Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-09
SOUTH OTTUMWA
IS REP PRESENTED
MANUFACTURERS OF lMPLE
MENTs AND VEHICLES HONOR
DAM AND ARBENz
BOTH RE-A TED
Important Chairmanshps and Commit
tee Assignments Given Them at
Conventlon-Make Interesting
Reports at Meeting.

| Home but short time from the
sixteenth annual convention of the
National Association of Implement and
Vehicle Manufacturers at Chicago
Joseph Dain and Paul Arbenz of the
Dain Manufacturing Co., have just re-
ceiyed notification Of their appoint
ment to important committee assign
ments. Mr.. Dain was chosen as a
member of the executive committee
and chairman Of the committee on
patents. Mr.. Arbenz was re-appointed
chairman Of the committee on insur.
ance. Both offices are reap.
pointments, as each of the Ottumwans
have been identified with their re.
spective committees during the past
year. 1t is the third term of chair.
manship and fourth term of member.
ship on the patent committee for Mr..
Dain and his second term as mem
Der Of the executive committee. The
successful administration Of the insur-
ance affairs of the association during
the past term won the re-appointment
of Paul Arbenz as chairman Of that
committee. Fred L. Maytag of Newton
was made vice president.
Immense Wealth Represented.
The magnitude of this organization
can be appreciated when it Is known
that the capital represented in its
membership is $500,000,000. The value
of the annual product of the members
is $3.50, 100000, and the number of men
employed, 100000. Fifteen million tons
Of freight is handled by the member
chi,> DUNN.
seen that Ottumwa's representation in
this, one of the biggest industrial or
CARNATIONS in the world, carries a dis
tinction and places Ottumwa in an en-
viable position among the manufacture
ing cities of the world.
Both Make Reports.
That these appointments are not
merely honorary positions passed out
to the membership as distinction be-
cause of the members popularity, can
be readily seen by the active partici-
patton of both Mr.. Dain and Mr.. Ar
benz during the convention. Reports
by each Of these will be read with in
terest because of the significance each
report has to manufacturers generally
and as they touch such subjects as in
SuTdHce ana patents.
The report of Mr.. Dain as chairman
of the committee on patents Is of con-
siderable interest to manufacturers be-
cause of the efforts that have been put
forth by the patent committee of the
Association of Implement and Vehicle
Manufacturers for the past few years.
The efforts were directed toward eimi-
mating faulty and delinquent handling
of patent cases in the patent office Of
the government. The cause was large
ly due to the fact that the employees
Of the patent Office were underpaid
and after short experience in the
work, would leave the service and be-
gin operations in their own behalf as
patent attorneys, etc. At this they
were able, due to their former expert
ence in the service to earn a better
livelihood than in the employ of the
government. This was responsible in
times past and until recently for the
delay in patents getting through the
office of the commissioner of patents
because of the large number of mex
perienced persons in the service. The
patent committee under the able
leadership of Mr.. Dain have brought
pressure to bear that has greatly
assisted in remedying these former
conditions until now with additional
assistants to the commissioner in the
patent Office. patent cases are given
more rapid attention.
Patent Committee Report.
The report of Mr.. Dain follows:
Your committee has the honor to
report the accomplishment of tangible
results along certain lines suggested
in the last annual report as worthy the
attention of this committee, which sug-
gestions were approved by the COM
mittee on resolution.
Court of Patent Appeals.
The efforts in behalf of the bill
known as H. r. 21455 providing for a
United States court of patent appeals,
assisted in the bill receiving favorable
consideration and being favorably re-
ported upon by the committees on
patents and Judiciary of the house of
representatives A continuation of the
efforts of your committee it is believed
should be put forth to secure the
passage thereof at the next session Of
congress.
Extension of Patents.
Inc POSITIVE STAND taken by the ma
jority Of manufacturers in the United
States in opposition to the movement
on foot for the extension Of the term
Of years for which patents are grant
ed, evidently put quietus upon this
agitation, as nothing has been heard
Of it for some time past.
Work of Patent Offices.
ut is our information that the sew
eral departments of the patent office
have practically caught up with their
work Patent cases are receiving more
prompt attention. This condition of at
fairs Is due in no small measure to
tie additional assistants given the
honorable) commissioner of patents
and to his splendid executive ability
in SO dividing and arranging the work
that the effort put forth by the force
shows greater results.
Measure to Meet Foreign Patent Laws
"You committee has been quite ac-
tive in directing attention to the
clause in the Payne tariff bill which
reads as follows:
That whenever a patent is issued
nv the United States to any citizen or