August 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



639 



War News of the Rubber Industry. 



THE participation of the rubber industry in the nation's war 

 plans continues with the utmost enthusiasm. Prepared- 

 ness in the great struggle for world freedom progresses 

 without abatement along many lines, and in the opinion of lead- 

 ing rubber men will so continue until Allied arms are victorious. 

 The oversubscription of the two billion dollar Liberty Loan 

 by $1,035,226,850 showed the American will ; the ease with which 

 the Red Cross fund of $100,000,000 was considerably exceeded 

 showed the American heart. In both campaigns the rubber busi- 

 ness was handsomely represented. And now the Rubber Trade 

 Roll of Honor is beginning to show in a substantial manner 

 individual American grit and determination. It does the heart 

 good to study those names, to note the goodly proportion of 

 native Americans 

 among them, and 

 also to realize what 

 American ideals and 

 institutions mean to 

 our foreign-born 

 population — that the 

 L^nited States is in- 

 deed the world's 

 melting pot and that 

 in this war, lovers 

 of freedom, regard- 

 less of their origin, 

 are to stand should- 

 er to shoulder figlit- 

 ing for the common 

 cause. 



Once more The 

 I X D I .■\ Rubber 

 World urges its 

 readers to cooperate 

 in stimulating war 

 enthusiasm by send- 

 ing for publication 

 particulars of all 

 patriotic acts and 

 movements, corpo- 

 rate and individual, in order that this permanent monthly record 

 of what the .\meriran rubber industry is doing for the defense 

 of liberty and justice may be complete. 

 THE LIBERTY LOAN. 

 Through the courtesy of Frederic C. Hood, treasurer. Hood 

 Rubber Co., Watertown, Massachusetts, we are enabled to pub- 



LIBERTY LO.\N SUB.SCRIPTIOXS BY THE 



Total 

 No. Sub- Subscrip- 



COMPANY. ■ SCRIBERS. TIONS. 



.Acu'hnet Process Co., New Bedford, Mass 36 $7,000 



American Mills Co.. Waterbury, Conn 198 24,900 



American Steel & Wire Co.. Worcester. Mass 618 42.050 



.American Wringer Co.. Woonsocket, K. 1 184 11,100 



.Anchor Webbing Co., Woonsocket, R. 1 47 7,850 



-Appleton, F. H. & Son. Inc., Boston. Mass 10.250 



- Apsley Rubber Co., Hudson, Mass 250 20.450 



Archer Rubber Co.. Milford, Mass 15 11,000 



Athol Mfg. Co., Athol. Mass 2 400 



.Atlantic Rubber Co., Atlantic. Mass 2 400 



Bailey, C. J.. Boston. Mass 7 750 



Bauman Rubber Co.. New Haven, Conn 12 650 



Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co.. Beacon Falls, Conn 133 12,250 



Blakesley Noveltv Co., Bristol, Conn 19 7,450 



Boston Belting Co.. Boston, Mass 178 39,250 



Boston Insulated Wire & Cable Co., Boston, Mass 11 6,550 



Boston Rubber Shoe Co , Maiden, Mass 1.838 85.970 



Bourne Rubber Co.. Providence, R. 1 100 10,000 



Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co.. Cambridge. Mass 1,021 100,000 



Carr, F. S. Co., Framingham. Mass lO.OOO 



Carton Belting Co.. Allston. Mass 30 2,000 



C. C. C. Fire Hose Co., Canton Junction, Mass 4 700 



Clapp, E. W., Rubber Co.. Hanover, Mass 61 3.950 



The Rubber Workers' Bit. 



Why should the Yankee rubber man indulge in sad repining, 

 when every khaki-colored cloud has its own rubber lining? As 

 for our soldiers you can bet we'll keep the mills a' working. No 

 slackers in our crowd can get, nor one that thrives by shirking ! 

 A thousand spreaders hard at work will furnish mackintoshes. 

 Another thousand calenders are running on galoshes. Ground 

 sheets by millions we will make to wrap the boys like mummies, 

 and water bottles by the case, to put on aching "tummies." 

