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Patent Lawyer Describes
Genius as Successful Lunatic
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Jan. 23 UH There's a patent lawyer here who
starts a new client off with this quotation:
"The difference between a genius and a lunatic is that a genius
a successful lunatic."
A. Harry Crowell of Kimmel & Crowell isn't trying to be
little prospective clients or ais
courage business when he says
that.
'Everv inventor thinks he
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Truman Forces Won Battle but
Not the War on Fair Deal Bills
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, Jan. 23 VP) The Truman administration won the
battle, but not the war at least not yet.
This was the battle: Whether the Truman program could be
bottled up for the rest of this congressional session by the rules
This committee of 12 members'
with four Trumanites over
whelmed by 4 southern demo
crats and 4 republicans was all
set to block the Truman pro
gram this year.
But yesterday the Trumanites
won the battle when a majority
of the house, including some
republicans, voted against the
committee.
.-. This is the war: Whether eon
cress, before It quits next sum
mer, will shove through any, or
much, or all of the Truman pro
gram,
The rules committee now can't
block the program. And some
carts of that program for in
stance, part of the civil rights
program may get through the
house.
But that's not the same as
getting through congress because
before any of it can become law
the senate must also approve
And
There re plenty of southern
democrats in the senate, ready
to block the civil rights pro
gram any way they can, parti
cularly with filibusters.
So until the war is over, don't
bet, particularly don't bet on the
civil rights program getting
through,
Still, winning the battle was
Imnnrtnnt for the Trumanites
The rules commute used to have
tremendous power.
It decided since it was sup
nncori tn be a kind of traffic cop
for the whole house what bills
it thought the whole house
should vote on, what it shouldn't.
This meant the small group
of committee members were able
to bottle up any bill, any time
unless 218 of the 435 house
members signed a petition to
take It away from the commit
tee. Getting such a petition wim
218 names was never easy.
Last year the house stripped
the committee of this power.
Now the house can bring up
any bill after the committee
blocks it 21 days.
The southern democrats and
republicans on the committee
teamed up this week and asked
the house to give them back
their old power.
Everyone knew what this
meant for the Truman program.
Yet, when voting time came, 64
republicans joined 171 demo
crats and the one American
laborite in the house, Rep. Mar
cantonio (N.Y.), in slapping
down the committee. Their to
tal vote: 236.
In favor of giving the com
mittee back its old strangle
hold were 85 democrats, 98 re
publicans, a total of 183.
First Item on the civil rights
program in the house now is a
bill to set up an FEPC Fair
Employment Practices Commis-
for
Insured Savings
C First
Federal
sion.
The idea: To see that no one Is
discriminated against in looking
for a job because of his race,
color or religion.
This may pass in the house.
This is not certain. But I can't
see where it has a chance in
the senate.
Mrs. Bates Speaker
Stayton Mrs. A. C. Bates,
wife of the minister of the Sil
verton Christian church will be
guest speaker when the women
of the Church of Christ meet at
the home of Mrs. Mina Keithley
at North Santiam, Thursday
night at 8 o'clock. Co-hostesses
will be Mrs. Delia Keithley and
Mrs. Virginia Hammer.
Air Force Offers B-36s
To Aid Stuck 'Missouri'
Washington, Jan. 23 (ff) The
plight of the battleship Missouri
reportedly prompted a grinning
offer from the commander of the
Air Force yesterday to haul the
big battlewagon out of the mud
with B-36 bombers.
Senators who lunched with the
chiefs of staff of the armed
forces said a good-natured re
vival of the air power-versus-sea
power dispute was set off by
Gen. J. Lawton Collins of the
army.
Collins suggested solemnly
that perhaps the Air Force had
dropped phony buoys into
Chesapeake Bay to lure the Mis
souri onto a mudbank.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
Force chief of staff, denied it.
Just to prove that there is "com
plete unification" among the
armed forces he said, "I'm even
willing to attach some B-36s to
the Missouri and yank her out
by air power."
The ribbing was directed at
Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief
of naval operations. Senators re
ported that a sad grin was Sher
man's only contribution to the
discussion.
