June 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Vol. 54 



JUNE 1, 1916 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS ON LAST PAGE OF READING. 



PROCESSIONAL EFFICIENCY. 



piEl^'E work and team work, so long the acme of pro- 

 *■ ductional efifectiveness in great manufacturing 

 establishments, are beginning to look antiquated when 

 compared with processional work. At bottom its basis is 

 simplicity itself and is of this sort. Say that in days past 

 a blacksmith struck a piece of iron twienty blows to secure 

 a certain result. Processionally there would be twenty 

 blacksmiths ranged before twenty anvils. The iron 

 brought before each pauses, only long enough to be 

 smitten once and passes to the next. The first blacksmith 

 has just time enough to raise his hammer when another 

 piece of iron is in place to receive its blow. A man who 

 misses a blow promptly loses his job. Each worker must 

 do his part at just the right moment or it gets by him. 

 Active and alert men are j-equired and the pay, by tht: 

 day, is e.xceedingly high — and the amount of work ac- 

 complished is tremendous. Of course, the iron hammer- 

 ^ mg description is only by way of explanation. Sucli 

 '~' work would be done by machinery. But processional 



work ha.s already been adopted in automobile manufac- 

 ture, and wherever it is a(la|ital)le to rubber work it is 

 sure to he tried out. 



THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE RUBBER STAMP. 



IT is not contended that the rubber stamp is quite on 

 the same plane of importance a.*^ the rubber tire, 

 for instance. In value of annual product these two 

 commodities stand in about the ratio of fifty to one. 

 The car owner's annual contribution to the rubber in- 

 dustry aggregates approximately $200,000,000. That 

 of the stamp user is about $4,000,000. 



But in one particular the stamp far surpasses the tire — 

 in its universality. Bankers, merchants, ofiice boys, 

 farmers' wives, young girls with a dozen handker- 

 chiefs, all use them. There are 12,000,000 tires in use 

 in the United States today, while of rubber stamps 

 there are 100,000,000. Someone may say "That's a 

 rubber stamp for every person — man, woman and child 

 — not to mention infants in arms." Quite true. There 

 are not 100,000,000 stamp-owners, but over against the 

 ten men who use none is the man who uses a four- 

 story rack full of them. 



The rubber stamp does its work faithfully and cheer- 

 fully until it is worn out in service, and dies in the 

 harness. It has the supreme virtue of unfailing relia- 

 bility — it tells the same story day after day and never 

 deviates a hair's breadth. 



In fact it has become so generally recognized as a 

 symbol of docile, unquestioning obedience that when one 

 statesman wants to charge another with too unfalter- 

 ing loyalty to somebody else he invariably calls him a 

 "rubber stamp." 



A PESSIMISTIC PROPHECY. 



A NEW YORK financial sheet recently sent to its 

 ■*» subscribers a confidential 'communication, which 

 it claimed originated with a leading bank interest in New 

 England, that should surprise the rubber trade. The ad- 

 vice, which was'in the nature of a warning, claimed : 



First — That the production of plantation rubber had 

 reached its maximum, due to overtapping of the trees. 



Second — That a white ant pest was retarding rubber 

 production. 



Third — That reclaimed rubber could not be relied upon 

 to take the place of crude. 



Fourth — That higher prices for tires were to be ex- 

 pected. 



An expert who does not know a tapping test from a 

 tuning fork, a white ant from a whipparee, or reclaimed 

 rubber from honeycomb tripe is perhaps not to be taken 

 seriously when he talks i:ubber. Nevertheless, with the 

 hope that this catches his eye, we submit the following 



