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he speaks to you all the while away and on his return, for we 

 cannot serve a single house, but we can and shall be glad to 

 serve the rubber industry of the United States. 



President Work. — A toast to Secretary Redfield ! (A rising 

 toast was drunk to Secretary Redfield and the guests sang "For 

 he's a jolly good fellow.") 



President Work. — Come to order, please, gentlemen. We 

 have with us to-night another honored guest, Mr. J. Joyce 

 Broderick, Coinmercial Attache to the British Embassy. Mr. 

 Broderick has been a good friend of our asso- 

 ciation through the various phases of the rubber 

 embargo, and our troubles would have been much 

 greater had it not been for the broad-minded 

 view with which he approached the various prob- 

 lems in connection with British control. Mr. 

 Broderick has kindly consented to make a few 

 remarks to us. When he has finished we are 

 going to move away a couple of tables here, and 

 the banquet committee has planned a little further 

 entertainment for you gentlemen. 



I take great pleasure in introducing Mr. 

 Broderick. 



ADDRESS OF J. JOYCE BRODERICK. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I am slightly reminded of a story repeated 

 by an English novelist, which told of how a little 

 boy once climbed a rainbow and at the end of the 

 rainbow, behind the clouds, he found a wonder- 

 ful city. Its houses were of gold and its streets 

 were paved with silver, and the light that shone 

 upon it was like the light that lies on the sleeping 

 world at dawn. And all the men that dwelt in 

 that wonderful city were great and good, and the women were 

 all more beautiful than the women of a young man's dream. And 

 the name of the citv was "The City of the Things Men Meant 

 to Do." 



ENGLAND THANKS THE AMERICAN HUBBEE INDUSTRY. 



I do not know whether I should say that I intended to prepare 

 an address which I thought would be befitting an important oc- 

 casion of this kind, when one of the greatest industries built up 

 by magic in this country of industrial miracles was assembled 

 together to review the achievements that they had accomplished 

 during a period of crisis. But you will probably be glad to hear 

 that I am to address you for only a few moments and I am 

 glad to have them because they give me an opportunity which 

 I have been seeking for a long time, an opportunity to express 

 to the rubber industry of the United States the gratification and 

 the thanks of the government which I have the honor of repre- 

 senting and of the whole British people for the loyal cooperation 

 which we had from you in preventing our enemy from getting 

 rubber or rubber manufactures during a period which to us was 

 of the greatest and most vital importance. 



RUBBER GUARANTIES EFFECTIVE. 



And I should like to remind you that never during the whole 

 course of what you are all as familiar with as the British rubber 

 agreement, did any British official consider it for a moment nec- 

 essary to check up the statements you made or to investigate 

 whether you were abiding by your guaranties. I was asked on 

 one or two occasions in the ordinary routine course of inquiry 

 what we were doing to see that those guaranties were observed, 

 and I said : "Nothing. So long as we have the promise of the 

 rubber industry of the United States we can have no better 

 security." Ami if ever minor questions of difficulty cropped up 

 tile ch.iirni.m df your rubber control committee will bear me out 

 wluii I >a> tliat we did not investigate them, but turned them 

 over to the rubber control committee to dispose of as it pleased. 



Xuw, the experiences we had and the contracts that we were 

 fortunate enough to establish during that period have impressed 

 us with the highest respect for American industry in general and 

 for your particular association more especially. The efficiency 

 of the agreements we made and of the agreements you made 

 later, and the regulations that were arranged with the War 

 Trade Board is illustrated by this : that I do not know of one 

 single authenticated case in which a pound of rubber or rubber 

 manufactures or a single dollar representing the profits on any 

 transaction in rubber ever found its way to the Teutonic coun- 

 tries from the United States since the outbreak of the war. 



FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES. 



I believe, ladies and gentlemen, that the cummon sacrifices 

 which have been made in this war have drawn immeasurably 

 tighter the bond of sympathy between the American and the 

 British people. 



The Secretary of Commerce has outlined to you some of the 

 difficulties with which the world is now faced. The question 

 of the means which we must adopt to prevent the recurrence 

 of this awful calamity is a question which is engaging the best 

 minds of the world everywhere. I believe that this question will 

 not be solved except in proportion as the American and the 

 British people agree to cooperate toward their solution. Is it too 

 much to hope that in the conflicting interests and the perplexing 

 problems which are facing the world to-day we may count upon 

 one constant unchangeable thing, an unbreakable, 

 lasting friendship between the English-speaking 

 peoples? If we can count upon that, I look for- 

 ward to the future with the greatest confidence, 

 for it is upon the cooperation and unselfish work- 

 ing together of the English-speaking peoples, I 

 believe, that the whole peace and prosperity of 

 the world in the future rests. .\nd I know that 

 I speak the thought of all the British people when 

 I now in conclusion express the sincere hope for 

 the continued growth and prosperity of the rub- 

 ber industry of Ar ' 



J. Joyce Broderick. 



MEMBERS AND GUESTS PRESENT. 



AT THE PRESIDENT'S TABLE. 

