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WASHINGTON, July 3.—The com
ing visit of Dr. Mario Diaz lrizar to
the United States for conference with
business men and other officials of the
Pan-American Trademark Bureau, of
which Dr. lrizar is director in North
America, is expected to result in
greatly furthering the protection of
manufacturers who are endeavoring
to increase their export trade in Latin
American countries.
The matter of trade-marked articles
in Latin-America has caused great
trouble to business men and has long
offered a wide field for unscrupulous
adventurers and notably for Germans,
some of whom have secured large
amounts of money from American
manufacturers by methods closely re
sembling blackmail. Patents and copy
rights come under the same head and
efforts are being made by the Pan
American trademark bureau to cor
rect fhe evils that have grown up In
pirating the good names of reliable
manufactured articles.
The purpose of the pirates is never
to manufacture, according to William
C. Wells, chief statistician of the
Pan-American Union.
“They simply register the trad<:
mark,” he said today, “and thereafter
control the soiling of the article in
the country in which they have reg
istered it. That is all that is neces
sary under the laws of all the Latin
American countries.
"The object of the Pan-American
Trademark Bureau is to prevent this
fradulent registration. All the coun
tries of both Americas are Interested
in the bureau which has branches in
North and South America. The modus
operand! of the man who registers
trademarks is simple. All he has to
do is to find some article that is
being advertised extensively in the
United States and of which there is
a probability that it will he intro
duced in his country.
'The registration fee is usually
small and when the trickster has made
his registration he sits hack and waits
for the business to cotno to him.
When the manufacturer comes to in
troduce his article in that, country he
finds that he has to deal with the
man who registered It. Sometimes
he has to pay a big royalty or a large
lump sum to he permitted to operate
there.
I "It is to correct this state of af
fairs that the bureau was organized."
it was pointed out by an official in
Washington that a United States manu
facturers can easily circumvent the
trademark pirates by changing the
trademark when tie is reiulj to intro
duce the article in any country where
it has been fraudulently registered.
"But these manufacturers are loath
to do ills.1' said the official. “They
think that the trademark is the val
uable thing about the article. They
arc also sentimental about it As a mat
ter of fact tin- trademark is I'reiiuently
a drawback instead of an advantage
Knglish words used in trademarks are
often unpronounceable in Spanish and
Ihe consumer has to make known his
wants hi sign nicknames, it the man
til.' Hirer would change his tradomark
so that titc Katin American could pro
nounce it he would circumvent the pi
rates and popularize his article. And
the intrinsic value of the goods would
establish the market for the manu
facturers.'’
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INDUSTRY IS REVIVING
IN WAR-TORN MEXICO
IP\ltKZ. Mex . July .1.—"Mexicans
in the north aro raising less deviltry
and more wheat," was the way ah
American mining man who reached
here recently from a tour of the in
terior of < 'hihuahua state character
ized the conditions in northern .Alex
ico in the fertile I.aguna basin near
Torreon, wheat lias been planted in
stead of cotton this year because of
the ravages of the pink boll weavel
in that district last year which de
stroyed the cotton crop.
In the little valleys near Santa Ro
salia, Jimenez and Pilar de Concho
the native farmers have been harvest
ing their wheat crops and havo found
I ho yield much heavier thaij in for
mer seasons. Along the Uto Grand*
and Conchos rivers In the Ojinaga dis
trict wheat harvest* have bceh bouh
teou* and tho farmers In that district
are prosperous At Jimenes the old
ll.-K lahda Dolores mill, which was used
as a rtreas during the revolutions,
W. S. CARTER
A new photograph of W. S. Carter,
former president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, now director of
the division of labor of the United
States railroad administration. He Is
one of the best known of the leaders In
the national labor organizations.
has been started to grinding grain and
the water power mills near Santa Ro
salia are again operating after five
years of idleness
TEACHMEXiCANS
ABOUT THE ill
IS THOR TASK
WASHINGTON, July .1—The pres
ent lour of nearly one hundred Mex
ican newspaper editors through the
United States is regarded by Amer
ican officials in touch with the Gatin
American affairs as far more import
ant than it may seem to the casual
reader. It is one of the steps which
it is hoped may thwart the German
propaganda ivi Mexico and defeat the
sinister effort to align the republic
| south of tiie Rio Grande against the
| United States
U.trident Wilson openl' recognized
• this factor when he addresso-l the ed
' itors in private audience at the White
I House, and then insisted that his
| speech should first be read by the
Mexican people before It was printed
I In the nowspapers of the United
I States.
“The stories of German atrocities In
Belgium," said one ef the American of
[ ficials in touch with Gatin affairs, "do
not seriously disturb the average
Mexican.
“Of course, the better classes, those
who are highly educated, have the
same feeling regarding the treatment
of the Belgians as the rest of the civil
ized world, hut his class is comparu
lively small. The greater part of the
Mexican people have seen so much
horror in recent revolutions that an
other horror has little effect upon
them.
"The Germans in Mexico nave per
i sistently impressed upon the Mexicans
that German efficiency and forehaml
i edness. as well as German valor, are
going to win the war Kvcry slight
victory is immensely magnified when
! related io the Mexicans. An ex
ample of this was shown when the
pro-German press in Mexico reported
the sinking of sixteen American bat
tleships' off our coast recently by I
: boats when, as a matter of fact, a
few coasting vessels only were sunk.
"The Mexican editors are sending
back in their papers stories telling
j something of what the United States
j is doing to win the war. These stories
,annot fall to Impress the readers,
^ as tlie Mexican likes above all a win
1 tier. The visitors have seen many
tilings that very few Americans have
seen: the wonderful work of our ship
yards, munitions plants and big gun
works. They, are more and more im
pressed not only with the fact that
the United States is in the war to
win but with the fact that the allies
with the help of the United States
will surely wtn the war
“This Is the message that the Mex
ican editors are sending back to Mex
ico daily—that Germany Is doomed.
They fully apreclate the fact that the
United States has not yet reached her
maximum of productiveness either of
men or material and that the deter
mination of this country to make the
world safe for democracy is unshak
able. And they realize that when the
war is over the United States will have
a tremendous trained army.
This visit of e4Uor? from our sis
ter.republic Is of iupredic Importance
at Ihls time when the Gormans In
th«)r country are doing their utmost
to create trouble of a serious nature
between the two countries."
mnhnbovsmmmbmhnk* raw aw®
HERMAN RESERVE ARMY
CONSISTS OF TOOTHS
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, July 3,—German youth*
of the 1 !tl9 class who were serving
In thirty divisions of the German army
arc among the prisoners who havi
been captured within the month. In
formation shows that men of this class
are at the front in still other divisions
It Is known that these young men
ant placed In the regiments to the pro
portion of ten to each company and
that they are called upon in Iarget
proportion as reinforcements to re
place the men lost in battle. They
were sent to the front generally after
only five months of training owing tc
the haste of the German preparations
j for the present great offensive on th(
western front."
ADMONISHES JAPANESE
TO STICK TO IDEALS
TOKIO, July 3.—Premier Count Ter
auchi told the governors of the em
pire In conference recently that Japan
should not adopt the new ideas now
spreading from the west to the east.
The government, he said, Is planning
to cultivate among the people relt
glous faith, national morals and thrift
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