NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering AMONOPOLY in the unpatented product of a patented machine is a violation of the Sherman Anti-trust law. For instance, manufacturers of sanitary enameled' ironware who agree...
...American coastwise shipping was exempted from toll payment by Congress...
...American naval vessels are exempted without specific mention either in the act of Congress or the proclamation because the authorities believed it unnecessary to explain the uselessness of payment from its navy department pocket to the one belonging to the treasury department...
...That Schrank is afflicted with paranoia is the substance of the experts' report...
...The economic effect of the prosecution by Attorney General Wickersham is interesting...
...Carnegie Will Pension Ex-Presidents Andrew Carnegie's newest plan for getting rid of his millions is the establishment of a fund from which to pension ex-Presidents...
...The Attorney General commenced proceedings in July, 1910...
...It is charged that J. Pierpont Morgan, through the control he exercises over foreign banking interests, has given the New Haven Railroad Company (his own property) a still more complete monopoly in New England by shutting off all sources of money supply to the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada, which has thus been forced to stop the construction of extensions that would compete with the New Haven lines...
...They form part of a "Health Grading Outline" prepared by Dr...
...The trade was practically controlled from producers to consumers," he said', "and the potency of the scheme was established by the cooperation of 85 per cent, of the manufacturers and their fidelity to it was secured not only by trade advantage but by what was practically a pecuniary penalty, not inaptly termed in the argument 'cash bail.'" Commenting upon this decision in an interview, Edwin P. Grosvenor, special assistant to the attorney general who prosecuted the case and • argued in the Supreme Court, said: "On the argument in the Supreme Court the main reliance of the defendants was the decision in Dick vs...
...Morgan's acts...
...The "license agreement" allowed the manufacturers to use a patented' dredger, but • only on condition that they abide by an attached price list,- would not sell to jobbers who bought from independents, would not sell in certain territory, and would not sell "second's...
...Health of the Child in School Do you eat breakfast every day...
...These and other pertinent questions are to be answered by the children in the public schools of Minnesota...
...Then followed traffic and mileage agreements between the former rivals, and it was rumored that the Grand Trunk had consented to cease its encroachments into New Haven territory, being brought to terms by Mr...
...In the official announcement it is stated that Mr...
...Roosevelt's Assailant Adjudged Insane John Schrank is insane...
...A similar amount is to be paid widows of ex-Presidents as long as they remain unmarried...
...Ernest B. Hoag, Special Director of School Hygiene for the State, whereby teachers and school nurses may learn in the most direct manner possible the physical condition of the children entrusted to their care...
...This charge was filed by a delegation of railroad commissioners from Massachusetts and Rhode Island...
...Under the terms of the grant, each ex-President will be given a pension of $25,000 a year if he desires to accept it...
...New Charge Against Morgan A new subject of investigation has arisen to claim the attention of the House committee on Banking and Currency, which is investigating the Money Trust...
...3—Upon naval vessels, other than transports, colliers, hospital ships and supply ships, 50 cents per displacement ton...
...The tentative plan is to base the amount of the campaign funds for each party on the number of voters at the last preceding general election...
...They charged that until recently there was competition between the New Haven and Grand Trunk Railroad and that the Grand Trunk had expended $2,500,000 in extensive building projects into the territory of the New Haven company, when suddenly it was compelled temporarily to suspend its construction work...
...Testimony taken in Chicago, in the government suit against the Harvester Trust disclosed a letter addressed to all the general agents of the Harvester Trust in 1902 which asserted the combination was "in harmony with the divine plan" and continued: "We believe that in the near future this great company will do practically all the harvester business of the world, for the company is wisely organized, and it is going to be and is managed on a broad-gauged, unselfish principle...
...Schrank pleaded guilty before Judge Backus last week and the court, under authority of Wisconsin's unique law, appointed the commission of alienists on motion of District Attorney Zabel, who told the court that he believed the would-be slayer was mentally unbalanced...
...Carnegie has provided this pension so that the ex-Presidents "may be able to spend the latter part of their lives devoting the unique knowledge gained' of public affairs to the public good, free from pecuniary cares...
...Rational Conservation of the mental and physical health of our school children" is the ultimate ideal of this and other current health projects reported to the United States Bureau of Education...
...Uncle Sam Lands Drug Vendors A nation-wide crusade...
...At once complaints poured into the Department of Justice...
...Do you have your bedroom window open or shut at night...
...has been started by the federal government to put out of business physicians and agents who advertise and' sell drugs and instruments which may be used in an illegal manner to keep down the birth rate...
...It was the vote on this amendment which is taken as the tacit endorsement by the association of political activities on the part of its officers...
...Gore For Regulated Campaigns Senator Gore of Oklahoma will introduce at the coming session of Congress a bill which will provide that the government bear the cost of presidential and congressional campaigns...
...Her activity in the new party was the cause of the introduction of an amendment directing that all officers and members maintain a strictly non-partisan attitude toward all political parties except in states where equal suffrage is in force...