 Bourn, Hon. A. 0., Neave, Charles 



Broderick, J. Joyce, Redfield. William C, 



Colt. Col Samuel P., Secretary of Com- 



navul.'Ch'irles T., Sawy^rrHomer E 



Fireslone, II. S., Smart, W. \.. 



Hodgnan. Georfiel B.. H. B. M. Vice-ConsuI. 



H. Stuart Thornton. A. D.. 

 ^■. Wilson. Charles T., 



Work, B. G. 



Hotchkii 

 Lownian 



c.'^^." 



H. J.. 



Babcock, F. Hunt- 

 Bacon. H. M., 

 Badenhop, Robert, 

 Bahlinger, A. F., 

 Bailev, I. R., 

 Baird, C. W., 

 Baird, H. W., 

 Baird, R. B.. 

 Baird, W. T., 

 Balch, W. H., 

 Ballou. Roland H., 

 Banburv, F. H., 

 Bancker. W. F.. 

 Barker. William E., 

 Barnard. H. H., 

 Barrv. B. T.. 



Otto, 



Baxter. W. E., 

 Real, Herman L., 

 Beard. E. C. 

 Bechberger, W. A., 

 Bedell. H. H.. 

 Bedford, Bruce, 

 Beecher, L. A.. 

 Behrend, Victor, 

 Belcher. Edwin, W.. 



Bell. Wi 



H. 



Benedict, J. B.. 

 Bennett. J. A.. 

 Berrien. W. P., 

 Bers. Aaron, 

 Bers, Edward, 



ALPHABETICAL LIST. 

 Bertuch, Paul, 

 BeSaw, Charles A., 

 Bicknell. J. W^. 

 Bishop, Erie A., 

 Bixler, H. W., 

 Blake. Herbert S., 

 Blanchard, J. C, 

 Blandin, Victor C, 

 Bochow, M. H., 

 Boggs, Charles R., 

 Bourn, Hon. A. C, 

 Bourn, A. O., Jr., 

 Boufn. S. W.,' 

 Bouton, P- V. L., 

 Bower, C. M., 

 Boyer. Edwin. 

 Bracker, H. J., 

 Brackett, George L., 

 Bradley. C. E., 

 Braender, Fred L., 

 Braender. Harry. 

 Braender, W. P.. 

 Braham, John T., Jr., 

 Brander, L. W , 

 Briggs, C. A., 

 Brinckerhoff. E. A., 

 Broadwell, E. H., 

 Broderick. T. Joyce, 

 Brooks, E. "H., 

 Broughton, John S., 

 Brown, A. H., 



Brownell. C. R., 

 Bruyn, Frank S.. 

 Bruyn, W. E.. 

 Buchanan. Charles, 

 Bullock, E. L.. 

 Bullock, Hugh, 

 Bunker, Gordon, 

 Bunker, Horace E., 

 Burgess, Charles S., 

 Burgess, W^illiam L., 

 Burnham, I. Frank, 

 Burr, A. E., 



Burton, H. P., 

 Burton, John, 

 Bussell, A., 

 Butler, A. L, 

 Butler, C. J., 

 Butler, R. C, 

 Byles, W. E.. 

 Byrnes, James \V. 



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Caldwell. E. M., 

 Caldwell, T. C, 

 Caldwell, R. J., 

 Callahan, J. T., 

 Callaway, Fuller E. 

 Campbell, Philip H.. 

 Cannon, M. L., 

 Carkhuff. S. G.. 

 Carleton, W. S.. 



Carlisle. C. H. 



^ Kinents, Dr. R. L.. 

 L e-nenls. James P., 

 v-^lenients. Thomas. 

 Clift. Robert E. 

 Clopper H. G.. ' 

 Cobb. James H.. 

 Co eman. H. H. 

 Co I.ns. Charles, 

 Colt Col. Samuel P 

 Combs, C. F. 

 Comey, M., 



Conradt.' A. v.. 



Cook. c. si; 



Cook. M. M., 

 Cook. O. R.. 

 Cooke, Russell Y., 

 Cooke, V 

 Corbin, C. E., 

 Corman, C. S 

 Cornell. A. Bovd 

 Cory. Robert H.,' 

 Cotlle George T., 

 loughlrn. E. J., 

 Coughlin. Thomas, 

 Coughlin. T. B. Jr 

 Cowen. R. R.. 

 Cranor, Donald, 

 Cranz. J. M.. 

 Crowley, John R, 

 Crowk-v. T. T., 

 Cummings, H. "h., 

 Cummings. W. L.. 

 Lurran, James, 

 Cutler, David A. 



D 

 Daggett H. A.. 

 n.ine. Francis S., 

 Haniel. C. A., 

 iLinitl. F. W., 

 n.nniels, W. B., 

 nann, C. A., 

 Dannerth. Dr. Frederic, 

 Daum, George W., 

 Davies. M. E.. 

 Davis, Edgar B., 

 Davis, H. G., 

 Davis, M. E., 

 Davis, Oscar C, 

 Davol, Charles J., 



