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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[AufiusT 1, 1919. 



Echoes of The Great War. 



RESUMPTION OF TRADE WITH GERMANY. 



EFFECTIVE July 14, 1919, it was announced by the War Trade 

 Board Section of the Department of State that a general 

 enemy trade license had been issued authorizing all persons 

 in the United Slates to trade and communicate with persons re- 

 siding in Germany and to trade and communicate with all persons 

 with whom trade and communication is prohibited by the Trading 

 with the Enemy Act, except those in Hungary or that portion of 

 Russia under the control of the Bolshevik authorities. 



The above-mentioned general license does not authorize the im- 

 portation into the United States from Germany or elsewhere of 

 dyes, dyestufTs, potash, drugs or chemicals which have been pro- 

 duced or manufactured in Germany; nor does it authorize trade 

 .with respect to any property which heretofore, pursuant to the 

 provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Act as amended, has 

 been reported to the Alien Property Custodian, or should have 

 been so reported to him, or any property which heretofore, 

 pursuant to the provisions of said act, the Alien Property Cus- 

 todian has seized or has required to be conveyed, transferred, 

 assigned, delivered or paid over to him. 



Exports to and imports from Germany may now take place 

 under Special Export License RAC No. 71 and General Import 

 License PBF No. 37. 



FEDERAL INCORPORATION OF AMERICAN FOREIGN TRADE 

 FIRMS. 



The bill to permit the Federal incorporation of companies 

 engaged in foreign trade that has been introduced in Congress 

 virith the approval of the Government, the National Foreign 

 Trade Council, and other organizations, is of much moment 

 to the rubber industry, which necessarily involves international 

 relations to a considerable degree. 



Our state incorporation laws vary so greatly and change so 

 frequently, and court procedure and decisions differ to such a 

 d«gree as to be so generally distrusted abroad, that it is often 

 difficult to secure investment of foreign capital in American 

 companies organized under these laws. 



Federal incorporation of American concerns doing business 

 abroad would lend the confidence and prestige of the federal 

 name and authority to our foreign traders, and nothing is as 

 important to foreign trade as mutual confidence. 



It is highly desirable that firms abroad made up of Americans, 

 but depending largely upon foreign money for their capital, be 

 permitted to do business under the American flag in such a way 

 as to attract the investment of foreign money. This investment 

 in American concerns would inevitably lead to the purchase 

 of American goods, and would therefore be of the greatest 

 value in aiding the growth of American foreign trade. 



COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE TO CONTINUE. 



The war has shown conclusively the country's need of a 

 governmental agency that shall in time of peace collect, study 

 and centralize in a scientific way all information bearing upon 

 the national defense, particularly with regard to the mobiliza- 

 tion of industries, science, and labor in time of war. 



The United States Council of National Defense, created nearly 

 a year before America entered the war, is such an agency, and 

 the amount of constructive work it has accomplished with an 

 e.xpenditure of only $1,574,000 up to May 1, 1919, has been truly 

 remarkable. 



Under the Sundry Civil Bill there has been reappropriated 

 to the Council of National Defense its unexpended balance for 

 the fiscal year 1918, and the Council is now maturing plans to 

 return to its peace-time functions. During the war the Council 

 has been in effect an administrative laboratory and clearing 



house of study and action in matters touching the national de- 

 fense. Broadly speaking, it purposes to continue under the 

 same policy. 



With the closing of the work of the Capital Issues Commit- 

 tee, the Committee on Public Information, the Food Adminis- 

 tration, the Fuel Administration, the War Industries Board, 

 and the War Trade Board, the Council remains the single in- 

 terdepartmental unit which can centralize the study of the 

 records established by these war agencies. It will undoubtedly 

 become in effect the residuary legatee of these war agencies to 

 the extent that their records are not allocated to the executive 

 departments. 



The Council of National Defense is composed of the Secre- 

 taries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and 

 Labor. With it throughout the war acted an advisory commis- 

 sion of seven members, composed of Daniel Willard, Samuel 

 Gompers, Bernard M. Baruch, Howard E. Coffin, Julius Rosen- 

 wald, Dr. Franklin Martin, and Dr. Hollis Godfrey. 

 WASTE RECLAMATION IN AKRON. OHIO. 

 Wabte reclamation, a war-time concept, has become a peace- 

 time development that promises eventually to accomplish much 

 good throughout the country by inculcating habits of individual 

 and corporate thrift. The plan was originated by the Commercial 

 Economy Board of the Council of National Defense, but its suc- 

 cessful operation is attributable to the activity and interest of 

 George W. Sherman, manager of the salvage department of The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Fostered by 75 per cent of the industrial capitalization of the 

 community, the Akron Industrial Salvage Co., capitalized for 

 $25,000, was incorporated in May, 1918. It was not a movement 

 for profit but for betterment and the company has operated on 

 the theory that waste material often has a value in use far 

 greater than its value in price, and that nothing of use in indus- 

 try should be destroyed. 



In order to assist other communities in organizing similar com- 

 panies, the development of a short, intensive training course for 

 salvage executives, to be conducted by one of the local colleges, 

 is contemplated by the Waste Reclamation Council of Akron, 

 and the feasibility of a full-year course of salvage engineering 

 for senior college men is also under consideration. 



The waste-saving work is still in its infancy but it is safe 

 to predict that this civic improvement company will make a con- 

 tribution to the movement for national waste reclamation as 

 fundamental as that of National Waste Products, Limited, in 

 England, a government corporation operated on strictly commer- 

 cial lines. 



BELGIUM GETS BACK HER MACHINERY. 

 Belgian machinery, stolen by the German invaders, is being 

 returned by them at the rate of some 3,000 tons weekly. The 

 total amount returned on July 1 was 18,000 tons and there is 

 much more to come. The law of righteous retribution is still in 

 existence. 



AMERICAN RUBBER COATS IN GERMANY. 

 Rubber coats were among the first goods offered by American 

 manufacturers to Germany, according to the "Deutsche Allege- 

 meine." This newspaper states that the initial result of the 

 raising of the blockade is the flooding of Cologne with for- 

 eign goods, and that America and France v/ere among the first 

 in this trade. 



It is to your best interest to put your liberty bond interest 

 in War Savings Stamps. 



