Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 4 March 1932 — Page 4

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932.

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RIFUSAL OF PATENTS ON DEVICES FOR SAVING LABOR IS PROPOSED

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SUGGESTION AS TEMPORARY PLAN TO PRE VENT FUTURE UNEMPLOYMENT MADE BY TEXAS REPRESENTATIVE.

The Diary of

OLUE THE OILER A BY GLEN F. STILLWELL^ The boss gave us all a bawling! he said, “a time eloek means

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Public Improvements in the City which may have been presented;'j

Designed as a suggestion to af- by a better method are not given ford some relief for future unem- patents. Physicians who develop ployment problems, the proposal new and better methods of treat that patents for labor-saving ing diseases are not given mondevices be suspended temporarily opolies in the method of treatment, was submitted by Representative “Certainly it is far better to Sumners (Dem.), of Dallas, Tex., have two persons working, eacn to the House committee on Pat- earning his own living than to ents Jan. 26. have one person with a machine At the same hearing William dp the work formerly done by the

D. Shoemaker, a patent lawyet of Washington, D. C., submitted a plea for more liberality toward inventors, so that more patents can be obtained. He based his proposal on the grounds that curtailment of the granting of patents would result In a stagnation of

economic progress. Backward Move Seen

Chairman Sirovich, of New York City, read in the record a letter of Mr. Sumners in which the latter had requested the committee to take his suggestion und,er advisement. He also read his answer to Mr. Sumners’ letter. The letter covered most of the points brought out in his presentation of the proposal before the committee, and in the answer of Mr. Sirovich, objection was voiced •to the proposal on the grounds that it would be a backward step. He stated, however that the com mittee would consider the propos-

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When it is considered that Congress appropriates for unemployment by providing for public construction, it must be realized that many machines and few men are put to work, Mr. Sumners pointed out. New Problems'‘Cited "We have accepted the benefits of labor-saving devices without considering that we have come to meet more problems because of the number of people which the machines have displaced,” he said. "I think these inventions have made our problems more difficult and we have a one-sided proram.” Mr. Sirovich suggested that everyone in Russia is working despite the fact that all possible labor-saving devices are being used, and Mr. Sumners answered that although that is probably true. “I don’t know where Russia is heading.” Mr. Sumners’ Letter Mr. Sumners’ letter to the committee follows in full text: "My dear Colleagues: I beg to direct the consideration of your committee to the possible advisability un<ier our circumstances of f suspending, for the- present, patents fo'r labor saving devices. "I have not thought the matter through all of its ramificatibnl;, but sufficiently to feel warranted in calling it to your serious consideration, not as a major factor, but as one of considerable importance in itself and still more important from the principle which is involved. "In the first place, a patent is not a thing which anyone can claim as a matter of right. "It is a monopoly of the right to use, granted by the government as an inducement to devise novel things for the public benefit. "We have accepted without question that anyone who invents a labor saving device is a pubic benefactor and have accepted the advantages of these devices without accepting any of the, corresponding and parallelinfe responsibilities and duties. “As a result we have naturally developed a lop-sided progress. "Only as the buying power of the average person is increased eo that he can buy something, to him new, something created by the person whose job has been taken by a machine, and as hours of labor are. .readjusted and the benefits of such inventions distributed, is it safe to increase labor-saving devices, or at least wise, as a matter of public policy, for the government to offer persons a special Inducement to invent them. Farmers, Doctors, Exceptions "Farmers who learn to cultivate

Sun. • Mon. • Tues. Again we are very happy to present America’s jester—it’s jest too funny for words—laugh at Will as a globe-trotting razorblade drummer getting into close shaves as he insults a sultan and intrigues a siren!

Will ROGERS IN “BUSINESS and PLEASURE”

Business bent him badly; Pleasure nearly broke him but it’s the same old Will with a lot of news witticisms!

