Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1913-05-28
REPORT OF CONDITIONS NORTH & SOUTH
Southeners Use Tobacco and NNtherners
Play Golf and Engage in White Slavery,

Snuff dipping, smoking and chew
ing tobacco by boys and girls as
young as four years old and the
prevalence of the habit among
rural children in the SouSh At
lantic States and the Appalachian
region are so common that re-
markable figures gathered by pub
lie health officials and published
in a recent bulletin have admit
teddy made but little impression
on the Investigators. The obser-
vations were made by Dr.. @. W
Stiles and S. B. Altman, Of the
public health service, and the
facts we're gathered in connection
with investigation of the hook
worm disease.
Out of sc boys and S3 girls, a
total of 179 children, the most of
them attending seven schools in a
certain county in a South Allan.
tic State, IS boys and ID girls ad.
nit the use of tobacco in one form
or another. In some of the cases
the use of tobacco by children was
advised by family physicians.
They aud the children's parents
believed snuff and tobacco would
prevent anemia, paleness they
termed it. The p~aleness was
fund by the government investi.
gators to be a manifestation of
hookworm.
The insanitary Ifs of mary
rural people is blamed for . great
deal of this use of tobacco among
children. The following quota
tion from the investigator re-.
port sums up the conclusions of
the experts:
"Snuff dipping and tobacco
chewing by children are, however,
such everyday observations with
us in u work that they make
no impression on US. We view the
habits as based upon q thoroughly
rational explanation, traceable to
conditions that existed years ago,
and as dependant for their de-.
crease upon a social evolution
which involves an improvement
in the sanitary life of hundreds of
thousands of people. 1t will take
at least a school generation to
eradicate these widespread habits
from among the rural school chill
dren of the South, and until the
lives of these children are made
happier by better sanitary sur
roundings we are not inclined to
begrudge them the little happi-
ness they seem to find in the use
of snuff and tobacco, or to critl.
elsa them in the slightest for these
habits"
Atlanta. Ca, May 23.-An ar.
raignmeDt of the Tendencies of
the time" was contained in the
report of the committee on mar.
rative presented today before the
Northern Presbyterian Assembly
in session here. The report de.
plored the "distresslng loss of
membership in many Synods OF
the Church."
Nearly 1000 Churches during
the past ecclesiastical year failed
to secure a new member through
confession of faith, according to
the report. Other unusual fea.
lures brought out were that some
of the Churches most intelligent
aud influential members spend the
Sabbath on the golf links instead
o. attending Divine worship; that
the extent of boldness of the
white slave traffic has become ap.
palling, even extending, the re.
port declared, into the Sabbath
schools end Christian Endeayor
Societies.
The report stated that a total
Of $1,000 new members, through
confession of faith, were enrolled
during the past year by the
Church. W. II. Houston, of Co.
lumbus, O., secretary of the per.
manent committee on vacancy and
supply, declared that the problem
of securing pastors-was one of the
most distressing in every non
Episcopal Church. "Whatever
disc may be said of the Methodist
Episcopal Church," he said, 1--WE
must admit that it has the most