The American College of Surgeons, meeting in Washington last week, grew so indignant about Prohibition,* that they delayed for a day listening to Dr. Charles Horace Mayo tell how to stave off death.
Surgeon Mayo's lecture, finally delivered, was pertinent with the week's news. There had died Brewer George Ehret, 92, whom German bands serenaded as they drank his beer free on his birthdays; Soldier John McCausland, 90, one of the last two Confederate Army generals; Historian James Ford Rhodes, 78; Dr. Edward Wyllys Andrews, 70, an...
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