Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-10
CAN TURN BLACK MEN WHITE
Latest Discovery Of Scientific World Changes Color Of Negro

Boston Post.-The negro can soon
become white, not merely as white
as the ordinary Caucasian, but as
clear-skinned as the pink-eyed white
haired Albino-and all this by the
direction of the skilled scientist.
This statement, seemingly unbe-
ilevable, is not the wild dream or a
romancer, but rather the most amaz.
ing assertion of @. T. Simpson, SCI
estist of repute, who makes this dec
laration only after years of profound
study.
His assertion, moreover, is looked
upon as the most striking revelation
among all the results of those SCI
entific investigations that have Just
been announced to the world in bos-.
ton.
In fact, it may be taken as repre-
sentative of all the wide field of re-
search covered by the American AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement OF Sci
ence, the body whose sixty-tirst meet
ing has brought to the Hub Curing
the past week more than 600 of the
most noted scientists on this contr~
nent
In all the mass OF reports, orig
inal papers and tentative suggestions
on every phase OF science. none is
more remarkable than the discovery
OF Mr.. Simpson, an independent IN
vestlgator of Illinois, who is assured,
after years of study and experiment
with animals, that it is possible for
man to control the future genera
tons, that negroes may become
white or spotted, and that white col
onists in the tropics may darken the
tint of their descendants ii they wish
to do so.
AS for the contrast OF color set
forth by Mr.. Simpson, his opinion
has been received with increased IN
terest because he is the third gem
GRAFTON OF a family of scientific stock
breeders, and he has for the past
20 years been working out to mrs
own satisfaction through the breed
ing OF cattle and swine the laws OF
heredity as set forth by the famous
Father Mendel. He has been mem
Der OF the Association for the Az
vancement of Science for seven years,
as well as Chairman of the Commit
tee of Original Research of the
American Breeders Association. ana
his Bear Creek Farm at Palmer.
Christian County, Illinois, has be-
come noted among scientists as the
place where the Mendelian law or
heredity has been worked out with
large animals instead of with mice
or plants
What Mr. Simpson has done is TO
set forth the existence as living bac-
terra Of the "Chromosome," which is
the scientific name of that section
OF the cell or fundamental unit Of
life which gives color. This theory,
which is of such great Importance,
to future living creatures, he mas
outlined in a paper entitled "Tne
Bacterial Semblance of the Chrome
somes." in which he says:
TT is now so universally known
that animals and plants are 5uiIt
from cells, and the photography is so
extensive that we will not discuss
them, but should try to discuss the
cells builders The Hertwigs, VIII
son and most cytologists, and Chit
tenden, as alchemist, are agreed that
the nucleus is the builder of the
cells. This nucleus appears to be
only a colony Of something else
the chromosomes, so we may discuss
these as the builders. But first let
us view some completed structures.
We find here one with white and
black bricks, so to speak; another
with white and red bricks, so to
speak; another with white and red
bricks; still others all black. all
white or all red. Now, perhaps all
of a colony or chromosomes could
work as unit and build a kind OF
structure. But do they?'
To answer this question and to
show that chromosomes are living
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