 Trench boots and blankets, too, we'll send in effort never ceasing, 

 and, as the call for more comes home we'll just go on increasing. 

 We'll send them tires in ship-load lots and inner tubes as well; 

 with gas masks for the blast that comes straight from the Boches' 

 hell. Among us all will ne'er be found a single sneaking miser! 

 Carloads of jar rings we will give to help them "can the Kaiser." 

 So each will do his little bit in working, giving, trying, to help 

 the boys out at the front, a' marching, fighting, flying. 



lish the accompanying list of New England subscribers in the 

 rubber trade. It will be recalled that at the request of Alfred 

 L. Aiken, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 

 Mr. Hood represented the rubber industry on a committee of 

 New England manufacturers to promote the sale of the bonds 

 among factory operatives, office and sales forces. To his en- 

 thusiastic initiative in working out a partial payment plan, cir- 

 cularizing every New England rubber concern and encouraging 

 participation and cooperation, is due a goodly measure of credit 

 for the handsome total of $1,754,455 shown by the appended 

 list. This is still incomplete, however, the returns from a num- 

 ber of factories of the United States Rubber Co. and sev- 

 eral other firms not yet having been received. The final 



total is expected to 

 be well above $2.- 

 000.000. 



Of the $1,400,000 

 worth of bonds 

 taken by employes 

 of the United States 

 Rubber Co., New 

 York City. $67,000 

 was subscribed by 

 the Hartford, Con- 

 necticut, plant, $125,- 

 000 at the Morgan & 

 Wright plant, De- 

 troit, Michigan, and 

 $560 at the Denver, 

 Colorado, branch. 



A vigorous cam- 

 paign for subscrip- 

 tions ainong employ- 

 es of The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber 

 Co, .\kron, Ohio, 

 netted 12,700 per- 

 sons who obligated 

 themselves to pur- 

 chase $800,000 

 worth of bonds on the $1 weekly instalment plan. 



Twenty-seven nationalities were numbered among the 11,000 

 odd employes of The B. F. Goodrich Co., .Akron, Ohio, who sub- 

 scribed $750,000. 



Practically every employe of the Polack Tyre & Rubber Co., 

 New York City, subscribed for at least one bond. 

 RUBBER INDUSTRY OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Total 

 No Sub- Subscrip- 



SCRIBERS. TIONS. 



Colton, Geo. S., Elastic Web Co.. Easthampton. Mass. . . 36 $3,800 



Conant. Houghton & Co., Inc., Littleton. Mass 30 2,150 



Crandall Packing Co., Boston, Mass 1 SO 



Converse Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden. Mass 508 30,000 



Crocker Rubber Co.. Brockton, Mass 3 150 



Davidson Rubber Co., Boston, Mass 30 11,200 



Davol Rubber Co., Providence, R. 1 176 ^ 21,500 



Day, H. P. & E.. Inc.. Seymour, Conn 120 19,450 



Easthampton Rubber Thread Co., Easthampton, Mass.... 38 lO.OOO 



Electric Cable Co., Bridgeport. Conn 284 27,000 



Elastic Tip Co.. Boston. Mass 6 1.200 



Everlastik, Inc., Boston, Mass 652 40,600 



Feinberg, David Co., Chelsea, Mass 3 1,000 



Ferdinand, L. W. & Co., Boston. Mass 3 1.150 



Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls. Mass 540 250.000 



Fitchburg Rubber Co.. Fi'chburg. Mass 2 150 



Franklin Rubber Co.. I5oston. Mass 5 50O 



Garlock Packing Co.. Boston. Mass 7 1.350 



Glendale Elastic Fabrics Co.. Easthampton, Mass 176 10,150 



Globe Rubber Works, Inc., Boston. Mass. 10 2.00O 



Goodrich. The B. F. Co., Portland. Me 5 350 



Goodrich. The B. F. Co.. Providence. R.I 6 550 



Goodrich. The B. F. Co., Worcester, Mass 4 250 



