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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 





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Charles, an engineer and practical rubber man, although 

 never in the linie-light, was a factor of the greatesi value. 



It is a pity that the great depression came when it did. 

 One year more of good automobile business and high- 

 priced cotton would have carried the huge business out 

 of the breakers and into safety. 



Not that there appears in the valedictory of the senior 

 Seiberling any lessening of his cheerful optimism. He 

 plans a short vacation. He has earned one, and may he 

 return refreshed and again find his place among the 

 leaders of the rubber trade. 



TIRES NOT A LUXURY 



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HENRY C. PEARSON, F.R.G.S., Editor 



Vol. 64 



JUNE 1,1921 



No. 3 



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THE SEIBERLING VALEDICTORY 



•o the rubl)er industry the recent pronouncement 

 of President Harding that "the motor car has 

 become an indispensable instrument in our political, 

 social, and industrial life," is particularly significant. 

 It presages a policy of Federal control of highways 

 that cannot help but add to the efficiency and popu- 

 larity of motor vehicles and incidentally benefit, in a 

 considerable way, the great tire industry. The Presi- 

 dent further urges Congress to so amend the Federal 

 Road Act that the national agency of administration 

 would be given greater scope and authority, and to 

 prescribe conditions for Federal aid to states that will 

 insure a high standard of road construction and proper 

 maintenance. 



The nation's Chief Executive well realizes that 

 waste and improvidence have long been associated 

 with much of the state and county road work in all 

 jiarts of the country. He recognizes the commanding 

 place of the automobile industry in our national life — 

 attested by sales of $3,500,000,000 in 1920— and the 

 motor vehicle as one of the five major units of trans- 

 portation. In regarding interstate highways as of 

 vital commercial and military importance, and in in- 

 sisting upon standards of road construction and up- 

 keep that will vie with the best in Europe, he is doing 

 the automobile and allied industries, and in fact the 

 whole nation, a service of incalculable value. 



THE retirement of P^rank A. Seiberling and his brother, 

 Charles \\ ., from The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 

 brings a pause in the career of two who added to rubber 

 history some of its most dramatic incidents. Beginning in 

 1908, the Akron works, with a product of $500,000, grew 

 in 1920 to more than $200,000,000. During that period 

 more than $20,000,000 was paid in dividends. There was 

 also added a factory in Canada, and another in California. 

 A third was also planned for Brazil. To assure raw the advancement of human welfare in the broadest sense, 

 material, there were established rubber plantations in scarcely any agency compares in accomplishment or po- 



THE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION AND RUBBER 



IN aiding engineers not only in varied achievements, but 

 in the furtherance of general scientific research and 



Sumatra, cotton plantations in Arizona, and fabric mills 

 in Connecticut and California. From these bases radiated 

 agencies, .selling units and service stations covering the 

 wide territory in which their markets were found. All 

 told, Goodyear employed some 66,000 people. 



The creation of this vast enterprise called for the 



broadest vision, undaunted courage and extraordinary 



o^ organizing faculty. All of these attributes the senior 



Seiberling had to a very unusual degree. His brother 



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tential service with The Engineering Foundation of 

 United Engineering Society, New York, N. Y., which has 

 just completed its sixth year of usefulness. In its latest 

 report it points out that there is need of support for 

 further researches, many of them being of especial in- 

 terest to rubber men, as, for instance, such as concern 

 electrical insulation, colloidal lubricants and the funda- 

 mental principles of lubrication, developing maximum 

 energy from all kinds of fuel, highwav construction ("in- 



