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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-01-09
fire DESTROYS ancient
maryland MANOR HOUSE

DELNIAR, Del. Jan. 9--The manor
house on Arcadia farm, near Princess
Anne. which had just been sold
caught fire from a defective gas pipe
and burned to the ground. at a loss
Of $4,000. while the former owner
was moving out A large truck load
of furniture which was backed up
az a side porch was burned with the
house. The dwelling was one of the
oldest and finest on the Eastern
Shore, and had twenty rooms with
every modern convenience installed.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-01-09
HOIsrEIN.rRTEsIAv BREEDERS.

The Delaware Holstein Friesian
Breeders Association will meet at
Dover on Thursday January IL, at
The farm Of d. o. Hastings. Lunch Will
be served at noon Those arriving on
the train reaching Dover at noon will
find transportation to the farm await
ing them.
An opportunity viii be offered TO
inspect the Holstein herd OF Mr. Hast
ings. Interesting topics in regard TO
feeding. etc, will be discussed.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-01-09
DIR. WALSH TO LECTURE.

Under the auspices OF the knights
OF Columbus. Dr.. James J. Walsh. OF
New York. a professor in Fordham
College. will lecture on the subject
"The Century OF Columbus" in the
Wilmington High School, on Tuesday
evening, January IS, at $50 o'clock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
Must Write Out
Each Separate Claim

In his specification the inventor must
write out exactly what he claims. IL is
best TO write q separate claim Tor each
particular feature of the invention, IN
stead Of embodying all the features in
one claim. If the Patent Office exam
iners find any Of his claims TO be new,
then they will be allowed; and, on the
other hand. if they find that what he
claims is anticipated in the patents of
others. the Patent Office will write the
inventor and tell him those of his
claims that are rejected and those, If
any, that are allowed, and the Patent
Office will also call his attention TO The
various patents of others that have
been found TO anticipate him. and he
can send TO the Patent Office and get
copies of these patents for five cents
each, and then he can better acquaint
himself in few minutes with the state
of the art in which he is working than
he could by any other means IN long
time He will then he able TO know
whether or not his device is new; and
even if il is new he is very likely to
find a good many very helpful sugges-
tions for its further development in the
work of others who have preceded him
in the Patent Office.
The Naval Consulting Board acts as
a bureau of examination of inventions
and devices of inventors who may be-
lieve that they have invented or dis
covered something which may be
utilized to advantage by the United
States Navy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
Ship Protection
Offers Felt tile Field

There have been dozens OF designs
substantially identical for protecting
ships against torpedoes by means of
external shields.
If inventors who have devices to
submit to the Naval Consulting Board
would first file an application for let
tiers patent for each device before sub
hitting it to this board they would
thereby both help and inform them
selves greatly and at the same time
save the committees Of the board a
good deal of work
OF course. the work which the COM
mittees of the Naval Consulting Board
do is not exactly like that done by
the examiners in the Patent Office.
but. on the other hand. the inventor
does not get from the Naval Consult
ing Board the helpfulness in the way
Of references cited that he does in
the United States Patent Office.
Enthusiasm seems to be a necessary
concomitant Of invention. Almost
every inventor is highly enthusiastic
about his devices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21

tempts 70 keep il secret. some ore else
s almost certain in a short time to re-
invent IL and patent il. and as gov
eminent secret use Is not considered
public use of the invention, the pat
entee becomes entitled TO his monopoly
and the government is bound o. law TO
pay the patentee who is not the origi-
nal inventor for the use OF the inven-
ton II the government continues 10 use
il, and in this way the government
might have 10 pay patentee for the
use Of an invention that 1t had already
purchased OF another person.
Il would be inadvlsable. however 10
have a patent issue on certain impor-
tant inventions until after the war is
over
According 10 an executive order of
President Wilson. the issuance OF a
patent on any war invention may be
DELAYED until the end Of the war. to
quote:
40. | further hereby vest in the
Federal Trade Commission the power
and authority. whenever IN its opin-
ion The publication Of an invention
or the granting OF a patent may be
detrimental 70 the public safety OF
defence. or may assist the enemy. or
endanger the successful prosecution
Of the war. TO order that the inven-
ton be kept secret and tho grant of
letters patent withheld until the end
Of the war"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21

