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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-02
Heat Wave Suddenly
Reverses Its Course

What was feared would be a three
days hot wind came to a termination
last Sunday afternoon, along towards
evening, although Sunday, the second
day of the extreme heat, was not as
warm nor as breezy as the preceding
day.
The mercury in the thermometers
lowered around the hundred mark in
the shade Saturday afternoon, a few
instruments indicating S high as 1872
in the shade. This, with a stiff breeze
from the south by west apresaged hot
winds, but the weather moderated a
trife during the night, failing to get
up to the real danger line on Sunday.
BY Monday morning all danger Of a
prolonged hot wave had ceased.
Monday night a heav rainy came up
from the north and west, visiting the
city and vicinity a little before dusk.
Later in the night, along about mid
night, the locality was visited by q
downpour of rain, accompanied by
lightning. 1t was one of the heaviest
rains of the season, coming down al
most in sheets for a few moments.
Fortunately, the reports tend 70 in
dictate that the brief spell Of exces-
Esive heat did not result in as much
damage as many anticipated. Some
OF the grain on the extremely light
soils, with gravel snbsoils. may have
suffered to. some extent-but that
would have been the case anyway,
even without the extremely warm
weather. #
There was not much apprehension
concerning early grain at any time
during the continuance Of the hot
wave, but it was felt that possibly the
later grains might be seriously An
jured-which, as already stated, does
not seem / . have been thecase, az 4
rule
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-02

~ Arthur Sears Hennins.

Ly4fsNA
Washington, July 28.-I am now at
liberty to disclose the information by
American secret agents abroad con
corning the number Of submarines
Germany has in operation and the
rate at which submarines are being
constructed by the imperial govern,
ment.
Germany has in service now 200
submarines, and never has had more
than $50.
Germany is constructing submarines
at the rate Of three or four a week.
The allies are destroying German
submarines at the rate of n a week.
This information has been III the
possession of the navy department
for several weeks. was given per-
mission to publish the confidential Ne
port of a high official OF the admins,
tration, who said he could not under
stand why the facts concerning the
most serious aspect Of the war should
be withheld from the American peo-
pie.
1t Is no longer possible to conceal
the fact that the submarine situation
is desperate. The sinking Of mer-
CHI utmen is on the gain, even accord.
ins % censored reports given out by
the British admiralty. which they
have admitted they iuggle SO as TO
deceive the public.
Now, in the light Of the report by
the American secret agents, Il appears
Germany Is building submarines three
or four times as fast ais the allies. can
destroy them.
submarines Battle Allies.
America and her allies are baffied
by the problem Of dealing effectively
with the submarines. For several
weeks all hopes were cenrtered on the
invention Of device which would
exterminate the submarine with dra-
matte fnality. After the frst fush 81
excitement " this hope II was al.
mitted officially no feasible invention
had been produced.
Then there Was y furore ever the
program 81 hunting down subn,arinea
and destroying them. The United
States sent all the destroyers 1t could
spare 20 cooperate Nth ire forces
S4&a.SaSn N,.f
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-02

Germany Building Many Divers


h allied governments have fallen
back on the plan Of constructing more
ships than the Germans could sink
Lord Beresford has shown it is Inn
possible for the shipyards 10 keep
pace with the rate Of destruction
More Than Eight Months.
IT will be more than eight months
before the United States will be able
to turn ont ships on d large scale.
The further statement was made
semi-oficially the economic damage.
inflicted IN the entente countries and
the United States by the submarines
amounts to billions Of dollars 4 month
This estimate was arrived at through
4 valuation of the tonnage and car
goes lost through ~torpedoing and
from striking submarine laid mines.
There have been admissions Of the
loss Of merchant ships amounting to
100000 tons h month. The value of
a ship Is said TO ruin from $1,000 10
$4,000 per ton. Taking the lower fg
ure. the financial loss in ships alone
would be s ~,soO,ooo.ooo month. Some
ofEcials estimate the damage inlet
ed on allied, American and neutral
tonnage available for allied uses Il
run from s3,o0o,0 900 to s~s,OO0,o0o per
ninth
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-02
sroMAcH AND LIVER TROUBLES

No end OF misery IND actual snffer
Ing IS caused by disorders i the
stomach and liver, and may he avoided
by the use 81 ChamberIain's Tablets
Give them trial They only cost
quarter. ADJ. I'll
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-02
CHRONIC ~oNsTIPArioN.

