t
FEES U PATENTS
1790-1947
and
PROPOSED INCREASE-1948
‘ O Final Fee %
M Filing Fee' T'
I
,oto no »o, PROPOSED
6y national Patent CouneiL
Plausible pressures toward reducing the propulsive potential of
1 our Patent System have been applied in various ways. Latest is for
a law to slow down creative production of smaller inventors, who
conceive more than half of our useful new products, by increasing
by two thirds the minimum fees demanded by government for filing
and issuing a patent. The excuse is the presumed need to make the
Patent Office self-supporting—while government spends on propa
ganda and other doubtful services which produce no revenue many
. times the total cost of operating the Patent Office. Note that pro
s posed minimum fees are nearly three times the average prevailing
*1861 to 1932—the period in which the phenomenal industrial do*
f yelopment of America astounded the world. j
Street Railway Company Plan
Change In Car Service
New routes, extension of some
present routes, and conversion of
several lines from street cars to
buses, with exclusive use of buses
on all lines on Sundays, are em
bodied in the plan announced this
week by the Omaha and Council
Bluffs Street Railway Company
to give Omaha greatly Improved
transportation service.
The addition of 60 new buses to
the Company’s fleet makes these
improvements of Omaha’s trans
portation service possible, Com
pany officials explained. With the
delivery of 90 more buses in 1943,
the Company will have spent a
total of more than $2,400,000 for
new buses.
The Company has asked the City
Council this week to authorize by
ordinance the use of additional
city streets. An application will be
filed immediately with the Ne
braska State Railway Commission
for authority to place the plan
in effect.
The changes in the system to be
made effective within 60 days are:
Bus service supplanting street
cars to the West Leavenworth dis
trict and Ak-Sar-Ben field. To im
prove service the buses will be
routed over St. Mary's av-, with
express service during rush hours.
Street cars from 42nd and Grand
will use a dowmtowm loop route,
turning west on Harney from 16th
to 20th st., then north to Dodge
for riWreturn trip.
Buses instead of street car serv
ice to the Hanscom Park and
South 32nd av. district. Benson
street cars southbound will turn
east on Capitol av. to 15th; then
south to Howard; then west to
16th and north over present route
for return trip. Benson express
bus service will be continued over
its present route.
A new bus line between 24th
and Lake and 15th and Howard
sts. to serve patrons living be
tween Lake zt- and down town
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formerly served by the 24th and '
ansas-Park East street car line.
Patrons using the Kansas-Park
East line between 24th and Fort
and 24th and Kansas will be pro
vided day and night service by the
North 24th st. bus line. Service on
this line will be increased.
The Florence bus line will follow
a route straight through on 30th
st. in place of using 33rd st. be
tween Lake and California sts.
A new bus line from 33rd and
Lake to 16th and Howard will
serve patrons formerly served by
the 33rd st. routing of the Florence
bus line.
Street car service to the east
Hanscom Park district will be sup
planted by bus service. During
rush hours buses originating from
33rd and Lake will follow the pre
sent route of Park East cars from
1th and Howard sts- to 29th and
Ed Creighton av. From this point
service will be extended east to
24th and Martha; then south to
24th and Bancroft; then west on
Bancroft to 29th st. where buses
will resume present route to
downtown area. Non-rush hour
service to this district will be by
extension of the 30rd Street-Cross
town bus line into the Park East
area and including the 24th st
loop. Connection will be made
with the South 32nd av. bus line
for downtown at Park av. and Pa
cific st.
The Vinton. “L” st. bus line now
operating between 41st and “I/’
st. and 24th and Vinton will be
extended to 13th and Deer Park
via a route over Deer Park, 25th,
20th. Ontario, “B” and 14th sts.
A new bus route from 24th and
W sts. to 13th and Harrison sts.
will serve patrons living south of
“N” st. presently served by 24th
st.-Crosstown street cars. South
bound Crosstown street cars will
turn west on "N” st. to 26th st
then south to “O” st. and east to
24th for northbound trip.
Service on the West Lawn bus
line will be improved by alternate
buses furnishing service to 60th
and Spring st. during rush hours
on week days.
A new bus line operating be
tween 16th and Cuming and 11th
and Grace will provide service on
weekays to the Eadst Omaha in
dustrial district during morning
and evening rush hours.
