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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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receive 20 per cent in cash on deliveries and the balance in seven 

 per cent 90-day notes. Fabric creditors will receive 25 per cent 

 in prior preference stock or preferred stock at par and 75 per 

 cent in cash. The $3,000,000 owed to the parent Goodyear com- 

 pany will be paid in prior preference stock at par. The company 

 under refinancing plans is to meet all obligations by September 

 30, 1921. The company's bank borrowing exceeds $1,000,000; 

 notes due in the United States amount to $1,219,920; rubber lia- 

 bilities aggregate $684,000, and fabric liabilities, $4,800,000. 



The Harry M. Hope Engineering Co., 185 Devonshire street, 

 Boston, has established offices in "the Dominion Express Building, 

 Montreal, Quebec, to handle its Canadian business. The Cana- 

 dian manager is George \V. Saunders, formerly connected witli S. 

 Pearson & Sons, London. 



STATEMENT OF THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



.Statement of the ownership, management, etc., renuireii by the .\cl of 

 Congress of AuRust 24. 1912. of The India Rubber World, published 

 monthly at New York. N. Y., for April 1. 1921. 

 State of New York, j ^^ . 

 County of New York, J 



'Before me. a notary public in and for the Slate and county aforesaid, 

 personally appeared E. M. Hoae, who. having been duly sworn according 

 to law. deposes and says that she is the business manager of The India 

 Rubber World, and that the following is. to the best of her knowledge and 

 belief, a true statement of the ownershii', m-inagenient, etc.. of the afore- 

 said publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the 

 Act of .August 24. 1912. embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regula- 

 tions, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 



1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing 

 editor, and business managers are: 



Publisher, The India Rubber Publishing Co., 25 West Forty-fifth street. 

 New York City. 



Editor, Henry C. Pearson. 25 West Forty-fifth street. New York City. 



Managing Editor, Henry C. Pearson, 25 West Forty-fifth street. New 

 York City. 



Business Manager, E. M. Hoag, 25 West Forty-fifth street, New York 

 City. 



2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individual 

 owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses 

 of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount 

 of stock.) 



The India Rubber Publishing Co., 25 West Forty-fifth street, New York 

 City. 



Henry C. Pearson, 25 West Forty-fifth street, New York City. 



3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and ether security holders 

 owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, 

 or other securities are; None. 



4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, 

 stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of 

 stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the 

 company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears 

 upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, 

 the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, 

 is given, also ttiat the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing 

 affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions 

 under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the 

 books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity 

 other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affinnt has uo reason to 

 believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest 

 direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so 

 stated by her. 



E. M, Hoag. Business Manager. 

 Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31st day of March, 1921. 

 (Seal") Fredk. Sprenger, 



J Notary Public. Westchester County. 



New York County Clerk No. 188. Register's No. 2210. Certificate filed in 

 New York County. My commission expires March 30. 1922. 



ANOTHER GOOD ROADS ESSAY CONTEST 



In the presence of members of the High\v;iy and Highway 

 Transport Education Committee and Harvey S. Firestone, Presi- 

 dent Warren G. Harding complied with a request of the com- 

 n;ittee and on the White House lawn recently presented Miss 

 Katherine F. Butterfield of Weiser, Idaho, with a certificate tha; 

 entitled her to a university scholarship. Of more than 200,00C 

 high school contestants for the best 500-word essay written on tht 

 problem of good roads in the Ship-by-Truck — Good Roads cssaj 

 contest. Miss Butterfield was chosen the winner. 



At the ceremonies the announcement was made that the High- 

 way Transport Committee will sponsor a second competition for 

 the Harvey S. Firestone prize, a four-year scholarship, including 



expenses, to the high school student writing the best essay on a 

 subject pertaining to good roads. 



The rules of the contest, which last year were conducted by the 

 Ship-l)y-Truck Bureau, which Mr. Firestone founded, will be 

 virtually the same as in 1920. All high school students are 

 eligible to compete, essays must be not more than 5(X) words in 

 length and must be in the hands of the local committees not later 

 than May 31. While no other major prizes have been announced, 

 local and state prizes are expected. 



A PIONEER IN BALATA AND RUBBER 



W. A. JOUBERT 



BALAT.\ MEN ill the Guiaiias and in New York were once well 

 acquainted with \V. .A. Joubert, who cruised for and dis- 

 covered many valuable reefs in British and Dutch Guiana. 



So well known was he in the 

 lines mentioned and in Mexican 

 rubber that a sketch of his war 

 activities is very interesting. 



Mr. Joubert knows Mexico 

 and its rubber possibilities in- 

 timately. His plans for estab- 

 lishing a large and profitable 

 business there had just matured 

 when they were dealt a rude 

 blow in 1913 by Mexico's interne- 

 cine difficulties, and, forced to re- 

 linquish everything, he returned 

 home almost penniless. Under con- 

 tract, he spent 1914 and 1915 

 lecturing on "The Mexican Sit- 

 uation." addressing many distin- 

 guished gatherings, and wrote 

 magazine articles on the sub- 

 ject, that were widely noted. On 

 the outbreak of the World War, finding himself without re- 

 sources, he bravely took a factory job as a "helper" and, as 

 he saj's, "revelled a year in j^ans and grease" with war-time 

 wages. He combated enemy propaganda, notably in "Neigh- 

 bor Hans," which, after a long magazine run, was used as a 

 war document by the Morgan Liberty Loan Committee. Mr. 

 Joubert also figured as a public speaker for the loans. 



From Liberty Loan work he was transferred to the Na- 

 tional Service Section of the United States Shipping Board, 

 making many telling speeches for the Allied cause. In one 

 case he prevailed upon the employes of eight munition works 

 to abandon a projected strike and to stay loyally at their 

 tasks. Next he was assigned to the United States Aircraft 

 Production Bureau but finding the work uncongenial he 

 sought a Y. M. C. A. post in France. The signing of the 

 armistice, however, put an abrupt end to all his war activities. 

 Since then he has been in the employ of a prominent New York 

 investment house, in which position he has "made good" where 

 many had failed; and with his wife and daughter now lives 

 at Newburgh, New York. 



Mr. Joubert has a son, Gordon, who, while in the Canadian 

 service, was shell-shocked at Ypres. and is in business in 

 Saskatchewan. Another son, Cleinent, who was in the United 

 States aviation service, is managing a sugar plantation in 

 Cuba. 



MiN.VEAPOLIS RETAINS AND FURTHER SUBSTANTIATES ITS RinilT 



to the title "Billion Dollar Market" in figures compiled by the 

 wholesale and jobbers' section of that city's Civic and Commerce 

 -Association. Trade in belting and rubber goods totalled $7,500,- 

 000 in 1919 and increased to $9,687,500 in 1920. This is exclusive 

 of rubber footwear which is included in the city's $9,000,000 trade 

 in boots, shoes and rubbers. 



