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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1917. 



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Vol. 56 



JULY 1, 1917 



No. 4 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: Pages. 



Some War Don'ts 567 



It Is the Long Run Tiiat Tells 567 



The Stimulus of War 567-568 



American Grown Para Rubber 568 



The Stability of the Tire Business 568 



The Rubber Club Outing Abandoned 568 



Goodyear, Connecticut 568 



Bicycle Riding Is on the Increase 568 



Minor Editorials 568 



What I Saw in the Philippines — I 



By Henry C. Pearson— Illustrated 569-571 



All Exports Under Government Control 571 



Insulated Wire and Cable Manufacturers Facilitate Gov- 

 ernment Orders 571 



War News of the Rubber Industry Illustrated 572-573 



Council of National Defense 573-574 



Care of Army and Navy Dependents 574-575 



Senate Removes All Rubber Duties and Taxes 575 



American "Blimps" a Success Illustrated 575 



Thirty-five Hundred Airplanes for 1917 Illustrated 576 



The Rubber Trade Roll of Honor 577-578 



Tires for the New Military Trucks 578 



S. A. E. Tire and Rim Division Report 578-579 



Chemistry: 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 580-582 



Chemical Patents 582 



Laboratory Apparatus Illustrated 582 



A Method for the Valuation of Washed and Dried Rub- 

 ber. By Dr. Frederick Dannerth and R. M. Gage. 583-584 

 Fall Meeting of the Rubber Section of The American 



Chemical Society 584 



Oakite, a New Cleanser 585 



Third National Exposition of Chemical Industries 585 



Machines and Appliances, New Illustrated 586-588 



Allis-Chalmers Steam Turbine and Alternator Unit. 

 Lineal Measure Productimeter. Stock Cutting Ma- 

 chines. Autocall .Signal System. Cement Tube 

 Filling and Closing Machine. Stamped Metal Rub- 

 l)er Molds. Langer Tire Fabric and Loom. Mer- 

 cury Tractor. 



Machinery Patents Illustrated 588-589 



Banbury Automatic Enclosed Mixer. Anchorage for 

 Cords of Cord Tires. Rubber Footwear Rolling- 

 Machine. Other Machinery Patents. 



Process Patents 589 



New Goods and Specialties Illustrated 590-591 



Ruliber Fuse Cover. Diving Cap with Sponge Rub- 

 ber Ring. Round Elastic Garter with Clasps. Rub- 

 berized Flags. DrideK Automobile Topping. Sani- 

 tary Dental Chip Blower. Twin Bed Outing Trailer. 

 Red Spot Searchlight. Canvas Shoe Cleaning 

 Eraser. Seasonable Sandal. Improved ".Anti-Flinch" 

 Recoil Pad. "Veribest" Force Pump and Sink 

 Stopper. Lewis Double Bail-Bearing Inkwell. 



Editor's Book Table 592 



"Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus." 

 "Chemical Discovery and Invention in the Twentieth 

 Century." "The World's Cotton Crops." "The Law 

 Applied to Motor Vehicles." "The Tirt Rate Book." 



New Trade Publications 592-593 



Inquiries and Trade Opportunities 593 



Obituary Record 593 



Lyman M. Bourne I Portrait.) 



The Judge's Charge in the Blitz Conspiracy Suit 594-596 



Perlman-Firestone Suit Dismissed 596-597 



Judicial Decisions 597 



Interesting Letters from Our Readers 597 



The Rubber Association of America 598 



Rubber Men Discuss Export Trade 599 



Portraits of E. H. Huxley and J. B. Maus. 



American Rubber Trade — News, Notes and Personals. 600-606 



Rubber Company Share Quotations 600 



Rubber Company Dividends 600 



Guy S. Norwood Portrait and Sketch 601 



New Incorporations 602 



Edward S. Babcox Portrait and Sketch 604 



Commandant Leon Osterrieth Portrait 60S 



Domestic Correspondence: 



Boston By Our Correspondent 606-607 



Akron By Our Correspondent — Illustrated 607 



Rhode Island — 



By Our Correspondent— Illustrated 607-608 



Foreign Rubber News: 



Great Britain By Our Correspondent 609 



List of British Embargoed Rubber Materials 610 



Planting Notes, Rubber 611-612 



Plantation Rubber in Dutch Guiana 612 



Brazilian Rubber Notes 613 



Patents Relating to Rubber 614-615 



Lhiited States. United Kingdom. Canada. France. 



Trade-Marks 615-616 



United States. L'nited Kingdom. Canada. New 

 Zealand. 



Designs for Tires Illustrated 616 



Madero Guayule Industry Resumed Illustrated 616 



Market; 



Crude Rubber 617 



Market Cables 618 



Singapore Rubber Auctions 618 



Rubber Scrap . . .• 624 



Chemicals and In.gredients 624-625 



Cotton and Other Fabrics 626-627 



Statistics: 



Brazil, Manaos, E.xports, .\pril and May 623 



Canada, Rubber Statistics for March, 1917 622 



Ceylon, Rubber Exports and Imports 618 



Cotton Crop Movement 626 



Federated Malay States, Rubber E-xports 619 



Italy, Rubber Statistics for January, 1917 622-623 



Java, Rubber Exports 619 



Malaya, Rubber Exports 618 



Russia, Rubber and Gutta Percha, Imports .. 1909-14 623 



Singapore, Rubber Imports and Exports 618 



United Kingdom Rubber Statistics ' 619 



London and Liverpool Rubber Statistics 622 



L'nited States, Custom House Statistics 621 



Cleveland, Rubber Arrivals 621 



New York Arrivals of Crude Rubber 619-620 



Imports and Exports of Crude and Manufactured 



Rubber, May. 1917 621-622 



Rubber Statistics 624 



Seattle .Arrivals of Crude Rubber 620-621 



