The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-03

everything in America have forced the
cost of manufacture up to point
which makes it impossible to compete
with other countries"
A study of wages by the British min
istry Of labor, just completed in 10
cities, most of them world capitals
philadelphia here), gives these COM
putatiOns: Average wages in the
United States, measured in the food
they will buy, are now more than
twice as high as those in London, three
times greater than in Paris, and nearly
five times greater than in Rome, Mad
rid and Vienna. They are nearly three
times greater than in Norway, Swe-
den, and Holland.
In the meantime our trade statistics
show that the sales of our manufac-
tured products are now about half of
our exports. They also show that
we annually sell the world nearly 49,
000,000,OOO more of American prod
ucts than we did Is years ago; that we
sold the world $425,00OOOO more last
year than the year before, and that
our sales are rapidly increasing. In
short, we are not only competing but
we are winning in the world markets.
including some of the commonwealth
of the British empire. And we are
competing and winning because the
American workman does just about
three times as much as the British
workman in the same industry, thus
more than offsetting the difference in
wages.
And now comes Sir Charles Higham,
once a member of parliament and now
an advertising man, to teach us Amer
leans to drop work at four o'clock in
the afternoon for tea, after the Eng
lish style. It will increase our eff.
ficiency IS per cent, don't y'know.
JURISDICTION over the patent Of
y flee was transferred Friday by
executive order Of President Coolidge
from the Interior department to the
Department. of Commerce, with the
approval of both secretaries. Specific
legislation by congress was unneces-
sary because of the act creating the
Commerce department. Secretary
Hoover of the Commerce department
will demand at an International con-
vention at The Hague, October 8, the
removal Of certain existing injustices
toward American patentees and Amer
lean manufactures. If he fails to
! get it, he will ask for complete re-
vision of the patent laws of the United
States, which will bring about their
equitable and equal treatment in all
countries.
Secretary Hoover has developed the
Commerce department into the largest
thing of it's kind in the world. Eff
ficiency is his passion, and he Is its
shining exemplar. He has won the
cooperation of American business. If
he stays in Office long enough, he will
bring about the coordination of all
agencies bearing upon the expansion
of American business at home and
abroad The latest gossip is that he
had a large hand in the appointment
of Secretary Jardine of the Agricul-
tural department; that they agree in
thinking that the biggest problem in
agriculture is marketing, and that the
two departments will work together
which has not been the case hereto
fore.
A RCHDUKE JOHANN SALVADOR
"A of the royal house of Austria,
who has been an international mys-
terry ever since his elopement and sup
posed drowning in 1883, is dead again.
This time under the name of Albert
Goebel in Vienna. He was in Chicago
as Johann Ortiz in 1909. In 1924 o.
N. Orlow was buried as Johann Sal
vator" in New York.
President Coolidge has given re-
cess appointment TO Thomas F. Wood
lock to be a member Of the interstate
commerce commission. following re-
fusal of the senate to confirm the
nomination.
The Missouri legislature has initl-
ated legislation for the death penalty
for holdup men; Illinois is consider
ing the payment of $1,000 for bank
robbers, dead or alive.
Governor Blaine of Wisconsin will
not sign the bill giving bottom lands
along the Mississippi to the federal
government for game and fish pre-
serve.
Tennessee. by repeating the law of
evolution. attests that nobody can
make a monkey of w. J. Bryan.
The Soviet government has revoked
the oil concession granted in 1928 10
the Sinclair Consolidated Oil COM
pany on Sakhalien island.