Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-11
SEEKS FEDERAL AID
IN LEATHER FRAUDS
Trade Board Sends Resolution
to Congress Asking Pr0tec-
tive Legislation.
A. Y. HAMBURG is AGAIN
HEAD OF ORGANIZATION
President Wilson Is Expected to
Attend Annual Banquet
of Body.


members of the Patent and Enameled
Leather Manufacturers Association
to protect their products, the Board
of Trade last night passed resolutions
| asking Congress to enact legislation
which would stop the misuse of the
term limitation leather" and prevent
the misrepresentation of limitations
for the genuine article.
The leather men object to the use
of trade names on limitations which
give thespurchaser the impression the
article is genuine leather. Several
advertisements were exhibited last
night informing readers that furni-
ture covered with Spanish leather or
genuine Boston leather could be pur-
chased at prices ridiculously low il
the leather used was genuine.
The resolutions passed by the board
were drafted by the manufacturers
committee of the board. The COM
mittee suggests that a statute very
much like the New Jersey law cover
ing fraudulent advertising be placed
on the federal statutes. The following
is Endorsed by the committee:
"Any person, firm, corporation or
association who, with intent to sell
or in any wise dispose of merchan-
disc, securities, service, or anything
| offered by such person, firm, corpora
| ton or association, directly or indi-
rectly, to the public for sale or dis
| tribution, or with intent to increase
| the consumption thereof, or to induce
| the public in any manner to enter into
| any obligation relating thereto, or to
| acquire title thereto, or an interest
| therein, makes, publishes, dissemi-
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| public or causes, directly or indirectly,
| to be made, published disseminated,
circulated or placed before the pub
| lie in this State, in a newspaper or
| other publication, or in the form of a
| book, notice, handful, poster, bill, cir
cular, pamphlet or letter or in any
| other way, an advertisement of any
sort regarding merchandise, securi-
| ties, service, or anything so offered to
the public, which advertisement con-
| tains any assertion, representation or
| statement of fact which is untrue,
| deceptive or misleading, shall be
| guilty of misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined in
a sum not to exceed one thousand dol
lars (s1,000) or imprisoned in the
| county Jail for a period not exceeding
one year, or by both such fine and
| Imprisonment"
| 10 Senu OOpy 10 COn8rCSHs
Congressman A. w Barley, of
| Kentucky, chairman of a sub-com-
mittee of frauds in quality and weight
| of the House committee on Interstate
and foreign commerce, will receive a
| copy of the resolutions, and If he ap-
proves the statute suggested by the
| manufacturers committee of the trade
| board will present the matter before
his House committee for action.
The representatives and senator's
in Congress will also be supplied with
copy of the resolutions and asked
| to lend their aid in bringing the mat
ter before the proper bodies in the
form of BILL
The annual election of officers was
| held last night, and A. V. Hamburg
was unanimously reelected president.
Gottfried Kruger, John f. Kehoe and
Herbert P. Gleason were elected vice.
presidents; David H. Merritt, treas
urer; James M. Reilly, secretary, and
Joseph Coult, advisory counsel.
| An address on 1.-THE Opportunities
of American Trade with Argentina" /
| was delivered by Charles H. Sheriff.,
former minister to that country, in
which he pointed out the import ance
of Argentina for the exporter. The I'M
ports, Mr.. Sheriff. stated, amounted to
about $3.50, 100000 year, with a popu-
lation of only 100000, making Argen-
tina rank highest in the per capita
amount of imports of not only Latin
America, but the world.
Mr. Sheriff. also showed that there
was no danger, like in some of the
Far Eastern countries, that the i'm
port would drop Off considerably by
reason of the country taking over
American industries. because the chief
income of Argentina was based on
| agriculture and the raising of cattle.
| Even if the country desired, the
speaker said, it could not become
| an industrial country for the reason
that 1t did not have the natural re-
sources, such as coal and water pow
er, to establish vast plants and run
them profitably.
Must Send Best Men.
| OF that enormous amount of inn
| ports America shared at present only
about one-tenth, the speaker told his
| hearers. At the same time he warned
| his hearers that if they wanted to
start connections in that country to
| send down none but the ablest men,
| and nothing but the best goods.
| That there are only about $50 Amer
| leans in Buenos Ayres, the capital,
was another feature of the statistical
information given by the speaker, who
gave the figures of the other nations
mans, $4,000, and Frenchmen, $4,000.
Mr.. Sheriff. also stated that during
| the two years that he was minister
only two ships carrying the American
flag entered the port of Buenos Ayres.
A request from the Portland Cham
Der of Commerce to cooperate in hav-
ing the bill passed which provides for
bringing the architects department of
| the government to a standard of
| present day efficiency was referred
| to the committee on postoffice affairs.
1t was stated in that communication
| that under present conditions 1t would
| take from three to four years before
the building of the new postofice for
| Newark could be undertaken, as the
| force Of that department and its sala-
ries were virtually the same as 1t had
been twenty years ago.
! The board, upon request from the
Paterson Board of Trade for CO.
operation in the Improvement OF the
Passaic River for practical and land
scape purposes, resolved to have its
committee on rivers and harbors take
this matter up for further investiga-
| ton.
That Viccount Shinda. the Japanese
ambassador, would be one of the.
| speakers at the annual banquet of
the board in January, and that nos
sibly President Wilson would attend
was announced by George r. Reeve
on behalf of the speakers ,cornmittee'
Mr.. Reeve said that part of the
committee will see the President 10