The Prescott daily news., 1914-05-18
THE WHITE MAN IN THE TRoP-
 ICS

Ala meeting of the Society of Tro-
 ..ol Medicine and Hygiene in Lon-
 ior in October, Sir Havelock
 rharles in discussion of neurasthe-
 r. among northern peoples who go
 t0 India made some interesting obser-
 r,tions on the failure of such peoples
 to survive without admiXture with the
 r.tive races or without conforming to
 thp necessities imposed by the climate. 4conrorming to the climate" he says.
 Twill probably mean the preservation of percentage of strains defective in
 tbe primitive qualities, and with a lia-
 blitv to nervous weakness" The light colOred peoples are perfectly fitted to
 cold climates, but when they migrate to hot attitudes they are damaged by the conditions to which they are exposed. It is said that fresh waves of immigration are constantly neces- sary for the preservation of the purity and predominance of the white race in tropical climate. Unless these occur, whether the invaders are white or yellow, in the crossing of light and dark races the foreigners have invar- | hbly assumed the characteristics of the natives The climate seems to limit, to define and mold the foreign Characteristics in accord with the al- tgrnations brought about by the food and the soil. As instances of this are cited the disappearance of the Tur- auan invaders Of India. the failure of any foreign race 10 establish itself h Egypt Mexico or Peru. The Chi nese ia Calcutta and Singapore only maintain streams of fresh blood. It IS true, Sir Iiayelock says, referring more or less particularly to the ex- pertinent at Panama, that with money and power enough insanjtary condi- tons may be reytifed and tropical diseases may be banished, but the neat the sunlight and the climate conditions can not be changed either oy the power of money or the power ol knowledge. People evolved in the environment of northern attitudes cannot retain their characteristics in uoplcal or subtropical climate any more than southern wheat can be made to grow and give it's increase in d highland soil. Men of sound con- sa'uton can and do live in the tropics 0u. women and children fare far less sVil' and the results in the third and ioarth generations would be deplor- aoie' 'a Sir Havelock says that the s,i'e man IS not plastic enough to 'aAe up the conditions of the colored ua' and yet remain white, and with ,a ', ntermarriage his descendants will u, l' Ou'' His mcapacity is based on ', ~V'Ogle factors-skin and bone. his I G'Ou' Ills brain and cranial capacity, ,.s,, ~ nu'fitlye processes. Prolonged lss,pence r,,, in a high temperature. with G. ' range, and high relative humi- So,l Ea' W,'h excess of light, will produce ti. physlcal and mental deteriora- s ' qulVe apar tfrom the influence la.,' V any parasitic disease" Sir Have at D.. uOeS not believe the experiment. ml;,'.4 aaalna' with unlimited money and ,afas ,'eu power, proves anything with no.' ",e to the possibilities in India. vsnas, lie says, even in the most ad- conlS eoast-towns Panama methods tsr;", a 9oE be applied, while in the in- and a.'..' |. would be both economically sp,rap' pp'Ou'ically impossible. Such ob- An"s; s:iOns, says The Journal of the pecan. an Medical Association. are es- View s as interesting and pertinent in gard t what has been said with re- esteoa., IO the possibility of the more possass' u occupation of our tropical unitsds on by the people of the