It 81 by no means an easy matter e
cure thas disease, but IT can be done
most instances by taking Cham.
berlainss Tablets and complying with
the printed directions that accompany
.exch package. Adv. 41i
country znIus and Hottentots. etc.
Dpn1 fail q hear him - these
nights Come and btinig you frteads
SSIsss CAPTAIN "a karspn,
0lncer Charge
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-02

Talking about age, Miss Nancy
seems 10 be holding her own
aYou Bet she does: Nobody else
has ever succeeded ia getting hold of
i"-Baatimore American.
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Washington Man Wins Hom@rs i'm Rwmamiam Red Gross

neither nurses nor surgeons paid the
slightest attention to them. The only
thing which really upset them was
the capture of the hospital by the Ger
mans:
80 we all have had to evacuate."
wrote Dr. Bayne. Most of the pa
vilon had to leave in few hours
notice, but they have shown me every
consideration, and l am still here.
THE German surgeon general has
couldn't do that 1t is really wonder
full what they have done for me, and it
seems l am known by them all. They
have given me permission to take what
l want and keep my own cases, but the
biggest surprise is that the Roumanian
of 100 beds all for my own and entirely
under my supervision. They also have
named it after me, 'Spitalul Bayne.' and
have given me everything l wapt. The
other night when lots of wounded
prisoners were taken to Bulgaria l
offered to go. as 1t must be hell from
what / heard of the place, which prac
tically no doctors. My head nurses i'm
mediately volunteered, too. l don't
believe 1 have ever felt anything more
deeply. for they said then that they
would follow me anywhere. l tried to
thank them but something got in my
throat and | never have. I don't de-
serve all this, but it has been more to
me than / can tell to have come in
stranger and to have large following
who are willing to accept anything and
go anywhere j go.
There is so much I want to write
about, but it is impossible. AS soon as
I can leave here. 1 am coming home. I
long for you all, but l know If you
knew conditions here you wouldn't
want me to leave now, and am wiling
to make the sacrifice. BRECk.
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left with groups of unframed Rumanian
girls who could not understand English
About this time he wrote:
Il generally operate until or 9 at
night, then have dinner. and ! am tired.
l keep two tables going, and SO in that
way don't lose any time 1t seems so
strange being here, not speaking the
language, and yet the head of a large
military hospital. AT first had boy and
an English woman assisting me, and at
the first sight of blood they would turn
ashy and leave the ROOM SO I practically
operated alone. but now they can stick it
out
Last month 1 did about 200 major
operations not counting numerous alb
scesses and fractures. Have invented a
new splint for fracture of the femur which
has been very useful. as all are compound
and infected. The German and Austrian
officers have been very complimentary for
the care given their wounded Have. be-
Sides Rumanans. Germans. Austrians,
Bosnians, Hungarians. Serbians. Turks.
etc. The people here are perfectly lovely
to me; there isn't wish that they don't
crafty; they have gotten an entire new
set of furniture for me. and my room is
always like flower garden. Perhaps 1t
was fate that sent me here, for it seems
so strange the casual way in which l just
came along knowing no one and not even
knowing l was wanted. and now here l
am in supreme command Of the finest
military hospital in Rumanla and nothing
is done without my sanction. My pavilion
has apparently adjusted itself into base
the work the doctors in the other pa
vilons send me their grave cases and
take those of mine that are beginning to
convalesce. l have IFS beds, and. as / am
entirely alone, you can see how busy we
are. Yesterday I got sixty new cases at
once"
With all this work, the airplanes con-
tinued to add to the excitement. but
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of the original plan. This has occurred
most recently in the case of the Ritz
man process for obtaining gasoline by
Cracking various grades of oil.
DIR. Walter F. Rittman, formerly con-
nected with the bureau of mines in the
Department of the Interior, was the
man who perfected this process. which
appears destined to revolutioniZe the
gasoline industry. DESTROYS of prevent
ing it's monopolization by private inter-
ests and thereby raising the price of
this commercial necessity. DR.. Rittman
applied for a public service patent upon
his discovery Immediately the red tape
which so often hampers the free exer-
else of governmental genius made its
appearance.
Had DR.. Rittman been a private clti-
zen he could have masked his process
in any one of number of ways and
prevented the publication Of its details
until the patent had been actually
granted But being in the government
employ and DESTROYS Of securing pub
lie service patent, he was, to use his
own words, forced to lay all his cards
process before the patent could be
passed upon" Many other and private
a Implications for patents upon the same
nrocess were recorded, all of the appli-
Giants claiming priority of invention and
demanding that the government give
them the right to the process.
So vigorous was the fight waged over
this issue and strong were the claims
made by the private applicants that the
natent office was forced to suspend judg-
ment upon the Issuance OF public serV-
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seriously impair the stability of the
structure.
But water rolls off the Page cement
which is based upon the mixture of 5
per cent of oil of certain quality with
the ordinary cement. like water from
the back of the proverbial duck. In
the case of a floor made from the sub
stance, the water will form in glohules.
much as it would on glass or polished
steel; but on an ordinary concrete floor
an appreciable percentage of the water
would be absorbed.
A notice contained in bulletin on
the subject of preparing and using the
Page cement concrete, which contains
minute directions concerning it's mix
ture and utilization. reads: "A public
patent has been granted for mixing oil
with Portland cement concrete and
hydraulic cements giving an alkaline
reaction, and therefore any one is at
liberty to use this process without the
payment of royalties"
The amount of this waterproof cement
concrete already used by the government
and by many private concerns indicates
that there would have been millions Of
dollars in it for the inventor had he
wished to take out an ordinary patent on
the process; but Mr.. Page, who draws a
process to the public
Not very many years ago the problem
of grain standardization was one which
caused the government and all private
persons who were interested in the rails
ing or handling of grain great deal of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
The Old DoubIoon.

