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kIfE IN THE TROPICS WILL BE CLOSELY STUDIED Caw' White Man Make Home There? SCIENTISTS TO KNOW Congress Will Assemble in Hawaii Next Summer to Gather Impor tant Information. Washington, Jan. 27-Can the white man live in the tropics? Camt he raise his children there without 4letriment to their health and that of succeeding generations ? This is one of the important ques tions which will probably be consider ed by a congress of distinguished scientists in Hawaii next summer, ac ycording to Alexander Hume ford head of the Pan-Pacific union wtih head quarters in I-Ionolulu He is now in the United States itrranging for the scientific conference. It will prob ably be organized by Prof. II. E. Greg ory of Yale, who will be given an appropriation of $10,000 for the pur pose of calling together about 40 .scientists qualified to study and dis cues the problems confronting the la\, ds which border upon 'the Paci fic. 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Ma SUMTE and written on the subject of the white man's health in tropical lands it has never been determined exactly what effects, good or bad, the tropical climate has on the man with a light skin, nor to what those effects are due, nor how they may b" guarded against. And the question is becom ing a more important one every clay, because the man who wants to own land and establish himself in a new country is looking more and more to the tropics. Take the situation in this country. Our own West longer offers to the home seeker any considerable bodies of free or cheap agricultural lands. On the other hand in Central and South America, in Mexico and such islands as Santo Domingo there is vast undeveloped wealth of the very kind that drew adventurous men to the West 50 years ago-rich land that has never been plowed, undiscov cred mineral wealth, virgin forests. 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Mexico, for example, if the present government had its way would make it nearly impossible for large capital to exploit Mexiean re sources, but it would not make it im possible or even dilicult for a man to ret a farm and establish a home. Some thing of the same tendency may be noted in other Carribean countries. In ill of these countries political condi tions are pretty sure to be stabilized n the relatively near future and there is some reason to believe that Lhey will be stablized in a way more icceptable to the little man looking for a home than to the big man look ing for a fortune. It should be said at once that there s much evidence against the tropics is a place for white men to live. The white man who goes to the tropics to live without very carefully consider ing the conditions he is to face and show he may best guard against them is very likely to meet with disaster. And lie should be still more circum spect about taking his wife enld chil lien to the Southern countries. It usedw to be the well recognized bropical diseases that kept white men vay from the equatorial wealth. Yel low fever and malaria long closed many tropical countries to Eur'opeaiis. 'hey defeated the French in Panama. 'hen Colonel Gorgas went down there nd showed that yellow fever and ma aria couli be defeated, too. le wrote book in which he prophesied that the tropics, freed of these diseases, would ecome the bread basket of the world. But it soon became apparent that Ahe problem was not so simple. The British in India had also done much to ward conquering tropical disease, but hey had found that even when free from specific disease, it was hard to aise children in tropical India. Those tration :I in the hottest parts of In lia found that unless they sent their hildren hack to England before they vere seven yea is of age, the children )ften died, and still more often grew up to nervous wrecks. It has been aid by sonic authorities and denied by Athers that there is no third genera tion of Englishmen in India. In other words a man may go to a trtopical yountry and lead a fairly healthy life there hut. hiis clilitren nm y show the bad effects of the env irtoniment, an:1 their children, if there are aniy, toay show t hem still more. Sonic autor i ties say that, very ofteii white peoplte born in the troies~' dto not have aniy 'hiir en. TPhis is ascribledt by some obi sr'vers to the a't ion oif the uiltran viole'trtay, to whlich the brilliantt siun-. sh inte of thle tropics greatly e xpIo's a mani. White mieni areC ntve to a li. mnte in which the sun shintes less t h an half I the timtie, and eveni then is often partly v'eiled by mist oir cloud. Coin Linuat exposurte to thieuht ra-violet o 'tinmic ray is unntattural to hini, just. is conilitina expo(surte to the& x-ray is into)lerable to any~ ~ hunman being. It is it erestinig