[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I CHAPTER IV 55/64
We're going soon to organize country life in a sanitary way, the county health officer being the biggest man on the horizon.
Stiles has moved his marine hospital and his staff to Wilmington, North Carolina, and he and the local health men are quietly going to make New Hanover the model county for sanitary condition and efficiency. You'll know what a vast revolution that denotes!--And Congress seems likely to charter the big Rockefeller Foundation, which will at once make five millions available for chasing the hookworm off the face of the earth.
Rose will spread himself over Honduras, etc., etc., and China, and India! This does literally beat the devil; for, if the hookworm isn't the devil, what is? I'm going to farming.
I've two brothers and two sons, all young and strong, who believe in the game.
We have land without end, thousands of acres; engines to pull stumps, to plough, to plant, to reap.
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