Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-13
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
John Browns Body Lies a-Mo'dering
In the Grave, but His Soul Goes
Marching On In unsus-
pected Places
By SARAH u. JOWRIE

version Of
John Browns body lies moldering in the
grave
AS we go marching on"
1t was as unlike the original as possible
and yet still recognizable, though the Eng
lish costers who sang II must have been
quite ignorant as to who John Brown was or
where he lay buried.
/ sometimes wonder IL most Americans
know where that grave is. II lies milo or
so OF the great Adirondack motor road thnt
curves over the mountains and through the
notches between the Placid Lake region ana
that of foothills out toward Champlain.
Some of his farms and the first of his Negro
settlements are still to be seen much as he
saw them when he made his big experiment
in that north country of settling his freed
Negroes in the remote wilderness; II his
plan had succeeded the Adirondacks might
have been the Liberia of this country,
Negro State. It failed because the climac>
was too severe for the dark race. They died
of the very disease hundreds of white men
have since found a cure for in that very
climate and region-tuberculosis
L suppose here and there are Negroes who
do weather an Adirondack winter, but of the
swarms that are employed in the hotels and
CLUBS in that country every summer, very
few linger after the first severe frosts of
winter that lasts from the first of November
to the first of May, with an even thermom-
eter for weeks on end of 20 degrees below
zero.
And doubt If sanatorium. however we'll
disciplined, could successfully deal with
Negro patients in that climate. there being
something in the chemical pigments of the
skin that are calculated to protect the body
of the black man from heat and apparently
make him more susceptible to cold than men
of farcr complexion.
Indeed, the whole susceptibility of the
Negro race to tuberculosis has been matter
to be taken gravely to account by the de-
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States OF this country. The race evidently
cannot endure close confinement within
doors and must have great prcponderance
OF sun and air to properly flourish with
conditions that are rigorous out of doors,
the tendency to hug the unventilated warmth
OF houses has marked hundreds of thousands
OF the race sS a special prey Of tubercular
diseases. The whole question is very
serious one.
T SAW not long ago little printed letter
Of child to his father:
Dear Father, our kitten has fits; what
to do?"
life has many such catastrophes that end
with the question mark. what to do|'
Apparently in this one of tuberculosis among
the Negroes. that blasted the plans of John
Brown more than half q century ago, we
have still to look for what to do" al
though see from report sent TO me from
the Fhipps Institute by Mrs. Milton Stein,
the publicity director, there seems to be some
promise of an organized effort to do some
thing that in the end may prove effective.
THHERE always has been tendency on
J. the part of some Of the cOlorcd race to
resent what is called segregation. That is,
the treatment of them as a race and not as
individuals seems to some of them to cast q
sort of oboquy on their citizenship: but in
the case of physical diosyncrasies that are
mn phN.Sinlnuinnl bnrn hn nj
lied treatment. The same is true. | am
told. in racial treatment of neurotic and
psychopathic ailments. Certain well defined
types of mental symptoms are racial. A
very exaggerated ego is Il marked symptom
in one race that in the same disease is not
so emphatic in another.
VNHE Henry Phpps Institute, in cstab-
i fishing clinic for Negroes suffering
from tubcrcuar and vcnerCal diseases that is
slightly different from its other clinics for
the same diseases in white patients, was
moved to do SO after long consideration
of the subject and from purely practical rea-
sons. II was thought, and has been proved
true. that Negro nurses, and above all Negro
doctors, would prove more cifcCtual in work
ing "A hygiCnic propaganda among the fami-
lies of the colored tuberrular patients than
white nurses and doctors
This city begins to have very long and
honorable roll of colorcd physicians, and the
two coored hospitals are turning out good.
up-to date nurses.
OF COURSE. everything has to have a
" beginning and has to begin somewhere
The Whittier Center was the place chosen
by the Phipps Institute to begin the cx-
pertinent. and nurse by tho name of Tyler
was the first expert colorod nurse to carry
out the treatment. This was in 1912. The
experiment could not ho called even aD-
proximately successful until DR.. Henry Min
ton a very capable and much liked colorcd
physician was added to the staff by the
Phipps chief of staff, Dr. Iandis.
BY 1920 the clinic had three assistant col
Ored physicians and two nurscs-Dr. Minton
DR.. Boston and DR. G. Saunders. physicians.
and Miss johnson and Miss Ernst field
employed by the Philadelphia Health Coun-
ell the Whittier Center still supporting one
nurse, Miss Ernst. and tho Phipps Institute
partly subsdiHing III" clinic through the
work of the head of the bureau, DR.. Lands
1t is another case of private support of
an enterprise that. to be- really successful
must eventually b" undertaken by the State
or the municipality
NOV that the number Of patients treated
~ through this clinic during a wear mounts
to more than 1000 and tho number of trcnt
ments by visiting nurses registers more than
1000. and nothing hut wider and wider
utilization of the clinic seems to promise for
the future, It becomes very evident that the
work SO ably begun under private auspices
must in the end be undertaken and sup
ported by the municipality
The very best technical skin available has
been given tho clinic through the Phipps
Institute under DR.. Lands, aud the colorod
physicians of not" have rallied to its sup
nurt 1t now remains for tho colorcd citizens
Of the intelligent classes TO lend a hand III
order to Jack the authority Of science by the
authority o' public opinion