Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-05-10
By Ralph M. Whitesidc.

Washington, May 9.-There has been no more disappointed persons in Washington during this session of the legislature than those composers and authors who have been lobbying in favor Of copyright legislation which will prevent the photograph and self playing instrument people using songs and other products of genius without paying proper royalty No copy right legislation will be enacted this session.
 The musicians and authors put up a great fight and the patents commit tees have been worried with their de- mands that what they term piracy shall case immediately
 The musicians assert they are being treated with great injustice. They compose a song, which should pay them a royalty, and immediately, if the song is Init it is grabbed by the photograph people, preserved on records and circulated throughout the world. No royalty is paid
 Naturally the circulation of phono- graph records and rolls for self-play- ing pianos have hurt the sales of the songs in sheet form, with the result that the composer does not realize as he did in former years when the photograph was not so popular
 The methods of the photograph and self-playing piano people are referred to as canning music. Because of the need of adjustment of copyright laws ill other countries, the House patents committee has lost hope of getting legislation this session In the meantime, efforts are being made by music publishers and the manufact- urers of perforated rolls, talking ma chimes and the like, to come to an understand
 Tommy. the cat; Fido, the dog Dickey, the canary bird; Nickelodeon tae horse, and Bessie, the COW, are tC have pure food just the same as hu- mans. Dr. Wiley, the government eX- pert on such matters, and his pure food board are going to see to it. The question of foods for domestic animals is being carefully looked into
 X dainty legal question has aGiser over this determination of the foo( experts. The board maintains that tho law extends to animals and must bt enforced in this particular.
 There are many varieties of bir( seed, dog biscuit, horse lozenges, COW dope and so on being sold in ope. market and there has never been muc} of question raised as to whether they contained pure ingredients. Tht experts think they should be governed by law and, in all likelihood, the eX perts will win out They usnal)y d. in such matters
 Three other important questions will soon go to the Supreme Court of pur food, recently appointed by Presiden Roosevelt They concern the digesti bility and assimilability of benzoate o soda, sulphur ana saccharino. D, Wiley's inferior court insists that thes articles should be used sparingly The go into catsup, relishes, pies, as vel as fruits and vegetables. Manufae turers insist that great industry vii be ruined if they are not permitted [ use some form of preservatiye. Dl Wiley insists that not more than one tenth of one per cent shall be use( Manufacturers say this is not enougl
 Then there is sulphur, which is use in preserving dried fruit A greg California industry is said to depen upon this question. Saccharine is ar othel~ thing the manufacturers war to be permitted to use. It is a subst ute for sugar-not quite as sweet, bt it is pretty good, anyhow.
 The Supreme Court of pure foo1 Composed of experts, will look into a these matters and render a final dt cision
 If the Beveridge child labor bill dt pended upon the women of the countr. there would never have been an dOllht Cf the outcome NVOmpn'S cluf