THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. 



"EXrORTER'S GAZETTEER OF FOREIGN MARKETS." 19201921. 

 Compiled and edited by Lloyd R. Morris, editor of "The American Ex- 

 porter,'' New York City. Ihe Johnson Export Publishing Co., New York 

 City. (Cloth, 6 by 9 inches, 766 pages.) 



THIS BOOK is prepared with the object of providing in readily 

 accessible torm facts about the world's markets which may 

 be used for reference by the American business man concerned 

 with forei.ipi trade. 



The countries of the world are listed alphabetically by con- 

 tinents; units of currency, measurement, capacity and weight 

 are converted into units commonly understood by Americans ; 

 maps of the different countries are provided, along with in- 

 formation regarding area, population, commerce, production, 

 industry, railroads, telegraphs, telephones, money, weights, 

 measures, commercial language, principal shipping routes, cus- 

 toms tariff, consular regulations and representation, cable rates, 

 mail time, postal rates, regulations with respect to parcel post, 

 money orders and reply coupons, and other statistics. Supple- 

 mentary tables and a complete index are given at the close of 

 the book. 



"Current Difficulties in Domestic Distribution" was the 

 subject of an important address by W. O. Rutherford, general 

 sales manager of The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 before one of the group meetings at the annual convention of the 

 Chamber of Commerce of the United States at Atlantic City, New 

 Jersey. In it he discussed the condition of American business, 

 with pertinent comment and constructive suggestions regarding 

 transportation by rail and motor truck, factorj' production, labor 

 conditions, finances, individual and industrial economics and the 

 circle of rising costs. Although money is the controlling factor 

 in the situation, he concludes that we are suffering more from 

 mental than financial instability and that there is notliing seriously 

 wrong with the country. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE CAMERON Machine Co., 57-61 Poplar street, Brooklyn, 

 New York, is issuing to its friends neatly framed illustra- 

 tions of the various types of slitting and rewinding machines, 

 made by this company for the rubber trade; and also views, 

 both exterior and interior, of its well-equipped plant in Brooklyn. 



Portable Machinery Co., Passaic, New Jersey, has just pub- 

 lishcd a 24-page catalog entitled, "Portable Conveyors," complete 

 with illustrations showing the various uses of the scoop con- 

 veyor and other portable conveyors manufactured by this com- 

 pany. The catalog describes clearly the labor, time and money 

 saving features of the machines in storing, reclaiming, loading 

 and unloading material, such as coal, coke, ashes, sand, gravel, 

 crushed stone, fertilizer, cement, chemical, etc. 



The Russell Manufacturing Co., Middletown, Connecti- 

 cut, issues a neat booklet describing the "Rusco" products. Since 

 Its organization in 1830 by the great-grandfather of the present 

 president, the company has grown from one mill to thirty-eight, 

 with a floor space of 450,000 square feet. Some of the goods 

 manufactured to-day are: brake linings, cone and disk clutch 

 facings, fan belts, tire straps, anti-squeak webbing and hand 

 lacings. 



The "Twentieth Year Book and Annual Reports," of The 

 Rubber Association of America, Inc., is just off the press. It 

 was prepared by the general manager and secretary, and con- 

 tains a Hst of the officers and committees of the association 

 proper, and of the various divisions. 



A membership list is included, along with photographs and 

 other matters of interest to the members of The Rubber Asso- 

 ciation. 



The National India Rubber Co.'s new factory journal, 

 "Keds Live Wire," the name embracing the shoe and wire de- 

 partments, made its initial appearance at Bristol, Rhode Island, 

 on Saturday, June 26, and was a very creditable and breezy 

 paper. It is to be issued weekly on Thursday for distribution 

 among the employes of the concern. Frank Damrosch, Jr., has 

 been appointed editor ; Francis J. Mclsaac, sporting editor ; John 

 T. Ashton, photographer; Pietro Vaccaro, Italian translator, 

 and Anthony Alfred, Portugese translator. 'There will be a 

 reporter for each room and the paper will include all items of 

 interest in and about the factory. 



INTERESTING LETTERS FROM OUR READERS. 

 FROM AN AGED FATHER. 



To THE Editor. 



DEAR SIR: 

 I want to locate the address of my son, Alfred Dunn, who 

 I am told, is a superintendent of a rubber company about 45 

 miles from San Francisco, California. 



If you can give me any information how I can locate him, I 

 will be much obliged. 



I. R. Dunn. 

 .\ged Men's Home, 

 51 Belmont street, 

 Toronto, Canada. 



A DEFENSE OF THE FILIPINOS. 



To the Editor : 



DEAR SIR : — Allow me to make some comments upon your 

 editorial of last month entitled "'.\ Setback to Filipino 

 Progress." 



While everybody is entitled to liis own opinion, I do believe 

 that it is not fair to state that the act of the Philippine Govern- 

 ment in refusing to amend the laws that limit the extension of 

 land that can be acquired by a company and that prohibiting the 

 importation of Chinese laborers, is a crass folly; and it is the 

 height of unfairness to say that this action shows the absolute 

 incapacity of the Filipinos for self-government. 



Similar laws are enforced in some states of the Union, among 

 them California, and we doubt your readiness to brand these 

 states as incapable for self-government. The Government of the 

 United States is really responsible for the exclusion of Chinese 

 laborers from the Philippine Islands. The laws limiting the ex- 

 tension of land that can be acquired by any corporation have been 

 dictated by a wise sense of national protection and according to 

 one of your own contributors, Lieutenant Colonel H. F. Cam- 

 eron, of the Engineers Corps of the United States Army in an 

 article published in the same issue where your editorial ap- 

 pears, "these laws were framed by an early American admin- 

 istration." 



Furthermore, Colonel Cameron states that: "The Philippine 

 Government has under serious consideration the necessary law 

 changes to permit large responsible industrials to operate. Un- 

 derstanding the present situation as outlined above, it is be- 

 lieved that capital with faith and courage in the Philippine Gov- 

 ernment may take the maximum land area allowed by present 

 laws and develop, using Filipino labor, with an assurance that 

 amended laws will soon permit this operation to expand on as 

 favorable a business basis as now pertains to the rubber-produc- 

 ing Dutch Netherlands and British Colonies of the Far East." 

 Arsenio N. Luz, Manager, 



Philippine Commercial Agency. 

 Grand Central Palace, 

 New York City. 



