Arizona republican., 1921-08-12
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 There is a man in Denver who frequently sends contributions to The Republican and peshaps other newspapers. in which peculiar views a variety of topics promulgated Few of them though have received publicity. though lacking interest because they to lack practicality.
 We have just had two more expI essions from him, the postal savings bank the other on patents He claims that the postal banks are bless ing and all right, far they developed, but that to date the postal banks sided banks in that though they receive money, they loan none.
 But they do. It goes to other banks at low rate of interest is and 1t is also other banks loan 1t proftably higher rate, Our contributor would it loaned directly peo- pie at low rate such securities they could give jewery, for instance The objection think would be that that would complcate the post office business and would require machinery expensive that it would absorb much more than the difference between the interest the banks ceive from the banks to which 1t loans money and the interest those charge the people to whom 1t loans the money.
 The views contributor with respect to the patent system have received the partial endorsement of A. Mitchell Palmer. attorney general who agrees at least that there should be sweeping form in the system That the present system courages monopoly is the belief of contributor
 
 waste its time in putting down monopoles trusts it is fostering trusts.
 The inventive genius unless he happens to have the qualities of promoter money hoarder sell dom derives any benefit from invention; others reap where he has Another objection Is the purchase of patents to stine competition and the disuse of them that excellent patents bring benefit.
 very slight change here would meet that ob- jection. requirement. that patent could be onyxy assurance, that the purchaser intends to it. If he pigeon holes it. the patent should be revoked.
 In the following objection the writer misappre- hends:
 "The present system centralizes factories whereas each section the country should manufacturing. As illustration. nearly all cash registers made in Dayton Ohio" There many points of centralized industries. Take for instance the tire business at Akron. Ohio. the chief of 1t. where there least four great tire companies and score of smaller Patents had nothing to do with it. Akron is an land town far removed from the of materials But it happened that three genera tons there lived there physician. Goodrich with great deal of time his hands a turn chemical experiments, in the which he hit process for vulcanizing rubber little later he began making rubber goods. mostly boots and shoes. small scale The business grew and be- profitable that another Akron family, 1 Seberlngs. went into it. then the Firestones When the demand for automobile tires pelled greater production and outsiders engaged it. they naturally went to Akron for there the chief, really, the only supply of skilled labor. For the reason. when small companies were formed by the employees of existing companies they chose remain in the field where the industry already established. They could have found thousand places more advantageously situated l material transportation.
 Now that the bathing season Is well on its way toward close, suppose the bathing suit censors do not When has about all there is to see, he becomes "palled upon," to speak.
 Commercial travellers agree that business is pick | ing up in Phoenix.
 The Soviet is committing suicide by means of starvation.
 If you are not at Casa Grande today why not?
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