The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-29

Boston. Mass. Dec, 2S-Dr, Stiles
spoke on the hookworm disease, OF
which he has made some extensive
study, He declared that in the
United States a law of nature was
being violated when an effort was
made TO lodge different races of men
side by side in the same area. DR..
stiles said In part
ut Is an unnatural biological con
dition to have two closely allied spe-
cies of animals living side by side in
the same area. In this country we
have four races of animal, viz, the
white, the red, the yellow and the
black man.-breaking natures laws
by trying TO live together The com
petition oi the individuals is inten-
sif1ed by being extended to a comp5-
tition between the races, and we
must, in the eud, submit to the work
ings OF the law OF the survival of the
httest. Different races may have diff
ferent diseases and after long genera
tions OF infection d relative immunity
may be developed In q given race
through the survival Of the 6ttest in
dividuals. This partial immunity 10
the serious effects Of disease does
not imply immunity from Infection.
On the contrary. that very immunity
may tend 10 make the partially inn
mune race a reservoir for infection,
and that injection, when transmitted
to a more susceptible race. will, upon
reaching such virgin soil, be very
fatal
The white race has brought TO the
I'D "a
rope. These have spread with deadly
effects 10 the blacks. The negroes
have brought TO the south certain
tropical diseases which have spread
to the whites with serious results
These conditions arc not In any way
blameablc 10 the south as Il portion
Of the country, but upon the fact
that in the United States We are ylo-
lating a law OF nature when we at.
tempt 10 lodge different races of men
side by side I'm the same area.
1T is not an eXaggeration TO say
that the negro In the south lives un-
der a handicap because OF the pres
enco OF the white mans disease and
because OF the presence of African
diseases, the white man there is also
living under a handicap. Sanitary
science. If backed by intelligent. Drac-
tical application and authority. can
overcome that handicap Theory de-
mands that in rural negro localities
with anything less than good santa
ton we must find an extensive anomia
among the whites, and practical OK.
periencc bears out this theory among
the Tenant whites of the south.
1t is not only foolish but cowardly
10 attempt to deny the existing condi-
tions and pay for a false sense Of
local pride at the price Of the lives of
women and children. Fortunately.
the better class of thought in the
south is facing facts and organizing
for an extensive campaign TO improve
sanitary conditions. And when the
south shall win its noble fight against
disease tho victory will be great and
fully repay the efforts spent upon
it,"
Dr. Stiles, speaking upon child la.
Dor In the south, took position which
some Of his hearers might have
judged radical. He said.
Il have never defended child labor
as an abstract proposition, but when
! compare child labor and child mis-
cry upon the soil-polluted one-horsc
farms with child labor under the vast
| ly improved sanitary conditions In
tho southern cotton mills. | am forced
to the conclusion that the latter Is
| Infinitely better than the former. and
| III IL came 10 a choice between the
| two for my young daughter. now ten
Years old. my duty would compel me
TO choose for her life in the spin