The Washington times., 1915-12-18
U.S.|NvENTORSLEAD'
WORLD, SAYS LANE.
IN ANNUAL REPORT.
Secretary Of Interior Announces
Americans Produced Two
thirds Epoch-making Devices

The people OF the United states have
produced two-thirds Of all the epocn-
making inventions of the world.
Each day an average of 100 letters
patent are issued to American inver-
tors. and the number is increasing with
the years.
These figures were given today in the
annual report of Secretary of the In
terior Lane. The Secretary reviews at
great length the resources of the
United States and the needs Tor their
development. The nations needs can
be satisfied completely within its own
borders, he declares, whether THESE
needs be for war or for peace. The
United states has. he says. besides the
greatest and the most of the world s
inventive genius. every mineral that
Is needed in industry, or in battlesnip
building; every needed substance to
replenish and perpetuate the soil: a
wondrous climate. and almost ilhmita-
bic water power, and enormous re-
sources in public lands. in men, and
children, and readily accessible nation
al wealth.
In enumerating the latent powers
that make the country the greatest IN
the world, the Secretary declares that
national defense plans. receiving so
much attention at the moment are not
to interfere with the internal develop
ment of the resources and wealth of
the nation.
In his list of revolutionary and epoch
making inventions the Secretary puts
the telephone, the typewriter. the cash
register, the incandescent lamp, the
talking machine, the transparent pho
tosraph film. moving pictures, air
hta ti,,p ,l,, Itpk
plows, harvesting machines, block sig
nails, trolley cars. and sewing ma
chimes. He gives for comparison list
of the important inventions of the rest
of the world. including electric steel,
dynamite. wireless. smokeless powder,
gas engines. the Diesel oil motor. gas
mantels. and the electric transformer.
In summarizing. the Secretary says the
from the telephone and incandesccnt
lamp to the Wright aeroplane.
Intense Naturalization.
An intense nat,onalization has been
tho marking note of the lost year. he
sHvs
I'm presenting all outline OF the wears
work ] make bold TO express the hnle
that 10 other cjncies OF this ';ov-
tnricrt NAV be allowed TO s;av 'he
internal development Of this country.
There IS fcar-how general | do
not know--that this Government will
halt in carrying out its fun and needed
program Of legislation affecting fome
affairs because Of the immediate need
for strengthening our national lie
lenses. This apprehension arises, I am
confident. out of no lack of sympathy
with the plan TO increase the army
and tho navy. hut out of feeling that
The Government in both executive and
legislative branches will be so inn
mersed in matters military and nav al
as to overlook there matters Of less
dramatic and perhaps less immediate
concern.
"Anv such course would. | am sure.
offend the most deep-seatcd instinct
Of. our people. for in the developme Mt
Of this continent. the discov of its
resources. and their highest utilization.
there Is fascination to the America n
which is superlative 1t is indeed cur
life. and has called out the most stai'-
lin qualities in our character. Those