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Vol. 61. 



OCTOBER 1, 1919. 



No. 1, 



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\ TABLE OF CONTENTS ON LAST PAGE OF READING. 

 THE MEXICAN RIDDLE. 



DURING THE L.\ST EIGHT vE.VKs ]\Iexico has been more 

 or less a land of mystery. All manner of con- 

 flicting rumors regarding the political and economic 

 situation have come forth from that country of revolu- 

 tion and counter revolution. Accurate reports have gen- 

 erally been lacking, but it is well known that gross in- 

 justices have been committed upon American citizens 

 and against American property rights which have 

 Ijrought about a virtual paralysis of American enter- 

 prises of all sorts in that country and have necessitated 

 lie abandonment of vast acreages of rubber and various 

 ^ricultural products. 



With the formation of the National Association for 

 the Protection of American Rights in Alexico and the 

 organization of a concerted effort to remove the causes 

 of friction between the United States and Mexico, the 

 public will hear more accurately of developments below 

 the Rio (irande, and there is hope that something worth 

 while may be accomplished. 



Political affairs appear to be nearing a crisis in 

 -Mexico, and it is believed either that the Mexican |)eopIe 



will stabilize conditions sufficiently within a year or two 

 to give adequate protection to foreign capital and in- 

 dustries, or that it will be done for them. Mexico has 

 much that the world needs badly, and it is reasonable to ,-/ 

 su[)pose that the world will secure these commodities "^^ ^- 

 t!i rough intervention and the establishment of a protec- "^ 



torate, if necessary to ensure stable conditions. 



Meanwhile far-sighted Americans will cultivate closer 

 social relations with the better class of Mexicans; study 

 their needs and customs and lay the foundations for 

 future business, for not in years has the sentiment of 

 large Mexican commercial interests been so favorable to 

 better business relations with the United States. 



SIMPLIFIED CHEMICAL NAMES. 



THE RUBBER INDUSTRY welconies the determination 

 of the Council of the American Chemical Society to 

 confer with the Chemical Society of England and the 

 Society of Chemical Industry in an effort to promote 

 uniformity in the names of chemicals and their spelling 

 and pronunciation in the interest of clarity and for the 

 purpose of facilitating commerce and industry. 



Until recently the rubber industry has been relatively 

 free from names of troublesome length and difficult pro- 

 nunciation. With the advent of organic accelerators, 

 however, which followed in the train of synthetic rubber 

 experiments, came many new chemical names formidable 

 enough to stagger anybody other than a chemist familiar 

 with their derivation and meaning. For example, para- 

 nitroso dimethylaniline, hexamethylene tetramine, thio- 

 carbanilide and paraphenylenediamine are a few of 

 names of commonly used organic accelerators. What- 

 ever indicative value such names may have for the analv- 

 tical chemist, they are certainly a nuisance to the practical 

 rubber man and the purchasing agent, and suitable shorter 

 equivalents for everyday use are desirable. 



EMPLOYING THE DISABLED SOLDIER. 



EMPLOYING OUR SOLDIERS disabled in the late war and 

 making them self-supporting and self-respecting is 

 a theme frequently enlarged upon and which is worth 

 while emphasizing again. The president of a large rub- 

 ber company has set an example to which the attention 

 of all is respectfully called. In seeking a solution of his 

 own labor shortage, he instituted a careful analysis of 

 every process in his factory. .\ card record was made of 

 eacli operation in which a cripple could be used, and 

 special mechanical arrangements of a simple and practi- 

 cal character were designed to facilitate the work and 

 to overcome the disablement. 



-Many lines of employment were found open in elec- 

 trical lines also, and the jjarticular jobs in which disabled 

 men could be used have been carefully listed. Over 80 

 per cent of the men injured in the great war have been 

 provided for l)y the .Allies and what has been done abi-oad 



