Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-05


 has been an .ndefatigable worker Ill endeayc! ing to obtain not only Te- vision of the patenr laws, but also new building, increased force ana Ill., creased salaries for the off ce.
 Such general legislature to Drlh2 about the improvement of conditions has been necessitated by the fact taat the. present patent office allows only fifty per cent of the actual space needed, to conduct and safe2uaia properly the nations patent business. Today mere than 2,700 running feet of shelving in a freproof building are required to care for the records ol the invent ions filed since the tune or George Washington, when patents were discussed in Cabinet meetings.
 Instead of this the records are kept helter-skelter n the corridors ana basement rooms of the Pa ent Ofllce because there is no place else to put them. Until this year Congress allowed no signs of listening to ap- peals for new building.
 Some time ago a resolution instruct ing the president s domm ssion on efficiency and economy to probe thls bureau and report it's needs was ado-ted and later the Cleveland com- mis,:ion, so called, made it's report to the House and the Senate. This report, among oher things, reccm- mends that a new building be imme- diately provided for tle Patent Office ! and that Congress appropriate for an increased force and increased salary list, and, also that the Paten- Bureau be made an organization independent of the Interior Department.
 It is expected that bill similar 10 the one introduced some years ago by the late Senator Daniel, of Virginia, providing for a new Patent Office, will soon be before Congress. Indications are that it will rece ve prompt and favorable consideration. Representative Ol6field, chairman of the House committee on Patents, is the champion of better salaries for the experas of the Patent Office. He asserts that when a patent eX- am ner becomes acquainted with his work and has shown his ability, he is immediately "grabbed' by an in- just such experts and is willing to pay more than the modest salar, es allotted by Uucle sam.
 MT. Oldfield is working on a bill to re-a0just the salary scale and also the reg1lataeas 9s {; ssgasgisg g tess at |, ths M Patent Office. @
 He takes the position that if the initial fee be made larger and the final fee smaller-wh oh is the re- verse of the present plan-the Pa ent Office fees themseles will pay for t2e added compensation to employees who are experts in their lines and who prefer to remain with that office. if it offer remuneration in keeping wi h that obtainable from private concerns interested in patented in ventions. /
 Men in the Patent Office, who are engaged ir technical work ought to be paid ,r:)ce mora"" asserted MT. Oldfield. 'I have noticed that the big manufacturing concerns and in- dustrial corporations handling pat en ted articles keep a close walsh on the Patent Office and when young man shows promise in the technical line he is offered better GAL TWO-SUNDAY position in outside commercial em- plOyment. The Uuited States is able to pay foro its eXper,s and l think there should be a general readiust- ment of salaries in the Patent Office, in order that we may retain good men,"