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two, and the person supplanted, unable to get any other work, an object of charity. It Is still worse under these conditions for one person to do the work of three. “To Increase machine production per man without increasing per man power to buy does not tend towards a healthy economic or industrial condition. To increase production and at. the same time decrease the number of those able to buy is tragically unsound. The person supplanted by the machine and left without a job can not purchase. There is nothing more hurtful economically and morally or more dangerous to the state than to have people ready, willing and able to work for an honest living, but doprrived of the opportunity. Practical Common Sense "The corresponding, and in nature, paralleling line of true progress is too far behind. Had we not better wait with the one, or at least withdraw the artificial stimulus given by the government, until the other line Is brought up? "With millions of people idle w r ho are willing to work, as a matter of practical common sense it seems to. me.on absurd thing fot the government .to_ continue to offer this inducement to persons who will devise methods for taking away jobs of persons now engaged, who will have to be supported either by charity or from the public treasury.” Mr. Sirovich pointed out that many students of the situation have followed the line of thought advanced by Mr. Sumners on the theory that labor J saving devices have displaced working men who cannot he absorbed in industry, and that it has been estimated that more than 2,000,000 men have become unemployed because of displacement by labor saving devices during the last 10 years. The chairman explained, however, that future inventions may he perfected that will give employment to these millions, and cited the employment which has been created by the innovation of the automobile, motion pictures and other such inventions. r ; i- Some states and countries-have placed in effect the proposal submitted by Mr. Sumners, he said, but it has been found difficult to differentiate between w r hat are laboV-saving devices and what are not labor-saving devices. The chairman pointed out that some of the countries which have not taken advantage of the modern labor-saving devices are no better off financially or economically than this and other countries w T hioh have taken advantage of them, and pointed out that those countries are considered as backward. He concluded that he believed it would be a backward step for this country to undertake to curtail the granting of patents for labor-saving devices. Advances in System Discussed Mr. Shoemaker told the committee that he agreed -with Mr. Sumners’ contention that the patent system has advanced in this country ahead of all other phases of economic life, adding that he believed that is as it should be and that it Is why this country is ahead of all others. If the patents did not proceed the other phases t>Tlife, he said, ther£ w’ould be stagnation.* A large part of the retardation of today is due to the retardation of the granting of patents which has developed in recent years, Mr. Shoemaker said. He asserted that it Is more difficult, more expensive and takes a longer times to get a patent in this country today than ever before. The reason for this, he asserted, is that there has be^n instituted in the Patent Office an arbitrary, unsympathetic attitude toward the inventor. He voiced objection to the long pendency of patents and the arbitrary attitude which has been instuted in the patent office, and Risked the committee for relief along that line. Chairman Sirovich suggested that Mr. Shoemaker should have taken his complaints to the commissioner of patents and the com missioner, Thomas E. Robertson, who was present, declared that no such attitude has been instituted in the patent office and read a resolution adopted by the American Patent Association recently commending the work of the office during his administration. —o FATHER’E BLOOD SAVES SON. Vincennes, Ind., 1 ’March 1.—(UP) —A father’s sacrifice of hie own blood was believed by physicians today to have saved the life of his

son.

Clyde Miller Jr., 7-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Miller, suffered a cut on his tongue while eating candy. A serious hemorrhage resulted and a blood transfusion became necessary. The father submitted to the operation and the eon was reported on the road to recov

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out thils a. m. for wearing such dirty overalls. “How in the world, he said, “can you fellows get so dirty when you don’t do anything?” “In that case, boss,” said Buck, “you ought to be glad that we don’t do anything. Think how dirty we would get if we worked.” “Well,” said the boss, "I guess It Is pretty near Impossible for you fellows to keep clean but I think it would be a good Idea if you tried it every once In a while. The first thing a dance orchestra musician learns Is how to play Tiger Rag, and the first thing you mechanics learn how to do is to

get greasy.”

"It ain’t our fault, boss,” I said, "it is the fault of the overalls. They soak up dirt and grease like blotter. What we need is over alls that will shed dirt and grease like a duck’s back sheds water. If we had those kind of clothes all we would have to do after we got out from under a car would be to go out in the alley and

shake ourselves.”

nothing to you until about five

o’clock.”

“I was late by accident, boss,” I said. “You see nearly every morning I have a two minute egg for breakfast but this morning I had an eight minute egg.” "That only takes eight minutes, the boss said. “I had three eggs,” I explained, “and besides I have been writing

poetry.”

“I was afraid this weather would affect’ you in some way,” he said. "Well, I guess I’ll have to listen to it. Let’s hear what you

have written.”

"Hear Is the first one,” I said. The roses are red, The pansies are white; We fix your car,

And fix it right.

"I’m no poet, Ollie,” said the boss, “but it seems to me that your meter is wrong.” ^ “What has that got to do with

it?” I asked.

“You wouldn’t understand,” he “But as It is now,” the boss said, said,” and judging from the over- “Wbat do you think of this one?”

alls you are wearing, the thing for you to do is to go to the city street cleaning department and turn yourself in. No wonder we aren’t getting any business. Car owners look at the clothes you fellow.s wear and they get the idea that I am running a livery stable.” “By the way, OlUe,” said Looie whatever became of that idear you had about making tissue paper overalls?” “Oh, that,” I -said, “well it is still a good idea in the winter but in summer I don’t wear any underwear.” “Now I have got a better idear,” told him. “I was thinking that if they would make overalls .out of rubber like diving' suits why then it wouldn’t be no trick at all to keep them clean. All you would have to do would be to be keep a brush and a bucket of gasoline handy.” The boss gave me a funny kind of a laugh. “Ollie,” he said, “with those lead feet of yours you got the first start on an outfit of that

kind.”

From the way Looie and Buck laughed I expect that that was some kind of a smart crack which didn’t get. But that is the way it goes. 'The inventors with the biggest tombstones are the ones that had to do without beefsteak when they were living. Dec. 15, 1931—This a.m. I was about half an hour late and the

I asked him. There are bluebells on the hilltop And daisies in the dell; But that won’t do you any good If your auto runs like h 1. “And how about this one?” If your engine’s missing, If it drives you bugs; Don’t start in to hissing, Try a set of plugs. It was easy to see that the last poem of mine made a hit with the boss because it was a minute be fore he could say anything and then he said, “That last one of yours is a masterpiece. It is enough to make Tennyson and Ixmgfellow turn over in their graves. Why don’t you send it into a spark plug company? I’ll bet, they would use it in their advertising and then the first thing you know you’d he poet lariet of the automobile indust-

ry.”

