Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-05

The following card by Bishop Warren A.
Gambler was published IN yesterdays
Journal. but was marred by bad typo
graphical errors. and for that reason Is re-
printed today:
Editors Journal;
1t is to be hoped that our people win
not be taken by Mr. Rockefeller's vermi-
fuge fund and hook-worm commission.
This habit of singing out the south for
all sorts OF reforms, remedies and en-
lightenments 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 ignor-
ance and our bowels OF worms.
1 beg to call attention to the following
article which appeared in the New Or
leans Picayune the morning after the
prePs dispatches announced the formation
OF Mr.. ,Rockefeller's vermifuge commits
sion:
1.-The necessity for creating sectional pre-
JUDGES against the southern people and
states did not stop with the end Of the
civil war Of 1S61-65.
THE old hostility engendered then has
passed away so far as the men who
fought were concerned, and the rallying
Of the young rlen of the south to the ma
tional flag in the Spanish war, where
they stood shoulder to shoulder with the
men OF the north, went far to extinguish
the ancient sectional feeling against this
part OF the country.
But for some reason not fully under
stood it has come to light that self-pro-
fessed and self-appointed philanthropists
have taken 1t upon themselves to discover
and proclaim conditions in the south cal
culated to create further prejudices
against the states and people Of the south
so as to divert immigration, to alarm the
resident population and to place this sec
ton of the country before the world as
an afflicted and accursed region.
"No sooner had the south begun to man
ufacture it's cotton on an extensive scale
when 1t was given out to the world that
most of the work was done by youths OF
both sexes and largely by children Of ten
der age, and at such pitiful wages thar
the manufacturers of the north, who en-
pIoyed persons Of full age at high rates
Of compensation, could not by any posi-
bility compete with them, and such
hubbub was raised in the north about It
that senator Beveridge, of Indiana, Of
fered in congress bill to prohibit trans
portation by interstate railroads Of the
products OF southern cotton mills where
such alleged conditions obtained.
A great Oeal OF SAeTllOu YVES NcANAC
to establish the falsity OF such SANDER
Gus statements against the south, and
this section has not fully recovered even
yet from them. Next an outcry was rails
ed that the southern people had become
the victims ct a deadly disease named
'pellagra' which was Charged to the use
Of Indian corn that caused IL. The dis
ease has been traced to southern Europe,
where II is common, and later informa-
ton goes to show that it was 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-profes-
Eional writer has devoted many pages and
many pictures to the hook worm In the
south in McCiure's for October. He says:
"'An 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. Its something these people
eat" is the favorite explanation Of IT.
Zones first and strongest impression Of
the poor whites is of their shiftless-
ness / remember how dreadfully ii used
to depress me years ago when spent my
vacations In the North Carolina noun
tains. 1 have been in little windowless.
sleeveless. one-room cabins, the home of at
least ten persons, where all the cooking
was done over the primitive open fire
except when IT rained down the chimney
and put the FIRE out; then there wasn't
any cooking till the rain held up! And
as I talked with the women / was always
asking myself. How can people live like
this? Why don't they go to work and
fix up things?"
"Tt is estimated that scattered over the