Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-17
RUTHERFORD c. PLAUT
 RETURNS FROM WEST.

-1dNO Di OSs Cl SldTy 0OSDllaI Rochester. Minn., where Billy was | patient, a visit by William H. Bryan 1 who came to talk about Prohibition to | Sunday, vast fields and stacks of wheat i and toE1 in the west and Canada, and | inclpient sabotage in the burning of l wheat elevators in sr1all towns were | some of the things tn it Rutherford C. | Plaut of the Plaut- Cadden Co gNoke 1 interestingly about on Friday evening 1 beside the wonderful treatment at the Mayo hospital where he was operated.i on for goitre on July and July 16 1 | with most successful results.
 He has gained 22 pounds since leaving the sanitarium to which ra- tients are sent after they have been operated upon. and he arrived at his home here on Cliff street on Thursday night, looking remarkably well and giving all praise to the wonderful sur slcal skill of the Mayos. Billy Sunday was a patient at the 1 hospital while he was there and was operated upon for hernia the day after l Mir. Plaut was. operated upon. When MT. Sunday came to leave he con | sented to speak to sthe patients who /. could gather to hear him. In char 1 acteristic Sunday way, he voiced the thoughts of many when he said in his i opening words that the Mayos were i lHe oAly people WnO cOulu keep tne crape from the Moor and the choir from singing Lead. Kindly Light" From ] this Mir. Sunday went on to speak of various things, and when he reached l the subject Of the war he spoke two sentences that his hearers will never forget. The kaiser he said, is so low that hell need an airsh!p to take Eim to hell, and when Bill Hohenzollevn traded God for old man Krupp he
 made the mistake of his life.
 f Noticeable as one comes through the west and through Canada today. said NIT. Psaut, is the immense wheat 1 and corn crop that can he seen every where. The fields of Wisconsin are just long waving acres of beautiful
 wheat. and in CaEtda can be- seen
 stack after stack of grain and immense
 fields of ripening corn. But it is re-
 ported through the west that throukn German agents. or in some other way,
 grain elevatcSs in small places are
 being burned, and it is now probable that the government will arrange to place guards at all elevators in such
 small towns in tn west
 Surgical cases from all over the
 world come to the Mayo Bros hos
 pital, which had 135 patients register
 ing on the day Mir. Plaut arrived, and
 it was then ten days behind on its
 diagnosis of cases. Dr. Edward Starr Judd, one of the most skilfuI sur
 geons in the world. was the one who operated on him. Col Charles H.
 Mayo and Col. W. J. Moyo are now
 serving on the medical advisory board ! at Washington. Miss May Fields, R. N, of p Elm avenue, Norwich Town, and Mrs.
 Jerome Mayer. sister of Mir. Plaut, l made the trip with him. Miss Fields in eight days saw 1e5 operations be- sides listening to lectures by the most
 eminent authorities in the world. Fri , day of last week United States General Gorzo. ', s. A and N, was at the hos pital on a tour of inspection and 10th
 Miss Fields and MT. Plaut met and
 talked with General Gorzo. Also at
 the hospital for a t>ale was Major H H. Lee of New London. who has since MT. Plaut's return been transferred l from Rochester to Fort Oglethorpe l Ga.
 :, party stayed in the kahler, a hospital . and hotel combined. He states that l one man at the hospital who Is always = | giving a warm, welcoming hand and = makes it pleasant for every one is 3
 Mir. Sears, whose mother and father f were born in Norwich, and he takes . good care of all Norwich people
 While about to- be operated upon or a July g, Mir. Plaut was spoken to by f (Miss) Dr. Bacon. M. D.. who wxS tht = anesthetist, and who asked him if ht s knew Gel. and Mrs. Charles V. Galt e of Norwich. She said that she had tht
 privilege of meeting them in China e and that she would perhaps visit Nor . wich before she sailed for France d She was clad in a United States off. t cer's uniform
 e The founding of the Mayo hospita = had its origin in remarkable way
 Over B years ago the little town O I, Rochester was swept by tornado il : which scores of the people were killed = and injured. That night Dir. W W n Mayo, a typical country nlk 2titioner d performed miracles Of surgery on tn,
 oak table in the town hall. Four o
 the Sisters of St. Francis, who vol
 unteered. assisted him in the half
 hundred operations he performed. Tn
 two sons of Dr. Mayo. William ant
 Charles. were mere boys at that time
 but they had the surgical skill of thei father beaueathed to them when tn ,s original St. Marys hospital was pu is up. Here the sons performed tn e, surgical work. with the elder Dr. May l. a sadvisory surgeon.
 At the Mayo hospital there Is n ly difference made between the rich o
 poor except that those that can affor " it pay for those that cannot. Tn le hospital officials have a system where
 by they find out just what a patient
 income it, and the charge is base r. upon it,
 er Rochester, Mir. Plaut says. is a yer IS busy city and it is estimated tha r. there are 5000 strangers in town eac l. day. The stores do not take advan I. tage of one and everything is reason > able. Board and room ranges froI to s1p5 to s4.5O per day. There are n of street cars in the city, every bit (
 traffic being taken care of by 'busA le which are so equipped not to mak 1e any noise. and for this reason the cit d. is exceptionally quiet.
 f Three is baseball every Sunday m Rochester, theatres and moving pic n- ture houses are open. and there al ed churches of every denomination. H. is generally understood that a stand he ing offer of Dr. Mayo is that he wi es pay one-half of the cost of any churc ds that is to be erected.