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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1919. 



Echoes of the Great War. 



Adelbert H. Alden. 



ADELBERT H. ALDEN IN WAR WORK. 



FOR nearly four years Adelbert H. Alden has been 

 Ml war work in Europe, and when the United States 

 cnlered the war lie became interested in providing enter- 

 tainment and caring for the American soldiers passing through 

 London. When the 

 American hospitals were 

 established there both 

 Mr. and Mrs. Alden de- 

 voted much of their time 

 to the care of wounded 

 Americans. 



In response to an in- 

 vitation from a friend to 

 spend Christmas in the 

 States, Mr. Alden wrote: 

 We would desire to eat 

 our Christmas dinner 

 with you in the States, 

 but there are some things 

 which make it impos- 

 sible. I feel I am of 

 service here in the hos- 

 pitals—at least for a 

 time longer, as some of 

 the wounded men seem 

 to depend on me and I 

 don't like to desert them, 

 for when I have spoken 

 of leaving them for 

 home their words and 

 manner have touched 

 me deeply and I simply 

 cannot do it. However, 

 this condition of afifairs 

 will probably not continue very long, for the wounded are being 

 evacuated back to the United States very rapidly and soon there 

 should be non left here. They are the very finest lot of young 

 men I ever saw. 



In a later letter Mr. Alden writes : 



Our hospital work is finished. All our wounded friends have 

 departed and we plan to sail for home March 15th. 



In a recent interview General Guy E. Tripp, who during the 

 war was assistant to the Chief of Ordnance at Washington, 

 D. C, but has now returned to his duties as chairman of the 

 board of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spoke enthusiastically of the aid the 

 Government received during the war from the men and women 

 who make up our great commercial organizations. As an ex- 

 ample, General Tripp pointed out the valuable contributions to 

 the winning of the war which have been made by the Westing- 

 house organization and employes. 



Not only did an army of 7,468 men, or about 20 per cent 

 of the company's employes, go forth to fight, but a loyal in- 

 dustrial army of nearly 40,000 remained to operate the com- 

 pany's several great plants day and night, turning out vast quan- 

 tities of war munitions of many sorts. Works, machinery, and 

 workmen were turned over to the Government, including the 

 services of inventors, engineers, chemists, and innumerable 

 specialists. And when greater factory capacity was required, 

 a plowed field at South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was, in less 

 than a year, converted into a fully equipped industrial plant em- 

 bracing seven large buildings and employing over 2,000 persons. 



The Westinghouse organization also did much to assist finan- 

 cially in the campaign for Liberty Loans, Red Cross and United 



War Work Funds. Tlie company and employes joined hands and 

 the results are most gratifying. The employes alone subscribed 

 for a total of $10,500,000 of Liberty Bonds, the company sub- 

 scribing for $8,000,000, making a total of $18,500,000, or 1.08 per 

 cent of the four Liberty Loans. 



In the civilian personnel furnished the Government were a 

 number of prominent men who performed invaluable services 

 along their chosen lines, .\mong these might be mentioned, 

 Benjamin G. Lamme, chief engineer, who was appointed by 

 the Secretary of the Navy as a member of the Naval Consulting 

 Board ; vice-president L. A. Osborne, a member of the War 

 Labor Board ; Frederick Darlington, consulting engineer, head 

 of Power Section of War Industrial Board — and many others 

 doing equally important work. 



THRIFT IN 1919. 



The Government has taken steps to provide for a new issue 

 of War Savings Stamps for 1919, similar to those put out during 

 1918. The new ones, however, are to be kept on special cards 

 or folders and not combined with those of 1918. Similar rates 

 are also announced, a War Savings Stamp in March, 1919, cost- 

 ing $4.14, and one cent additional during each subsequent month. 

 The same kind of Thrift Stamps are being issued as were put 

 out in 1918. Thrift Stamps purchased during 1918 may th^e- 

 fore be applied on War Savings Stamps of the current issue. 

 HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS LOYALLY. 



In connection with the buying of War Savings and Thrift 

 Stamps and Liberty Bonds, the new Secretary of the Treasury, 

 Carter Glass, deprecates the tendency in some directions to sell 

 Liberty Bonds already acquired. He especially censures the 

 exchange of these bonds, the best security in the world from 

 the point of view of investment, for otiier securities of doubtful 

 and sometimes worthless value, or for unnecessary purchases. 

 He makes the point that as long as the Government needs to 

 sell bonds, those who hold the present issue will show their 

 unimpaired loyalty by retaining them except under the spur of 

 the most urgent necessity. In such a circumstance, with the 

 bonds as security, the best method of procediire is to negotiate 

 a loan from some reputable bank, to be repaid later. The bond 

 owner who disposes of his bond for cash outright does not help 

 the Government, and perhaps the best test of his real loyalty and 

 thrift lies in his ability to continue to practice self-denial and 

 not purchase the small luxuries which the money to be obtained 

 from the sale of a Liberty Bond would make possible. 



EXPORTATION OF AUTOMOBILES AND BICYCLES TO 

 DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN AND HOLLAND. 



In a new ruling (VV. T. B. R. 588), the War Trade Board an- 

 nounces that in shipping automobiles and bicycles to the above 

 countries, it will no longer be necessary to furnish with the 

 application for export license an import certificate number cover- 

 ing the tires on such vehicles. The import certificate and export 

 license issued for automobiles and bicycles will be deemed to 

 include the necessary tires. 



RESUMPTION OF TRADE WITH SERVIA AND ROUMANIA. 



Trade with Servia and Roumania has been resumed, subject 

 to the rules and regulations of the War Trade Board, and 

 applications for import or export licenses for all commodities 

 will now be considered. Applications for export licenses should 

 be filed on Form X or X-a. No supplemental sheets are re- 

 quired for rubber goods. As the import regulations of these 

 countries are unknown, prospective exporters should communi- 

 cate with their customers before making shipments, in order 

 that the importer may comply with the requirements governing 

 imports to Servia and Roumania. 



