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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1918. 



War News of the Rubber Industry. 



Relaxation of Regulation of Industries. Export License Proce<lure for Samples. Important Publications on Fuel Technology. An Industrial R< 



construction Conference. Liberty Loan Oversubscribed Nearly a Million. Cuba Oversubscribes Fourth Loan. Enemy-Owned Concerns to Be 



Sold. Ba^ilan Plantation Taken Over. Bituminous Storage Limit Off. Withdrawal of Regulations Affecting the Exportation of Raw 



Cotton. The War and Brazilian Rubber. Some Raincoat Makers Acquitted. Rubber Men Active in War Work Drive. United War 



Work Fund Is $M3,179,038. Christmas Presents for Hood Boys in France. To Serve Goodyearites in France. Service Note* 



and Personals. Letters from the Front. Why the Red Cross Needs Hundreds of Millions. 



RELAXATION OF REGULATION OF INDUSTRIES. 



FOLLOWING the signing of the armistice with Germany, 

 the War Industries Board issued a new order, modifying 

 restrictions and curtailments, of which we pubhsh the 

 section that interests our readers: 



Section 3. 



Restrictions upon industries and manufacturers in their pro- 

 duction, or in their consumption of materials for commodities 

 hereafter in this section enumerated, as such restrictions are 

 expressed in orders and circulars issued by this Division, are 

 hereby so modified that such restrictions for the respective 

 periods provided for in such several orders and circulars shall 

 be less than the restrictions to the extent of fifty per cent of 

 such restrictions. The commodities referred to are (among 

 others) as follows: clothes wringers, baby carriages, bicycles, 

 hand stamping and marking devices, sporting goods, pneumatic 

 automobile tires. 



The production of tire manufacturers who have been operat- 

 ing on the basis of a 50 per cent curtailment of the monthly 

 average for the eighteen months ended June 30, 1918, has, as 

 of November IS, been increased to 75 per cent. All restrictions 

 curtailing the production of rubber articles, except automobile 

 casings and tubes under six inches, have been withdrawn. 



EXPORT LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SAMPLES. 

 The War Trade Board announces the following regulations 

 governing the exportation of samples to be used in the solicitation 

 of orders : 



1. Samples of no commercial value of any commodity may be 

 exported in the personal baggage accompanying a traveler with- 

 out an individual export license, under special export license 

 RAC-49, issued to the Customs Service. (See W.T.B.R. 195, is- 

 sued August 13, 1918.) 



2. Samples of no commercial value of commodities nol on the 

 Export Conservation List may be exported by mail without an 

 individual export license, under special export license 

 R.\C-52 issued to the Postofifice Department, to the following 

 countries: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, 

 Brazil, China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominician Republic, 

 Ecuador, Egypt; the colonies, possessions, and protectorates of 

 Great Britain; the colonies, possessions, and protectorates of 

 France; Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras; the colonies, possessions, 

 and protectorates of Italy; Japan, its colonies, possessions, and 

 protectorates; Liberia, Monaco, Nepal, Nicaragua; the colonies, 

 possessions and protectorates of the Netherlands; Oman, Pan- 

 ama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, San Marino, Siam, and LVuguay, 

 excluding any portion of the foregoing occupied by the military 

 forces of Germany or its allies. (See W. T. B. R. 246; issued 

 October 9, 1918.) 



3. Samples of no commercial value of any commodity may 

 be exported by mail without an individual export license, under 

 special export license RAC-52, to the United Kingdom, France, 

 Italy and Japan, their colonies, possessions, and protectorates, 

 excluding any portion thereof occupied by the military forces of 

 Germany or of its allies. (See W. T. B. R. 246, issued October 

 9, 1918.) . , ., ^ 



4. To facilitate further the exportation &.v moil of samples 

 of no commercial value, when an individual export license is 

 required, the War Trade Board, hereafter, will consider issuing 

 licenses of a special tvpe, valid for three months after issuance, 

 permitting the exportation, by mail only, to one or more con- 

 signees, whose names need not be specified in the application for 

 the license, of a single parcel or an unlimited number of parcels 

 of samples of no commercial value to be used in the solicitation 



of orders. Sucli licenses will not be granted for shipments of 

 samples to persons in enemy or ally of enemy countries ; or to 

 persons with whom, the applicant has reason to believe, trade is 

 prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy Act. (For particulars 

 regarding applications for licenses, see W. T. B. R. 280, issued 

 October 25, 1918. 



IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS ON FUEL TECHNOLOGY. 

 Estimates made earlier in the fuel year that approximately 

 160,0(X),000 car miles, equivalent to a 5 per cent increase in 

 production, would be saved in the coal year through the opera- 

 tion of the zone system for the distribution of bituminous coal 

 are being more than realized. The nation's supply is now such 

 that with patriotic economy it will probably be sufficient for the 

 winter's requirements. There must, however, be frugality in the 

 use of electricity, gas and coal, and intelligent firing of fur- 

 naces and stoves. To this end the United States Fuel Adminis- 

 tration and the Bureau of Mines have issued numerous pamphlets 

 and scientific papers on fuel technology and conservation which 

 are of great value to the operator of every power plant, large 

 or small. If all would substitute scientific methods for the 

 haphazard practices which have too often been the rule, the 

 possibility of shut-downs due to lack of fuel could probably 

 be definitely averted. 



AN INDUSTRIAL RECONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE. 

 A war emergency and reconstruction conference of the war 

 service committees of the various American industries has been 

 called by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to be 

 held at Atlantic City, December 4, 5 and 6. The subjects to be 

 discussed include reconstruction ; industrial relations ; raw ma- 

 terials and their control ; price control ; economic legislation 

 affecting combinations ; export and import operations ; finance, 

 etc., and all information adduced will be placed at the com- 

 mand of the Government. The several war service committees, 

 including that of the rubber industry, will confer with the com- 

 modity chiefs of the War Industries Board, and it is hoped that 

 definite recommendations can be formulated covering the re- 

 construction period, with the possibility of creating an executive 

 committee empowered to gather data and to function with 

 industries to meet the many problems that the nation's industries 

 will be called upon to solve with the end of the war. 



LIBERTY LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED NEARLY A BILLION. 



Early estimates regarding the oversubscription of the Fourth 

 Liberty Loan have proved to be far too conservative. Total 

 subscriptions amounted to $6,989,047,000, or 16.4 per cent, more 

 than the $6,000,000,000 sought to be raised. Every Federal Re- 

 serve District exceeded its allotted quota. It was the greatest 

 war loan ever floated by this or any other nation. Through the 

 four Liberty Loans and War Savings Stamps the country has 

 raised a total of $17,852,000,000, not including unaccepted over- 

 subscriptions. 



Bonds of the Fifth Loan to cover the remaining war expendi- 

 tures and to be offered in the spring, will be of short maturity, 

 probably five years or less. 



CUBA OVERSUBSCRIBES FOURTH LOAN. 



Patriotic Cuba overscribed her $6,000,000 quota for the Fourth 

 Lilierty Loan by $4,752,850. There were 23,000 subscribers. 



