The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-05

CdA4 ana traVeled to that country where yellow fever and tropical dis eases are unknown. Less than eight years ago l had the good fortune to know General Gorgas personally, and at night could sit around the plaza in Vera Cruz and listen to him, when in reminiscent mood. tell of his work throughout the canal zone and see him in action bringing order to the disordered department of sanitation in Mexico. What q democratic man he was, how his heart was filled with a conception of service, and what a lacking up we got if perchance we let our mosquito bars get misplaced and slept so the mosquitoes could bite US
 Attached to the staff was another fine Alabamian, R. E. Noble, then major, now high up in the world with all the shoulder straps that go with generals. but with that same heart of service that governed him in by gone days. The general and I came up on the old San Mascos, landed in Galveston and rode In the same sleep. CT to New Orleans, where orx unSs diverged. Not until tonight have 1 seen him, and yet noted but little change. On the staff was another medico from Mobile, Dr. Van Ezdorf. an authority on malaria; and also Guitterez, the great yellow fever man. who was the right hand bower tos pr. Gorgas.
 My, what time we had to get out the daily papers-Von Ezdorf> was welded to the Mobile register; thought of The Age-Herald; Kyle Price could not get to bed without Grandma" which he would read un- til lights -out was sounded; Major Noble had to have the Anniston Star, while to pr. Gorgas the Tuscaloosa News was like a letter from home. We had another fellow down there who could not see any god in any paper except the Birmingham News. What an easy time circulation man. agers would have If everybody was so strong for his favorite paper as those fellows were. We would pass the papers around. Kyle Price would give me his copy of Grandma" and I would reciprocate with my Age Herald, while Von Ezdorf would save the Register for me.
 Jack London had to have his Col Hers, while Richard Harding Davis wanted all the New York papers. Shepherd. wanted the Tribune and middle western papers, while Boalt could not see any good in anything except Scripps- McRae publications. It was in an atmosphere like this that l got a closeup view of the great in mank walks of life, and found out that there was no need for me to be apprehensive when in the presence of military officers because they. too, were human like the balance of us.
 Prince of Story Tei1ers
 IL. ~f ha story tellers when you could get him to open up. One night he gave us a resume of his Alaskan experiences and-advised us that number of the characters were taken from real life, especially "Scotty." with whom we are all familiar.
 pr. Gorgas would occasionally give UT little incidents in real life cover ing his work. In Mexico and certain tropical countries to have had Vi= ruelas (smallpox) is considered a tadge of social distinction. Now. when we smile at this, do not forget that even to this good day our moth CTS feel that 1t is good policy for us to have whooping cough, measles and roseola while we are small The doc- tor told of his experiences In conVinc- ing the inhabitants of Panama that it was not essential to have small . pox. and a mans social status neeo not necessarily be determined by the number of diseases he had suffered with. To the Mexicans of the lower classes he was an object of wonder ment. but before we left many poor Mexican mother blessed his name. Even to this good day the sanitary work initiated by Dr. Gorgas and General Noble still stands, the last issue of Dictamen giving an account of los obras de Comision de Sanidld'
 A prince of good fellows was Fred erick Palmer, calm, serious, seoale' but withal democratic ne maoe friends among high and low. What a great thing it is for the country now that Palmer is using his pen In the cause of peace and better under standing among the nations Of the world; if you do not believe that we have travelled far on the road to bet ter understanding read "Colliers now and contrast it with "Colliers' eight years ago. Have you ever read anything finer than recent tribute to Woodrow Wilson in a recent issue: even the Man on Horseback by Un- cle Henry Watterson could not sur pass it. Will there not come time some day when a doctor of psychol- ogy will so catch the ear Of the world that he can make that dream of universal peace that the prophet of old had a genuine reality?
 Many Are Gone
 London has gone to his long home. Davis too has journeyed to a far country, Won Ezdorf no longer stud ies his anopholes mosquitoes, Kyle Price, the sage of Elba, has passed off the stage of action along with Dr. Gorgas, but General Noble still lives to carry on and l deeply re- gretted that he could not be with the Spanish American club at its meeting Thursday night when the memorial to Dr. Gorgas was held.
 1t is not always true that . prophet is without honor in his own country-I heard men from foreign climes pay the tribute to the man who had made Ecuador habitable country, but let me give some ex cerpts from the address of one of the speakers in native tongue.
 "A cause de las lluvias copias de Ecuador, la tarea de sanears estos puertos SC creo muy difficil'y DOT eso las autoridades de Ecuador de- cideron de obtener los servicios de un perito DOT este clase de trabajo. Aplicaron los Estados Unidos DOT esta ayuda. como General Gorgas vencio tan bien las condolences en Panama, los Estados Unidos con sentio de enviarle a Ecuador en el interes de humanidad. Despues de unos meses en Guayaquilh organize sus fuerzas tan eficientenfente que pudo designar un jefe DOT ell trabajo, Inmediantemente despues su extan- cias en Ecuador antes de salida de ala, ell Gobierno de Peru, pedio la a v1ld1 da 1oa Eufadoo ITptdoe