THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I.March 1, i9I9. 



sea would be obliged to insulate with rubber or wait 

 many years and pay a larger price than the Professor 

 estimates. 



ANTIDOTES FOR BOLSHEVISM. 



OXE of the marked results of the war upon .Vmeri- 

 cans is the inculcation of the principle of thrift. 

 The wonderful response of all classes to the call of the 

 nation to purchase Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps has 

 popularized saving and investing. As a consequence 

 those who never before saved any of their earnings have 

 become bond-holders, bank-depositors and investors. 



The same sort of education has been given for two 

 years by President Rieder of the Canadian Consolidated 

 Rubber Co., who introduced a plan whereby employes 

 could leave part of their wages with the company and 

 receive interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, 

 compounded monthly. Naturally there were some over- 

 cautious employes who at first feared that the company 

 had some ulterior motive. When they learned, however, 

 that they could withdraw any part or the whole of their 

 deposits at any time, these suspicions departed and the 

 plan has been proved a success. It has resulted not only 

 in the pride of the employes in investment, but in 

 their increased stability and faithfulness. Those 

 who have thus invested earnings have also a greater in- 

 terest in the company and its work, and are much better 

 workmen. 



The rubber company mentioned is but one of many 

 in this country and Canada where similar plans have 

 been tried and in no case has it proved other than advan- 

 tageous to both employer and employe. Furthermore 

 an L W. W. or a Bolshevist is anathema to an investing 

 employe, for is he not a capitalist? 



No one can read the names of the dead and wounded 

 soldiers which have been published in the daily papers 

 without being impressed by the cosmopolitanism of our 

 army. Truly every race and nation is represented, yet 

 all these men, by their participation in the war, as units 

 in the United States Army, have fully earned the title 

 "American." 



The pay roll of every large rubber concern presents 

 a similar variety of racial surnames. The notices posted 

 in the factories, printed in several languages, show the 

 polyglot character of the rank and file of the work people. 



The tendency of immigrants is to segregate into racial 

 groups which, except for their work, remain as alien as 

 though they w^ere still in their native countries. In many 

 cases there is slight endeavor on their part to learn the 

 language of this country, no sympathy with things Ameri- 

 can nor appreciation of that thoroughness that makes 

 for the highest efficiency. 



That all workmen should understand English is of 

 the first importance. And next to learning the language 

 of their adopted country is to know its principles of 

 equality, fair play and justice. Only by such means can 

 the industries of this country be assured of progress and 

 prosperity. The workman who understands that what is 



fur the connnon good of both employer and employe is 

 ultimately best for each individual, himself included, is 

 the only valuable one. As a means toward this end 

 leading rubber manufacturers are maintaining schools 

 where the English language is taught and at the same 

 time the advantage of becoming American citizens is 

 made plain. 



Were every factory manned by English-speaking, self- 

 respecting money-saving American citizens, native or 

 naturalized, there would be little labor trouble, less fear 

 of I. \\'. W.-ism and Bolshevism. 



MEXICAN RUBBER LOOKING UP. 



THE Intercontinental Rubber Co. and some forty 

 other big oil, copper, and land companies, to- 

 gether with big banks such as the National City, the 

 Guaranty Trust and J. P. Morgan, are out to recon- 

 struct Mexico. As a beginning they have formed the 

 National Association for the Protection of American 

 Rights in Mexico. As our neighbor to the south is 

 bankrupt, a receivership is planned, this to be brought 

 about by the moral suasion of the civilized world. 

 Armed intervention is not planned. Instead, wise and 

 efficient support of a stable Mexican government is to 

 be offered, — perhaps insisted upon. 



It is high time and it is. moreover, the time. German 

 propaganda is slumping more and more. Teutonic money 

 that formerly was poured out by millions is becoming 

 scarce. Hun promises and boasts are beginning to be 

 understood for what they are worth. Arms and ammuni- 

 tion for insurrectos are hard to get. Besides this, thous- 

 ands of Mexicans on both sides of the border are en- 

 thusiastically in favor of the plan. 



A wisely administered receivership means peace for 

 the Mexicans, safety for foreigners, and renewed pros- 

 perity for the rubber plantations, and the guayule pro- 

 ducers. 



The d.mly papers are featuring a story to the 

 effect that one man was killed and two women burned 

 by the explosion of a hot-water bottle, and furthermore 

 that the explosion was heard for blocks and several win- 

 dows broken. 



The inference is that the bottle contained hot water; 

 that said hot water suddenly, energetically, and feloni- 

 ously, turned itself into steam and did rend, wreck and 

 scald, to the discomfort and damage of certain and sun- 

 dr\' individuals. Without in any way impugning the 

 veracity of the narrators, we venture to point out that 

 hot water is not explosive. Even in a superheated bed 

 its contents do not vaporize. The chances are that the 

 bottle was filled with T.N.T., which conservative manu- 

 facturers do not advise for foot warming. 



The four-million-dollar potash plant, near San 

 Diego, California, is to be shut down. As it made 

 potash from kelp this is a rare opportunity for some 

 manufacturer of "seaweed rubber." 