Mayor Joe Darst of St. Louis
Tells Big Shots 'Soup's On'
Washington, Jan. 23 (U.PJ Joe Darst, mayor of St. Louis, is a big
little man in a big town.
Down there alone the Mississippi river they don't pay much
attention to protocol. Not like they do in Washington where you
white-tie or sport-slack it by invitation.
Well, Joe was in our town the
other day. He was big enough
(St. Louis is in Missouri) to get
into the White House to see
H.S.T.
His assignment was simple,
All he wanted was a few million
for relief of a couple of the slum
areas in St.. Louis known i
"Kerry Patch" and "Goat Hill
If you've ever prowled around
St. -Louis as I have, you know
these sections could stand a lit
tle fixing up,
Anyhow, Joe Darst did his
duty at the White House and
then wandered over to the Stat
ler hotel where he was to pitch
a fine old St. . Louis hoe-down
for a lot of people. They includ
ed the three congressmen from
St. Louis: Frank Karsten, John
Sullivan and Raymond Karst
all good, deserving democrats.
The mayor read all about
Washington protocol. He didn't
want to make any mistakes.
Carolyn Hagner Shaw in her
little book had set down the
rules, and he read them all. Sit
the big shot first, the next big
shot, and go on from there, the
book said.
Down in St. Louis no small
town, mind you they just sit
down as they come in and tuck
a napkin under the chin and pad
dle into the soup. Same as you
do in most places except Wash
ington.
But Joe Darst likes to follow
the rules of the Romans when
in Rome, etc. So he looked over
at his assembled guests.
There was A. B. Silverman, as
sistant commissioner of field op
erations, area C, of the public
housing administration. Where to
sit him?
There was John Taylor Eagan
the commissioner of public
housing. Put him on the mayor's
left or right?
There were other big shots,
and small shots, many of whom
could do St. Louis a fine turn.
How about them?
It was all so confusing the
mayor soon was having trouble
telling a big shot from a little
one. So he started counting no
ses. There were old friends poli
tical friends and new friends
he'd just met. There was this
guy from the White House and
that one from his own ward in
St. Louis.
So many, in fact, his eyes be
gan to blur. What to do?
Darst called Sullivan into
huddle and whispered something
about protocol.
"Why don t you do it this
way?" Sullivan whispered back.
The mayor did. He pulled
himself up to his full height and
bellowed:
"Soup's on!"
There was a scramble for the
few available seats. Clerks got in
ahead of congressmen and Com
missioner Eagan wound up at
the foot of the table.
But the celery was good. Also
the steak.
Mayor Darst grinned his way
through it all big city style
and gave forth with a speech to
make St. Louis proud.
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has a million dollars done up in
his invention," Crowell said. "I
give 'em all the same business,
but they go ahead and spend
their 'money anyhow and learn
the hard way. Most of them
don't make it. But I try to play
square."
The minimum for getting a
new clothes pin or mouse trap
anything else patented is
$240. It is broken down like
this:
...
The search record cost is $15.
That is the cost of clerks who
look into patent office files to
see if anything like your inven
tion has been patented. Chances
are 100 to 1 it has been.
The fee for filing for a patent
is $30. The average for having a
drawing made is $15. The attor
ney will charge you at least
$150, and there is a second gov
ernment fee of $30 when every
thing is ready to go into the
books.
Most of the time a model is
not required.
Crowell has had some dandies
walk into his office during the
past decade or so.
But they all walk on air,"
he said. "Never once have I had
prospect refuse ,to offer me
the $15 search fee even though
advise most of them they
haven't a chance in a million
to make a million or a dollar."
About four years ago, Crow
ell said, a man came into his of
fice and said he had invented an
airplane which would "kick it
self back through the air and
then jet Itself ahead through a
spring arrangement." He show
ed the lawyer a model which
cost $10,000.
I told him it wouldn t work,
the patent man said. "He insist
ed, so I set the fee at $2,000,
thinking I would discourage
him. He reached in his brief
case and came up with a wad of
bills that would choke a dino
saur. He left me the money and
walked out.
