August 1.'1911. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



441 



legitimate basis of payment. It is apparent that unjustifiable re- 

 placements work serious injury to those dealers and consumers 

 who are fair in their methods and reasonable in their demands. 

 It is also plain that the buyer who is willing to make straightfor- 

 ward and proper contracts is relatively at a great disadvantage 

 in comparison with his competitor who succeeds in entering into 

 agreements which entail no obligation upon his part. The time 

 has come when some organized and concerted effort should be 

 made to protect and advance the welfare of this industry. This 

 is not to advocate any measure in the interest of a private busi- 

 ness or for the purpose of advancing the material welfare of any 

 factor, be it manufacturing or distributing, which w-ill work hard- 

 ship or injury upon another factor of the industry. The interests 

 of private business are absolutely dependent upon the condition 

 of the industry. The manufacturer's, distributor's and consumer's 

 interests are absolutely identical. Possibilities for service, utility, 

 progress and profit have no proper and economic existence be- 

 cause trade custom invites one factor or individual to take ad- 

 vantage of the other. 



There is no commercial transaction which is proper unless it 

 embraces mutual gain and mutual advantage. The fact that the 

 consumer has bought an inferior piece of goods, that a jobber 

 has caused positive embarrassment and possible loss to the manu- 

 facturer by reason of the uncertainty of his contract ; that a 

 manufacturer has. by injudicious credit, established an irrespon- 

 sible distributing factor, does not mean gain, but, on the con- 

 trary, it means a net loss to the industry, as a whole. This is 

 not to suggest or urge the introduction of any changes in trade 

 customs which are likely to make one branch of the industry 

 prosper at the expense of another, or that will impede pi ogress, 

 either general or individual, or that will discourage enterprise, 

 but, on the contrary, it is to advocate the introduction of such 

 general methods, policies and customs as will insure not only 

 to each individual enterprise, but to each class of trade the op- 

 portunity for more rapid and better development and growth. 

 It is to advocate increased opportunities for the use of capital 

 in the particular function upon which economic existence is 

 based, and more equitable treatment which should be based upon 

 justice and fairness and not upon exaggerated demands. 



FOR WRAPPING AUTO TIRES. 



ftUBBER GATHERING IN PENNSYLVANIA AND IN CANADA. 



An esteemed daily contemporary, hot after news, has made 

 two discoveries of vital importance — one that the inhabitants 

 of Hyde Park, Pa., have from time immemorial, been accus- 

 tomed to leave their rubbers on the porch, and the other, that 

 on a recent night some unthinkable miscreant swept througli 

 the town and cleaned every porch of its consignment of sandals 

 and "storms," leaving the citizen the next day to wallow about 

 with wet feet and heavy hearts. 



One's first thought on hearing of this new addition to the 

 annals of crime, is that it served those people right for placing 

 so little value on the humble, but indispensable galosh. One's 

 second thought is, "Did it really net the looter or looters (for the 

 thing was probably syndicated) enough to pay for all their 

 trouble and hard work?" Hyde Park is a small town and it is 

 doubtful if a clean sweep of piazza rubbers footed up more than 

 200 pairs. Allowing a pound to a pair, and with old shoe scrap, 

 at nine cents per pound, the gross returns would not exceed $18 — 

 from which must be deducted cost of gathering, packing, shipping, 

 coinmission on sales, and the necessary expense of maintaining 

 harmonious relations with the local constabulary. It really could 

 not have netted much for a hard night's work. If the four to 

 five million New Yorkers should all conceive the idea of leaving 

 their rubbers out on the front steps, that would be quite another 

 matter. 



/^ LOTH-WR.\Pri{D tires are the reason for the power wrap- 

 ^^ ping machine here shown. Its points are as follows: It is 

 able to wrap any size of tire up to 42 feet. Its spools hold 



Cloth Wr.\i>ping Maimine for .Automobile Tires. 



wrapper enough to finish a tire witliout re-threading. It gives 

 even tension and in threading only one motion is necessary to 

 put a full bobbin in place, and pass the wrapper about the ten- 

 sion bars. 



In use the tire lies flat on the tabic, and the layer of wrapper 

 may be reversed by simply reversing the shuttle drive. The 

 machine is speedy; there is no straining or breaking and it weighs 



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Rag Wrapper. 



about 1.600 poniuls. .-Xii adjunct to it. :i rag wrapper for filling the 

 bobbins, weighs 150 pounds. [The Williams Foundry and Ma- 

 chine Company, Akron, Ohio] 



