The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-03-21
DYE BUSINESS
Is BIG BUSINESS
ALL GERMAN-OWNED PLANTS
TO BE MERGED AND DYE
DIFFICULTIES TO VANISH.

Full force of the action of thu
Alien Enemy Property Custodian, il
turning over the Chemical Founda
ton, Inc, all the dye and chemica
patents held by Germans in th'
United States is now becoming broad
ly apparent:
The outstanding features professed
by dye authorities to be seen in the
turning over of the $500 known pat
ents by the government to joint use
of the industry are:
1. Every dye-maker, whether small
or large has become stakeholder in
the Chemical Foundation, Inc. This
participation had to be assured be-
fore the Alien Property Custodian
would act.
2. Not only is the dye-patent in
cluded in the sweeping disposal of
German interests, but it includes all
pending patents, applications, trade
marks, chooses in action and rights
or claims of every kind.
3. Upon the payment of the $780,,
600 stipulated price for all govern
ment controlled alien enemy patents,
and the formal turning over of the
warrants, no further trade license
payments will be made to the Federal
Trade Board. This alone will save
millions of dollars to the dye indus
try, it is estimated.
d. Under the plan of distribution
any member of the foundation who,
to belong, must be 100 per cent
American, will be entitled to use the
patent or other rights equally with
any other member. No exclusive
rights TO manufacture will be per-
mitted.
5. A force of more than 40 in
vestigators have been at work in the
patent office for the past two weeks
and will continue their efforts which
are expected to unearth many
valuable processes hitherto unknown
to the American manufacturers.
6. Based upon capitalization of
but 100000 and with maximum 6
per cent dividend, it is expected that
the royalties demanded from those
who wish to avail themselves of
manufacturing rights will be very
low and great boon to the dye MAX
ers of America.
incidentally it is foreseen that
with the distribution of the patents
and processes generally throughout
the industry it will be race between
analytical chemists and dye experts
employed by the larger corporations
to discover hidden secrets necessary
to the fullest exploitation of the for
mulas now at American command.
Asked to indicate what immediate
value will accrue through this scheme
of alien patent distribution, one of
the leading men in the dye industry
of New York said yesterday. "No
longer will the dye manufacturer
have to pay the per cent royalty
to the common fund of the Federal
Trade Commission as previously and
instead of being individual partici-
pants the manufacturers win be col
lective participants with big fund
at their oSmmand to protect the in
dustry."
The action of A. Mitchell Palmer,
which is sensed as his GROWING
achievement during encumbency in
the office of Alien Property
Custodian is highly lauded through
out the dye industry. 1t is said to be
one of the most momentous and all
American acts of the present admin
istration during the war.
Offices soon will be opened by the
Chemical Foundation, Inc, in New
York and payment to the government
of the stipulated price of $25o,OoO is
expected to be made at once. Stock
in the corporation is said to have been