THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1920. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



IN THE NUMiitK KUK .VlKlL-M.W Oy "TliE roRTAGER," THE HANU- 

 somc little monthly magazine issued by the Portage Rub- 

 ber Co., Akron, Ohio, John W. Maguire, vice-president and 

 general manager, pays a graceful tribute to the branch managers 

 and e.\p!ains their importance to the business. The number 

 contains portraits of all the branches and office managers of the 

 company from Boston to the Pacific coast, with many other 

 illustrations. 



ZwEBELL Brothers Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has pxjb- 

 lished a profusely illustrated descriptive catalog of 72 pages, 

 devoted to its complete line of tire repair equipment, repair 

 materials and accessories. It covers everything required for 

 the up-to-date repair shop, including sectional cavity vulcanizers 

 and high pressure- retreaders of the individual steam-generating 

 type with aluminum bead molds and reducing sliells for all tire 

 sizes up to and including 8-inch. The obvious economy and 

 efficiency of these individual steam generators appeal to every 

 repair man. 



The Eagle Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio, publishes a most 

 attractive catalog, illustrated in colors, of the many rubber 

 toys it makes. The cover shows a baby girl with her puppy 

 borne aloft by a bunch of little balloons of many hues. Balloons 

 of many shapes are seen, some with noise-making attachinents. 

 The prize novelty, however, is the "Eagle Brand" bag-pipe, with 

 a plaid bag, that should satiate youth's craving for noise. 



To spread information about their motor wheels and the 

 many uses to which they may be put, the Briggs & Stratton Co., 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are issuing a handsome illustrated 

 monthly magazine, called "The Motor Wheel Age." 



A valuable help for engineering and kindred trades is the 

 "Indus-trial Arts Index" published by The H. W. Wilson Co., 

 New York City. In alphabetical arrangement, but with many 

 convenient sub-heads, it supplies a subject catalog to the periodi- 

 cals dealing with engineering and various trades and technical 

 industries. Volume VIII, No. 3, for March, 1920, covers the first 

 three months of the year. 



"Holland's East India," which under the management of 

 A. A. van der Kolk, has separated from the Buitenzorg, Java, 

 "Dutch East Indian Archipelago." publishes an edition in French, 

 "Les Indes Hollandaises," as well as an English edition. 



"Transatlantic Trade," January, 1920.— This is a monthly 

 magazine published in the English language by the American 

 Association of Commerce and Trade in Berlin, members of 

 which seem to have penetrated into Germany as soon as hostili- 

 ties ceased. Instructions are given to Americans as to how 

 they may enter Germany equipped for business, and how they 

 may secure protection if they need it. Lists of firms that are 

 permitted to deal with America are printed, and also of the 

 goods that are most needed. 



The first number for 1920 of the "Bulletin des Caoutchoucs" 

 of the Marseille Institut Colonial contains the report and recom- 

 mendations of Dr. G. van Pelt, the director, on the rubber con- 

 ditions in the French colonies, where he spent several months 

 last year. He describes French Guinea and the Ivory Coast, tells 

 how cultivation and the processes of preparing and packing the 

 rubber should be changed in accordance with his ideas, and how 

 the African natives may be induced to better their ways. France 

 clearly intends to make a fight for her share in rubber, and Dr. 

 van Pelt's investigation is one of the first steps taken. 



Josephine A. Cushman, associate librarian, in the first 

 number of "Faculty Studies," issued by the Municipal University 

 of Akron, explains what "a special library for the rubber indus- 

 try" should contain, and in the footnotes gives excellent and 



helpful abridged bibliographies of many branches of the subject. 

 The appendices give the most essential scientific journals and 

 government publications with which a rubber library should 

 start. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. 



'■REPORT OF THE CEYLON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (INCORPO- 

 rated) for the year ended 31st December. 1919." (Paper covers, 345 

 -t- 18 pages, charts, tables.) 

 "T^he "Report of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (Incorpo- 

 ■^ rated) for the year ended 31st December, 1919," contains the 

 usual important tables and statistical information regarding crude 

 rubber exports and imports from and into the island, with charts, 

 including one in colors, giving rubber prices at local auctions. 

 The larger portion of the volume is taken up with official corre- 

 spondence and documents, and with the minutes of the meetings 

 of the Chamber. 



"AIRCRAFT YEAR BOOK. 1920." MANUFACTURERS' AIRCRAFT 

 Association, Inc. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. (Cloth, octavo, 

 9'A hy 6 inches, 334 pages.) 

 The second yearly issue of the "Aircraft Year Book," besides 

 interesting articles on the development of aircraft in commerce 

 and in war, and reports on the activities of the Manufacturers' 

 Aircraft Association, contains a compact and instructive sum- 

 mary of the technical development of balloons and airships in 

 the years since the beginning of the war. In this, some ac- 

 count is given of the important construction work done in this 

 line during the war by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber and The 

 B. F. Goodrich companies. There are many fine illustrations 

 and useful lists and tables. 



REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRADE OF THE EMPIRE COTTON 



Growing Committee, 1920. London, His Majesty's Stationery Office. 

 (Paper, 67 pages, 7 maps.) 



The report submitted to the British Parliament last October by 

 a committee appointed in the summer of 1917, at the instigation of 

 the British cotton interests, to survey the possibilities for raising 

 cotton within the empire, has been mentioned in the press for 

 some time, but now appears officially. 



It is of particular interest because of the desire, openly expressed 

 in many English newspapers, to free the British cotton industry 

 from dependence on the United States. The survey includes 

 Africa, with the possessions recently acquired from Germany, as 

 well as India, the West Indies, and other portions of the empire, 

 where cotton is raised, and is illustrated by the maps. The 

 example of the supremacy that rubber production acquired in a 

 dozen years by the British in Malaya, Ceylon and Southern India, 

 inspired the committee, and should give food for reflection to the 

 American cotton planters. 



"DYKE'S AUTOMOBILE AND GASOLINE ENGINE ENCYCLOPE- 

 dia." By A. L. Dyke, E. E. Twelfth edition, A. L. Dyke, St. Louis, 

 Missouri. (Cloth, large octavo, 10 by 7 inches, 940 + 22 pages, pro- 

 fusely illustrated.) 

 This compendious repertory of automobile information is now 

 in its tenth year, the editions following on one another faster than 

 once a year. The elaborate indexes are a necessary guide through 

 the maze of instructions about the construction, mechanism, 

 handling, adjusting and repairing of automobiles, their engines, 

 the ignition, lubricating, electric systems, tires and their troubles 

 and the myriad matters on which immediate practical information 

 may be needed ; everything illustrated fully with pictures and 

 diagrams. Special supplements are added to this edition on air- 

 planes. Liberty engines, the Ford and Packard cars and the 

 K. W. Magneto, together with inserts supplying additions of 

 very recent information to many articles. 



By Article 307, Section 2, of the Treaty of Versailles, car- 

 ried into effect by the Reichs Law of August 31, 1919, all patents 

 and trade marks which were declared void on account of non- 

 payment of dues during the period between August 1, 1914, and 

 Tanuarv 10, 1920, are declared valid as from the last-named date. 



