The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-11

mean to Americans of the north
European types, DR.. 0'Malley points
out that the 50th parallel in America
passes through British Columbia about
boundary of the United States. The
gor in Maine, Ogdensburg in New
York, Ottawa in Canada, st. Paul, the
lower border Of Montana, and the up
permost third of Oregon. In Europe
1t runs near Bordeaux, Turin, through
Bosnia, Roumania and the Crimea.
Madrid, Naples and Constantinople,"
says Doctor O'Malley, ARE north Of
Philadelphia; New York is as far
south as Naples; Boston and Chicago
as Rome; St. Louis as Athens and
Washington city is at the level of
French Africa"
Heat zones must also be considered
in study of the effects of climate on
man Humidity. says DR.. O'Malley,
Is almost as important as heat and
| light. LAS the summer heat is greater
than in Europe" he continues. the
winter cold in America is severer.
above America hundreds of miles of
lCc-CONSICu ldAO. L hC Iulo PCdA lhOoA-
tains are high and they lie east and
southern and eastern Europe is peck
eted behind high mountains. The
American mountains run north and
south and let down the cold winds.
When roses are in bloom on the Ital-
ian Riviera, which is up at the level
of Lake Superior, the frost may be
nipping the Florida orange groves,
which are down at the middle of the
Sahara desert and almost within the
tropics.
People and Speech Disappeared.
| "a man from the north of Ireland
going to Philadelphia to live" says
Doctor O'Malley, moves southwark
1000 miles; if he goes to New Orleans
he moves more than 100 miles. A
Norwegian going to Texas moves
south 1000 miles, and fifty years ago
a large Norwegian colony was actually
foolish enough to try this experiment.
| Today there is not a single male or fe-
male descendant of that colony in
existence.
THE Lombards went from what is
now Hanover and the Altmark of
Prussia down to middle Italy. Their
kingdom began in Italy in 56S and
euuSU III ~. II ldSlSu SUO years, dlu
the name alone remains; the people
and their speech have disappeared.
The Teutonic Goths, who most prob
ably came originally from the south
coast of the Baltic. were important in
the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries.
They took Italy, Sicily and Dalmatia
and extended their power over large
part of Gaul and nearly the whole of
Spaian They lasted in Italy sixty.
two years. They lost Spain in 534
and by COL the Gothic language began
to go out of use in Spain.
"The Vandals went down from Bran.
denburg and Pomerania, and about
42s some $4,000 of them had passed
over into northern Africa, at the level
of Virginia. BY 536, that is 108 years
afater they had left Spain, the Vandals
disappeared from history, annihilated
not by war, or pestilence, but by the
climate. Early in the thirteenth cen
fury a body of Burgundians and Ger
. mans invaded Greece. Two genera
tons after the conquerors had sci
foot on the Peloponnesus many OF
their leading families were extinct
There are ruins of old Frankish cas-
ties there now, but nothing more
American Bustle Only lrritabllty
These and other instances thickly
strewn through the history of the
world, DR.. O'Malley holds. prove thai
a northern man can not thrive any
; where in the south. The Yankee.
he says, goes down to Georgia te
take charge of cotton mill there, anC
for six months he awakens the sleep
!, ers; then he joins them The doctor
also points out that the heavyweight
pugilist common here thirty or forty
years ago was a foreigner or first
! generation man. Now he has almos
, disappeared and is replaced by the
lightweight
. THE hustle of Americans. theiI
rapidity in business transactions. i:
not a virtue, but a neurotic irritabil
l ity." says DR. O'Malley. Even at {
place of recreation, like, say, Atlantic
, City, instead of strolling leisurely a!
people do at Ostend, Americans rur
: as TO a fire, and the brighter the sun
= light the quicker they run. To one re
turning from long sojourn in Europe
: the unnatural hurry in the streets o
!, our cities is the most striking fact.
From South Carolina to near Can
; ada is the zone in light and summe
i heat for the olive-tinted white mar
the Mediterranean type" DR.. O'Malle.
says, and this man thrives here fairl
|, we'll, despite the winter, which is NOR
Il severe than that of his EuropeaI
e home If, however, a man from Scot
s land, which has an average of %
q cloudy days in the year. and yer
l. slanting sun, migrates to Yuma, Ariz
o where there are about nineteen cloud
e days annually very slightly slantin
e sun, and sometimes temperature @
e 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade
II or to Ell Paso. Tex, which has abou
: twenty-eight cloudy days in the veal
It he is stimulated for short time, the
<, nervously exhausted, and, finally, d.
It generates rapidly. Spaniards deter
It crate rapidly in Central and Sout
3 America. The Irish degenerat
n physically even in the northern Unite
l. States"