I, to nte that miany mien n io have worked with the x-ray withI thereby rendier'ed sterile. Whetdher the effect is du wt ~ holl1y oi 'ven mainly to the act in ic ray or not, it has bteen piet ty wvell establi shed by exper'ien(ce that cont inuc,'s life i e(Iiatorial counitries is had for the white man. No white man shoul go lo stuchi a countiry unless lhe is assured aifimptle vacationus in more14 northerly lands. THe shoul be especially ca reful ibotut accepting wvork in tropical coun tries whtichi e-<)oses him much to the IBut while paths of the tropics are p~robably uninhabitable to the wvhiite man, and white continuous life there may be dlangerous for him there are various mitigating conditions to be c'onsidteredh. The aetinic ray may deC stroy the nervous system, if the ex pOsur'e is long enouhli, but in small doses it is evidtenitly a stimulus. Every one who has taken a winter vaca tion trip to the tropics is aware of this p~euliar stimulating effect. A sense of dlelightful physical wvell be ing is experienced by almost anyone on first going to the tropics, andI a short visit there is almost alwvays bone flelal to the health. Suppose, then, that a man nwnel a cocoannt plantn.. OU oumake n<( Thornhill. and hickor3 of wood that g "The Thornhill the best and in us show you th proof. Summer' Sun tioni somicwher~e inl the West IniIs ta in pol whtich retl iie his at tent ion only live says w Or six months in the yeair and enabled ample', him to go to New England fr the work ir sumn andl fall. Such a life might be States, a"r healthier than one all of whic l hoursl was sipent in the v'ariable climate ofI while 1 the Aliddle Atlantic states at lein Then agailn there are tropiceal hiands The 1 which have mountains that reach lit-- hini liall 0ut o1 the trou s Iyni eson ; pai I el hir g ret lievation . And there r le versely other tropical lains, especially islands dm-k er which tie so tem pered by sea bhreezes its cii that the ir climates are not reallIy t roj athl etes ic:il at all, have sp w lawaii is atn excellent exiie of in the thei latter (lass. the island is just to the within the tropies, in the first place, to hmea and it is cooled by winds in the see- noticeal und. Its temperature varies between ti a v 65 and 85 dlegrees. There is nowv a than th forith I gener-atiin of whtite A me ricanuS el in IHawaii, and this generation is not cc tnly theailthy hut has produced a nuill ier of men of very exceptional physi- I que. American boys of this geier:i- o Ii t ion in Illawaii are imoon the star sei' athiletes iof Ya'le and l~arvarid. Alr. Ford betlieves thtat these youjng me mn, who seem drideittdly tio have gaini llawaii ed rather than list, in strenet h and going r si uniina byv being horn ini thle tropies, :dljuistil illistrates a method by which the Ofie white man my adjust, himiself to nt he tropical climates when they are niot, din wholl too severe. .ru Mlr. I'ordl firmly believe- that thej it se ac-tinie ray is a large faictor in the tif--e he-th6 fect wh ichi the t rolpies have on the main- ni man with a light skin.' I le also be- mnt, t lieves thait thiis light. ray upn to ai ciir- with jn BR I Dur< s Registered -- - - - - R7'-" mistake when y< Made of tough hif r. It has twice ti rows under softer is not the lowest the end the chea e wagon that is al: ion Live Stock I lmerton, S C.. it, is a valu;aIle stim10ul us. IlIe .it. ith regard to Iiilstlf for ex. tivi that hie can dlo much mlore f~ul llawaii than in tho Unitra .\11. and4 that he need4s only live il leel) out. of every 21 ther'.. Ilav this country he requires, or ilm takes, a great deal fu m or. is 1ti r' -easonv th. negroes, IoI lye. :hm (i othr peoples nati' to try.. , , by the actiniv ray is that the . no Ilor of their skills n utralie 's t. Now the youni:'t . II Iw ii:m (f Anglo-S:<on loo I, who ent so much 11 o hi t e rt i su it, with their skiris e pi t I hil acion o.~f te sun, 04 :, t. n' sviut.e it heb. Aii nu 1 :i e that sll f th m aet n -r dark hu IlIi lark i ndeed,' v~ I natie l'o eii m .i I n other Is r ti o th- Ii i n ie 1 if eit~in I h i Is~ s h n ihii and st Fnaiite::b-a hBreeersth poe b I ur~ hslterocJesey I - milmi outylie- - r Nxposur Soth Cu.uual )U buy the ;hl and. oak ie strength conditions. priced, but pest." Let most wear 0O., (612-N) is; (n' upon which nothing; posi. en:n he r a 11 an 0,o whieb at care-. scienrtilie s4tufly" houbl bec nuacle. I ill beliivesi that. a stu ly of the ' h gener at tioin of Americ:nts ii 1111<1 nlow lie 111:141. l\Ioan.. :ny Ameltric an who contemlte~tcS vto il tropll:t contry to li\( tl r li4 n that he fa ces a ra ill! - t cf tnvir o nen an11 ione- whit h . 1.%\ lt- Gu t c wti ' itll a l l vle'II;'e of its ('1 11in t on . CYPRESS S ASP D)OORS BLINDS MOULDINGS ~ ' AND) MILLWORK 4 4 4 4 4 4os