The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 15, 1919, Page 6

| EDITORIAL— Why do so many inventors fail to financially realize on their inventions? It is more often their failure to recognize certain very Simple natural laws of business rather than the shrewd Maneuvering of others. There are three elements to a financial success from a new invention: First, there is the invention itself, then there is its eco nomical production and finally the selling—educating people to buy it and use it. This means that those who supply each of these elements are entitled to a share in the profits, to say nothing of those who finance the enterprise and who may assume large risk ‘on its outcome. More often the largest problem of a new invention is its sale—its introduction. There is frequently more time, money, effort and some- * times more ingenuity displayed in marketing a device than in its original invention. All of us are more or less conservative about buying new devices and adopting new ways and manners of doing , , and this tendency must be broken down by educa- tional advertising and personal salesmanship. It took more time and money and effort to introduce the meron into one city than it did to invent it. is was also true with the sewing machine—people first thought it a device of the evil one to throw poor Women out of employment. Up until the organization of the International Harvester a very large part of the profits from the sale of harvesters were used in sales—inducing farmers to use Then, in cases where inventors are in business control of their enterprises, there is a tendency in them not to let their child alone. That is, they spend their time and money in bringing ‘out improvements faster than the device can be manufac- tured and sold. They fail to market their inventions in a commercial ' state of perfection, but quantity production, sales and adver- tising campaigns are held up awaiting improvements. The first concern to manufacture electric fans failed three times for this reason, and did not succeed until a jon manager was employed who shut the inventor in an experimental department and did not add any of hs improvements until long after the fans had been on the “market in a standardized form. _ As a result the inventor made enough out of the enter- _ prise in 10 years to retire. The largest steel foundry in Ohio was built up around the invention of a certain type of car coupler. In the beginning it met with almost financial failure; for the industry was in charge of the inventor, who used a large part of his original capital in experimenting, making changes, in new patterns and the remelting of metal in an effort to improve upon his original invention. The success of the enterprise did not come until the inventor was relieved of the production, and changes not ee! in his device faster than it could be produced There is an old saying around a certain class of industries: “Many a good thing has died of improvements.” U See. That industrial disputes may be adjusted upon a basis ‘of justice and right is the firm belief of 85,000 members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, as voiced by their advisory board. The brotherhood was one of the labor organizations which walked out of the Washington round table gathering when labor found itself facing the stone wall of opposition to what labor’s and the public’s representatives considered a basis of justice and right. But that one endeavor for industrial peace is not to be the last for the brotherhood. This much is made clear by the board’s approval of the proposal to call another indus- trial conference, in language like this: “We suggest that immediate steps be taken to assemble at ‘Washington an industrial commission that will recognize the Fights of all citizens, and is not pledged to oppose collective bargaining, as this is a time for deliberate action on the part of all concerned for a peaceful solution of the Presegt conditions.” hope. To them it revealed rocks to be avoided in another national conference. By all means let us have a new indus- trial commission, setting for its goal—‘“a basis of right and ARE YOU READY FOR OPPORTUNITY? PPORTUNITY looks at your sav- ings bank book before it knocks at your door. If your book is blank Opportunity turns away and is lost to you. There is no better time to start sav- ing than now. Be ready to receive Opportunity when it-comes. Small sums deposited regularly from your pay envelope will accumulate with startling rapidity. You will be sur- prised how your store of money will grow and how it will earn money for you. Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank Second Ave. and Cherry St. Open Saturday 6 to 8 o'Clock Combined resources Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank and Dexter Horton National Bank Over 00,000.00 ? One round table failure hasn’t wrecked the engineers’ |! THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, NOV, 15, 1919. —By CONDO WE'LL SAYS Will Germany Yet Win the War? BY DK. PRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) EVERETT TRUE Chicago packers have been invest ne in the big New York hotels. Truly they eateh us both coming and : : ing Is Germany to win the war after all? | of radicalism receding. Except for a partial 6.0.8 ’ ‘ ; n RB b var | strike of the ‘movie’ mu all Berlin However, B. Frank Kidd of Went It’s worth thinking about. , y ; | Mridgeport, Pa, is the demorcatic Wars are won not alone on battle fields, | is working, lack of emplo - indidate for auditor of his home| but in workshop ing, and the savings bank As~ an | That is to say, it is the efficiency, orderly | ing. This condition hold y for all Tine sao ae te Return {team work, spirit and accumulated resources | Germany. Atte mpted trib can no Jonger We are told Henry W. Lewis is of a nation that give it power. count on any popular sympathy or support ing his tion to the limit Germany lost in the conflict of arms.|in Germany. The pec de id quiet and {rm Lown ip Visiting in Nanticoke. But she is taking up the battle of Industry | order and seem in a fair to get i ee a RAE din a way that may get back for her the | German labor itself is sick of ig driven A woman arrested in Cleveland for prestige she lost. into future strikes by radical leaders who aving her children and husband She has been compelled to disband her | seek to misuse organized labor for selfish Loan fer re bye igen | Army and Navy, which, altho a blow to her | political purposes.’ “id, “TD nen will under-| pride, is worth more to her as an asset than After the Franco-Prussian war, Franee tand.” And t n) » sent billions of dollars. For every Army is a vast | went to work, speedily paid her indemnity f to the wa “ *h®| Waste Machine. It is a leech, sucking the | and repaired her war waste. It will not eae ef erdienimuniund "oe people. take Germany long to imitate her example, 7 2 | The Allied nations seem to have gone | And any nation that will stop quarreling ] A Dayton man says he has tn-'crazy since their victory. Instead of buck- | and revolting and agitating, and settle down ae ae bagi not Py ling down to work, to repair the damages | to intelligent hard work and co-operation, sank) Jehan D, kefeller's? of war, their people are engaging in a| will speedily out-distance other nations ds: pitiful scramble for more profits, more | whose program is unrest and destruction. The magicians of the United) wages, less work, more pride, greed and pig- No nation can whip America. But Amers tates have organized a society to discourage ica can rot. If we cannot learn to behave ourselves@ headedness all around. the practice of exponing | Heat " The amputation of her F ide was a God- tr ax it hurts business Quite different from the politictans.|send to Germany. We + 1 of ours left. | and pull together, cease our pot-house poli- nee The nastiest type of Chauvinism has dis- | tics and idiotic Bolshevism, and settle down But, as the department store clerk | Producti ne 4 ahead oan emarked, “Thin in what 1 call a|/@raced our Senate. to ‘Production, the square-heads may yet beat us. Whan von Hindenburg could not do, the domestic flannel-mouth, arousing Class against Class, and the Politician, willing to garrote his Country to advance his Party, may accomplish. unter attack.” |. “American labor, a correspondent from Berlin, “incres afflicted with the | strike mania, will find Germany almost free from strikes, settling down to steady work, beginning to tackle the reconstruction prob- \lem hard and ruthlessly, and with.the wave | FAMOUS SAYINGS oF boLLEGE GRADUATES At Commencement: oO RIC N, Honor Man rth yw zealote, the remold into better, ee HORA’ of His world is ure, to mo nid shape 7 r a MONEYMUCH, Son ot DON’T HANG CLOTHES partment arrived in time to keep the = ionaire Moneymuch—"Yep, my blaze from spreading, I. le 4 tad will make me a vice president of TOO NEAR THE FIRE o F hin w ation right away, and| Clothes, hanging too near the|, 19 China, when a pupil is reciting rit dra na malary of 25,000 ber ane 1) fire | Bit lesson, he turns bis back to his row 2 Istove, were the cause small fire soft? Oh, I don teacher ; I don't | which resulted tn a $25 lose in the 3 eat ceatgee Beattle’s Leading a ie } 1 © I'm worth mor 4 fs than that | of C. B. Gifford at 1164 Kast Women property owners In Italy Dentist WILLIAM WIND—“All the fel |lake ave. late Friday. The fire de-| now number in excens of 1,000,000. 106 Columbia St | lown w — moe a = i nave to do ts to walk Into |—— nome big concern and say we want a) fat job, and we'll get it, Big firma are just crazy to get brainy college men like w 8AM 8 “HEY, FELLERS, BETTER KUM DOWN—MUCH She Call a ae Those cowards need not ever die BLE —"Den't get me I'm not underrating the college education, it's a j hg vi : = 7 made me keener quicker to ad Es pyi igs f die a thousand times grasp things and all that, but I must LAUGHTS tach day of living. my that I feel my course as hash We judge not; lower than the dust, 4 slinger In the Nifty Quick Lungh Their life belongs to God alone. in going to get me more quicker than my entire co course.” Two Months After —OLE OLSON i HE’S HERE Four sons of Washington who' knew The sacred blood of foreign fields HORATIO BIGBEAN, to His Have passed unhating. ; be > = ! ‘ Aer py ce TODAY st corporations have thelr own Those men who 1 in celebration Of victory have not died in vain. AND ALL NEXT WEEK ‘ MATINEE TODAY their employer nir, IU remold to more