THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
MAJ. GEN. WM. C. GORGAS
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Major General William C. Gorgas,
who died Sunday in London, was con
sidered one of the world’s foremost
authorities on military medicine and
surgery. He fought and defeated the
malarial mosquito in Panama and thus
made possible the building of the great
waterway across the isthmus. He dis
lodged yellow fever from its century
old stronghold in Havana, and under
the direction of the United States gov
ernment and the Rockefeller founda
tion supervised campaigns against
that dread disease in Central America,
Peru and Ecuador.
At the invitation of the British gov
ernment he went to South Africa in
1913 to establish sanitary conditions
in the Rand, as a result of which he
received high honors from the medical
profession in London and Oxford uni
versity conferred a degree upon him.
In the last ten years his services
were sought to give battle to plagues
in many parts of the world. When
the typhus epidemic began in Serbia
during the war an effort was made to
have him undertake the campaign
against it, but at that time he was
needed to direct the medical.and sur
gical work for the American army in
France.
He was decorated by the French
government and made a commander of
the Legion of Honor and knighted by
King George of England, the latter
for, as the king expressed it to him,
making possible the construction of
the great canal.
in tne uays or tne oia f rench com
pany which attempted to build the
canal, tropical diseases annually
claimed one-fourth of all its workers.
The French were powerless before
this pestilence.
When General Gorgas became gen
eral sanitary officer of the canal, com
mission, the annual death toll had
been reduced but it was still difficult
to obtain the vast army of workmen
necessary and to care for those dis
abled by malaria, yellow fever and
dysentery.
In recognition of his services he
was made a member of the isthmian
commission and served as such until
he was made surgeon-general.
In nine years, by a systematic cam
paign for the destruction of the mos
quito, General Gorgas virtually drove
these diseases from the isthmus.
When he gave up the work to accept
the post of surgeon general in the
army in 1914, deaths among the canal
workers had been reduced to five per
thousand annually. Congress, in rec
ognition of his achievement, made him
a major general and the world hailed
him as one of the great men of medi
cal science.
His work in combatting yellow
fever in Havana began when he went
to Cuba with the rank of major in
the Spanish war. When the war ended
he remained as sanitary officer of the
island. Havana had been for more
1 than a century the focus of yellow
fever infection for all of the northern
hemisphere. When he left Cuba in
1902 the island had been cleaned up
and Havana, where previously from
200 to 1,200 had annually succumbed
to yellow fever, since has been vir
tually free from the disease.
While in the canal zone, General
Gorgas visited Guayaquil and mapped
out a plan to rid that city, long known
as the “pesthole of the Pacific,” from
the yellow fever scourge and his plan
was in process of execution Avhen the
great war began.
Soon after the United States entered
the world war General Gorgas an
nounced the organization of the exten
sive system devised for the “recon
struction” of soldiers crippled in Ihe
Avar which included the establishment
of orthopedic hospitals behind the fir
ing lines in France, reconstruction hos
pitals in the great centers of America
and the retaining of crippled men and
preparation for resuming their voca
tions or learning neAv ones.
General Gorgas reached the age
limit while still on duty in Frarce in
1918. When the war was over he was
retired from active service in the
a t my. Subsequent^ in 1919 he was
head of the yellow fever commission
o ganized by the Rockefeller founda
tion and in that capacity made an ex
tensive tour of Central and South
America to direct the work of eradicat
ing yellow fever from some of its
breeding centers, notably in Peru and
Ecuador.
King George of England conferred
upon him in June, 1920, the decora
tion of knight commander of the Order
of St. Michael and St. George.
General Gorgas was born in Mobile,
Ala., October 3, 1854, the son of a
Confederate general. He was gradu
ated from the University of the South
in 1875. He was appointed a surgeon
in the United States army in 1880.
While in London in June, 1920, on his
way to South Africa to again improve
sanitary conditions there, he was
taken ill and it was announced that
he had previously suffered a stroke of
apoplexy.
How busy the administration organs
are telling the Republicans how dis
satisfied we are with our ticket.
In his latest political statement
President Wilson said he was reluc
tant to talk partisan politics, and then,
proceeded to do it.
The people of this country are glad
that they are going to have another
human being in the presidency after
the fourth of March.
William Randolph Hearst isn’t sat
isfied with the Republican national
ticket, but that isn’t exactly what
you could call a new Hearst symp
tom.
Probably the administration papers
really do believe that the Republi
cans haven’t nominated a very strong
ticket, but what makes it especially
annoying is that they know very well
it’s going to be triumphantly elected.
Warren G. Harding used to play a
horn in the town band. You can’t
imagine Woodrow Wilson playing any
thing on a horn but a solo, and that
is one of the reasons Senator Hard
ing will be so much of an improve
ment.