The great war has immensely s'mu-
lated every industry, but more IMAM
any other il has probably stimulated
the industry of invention. The veriest
country Reuben. when he reads IN the
papers about the seriousness oil the
U-boat menace, the operation oil AR
craft over England and the various en-
gineering problems involved in trench
warfare. attacks these problems and
tries 70 solve them for himself.
He is often darkly ignorant OF the
state of development Of the art wnicn
he enters as an inventor. and the
chance of his inventing or discovering
something both new and useful is very
small indeed. But, just as every plant
that bears fruit owes its origin to the
one seed IN a million that happened 10
strike the right spot and find root, so
the great inventions that have rcvolu-
tionized that greatest of all industries
-war-havc each of them sprung from
some one in a million mental seeds that
has found root in a fertile mind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21

a compact between the inventor and the
government by virtue Of which the in
ventor is granted a monopoly of the
use of his invention for a period of
seventeen years in consideration of
which his invention must be fully pub
lished for the benefit OF others. the
object being to give the widest use TO
inventions. In most countries, if an
inventor within certain brief time
does not work hs patent. that Is 10
say. put his invention 10 practical use.
so that the public will get the benefit
OF il. then his patent !apses. In the
United States. however, an inventor is
entitled to his monopoly for seventeen
years whether he works his invention
or not. but il is presumed that he will
work it.
The question has often arisen about
the policy OF patenting certain naval
and military inventions instead Of keep
ing them secret. but IL l. ms opinion.
and ar opinion I think justified by eX-
PeTiCnce. that he government is actu-
ally better protected by the patentinC
Of inventions han J.. is by keeping
them secret. for it is practically i'm
possible 20 keep secret FOR very long
an invention having large use b. the
government.
The secret OF its composition or
mechanism is bound 20 become known
20 a large group of persons. Even If
IN inventor sells ~ invention To the
government and the government at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
First Learn All
That Has Been Done

The most important thing for an m
ventor to find out when he attacks
problem is the state of the art in which
he is working -that is to say, what
others have already done toward the
solution of the same problem or prob
lem similar to that with which he Is
working.
II does not require exceptional edu-
cation or skill 10 prepare an appllca-
tion for a United States patent, which
will serve the purpose of giving the IN
ventor an opportunity to find out with
very large chance OF certainty
whether or not some one else has al
ready done what he is attempting, and
possibly done il in a much better way,
and then he will be saved the time,
trouble, expense, anxiety and dlsap-
pointment of misapplied effort in try
ing TO do something with his presumed
invention in developing 1t or IN trying
to get others to develop and utilize IT..
ANY inventor can obtain from the
United States Patent Office the laws
which govern Patent Office practice,
with instructions for preparing speci-
,ication acceptable to the Patent Office;
and if he is unable to make his own
Patent Office drawing he can get it made
by good craftsman for few dollars.
IL will cost him but SIS TO file his ap-
pication in the Patent Office.
Then it goes into the hands of the
! highly scientific and skilful Patent
Office examiners, who go through all the
files and look up references which may
anticipate his presumed invention.
| These references are patents that have
already been taken by other inventors,
both in the United States Patent Office
and in the patent Offices of foreign
countries
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
Nearly All Are
Found To Be Useless

By far the great majority Of de-
vices submitted to the Naval Consult
ing Board possess no practical value
whatsoever. II is very rare, indeed,
that a device is actually new. unless
u happens TO be so absurd as 10 pos
scss unique novelty in that direction.
At the last meeting of the Com
mittec on Ordnance and Explosives
ffty-seven devices were considered
and acted upon. and out Of this num-
Der only four possessed sufficient merl-
torious novelty to warrant the com
mittee recommending their further de-
velopmcnt. and this was an unusually
high percentage. As rule, not more
than ono-tenth of per cent Of the
devices unlimited possess any promise
of practical value to the navy that
is to say. only about one in thou
sand. As general thing, those which
the committee finds promising are
duplicated by other inventors.
When large number OF inventive
minds attack the same problem, good
many of them are likely to attack 1t
in the same way and invent the same
solution.
This has been particularly true of
designs for non-ricochet shells for at
lacking submarines. A good many de-
signs for non-ricochet shells that have
been submitted to the Committee on
Ordnance and Explosives are practi-
oally identical. But it so happens that
the Bureau Of Ordnance of the navy
already has in service non-ricochet
she'll of very simple construction which
has not been improved upon in any
of the devices submitted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
Inventions Now Deal
Mostly With Explosives

