Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — NOT HURT BY WARM CLIMATE [ARTICLE]

NOT HURT BY WARM CLIMATE

Writer Denies That Life in the Troplea is Enervating to ?White* Dwelling There. The opinion is widespread In northern chines that a continuously warm climate, unbroken by sharp periodic changes, is enervating and detrimental to the white man. This opinion is subslmitiuted -by a considerable variety of evidence. Exception, however, is taken by' Vaughan MacCaughey, writing In Science. Hawaii is sub-tropical. The significant fact is that the “white” population Jives “American style.” The hours of labor for busings men, professional men and laborers are just as long ns in northern regions. The holidays and vacation periods are no more numerous. The lunch period is one hour at noon, and there is no siesta. A white laboring class does not exist In Hawaii. Tills is due. however, not to climatic conditions, but to the economic competition of cheap oriental labor. ' \ • It must be acknowledged that the change from a northern to sub-trop-ical climate does not always agree with the white women. Some suffer from poor health and more or less profound functional derangement, however, the problem is an open one as to whether this is directly due to climatic maladaptation.