The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-01

held in Sydney in September, a paper
was read by DR.. Ahearne, of Townsville
On the above subject. The paper, which
is printed in full in the ''Freemans Jour
nal." a copy of which has courteously
been sent to US, is most interesting read
ing, and from the sugar point of view
not the least valuable are the following
extracts, which we make:
mo one VIII spend time profitably here
who does not accept without faltering
the truism that God rules the universe.
And God said. Let there be lights in the
armament, to divide the day from the
night, and let there be signs and for
seasons and for days and years And
let them be for lights in the armament
of the heaven to give light upon the
earth; and it was So And it is so-be-
cause, fortunately, man is powerless TO
amend the movements of the sun and
moon. He made man, and sent him
forth from the Garden of, Eden to till the
ground from whence he was taken
What was his intention? st. Paul tells
US in his Athenian speech, He hath
made of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell upon all the face of the earth
and hath determined the time before ap-
pointed and the bounds of their habita-
ton Being Intelligent God, He equip
ped man that he should be suitable
to his environment. Accordingly He de-
signed that men should vary in color
and shades of temperament to fifty occu-
by the multiple regions of the globe.
This map shows the earth's surface be-
tween the tropical lines, Cancer and
Capricon, the belt known to everyone as
the Tropics. 1t includes Siam, Borneo,
Java, Hindostan, Mid-Afr.ca, West In
dies, the Panama Isthmus, and the Can
nibal Islands. 1t almost needs apol-
to raIl hat tIa ir1f1a n
these countries are black. We have here
inside this area also the Northern part
| of Queensland jutting into the Arafura
Sea, close neighbor to New Guinea, on
the level of Fiji. The aboriginal owners
are black. very black. but a white race
is meantime in occupa ton; it is OF
this people 1 would speak. Are they in
the bounds of their hab:tation?' If not,
what penalties they paying for step
ping over Natures boundary? 1 propose
to deal with the memorable exactions
under three heads Well, then, the white
race in North Queensland is undergoing
modification physically. mentally and
morally. Physically, IN a decided mar
rowing of chest capacity, and of the
trunk generally; in less decided though
definite tendency to disproportionate
elongation.
81 may be permitted to use extract
from paper I read before the Austria
lasian Association for the Advancement
of Science. 1t is comparison of meas |
urements between boys on the North |
Queensland coast and boys of similar
ages in England. According to McLar- |
ems tables the average girth of chest |
of boys in England at 10 years is 25A in, |
II 26A in, II 271a in. 10 2S&4 in, IA 2912 in, |
Is 30z4 in. In North Queensland, from in
formation supplied me by the head teach |
ers of schools, the average girth at 10
years is "a in, IL 247s in. u 25A in. 10 |
eX-i
ception turned up in a healthy place call
ed Bowen, where a boy of IA measured |
31A around the chest
So much for the width. Now for the
height When the arms are placed hori-
zontally during moderate expiration the |
Immediately under the
nipples and the angles of the shoulder
blade should be equal to half the length
of the body. However. in North Queens
land l find that the mean length of lie
bodies of fifty-eight boys exceeds the
mean circumference of their chests by
1915 in.-that is to say, in North
Queensland a boy is two inches taller
than he ought to be. What of that? All,
In these days of scientific economy it is
hydraulic waste. 1t is pumping a column
of fluid inches higher than was normal
ly intended, 10 times per minute for every
"a hours year after year, until the pump
is prematurely worn out, If accident does
not throw it violently out of gear.
And what is the effect of a narrow
chest? narrow chest means limited
lung space. 1t is easy to conceive this,
if one remembers that Nature does not
exert herself unnecessarily in any direc-
ton. A large share of the elimination
from the body of its burnt-up material
is carried on through the skin and the
lungs. In a cold climate the skin or the
lungs is obviously very moderately used,
as compared with the performance de-
manded of il in the tropics: hence in a
cold climate the lungs called upon to
be 'ventilators and energetic el.mina tors
of noxious gases. The continued auto
matte action eniarges the chest space of
the growing child. which, of course. re-
mains capacious when the adult frame
work is completed provided disease does
not interfere. On the other hand. when ;
the skin acts perspiringly, and to all in ,
not needed, and the chest proportion
must essentially be moderate.
This must affect an individuals suit
ability for cosmopolitan residence and
occupation. While the Englishman is !
to undergo the trials of the :
tropics, the tropical white native is not
framed for residence in the harsher
countries. Indeed, in the ATTITUDES he has |
made his own. the tropical resident of
some years standing possesses less en- .
1urance than his fellow-workman inn
ported from a more bracing locality.
remember making an Official WISH W
report on the sanitary state of a camp
n the neighborhood of big engineering !
work which was being carried out by
southern contractors One of the firm |
old me he had employed local men at |
he beginning of operations. and for t
line, short time only, matters pro-
crossed with satisfaction The work was Il
lard, and gradually, one after the other,
he hands retired, admitting they needed (
spell. Substitutes from the Southern I
colonies were brought to fill their place. ,
This was not a question of wages. 1t u
vas simply case of getting work done
n a certain time, and local men, 1 was p
failed to support the necessary
train. h
This experience can be reasonably be- e
ieved from what 1 have said. When t
he lungs are freely used quick oxygena- I
ion is proceeding, tissue change is ac- "
omplished rapidly, and good red blood W