G HOULD one find a pirates buried
~ treasure he would have to dispose
of his Spanish gold,at it's bullion value,
for. since August l. 1908. when the
common crier made proclamation from
the steps of the Royal Exchange of
London that after that date the doub-
loon would cease to be legal tender in
the West Indies. including British
Guiana. the doubloon has not been the
precious thing it was.
In 1890. and for century after. it
was worth IS, more or less" 1t has
ceased to be coined in it's native coun-
try, Spain, and since 1908 it has been
unpopular in the West Indies. where
for long time it figured in a mixed
circulation embracing British. United
States and Spanish coins. In the in
terest of romance. however. the name
at least must survive. 1t signifies
nothing more than that the coin was
double the value of a pistole, but the
"doubloon" was never such mouth
filing mockery as pieces of eight"
which suggests great riches. but means
only Spanish silver dollars. pieces
equivalent to eight reals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

ice patent, and DR.. Rittman finally left
the government service in order that he
might privately proceed with his investi-
cations. and then. if he wished apply for
a private patent which he might deed to
the people of the nation. DIR. Rittman's
salary when he resigned was $4,000 a
year.
An idea of the Importance of the Ritz
man discovery may be had from the
fact that there are, at present. only
two methods of producing gasoline
Oil Company and the Rittman process.
OF the two, the majority Of experts de-
clare that the Rittman plan, partially
undeveloped as it is. promises far bet
ter results than the commercial opera
tion now in use. Indeed, government
scientists declare that it is only the
work of DIR. Rittman and his associates
which has kept the price of gasoline
down to it's present figure.
Another invention which has far
reaching commercial possibilities is
that OF the "oil-mixed Portland cement
concrete" discovered by Logan Waller
Page. chief of the Office of public
roads and rural engineering Of the
Department of Agriculture. The prin-
cipal feature of this cement concrete,
which has been used in the building of
the Treasury vaults and a number of
other important governmental and pri-
waite constructions, is the fact that it
is waterproof. If ordinary cement is
used, water will very often seep into
it and eventually cause cracks, which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
The Woodchuck Spirit.

