The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-05
FROM WHEEL CHAIR HE GREETS DELEGATES TO CHEMISTRY
 CONVENTION.
PLANS PARTIALLY CHANGED
Weeks Rest at Beverly Is Expected Will Put the President on His Feet Again to Continue the Work
 of the Campaign.

Washington. Sept. 4.-ThOugh sui fering from a sprained ankle and a slight attack oi gout, President Taft tonight decided not to change his plans to go to New York tomorrow to join Mrs. Taft on the Mayflower.
 he president remained in his apart ments most of the day, leaving them only to we,come to Washington the delegates to the International Con gi ess or Applied Chemistry.
 It was announced tonight that the president would leave for New York tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, to arrive there about o'clock in the aft ernoon. Owing to his injury. 1t is probable that the plan to board the Mayf.ower in the North river will be changed, the president going to meet the yacht at the Brooklyn navy yard instead.
 The president planned to go to New London, Conn, on the Mayflower to address the Atlantic Deep Waterways convention Friday There is some prospect that this engagement will be cancelled, owing to the condition of his ankle. but this had not been deter mined tonight.
 Major Rhoades, who is attending the president, said tonight that Mir. Taft s injury was not serious, and that a weeks rest at Beverly would put him on his feet again.
 F. The president greeted from vince chair the delegates to the eighth In ternational Congress of Applied Chem istry, which was opened here this morning, to be continued in New York, beginning Friday.
 The principal event of the day was garden party in the white house in honor of the delegates from foreign nations. There President Taft, dis abled on account of a sprained ankle and slight attack of gout, welcomed his guests.
 Late in the afternoon the president spoke briefly to the delegates in the east room of the white house. Later he was wheeled to the lawn, where he shook hands with the visitors smilingly apologizing because he could not rise to greet them.
 Owing to his injured ankle, the president was unable to address the delegates in Continental hall earlier in the day as he had planned to do i'm mediately after his arrival from Bev- erly. The opening session of the can- gress was presided over by Dr. Will liam H. Nicholas of New York.
 In his address to the delegates in the east room, President Taft discuss ed the great importance of chemical research and its value to the world. and he dwelt particularly upon a dis cussion of the patent question, observ- ing that theresis great room for i'm. provement in the United States pat ent office.
 T observe" said the president, that in your various divisions you discuss many different questions not particularly chemical. I note a con sideration of the question of patents what patents ought to include, and what kind of patent system ought to be adopted by each government.
 Patents have played great part in the development of the United States and we have given to patentees a very valuable monopoly for the pur- pose of discovering by their industries new methods of accomplishing useful results. Whether we have made this monopoly too great or not is now the subject of consideration by a commis- sion provided by congress.
 There is certainly great room for improvement in the machinery of our patent office, and it would be we'll if more value could inhere In the issu- ing of a patent as an evidence of real property. Now. however, until pat ent has been fought through the courts people do not seem to regard 1t as of a great deal of mononoIv Yalnen