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

erosion, according to Doctor O'Mal-
ley, is limate-attempt by light-com-
pleXioned nationalitieS to exist in de-
grees of light against which nature
has not protected them. Without the
protective pigment that will shut out
the ultraviolet rays, he declares, the
northerner in this. climate first be-
comes irritable and unduly hurried
American pep In his children or
his cnildrens children. still less capa-
Bile Of withstanding the rays, they
work additional havoc until within a
few generations the family name dis
appears, unless there is blending
with more immigrant blood or with
darkerskinned races better equipped
by nature to withstand the sun.
Plots Of the work curve of more
than 1000 men and women in the fac
tories of Connecticut, western Penn
sylvania and Florida, with similar tab
ulations for New York, Maryland, the
Carolinas, Georgia, and even Japan.
by Huntington, of Yale university, and
others, according to Doctor O'Malley,
have shown that the white man &C
complishes most in physical work
when the outdoor temperature is from
60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Too Much Violet Sunshine
The American sunlight is the chief
obstacle to the development of the
northern European in the United
States says Doctor O'Malley AN
. thropology and tradition show us that
the earliest man was white. and that
he lived at or about the latitude of
! the Euphrates basin. The colored and
blond races were such by develop
\
southwark he slowly acquired protect
i've skin pigment and became brown.
! Farther south in the tropics, he grew
black to defend himself from the ultra
violet rays of the sun and to radiate
heat more readily. AS he migrated
northward he lost the protective pig
| ment which was worthless to him, and
| became winter, SO that he could retain
animal heat better.
physicists that work with extra
| spectral rays, Roentgen rays, Becqerel
rays, rays from radium and the like
! emissions, must protect themselves
! by rubber, lead glass. sheet lead and
similar means. The ultraviolet radia
ton changes the protoplasm of cells sc
as to let in salts which disintegrate
and kill the cells. There were more
than twenty physicians killed in the
United States alone by the. action OF
the X-ray before methods for protec
ton were devised. Similar rays exist
in the sunlight. Finsen, in Denmark
found that skin pigment can protect
animal tissues from the ultraviolet
rays of the sun. Therefore, the strong
er and more direct the sunlight upor
the earth and the less relative cloud
ness Of the sky the more darkly pig
mented the people that live under it
The Eskimos, an apparent exception
are dark, as a protection against the
sun glare on the arctic snow during
their day of six months.
Natural Climates for the Races.
Skin pigment has relation also tt
somatic heat. The blacker an objec
is the quicker 1t radiates the deaf i
receives; the whittier 1t is the slower i
radiates received or stored heat
Arctic animals have white hair or flu
for this reason, and northern men arr
white; the farther north you go tn,
whittier men are. Tropical animal,
have dark pelts and are nocturnal IL
habit; tropical men are black.
Sioux Indian in Dakota Is white, al
Apache Indian in Arizona is black
Men are differentiated into races
and thrive, develop, and reach physi
cal perfection within well-defined eli
matte areas. AS fauna and fora exis
and persist as distinct species within
certain zones bounded by isotherms
: men so exist and persist as distinc
races. Nature preserves the race tina
. is best fitted to a given environment
and kills OFF the unfit. The natura
geographical position for the blacl
man is. roughly, from the equator t,
the Both parallel of north or south lat
itude. From the 30th to the 35th par
, allie is the zone of the brown man, like
say the Malay. From the 35th to tn
45th parallel of latitude is the zone O
the brunette Mediterranean type o
white man. The zone of the Euro
pean blond is above the 50th parallel