Inventions are classified according to
their subject matter, and each class
is submitted TO committee of the
Consulting Board selected for their
special qualifications to pass judgment
upon that particular class of inven-
tiOnS.
Inventions in aeronautcs go TO the
Committee on Aeronautics. Inventions
in ship construction go TO the Com
mittec on Ship Construction; chemical
inventions 70 the Committee on Chem
istry. Inventions in ordnance and eN-
plosives GO to the committee Of which
happen 10 he chairman.
Probably more inventions come TO
this committee than to any other. Many
inventors who send their devices have
a wrong idea Of the duties and powers
Of the Naval Consulting Board. The
function OF the Naval Consulting
Board IS entirely advisory.
When d committee Of the Naval Con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
P,eiudicial Education
Is Also a Handicap

When a person with however inventive
a mind attacks a problem with which
he is unacquainted and the state OF
the art of which he is ignorant he
must necessarily founder about some
what like a fish out of water, and not
one in thousand of the ideas which
come to his mind as inventions. when
he NAV think wonderful, may possess
either any novelty or practical value
whatsoever. But he is foundering on
virgin soil, and. although ne may be
circumscribed by ignorance, he is not
circumscribed by prejudicial education.
which is quite as much of handicap
as ignorance.
He does not know the authorities. He
is unacquainted with the books contain
ing the words of those who are sup
posed 10 know. He depends on him
self. 1t has been the amateur in every
art that has developed that art The
wonderful art Of photography, perhaps
more than any other, is very good
example of high development mainly at
the hands of the amateur.
But the right kind of education is
enormously helpful. and 10 a person
possessing the creative imagination of
the true inventor every bit of informa-
ton upon the subject with which he is
working is of very great help. There
is one source of information easily
available to every inventor, and IT is
the best source in the world. 1t is the
inventors best school-and that instl-
tuition is the United States Patent Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
French Artists to Consolidate
Commercial Position in U.S..
In Wish for Material Advantages Nation Sends Cultural
Envoys-Theatre Open Here Will Have
Actors Released From Trenches

play in essays and crtiques of another
sort.
Another Of these young Frenchmen
is Pierre de Lsnux, the poet Of "lm-
aginaires," translator OF American
phlo sophers, such as Elvood and James
Marx Baldwin, and critical interpreter
to the French of the younger American
poets.
The concrete result of these French
overtures has been threefold. 1t il
represented on the commercial side by
the New France and Les Antilles
FRANCHISES, A society for the further
ancc Of French commercial interests;
on the artistic side by the Theatre du
NieuX Colombier; and on the social
side by the recently organized Cerclo
des Amis de la France
The latter society will open a club
house in December. at POI Madison
Avenue. where there will be lectures.
recitalS. conferences With visiting
Frenchmcn of note. art exhibitions.
meeting rooms for French societies,
and restaurant presided over by a
famous French chef
The president of lie Cercle des Amis
de la France is Mrs. Philip Lydig. and
the executive committee includes
President Nicholas Murray Butler, of
Columbia University, Otto II. Kahn,
Marquis de Polignac. Jacques Copeau,
Mrs. Gertrude Anterior. Mrs. August
Belmont, Mrs. Otto II. Kahn. Mrs. Cad
walader Jones. Mrs. J. West Roosevelt,
Miss Ida Tarbell. Mrs. ". X. Wander
bilt, Mrs. Harry Payne, Whitney and
Mrs. Egerton Winthrop, CASTOR Lie
bert, Consul General. and Andre Tar
dieu, High Commissioner of France,
have accepted honorary membershi pc
on the committee, and one Of the char
ter members is Charles a. Downer,
president Of the Alliance Francaisc,
with which the new organization does
not conflict. The clubhouse will be
known as La Msison du Vieux Colon
bier, inasmuch as the whole project
grew out of desire upon the part OF
NJ. Copeau to provide congenial living
quarters for his artists.
One of AmieFs collaborators is
Pierre dc LanuX. the young French
poet and critic. During the earlier
Balkan wars he was the correspondent
Of "Le Figaro and is the author OF
work on the Jugoslav movement. ".
de lsnUX is translsting Amy Lowelrs
new book. Tendencies in American
Poetry" a companion volume 20 her
"SiX French Poets in which is ana
| lyzed the work of six American poets
Edwin Arlington Robinson. Robert
Frost, Carl Sandberg. Edgar Lee Mas
tiers. John Gould Fletcher and H.
D."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21

