Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-10

treated as such and attenuated or
destroyed, Mr. Simpsons paper goes
deeply into the scientific details. but
in pointing out the resemblance be-
tween recognized bacteria and these
chromosomes he says:
1--WE find that one sort of bacteria
in starch solution makes red pig
ment, another makes black, and yer
another white. Some of them throw
down sulphur, which with other pro-
ducts would grow hair, hoof and
horn. Some cause albumin to form
in sheets, which with a lime phos-
plate would form bone"
In discussing an extreme case or
chromosomes, Mr.. Simpson says:
"Dahlgren and Kepner have inves-
tigated the ink factory of squid,
where the cells were over-specialized
as pigment formers, making an abund-
ance and storing it in a sack so that
when there was danger from an en-
envy the squid could color the wa
ter all about and conceal itself. This
was a pigment gland, colony OF
extra specialized pigment cells, for
protective purpose evolution. These
histologists show how the pigment Is
made with layer of cells contain
ing chromosomes, and they say the
pigment was formed inside the cells
In discussing with a Sunday Pos.
reporter the practical significance OF
his theory, Mr.. Simpson explained:
"The pigment of negroes is some
times destroyed by natural action. 1
have seen such examples occasiGG-
ally, and the most recent was on my
trip to Boston to attend the meet
ing of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. stop
ped off in Chicago, and there, on
State street, l saw spotted woman
with two spotted children. found
they were exhibiting themselves In
museum, and there / inquired into
their heridity / found that the wO-
mans mother and grandmother had
been white and black. That was az
far back as she could trace her pro-
genlrOrS. In each generation the
spotted mother had married brown
man-not pure black negro. This
was proof of Mendels law. True to
, the law, this woman, whose husband
was a brown man, had borne spot
ted children.
I'm this connection the Mendelian
law is of interest to show how IN
generation after generation the chro-
mosomes remain attenuated. BY that
/ token, too, it will be possible to take
negro and treat him, perhaps by
diet, perhaps, as | have said, by in
lection Or immersion, so that his
chromosomes will be attenuated 10
such degree that his children for
generations afterward will be white,
for generations afterward will be
although still retaining the phys
ical structure of the negro. 1t is
man should ever want to be treated
so that the chromosomes in his cells
would become strengthened until his
children would be black. Still, stu
dents of tropical diseases have de-
clared that the men of northern white
blood in the tropics degenerate after
few generations because Of the ac-
! ton Of the suns actinic rays. The
pigment of the negro and the dark
skinned peoples generally is their
protection from the action of these
rays Now, it may be a long look
into the future, but If white natioAs
are to continue to hold colonies In
the tropics would it not be an adj
vantage If the skin of the descend
ants Of the permanent colonists could
be darkened enough to save them
the degeneration from actinic rays
that has already been noted and
proved?
Il consider the study of chrome
some, with view to establishing its
life history, a branch of research tfsar
will make for incalculable improve
ment in the great question of peopl-
ing the world and distributing safely
the overcrowded population in the
ages to come"