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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1917. 



lions and Boards of the Council and the Conmiittcos and Coopera- 

 tive Committees of the Commission developed that a pamphlet of 

 26 pages is required to list the members of this great organization. 

 This list reads like a "Who's Who of Big Ensiness,'' and many 

 of the names are well known to the rubber and allied trades. 



Tlie Cooperative Committee on Rubber consists of H. Stuart 

 llotchkiss, president General Rubber Co., chairman ; Frederic C. 

 Hood, Hood Rubber Co., and .\rtliur H. Marks. The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co. 



The Cooperative Committee on Chemicals consists of J3r. 

 William H. Nichols, General Chemical Co., chairman; \'an 11. 

 Manning, Bureau of Mines ; C. A. Richards, Department of Com- 

 merce. 



.•\mong the eight subcommittees may be nienlioned tliat on 

 acids, consisting of H. R. Grassclli, GrasselH Chemical Co., and 

 Henry Howard, Merrimac Chemical Co.; that on alkalis with 

 J. D. Pennock, Solvay Process Co., chairman; that on coal tar 

 by-products with William H. Childs, president Barrett Co., chair- 

 man ; and that on sulphur with Henry Whiton, president L'nion 

 Sulphur Co., chairman. 



Edgar Palmer, president New Jersey Zinc Co., heads the Co- 

 operative Committee on Zinc consisting of eight members. 



The Cooperative Committee on Copper consists of seven mem- 

 bers, with J. D. Ryan, president Anaconda Copper Co., as chair- 

 man, while the Cooperative Committee oo Lead includes six mem- 

 bers headed by Clinton H. Clark, president St. Joseph Lead Co. 



Lincoln Grant, of Wellington, Sears Co., heads the Cooperative 

 Committee on Cotton Goods of thirteen men, among whom may 

 be mentioned Harry L. Bailey, also of Wellington. Sears Co.. and 

 Spencer Turner, of Turner, Halsey Co. 



Thomas F. Manville, president of H. W. Johns-Manville Co., 

 is chairman of the Cooperative Committee on .Asbestos, Magnesia 

 and Roofing. 



Theodore N. Vail, president of the .American Telephone & Tele- 

 graph Co., is chairman of a committee of five on telegraphs and 

 telephones. 



F. C. Pratt, of the General Electric Co., lieads a subcommittee 

 of the General Munitions Board on gages, dies. etc. 



L. .\. Osborne, vice-president of the Westinghouse Electric & 

 Manufacturing Co., is chairman of the Cooperative Committee 

 from the National Industrial Conference Board. 



THE CARE OF ARMY AND NAVY DEPENDENTS. 



IN response to the request of Secretary of War Baker to in- 

 *■ vestigate the matter of voluntary civilian assistance in the 

 care of dependent families of enlisted men in the military and 

 naval forces, a committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the 

 United States, of which F. A. Seiberling, president of The 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., .Akron, Ohio, is chairman, has 

 made recommendations which must be regarded as good and 

 fair to all. It is suggested that the government enact legisla- 

 tion providing for reasonable separation allowances similar to 

 those adopted by England and Canada, and further, that the 

 government officially designate some national organization to 

 raise a general fund by voluntary public subscription and in co- 

 operation with representative local bodies to distribute it for the 

 alleviation of conditions not adequately met by national or state 

 allowances. The committee urges prompt action by the gov- 

 ernment and speedy publication of the general plan, pending 

 which employers should make only temporary commitments to 

 the dependents of their operatives who enlist, it being realized 

 that the smaller employers, who are in the majority throughout 

 the country, cannot follow the lead of large firms and assume 

 this burden generally or indefinitely without hardship and em- 

 barrassment. 



In Great Britain there are two sources of revenue for de- 

 pendents : 



I-'irst, the family receives from the government a separation 

 allowance (jf $2.25 a week for the wife or mother, $1.25 for the 

 first child. 84 cents for the second and 50 cents for each ad- 

 ditional cliild. Widowed mothers and dependent sisters of single 

 men are entitled to separation allowances where pre-enlistment 

 maintenance existed. 



Second, the soldier or sailor may allot part of his military 

 l)ay, not exceeding three-fourths, for the support of dependents. 

 In addition, and within certain limits ($3 a week for a private 

 or corporal; $3.60 for a sergeant; $3.96 for a company quarter- 

 master sergeant ; $5.28 for a warrant officer. Class 2, and $5.52 

 lor a warrant officer, Class 1), the government will assist an 

 unmarried soldier to continue the support he formerly gave de- 

 pendents, not including his own maintenance, provided he will 

 Contribute approximately one-third of the amount (84 cents a 

 week for private or corporal; $1.40 for a sergeant, etc.) by al- 

 lotment from his military pay, the government paying the bal- 

 ance. Xo person who is entitled to a separation allowance as 

 the wife or child of a soldier can draw an allowance as a 

 dependent in addition. 



These allowances do not eliminate the necessity for relief ef- 

 forts on the part of public organizations, such as the Soldiers' 

 and Sailors' Relief Society, etc., whose voluntary workers and 

 local committees take care of cases seeming to demand special 

 assistance. 



In Canada there are three sources of revenue for dependents: 

 First, a portion of the soldier's or sailor's pay, the percentage 

 determined by individual conditions, is deducted and sent to his 

 dependents. 



Second, the government makes a separation allowance in- 

 tended to enable dependents to approximate the pre-enlistmeni 

 maintenance standard. This represents a flat sum of $20 each 

 lor the wife and each child regardless of the size of the family. 



Third, there' is a National Patriotic Fund, raised hy voluntary 

 liublic subscription and distributed by a corporate organization 

 authorized by the government. This fund takes care of neces- 

 sitous cases where local investigation seems to establish the 

 need of it. 



Schedules of P.^vments to Canadian Dependents. 

 Government 



Separation Patriotic 



Allowance. Assigned Pay. Fund. 



Wife, having no children $20 $15 or more $5.00 



Wife and one child — 



Child under 5 years 20 15 or more 13.00 



Child under 10 years 20 IS or more 14.50 



Child under 15 years 20 15 or more 17.50 



Wife and two children — 



H both und;-r 5 years 20 15 or more 16.00 



If one under 5 and one under 10.... 20 15 or more 17.50 



If both under 10 years 20 15 or more 17.50 



If both under 15 or one less pnd one 



more than 10 20 15 or more 22.00 



Wife and three children — 



If al! are under 5 years. 20 15 or more 19.00 



If al! three are under 10 years 20 15 or more 20.50 



If all three are under IS years 20 15 or more 25.00 



This scale continues up to the case of a wife with seven or 

 more children. In such cases the maximum allowance from 

 the Patriotic Fund is $30 per month, regardless of the number 

 or the ages of the children. 



Widowed Mother. If she depended entirely for support on 

 an unmarried son who has joined the Canadian Expeditionary 

 forces, she may, if in need, receive from the Canadian Patriotic 

 Fund a monthly allowance not to exceed $10. 



P.^REXTs. If the parents of a soldier in the Canadian Expe- 

 ditionary forces are both old and incapable of work, and if 

 they were entirely dependent on the soldier, they may, if in 

 need, receive frofn the Canadian Patriotic Fund a monthly al- 

 lowance not to exceed $20. 



Owing to the high cost of living the allowances in both 

 countries have been found inadequate, and readjustments are 

 now contemplated, their fundamental aim being to establish 

 equality in the basis of service in the ranks; to equalize the 

 burden upon industry and people ; to avoid duplication of 