Company officials stated that
complete Information will be
available for riders in transporta
tion topic boxes on all buses and
street cg.rs prior to the inaugura
tion of these changes.
faME FOR ANOTHER CHANGE!' By'MACKENZnjji
One of our very good friends,
Jim Jordan, is head of the town’s
largest bakery, and the other day
he showed the members of my
club through his bakery. We
watched the entire process of bak
ing, the slicing, and the automatic
sealing of loaves into waxed paper1
wrappers, and it was really fasci
nating! One of the ladies was par
ticularly intrigued by the automa
tic wrapping. Jim smiled .. . he
said nearly everyone enjoyed
watching that operation but then
asked us if we knew the interest*
ing story behind the wrapper.
He began by telling us that thd
paper used to make waxed paper
is made of choice slow - growing
spruce trees, grown in Canada and
the northern states. Because of tho
cold northern winters, he explained,
the spruce trees mature slowly,
giving added lertgth ‘and strength
to their fiber, and consequently,
provides b e 11 e f protection fit
bread. TTie trees are usually cut
during winter and sent dowh the
river to pulp mills in the springs
At the mill, the bark is removed
and the wood whittled into small
chips . . . then "cooked” with spe
cial chemicals. We all laughed
when Jim said the entire cooking
process was like making apple*
sauce!
After “cooking”, the waste Is
drained away and the chemically
treated pure wood pulp is fed into
a huge paper making machine —
which is an entire city block long!
The machine re-wets the pulp fib
ers, then mats them together in a
sheet. After the paper dries, it is
printed and fed on rollers through
tanks of molten paraffin wax —
similar to the type we use to pre*
serve jams and jellies.
Jim described the entire process
so vividly that we could see every
step—and we were simply amaied.
Think of the millions and pulkons
of dollars that go into the making
The Common Defense
TAKE THAT SIGN DOWN
The Miami Beach City Council
has adopted a City Ordinance, to
become law on June 7th, prohibit
ing the display of signs by hotels,
apartments, and other public
places which indicate the practice
of religious discrimination by
them.
This ordinance has an interest
ing history. Once there were 67
establishments in the area which
exhibited signs using such phras
es a “retricted,” “Gentiles,” and
“Gentiles only” for advertising
their discriminatory practices
Public spirited citizens visited the
managers of these places and per
suaded 57 of them to remove the
signs. But 10 resolutely refused.
The passage of the ordinance thus
became necessary.
It has had some very encourag
ing results. Newspaper publishers
have voluntarily come forward
with the suggestion that their pa
pers ought to adopt the policy of
refusing to accept advertisements
which carry discriminatory words
and phrases. Attorneys for other
city councils are studying the
Miami Beach Ordinance with a
view to the adoption of a similar
one by their own cities.
Distriminatory advertising has
long been a flagrant offense
against public morality and the
principals of Americanism .It is
j as if you placed a sign on your
| house which read, ‘We believe in
| dishonesty, theft, and murder.”
The only people who will care to
try to make a case against this
proposition are those who forget,
Or refuse to admit, tjle crimes
against God and man have been
committed in the name of reli
gious prejudice. Any American <
who has not yet learned that pre
judice leads to dishonesty, theft,
and murder has faded to read dne
of the most glaring signs of our
times. He has never *ead, or
chooses to forg#, what is written
in the Holy Scriptures—that
“whosoever hateth his brother is
a murderer.” fl St. John, 3:15)
In substance, a city which for
bids discriminatory advertising is ,
sayihg to people who wish to em
ploy it, ‘‘You may be immoral en- I
ough to want to blare, your pre
judice to the whole community
and the people who visit it. In
doing that you are not just ad
vertising your own corruption.
You are advertising our commun
l ity. and giving people the impres-,
sior. that we stand with you and
share in your corruption. You
can't do that. Yew can’t misrepre
sent us. You may want to throw
vour garbage in the street too.
But w» want a clean and healthy
city—so you can’t do that. We
want a strong, clean, healthy
American city—so you can’t ad
vertise your prejudices which di
vide and weaken and corrupt our
citizens. -Take that sign down*’’
What Are tne
New Frontiers,
Bv RUTH TAYLOR
Is this the end? Has dvlliza- 1
tion as we know it come to a j
close and ane the great cycles of ;
time, turning as relentlessly as j
the tides of the ocean, about to
swing into nw orbits? Are the
frontiers closed to us? Is there no
future ?
