New-York tribune., 1909-12-29
HANDICAP TO SOUTH
RACES SIDE BY SIDE.
Unnatural Condition, Says
Shles-Cause of aurora Found

Boston, Dec. &.-"It is an unnatural bio
logical condition to have two closely allied
species of animals living side by side in
the same area" said DR. Charles ". Stiles,
of the United States Public Health and
Marine Hospital Service, in an address on
the hookworm problem before the Amer-
can Society for the Advancement of Sci
enCe tonight. The white man has brought
diseases from Europe which are deadly 10
the blacks and the negro has brought GER
tain diseases from Africa which are
spreading with serious results to the
whites" added Dr. Stiles He thought that
the new movement toward more modern
sanitation in the South would in time over
come the handicap resulting from two alien
races living side by side, and added
It is not only foolish but tcowardly to
attempt to deny the existing conditions
and pay for a false sense of local pride at
6rer 6fre priTS OF me nves OF women and chill
thought in the South is facing facts and
organ1zing for all extensive campaign TO
improve sanitary conditions. And when
the South shall win its noble fight against
disease the victory Will be great and fully
repay the efforts spent upon II.
DIR. Stiles. speaking on child abor in
the South. took a position which some
of his hearers might have Judged radical
He said
have neved defended chile obor as an
anstract act proposition. but when com
soil polluted one-horse farms with child
labor under the vastly improved sanitary
| am forced TO the conclusion that the
latter Is infinitely better than the former.
ana ana II 1t came to choice between the
TWO for my young daughter now ten
years old, my duty would compel me to
chooSe Tor her d life in the spinning room
of the average cotton mill Of the South,
winch | in 70
life of toll and misery on the average un-
sanitary tenant farm I have studied.
condemnation OF the Souths cotton mills
for ! recognize in them the best friends
the tenant whites of the South have
More than thirty division meetings
marked the second day Of the convention
of Scientists, and large gatherings listened
10 addresses on problems OF great scientific
and industrial interest. In connection with
the larger convention. nearly five hundred
delegates from all over the country opened
the FIVE days convention of the American
Chemical Society.
Neon, d newly discovered gas is the cause
OF the aurora borealis. according TO a state
ment made to-day by Or. W L. Dudley
head of the department OF chemistry of
Vanderbilt University. of Nashville, Tenn.
before the Division of Physical and Inor-
ganic Chemists. DR.. Dudley showed what
he said the only sample OF neon in this
country. II requires over one hundred tons
of air TO get pint of neon. Dr. Dudley
has discovered that the friction of neon
against mercury in Crookes tube produces
a yellow light. and when held near "A wire
less coil, Hertzian waves illuminate the gas
DR.. Dudley's conclusions are that at the
magnetic poles of the earth, neon. under
high pressure because of the cold is acted
upon by magnetic currents. thus producing
the aurora borealis, a phenomenon that
has always puzzled scientists
Before the Society of American Bac-
teriologists, Professor c. F. A. Ninslow
and G. T. Palmer declared as the result
OF their Investigations. that the types of
bacilli in a horse, COW and man were diff
ferent. Whether lower animals could give
tuberculosis 70 a man was not definitely
settled
The address by Byron w. Holt on Cold
Depreciation" at last nights session. in
which the speaker predicted an advance in
the cost of living was a topic for CON
versation among the delegates to-day An
other paper which evoked much interest
was that by DR.. Robert Hesler, OF Logans-
port. Ind, before the anthropological sec
ton. DR.. Hessler said that Charles Darwin
apparently died from dust. He gave de-
tailed account of the health OF the dis
coverer of evolution, and accounted for the
great difference in health by Darwin's
changes in occupation from dusty Libraries
TO the open air