THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Echoes of The Great War. 



THE VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN AS AN INVESTMENT. 



THE V'icTORY Liberty Loan campaign began Monday, April 

 21, and will continue until Saturday, May 10, 1919, in- 

 clusive. The terms of the loan, announced by 

 the Treasury Department, are in brief as follows : the 

 issue will be limited to $4,500,000,000, except as it may be neces- 

 sary to increase or decrease the amount to facilitate allotment 

 on a graduated scale similar to that employed in connection with 

 the First Liberty Loan. The loan will take the form of three 

 to four-year 4-)^ per cent gold notes convertible at the will of the 

 holder into 3-J4 per cent notes free from all except estate and 

 inheritance taxes. The 4I4 per cent notes are exempt from State 

 and local taxes, except estate and inheritance taxes, and from 

 Federal normal income taxes. 



The limitation of the offering, the rate of interest, and the 

 short maturity render these notes an attractive investment for 

 all classes of buyers. Moreover, they seem likely to have a 

 favorable effect upon the Government issues now outstanding. As 

 this will be the last Liberty Loan, capital and labor throughout 

 the country are patriotically disposed to 

 finish the job with flying colors, and most 

 trades are pledged to full support. 



Large buyers are reminded by the Treas- 

 ury Department that a person may hold up 

 to $200,000 worth of bonds of the First 

 Liberty Loan converted and Second, Third 

 and Fourth Liberty Loans, with interest re- 

 ceived after January 1, 1919, exempt from 

 surtaxes, excess profits and war profits 

 taxes, on condition that he holds at least 

 one-third as many Victory Loan notes. 

 This exemption continues during the life of 

 the Victory notes. 



THE DRIVE IN GREATER NEW YORK, 



Tlie response in the Fourth Liberty Loan 

 campaign on the part of the rubber industry 

 was most gratifying in that over $11,000,000 

 was subscribed as against the quota of $10,- 

 000.000 assigned to it. 



In the present drive the rubber industry 

 of Greater New York has been assigned a 

 quota of $6,500,000, which amount it is safe 

 to assume will not only be fully subscribed 

 but oversubscribed, and to accomplish this 

 every possible source will be solicited. 



Committees representing the various branches of the' industry, 

 namely, tires, boots aiid shoes, crude rubber, mechanical rubber 

 goods, medical rubber goods, hard rubber goods and reclaimed 

 rubber, have been appointed, whose representatives will solicit 

 subscriptions from the trade, and needless to say, the committee 

 hopes for a most generous response. 



The following is the personnel of the Special Liberty Loan Com- 

 mittee for the Rubber Industry of Greater New York: 



CHAIRMAN. 



\V. J. Kelly, Poel & Kelly, New York City. 



VICE-CHAIRMAN. 



George B. Hodgman, Hodgman Rubber Co., Tuckahoe, X. Y. 



SECRETARY. 

 J. Abercrombie, The Rubljer Association of America, Inc., New 



York City. 



CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 



W. J. Kelly, chairman, Poel & Kelly. 



G. B. Hodgman, vice-chairman, Hodgman Rubber Company. 



T. S. Lindsey, Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 



A. H. Brown, Meyer & Brown. 



G. H. Mayo, United States Rubber Co. 



S. H. Jones, United States Rubber Co., Goodyear's India Rubber 



Glove Division. 

 J. Stuari Brown, Gutta Percha & Rubber Mfg. Co. 

 Clarence H. Low, United States Rubber Reclaiming Co. 

 Samuel Dodd, Vulcanized Rubber Co. 

 H. C. Pearson, editor, "The India Rubber World." 

 H. M. Williams, general manager, "The Rubber Age and Tire 



News." 



DIVISION COMMITTEES. 



Tires : 

 T. S. Lindsev, chairman, Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 

 E. P. Jones, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 

 J. B. Cothran, The Fisk Rubber Co. 

 H. J. Morehead, The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. 

 W. B. Bedford, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 

 E. S. Roe, United States Tire Co. 

 Harold W. Stimpson, Ajax Rubber Co., Inc. 



Crude Rubber : 

 A. H. Brown, chairman, Meyer & Brown. 

 Harold French, Gove & French, Inc. 



S. A. Schaeffer, Gaston. Williams & Wig- 

 more. 

 Collier W. Baird, Rubber Trading Co. 



F. H. Peaty, A. H. AstUtt & Co. 

 W. H. Stiles, William H. Stiles & Co. 

 Bancroft Henderson, F. R. Henderson 



& Co. 



Boots .^nd Shoes : 



G. H. Mayo, chairman. United States Rub- 

 ber Co. 



E. C. Beard, Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. 

 D. A. Hawkins, United States Rubber Co. 



F. H. Edmester, J. E. Bates & Co. 

 F. M. Sheppard, Jr., Goodyear Rubber Co. 



Rubber Medical Goods : 

 S. H. Jones, chairman, United States Rub- 

 ber Co., Goodyear's India Rubber Glovt 

 Division. 

 J. S. White, Hodgman Rubber Co. 

 N. B. Quick. The Miller Rubber Co. 

 J. T. Humphrey, United States Rubber Co. 

 Edward T. McCreery, United States Rub- 

 ber Co., Goodyear's India Rubber Glove 

 Division. 

 . tENTRAi, Committees. Leo Plant, United States Rubber Co., 

 Goodyear's India Rubber Glove Division. 

 Mechanical Rubber Goods : 

 J. Stuart Brown, chairman, Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co. 

 A. S. Hardy, Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 W. V. Aydelotte, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 

 L. E. Purtill, New York Belting & Packing Co. 

 William Wise, chairman. United States Rubber Co. 



Reclaimed Rubber: 

 Clarence H. Low. chairman. United States Rubber Reclaiming Co. 

 Clark W. Harrison, Bloomingdale Rubber Co. 

 Lloyd Applcton, F. H. Appleton & Son, Inc. 

 Nat E. Berzen. . 



Hard Rubber : 

 Samuel Dodd, chairman. Vulcanized Rubber Co. 

 H. Weida, India Rubber Co. 

 Bruce Bedford, Lucerne Rubber Co. 

 PuBLiriTY : 

 H. C. Pearson, "The India Rubber World." 

 H. M. Williams, "Tlic Rubber Age and Tire News." 1 



