Journal OF THE Patent Office Society Published monthly by the Patent Office Society. Office of Publication 3387 Stuyvesant Place, N. W., Washington, D. C. Subscription $2.50 a year Single copy 25 cents M. L. Whitney, Business Manager (Room 180, U. 3319 Stuyvesant Place, Washington, D. C. N. E. Eccleston, Circulation. S. Patent Office.) Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1918, at the post office at Washington, D. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Publication of signed articles in this journal is not to be understood as an adoption by the Patent Office Society of the views expressed therein. The editors are glad to have pertinent articles submitted. VOL. IX. AUGUST, 1927. No. 12. AN EXAMINER-TRAINING DIVISION Altho the idea of securing greater uniformity of procedure in the Patent Office by assigning all newly appointed members of the examining force for a period of a year or so to what might be denominated an examinertraining division before assigning them to the other examining divisions of the Office cannot now be presented as a new idea, having previously been proposed in the columns of this JOURNAL (Vol. VII, No. 9, May, 1925, page 467, last paragraph) in a paper entitled "Uniformity of Procedure in the Patent Office" by First Assistant Commissioner Wm. A. Kinnan, nevertheless, the presen tation of the same idea in more detailed form in a paper appearing elsewhere in this issue should be interesting to our readers with whom the originally suggested plan found favor. Of course, objections against this plan can be seen. For instance, with the present press of applications awaiting action, which is more likely to be increased rather than diminished in the near future because of the recently reduced time allowed for responding to Office actions, how can all these members of the proposed training division, both the teachers and the pupils, now be spared from the regular examining divisions? And is it not a long enjoyed prerogative of a principal examiner that he should train up his new assistants in his own private school, as it were, in the way he would have them go? Nevertheless, surely Congress has not recently been totally deaf to the pleas of the Office for more assistance, and it may be possible to persuade the principal examiners to relinquish their long enjoyed prerogative, if they can be convinced that thereby it may be possible to attain one step nearer the greatly to be desired goal-toward which we all strive, albeit sometimes unsuccessfully -of uniformity of practice and procedure in the Patent Office. JUDGE DAVIS WINS LINTHICUM AWARD Judge Stephen B. Davis, formerly solicitor of the Department of Commerce and chief radio administrator for the past three years under Secretary Hoover, has been awarded the Linthicum prize of the Northwestern University for his recently published book, "The Law of Radio Communication." This popular treatise on radio laws was selected out of over 100 manuscripts submitted in the contest. It is unique and has won for him a medal and a thousand dollars. Coincidently, almost with the announcement of the award, it was learned that Judge Davis had left the De partment of Commerce to become director and counsel for the joint committee of the National Utility Associaions, with headquarters in New York. The recent appointment of Judge Davis to the United States section of the International Radiotelegraph Conference, which meets here in October, is another tribute to the work of this specialist in radio administration and the laws which affect this type of communication. TO LINDBERGH O son of the Vikings, forever in story Thy name shall be first, emblazoned in glory; For Thor with his storm clouds assailed thee in fury Then thou rod'st near Valhalla and escaped his arms hoary; O son of the Eagle, through fog and through sleet Like young Lochinvar thou didst come from the West, And his legion of Honor his sons pinned to thy breast. Like a gull near the wave, like a petrel at height, O son of the bravest, with heart pitying and tender To their hearts they embrace thee, their homage they render. O son of Columbia, by the Norsemen who sired thee: By the land that has nourished, by the home that has reared thee: By the mother who trusted, by thy God who preserved thee: We laud thee, we praise thee; forever we love thee: O youth ever noble, arms everlasting were under: 57 Bellevue St., Newton, Mass. I. U. TOWNSEND. INVENTIONS IN MACHINERY PROPHECIED William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, forsees the invention of machinery of a surprising character and an era to be known in history as a period of developed machinery. In an address delivered by Mr. Green on the topic "Labor," before the Congress of American Industry at Philadelphia, and printed in the Federal Employee for April, 1927, he states: "The review of our industrial history, which this Congress is making, and the examination of the present leads to the consideration of the problems of the future. In speculating upon the unrevealed possibilities which we know the future holds, we are deeply conscious of many things. We know that marvelous and amazing as mechanical development has been this field has not been fully and completely explored. Machinery of a more perfect and surprising character will be invented and installed. We can not, at this time, comprehend the extent and use of machinery and mechanical devices in industry in the future. "The use of power is in its infancy. Its installation and use will be extended and broadened. The average number of units supplied each worker will continue to increase. We are stepping into a future which is filled with possibilities of advancement. It will be known in history as a great power period and a period of developed machinery. "The efficient use of power and machinery, in fact the extreme use to which it may be put, must depend upon the service, the skill and the training of the individual worker. We must always have the human hand, the human touch and the human brain in order to constructively direct and operate power and machinery. "The labor of human beings can never be dispensed with. The success of industry must ever depend upon the workers and those associated with industry. They are an essential part of industrial progress and industrial advancement." |