Show OBJECT TO GASOLINE BATHS Mexicans Not Fond of Treatment ButAre ButAre But ButAre Are Forced to Submit to It by Uncle Sams Sam's Army Sanitarians How Uncle Sams Sara's soldiers connected with General Pershing's expedition in Mexico l have been protected from disease disease disease dis dis- ease and discomfort by forcing Mexican Mexican l can laborers with whom the they are forced to come Into contact to take gasoline baths is told by a civilian physician who made a trip from the border to General Pershing's headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters In a touring car bearing two officers In charge of a motor truck caravan transporting supplies to Pershing's Pershing's Per Per- shing's men The military road which has been built since the American troops troops' went in Is in many places almost sable In order to get over the bad places two of the 29 trucks were filled with Mexican Mexican laborers hired by the United States government to help stalled tr trucks out of trouble They of course came In contact with the Americans who operated the trucks and it was necessary for the army surgeons to make sure that they were in good health They were t typical 1 Mexican laborers and therefore none too o clean The army sanitarians also had Imd reason to believe that some of them were Infested with Insect foes that might disturb the peace of their slumber Accordingly before the laborers laborers laborers la la- borers borers were finally accepted they were vaccinated against smallpox and inoculated with a typhoid fever pre pre- This of co course they did not lIke ike And after they had been convinced convinced con con- vinced of necessity of protection from sickness the subject of Insects was broached The sanitarians had decided decided decided ed that the only safe course was to bathe each Mexican In gasoline This order the laborers naturally resented but ut no time was to be lost In argument argument argument ment and they were won over by short but effective means One by one they were stripped and both they I NI and their clothing were subjected to toa ris rise their a gasoline bath The efficient army so tl th sanitarians even gave them a gasoline shampoo Then with the two trucks hind loaded with clean but grumbling Wn Son I 11 Mexicans the caravan went on about WherE its business he sit I |