Ai'RtL 1, 1919. ■ 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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and dirt are forced into the cuts and work around under the 

 tread. Note several large "bumps" where these have accumu- 

 lated. If a tire is carefully watched for these cuts, a little plastic 

 will heal them quickly and no damage will result. 



KUNMING IN CAR TRACKS. 



Tire F has given less than 2,000 miles service, but it has been 

 run in car tracks and the rubber is worn down to the fabric in 

 a line following the circumference of the tire. Furthermore, 

 the fabric has become worn and blistered. The casing is beyond 

 repair. 



FAULTY ALINEMENT. 



A more common tire injury is shown in illustration G. This 

 effect is due to faulty alinement of the front wheels. A bent 

 axle or steering knuckle may be responsible or possibly the 

 demountable rim was not perfectly applied. 



Accidents are not always responsible for the front wheels 

 being out of alinement but frequently this is the case. All cars, 

 through no fault in manufacture, are subject to this condition, 

 and the first indication will be given when the tread of one or 

 both tires wears as though a rough file had been used on them. 

 If the tread becomes worn through, and the fabric affected, the 

 tire is beyond repair. Test your front wheels frequently and be 

 sure that they are in proper alinement. 



RUT WORN. 



H. — A tire that has been run in ruts. This wear on the side- 

 walls occurs regardless of whether the ruts in the road are too 

 large or too small for the tire. What's the answer? Keep out of 

 the ruts. Tires were not made to withstand wear of tliis kind. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. 



THE PAN AMERICAN REVIEW. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE 

 Pan American Society of the United States, Inc.. 15 Broad street. 

 New York City. Price to non-members $2 per annum; single copies, 

 20 cents. 

 'T'HE first issue of this little publication contains fifteen pages. 

 •*■ It is published by a group of prominent men who desire to 

 help in developing and conserving mutual knowledge, under- 

 standing and friendship among the American republics and 

 peoples. 



ACCOUNTING AS AN AID TO BUSINESS PROFITS BY WILLIAM 

 R. Bassett. A. W. Shaw Co.. Chicago, Illinois. (Clotli, octavo, 320 

 pages. Price. $5.30 postpaid.) 



Not a treatise on accounting in the ordinary sense, this work 

 is rather an explanation of accounting for the every-day business 

 man who wants to know best how to manage his business and 

 demands that his bookkeeping be a real living history rather than 

 a mere collection of figures. The assumption throughout is that 

 the only accounting worth while is that which combines an exact 

 book record of transactions with an exact book record 

 of operations, so that causes as well as effects may 

 be analyzed. Many tested plans, labor-saving methods, and 114 

 forms that have been successfully used by concerns throughout 

 the country amplify the text, their object being less waste, de- 

 pendable costs, faster turnover, savings in labor and lower sell- 

 ing expense. Tlie chapters on statements of condition and opera- 

 tion, the value of good-will, depreciation, purchasing, costs of 

 materials and labor, determining overhead and selling expenses, 

 and control reports for the executive, are especially valuable to 

 every progressive business man. 



The Editor is the proud recipient of a copv of "Govern- 

 ment War Advertising," the report of the Division of Adver- 

 tising, Committee on Public Information, inscribed to The 

 In'di.\ Rubber World, "whose patriotic contribution of space 

 or services has helped to win the war through advertising." 

 The report is a handsome 48-page quarto publication on dull 

 finish paper with light-brown paper covers. It sets forth in de- 

 tail the work of the Division of Advertising, describes the seve- 

 ral advertising campaigns that helped to win the war, and lists 



the contributions of space and services. In these lists the rubber 

 and allied industries are represented by the following firms: 

 Converse Rubber Shoe Co.; Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co.; 

 E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; 

 General Electric Co, ; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ; McGraw 

 Tire & Rubber Co.; Star Rubber Co.; Taylor Instrument Cos.; 

 L. E, Waterman Co. : Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



*'VJf7ARP .\nd Weft" is the n,\me of an 8-p.\ge illustrated 

 " newspaper published "every little while" by the em- 

 ployes of the Brighton Mills, Passaic and Allwood, New Jersey. 

 It is a breezy paper of general articles, news and personal men- 

 lion of particular interest to Brighton operatives. 



The Morse Chain Co.. Ithaca. New York, is distributing 

 Publication No. 16 of the "Chain of Evidence" series devoted to 

 small-power drives. It is a handsome 24-page pamphlet with 

 many illustrations showing the application of Morse silent chains 

 to a great variety of machinery. 



The Schaeffer & Budenberg Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn, 

 New York, has issued a large and handsome catalog of Columbia 

 recording thermometers now extensively used in connection with 

 rubber vulcanizers. Many illustrations and data render intelligent 

 selection of the proper instrument an easy matter. 

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The Rubber Compound Bureau, Akron, Ohio, is distributing 

 among rubber manufacturers of the United States and foreign 

 countries a folder enabling the rubber chemist and superin- 

 tendent to select any formula that he may need to improve his 

 present line of manufacture. 



"Where to Buy Neolin Soled Shoes for Them All," is the 

 title of a booklet recently issued by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co. of Canada, Limited, Toronto, Ontario. Other booklets from 

 the same company of interest to the trade include: "Neolin— A 

 Handbook of Information for Retailers and Their Salespeople," 

 and "For Comfort and Hard Wear." These booklets contain 

 a brief account of the inception of Neolin, testimonials from shoe 

 manufacturers' iists of manufacturers who use these soles on their 

 product, lists of styles, etc. They are printed on good stock with 

 Iioster covers in colors. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



INVENTED THE RUBBER STEP FOR VEHICLES. 

 r^ EURGE A. KEEXE, inventor of the rubber step, or tread for 

 ^^ vehicles and many other useful articles, died at the residence 

 of his son in Rockford, Illinois, March 7, 1919, aged 87 years. 

 He was a life-long resident of Lynn, Massachusetts. He is sur- 

 vived by his widow, one son and four daughters, besides ten 

 .grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, 



DAUGHTER OF A NOTED RUBBER MAN, 

 Miss G, Lillian Clapp, who died at her home in Boston, March 

 15, 1919, was the daughter of the late Charles M, Clapp, one 

 of the pioneers of the rubber industry, who, with R. D, Evans, 

 was proprietor of the old .\etna Rubber Mills in Boston in the 

 'sixties and 'seventies of the last century. Miss Clapp, who 

 was born in 1858, was a public-spirited woman who devoted 

 herself whole-heartedly to philanthropic work, being especially 

 active as a member of the board of managers of the Bethesda 

 Society, and holding similar offices with the Norfolk House 

 Centre, Little Wanderers' Home and Homeopathic Hospital, 

 and during the late war was prominent in Red Cross work. She 

 is survived by her sister, Mrs, N. Hugh Cotton, who was Miss 

 Harriet E, Clapp, 



