The Washington times., 1936-11-19

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Sis p. m.
Feminine ire-a potent thing
Is gathering about the heads Of
the gentlemen sponsoring the
American Patent System Centen-
nial celebration Monday at the
Mayflower.
Lady lawyers, both in and out
side of the U. S. Patent Office,
are crying discrimination"
They declare the celebration
dinner, which will seat upwards
of 1000 inventors, lawyers, Gov
ernment officials and bigwigS in
the patent business, has left them
out in the cold.
Indignantly, between SnortS,
feminine legal lights in the Dis
trict have charged that women in
general are not being invited, and
that the only skirts at the dinner
will be those worn by women in
ventors and sob sisters Of the
press.
All Of which rebounds around
the heads of DR.. C. F. Ketterlng,
General Motors research expert
who invented the Self7starter for
cars, who is chairman Of the ma
tional committee staging the din
ner, and Willard E. Jensen, OF
Commences business advisory
council, who is helping him.
DR.. Kettering and Mr.. Jensen
have made no reply to the charge
Of antifeminism, but at headquar-
ters of the Patent Centennial Com.
mittee it is chucklingly admitted
that "the gals are trying to stir
I'D a controversy" and further ad'
mitted that the ban against all
but female inventors and report
ers is a fact.
Still further, in quieter tone, it
Is admitted that if the women
"stir up enough trouble" the execu-
tive committee may break down
and let them in"
All of which remains to be seen
Monday evening.
Within the Patent Office the
women also are verging on an out
burst, charging that under the re-
gime OF Commissioner Of Patents
Thomas E. Robertson and his sue
cessor, Conway P. Coe. feminine
lawyers have never been allowed
to reach a salary higher than $3,-
500 yearly. Promotion is steady,
they admit, until then, when hope
ceases.
AS an example, they point out,
q woman lawyer held high Off
cial post within the Patent Office
at no salary. The position was
later split into three, with sizable
salaries. and the former incunl-
bent offered the lowest rank of
the trio-at $500. She quit in
favor of private practice.
Plenty of employees at Govern
ment Printing Office are reported
obtaining tickets for the Head
liners Ball." event sponsored by
combined mechanical and editorial
union members on local papers
for the National Press Club Friday
evening at o'clock. The tickets
are available right in G.. P. o.
Among "headliners" to be pres
ent at the ball will be Haywood
Broun, widely read columnist, and
Arch Mcdonald, maStodonic sports
radio announcer.
Secretary wallace. of Agricul-
ture, has named R. M. Evans,
an Iowa farmer. as special as
Gistant, to begin. duties at once.
Mr.. Evans is a graduate Of Iowa
State college and has spent is
years in the farming business in
addition to serving as chairman
of the Iowa Agricultural Con-
servation Committee and Iowa
Corn-Hog Committee.
Another Agriculture appoint
ment revealed recently is that
Of Charles D. Lewis as assistant
director Of the AAA northeast
division. He succeeds H. B. Boyd,
now director of the AAA in
sular division, and has been with
the Government since May OF
1884. A graduate Of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute. Mr.. Lewis
previously was in charge Of the
AAA cigar tobacco program.
Written examinations for COM
missions to the Foreign Service
will begin september 13, 1887,
in Atlanta, Boston. Chicago, Gin
cinnati, Denver, New Orleans,
New York, Philadelphia, st. Louis,
St. Paul, San Francisco, Seattle
and washington, D. c., the State
Department has announced.
Applicants desiring to qualify
must be specially designated for
the test, and must file applications
for designation with the Secretary
Of State at least 40 days before,
on August 3, 1887.