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NEGROES CHANGED TO WHITES-New York Hcrald-Tribune.Dr. Yusaburo Noguchi’s suggestion that further i e-search into the possibilities of electrical nutrition” and glandular control may piakc it possible to blanch the skins of black and yellow- men, to turn dwarf races into tall and otherwise alter the supposed boundaiics of races may not he so fantastic as some of the newspaper headlines made it sound. For, in the first place, the hounclaries of races are already vague?- and more shadowy than most of us imagine, and, in the second placr, food chemistry is going far to destroy the generic chaiactcr of what had seemed clear race character istics,The Japanese ate a small race/1 But they are als^, like the Southern Chinese, a rice-eating people, and even a few yearn of experiments in school feeding have suggest'd iht the addition of milk, cheese, vegetables and wheat to the national diet of Japan would produce a race of mci and women utterly unable to get into their grandparents1 clothes. The milk-drinking, ehee* e-eating Mongols and ttm wheat raters of Manchuria are larger than their Southern relatives, but apparently South Chinese, given the Northern diet from babyhood up, grow to approximately the same stature as the Northerners; and resepich in India suggests that the Mahometan Slkhg, who fatten on the milk and c eese which are forbidden to orthodox Brahmins, are taller and s-tronger because of the diet which their religion imposes upon them, not because of u different ancestry,when one comes l0 the subject of glands the vistas are endless- U is perfectly safe to Bpeculate endlessly upon the possibilities of gland treatment because no one vet knows mucn about the subject. Dr. Noguchi will be distrusted v C.uihous sewmjstB in proportion as he is positive about the ~ 5m ™P™ments. but at Vast some physical« l 0F ^ VBH°US raCes of hwnan: *a Permanent as the leopard's spots*, n y Pr0Vlt;* ** char5^ab|e as a modern lady's com.
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Decatur Herald
Decatur, Illinois, US
Sat, Nov 16, 1929
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