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WASHINGTON, D. C.. July JO.—The Rev. Zed D. Copp. probation officer of the Juvenile Court, believes he has discovered a solution of the race problem. . His theory is that a. certain disease which afflicts negroes, turning- their skin white, is caused by a bacillus, and he believes that by isolating the germ and inoculating colored persons with the serum he may be enabled to turn the entire race white.“T have been studying this matter for some time and believe that the solution of the negro problem may lie concealed in this disease which turns the black man’s skin white.” Mr. Copp says. “I propose to continue my investigations, and will shortly ask for Governmental aid in my plan.“In one of the cases under observation the skin of the patient, not only on the face, but on the body as well, is gradually turning white. The skin remains healthy during the peculiar disorder. In one of the other cases the. face only is affected. Still another case will need more investigation before 1 can speak intelligently on it. If we can prove that the whitening of negroes’ skins in rare cases is caused by a bacillus, it would be possible to cultivate that bacillus andinoculate the negro race with it.”- — ■■ ■ -■* ■ —l.ot« nf men bm* evnerience hv bettingSALISBURY. N. U, July 10.—A coffin for the living, prepared in the hope of obviating the necessity of substituting it for a*coffin of the dead, brought • to Salisbury Mrs. William Tyson, a wealthy woman of Fitchburg, Mass.Inside of a glass box, so made as to exclude all air that might furnish an overtask for diseased lungs and throat, the woman’s husband and nurse bore her from the train. For more than two years she has lived in this box. In its elegantly upholstered coniines are books, a thermometer. and a clock, whose incessant ticking is the only sound that comes to the prisoner in the case of glass.Nervous trouble and bronchitis caused the breaking of the patient’s health, and it was thought that the North Carolina climate would benefit her. The case wasbrought to Salisbury in the baggage car, with its human passenger prone in the unusual stateroom.
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Chicago Saturday Blade
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Sat, Jul 11, 1908
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