dous work in the making OF munitions.
he third class, that Of the soldiers
wife, against whom the charge Of ex-
trayagance is made, is not very I'M
portant quantity. Any opportunity, ex-
cept III two cases. is out of the ques-
ton. There is the case Of the wife Of
the farmland whose normal wages are
about eighteen shillings a week, but
VINO, II she has six children, will re-
celVe an army separation allowance of
ABOUT y week and thus be better
OF. And there is the instance OF the
soltier's wife who, apart from her
separation allowance. is engaged. in
war work herself. Neither of these
instances gives opportunity for Wild
bursts Of extravaganza.
6ut there are two other counts in
the present day indictment of women.
One is on account of drinking and the
other OF smoking. In both cases So
biologists see grave danger TO the fut-
ure OF the race.
Drink Twice az Much
In regard to the former there is no
doubt on the point. Any Englishman
able to judge for himself will state that
women in this country are drinking TO
twice and three tines the extent that
was common before the war. Formerly
1t was exceedingly rare TO find woman
seated IN saloon, unless of the loves (.
class. and even then she was almost in
varisbiy accompanied by man. But
nowadays it is almost impossible 20
go into a saloon without finding young
women from the age of fifteen upward
boldly entering and ordering higkballs
or port.
T." other charge made against Eng
fish women is that of excessive smok-
ing. This is another habit that has
grown TO such proportions that a mem
Der of the House of Commons. Arthur
Jacobson. has been asking that assem-
bly, whether measures cannot be taken
20 stop the practice entirely.
Physicians declaim against the prsc-
tice, but the more they condemn the
wider the habit grows.
Many social investigators and work
crs declare that there is no present
serious menace TO the character Of
Engllshwomen either in wasteful
pending OF money or drunkenness or
smoking, taken separately. But when
the three occur together. then they
fear that the moral hbre of the nation
may be weakened.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
Coast Defence Takes
500, 900 Liberty Loan
Twelve Companies at Fort Han.
cock Now Learning
Trench Warfare

FORT HANCOCK, Sandy Hook, y. j.,
Oct. 20.-Men OF the twelve companies
Of the 9th Coast Defence command
stationed here are getting more pro-
ficient in the handling OF the big guns
ana are learning trench warfare.
The artillerymen have subscribed
nearly 100000 for the secoai Liberty
Loan. While the figures for the last
week nave not yet been announced
those Tor the iirst week, ended last
Sunday, reached the high mark OF $780,
250. The honors for subscribing the
greatest amount fell to the lot OF the
oath Company, the baby" company OF
the 9th. This company is composed
entirely OF young men OF the Rock
Always, and was organized last sprlng,
being mustered into the National
Guard on May 4 last. This company
subscribed for total OF $4,000 worth
Of Liberty bonds. its next nearest COM
petitor being the goth Company, whose
total subscription was $4,000.
Inc 18th Company. regulars. have
scribed $3.50. The 2lst Company, OF
Tic otH, tooh Sf,-0V, ana the lotn w"
pany, $4,000. On Thursday Of TINS
week final drive was made for the
Liberty Loan, at which many promi'
nent public men made addresses. When
the full returns are made IL is ex'
pected that the subscriptions at the
post will reach 100000 or more. The
Liberty Loan committee az the fort
comprises Major Hicks. Lieutenant
Michael +. Ford. Lieutenant William
Il. Cameron. Private George Bern.
heimer, Lieutenant A. W. Peck ana
Lieutenant 4. Irving.
A ladies' auxiliary has been organ
lied among the wives Of the officers
20 give relief 10 enlisted men WHOSE
families are in need. The officers Of
the auxiliary are: President, WIS
Eugene Cole; secretary, Mrs.. J. ". Cir
more; treasurer. Mrs. John ]. Byrne.
IL i proposed by the auxiliary TO q"
a series Of entertainments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
system Established
On Private Funds

