The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-31

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 3l.-Can
the white man live in the tropics? Can
he raise his children there without Diet
riment to their health and that of sue
ceedng generations?
This Is one OF the important ques-
tons which will probably be considered
by congress of distinguished scien-
fists in Hawaii next summer accord
ing to Alexander Hume Ford, head of
the Pacific union, with headtquar-
ters in Honolulu. He is now in the
United States arranging for the sci
entific conference. 1t will probably be
organized by Prof H. E. Gregory, of
Yale who will be given an appropria-
ton Of $4,000 for the purpose of call
ing together about 40 scientists quail
fled to study and discuss the problems
confronting the lands which border upon
the Pacific.
Although a great deal has been said
and written on the subject of the white
mans health in tropical lands, it has
never been determined exactly what
effects. good or bad, the tropical eli
mate has on the man with light
skin, nor to what those effects are
due, nor how they may be guarded
against, And the question is becom-
ing a more important one every day
because the man who wants to own
land and establish himself in new
ina trGnins TaI,e thn situation in this
conntr, mr. own West no longer Of
fore ~ the homeseeeker any consider
able bodies of free or cheap agricul-
tural lands. On the other hand in Gem
trial and South America, in Mexico and
such islands as Santo Domingo there
Kind that drew adyentrrous men to
thn Uast "a ,.oar 70 az Iand tbat
has never henn Moved undiscovered
mineral ,veaIth Virgin forests
Amerirano have heen going to these
co,,nt,.joe os saIeen,en nror,I0tars and
eennCiaIly ne Investors IF ranitaI seek
NO ,onressions for, a great MANY years
Rnt tbe,, have not been Going as home
gnnl,ors' II, the first ,,I,ra IInsattied
noIiti,,i oanditiors haye i,ert t,am ont
and in he second Mace they have
@earod tho cIimate and Tho trnniCaI dis
t a tu TIC O''''''' anu '''' '''P'N"' "''
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ara hoonn,ino ateadilv lass frjamdlv to
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ehtttirne tho door. Io tha man VIM
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,uC PIe9,a' ri,' it,siiJa a.
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