The Washington herald., 1909-11-07

Bishop Warren A. Gambler. of Atlanta,
sends an open letter 10 the Journal Of
that city, in which he takes fall out
OF John D. Rockefeller for his gift In
the interests of the hookworm disease.
which ought 10 set that multi-millionalre
to thinking a bit before he makes an
other similar gift. The Southern church
man insinuates that the Standard Oil
mans gift is of doubtful utility, and that
Dixie Is quite able to take care OF IT'S
head. stomach, and bowels without any
help from the source Indicated. Follow
ing is what Bishop Gambler says:
Ii is TO be hoped that our people will
not be taken IN by Mr.. Rockefeller's YER
mifuge fund and hookworm commission.
This habit Of singing out the South for
all sorts OF reforms, remedies. and en-
lightenment is not for our benefit and
the too ready acceptance OF these things
upon the part Of some Of our people IS
not TO our credit. Mr.. Rockefeller would
take charge Of both our heads and our
stomachs, and purge our brains of igno-
rance and our bowels of worms.
Quotes from PicRyune.
I beg to call attention TO the following
article which appeared in the New Or
leans Picayune the morning after the
press dispatches announced the forma-
tion Of Mr. Rockefellers yermifuse COM
mission:
"The necessity for creating seetiona!
prejudlces against the Southern people
and States did not stop with the end Of
the civil war of 1876.
The old hostility engendered then has
passed away. so far as the men who
fought were concerned, and the rallyinE
OF the young men Of the South TO the ma
tional dag in tL- Spanish war, where
they stood shoulder 20 shoulder with the
men of the North, went far 20 extin-
guish the ancient sectional feeling against
this part Of the country.
But for some reason not fully under
stood II has come to light that self-pro-
fessed and self-appointed philanthropists
have taken 70 upon themselves 10 dis
cover and proclaim conditions in the
South calculated 10 create further preju-
dices against the States and the people
Of the South so as 10 divert immigration,
TO alarm the resident population, and 70
place this section OF the country before
the world as an afflicted and accursed
region.
Scandal i'm Cotton Making.
NO sooner had the South begun 20 man
ufacture its cotton on an extensive scale
when II was given out 70 the world that
most Of the work was done by youths OF
both sexes, 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 possi-
bility compete with them, and such q
hubbub was raised In the North about It
that Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, Of
fered I'm Congress bill to prohibit trans
portatiOn by interstate railroads Of -he
products OF Southern cotton mills where
such alleged conditions obtained.
a great deal OF eXertion was required
TO establish the falsty Of such SANDER
Gus statements against the South. and
this section is not fully recovered even
yet from them Next an outcry was
raised that the Southern people has be-
come the victims Of a deadly disease
named pellaEra" which was charged 70
the use of Indian corn that caused II. The
disease has been traced 10 Southern Eu-
rope. where II is common. and later In
formation goes 20 show that IL was i'm
ported In the persons Of immigrants.
HOoI0wOrm Follows PeIIaEra.
But the pellagra panic having failed OF
the expected effect. now comes A howl
about the hookworm a nonprofes-
sional writer has devoted many pages and
many pictures TO the hoOkworm in the
South in McCIure's for October. He says:
All through the South-the Carolinas,
Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
these abnormal people, the dirt eaters, &"
have been known for a century. and ane-
mia Is a universal malady south Of the
Potomac. It's something these people
eat is the favorite explanation of it,
ones first and strongest impression Of
the poor whites is Of their shiftless-
ness. 7 remember how dreadfully it used
10 depress me years ago when 1 spent my
vacations in the North Carolina noun
tains. 7 have been IN little windowless,
sleeveless, One-rOom cabins, the home at
al least ten persons. where all the cooking
WAS done over the primitive open fire
except when il Tained down the chimney
and put the fire out. and there wasn't
any cooking till the rain held UP. And
as / talked with the women l was always