Show People Talked Tall ed About MAJ J. GEN GIX GORGAS S Maj Gen William C. C Gorgas has signed a contract with Ith the thc government government govern govern- ment of or Peru calling for a yearly carly salar salary of oC He will direct time the sanitation of or tho time South American re re- re public General Gorgas Gors-as won t the tho admiration of ot sanitary authorIties authoritIes authorities author author- in all nil tropical countries during his cA administration of or ortho tho time sanitary department department depart depart- ment of the Panama canal zono while j the United States was constructing IO the canal Ho lIo went to Panama In 1901 when the tho isthmus was overrun with e pl of every very 5 S sort Yellow fe cl was rampant and S pessimists raid the canal couldn't be finished on account Of or disease I. I II I clean cleaned cd up UI the Panama towns flagged and drained thorn thom and then went at the tho marshes with oils and find poisons of ot various various va va- arious a rious sorts Horts and killed off the time mos- mos tullOCH Soon Hoon PH Panama nam l was one of or the places on earin After l. l r r the Panama canal was built buill Gorgas went went rent to South Africa on a special mission from Crom the time British government gov gov- t to Improve c sanitary conditions in th the tho dl diamond mine region During Americas America's participation in the late war var Gorgas Gorbas was sUr surgeon con genera general general gen gen- era eral of ot the United States Slates ann army a a. position po po- po- po altion which ho ime filled with g great honor t to himself and his country General Gorges Gorgas was born In Mobile Ala Alao In IS 1851 L Ho lie entered tho the me medical cal corps of or the army In June 1885 and reached tho the grade of colonel in Match lola 1913 During tho the Spanish war ho he served et as a brigade surgeon In the volunteer establishment |