ssM AVID LLOYD GEORGE. the new
W. British premier" said a journalist,
has the woodchuck spirit. I know It
for he told me so himself
ut was Lloyd George who took the veto
from the house Of lords. Lloyd George
gave old age pensions to the poor. Lloyd
George saved England by making good
her shortage of ammunition. Lloyd
George overthrow the wait and see
Asquith cabinet Now he'll win the war.
81 once asked Mr.. Lloyd George how
he achieved SO much. He laughed and
said II was by means of the woodchuck
spirit, the resolve to do what can't DO
done.
Then he told this story:
"'Once upon a time there was a wood.
chuck. Woodchucks can't climb trees
Well. this woodchuck was chased by q
dog. and finally he came to a tree. He
knew II he could climb the tree the dog
wouldn't get him. but II he didn't climb
it he was doomed. Now woodchucks can't
climb trees, but this one had to. % no
did % =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
Shall the Nation Save Daylight During Summer Mon
Months?

that they will put 1t into effect next
summer. a report from the foreign
chambers of commerce states that the
effect of the notwithstanding act has
been beneficial to Industrial classes and
that it has resulted in an appreciable
saving of the artificial light BILLS
Heightened daylight in England has
resulted in a reduction in the number
of traffic accidents. The use Of recre-
alton parks and bowling greens was In.
creased and car services to the country
were greatly patronized.
The United States. through it's cities
Cleveland and Detroit. is provided with
a precedent for the plan These cities.
in shifting from central to eastern timo
in 1914, practically adopted daylight
saving plan. Official and commercial
organizations testify that the change
was made without difficulty and has
met with universal favor.
The Chamber of Commerce of the
United States. at its recent convention
in Washington heard the report of q
committee on daylight saving. This
committee had assembled data. pro and
con. on the subject. and its conclusions
are that daylight saving will be a ma
tonal advantage II 1t is obtained by
an act of Congress. The COMMITTEES
called attention to the curious fact that
cial time. Standard time was generally
adopted in 1888 upon the initiative OF
the railroads, and not upon an enact
ment of Congress. While several states
have adopted standard time as a law.
the federal Congress has never done so.
With these facts in view. the daylight-
saving bill represents an attempt to
have a certain time legalized.
The bill has many prominent adher-
ents Marcus NJ. Marks. president Of
the borough of Manhattan, was mainly
responsible for bringing the idea to
this country In outlining his project
for the United States he retained all
most all of the main features OF the
summer time act of Great Britain. az
the English daylight-saving bill was
called.
Since the Introduction of the idea
many Americans have attempted TO inn
prove Mr. Marks work by advocating
daylight saving throughout the year.
eliminating the change in the clock
twice year. If this is done. one of tho
officials in the time signal office at the
Naval Observatory pointed out. II will
probably result in the subsequent en-
actment of a law giving the entire
country one fixed time schedule and do
ing away with the four zones. This,
in turn, he predicts, will bring about an
adjustment all over the world. and be-
fore many years pass Greenwich time
will be official all over the world and
all the hands of all the clocks will
point In the same direction.
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the first two days I scarcely looked up
at them, we were SO busy working.
They killed lot of people. though
The disturbance occurred about the
period of the order to evacuate Bucha-
rest. DIR. Bayne had a chance to flee
with the rest. He writes, however,
that he elected to remain. but had
grand view of a city rushing away
before the enemy:
Il went into town the day of the
evacuation. and motors. carts. car
riages. etc. were flying. Big limou-
sines filled. OK carts with women
dressed in handsome furs. men with
wheelbarrows with pigs IN them. all
going away
He was left at the hospital with prac-
tically unframed help. Just about that
time the invaders heel struck Rumania
really sharp blow, and the wounded came
pouring into the hospitals. and the sur
geons worked increasingly. Sometimes
they worked all day and all night Never
did they have over four hours sleep in the
twenty-four DIR. Bayne wrote:
II am about the only one left who
operates, and if had more time it would
be more interesting. as l get some most
remarkable injuries. They all require
quick decision and operation. After the
days work is over really can't tell how
many l have done. Yesterday 1 did a
number Of them. some brain cases, re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

