Milford chronicle., 1946-11-08
Washington Letter
]. F.. Jones

WASHINGTON - T h e United
States Patent Office has returned
from it's World War tour to
Richmond. Virginia, and the organ
iZatiOn is now back home in Wash
ingtOn. 1t was chaperOned on the
final trip from Richmond back to
by 1000 employees.
Ordinarily the number of appli-
cations for patents in peacetimc
averaged about $500 week. But
the war side-tracked and held up
most applications. Now the Patent
Office faces an accumulation of
1l8,000 applications.
Our American industries never
did sell the United States down
the river" through cartel agree
ments between manufacturers i'll
opposing nations; neither did they
transfer patent rights in cOmbina-
tiOnS OF separate firms for the pur-
pose Of maintaining SO-called
pools" and mOnOpOlies. The fact
remains that there never has been
il scandal in the Patent Office.
A patented invention gives the
inventor the exclusive right to
make, use and vend" AN invention
for the term OF seventeen years
throughout the United States and
its Territories.
AS a matter of fact we have the
patent law system to thank for
most of the progress and rapid de-
VelOpment OF production in the
United States.
Dear reader, you do not need to
wait any longer to get patent on
that "brainchild" OF yours.
Auto Dealers On Firing Line
While the people who make au-
tomObiles have had plenty of griei
in the last year, striving TO get into
something like adequate prOduc'
ton in the face of the handicapS Ol
rccOnversiOn, strikes, materia
SHORTAGES and price controversies
their counter numbers the distri'
button workers of the industry
have been taking it on the chin Il!
we'll
Dealers along America $ mail
streets at last are daring TO hope
that before too long the heat viii
be Off-that customers will Qui
/ swearing at them-that once more
/ Il man will be able to leave Il ca
| in his show window for more thar
I II minutes without being accused
OF boarding transportation or bait
ing black market trap.
Signs that the auto industry i
starting to hit the pace at last, tha
workers and management alike az
realizing that production and pro
ductiOn alone will ease the Ma
tiOn's headaches, are Seen in peri
Odic reports showing Step-by-ste
increases in weekly output. O
course, ii will be Il long time be
fore everyone who wants neN
car will have one, but it appear
the industry is starting to set owe
the hump.
So those who sell cars are wait
ing and hoping for that norm;
time when one will need to g
looking for Il customer. Oh, happ
day,
Eiectrify The Farms
The outstanding job OF the DE-
partmCnt of Agriculture is fOun
in its support of the sO-called "C(
Ops" 1t is one OF the few pract
cal plans to help the farmers ele'
trify their lands and possession
Tens Of thousands Of farm lar
have been electrified with none
loaned to cooperative groups
different parts OF the country. TT
scheme has proved to be so pra
teal that the farmers paid bat
practically all the money the
have borrowed in the past fe
, years before it was due. 1t is
, much cheaper than the big ele
trical manufacturers plan as
leave the private groups trailing
! the line of competition.
Bilb0 On The Spot
If half of the batch of charg
against Senator Theodore G.. Bt
DO Of Mississippi are half-true
will likely be expelled from Il
Senate TO which he was recent
reelected. The newspapersS al
cOlumnists are reporting that Il
BilbO election was tainted wi
fraud" and achieved by force al
violence and the use of crimin;
eXtralegal and illegal tactics" B
DO is notorious. He admits that
is Il member of the Ku-KluX-Kla,
e he is accused and will have to
+ fend himself against speci
y charges that he was bribed by w
2 contractors and carried on Il cal
4 paiSn for reelection in which
engaged in bribery Of the voter.
4 Housing Solution Hope
''Have you read the agony C
| umn in your daily newspaper I
\ day."
This question was put to Il
5. tiOn-wide audience a few days a
G by the American Legion's NatiOr
: Commander Paul III. Griffith in
: address over a national radio hoe
: up. Griffith was referring to til
long column of pathetic pleas
: your want ad page under I
n heading "WANTED TO RENT d
: pearing in thfs and every paper
n the United States, and certainly
e more appropriate title could
s given this listing today than "a
s Ony column"
0 Yes, the same veteran who |
G home, faced the dangers of bat
in the most destructive war knO'
to mankind and was litera
n promised the world with a fer