March 1, 1921 



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AS TO CONTRACT CANCELLATION 



THAT the worm has simply turned, and that offenders 

 are beingf paid back in their own coin, is the defense 

 offered in behalf of buyers who have been scored by 

 sellers in the recent epidemic of cancellation orders. Pro- 

 ducers, it is claimed, are but reaping as they have sown 

 during the past few years and experiencing the inexor- 

 able penalty of taking undue advantage of buyers while 

 the latter had but little recourse but to pay unreasonable 

 prices, put up with all sorts of delays, scaling down of 

 their orders, etc., or go without their goods. 



in some quarters the impression prevails that the can- 

 cellation wave is simply a drastic corrective of a diseased 

 commercial condition, the effect of which will be salutary 

 to trade. Care will be taken to make contracts to stabilize 

 rather than disturb trade. They will not be so one-sided. 

 If sellers are to safeguard themselves, they must concede 

 the right of buyers to do likewise ; burdens must be 

 balanced and responsibilities" fairly shared. As commerce 

 flourishes best when it ministers to the welfare of the 

 greatest number, contracts should, if possible, have not 



merely a dual significance, but also a multiple one, in 

 which regard would be given the interests of all, even 

 though they may be but remotely concerned in such 

 agreement. 



RUBBER SHOE SALVAGE 



WHEN the tire business of the United States was only 

 $5,000,000 a year and the rubber shoe business was 

 $27,000,000, tire repair was well under way, but rubber 

 shoe repair had not even begun. Today with the tire 

 business hitting the billion mark and the shoe business 

 considerably bigger than ever before, shoe repair is just 

 beginning to be an accomplished fact. The reason for 

 the delay is due neither to apathy of rubber manufacturers 

 nor waste on the part of the public. Worn out rubber 

 shoes for years were the chief source of reclaimed rub- 

 ber and had an instant and ready market. Scrapped 

 tires, however, were a drug in the scrap market as they 

 were difficult to reclaim. Had the cases been reversed, 

 rubber boots and shoes repaired or remade would long 

 ago have been as common as repaired or remade tires. 

 The low price of crude rubber, the vast progress in 

 reclaiming tires and tubes, and to a degree the newly 

 awakened thrift of American shoe wearers, all are re- 

 sponsible for the new rubber shoe salvage interest. 



LIGHTER CARS AND MORE TIRES 



AMERICANS can have lighter automobiles with a far 

 higher gasoline mileage just as soon as they demand 

 them, according to one of the most eminent' authorities 

 in the automobile industry, Colonel Jesse G. \' incent, re- 

 tiring president of the Society of Automotive Engineers. 

 He says that nothing deters manufacturers from pro- 

 ducing such road-saving and economical cars but the 

 msistence of Americans that cars shall be able to mount 

 steep hills on high gear and to "pick up" swiftly on level 

 roads, (iladly will the engineers do their part, he said, 

 in revising their designs in order to get the utmost power 

 out of every drop of gasoline; but the public must be 

 reasonable and cooperate with such bodies as the S. A. E. 

 This worthy organization has grown in ten years from 

 300 to 5,197 members and its activities are world-wide. 

 In a nutshell, the aim of the Society is to make the auto- 

 mobile, and everything that pertains to it, 100 per cent 

 efficient to its owner. Enterprising rubber manufacturers 

 now vie with one another to produce tires that will meas- 

 ure up to the high standards set by the S. A. E. 



The retiring president also confirms the claim made 

 by leaders in the rubber industry that the passenger 

 automobile has long ceased to be a luxury, and he cites 

 statistics showing that 90 per cent of all passenger cars 

 are used more or less for business, over two-thirds of 

 the mileage being for that purpose. Equally interesting is 

 the statement of Colonel Vincent that the average owner 

 of a motor car through its use increases his earning 



