The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-06
SAYS We BREAK
THE LAWS OF NATURE
DR.. Sites on Conditions in the
United States.
Address On The Hookworm Problem
Before Scientific Gathering In Bos-
ton--Diseases introduced BY One
Race That Are Fatal To Another
struggle Between individuals
Made More Acute BY The Racial
Struggle.

Struggle.
Boston, Mass. Especially 1T is ar
unnatural biological condition tC
have two closely allied species ol
animals living side by side in the
same area" said DR.. Charles w
stiles, of the United States Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service
in an address on the hookworm prob.
lem before the American Society fol
the Advancement of Science.
THE white man has brought dis.
eases from Europe which are deadly
to the blacks and the negro has
brought certain diseases from Africa
which are spreading with serious re-
suits to the whites" added DR.. stiles
He thought that the new move
ment toward more modern sanitation
in the South would in time overcome
the handicap resulting from two alien
races living side by side
More tnan 80 division meetings
marked the second day of the con-
vention of scientists, and large gath
erings listened to addresses on prob
lens of great scientific and Industrial
interest. The address by DR.. stiles
was one of the most important He
said, in part:
1T is an unnatural biological con-
eition to have two closely allied
species of animals living side by side
in the same area. In this country
we have four race of animals, viz,
the white, the red, the yellow and
the black man, breaking natures
laws by trying to live together. The
competition of the individuals is in
tensified 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 fittest.
Cotton Mills Defended.
Different races may have different
disease, and after long generations
contrary, that very immunity may
be developed in given race through
the survival of the fittest individuals.
This partial immunity to the serious
effects of a disease does not imply
immunity from infection on the
contrary, thta very immunity may
tend to make the partially immune
that infection, when transmitted to a
more susceptible race, will, upon
reaching such virgin soil, be very
fatal"
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 the Southern cotton mills, / am
forced to the conclusion that the lat
ter is infinitely better than the for
mer, and If it came to a choice be-
tween the two for my young daugh-
ter, now 10 years old, my duty
would compel me to choose for
her life in the spinning-room of
the average cotton mill of the South,
which | have visited, in preference
to a life OF toll and misery on the
average insanitary tenant farm ! have
studied.
Il am unable to Join in the whole
sale condemnation of the South's cot
ton mills for l recognize in them the
best friends the tenant whites of the
South have"
Cause OF Aurora BoreaIis.
Neon, a newly discovered gas, is
the cause of the aurora borealis, ac-
cording to a statement made by Dr.
w. l.. Dudley, head of the Depart
ment of Chemistry of Vanderbilt
University, of Nashville Tenn, be-
fore the division of physical and
inorganic chemists.
DR.. Dudley showed what he claim
ed to be the only sample of neon in
this country. 1t requires over 100
tons of air to get a 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 al
ways puzzled scientists.
Before the Society OF American
Bacteriologists. Prof. c. E. A. Wins
low and G. T. Palmer declared, as
the result of their Investigations
that the types OF bacilli in horse,
cow and man are different. Wheth-
er lower animals can give tubercu-
losis to man, he said, is not de-
finitely settled.