The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-29
Three Great Americans GoethaIs, Mayo, Borah,- Will Celebrate Today.

Three truly great Americans, who are famed far beyond the borders .of Uncle Sam's country, will be the re- cipients of birthday congratulations lsplendor of his achievements is George Washington Goethals--another George Washington who, just now. comes very near to being first in the hearts of his countrymen-" Brooklyn gave to the world this sublime figure of a digging to a height undreamed of by his humble predecessors in the trade. He is a soldier who has turned his sword into a spade and with that in- strum ent has united two continents by separating them. The man who master engineer of the ages was born ffty-six years ago today, and was a student at the College of the City of New York before he entered West Point, from which he graduated in 1880. He was instructor of civil and military engineering at West Point, chief of engineers during the Span is1-Arn erican war, and a member of the board of fortifca-tions prior to his appointment as chief engineer of the Panama Canal early in 1907. He had also tried his prentice hand at canal building while in charge of the RfusseI Shoals canal construction on 
 in Panama was practically complete the engineer was showered with flat ter1nR offers from municipal and pri- vate corporations but he decided to stay ''on the job, ,.'Aand since the 1st so4 A pril he has been governor of the Canal Zone.
 The distinction of being the worlds most celebrated country doctor be- longs, without doubt, to Dr. William James Mayo, the senior of the dis tingdished brothers who have made the little town of Rochester, Minn., known to all surgeons of every land. As president of the American Sur gica1 Association, pr. Mayo was the forem ost figure at the recent interna- tionaI congress of surgeons in New York and on his subsequent tour of Europe he was hailed by his profes- sionel brethren as the greatest of the worlds tscut-upsI' Despite his fame, however, pr. Mayo is and has always been, so far as his place of residence | is concerned, a country ,dctor.'' He was born f1fty-three years ago today at LeSueur, Minn., but his youth was spent in the Minnesota town of Koch ester, where he attended high school, ] and which he has since made a sur gical Mecca. He received his M. D. degree at the University of Michigan, l, and has since received honorary de- grees from the greatest universities or America, including the University cf Toronto, and from several European universities. Dr. Mayos paper on cancer, read at the recent medical congress, was highly important. The eminent surgeon declared that chron- ic irritation is the most frequent cause of -cancerous growths, but sug- gested that some Fundamental fault in the food, or the cooking of it,
 might be responsible for 'scancerous conditions in the gastric region amng kciViI1z6d naOT01AS s'
 William Edgar Borah, the Idaho so1on who has becomesa leader of the Progressive Republicans in the United States Senate, is a Sucker by birth, but not in mental habit. He was born in Fairfield, H., and will begin his hftieth year today. In his youth he removed to Kansas, studied at the university of the Sunfower State, and practiced law in Lyons for a short time before he hung out This shingIe | in Bise. He was defeated in the race for a toga in 1903, but was sue cessfuI in 1907. Senator Borah at tained international fame as chief counsel for the State in the prosecu- ton of Mover. Haywood and Pettibone the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, who were charged by Harry Orfchard, of unsavory memory, with complicity in many crimes