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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



November 1, 1920 



United States and desires to secure an agency for the sale of 

 second-hand automobile tires. 



(33.866i A commercial agent in Hrazil desires to represent 

 firms exporting industrial and pharmaceutical rubber goods. 

 Quote c. i. f. Brazilian port or f. o. b. .American port. Terms, 60 

 and 90 days' draft. Correspondence may be in English. 



(33.867) .A commercial agent in Brazil is in the market for 

 automobiles, trucks and rubl)er goods. Quote c. i. f. Brazilian 

 or f. o. b. American ports. Terms, 60 and 90 days' drafts. Cor- 

 respondence may be in English. 



THE FIRESTONE ESSAY SCHOLARSHIP 



In a competition that centered the thoughts of more than 200,000 

 high school students, their relatives and friends, upon good 

 roads problems, which will Ic theirs to solve within the next 

 few years, 16-year-old Katharine Flournoy Butterfield, of Weiser, 

 Idaho, won the Harvey S. Firestone university scholarship for 

 the best 500-word essay written in the Ship by Truck-Good 

 Roads essay contest recently concluded. 



School children from every state in the Union competed under 

 the supervision of educational authorities. The best essays were 

 winnowed out by a process of elimination through city and 

 state committees until the national committee, which sat in 

 Washington, had before it only one essay from each state. 



The contest and prize was announced during National Sliip 

 by Truck-Good Roads Week last May and was part of Mr. 

 Firestone's contribution to its success. So great was the in- 

 terest aroused by this effort to turn the thoughts of thousands 

 of young people to one of the nation's greatest problems that 

 motor companies, newspapers, magazine publishers and auto- 

 motive associations gave hundreds of city and state prizes. 



R. J. C.\Ln\vELL Co.. Inc., manuf.-^cturers of tire f.vbrics, 15 

 Park Row, New York City, has sent out a paperweight souvenir 

 that has more weight than the heavy plate glass of which it is 

 made. It is backed by two pertinent cartoons suggesting in- 



Distatcit, Columhtis, Ohio Star, Si. Loins, .Mus^ iiri 



A STfRY WiTHOfT Words Why Not Sit at the Small 



Table 

 dustrial partnership and better cooperation between labor and 

 employer, and on the reverse carries a few paragraphs by Mr. 

 Caldwell on "Mutual Good Will," reprinted from The Survey. 

 Such a reminder on one's desk, constantly giving out its good- 

 natured silent message, probably has more psychological effect 

 than many soap-box speeches. 



For the eight months January to Augu.st, 1920, the value 

 of rubber exports from London to the United States was $30,- 

 242,036, as against $9,744,511 for the same period in 1919. Ex- 

 ports of rubber in July, 1920, were $1,069,184 and decreased in 

 August, 1920, to $590,005. 



BRAKE INSPECTION DEMANDED 



\ice-Prcsident F. S. Wilson of the Thermoid Rubber Com- 

 pany, Trenton, New Jersey, and San Francisco branch manager 

 of that concern, certainly "started something" when, in a vigor- 

 ous address at the recent convention in San Francisco of the 

 National Traffic Officers .Association, he emphasized the im- 

 portance of having automobile brakes officially and systematically 

 inspected. Already plans are being made for securing legis- 

 lation for the purpose in California, and the indications are that 

 it will not be long before most of the other forty-seven states 

 in the Union will enact laws along the lines suggested. The 

 traffic officers of the country and the accident insurance com- 

 panies can be depended upon to exert their influence toward 

 getting the desired legislation, and public sentiment in favor 

 of all "safety first" measures will aid the movement powerfully. 



It was pointed out by Mr. Wilson that w^hile the brakes on 

 steam and electric railroad cars and on all factory, warehouse, 

 and office building elevators are set up according to strict gov- 

 ernment specifications and are regularly inspected, there ap- 

 pears to be no effort made in any part of the country to apply 

 the same safeguard to motor cars, which so tremendously out- 

 number the .150,000 elevators in the United States and rival 

 in number the railroad cars of the country. 



Mr. Wilson submitted statistics showing a remarkable re- 

 duction in the number of steam railroad accidents since Congress 

 in 1893 passed the law standardizing braking equipment and re- 

 quiring periodical inspection. He predicted a correspondingly 

 great decrease in automobile accidents (85 per cent of which 

 are due to poor or misused brakes) if braking apparatus be reg- 

 ulated properly by law. As an instance of the universal need 

 of such regulation he cited the fact that in a recent test on 

 numerous motor cars in the city of Oakland, 25 per cent of 

 the brakes on the cars showed a practically worthless and poten- 

 tially dangerous condition. 



STATEMENT OF THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Statement of the ownership, nianasemcnt, etc.. rei|uirecl hy the .\ct ot 

 Congress of August J4, 191.;. of The iNDrA Rubber World, published 

 monthly at New York, New York, for October 1, 1920, 

 State of New York, leo . 

 County of New York. P°' ' 



IJefore me, a notary public in and for the State and county aforesaid, 

 personally appeared E. M. Hoag. 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 fallowing is, to the best of her knowledge and 

 belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the afore- 

 said publication for the date shown in tlie al>ove caption, required by the 

 .\ct of .-\u.cust 24. 1912. embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regula- 

 tions, iirinted on the reverse (f this form, to vvit: 



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

 editor, and business managers are: 



Publisher. The India Rubber Publishing Co., 25 West F'orty-fifth street. 

 New York City. 



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



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

 Ycrk City. 



Hnsiness manager, 1^. M. lloag. 25 West Forty-liftb street. New York 

 City. 



2. That the c-wners are: ((live names and addresses of individual 

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

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

 of stock.) 



lUnrv 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, mcrtgages, 

 or other securities are: None. 



4. That the two paragraphs next ahrvc, 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 cf the 

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

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

 the name of the person t)v corporation for whom stich trustee is acting, 

 is given: also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing 

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

 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 affiatit has no reason to 

 believe that any other pcrsm, association, or corporation h,as any interest 

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

 staled bv her. 



v.. M. HoAG, Business Manager. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of September, 1920. 



Fredk. Sprenger, 



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Ni tary Public. Westchester County. 

 Certificate filed in New Yi rk County. 

 New York County Clerk No. 188. Register's No. 2210. 

 (My commission expires March 30, 1922.) 