The New York World says the Re
publicans have attempted to turn the
political clock back to 1900. Recalling
what has been done to them in the
past seven years people really wish
that could be done; as it is, it is up
to the Republican party to wind up
and set going the clock that has been
stopped by the bungling of the pres
ent national administration.
FAILURE OF INLAND
WATERWAYS
The conditions and prospects ol
inland water transportation are being
reviewed in the Engineering News
Record by Charles Whiting Baker
consulting editor, as the result of a
thorough investigation to determine
whether the government ought to,con
tinue its lavish expenditure on inland
rivers. His conclusions are summar
ized as follows:
The investigation shows that navi
gation on inland rivers and canals has
all but disappeared. Even on the Mis
sissippi river and the New York barge
canal, once the most used water routes
in the United States, little traffic of
consequence now remains.
The reason for the disappearance of
the boats is found to be that the cost
of carrying freight by boat has now
become almost everywhere greater
than the cost by rail. The waterways
are free; the channels the boat uses
are made and maintained at the cost
of the taxpayers, yet the boat lines are
now unable to compete with the rail
way, which has to pay the entire cost
of the road which it uses.
Even more important than the com
parative cost of hauling by water and
by rail is the cost of handling the
freight at the terminals. The railway
car, which travels over private tracks
to the interior of a plant or factory
or warehouse, has an advantage that
the boat cannot possibly overcome.
Recent attempts by private capital
to revive water transportation in the
Mississippi valley have been complete
financial failures, savs Mr. Baker. The
government operated boats are thus
far having the same experience. The
federal railway administration has in
vested over $14,000,000 in boats which
it is running on the New York barge
canal and the Mississippi and Warrior
rivers. These boats have cost to oper
ate over half a million more than they
have earned from freight; and this
operating expense includes nothing
for interest and depreciation on the
boats.
Even the coastwise steamship com
panies, which use existing water ter
minals and have the deep water of the
ocean on which to run, now find it so
difficult to compete with the railways
that many of the lines have been aban
doned.
Unless goods can be carried more
cheaply by water than by rail, when
all the elements of cost are included,
navigation on rivers and canals will
not be revived, and money spent on
river and canal improvements and
maintenance is wasted.
The government, says Mr. Baker,
has never made a thorough unbiased
investigation of inland water trans
portation to determine whether outlay
for its benefit was justified, but con
tinues to blindly appropriate millions
of dollars annually for inland rivers
in response to a nation wide propa
ganda for such appropriation which is
carried on in complete ignorance of
the fact that the changed economic
conditions of the present day have put
the waterway out of the running.
The urgent necessity of economy in
all public expenditures makes this a
favorable time to put an end to ap
propriations to benefit navigation
where no navigation of consequence
can ever exist.—Railway and Marine
News.
It has come about that even nation
al political conventions are “covered”
■ for the papers by sporting writers, sob
: sisters, magazine muck-rakers, politi
I cal lame ducks and novelists, not to
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mention the common or gai’den var
iety of liar, and nobody thinks of
sending a reporter or two to get what
| really happens.
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RAFFIA TO ORNAMENT VEILS
Material Is Among Other Novelties
Used to Make Face Coverings
Attractive.
The most striking feature in the
lew spring millinery is the return of
he loose flowing veil, which is worn
carelessly thrown over the toque or
hat, falling over the shoulders at the
back, the front length merely coming
lown a little below the eyes.
The embroideries and applique work
;>n these veils are most elaborate and
varied. One of the newest ideas in
this line is the use of black patent
leather or oilcloth, which is ap
pliqued on the net, either in bands,
discs or elaborate cut-out designs.
A fine make of colored kid is also
made use of in the same style. Cut
out fruit designs are the favorites.
The kid is cut out in the shape of the
fruit, tinted in natural colors and ap
pliqued on the net, with a buttonhole
stitch in silk to match.
A handsome veil is in navy blue filet
net with a border of cut-out red kid
in a cherry design, showing green
leaves embroidered In silk.
Raffia is also being used to ornament
veils. Deep straggling designs are ap
propriate for this work. A shade of
jade green raffia on a black or fete de
negre brown net is unusually effective.
Cretonne applique on veils is again
in vogue. A motif of flowers and
leaves is so placed as to cover the up
turned brim of the hat, making all
further trimming unnecessary.
To Remove Rust Stains.
Iron rust has a most astonishing
way of appearing on garments. Some
times a pin will he a bit rusty and
leave two little brown spots in a most
conspicuous place. Wet the spot with
a drop of lemon juice, add salt and
put on more lemon Juice. Put In the
sun and when the salt is dry the rust
spot will be gone. If the sun refuses
to put in an appearance for the day,
hold the stain with its saturated solu
tion of lemon juice and salt over
steam. The rust will be removed.
Graham Bread fresh every day at
the City Bakery.
My New and Complete
Hat - Blocking
Outfit
is now in operation. Bring in
your old hats and have them
made like new.
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