Wrong— the only frontiers that
have been closed are those of geo
graphy. The fontiero of the mfnd,
of research add knowledge, are
rtrgin wilderness, merited only
A Groggy World In Need—sBut Thinking!
r.«. j :**,reiMij;ji«ujgsiirrs- ai .wwjMiMnw^mbhih—a———
STAND BACK SISTER- '
I REPRESENT JUSTICE/
" Hf RE • ^
by the footpaths of those intre
pid adventurers who dared to
think ahead. Never before has
there been such an opportunity
to learn. There were never so
many things to study, so much to
be found out Every day discov
eries are made beside which the
conquests of Columbus or the an
cient voyagers pale into insigni
ficance. Each adventure in know
ledge, each new discovery paves
the way for other far more im
portant to mankind—for each
rests upon a broader, firmer base
—and offers far greater possibil
ities to the next inquiring mind.
But youth says—"We want to
get ahead—to make a living. We
haven’t the opportunities to carve
out a life for ourselves that the
pioneers had.”
Haven’t the opportunity r wnn
our three dimensional lives open
ing up new trades, new profes
• sions, new types of work—or new
ways to improve old ones? There
are not the samo opportunities—
and there are no easy jobs—but
the pioneers to which they so
glibly refer did not have easy
lives and their work was not that
to which they were accustomed.
They had to learn. Youth today
has the opportunity of going on
from Where the previous genera
tion left off. with the same initia
tive resourcefulness and adapt
ability. They can go further be
cause of the efforts of those who
preceeded them.
Man’s opportunity is limited
only by man’s knowledge and his
ability to utilize his experience.
There is always a place in the
world for the learning individual
_he who thinks—who wants to
give his best and to make his
work the means of helping others.
The frontiers are not closed- Be
yond them lies a challenge to stir
the courageous in hear and spi
rit—a challenge to do and dare,
and to find out
NEW YORK—Illinois Jacquet,
youthful “Dynamo of the Saxo
phone,” has hit the jukebox jack
pot again with a new Apollo disc
of “In Robbins Nest,” which has
been acclaimed as one of Jacquet’si
greatest efforts of all time in ad-’
dition to being selected as the best
jazz record of the month by Mich
ael Levin, eminent music author
ity and editor of “Down Beat,” the
musicians’ table. ;
i1 ■ ■ ' i ..I
t;0 cjew** bec&uGP
I
‘
1
| think some movie stars are
worth $200,000- a year—all of it.
I gladly pay 50 cents to sea a
movie, largely he cause I like the
star. Let’s say the star gets 10
i cents out of my 50 cents. That's.
! ail right with me.
Enough other peapla act
ehough pleasure out of this m*r
to ir.cace them to chip in enough
G:mes to aggregate $200,000 a
year for her.
But the government doesti^t
think I know what I like. They
take perhaps 5160,000 of the
star’s sa^rry for income taxes.
That means they take 8 ’cents
cut of my dime.
I thjpk that1 we, the people,
should decide who is worth what
to us, and that anybody who can
serve or amuse us our money's
worth should be allowed to keep
most of it.
.*.
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
By BLANCHE ALICE RICH
A paradise vacation land is
yours if you want it.
Travel wise Americans who have
exhausted the resources of Flor
ida, Bermuda and all of the better
known playgrounds, will be richly
rewarded by a cruise to the Virgin
Islands.
The Virgin Islands of the United
States form a northeastern out
post of the Carabbean Sea. They
comprise our farthest east posses
sion of the Atlantic, one thousand
miles east of the Panama. The
islands have a trade wind climate,
with no extremes in temperature.
Columbus discovered the Virgin
Islands on his second voyage in
1493- We purchased them from
Denmark in 1917.
The United States did not buy
the islands because they were con
sidered a wise investment' but for
war purposs. The United States
bought them as a result of fear
that Germany might get them.
Some p>eople wonder whether the
purchase of the islands was a
.sound investment. The United
•States paid $65.00 an acre. $25,-1
000,000 in all and when we think
of paying two cents an acre for
Africa it soundfe like an exhorbit
ant price. If we had failed to bny
the islands and they had become
naval bases for Germany, the pic
ture might be different tqday.
They also contribute to the guar
dianship of the Panama Canal.