About a year and a half ago, there
fore. it seemed to Mayor Mitchell and
Controller Prenderyast that the outdoor
system might be utilized for the chill
dren who are daily becoming public
charges in New York City. They we're
not sanguine enough in their hopes,
however, 70 establish the Children's
Home Bureau Immediately on a public
basis. Private funds were raised, the
bureau was established on June 10,
1916, and began actual work on October
10. 1916, following The infantile psral-
ysis epidemic. II was thought that a.
an experiment it would take the bu-
reau three years to prove itself. But TO
the credit Of John Daniels, the director
of the bureau, and Miss Ella Frances
Harris, the chief socia. investigator,
when the bureau he'd been in existence
a little more than a year and had been
doing actual work for nine months II
was taken over by The city.
At that time, according 70 a monthly
report issued on the 30th of June, 1917,
the bureau had found 322 homes. had
placed 1872 children and sol children
were then in its care. Out OF the first
thousand applications for children il
had approved only 1856.
Seventy-hve per cent OF the children
placed through the Children's Home
Bureau are Catholic. In finding homes
for these children the bureau has had
the cooperation Of Catholic parish
priests. Cardinal Farley, in a pastoral
letter written on February I, 1917,
said:
I've recognize and have maintained
that the home has many advantages
which the institution cannot supply.
Our first and most urgent duty
is to make it practical for the com
missioner 10 place out Catholic chill
dren with individuals of like religious
faith"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21

Perhaps no other government would
have thought of so graceful and deli
cate method of cementing the closer
relations with America arising from
the war a has the government OF
France.
II seems natural to the French that
military cooperation and commercial
rapprochement should be accompanied
by the gift of her best in other fields.
So she mas paid US the compliment
of taking her poets and dramatists out
of the trenches and war Offices and
sending them here as the accredited
representatives of French interests IN
America.
For France is looking ahead TO the
period Of reconstruction. when peace
finally comes. and she realizes keenly
that in order TO hold her own. after as
veil As during the war. French industry
must be modernized. French commerce
must be extended. American methods
assiinilated. and French civilization
must merge its aloof perfection IN a
more energetic intercourse with other
nations. In this process France has
begun with that habitual regard for the
humanities, that invincible conviction
of the worth and power of cultural and
human values, which has always en-
deared the French spirit 10 the world.
In her wish for mutually advanta-
ceous cooperation in material things
she has manifested the characteristic
instincts of a culture which Is the oppo'
site of the Teutonic in its spirit, the
antthesis of Kultur in its methods.
A. a result. even the commercial pro-
posals of the French are clothed IN a
manner which has all the effect of a
tasteful and exquisite wrapper about
some fine article of merchandise.
When Jacques Copeau came here and
founded his new French theatre. which
is soon TO open in New York, he came
not merely As an individual, but as an
intellectual ambassador OF the French
nation. duly commissioned by the Min
Ister of Foreign Affairs and the Minis
ter Of Education and Fine Arts. whllf
several of his actors will come di
rectlv from the trenches. having beer
released expressly for this purpose.
And Copeau was but the first of the
Frenchmen OF letters sent here as en-
VOWS of French interests.
Denys Amiel. editor Of the "New
France" is another. Dramatist anC
critic of note. he was demobiliZed ar,
sent TO America to found this "journa
Of Franco-American evolution IL
which the immediate needs and future
prospects Of French commerce are SCI
forth with the grace and lucidity which
French men OF letters are wont to dis