The National tribune., 1909-11-11

and enlightenment Is not for our bene.
fit, and the too ready acceptance or
these things on the part of some OF our
peopfs is not to our credit Mr.. -Rocke-
| Teller would take charge of both our
heads and our st2machs and purge our
brains of innocence and our bowels OF
iworms.
but the pellagra panic having failed
| of the expected result now comes
howl about the hookworm. The South
is represented to be filed with a wretch
ed brood of dirt eaters. Who that knows
the South can for u moment believe
this?"
But It isn't at all likely that Bishop
Gamblers def" will have any weight
in the matter at all. DIR. stiles will go
on investigating, Mr.. Pockefeller's mil
lion will be accepted, and it Will do q
whole lot OF good. Better there than
gathering dust in the Golfers OF our
multimillionaire.
For Better Homes.
The Commissioners of the District q
columbia have about concluded that Z
school for housekeeping around the
| District would be a very good thing.
They have found that the half world of
| Washington Is pretty largely q half
world because it is illiterate. ignorant
and filthy. and the Commissioners be-
J lieve that If they could destroy all of
the alley novels, give the inmates clean
new houses and haze them taught how
| TO cook plain foed dsecently it would at
| least cut down drinking and infant
mortality and work to the good of the
community morally. About a year ago
the Commissioners maAe house-to-
house inspection in behalf Of the Health
Department, resulting in greatly i'm
proving conditions in the a'owded Sec
tiOns of the city, but they stated also
that bad housekeeping aDo general
neglect are not confined wholly to al
lcys. A great many houses ZOO tied in
the streets have been brought to the
attention OF the Board, and by proper
attention to ordinary household duties
there would have been no occasion for
the complaints. The throwing of ashes
and rubbish in back yards, instead of
placing them in cans for the authorized
collectors, results in the yard being ele-
waited above the door in such a manner
that ventilation under the floor is pre-
vented and water can flow In during
rain and snow storms"
The Commissioners are on the right
| track; but. la, what's the use? While
they are teaching one generation to
grow up decent the coming generation is
being reared just as lazy and SLACK
twisted" as any poor white in the South.
You have gCt to have brains and you
have got to have somewhere to put
brains before you can hope to do much
reforming. Most women hate house.
keeping. and they are not going to do
any more than they absolutely must
OF course, cooking schools are all right
Every girl and every boy ought to learn
how to cook. One OF the crimes of the
present day is the inability in the first
place to select good, plain food, and, In
the second place, to know how to cook
and serve It, This condition breeds in-
digestion and Indigestion breeds disease.
After they have taught an fnha bitant
how to cook and keep a house clean
they VIII have to appoint a guardian
Tor every separate house to see that
their rules are enforced. Just the same,
it's a good plan to try it on. Why not
educate in household economy, also. the
children of the well-to-dO? They are
as ignorant as any lot OF alley residents
in the city of how to run a home prop
erly.
Unusual Case.
The Supreme Court of the United
states went thru the unusual procedure
last week of ordering for sentence at
the bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States the cases of Joseph H.
Ship. of Chattanooga, Tenn, and five
co-defendants charged with contempt
of the court. This viii be the second
time in the history of the Supreme
Court that such thing has been done.
The case in hand was that of negro
named Ed. Johnson, who had been SEN.
fenced by the Tennessee courts to be
hanged after trial for assault. The
case was brought up to the Supreme
Court on test trial. The Supreme
Court decided to review the proceed
inSS, and their decision, which was to
the effect that more lenient sentence
be imposed, was hurried to Chatta-
nooSa, where Johnson was locked up
That very night a mob stormed the
jail. took him out and hung him. Nat
uraily the United States Supreme Court
Justices were much incensed by the
lynching, and the United States Attor-
ney-General at once instituted proceed
Ihgs against Ship, who was Sheriff, the
1aiior and 25 others supposed to have
been implicated in the 1ynching, charg-
ing them with contempt of the Supreme
Court The finding of the Supreme
Court that the men were guilty was an
nounced just before the close of the
last term of the Court but all of the
defendants entered motions for q re-
hearing, and on Nov. Is these five men
will appear before the bar of the high
est Court in the Nation to receive sem
tence. There is but one other instance
in the history Of the Supreme Court