Milford chronicle., 1946-05-03
NATIONAL NEWS ITEMS

BY !. +. ZONES

Was 50 hlg that it WAS capable of
holding POO, 400 spectators and the
modern circus carries ON many of
the ancient traditions.
Patent Oiiicr Stages Comeback
Most of the great inventions that
have improved the American way Of
life have been developed under pro-
lection OF the United States patent
laws mOnupuicS for the holders
Of patents, il You please.
The t. :. Patent Office has been
granting patents to inventors for
l52 years When World War II
tr0k" out the Government practic-
ally stopped issuing patents, and
every known human idea WAS laid
aside unless il could he utilized fOr
military and naval purposes. The
Government made Wholesale al
tackS upon corporations and
charged that they were monopolies
and unlawful in their methods of
swapping secrets with concerns in
foreign countries tartelS were as
explosive as bombs. The great ma
lnrltN ol th"s" 50 called cartclS
We're noIhin. more than viola
tion OF new Su-Callcd trade treaties.
which CordcH HUI substituted for
tn" Democratic party hysteria in
favor al free trade
So the greater part of the Tinted
States Patent Office wa moved to
Richmond. Va. Tor thn duration 3"
Most at the successful patent at
torncNS III Washington were tenn
pOrdrllN pHt ont Ot business. But
the Patent office Is coming back to
Washington. and this move is alSU
a comeback important tO patents
The present commissioner of Pa
tents reports thai the office is "cX-
pcricnCinG its biggest boom in his
tory. and he explains that hund
reds of applications arc being filed
each week for patents on new de
vices and processes developed dur
in2 the War. Earlier this month the
otiic" reached pretty close to its
2.5Uo 00nth patent
AmOn& great patents of the Olden
days WAS Eli Whitncy's cotton gin
mill and cyrus McCormick's reap
cr Alexander Graham Bell s telc-
phone first attracted attention and
gained fame at the Philadelphia
Ccntomil in 1876 The telegram
c"mc along ip due time. President
Harding WAS the first man in that
hl2h office 10 make a radio broad
cast that could ho pickru up by tho
use 0t CarphoneS. The Patent Ofucc
put through thousands of inypn-
tionS during the war Years, and
many oi those Will show up as i'm
proN"mCnts and new triumuhS to
simplify heretofore unsolvcd prob
lens
Efforts To Rule The Farmers
Farm credit can be made an in
$trumcnt to ht used "aS a biz
stick" in the opinion of Rcpresen-
tatlv" iillic of Indiana. And it NAV
hc used fer still more disastrous
purposes according to the Con
LrcSSman who has EXPRESSED his
tear that there exists SO much poll
ties in tn" Agricultural Department
that there is a draft toward social
2atlnH Ut agriculture. Representa-
tive Hope OF Kansas is of the
opinion that tn" Department nt
A2riCultUr" wants to use thr
coercivc influence OF agriculture
credit to line up farmers on farm
prOGamS.
Looking backward dozen YEAR
4 lS easy To recall the revolution
Fry Government measures when
nth" pi@5 were killed by hundreds
ot thousands under the protensc
hat il was helpful To the farmers
Agriculture credit was initiation
ary to a large degree. under Henry
Wallace. Perhaps there is a hanp-
over that brought The low or Houso
0i Congress, into the picturr IN
passing a bill 10y vote of 239 10 81
I" take the various lending aecn.
clos out of the Department of Acyi-
culture.
That Wa not y partisan measure
rot ny a long shot because the
hai,nan of the Committee thar
Wrot" il WAS Democrat Represeuta-
TIVE !. W. t'lannaean of Virginia.
II remained for Representative
tcrc" nl tennessee 10 reverse the
general understanding of political
liberals. II" declared: "Today in
the United States the true Liberal
is the man who fights encroach-
ment hy the Federal Government
l'pon tn" freedom of its citizens. "
Ihcr" IS little nugget of liberal
truthful ana sound reasoning VIC
reed more of th"m in Congress
Missouri River Valley
\ wonderful Development ol
land. water. and hydro-electric
power resources has been given the
90 ahead signal by the United
States Bureau of Reclamation. The
Eew undertaking covers the dist
ance OF $4,000 miles and it includes