...The defendants in the bathtub case, owning patents on machines used in the manufacture of enameled ware, attempted to fix prices and destroy competition in commerce in the unpatented ware...
...In accordance with this doctrine, the court struck down as illegal the "license agreements" by which manufacturers of 85 per cent, of the sanitary enameled ironware in the United States were bound together in combination...
...Suffragists in Politics At the 44th annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association in the shadow of Independence Hall at Philadelphia last week, the delegates voted 380% to 38% in approval of the participation of its officers and members in the affairs of political parties...
...Since the combination was broken up prices of the product have fallen off from 25 to 40 per cent, yet to-day nearly all of the manufacturers engaged in the business are running their factories overtime, and they all are making money at the reduced prices prevailing in this period of competition...
...Miss Jane Addams of Chicago precipitated the issue...
...The senator figures it would mean something like $1,000,000 for the Democrats, $600,000 for the Progressive party and $500,000 for the Republicans...
...It was to this provision of the act that Great Britain diplomatically protested, but no reference to the incident was made in the President's proclamation...
...Many of those taken into custody throughout the country are prominent professionally, •commercially and socially in their communities...
...Taft Fixes Canal Tolls President Taft issued a proclamation on November 13, prescribing the rate of toll to be paid by vessels using the Panama Canal...
...How much this would mean in government appropriations for the next presidential campaign can only be roughly calculated...
...In a presidential campaign the senator would have the allowance made by the federal government 15 cents a voter...
...The pensions are to be promptly offered so that no application will be required from the ex-Presidents or their widows...
...The rates named in the proclamation are practically the same as those which will be in force at the Suez Canal next year...
...There it was held that the owner of a -patent on a mimeograph may compel the purchaser of the patented mimeograph to buy from him, the patentee, all paper and ink which is to be used on the mimeograph, although of course the paper and ink are not covered by the patent...
...In a congressional campaign he would have the allowance 10 cents a voter...
...The report has been awaited with interest by shipping interests throughout the world...
...The press generally has disapproved it, contending that such provision should be made by Congress, and not millionaires...
...The combination commenced operations in June, 1910...
...Justice McKenna in his opinion declared the effect of the agreements was to convert independent and competitive companies into a combination subject to rules and regulations...
...The prosecutions are based upon the law prohibiting the use of the mails for the soliciting of business or the disposing of wares proposing or suggesting criminal practices or the sending of any packet containing any substance, drug or article intended to be used' for immoral or unlawful purposes...
...The man who pleaded guilty to an attempt to kill Theodore Roosevelt here on the night of October 14 will be sent to an asylum for the criminal insane, where he probably will spend the remainder of his days...
...The decision of to-day refuses to extend the doctrines of the Dick case to the unpatented product of a patented machine...
...The appointment of a special State director for school hygiene, and the institution of a searching but non-technical health survey by teachers and school nurses, are important contributions to the school-hygiene movement that is now steadily making its way throughout the world...
...Payment is to be continued as long as the recipients "remain unprovided for by the government...
...This doctrine was laid down last week in the important decision of the United States Supreme Court in the bath tub trust case...
...4—Upon army and navy transports, colliers, hospital ships and supply ships, $1.20 per net ton, the vessels to be measured by the same rules as are employed in determining the net tonnage of merchant vessels...
...It is going to sell its goods for reasonable prices and deal justly with all men, employees, agents and farmers, and that sort of treatment and operations will succeed everywhere...
...The President based his declaration of rates upon the report and investigation of Professor Emery Johnson of the University of Pennsylvania, an expert designated by executive order for the task...
...Henry, called the mimeograph case, rendered by the Supreme Court last March...
...2—On vessels in ballast without passengers or cargo 40 per cent, less than the rate of tolls for vessels with passengers or cargo...
...The verdict in Schrank's case was unanimous on the part of the five alienists who have conducted an exhaustive examination of the prisoner...
...For instance, manufacturers of sanitary enameled' ironware who agree with the manufacturers of a patented dredger, used in making the iron ware, to abide, by a certain price list and other conditions are guilty of an illegal practice...
...Do you own a toothbrush...
...The Secretary of War will prepare and prescribe such rules for the measurement of vessels and such regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry this proclamation into full force and effect...
...The proclamation is made under authority of the Canal Act passed by Congress last August and contains the following provisions: "1—On merchant vessels carrying passengers or cargo, $1.20 per net vessel ton-^-each 100 cubic feet—of actual earning capacity...
...The "Divine Right" of Trusts Has the International Harvester Company a "divine right" to monopolize all the harvester and other agricultural implement business in the world...
...Neither Ex-President Roosevelt, nor President Taft—who will on March 4 become an Ex-President— has given public expression to his attitude toward Carnegie's scheme...
...The managers of the company think so—at least they thought so in 1902...
...Post office inspectors and United States marshals in 72 leading cities conducted raids which landed nearly 200 persons in the government's net...
...Senator Gore proposes that the chairman of each national committee be given a frank which he can use within prescribed' limits in sending campaign literature free of charge through the mails...
...Do you drink coffee or tea...
Vol. 4 • November 1912 • No. 48
