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being used. The electric motor entails no power drain' 

 except when the particular machine attached to it is in 

 operation. That rubber manufacturers have been quick 

 to avail themselves of these advantages is shown by the 

 Census of Manufactures for 1914, the latest available 

 figures of the Department of Commerce. It appears 

 that of the 199,543 total primary horse-power employed 

 in the manufacture of rubber goods in the United States, 

 114,803, or 57.5 per cent, is electric. The further fact 

 that of this 114,803 horse-power 33,983, or 42 per cent, 

 is rented, instead of being generated in each establish- 

 ment, clearly indicates the importance of an article en- 

 titled "Late Developments of the Electric Drive in Rub- 

 ber Mills," on another page of this issue. 



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THE RUBBER SYMPOSIUM POSTPONED. 



' I "HE Rubber Symposium which was planned for the 

 ••• afternoon of January 8, Rubber Club Day, has been 

 postponed. It was found that the day would be so full 

 of business meetings, election of officers and features 

 connected directly with the work of the Club, that little 

 time would be left for the symposium. The plan has 

 not been given up, however, and in connection with some 

 later Club function it will undoubtedly be carried into 

 effect. 



ELECTRIC POWER IN THE RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



r* LECTRIC power has become a tremendous factor 

 '—' in American manufacturing. The individual motor 

 has eliminated the great first cost, darkening and dirt- 

 gathering propensities of overhead shafting, pulleys 

 and belting, which consume considerable power and must 

 be kept turning even though only a few machines are 



THE AMERICAN RUBBER INDUSTRY AFTER THE 



WAR. 



A PARAGRAPH in the economic convention between 

 the Allied Nations, drawn up in Paris last summer, 

 is becoming a source of increasing concern to the Ameri- 

 can rubber trade. It reads as follows : 



The Allies declare themselves agreed to conserve for 

 the allied countries, before all others, their natural re- 

 sources during the whole period of commercial, indus- 

 trial, agricultural and maritime reconstruction, and for 

 this purpose they undertake to establish special ar- 

 rangements to facihtate the interchange of these re- 

 sources. 



It is an indisputable fact that the future of the great 

 American rubber industry, which uses two-thirds of the 

 world's production of crude rubber, rests with the British 

 Government. There is not enough Para rubber to supply 

 the wants of this country, even if every pound of it came 

 here, and all the rubber grown in the Malay States, 

 Sumatra and Java is completely in the hands of England 

 and Holland. The British Consul General in New York 

 is able to satisfy present requirements, and while it is 

 unlikely that England or Holland would deny such an 

 important customer as the LInited States, there is always 

 that possibility. Opinion differs among American busi- 

 ness men as to the probable outcome. Some are doubtful 

 if the Allies will be able to carry out their program of 

 preferential trading, whereas others express the growing 

 fear that the restrictions ini[xised upon American import- 

 ers on the plea of maritime necessity will be continued 

 after the war, when England, Germany and the United 

 States will all be keen competitors for world trade. In 

 this race for business it is realized that England will have 

 a big advantage, for through her present control of the 

 imports of raw materials she has ascertained by whom 

 sold, the prices paid and ultimate destination of all goods 

 manufactured with raw materials coming from British 

 possessions. She has built up in this country a strong 

 machine for the control of our war trade, which might be 



