Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . our American head of the Departmentof Sanitation in an Americancity would profit by a study ofCol. Gorgass methods in dealingwith the problems of dirt, sew-age, and infection. Indeed manyof the ideas he developed are al-ready being adapted to the needsof North American municipali-ties. It is becoming quite evi-dent that the scientific methodof controlling insect pests bydestroying their breeding placesis the only efficient one. Thelarvacide man in the wasteplaces, or the covered garbagecan, and screened stable are notas melodramatic a
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . our American head of the Departmentof Sanitation in an Americancity would profit by a study ofCol. Gorgass methods in dealingwith the problems of dirt, sew-age, and infection. Indeed manyof the ideas he developed are al-ready being adapted to the needsof North American municipali-ties. It is becoming quite evi-dent that the scientific methodof controlling insect pests bydestroying their breeding placesis the only efficient one. Thelarvacide man in the wasteplaces, or the covered garbagecan, and screened stable are notas melodramatic as newspapershrieks of Swat the Fly, butthey accomplish more in theend. The management of the Pan-ama Railroad by and for thegovernment affords an objectlesson that will be cited when wecome to open Alaska. Thoughover-capitalized in the time ofits private ownership and opera-tion the railroad under thedirection of Col. Goethals haspaid a substantial rushed with the workincident to the Canal construc-tion it has successfully dealt. C(Jiiyn(int bi/ Underwood & Underwood. THE FIRST BOAT THROUGH. The commission tug Gatun, with members-of the commission aboard, is approaching the lower Gatun lock from the Atlantic end of the Canal. The two pairs of gates are opening for her admission. with its commercial business, and has offered inmany ways a true example of successful railwaymanagement. But to my mind more important than any otheroutcome of the Canal work, is its complete demon-stration of the ability of the United States to do itsown work for its own people, efficiently, successfullyand honestly. That is an exhibit that wUl notdown. The expenditure of ftdly $375,000,000 with noperceptible taint of graft is a victory in itself. There are exceedingly few of our great railroad corporationsthat can show as clean a record, and the fact some-what depreciates the hostility of some of their headsto the extension into their domain of the activitiesof the government. In urging
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