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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1917. 



routine in the small business to the complex and more highly 

 perfected systems of great industries. .Many points brought out 

 in each chapter are of sufficient value to render the book highly 

 useful to the man who buys, whether he be in a large organiza- 

 tion or simply running a small business. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



CHE.MICAL ENGINEERING C.AT.ALOG. THE CHEMICAL CATALOG 

 Co., Inc., 1 Madison avcnne, New York City, t 9 by 12 inches, 288 

 pages, cloth.] 



This book is in the nature of a compilation of catalogs of 

 concerns which supply chemical engineering equipment, ma- 

 chinery, chemicals and supplies. It is intended to supersede a 

 large mass of printed matter issued by individual manufac- 

 turers and is classified and indexed so that it furnishes in a small 

 compass a large amount of information of value to chemical en- 

 gineers, cliemists and manufacturers in any way connected with 

 chemical industries. The classified index is confined to 75 or 

 80 pages, the rest of the book being in the nature of condensed 

 catalogs of a large number of concerns identified with the trade. 

 This catalog is not sold but is loaned to those interested in the 

 chemical and allied industries and is approved by a committee 

 representing the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the 

 American Chemical Society and the New York Section of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. 191,S. NEW 

 York State Department of Labor. [Octavo, cloth, 417 pages.] 



Every large employer of labor in New York State will find 

 much of interest in the annual report of the Industrial Com- 

 iTiission published by the Department of Labor. Its ten parts 

 are devoted to the general report of the Commission and the 

 more detailed reports of the several bureaus, including that of 

 Inspection, Workmen's Compensation, Mediation and Arbitra- 

 tion, Statistics and Information, Employment, Industries and 

 Immigration, Industrial Code and Fire Hazards, Boilers and 

 Explosives. Many opinions of the attorney-general construing 

 the labor laws constitute the final part. 



New York is among the 24 states which, like most European 

 countries, maintain public employment offices. The records of 

 this bureau for the year ending September 30, 1915, show 22,856 

 persons applied for by employers, 49,554 situations wanted, 26,- 

 641 persons referred, and 13,391 positions reported filled. There 

 are 26 occupational groups under males and 8 under females. 

 Factory workers, both male and female, include rubber and 

 allied products workers, while male general laborers include 

 rubber and allied products laborers. 



() ACRE DE IIOJE E DE AMANH.\. .\ COM.MUNICATKJN ,\D- 

 dressed to the "Soctedade Nacional de Agricultura" diirine the session 

 of November 19. 1916, by J. \'irgolino de .Alencar. Pulilished by 

 **Jornal do P.rasil." Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 



In this communication the author strongly urges the encour- 

 agement of earnest and scientific cultivation of the Het-ea in 

 .'Xcre, and to this end requests the above society to aid by spread- 

 ing the necessary information and by interesting the right kind 

 of men to undertake such planting. He points out that superior 

 qualities of the true Hcvea Brasilicnsis, found in Acre and 

 vicinity, deteriorate more or less when it is transplanted to other 

 localities. In connection w'ith this species especially he calls at- 

 tention to the unscrupulous methods of tapping by which these 

 trees, in a very short time, are either killed or rendered un- 

 productive. He pleads for such supervision and regulation as 

 will suppress this evil and gives warning that such practices, 

 due to greed or general ignoratice, are factors which make it 

 possible for the Orient to compete successfully with Brazil. 



.\ report of the author's plantation in Rio Yaco by the agri- 

 cultural authorities of Alto Purus, and an estimate of the gains 

 to be derived from a plantation similar to that of Dr. .Alencar 

 are final arguments for planting rubber in this natural habitat 

 of the Hevea. 



"T^HE tire repair man can get many valuable ideas and sug- 

 ■* gestions from the 1917 catalog of the Williams Foundry 

 & Machine Co., Akron, Ohio, which has just been issued. It 

 not only describes and pictures the full line of tire making 

 and tire repairing machines, tools and appliances manufac- 

 tured by this house, but also contains a great amount of in- 

 furniation of practical value to tliose engaged in this line of 

 business. 



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The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, has issued an attrac- 

 tive 40-page pamphlet describing its rubber goods for the 

 lumber industry, which is carefully compiled, handsomely 

 printed and profusely illustrated. It is not a mere catalog, 

 but to a certain extent a handbook of interesting information 

 on this subject. 



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Health insurance is one of the proposed factors of modern 

 efficiency. Facts in respect to compulsory health insurance, 

 as presented at legislative hearings in New York and Massa- 

 chusetts, are succinctly given in a pamphlet sent by Magnus 

 W. Alexander, Lynn, Massachusetts. 



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Werner & Pfleiderer Co., Saginaw, Michigan, manufacturer 

 of mixing and kneading machinery, is sending out one of the 

 handsomest and best arranged catalogs of this class of goods 

 which we have seen. The book contains 84 pages, each printed 

 in two colors, the cover, in fttll colors and handsomely em- 

 l)ossed, appropriately showing a brawny workman holding one 

 of the peculiar shaped mixing blades from the company's ma- 

 chines. Each digester, dissolver, washer, kneader or mixer is 

 shown in half-tone from carefully retouched photographs. Much 

 information regarding dimensions, capacity and special adapta- 

 tion is given, also guarantees and conditions under which these 

 machines are sold, and other matter of interest to rubber cement 

 and rubber goods manufacturers. 



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\ neat desk or wall calendar has been received from the Xylos 

 Rubber Co., Limited, reclaimer, Manchester, England. In an ap- 

 propriate setting are cards for days, months and dates, promi- 

 nent and distinct, while the background contains advertising 

 information of the concern's specialties. 



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The United States Rubber Co.. New York City, has adopted 

 the name "Keds" for its lines of canvas shoes with rubber soles, 

 and is sending out some excellent window display matter for 

 advertising these goods. A cut-out of paper represents a young 

 man and a young woman, each wearing these shoes, between 

 and beyond them a view of a tennis court ; these to be placed 

 across the front of the window. The cut-outs are so gummed 

 that by moistening they can be made to adhere to the window. 

 There are attractive and odd-shaped window cards for display 

 with shoes of this character and a diagram explains the proper 

 arrangement of all these in the window. The advertising matter 

 is in brilliant natural colors, and the whole display is likely to 

 be of advertising value to the storekeepers who may utilize it. 



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"Mobilizing Money for War" is the title of a 12-page pamphlet 

 being distributed by the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, in- 

 tended to show the reason for and the necessity of investing in 

 the great government loan for national defense to which the pub- 

 lic will soon be given an opportunity to subscribe. It points out 

 that the United States is the richest country in the world to-day, 

 its national assets equaling the combined wealth of Great Britain, 

 Russia, France and Italy, and that the whole nation inust enlist 

 its wealth as well as its manhood to win the war. 



