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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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materials have repeatedly outworn leather soles. In addition 

 they have offered slip-proof and waterproof features besides great 

 flexibility and ease in breaking in new shoes. Not only in the 

 Army have these tests been made, but in civilian life as well, and 

 many reports are availal)lc where fiberized soles have greatly 

 outworn leather on the shoes of men, women, boys, and girls. 



Men accustomed to being out in all inclemencies of the weather, 

 declare that fiber soles protect their feet completely and give 

 them greater walking comfort than does leather. A railroad 

 fireman once told the writer he liked their "sure footed" feeling 

 when he swung up the steps of his cab and that they outwore 

 leather soles when in contact with hot coals and cinders. 



Orthopedic surgeons state with perfect frankness that fiberized 

 scJes allow the muscles of the feet to fle.x and function with 

 greater ease and regularity, and thus guard the feet from nia!i\ 

 of the ills caused by undeveloped foot muscles and retanlcl 

 blood circulation in the extremities. 



Those who have come to know fiberized soles for what the\ 

 are have learned to swear by them instead of at them and only 

 lament the fact that they are not obtainable on a greater variety 

 of shoes. Any Boy Scout who has worn fiberized soles will 

 assert that he likes them because he can climb the rocky and 

 grassy places without fear of slipping and that his feet do uca 

 tire easily on the long "hikes" with his company. 



ATTRACTIVE BUSINESS POSSIBILITIES. 



Rubber manufacturers will appreciate the fact that fiberized 

 soles are not a seasonable product like garden hose, but that they 

 arc a steady all the year around product for the manufacturer 

 who can produce a compound that will meet the requirements. 

 The whole rubber trade should work together for a product tha^ 

 will meet these demands — one that will attach to heavy shoes with 

 nails, one that will apply to children's shoes without ripping and 

 puffing and one that will apply to house slippers and thus afiford 

 comfort and surefootedness at ever.\- step. These problem.s once 

 solved, a business comparable with almost any of the other 

 great industries in rubber is assured. 



SIXTH NATIONAL CHEMICAL EXPOSITION. 



The Sixth Xational Exposition of Chemical Industries, which 

 opens September 20, at Grand Central Palace, New York 

 City, will be the biggest display of its kind ever seen. Four 

 floors of the Palace are necessary to house the display, and 

 because of the remarkably wide range of the exhibits this year, 

 the exposition will be divided into sections. 



The New Jersey Zinc Co.'s display will occupy booth No. 9 

 and a portion of booth No. S, on the main floor, and be in 

 charge of W. Homer Hendricks, general sales engineer. One 

 exhibit will show the route of the zinc ore during manufacture, 

 as well as the ultimate uses of the products. Various zinc 

 products of the "Horse Head" family will also be displayed. 



The Morse Chain Co., Ithaca, New York, will exhibit a num- 

 ber of samples of diflferent chains, showing the Morse rocker 

 joint, from %-inch . pitch to 3-inch pitch, and in several 

 widths illustrating the chain as used for Va-h.p. to S.OOO-h.p. 

 T. G. Anderson, manager of the New York office, will be in 

 charge, assisted by H. W. Evans, sales engineer. 



The Uehling Instrument Co., 71 Broadway, New York City, 

 will exhibit its fuel-saving device at the Chemical Show, and 

 also at the National Association of Stationary Engineers Con- 

 vention, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 13-17. The prin- 

 cipal products to be displayed will be the new "Style U'' CO,- 

 rccording equipment, which measures the heat discharged up 

 the chimney, and other boiler-room instruments. 



'The National Aniline & Chemical Co., New York City, will 

 have a comprehensive exhibit of dyes and intermediates of their 

 own manufacture, including rubber chemicals. 



Clifton' Slvs.-^k 



CLIFTON SLUSSER, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. 



CLiiioN Sllsskk, who has been appointed general superin- 

 tendent of the new Los .\ngeles factory of the Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co. of California, is one of the youngest men 

 n ihe country holding an exe- 

 ntive position of equal responsi- 

 ^^^^^ hility. He is but thirty years old 



^^HpP^^ and started with the Goodyear 



^^H^ ^T^ company less than nine years ago. 



^^C ^ Born in Massillon, Ohio, Mr. 



^^^■^P . .Slusser left school when eleven 



^^^B^. * years old to go to work as a 



^^C!,, ."'^'ss blower. Since then he has 



^^^*^ been machinist's helper, plumber, 



i^^Bpf. ^^^ .ind later drifted into the Good- 



ear employ as stenographer and 

 itility man for William Stephens, 

 low production superintendent of 

 he Akron plant. 



Meanwhile he had been adding 

 '.hat he could to his education 

 It night in business colleges. At 

 he Goodyear factory he at once 

 arranged to take a factory course after hours, getting into over- 

 alls and working through every department. Whenever an 

 emergency arose he got into it, and the harder the job the better 

 he liked it. When the flood of 1913 tied up the Goodyear plant 

 and volunteer workmen were called for, Mr. Slusser was the 

 first to respond. His work in this emergency brought him to 

 I he attention of P. W. Litchfield, factory manager, who chose 

 him to organize the Goodyear Flying Squadron shortly after. 



The Flying Squadron is a group of men who have worked 

 through every department of the factory and are used to bal- 

 ance production. It now numbers 1,400 men and has already 

 developed several hundred executives for the company. 



All this time Mr. Slusser was studying business economy, 

 factory management and corporation organization at night. Other 

 iipportunities came to him. He ran a department while the 

 foreman took a vacation. He took charge of the Canadian plant 

 during the illness of the superintendent. He organized an en- 

 gineering squadron among the machinists and other mechanical 

 men. Successively he took over the efficiency department, the 

 planning department, the factory expert work, the company's 

 garage and trucking work, the labor department and the aero- 

 nautical work. About a year ago he was made personnel man- 

 ager and admitted to the executive council, a group of five men 

 who, under Mr. Litchfield, are responsible for the operation of 

 the entire factory now employing 33,000 men in Akron alone. 



Mr. Slusser's promotion to complete charge of production 

 at the new plant in the West, whxh will start operations with 

 5.000 men and will produce 5,000 tires a day at the outset, is 

 the logical climax of his record in .^k^on. 



A NEW RUBBER MAT. 

 A new white or marbled light, pliable rubber mat, known as 

 the "La-tite," and which is made of live, elastic stock, clings 

 closely to bathroom floors, .ships' decks, and similar surfaces by 

 having been cured on a rounded mandrel, which gives an un- 

 noticeablc curl to the edges. It has fine corrugations, even soft 

 to bare feet, and can be scrubbed indefinitely. Hotels are using 

 them to save the cost of laundering hath rugs, and for sanitary 

 reasons. They are also being used in front of hotel room doors 

 and dressers to save wear on carpets, the mats being obtainable 

 also in several dark, solid colors to match most carpets. (George 

 W Eno Rubber Co., 1026 South Los Angeles street, Los Angeles, 

 California.') 