However there is little hope that
the islands can ewer maintain a
normal American standard of liv
ing with their own. resources and
efforts.
William Hastie, who was inau
gurated by PreSidiat Truman, is
the first NegTo governor of the
islands, whose population is more
than 70 per cent Negro.
When the citizens of the islands,
heard that William Hastie was to
be their new Governor they ac
claimed it as a great act- They hnH
good reason to be delighted. Gov.
Hastie is hot a stranger to the 1
islands of St. John, St. Croix and :
St. Thomas. He served there in
1037-1939 as a federal district
Judge, the first Negro named to a
federal judgeship. Before that he
helped the Interior Department set
hp the Virgin Islands cooperation,
as a government-owned project"
which helped to revive the islands
sugar industry, f
Gov. Hastie, as an experienced
lawyer, has devoted much of his
Hfe for the rights of his race. In
1944, he successfully argued the
primary' election case before the
United States Supreme court;
which upheld the rights of the Ne
groes to vote tn Texas Hastie was
adviser oa Negro Affairs to the
Secretary of War. He severely
oriticized the unfair treatment
given the Negroes in the Army
Air Forces. Later, the army fol
lowed many of his suggestions,
and found that Negro and white
officer candidates could be train
ed together. He also received a
National Award for making, “the
most outstanding contribution for
advancement of colored people.
Governor Hastie is a very bril
liant man. He attended both Am
herst and Harvard universities.
He was one of the outstanding
men selected to be on the honor
roll for distinguished Americans.
In his new post, he has found
ample opportunity to meet what
he calls, “the challenge of the Car.
abbean,” the right to fight against
poverty and squalor in the West
Indies.
Let us take an imaginary trip
to the Virgin Islands.
Entering the harbor of St. Tho
mas, between Cuba and Curacao,
no island unfolds a more entranc
ing view than this harbor- Against
the dark green backcfrop of the
ridge lies the town of Charallote
Amelie. The government mansion,
where Gov. and Mrs. Hastie' and
their children live, is located there.
Your ship blows a blast and the
native people swarm around the
gangway, selling beads, fruits and
souvenirs. It is the end of the
journey.
The first impressions may be
disappointing. The enchantment of
the distance turns into common
place reality. The town shows that
it has suffered from poor trade i
and neglect the past few years.
But years ago Charlotte Amalie J
must have been a beautiful city, j
A hundred years ago St- Thomas I
was a fruitful fsland, and Char- 1
lott® Amalie was a busy port.
Thousands of Negro slaves toiled 1
in the fields, which reached to th'"
top of the hjlls. They naised sugar
cane, tobacco and coffee. But the
crumbling walls and mellowed col
ors have a charm that is lacking
fn the well ordered cities of Amer
ica. Perhaps it is just as well that
the old town remains as it is, slum,
bering in the sunlight.
The old Fort Christian was once
the main defense of the town, for
more than 260 years it watched
the ebb and flow of the island life.
It now serves as police headquar
ters, municipal court and jail.
(To be continued next week)
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Jesse T,
Henderson, Jr., Fisk University
sopohmore, has been selected by
fellow students as “the most Out
standing Fisk athlete of the year,'1
and accordingly was given the !
Jack Dempsey-Adam Hat sports \
trophy for 1946-47, at a recent
“awards” chapel ceremony. The
presentation was made by Dr. St.
Elmo Brady, chairman of the Uni
versity's athletic board.
k
Based on athletic performance ;
as well as on the maintenance of
a high scholastic record, the
award was “practically the unani
mous choice of the student’s,” said
H. A, Johnson, Fisk athletic dir
ector, in commenting on the set- ]
ection. ' ’ ... jtei |
A native of Russellville, Ky.,
Henderson has lived in Amster
dam, New York since he was 11.
Throughout high school he was ac
tive in track, football, and basket
oettt. - , , . 1
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The Swimming Pool Controversy
It is good to see that we have citizen* in the Htv *>f Om-ha
will stck to their guns when other members of ouur city acting in
official capacity endorse the opening of unsanitary pools. It is time
that these few officials stop playing with the lives, of our young citi
zens of tomorrow by letting them expose themselves to pools and
swimming holes that have been pronounced unsanitary by the Health
director of the city and the newly appointed director of recreation
and parks.
