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Show Ignorance Aids Appetite. Merrill E. Gates, secretary of the board of Indian commissioners, was describing the splendid work that his board is doing to wipe out the tuberculosis tuber-culosis scourge which at one time threatened to make the American In- '; dian extinct. "But the Indian," said Mr. Gates, I "needs to be educated in sanitation. He is shockingly ignorant there. In fact, he is as ignorant as an old farm- I er I used to know in Warsaw. "A friend dropped in on this old farmer as he was frying a bit of bacon. I " 'Grand bacon, that,' said the friend, sniffing affably. " 'Grand bacon! Well, I guess it is grand bacon,' said the old man, turning turn-ing the slices in the pan. 'And it's none o' yer murdered stuff, neither. I That pig died a natural death.' " Washington Post |