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RUBBER IN NATIONAL DEFENSE. 



THE United States has at last been constrained ir- 

 revocably to take her place in the battle line of 

 democracy. Freedom of the seas, a principle of vital 

 import to the rubber industry, is the immediate 

 cause that rendered the policy of armed neutrality in- 

 adequate ; but the great decision has a far broader 

 significance. America realizes at last that the fight 

 is one in which she must not fail to participate. 



In his epochal war message President Wilson made 

 it plain that this nation has no quarrel with the Ger- 

 man people ; that it has no territorial, monetary or 

 other selfish ambitions, but as a great champion of 

 human liberty, individual rights and the brotherhood 

 of man, has drawn the sword — to paraphrase the 

 words of the immortal Lincoln — "that the world shall, 

 under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that gov- 

 ernment of the people, by the people, for the people 

 shall not perish from the earth." 



Since we must fight in defense of a cause worthy 

 of our best traditions, indeed the greatest that ever 



engaged human endeavor, let the war be prosecuted 

 with all vigor and thoroughness, that there may 

 the sooner be a conclusive peace. Our first contribu- 

 tion to the cause of world freedom will be economic. 

 America's great wealth and vast mineral, agricultural 

 and manufacturing resources can be drawn upon im- 

 mediately, while her navy has already assumed its 

 share in keeping open the world's shipping lanes. 

 Meanwhile, great armies must be trained and equip- 

 ped, and through the more elastic medium of wooden 

 ships the steel tonnage that has been destroyed must 

 be hastily replaced. 



Most of the larger industrial plants, rubber mills 

 among the first, have been placed at the command of 

 the government; organized labor has pledged its 

 hearty support, and operatives of all sorts have taken 

 up military training. Such industrial preparedness 

 is of prime importance and, profiting by the early ex- 

 perience of our allies, America must not sacrifice her 

 chemists, engineers, skilled mechanics or other trained 

 executives and workmen in the industries vital to na- 

 tional defense. No one can read the summary of the 

 manifold and indispensable uses of rubber in warfare 

 on another page and fail to realize that many rubber 

 experts must be numbered among those exempted 

 from enhstment. Fortunately this is recognized by 

 the Council of National Defense, and the policy of se- 

 lective conscription on the principle of universal li- 

 ability to service, advocated by the War Department, 

 is an expression of it. 



Let skilled rubber men organize for home guard 

 duty, but not in their loyalty respond too hastily to 

 the call for volunteers and forsake the equally import- 

 ant mission of military equipment to which their ex- 

 perience better fits them. The government will call 

 individually for those whose plain duty lies at the 

 front, while all who remain to supply the enormous 

 demand for many varied rubber manufactures, with- 

 out which untold troops would be of no avail, will have 

 served their country well and taken an honorable 

 and necessary part in the world's fight for liberty and 

 enduring peace. 



MAKING AMERICAN CITIZENS IN RUBBER FAC- 

 TORIES. 



THE Rubber Association of America is cooperating 

 with the Immigration Committee of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce of the U. S. A. to encourage Ameri- 

 canization of our foreign-born population. The move- 

 ment is patriotic as well as commercial and deserves 

 the hearty support of the rubber and allied industries. 

 A certain result of the war will be an enormous shift- 

 ing of workmen who must be replaced. Therefore, 

 to raise the efficiency of each and every one to the ut- 

 most becomes at once a safeguard in national defense 

 and industrially a precautionary benefit alike to em- 

 ployer and employe. 



