The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
LAW OF NATURE |S
 BEING V|OL ATED Dr, Charles w. Stiles Discusses the Hookworm Disease TOO MANY RACES MIXED. The Speaker Declares That Diseases Are Brought from Europe by
 Immigrants and They Are
 Conveyed to Others.
TOO MANY RACES MIXED.

Boston. December 2S.-Following is an abstract of an address delivered by Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles before the Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science:
 Dr. Stiles spoke on the hookworm dis ease, of which he has made some exten- sive 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 in the same area. Dr. Stiles said in part: Tt is an unnatural biological condition to have two closely allied species of ami mals living side by side in the same area. In this country we have four races of an- imals. viz: The white, the red. the yell low and the black man-breaking natures laws by trying to live together. The competition of the individuals is intensi- fled 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 Attest. Different races may have different diseases. and after long generations of infection a rel
 
 given race through the survival of the Attest individuals. This partial immunity to the serious effects of disease does not imply immunity from infection. On the contrary, that very immunity may tend to make the partially immune race a reservoir for infection and that infec- tion when transmitted to a more suscep- tible race will, upon reaching such vir- gin soil. be very fatal.
 Disease From Europe.
 The white race has brought to the south certain diseases from Northern Eu- rope. These have spread with deadly ef- fects to the blacks. The negroes have brought to the south certain tropical dis eases which have spread to the whites with serious results. Those conditions are not in any way blameable to the south, as a portion of the country, but upon the fact that in the United States we are violating a law of nature when we attempt to lodge different races of men side by side in the same area.
 Tt is not an exaggeration to say that the negro in the south lives under a
 
 white mans disease, and because of the presence of African diseases. the white man there is also living under handi- cap. Sanitary science, if backed by in- telligent, practical application and au- thority, can overcome that handicap. Theory demands that in rural negro To- calities. with anything less than good sanitation, we must find an extensive an- aenia among the whites, and practical experience bears out this theory among the tenant whites of the south.
 Tt is not only foolish but oowardly to attempt to deny the existing conditions and pay for a false sense of local pride a the prices of the lives of women and children. Fortunately, the better class of people 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 the victory will be great and fully repay the efforts spent upon it.
 Child Labor in South.
 pr. Stiles. speaking upon child labor in the south, took a position which some or his hearers might have judged radical. He said:
 T have never cefendeo cnld iapor as an abstract proposition, but when com pare child labor and child misery upon the soil-polluted one-horse farms with child labor under the vastly improved sanitary conditions in the southern cotton mills I am forced to the conclusion that the latter Is infinitely better than the former, and if it came to a choice be- tween the two for my young daughter. now ten years old, my dSty would com pei me to choose for her a life in the spinning room of the average cotton mill of the south, which I have visited, in preference to life of toll and misery on the average insanitary tenant farm have studied.
 T am unable to join in the wholesale condemnation of the south's cotton mills, for I recognize in them the best friends the tenant whites of the south have