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Show I PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH MISJUDGED. of the north have prided ourselves our-selves on not being lazy, at least not as shiftless a6 the "poor white trash" I of the iouth. We hae poked fun at southern lassitude, not knowing that I our jibes were somewhat misdirected, I owing to the fact that we were treat-j treat-j Ing lightly a physical affliction and rot a mental condition due to lack of will power. Our ignorance had prompter! us to laugh when we should have been seriously concerned We were jok-ing jok-ing over a disease, which examinations examina-tions by the Rockefeller sanitary commission show to have possessed a preat part of the population. The commission lately has made a report on its examination of 168,000 sebnoi I children in eleven states in the soutn. ji Seventy-eight thousand of those children were found to be Infected B with hookworm, the disease which was detected among three southern tt families brought to Ogden from j Georgia. Without applying a remedy, those r fl children would become anaemic ana lifeless. Now they will be saved from that terrible condition In the past 4M southern children thus afflicted have I had their vitality 6lowly sapped I Their dullness was attributed to the climate. The older people attacked were looked on as naturally disposed H to shirk their part in the world's H work and to move along the lines of least resistance They were called trifling, because they had not the en-I en-I j, ergy to bear up under the strain upon up-on their bodies, and we all mlsunder-1 mlsunder-1 stood them. |