Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-01-27

Can he raise his children there
detriment to their health
md that Of succeeding generations?
This is one of the important
questions which will probably be
considered by a congress of dis
tingufshed scientists IN Hawaii
next summer, according to Alexan-
der Hume Ford, head Of the Pan
Pacific union with headquarters in
He Is now In the United
States arranging for the scientific
1t will probably be or
gauised by Professor H. E. Greg
DRY OF Yale. who will BE- given an
appropriation Of $4,000 for the
purpose Of calling together about
forty scientists qualified to study
and discuss the problems confront
ing the lands which border upon
the Pacific.
Although . great deal has been
said and written upon the subject
Of the white mans health in trop-
ical lands, it has never been deter
mined exactly what effects, good or
bad, the tropical climate has on the
man with a light skin, nor to what
those effects are due, nor how they
mas ~ e ~ hscar an.' nnn~ ; tme
4ues.vn 20 $3.50. ~. .a n.y. ~. az.
~ s.ns onv .e "s u".' 80 "a w., w. y.
.as,..s S;,n.o,s - 49,, aarn..r 20 :,
looking more and more to the
tropics Take the situation in this
country Our own west no longer
offers tn the home seeker any con-
siderable bodies IF free or chean
agricultural lands. On the other
hand in Central and South Amer
ica in Mexico and such islands az
Santn Domingo there ia vast unde-
veloned wealth of the yery kind
thai drew adventurous men 70 the
70. 5o ye,rs apo-r;ch land that
has never heen Moved undiscov-
cred mineral wealth yirs,n forests
Americans have been going IN
these countries as statesmen. nro-
motars and esnecialIv as investors
~ 90 nitaI seeking concess;one for
a praat many wears Rut thav havs
not been going as home seekers In
tha fret nlaca unsettled rolit;c.l
cond;ttons b.ve Lent thar ant and
in the second place they have
feared the climate and the tropical
diseases.
Now .ho .,,r+.,.. .. ~. south =,
NO ~ haoon,;ns ..s.S,Iv I..s
sr;end,v - ornln;,;ne can;ts, hn,
thew arc not shntt;np +ha doors r.
tho man who wants a home MeY;ro
for aYamnia - +ha nrasen, novern.
ma,t ~ ~ 80 o,,,d roo.a :,
yearly ;mnoss;hIa Tor 1area 90 n;+o
to oYn,oit Ma1ican rasonrcee hn+ !,
w .eo,,Id ~ 49, :. ;ranoss,,Ia Luz -,
80 a;Mo,it 1or n,ap 80 ~. .
49,, and ast.h1;sh homo Sn,,a
- si ~ 'afu .so Gus .o a I'M nonie
nn. a " . ntha Sa ~er ,S Ina my " :"
In ~, - .ha.o aa,,uta an eo nni;t;oa,
o 30 or $50 go" .., 100 p ~ ~"
t,;,i.aS =. ~ go. 49, 80 ~ $3.50 &c
md tta W. t ;s soua raas,n % ha,;av.
.bat ,hev viii ha s,a h;i;,ed IN NO,
nor, accontah,s ~ tha it'll 49,
inot;na 80 hen, W +h., ~ H. No.
mon Iootirs for forture
-
!. shouiu oe saiu ut ohce ina
.neie Is liueh e'ioehce AGAINST tne
,iopics as place lor "ni'e lhel u
I'VE. me "h''e man VINO goes te
tne tropics 10 i.e without yer!
careiuiiy considering the coEdltion'
lie Is 10 lace anu now he may Des'
guard against them is very likely
to meet with disaster. And hi
snouid De SUI! more circumspec
ABOUT taxing MS "lle ana cnllorer
10 the southerh countries.
II useu 10 De the wen recognized
tropical diseases tnat Kept wh1t'
men away from the equatorial
wealth. yellow Fever and malaris
long closed many tropical countries
to Europeans. They defeated thu
French IN Panama Then Colone
Georges went down there and show
ed that yellow fever and malari:
could be defeated, too. He wrote ;
book in which he prophesied tina
the tropics. freed OF these diseases
would become the bread basket o
the world.
But it soon became apparent tina
the problem was not SO simple. Tn,
British in India had also done mucl
toward conquering tropical disease
but they had found that even whel
free from specific disease, it wa
hard to raise children in tropica
India Those stationed in the hot
less thew Gent their childro,, hor
se g. 9ss s 1 mess Otter + .s