The Washington times., 1922-12-03

of Africa and many Abyssinians possess a
more nightly hue of skin than the duskiest
nergo ever seen. Likewise the black and
warike Moor of history and fiction is in
reality white" man so far as his racial
characteristics are concerned, although his
color is several shades darker than many
types of Ethiopians.
Some anthropologists even take the
stand that the white people, the pride of
Europe, are only the direct fruit of a
negro race, the Euro-Africans, who
established themselves in Spain and in
France from time immemorial, and who
came from northern Africa. A certain
consistency is given to this theory by the
fact that a number of bones considered
to be of Negroid origin have been dis
covered in different parts of Europe.
The lips and nostrls are all marks of
race, although a person could not judge
the race of another by considering them
alone without taking in other character
istics. To an anthropologist they are
merely corelative points having value
only as they appear along with other un-
mstakable points in designating race.
The nostrils of the negro, for instance,
have their axes running at very slight
angle from the face. The Mongolian has
much greater angle, while in the aver
age European the axes of the nostrils is
sometimes almost at right angles from
the face. Negro nostrils never seem to
have quite developed. The nose remains
always very much like the nose of an
infant, which in the white race begins to
be transformed almost from the time of
birth. Similar to the nostrils and in
keeping with the general conformation of
the face we find thick lips in the negro
type, intermediate size lips in the Mongol
and the thinncst, straight lips in the Euro
pean until we come to the tightly drawn
lips of the Scot.
There are also other so-callcd racial
characteristics which do not stand up in
the light of science, but which are inter-
esting to make note of. For instance, the
convex nose of the Semitic people. To
counterbalance this, anthropologists have
found a concave nose among these
people which they claim is possessed by
lower type.
The white or European race, regardless
of color-and it should be noted that
many whites are darker hued than the
yellow skinned or black-comprses the
people of Europe, the northern part of
Africa, the Persians and high caste Hindus,
where the blood strain vanishes at the
Ganges River. Further on peculiar and
mysterious race of people, called the
Anus, live. These people once occupied
a greater part of the Japanese islands
and the Island Of Sakhalin, but ages ago
,hey were overcome by the present day
Ja- anese and the comparatively few
spared intermarried with their conauerors.
This race of people is distinctly different
from the surrounding races and is con-
sidered the hairiest people in the world.
They are short, their skin coloration,
though of various shades of brown, has
reddish tinge, more like southern
Eu",peans than Asiatics. Their coarse
hair is long and wavy. 1t was to this
strange type of men, lost years ago on
the dim edge of the world, that Takoa
Ozawa claimed to trace his ancestry. In
this way be sought to prove that he was
white and could properly come under the
rulings of the courts in allowing natural
ization as free white citizen" In his
favor he had the opinion of expert legal
talent and also many anthropologists who
claimed that the Ainu was in fact the
outermost extension of the white people
of Europe. But as it was impossible to
prove that the Ainu ever really was a
white man the contention of the Japanese
was denied.
many anthropOloglStS also believe that
people change to conform to the original
inhabitants in the countries in which they
live. Judging by the colorations of birds
and mammals, they claim that color is
often an unconscious adaptation to the
conditions of life. It is under this in
f1uence and doubtless as the result of
selection covering hundreds of genera
tions that man has acquired certain colors
propitious to his evolution.
If this explanation is true, nothing is
more natural than the weakening or even
the disappearance of color with change
in surroundings. With this in view,
science is closely examining the southern
negro to find out if he has undergone
any modification since being transplanted
into the United States. Some Of them
also see an indication that white men liv-
ing in the United States begin after a few
generations to show the prevailing traits
of the original Indians, including the color
of their skin.
But the consensus of opinion among
scientists is that such change has yet to
be proved; that racial characteristics pre-
vail through the ages, and that it would
be quite impossible to ever incorporate
the Japanese with the European inn
migrants and native American. They
would always be aliens, so science believes,
and the original laws Of the nation ex-
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