dign an you re Ye breed of hell, this land shall keep , a’s wt 4 , © » p sweet Columbia's law Thy curse of hate, MATT MONEYMUCH—"On the Our flag is ending. ain't it the limit of Dad making Awake, ye patriots! Free our shores wheel a t his biggest | 1 | —Leo H. Lassen. WILLIAM |tramping the streets looking for a job for weeks I was mighty glad to land this job running this elevator? | BAM 8 | bought this litte restaurant. | the restaurant business pretty well * you know, I learned about it while | In college. I'm going to open aple more places soon. Yea, 1 AM Of Russia! Answer for our sons! lt like a t in? ” ‘ ng along pretty well being Editor’s Mail | TOMORROW two months out of college!" ° AT THE SAGAMORE N November 16 in 634 Emperor od Susie Me fe of civilian ordinar from the Rapactous lease ashing hore from school r mid we should eat 3,000 ries every day.” F hol in em, amended |Deraist in t digents which he had com-|° | despite the te piled the previous year What does that teacher think we ‘ hag recently a ° jonaire . ed c *< pve Hg all In 1093, on November 16, Princess | {re Millonair pecan La Sealant coe Margaret of Scotland died. Mar on wie Ft As am inet garet, who was able a nt ot 1 look | : lent, was a sister of Edgn ® half a dozen.” would cite a a Gums ; Id to eat 3,000," bo 1 to Scotland when Conqueror invaded Englar a ied Ma eo ie Pp 4, you couldn't ember 16 fective October 1, the rents of IIL, the eighth k fi ents in thie building we ST a hc et eee re |Gied. He. eucceeded ~ think about what| |month. Tenanta « was signaily unsu 1 ir tay, the more tim ae ‘ . dete an what you ough notices that, effe Stes in his si . ad and © impris months after the pre riansctscaislaencnannti fF sdvances, rents wit moar] Mons. at home tah (OLE OLSON) _ | again. vances range from|ry\" yin 09 November 16, Edward from Atlanta to Savannah, cutting Famous “Swede” Comedian |$2 to $5 h, making the total!" sing england, was taken|, ath wixty miles wide, thereby} T ther With advance >» two months any. |Prixoner and put into the hands of |g « the Confederacy and de ogether ' |where from $10 to $20 per month |)" queer bwectengy ne: Spe ag the great source of suppiy| |per apartment him and finally had him pu of the » ern army. The troops |. In explanation of th vances 9" 1778. on } 4 Pr 60,0 in number ed | would « mo of th 8 for a November 16, the Bos-\try thru which they | which the nants are wan little bio 4 thruout the } | The exterior of the # very * march, but the area thru which the if Jattractive, but the condi of the passed was utterly denuded |interior madly belies the exterior ap a, crops, factories, horses t pearance, The walls in the apart lothing—everything—was appropri } |ments are cracked and dirty, and in ated or destroyed. | f |some places of the buflding the walls _ Sa Oscar ' are actually wet and the p H Gerard ing off, due to rain penetr | walls and running in around the win | dows. The automati White with which the building i « * with NOTED HEBREW FUNMAKER a ee ae ths toname ; IN A TINGLING, TUNEFUL [oe Sigeto edger esiandlorsdag lage © nine MELODY—FUN AND jobtain by climbing four flights up. his march from At * In the laundry are steam pipes for sea. The purpose of 7 drying, but like the elevator, these have yet to see their initial activity As & consequence, clothes must hang in the laundry from 24 to 48 hours before dry enough to remove from the lines, and the necessary tran ferring of clothes to make room for others ia one of the pastimes of the REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Sunday morning entitled, ABSOLUTE CONSECRATION “WEDDING CHIMES” ALSO management The iiding i boxes, but Tib these are not used, as being scrutinized ig placed under the | doors of the apartments by the man-| agement We are not permitted to forget our surroundings at night, but are aroused to a consciousness of the de lights for which we pay so dearly by |mice racing around the | walls, equipped with ma the other equipage the after P. C. SMITH MASTER » WATCHMAKER Mr. Smith has de- voted over twelve years to the watch- makers’ craft. His special work is on the jewels. If the jewels matt neg ROBERT’ LORENZO FAMOUS BARITONE AND FRANK W. BUDD TWENTY-FOUR PEACHES } IN THE LARGE In the evening he will discuss the subject, And for all these joys we must pay { ever-increasing The maxim “Make hay while the in sun shines,” has evidently belns cen, INDOCTRINATE Sontd watth neal ats { CALIFORNIA’S NOTED TENOR sr Mr Tapa ora a EVERY feation, leave tt to 1} | AUT Ca ae |no alternative a on vin peepee CITIZEN Ree knows MUSICAL COMEDY CO. | himself to be faithful to his interpre how. tation ‘ Your watch will SUNDAY AND EVENINGS, 40c ATINEE TODAY, 27c¢ , M. E ’ 1 would ask our honorable mayor jand city council how long ten are to be subjected to such robbery A TENANT OF THE SAGA MOTYE be returned irf A-1 condition, ang the cost will be nom- inal. Andrews & Taylor High school telegraph of Engli¢h invention can t deliver typewritten mes | speed of 120 words a minute. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring THIRD —AND'— MADISON. | @ MASTER ® || WATCHMAKERS '| 3920 GREEN BLDG. Let's go buy Boldt’s French pas-' try. 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