January 1, 1911.] 



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JANUARY 1. 1911. 



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A HAPPY NEW YEAR ! 



THE new j-ear opens under conditions favorable 

 to the continuation of the prosperity wliich pre- 

 \ails in every civilized country. Two years ago there 

 were to be heard in every business center in the world 

 references to the "American crisis," certain economic 

 disturbances which were universal apparently having 

 "come to a head" in connection with some bank fail- 

 ures in New York. But these events only proved 

 blessings in disguise, for the excision of certain in- 

 stitutions — or, what was more important, the wiping 

 out of certain practices — cleared the financial atmos- 

 phere and gave a guarantee of a sounder business basis 

 for the future. From that time there has been im- 

 provement in financial and commercial markets, hand 

 in hand with recovery from an}- depression into which 

 industrial conditons may have fallen. 



Between nations universal i)eace obtains. In the 

 industrial world no widespread troubles are to he 

 noted. There is nowhere any political disturbance to 

 check the genera! progress of the world. On the other 

 hand, a better understanding among nations is the 

 rule, as evidenced by the late Pan American con- 



" ference at Buenos Aires, and the growing support of 

 i The Hague Tribunal. All of these things may not 



lt: appear at first to have a direct bearing upon industry 



and coninicrce, but were the opposite conditions to 

 prevail there would be a different story to tell of the 

 business workl. 



In the industry and trade represented by The India 

 RiDP.KR \VoKLD the year just closed has resulted favor- 

 ably, and the prospects for the year to come are favor- 

 able. The producers of crude rubber are winning 

 profitable returns, the makers of rubber goods are 

 prosjierous, and the demand for such goods shows 

 the consumers, on the whole, to be able to buy freely 

 and at satisfactory prices. The industry, indeed, is 

 showing an increase, and in every department of it 

 there is life, progress and i:)ptimism. Happily this 

 state of afl'airs is an indication of good conditions in 

 other lines of trade, for in these modern days of inter- 

 dependence one department of human endcaxur does 

 not long continue to show ad\anccnieiit if all i- not 

 well with the others. 



To the patrons of The India Rubber World we 

 l)cg to tender assurances of our continued ajiprecia- 

 tion, and to wish them all, in whatever land, a Happy 

 New Year I 



THE UNITED STATES AND CRUDE RUBBER. 



A AMERICAN capital promises to become a very 

 important factor in the development of tiie crude 

 rul)ber interest — taking the world as a whole — ihi'Ugh 

 inxcstmcnts in this field were long regarded with so 

 little interest in the United States. But this a[)parciit 

 indiltcrcnce to dealing with rubber at first hands was 

 i)iily another illustration of the former American tend- 

 ency to ilcx'otc the energies of the nation to building 

 u|) home interests; to subjugating the land and creat- 

 ing a new industrial world and transportation means to 

 serve ever}' interest of the people. 



It is true that citizens of the United .States did much 

 ill early days to develop and systematize the output 

 of rubber from Para. It was North Americans who 

 adapted to commercial use the crude rubljer shoes 

 made by Indians on the Amazon, even sending down 

 wooden lasts upon which they might form more shape- 

 1\' foot covering than was suggested by the native 

 taste. The exportation of rubber from Para was 

 organized on a larger basis, whether for American or 

 European consumption, by American capital. When 

 Colombia ranked among the two or three largest 

 producing countries in the world the trade was con- 

 trolled in the United States of America. The de\-elop- 

 ment of the rubber trade of far ofi" Madagascar began 

 in the days when ships from this side of the Atlantic 

 went out to the Far East laden with American prints. 

 But in this new country there was much to do in the 

 wav of internal development, and for a while trade 

 abroad, in whatever line, was left for the most [lart to 

 foreigners. 



A notable instance of the change that is coming 

 about is the Iniilding by Americans of the town of 