I put the money on deposit,
but to this day I haven't heard
another word from him. Neith
er have I heard of anybody in
venting an airplane backing up
to get forward."
One of Crowell s clients Is a
man who is trying to invent an
ashtray that is fool-proof. One
that will always keep the ashes
inside the tray and at the right
time snuff out a burning cigar
ette.
The man has paid fee after fee
on numerous false starts on the
invention, but so far he hasn't
come up with anytning tnat
could get through the tough pat
ent examiners. Or make sense
to Crowell.
I asked the lawyer about all
of the complicated language
used to describe patents. Two or
three "saids" in one sentence,
and such. A trade secret, he
said. So that if you ever have to
appear to defend your client you
can confuse the judge.
'Describe it," he advised, "so
that it is utterly confusing, but
at the same time make it so
clear that when you argue it be
fore a judge you can tell him it
means what it does not and get
him to believe it. Is that clear?
Tracks Cleared
After Wreck
Klamath Falls, Jan. 23 VP)
Work crews and machinery toil
ing around the clock since late
Saturday night had shoved and
tugged 21 freight cars from the
Southern Pacific right-of-way
north of Klamath Falls and open
ed the line to traffic early this
morning.
ihe northbound passenger.
tne cascade, was eased through
the derailment site shortly af
ter 6 a. m. Salvage work on the
shattered cars and the big loco
motive, which cleared the tracks
after it struck a boulder, is still
going on and probably will take
several days.
The roadbed was not exten
sively damaged by the costly de
rallment but several hundred
feet of track had to be relaid,
Thawing weather was blamed
for the fall of the rock. It
plummeted from the high bluff
known as Modoc point, smashed
a section of highway paralleling
the tracks at a hight point and
fell to the rails. The scene is 18
miles north of here.
Five passenger trains were
stalled early yesterday behind
the block. The railroad esti
mated 1,600 passengers later
were shuttled by school buses
around the wreck scene.
Engineer Ernest Smith, Port
land, and head brakeman Wil
liam Poole, Klamath Falls, es
caped injury although still in the
engine when it overturned at the
edge of Upper Klamath lake.
The southbound Klamath pas
senger train and some freight
trains were rerouted over the
Siskiyou division via Eugene
and Medford, Ore., and Weed,
Calif.
Byung Choll Koh
Welfare Recipients
Get Medical Care
Albany Threatened suspen
sion of medical care for Linn
county public welfare recipients
has been averted by word re
ceived from Loa Howard, state
welfare administrator, by Mrs.
Ruth Cotter, Linn county ad
ministrator.
Mrs. Cotter said Miss Howard
told her the state welfare com
mission auditors had found that
Linn county need not divert
its remaining general assistance
funds to match state and feder
al funds, as was feared neces
sary to tide the social security
program over the remaining five
montns 01 tne fiscal year.
How the social security pro
gram is to be maintained Mrs.
Cottei could not say but she
expects further information lat-
Capltal Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, January 23, 1950 15
Koh Leaving
For Washington
Byung Choll Koh, student
from Korea who has completed
his work for a political science
bachelor's degree at Willamette
university, will leave in the near
future for Washington, D. C,
where he will enter George
Washington university. He ex
pects to earn his master's degree
at that Institution.
Koh, son of a republican party
leader in southern Korea, plans
to return to his native land aft-
completing his educational
program. During his stay at Wil
lamette the young Korean has
been assisted by a number of in
dividuals and groups. He ex
pressed his gratitude for their
help.
Koh's wife, Ruby, whom he
married after coming to Salem,
currently a receptionist at Fair-
view home, will remain here for
the time being but will join her
husband In Washington even
tually. She was born of Korean
parents now living in the Gresh-
am district and has never been
in Korea.
Due to exchange difficulties
Koh's parents can send him no
money to further his education,
but a number of articles made in
Korea have been forwarded here
and are now on display in the
lobby of the First National bank.
Funds derived from the sale of
these articles will be used by
Koh while at George Washing
ton university.
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