"I thought a lariet was a rope like the cowboys use to lasso cattle,” I said. “Well maybe I’m wrong,’ isaid the boss, “maybe you don’t need a rope.” “Would you like to hear some more poems?” I asked. “Not just now,” he answered, “some other time—say about the first of February. And if I were you I’d wear a straw hat. when I went out in the sun. The glare is bad for yqu.” That only goes to show that my boss thinks I’m a great guy even if he does bawl me out once in u

boiss was sore about it. “OlUe,” J while. Automotive Merchandising

Will Rogers at IBs Best in Newest Film

“Business and Pleasure” Is Funniest By Famous Humorist—

Other Notables

Will Rogers continues his triumphant career as America’s greatest talking screen comedian in his newest Fox Film production, ‘Business and Pleasure,” at the Rivoli starting Sunday. Rogers has never been funnier than he is in this excellent adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s best selling novel, “The Plutocrat.” He starts the picture with a laugh, and works up to a climax of hilarity which sent, last night’s audience from the theater still laughipg. In this production Rogers, in the role of a Middle Western business man touring abroad for pleasure and business, takes some nifty cracks at. the small army of snobs who think it is sophisticated to sneer at everything American when they are in Europe.

Sneers and Cheers

Joel McCrea, as a spohisticated playwright, undergoes a complete metamorphosis during the course

THEN THE FUR FLEW

Friend—'“‘You look ill.” „ Mrs. •Newrlch—“Yes, I < dreamt that all, the animals from which my furs are made were standing around my bed.” Friend—^“But surely you are not afraid of a few rabbits.” o CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

Department of Public Works

Office of the Board

City Hall, Muncie, Ind. Notice of Improvement Resolution Notice to Property Owners: In the matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvements in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 23rd day of Febru-

ary, 1932. to-wit:

FR-702, 1932, For a local combination sewer in the first alley south of Burlington Drive from Jersey to May Avenue.

All work done in the making of

of the picture, his sneers turning* saitt described public improyointo vociferous cheers when he uients shall be in accordance with finally realizes the true worth of ihe terms and conditions of the Earl Tinker, the character enacted improvement resolution, as numby Rogers | bered, adopted by the Board of Jetta Goudal is a fascinating Works on the above named Parisienne, Dorothy Peterson is date, and the drawings, plans, proRogers’ nagging wife and Peggy| f ’* e ^ an( ^ specifications ‘which are Ross is his daughter. Boris Karloff an /| !P a,r ^

does very well as a desert sheik. David Butler, who piloted Rogers sucessfully in “A Connecticut Yankee,” again directed the star

in “Business and Pleasure,” has done an even beter job.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS

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Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the County of Delaware, State of Indiana, will receive sealed bids and proposals up to .<tne nour of 10:00 ^a. m. on Tuesday, March 8, 1932, at the Auditor’s Office, Court House, Delaware County, Indiana, for culvert pipe in such sizes and quantities as may he needed for highways use, delivered at Muncie, Indiana. Material for surface treating of highways in tank lots delivered at any railroad siding in Delaware County, Indiana, that may be most convenient for county use. Tires for use on cars and trucks owned by 1 Delaware County, Indiana. 1 * * ' Gasoline and oils for county use in such quantities and qualities as may be best adapted for use in county cars and trucks. Bidders bond in sum of $500.00 required. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done this 26 day of February, 1932. W. MAX SHAFER, Auditor Delaware County, Indiana. Feb. 26, aMrch 4, 1932.

fice of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana. The Board of Public Works has fixed the 16th day of March, 1932, as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in. or affected by said described public improvements. and on said date at 7:30 p. m. said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said city for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which mav have been presented: said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said pronosed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed imnrovement and to the said city will he equal to or exceed the estimated'cost of the proposed imnrovements. as estimated by the

Citv Civil Eneineer.

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Bv Eunice Carnenter, Clerk

Feb. 26, March 4, 1932.

of Muncie, State of Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City 'of Muncie, Indiana, that it is de|sired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 23rd day of Febru-

ary, 1932, to-wit:

IR-701, 1932, For curb and gutter on both sides of E. Memorial Drive from Macedonia Avenue to the C. & O. Ry. Also grading said E. Memorial Drive from Macedonia Avenue to the C. &. O. Ry. All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file and may be seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana. The Board of Public Works has fixed the 16th day of March, 1932, as a dale upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by ncrons interested in, or affected by said described public improvements, and on said date at 7:30 p. m. said Board of Public Works will meet at its office, in said city for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have Pcen filed or

said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that, will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvement and to the said city will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvements, as estimated by the

City Civil Engineer.

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS Ry Eunice Carpenter, Clerk.

Feb. 26, March 4, 1932.

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

Department of Public Works Office of the Board Cltv Hall, Muncie, Ind. Notice of Improvement Resolution Notice to Property Owners: In the matter of Certain Proposed

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