Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-11
Bishop Candler Taksa Shot at John D.
ReckaeIlas Gift to
ERADICATE HOOK WORM
Hc Does Not ks the Movement
and cla.sss w,sh Other. Made
to Huniilitatcf and Bclittle the
south and sys We Can Take
Care of Oursaes.


appeared in the lew Orleans Picay-
une the mornin after the press
dispatches annonted the formation
OF Mr.. Rockefelles vermifuge COM
mission:
THE necessityfor creating sec
tional prejudices gainst the South
rrn people and SITES did not stop
With the end of he civil war OF
lS61-'65.
The old hostlli' engendered then
has passed away far as the men
who fought We're ncerned, and dhe
rlllying OF the lng men of flhe
South to the natal nag In tlhe
~ Spanish war. wherhey stood sho,al
Ger to shnl9f with the meu OF the
s>ofth. went far to extinguish the
ancient sectional feeling against this
part of the country.
But for some reason not fully
understood ii has come to light
that self-professed and self-appoint-
ed philanthropists have taken IL up
on themselves TO discover and pro-
claim conditions in the South cal
culated to create further prejudices
South SO as to diverse immi grafton.
to alarm the resident population
end to place this section OF the
country before the world as an af-
ilicted and accursed region.
mo sooner had the South begun
to manufacture its cotton on an en-
tcnsive scale when 1t was given out
TO the world that most OF the work
was done ty youths of both sexes
and largely by children of tender
age, and at such pitful 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 IL that Senator
Beveridge, of Indiana. offered in
congress bill 10 prohibit transpor-
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
he South, and this section has not
fully recovered even yet from them.
Next an outcry was raised that the
Southern people had become the
victims of deadly disease named
'pellagra.' which was charged to the
use of Indian corn that caused II.
The disease has been traced TO
Southern Europe, where ii Is COM
inf 10
show that 1t was imported In the
persons of immigrants.
But the pellagra panic having
failed of the expected effect, now
comes howl about the hook worm.
A non-professonal writer has de-
voted many pages and many pictures
to the hook worm in tho South In
McClurc's for October. He says:
All through the South-the Car
olinas. Georgia. Florida. Ala ALBANIA.
Mississippi-thcsc abnormal people,
the dirt eaters" have been known
for century. and anemia is n uni
versal malady south of the Poto-
mac. Its something these people
eat" is the favorite eXplauaiios
of it.
"'Ones first and ,trcngest impress
sion of the poor whites" is OF their
shiftlessness. remember now
dreadfully ii used to depress nc
years ago wnen I spent my vacat: IN
in the North Caroi.na m1un'lins
have been in littls windowles.
sleeveless. one-room cabins. ne home
CT at least ten persons, wnere all The
cooking was done over the primitive
open fire-eXcept when il rai..cd
down the chimney and pot the fire
out; then there wasn't any cooking
till the rain held up! Aand as a
talked with the women | was always
asking myself, How can people live
like this? Why don't they go 20
work and fix tfp things?-
1t is estimated that scattered
over the Atlantic seaboard from the
Potomac round the gulf. to the Mis-
sissippi river. there are today o.
100000 of these poor whites-our
native-born whites-sutfering With
anemia. and hardly one 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 a so even the fore
most physicians did not know che
anemia of the South was caused by
the hook worm; but today. thanks
largely TO the tireless efforts of one
man-Charles Wardeil Stiles--the
whole medical profession and many
OF the laity are awake to the Vita
issues of the problem aud are pre-
paring a crusade that shall reach
from the worst regions of the bar
rens. where nearly the whole popu
latlon is suffering to the farthes
cove" In the mountains. and stamI
out the disease
"In the face of such statements
illusgrated by sensational cuts, 4
is useless to contend that the South
ern people possessed vigor enough
70 show UP With able crops OF statos