moved eyes. etc. One operation took me
three hours, there were complications
such as internal hemorrhage and strangu-
lated hernia, and tonight the patient got
up and walked out in the hail. ] wound
up by pulling wisdom tooth with bone
forceps.''
While the world was reading of how the
German wave swept back the Rumanians
the torn and dying men in the Bucharest
hospital were being attended to so well
that the doctor Americain" attracted the
attention of the government. and they sent
word they would decorate him before he
left for Washington. In all that time,
however, the American had no time to
learn the language. He could work bet
ter, perhaps. when he did not have to
worry about lot of queer new words.
One day they brought in sixty wounded
Germans. all of whom were made COM
Portable and happy. Another day Charles
J. Vopicka. the American minister. called
for "Breck" and asked him to dine.
You know it's Thanksgiving" said the
minister.
NO" said the surgeon. Really! I
hadn't realized it,"
Mr.. Vopicka called again December "a,
and they dined together again. That time
DIR. Bayne had an inkling that it was
Christmas eve.
To return to the evacuation Of the city,
the Washington surgeon wrote that every
trained man and nurse left, and he was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
Weakness.

IT HE late Buffalo Bill used to say that
marriages would be happier if men
took a stronger hand.
"In most men," he declared one day
in New York, there's too much of
Hilary Adair. Hilary sat next to me at
a cafe concert In Paris once. 1t was a
warm evening. and I heard the waiter
ask:
Another glass of beer. SIR
Hillary looked at his empty glass,
then he looked at his wife.
"'Shall l have another glass of beer,
my love-? he asked.
His wife frowncd and turned to her
mother.
shall he have another. mammal she
said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
Taxpayers.
esMNosT taxpayers accept the ex

66NH OST taxpayers accept the expense
AVA of municipal parkways and
similar municipal beautifications like the
husband"
The speaker was rockingham Dodge.
the Boston municipal reformer and park
ways pioneer
ITO the beautiful young wife of this
scoundrel a gentleman said:
Weren't you terribly frightened when
the bull stamped his foot and beloved
at you on account of your new scarlet
cloak?'
Oh, no. she answered. YOU see. my
husband stamped and beloved just the
same when the cloak came home with
the BILL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

I( Ill ington. with no mark to diff
- . ferentiate them from the hun
dreds of thousands of other devices upon
which the government has issued letters
patent, are some 500 public service pat
ents'-the gifts of government scientists
and inventors to the American people.
Between these public service patents
and the general run of devices upon
which the government has granted the
exclusive right to manufacture and
market there exist two great distin-
gushing differences. In the first place.
any one is at liberty to use a public
service patent without the payment of
royalty, and. secondly, every one of
the patents taken out in the name of
the public are of value. while it has
been estimated that not more than 40
per cent of the ordinary patents are of
commercial Importance.
During the past year the office of the
solicitor of the Department of Agri-
culture recorded the dedication to the
public of twentynine important inven-
lions and discoveries by the scientists
of that branch of the government alone.
These ranged in Importance from new
and very valuable processes of making
strip from sugar beetS and CONNER
cial flax tow from the ordinary waste
fax straw of the northwestern prai-
ries to machines for cutting and evils
cerating fish, a new stamping punch. a
poultry picking frame and portable
telephone.
But the Department of Agriculture
was not alone in its contribution to
the sum total of public service patents.
for the majority of other governmental
branches added their quota to this mine
OF public information and dedicated to