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Show HASTE IS WASTE IN TROPICS Northerners There on Business Must Leave All Preconceived Standards Stand-ards at Home. Who enters the tropics should leave all haste behind.. We have a superior way of talking of the land of "man-ana," "man-ana," quite overlooking the fact that the physiological law of the land is expressed lu the "manana" attitude. With the cumulative energy of generations gener-ations of temperate-zone-born ancestors ances-tors in our veins, we niny maintain our standards ot push and speed In the tropics for R time, but that is no reason why we should expect people who have been reared under less favorable favor-able climatic conditions to live up to them. Indeed, It Is highly advisable to leave all of our preconceived standards stand-ards at home. I.atln. Americans have been long subjected to climatic and other influences which have of necessity neces-sity profoundly affected them both bodily and mentally. We must remember re-member also that, racially, we are as far apart as were the Conqulsladores from the Pilgrim fathers. I,et us therefore accept ns n fact that our habits of thought are fundamentally funda-mentally different and give to histT, tradition, environment, and here, ity i. their share of praise and of blanu tor j existing conditions. National ileo-grnphic ileo-grnphic Magazine. j |