Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-29
RACES CANNOT
THRIVE WHEN
SIDE BY SIDE
UNNATURAL BIOLOGICAL
CONDITION SAYS STILES
Interesting G Address Before
American Society for Ad.-
VanCement of Science by Ma
rine Hospital Authority,


Boston. Dee 2S.-"lt is an unnat-
ural biological condition 20 have two
closely allied species of nals living
side by side in the ca" said
DR.. Charles w S}Iea United
States public health m; hospital
service, in an address re the
American Society for the 5ance-
ment of Science tonight
DR.. Stiles spoke on the hookworm
disease, of which he mas made some
extensive study. He declared that in
the United states law of nature was
being violated when an effort was
made TO lodge different races of men
side by side IL the same area DR.
Stiles said in cart
1T is an unnatural biological con-
dition to have two closely allied spc-
cies of animals living side by side in
the same area. In this country we
have four races of animals viz. the
white, the red, the yellow and the
black breaking natures laws by
trying to live together The compet-
tion of the individuals is intensified
by being extended to a competition
between the races. and we must in
the end submit to the workings of the
law of the survival of the fttest. Dir
ferent races may have different dis
cases and after long generations of
infection Il relative immunity may be
developed in Il given race through the
survival of the tittest individuals.
This partial immunity to the serious
effects OF disease does not imply inn
munity from infection. on the con
trary that very immunity may tend to
make the partially immune race res
ervoir for infection and that infec
tion when transmitted to more sus-
ceptible race win. upon reao9lne euch
virgin soil, be very fatal.
1.-The white race has brought to the
south certain diseases from North
Europe. These have spread with dead
ly effect TO the blacks The negroes
have brought to the south certain
tropical diseases which have spread to
the whites with serious results. These
conditions are not in any way blame
able to the south as a portion of the
country, but upon the fact that in
the United States we are violating
lodge different races of men side by
side in the same area.
1T is not an exaggeration to say
that the negro in the south lives under
a handicap because of the presence of
the white mans diseases and because
of the presence OF African diseases the
white man there is also living under
a handicap. Sanitary science If
backed by intelligent practical appl-
cation and authority, can overcome
that handicap. Theory demands that
in rural negro localities with anything
less than good sanitation, we must
find an extensive anemia among the
whites, and practical experience bears
otu this theory among the tenant
whites of the south.
1t is not only foolish but eowardlN
to attempt to deny the existing CON
ditions and pay for raise sense of
local pride at the price Of the lives of
women and children Fortunately the
better class of thought i'm the south
is facing facts and organizing for AN
extensive campaign to improve sani-
tarN conditions. And when the south
shall win its noble fight against dis
ease the victory will be great and will
fully repay the efforts spent upon it,
DR. stiles speaking upon child labor
in the south, took a position which
some of his hearers might have judged
radical. He said;
II have never defended child labor
as an abstract proposition, but when
compare child labor and child mis-
cry upon the soil-pOlluted. one-horse
farms with child labor under the
vastly improved sanitary conditions in 4
the southern cotton mills I am forced F
la the conclusion that the latter is
infinitely better than the former. and
IL il came to Il choice between the two
Tor my young daughter, now 10 years
old. my duty would compel me to
choose for her life i'm the spinning
room of the average cotton mill of the i
south. which | have visited, in pref I
crence To a life of toll and misery on
the average unsanitary tenant farm
| have studied.
Il am unable to join in the whole
sale condemnation Of the south's cot +
ton mills for I recognize la them the
best friends the tenant whites of the
south have"