the falSity OF
such %slanderous statements against
the South, and this section has no
fully recovered eve yet from them.
Next an cutlery was raised that the
Southern people had become the
victims of a deadly disease named
'pellagra,' which was charged to the
use of Indian corn that caused IT.
The disease has been traced to
Southern Europe. where 1t is com
mon, and later information goes to
show that it Vas imported in the
persons Of immigrants.
But the pellagra panic having
failed of the expected effect. now
comes a howl about the hook worm.
A non-professional writer has de-
voted many pages and many pictures
to the hook worm in the South in
McClure's for October. He says:
"'All through the South-the Car
olinas, Georgia, Florida. Alabama.
Mississippi-these abnormal people,
the dirt eaters" have been known
for a century, and anemia is a uni
versal malady south of the Poto-
mac. It's something these peIple
eat" is the favorite e~xplapaiion
of it.
Zones first and strongest impress
sion of the poor whites Is Of their
shiftlessness. | remember ho%
dreadfully it used TO depress ne
years ago when ! spent my vacat. ID
in the North Caroiiua mr"nrn'ns.
l have been in littlA N:ndowless
sleeveless. one-room cabins. the homo
Of at least ten persons, wncre all ,he
cooking was done owe: the primitive.
open fre-eXcept when 1t raiaed
down the chimney and pct the fire
out; then there wasn't any cooking
till the rain held up! Aand as !
talked with the women | was always.
asking myself, How eau people live
like this? Why don't they go 20
work and fix up things?"
=. AZ. -. -n;r1ntnl thnt cnnfforaP
over the Atlantic seaboard from the
Potomac round the gulf, to the Mis-
sissippi river. there are today q
100000 of these poor whites-our
n~ative-born Understanding with
anemia, and hardly n OF those
100000 knows, or even suspects.
that he is really suffering from an
internal parasite-that this disease
is caused by the hook wrm.
Then years ago even the fore
most physicians did not know the
anemia of the South was caused by
the hook worm; but today. thanks
largely to the tireless efforts Of one
man-Cbarles Wardell Stiies-the
whole medical profession and many
of the laity are awake to the vital
issues of the problem and are pre-
pairing a crusade that shall reach
from the worst regions Of the bar
reus. where nearly the whole popu-
lation is suffering to the farthest
Cove" in the mountains. and stamp
out the disease.
In the face of such statements