Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-07
III NUEVO DIARIO, Caracas-A
- new edict Of the municipal coun-
Gil has been promulgated in the
effort TO check llINenile dalin-

I'll NUEVO DIARIO. Carcass
l. new edict Of the municipal coun-
Gil has been promulgated in the
IL effort to check juvenile delln-
quency, OF which there has been
Unprecedented evidences in recent years
Effective at once. boys and girls of l6
, years or under must be within the pre-
cincts OF their homes after 8 in the
evening throughout the federal district.
Older children, who can show no plau-
Sible reason for being upon the streets,
or in any other public places later than
that hour, after questioning by the
agents Of the department, may be
ordered to their homes, in case such
procedure appears desirable. In the
opinion Of the authorities, much Of our
modern youthful deprayity can be
traced to the bo!sterous and often rep
rehenSible license usurped by the
throngS of young people who congre-
gate upon the thorOughfares after dark,
when they should be engaged in some
domestic or educational occupation.
Edison Not Concerned
with Cancellation of Patents.
FL TEMPO. Bogota -Why is It that
Edison is not ne of the richest men in
the world? -he reason is not hard 70
find. One Summer night, some 80
years ago Thomas A. Edison was work
ing hard at the bench in his laboratory
when there entered the Waterman who
guarded the entrance to the edifice. and
announced the arrival of a reporter who
must have a talk with Edison immedi-
, ately His paper had just received a
! dispatch stating that that very night
patents held by Edison on seven of his
inventions would expire, and that these
/ discoveries would pass to the ownership
of the general public Could not some
thing be done to obviate this loss and
deprivation to Edison?
It was about midnight Of a Saturday
but the latenCss of the hour had little
significance. When Edison entered
upon task he immediately lost all
consciousness Of time, and even of the
difference between day and night. and
yet today, at the age of 49, he is still
equally absorbed in his work So when
! the Waterman burst in, all excited. with
such a pOrtCntouS message. he had to
repeat it several times before Edison
glaspcd the slightest knowledge of the
Journal site revelation. Senior Edison
then paused in his labor long enough to
say: Tell the gentleman that the cam
collation. of my patent rights gives me
no concern. Tell him also that Edison
does not consider that benefits are de-
rived from his inventions only when the
profits they make are his own The
cement of the public is my benefit, and
the more broadly What 1 have been en-
abled to discover is diffuSed, the greater
| consider my fortune, even without
the pecuniary return to me-"
Very interesting, all this" said the
reporter to the Waterman, but 1 can't
believe tnat he told you to tell me whet
you have just said; at least not in the
form you have repeated it. Please tell
the Senior Edison that I have made the
trip from New York, at this late hour
of the night, out of Difference and con-
slderation for him, to learn if he desires
to say anything to the public about the
expiration of these patents and the loss
OF his rights and prerogatives. Why,
for instance. should not the rights to
these Inventions vested exclusively in
him. still be of public b nefit? Why is
there no legal protection for him that
perpetuateS his rights? These are the
tn r9s l want to talk with him about"
A Few minutes later the reporter was
received by Edison. Tall. corpulent,
clad in linen buster with a large and
battered straw hat pulled down over his
expressive countsnance, the inventor
wcS MT SLOW In explaining and amplify-
ing the message communicated through
the watchman
I'm this country there does not exist
| the So-called monopoly of an inventor
| Fir, m the first moment a transcendeatal
.nnoJ2tion is made in the field of science
cr commerce, from all sides leap pirates
! t. dispute with him priority to his own
ids IS. Perhaps. for instance. If you in
vent a new sort of lock you won't have
TO be worried much about the preoc'