Pressure groups cannot be favored wb^fre the welfare of the
people is concerned. Our children must be given sanitary pools/ the
to swim in or none at all. He who takes chances with fh« lives of
these children commit a crime against society that can only end in
heartaches. If we give our children th^ in cleanliness and sanitation,
we can rest assured that no restsless nghtss will be spent worrying
about them. ,
If the pools are unsanitary as, they havfc been ^computed to be
then they should be closed and remain closed until they meet the
standards as set down by the Health DepartmefrU of the city of Oma
ha. !
The city officials must be more miindful of the welfare of the
The city officails must be more mindful of the welfare of the
peoples of Omaha as they are elected and supported through tax
monies supplied by the people of Omaha.
A Modern YMCA
Now that the ball has began rollng on the drivj; for funds to
be used in the construction of a YMCA in thd Mjid-City Community.
It is imperative that we the citizens of this section keep it rolling.
The Elks Iroqouis Lodge No. 92, under the leadership of its
Exalted Ruler Attorney Charles F. Davis is to lj; commended for
leading this fund raising campaign with a, contribution of §500. This
same organization went to the forefront earlier this year when the
members contributed $1,000 to the Cliildren’s Memorial Hospital.
If the Y’MCA initial gift goal of §10,000 is to be realized every
civic-minded organization and citizen must gjive their 100 percent ‘
support to this drive. This opportunity to contribute to a worthwhile
project such as the buildjng of a much needed YMCA shouldn t go
nuheeded by civic-miinded organizations and citizens. Monetary con
tributions of various denominations (is i Ceded now tQ insure suc
cess.
Militon E. Johnson, well-known local druggist in the Mid-City
Community acceptance of the chairmanship of this Initial Gifts fund
drive for §100 is and should be testimony enQUgh to the skeptic that
the progressive young leaders of our community are behind this
vast program. All of the citizens of the Mid-City Ccommunity must
rally behind Milton Johnson and hfs diligent working committeemen
giving them all the fiinancial assistance that is nee^-d tQ bring this
Initial Fund Raiding Campaign for $10,000 to a victorious conclu
sion. 1
There Is to be later on this fall a §10,000 general fund drive
making the total for the Mid-City Community $20,000. These two
campaign dml-3 will be merged wiith the city-wide YMCA Fu^icfe
which will come out of the total foi; a modern YMCA in the Mid
Ciity (community. For $20,000 the Mid-City Will be able to enjoy
a much needed modern and up-to-date in every* rresj^ect YMCA.
Through the complete support from all citizens of this commun
ity there is no reason on God’s green edrth that another) community
dream of many yearsr can’t come trrue. Let Whosoever will contri
tribOte. £
The Oire For location
An article in the New Y6rk Times by by Russell Porter observes
that' “the bus! in ess community agrees with Mr. Trnman that pifices,
iin general, are too high and Bhould bfe brought down to avoicT a run
away inflation and prevent an ecQnomiic collopt^, However, it vig
orously rejects, the idea of sole blame, and fersistk thajt the problenf
cannot be solved without the cooperation of labor and the govern
ment” f
It would be riidiculous tQ assume that representative American
business favors an economy of high prices. Our industrial machine
depends mi maps production and mass consumption, and nothing
could be more ruinous thah to have millions @f buyers priced out of
the market A number of manufacturers have redu^jd prices late
ly. nO the rettal level, the mpst intense tffort is being given to con
trolled prices, and to passing on to the cuonsumer any ecuonomies
that cuan be effecuted. The American mercuhant, whether he Qper
atens a big cuhair or a nsmall loeual nstoru is in intimate toucuh
with cuonnsumer probl’mns, and fie tliorougbly undernstandns the
gravity of the situation. n
• Important as these efforts to solve the price problem are, they
doomed tQ failure unless government and labor taj^ steps to put
their houses in order. The volume of government spending is, in it
self, a major influence in favor of inflation. And so, to an 'ever
increasing degree, is labor’s nsane dfemandsi for higher wages at a
time when product-on per mati-liQur is well below thg normal in
many basic industries.
So far we seem to have look to businiess alQne to,lower prices.
That is seeking the impossible. Unless the other two doftiiinant in
[luuences ojy ouru economic life—government and labor—coQper
ite to the limit, the disastrous inflationary spiral will continue its
wiee- . . . . o r : ! . M