November 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS ON LAST PAGE OF READING. 

 Our Protest Jigainst T^adicalism. 



FOR tlie first time in thirty years an issue of this 

 journal appears more than a month late. This 

 was our protest against contract breaking and Soviet 

 rule. We thank our subscribers and advertisers, zvho, 

 -without exception, stood with us throughout the 

 printers' strike. 



SUBSTITUTING BANK DEPOSITS FOR PAY 

 ENVELOPES. 



MANY EFFECTIVE METHODS of promoting thrift among 

 wage earners have been proposed, but none 

 has more to recommend it than the suggestion that 

 large employers of labor abolish the pay envelope in 

 favor of the bank deposit. According to the plan, each 

 employe would have an account in the firm's bank, to 

 which the amount of his wages would be credited every 

 week, thus getting his total earnings into the bank at 

 the start. From this account he could draw as needed 

 for current expenses, the balance remaining on deposit 

 at interest. Personal pride would thus be stimulated 

 and an inspiration provided to increase the balance every 

 week. 



The scheme would appeal to those who had learned 

 through five Liberty Loan drives that the banks are their 

 good friends, and it would mitigate hostility toward 

 banks on the part of others who have never made use 

 of them. Not only would annoyance and waste of time 

 in the long file at the pay window be eliminated, but 

 accounting would be facilitated, and employer and em- 

 ploye alike would benefit through a greater sense of 

 (hgniiy and security than the workingman has ever 

 known. 



THE RETURN OF THE BICYCLE. 



AMONG MOTORISTS and others who have occasion to 

 to observe city streets and country highways 

 closely there is no doubt that the bicycle is coming back. 

 And its return is no transient college girl's whim, for 

 men and women, boys and girls are riding wheels for 

 reasons that bid fair to last. Chief among these are the 

 death of street railways in small towns and sparsely 

 settled communities and the high fares collected on the 

 trolley lines remaining in business. Secondarj' reasons 

 quite apart from necessity and economy are the pleasures 

 of bicycling and its benefits as a healthful outdoor exer- 

 cise. 



U'hen the bicycle went out of general use several years 

 ago there were few good roads outside of cities, and those 

 were monopolized by automobiles then just coming into 

 popularity. In contact with the oil used on macadam 

 roads the bicycle tires of those days quickly softened, 

 blistered and blew out. Moreover, the salutary law re- 

 quiring lights on every vehicle at night was then a dis- 

 couraging inconvenience. Bicycling became dangerous, 

 expensive and troublesome, and lost favor both as a 

 recreation and a mode of locomotion. 



But wider and better roads have become the rule, 

 "oilproof" tires have honestly earned their name, and 

 electricity has eliminated the bicycle lamp nuisance. Bi- 

 cycles themselves have been improved. All the advan- 

 tages that first gave the bicycle its hold on the public 

 are again as great as before, and the public is responding 

 to these common sense appeals. Indeed, the manufac- 

 ture of bicycle tires again promises to surpass its highest 

 past records. 



MORE FREE PORTS NEEDED. 



CONGRESS is belatedly opening its eyes to the 

 necessity of more free ports in the United States. 

 The Administration will probably recommend the pas- 

 sage of a bill creating them. A free port is an area set 

 aside where goods imported from abroad may be stored 

 without customs while awaiting reexportation or 

 other distribution, and, if required here, taxed according 

 to schedule. Such an area is exempt from all the red 

 tape of customs surveillance, bonded warehouses, bonded 

 manufacturing plants, etc., and the goods so brought in 

 may be mixed and repacked, and reexported with system 



