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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



given the privilege of passing an examination for citizenship 

 papers. All aliens who have not already their lirst papers are 

 urged to take them out, and this class work is intended to enable 

 them to pass the examination which is given for second papers. 

 Summit County common pleas judges have resolved to accept 

 as tinal evidence that a man is ready for his second papers, his 

 passing an examination which has heen prepared by the Assist- 

 ant Superintendent of Schools. This examination is in the 

 form of a questionnaire. 



Hy the time the student has reached this stage, he has become 

 that for which this entire movement was conceived and placed 

 in operation. He has become an American citizen, a student of 

 civic government, a fellow-being to be respected, and a man 

 whose normal intelligence will no longer be submerged luiieath 

 the barrier of foreign nativity. 



GOVERNMENT SALVAGE OF WASTE TO CONTINUE. 



The likelihood that the Government will maintain a permanent 

 waste reclamation service as a needed conservation measure for 

 the benefit of American industry in time of peace is of great in- 

 terest to rubber-goods manufacturers. Of the waste materials 

 of various kinds salvaged during the year 1918 by the War Prison 

 Labor and National Waste Reclamation Section. Labor Division 

 of the War Industries Board, and valued at $1,500,000,000, old 

 rubber was represented to the amount of $300,000,000. 



So good was the showing in salvaging the materials needed by 

 the Government in the prosecution of the war that the work will 

 probably be taken over at an early date by the Department of 

 Coinmerce and put on a permanent basis. The eighty-six local 

 reclamation councils in leading cities of the country, and some 

 two hundred others in process of formation, are destined to form 

 an endless chain ensuring the assistance of civic and other organ- 

 izations and school children in establishing permanent municipal 

 bureaus to collect and reclaim all waste materials for peace-time 

 industries just as garbage and ashes are collected. It is the logi- 

 cal way to meet the unprecedented demand for raw materials and 

 will tend to restore retail prices to pre-war levels. 



SALES BY ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. 



A number of rubber and chemical properties of enemy owner- 

 ship have recently been sold by the Alien Property Custodian. 

 The names of the purchasers and the prices paid are as follows : 



The Traun Rubber Co., New York City, bought by William 

 Schrader, 249 Fourth avenue. New York City, for $20,000. Sale 

 to be approved. 



Goetze Gasket & Packing Co., New Brunswick, New .Tersey, 

 bought by Peter F. Daly, New Brunswick, New Jersey, for 

 $57,100. Sale not yet approved. 



.\. W. Faber, Newark. New Jersey, bought by Thcodor 

 Friedeberg, 30 Church street. New York City, for $131,250. Sale 

 has been approved. 



Hevden Chemical Works. Garfield, Xew Jersey, was sold for 

 $605,000, but sale was not approved as to price by the Advisory 

 Sales Committee. It was subsequently readvertised tor sale. 

 CHEMICAL FOUNDATION. INC. 



The Alien Properly Custodian, acting under the authority of 

 the amended Trading with the Enemy Act of November 4, 1918, 

 has organized a corporation known as the Chemical Foundation. 

 Inc., all of whose $500,000 capital stock has been subscribed for 

 at par in cash by a large number of American manufacturers of 

 chemicals and dyestuffs. The Chemical Foundation. Inc., has 

 purchased from the Alien Property Custodian, for $250,000 

 about 4,500 patents covering chemical processes and products, 

 registered in the United States by Germans and other enemy 

 alien owners. The Chemical Foundation. Inc., will issue, without 

 discrimination, non-exclusive licenses to any American manu- 

 facturer who may make application therefor, under the terms 

 of which the American manufacturer may use or make the pat- 

 ented processes and products on a moderate royalty basis. The 



effect of this plan will be to totally exclude from the United 

 Slates the importation of any dyes or chemicals made in any 

 country in the world under any of the patents held by the 

 Chemical Foundation, Inc. Of the subscribed capital, $250,000 

 is available as a working fund for the prosecution of actions 

 involving the importation or manufacture of products infringing 

 (ui the patents to which the Chemical Foundation, Inc., has 

 acquired title. 



The patents now held by the Chemical Foundation. Inc., cover 

 most of the processes and products used in the dye industry and 

 in addition to this protection afforded under the patent laws, 

 there is now in effect the Tariff .\ct of September 8. 1916, which 

 imposes a heavy ad valorem duty on finished dyestuffs made from 

 coal tar and smaller ad valorem duties on intermediates, together 

 with specific duties on both finished products and intermediates. 

 These customs duties apply to all synthetic dyestuffs imported, 

 wherever made and by whatever process. 



RUBBER MEN RETURNED FROM SERVICE. 



The Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeanette, Pennsylvania, re- 

 ports the following men returned from service : Lieutenant 

 George Blair, 18 months in the Naval Aviation service, man- 

 ager of Philadelphia branch ; P. F. Armitage, one year second 

 machinist's mate in the Naval Reserve Force, in charge of 

 northeastern Pennsylvania territory, with headquarters at Phil- 

 adelphia branch ; Milton H. Batz, first-class sergeant, repre- 

 sentative in western New York; and William E. Littell, with 

 the Motor Instruction Division, calling on the trade in Central 

 Pennsylvania. 



Fred M. Elvidge was recently discharged from the Army 

 and has returned to his former position with the Ajax Rubber 

 Co.. Inc.. New Y'ork City. At the time the armistice was signed 

 he had worked his way up from private until he was about to 

 receive a captain's commission. 



WELLMAN-SEAVER-MORGAN DEMONSTRATION. 



A novel method of showing how solid tires are put on and 

 taken off the wheels of motor cars was recently inaugurated 

 by an enterprising builder of tire-applying presses. A 200-ton 

 press was installed at a prominent business corner in Cleveland, 

 Ohio, and actual demonstrations of mounting and demounting 

 tires were given. 



The exliibit was attractively decorated with oil-paiiued posters 

 and was fluod-lighted at night. Grouped around the press were 



An OuiLiixik Tire-Apflying Exhibit. 



various sizes of tires, up to the largest solids built, including 

 the following well-known makes : Brunswick, Firestone, Good- 

 year, Hood, Kelly-Springfield, Kokomo, Mason, McGraw. Owen, 

 Polack, Republic, Sterling, Swinehart, United States. 



