August 1. 1919. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



659 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. 



COMMERCIAL OILS. VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL WITH SPECIAL 



Refcience to Oriental Oils. Bv I. F. Laucks, B. S. M. S. First 



Edition. 1919. Jolin Wiley & Sons. Inc., New York. Chapman & Hall, 



Limited, London. (Cloth, 4H x 7 'A inches, 138 pages.) 



'T'HIS valuable little book is intended primarily for the non- 



■*■ technical man in the oil trade. It gives the technical data 



and information required in every-day dealings in the oil trade, 



omitting more or less scientific matter. 



The book contains four chapters ; in the first, oils are classified 

 according to Lewkowitsch, their general properties and physical 

 and chemical characteristics briefly described, together with the 

 preparation of oils and fats from fcheir raw materials. 



The second chapter is devoted to the detailed descriptions of 

 the sources and characteristics of over sixty kinds of commercial 

 oils, including vegetable, fish, marine and terrestrial animal oils, 

 and waxes. 



In the final chapter the uses of oils are briefly discussed and 

 much interesting information is given. Reference is made to 

 blown oils and the sulphurized oils used as rubber substitute ; 

 also to the less well-known fact that nitrated oils are used as 

 rubber substitute. 



The book concludes with a tabulation of the properties of 

 many of the less common oils, weights per gallon of oil, etc., 

 and a comprehensive index. It will be appreciated as a handy 

 book of reference by the chemist as well as by the practical 

 dealer in oils. 



OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SIXTH NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE 

 Convention. Issued by the Secretary of the National Foreign Trade 

 Council, 1 Hanover Square. New York City. Octavo, 650 pages. Cloth. 

 Price $2. 



Under the title of "Oflicial Proceedings of the Sixth National 

 Foreign Trade Convention," the National Foreign Trade Coun- 

 cil has issued a text-book on foreign trade, replete with informa- 

 tion, advice and suggestion. This volume is a stenographic 

 report of the proceedings of the convention held in Chicago 

 April 24-26, 1919. 



Representing all parts of the world and all factors in foreign 

 trade, from the production of raw material to the transporta- 

 tion of the finished article, the deliberations and conclusions of 

 this gathering are entitled to the most serious consideration. 

 Especially is this true of the final declaration of the convention, 

 printed at the front of the volume, in which the conclusions of 

 the convention are set forth in a comprehensive legislative pro- 

 gram, the first of its kind definitely laid down by the business 

 men of the counfrv. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



'T'HF. PUBLICATION OF HOUSE ORGANS OR EMPLOYES' papers is a 

 *■ most helpful feature of welfare work. The "C.-H. Messenger," 

 published "for all Cutler-Hammer employees" comes from the 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, office of the manufacturing company of 

 that name. The Independence Day issue, printed in red and blue, 

 contains the names of nearly 300 einployees who served their 

 country during the war, and shows half-tone portraits of inany 

 of them. The little paper is replete with personal notes and fac- 

 tory news, besides contributions from the various branch offices 

 of the Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co in other cities. 



"Rubber Le.\ves" comes to this office as a bound volume 

 containing twelve numbers of a handsome little horse-organ pub- 

 lished by the London Rubber Co., Aberdeen. Scotland, for dis- 

 tribution to its customers. The earlier numbers contained eight 

 pages, some of the later ones 12 pages of deckle-edge paper 

 with heavy covers. There are timely hints to dealers, breezy 

 business advice, information about rubber and rubber processes, 

 sketchy stories with practical business points and advertise- 

 ments of the specialties of the company, the whole artistically 



printed, with illustrations in half-tone on glazed paper "tipped 

 in." The volume is bound in half leather, and is well worth 

 a place in the editorial library. 



The Rubber Products Co., Barberton, Ohio, is sending out 

 a large circular, which can be utilized as a window poster to 

 advertise its "Stronghold" tires, one side being printed in large 

 type for quick reading, and showing a half-tone cut of the tire 

 at least half actual size. The other side shows the magnified 

 structure of the tire, with appropriate diagrams, half-tones and 

 explanation. Another section pictures and describes the inner 

 tubes made by the company. 



"We Welcome Fair Competition" is the title of a circular 

 issued by the Portable Machinery Co., Inc., Passaic, New Jersey. 

 It tells how another firm is trying to market an imitation of 

 the scoop conveyor and warns possible purchasers, as a suit 

 for infringement of patent rights is now pending. 



The rubber department of R. T. Vanderbilt Co., 50 East 

 42nd street. New York City, is sending to rubber chemists, 

 superintendents and purchasing agents, valuable information in 

 loose-leaf note-book form. 



Bulletin No. 22, issued by Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co., 

 Cleveland, Ohio, comprises three charts giving the relations in 

 any shaft between power, shaft diameter, torsional stress, and 

 speed. 



The Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co., Buffalo, New York, 

 has published for distribution a concise 36-page "Popular History 

 of the War," by Merton M. Miller, assistant editor of "The 

 Buffalo Express." The booklet includes excellent maps of the 

 various war fronts and a daily chronology, and is altogether 

 worthy of preservation for ready reference. 



Gutta Percha & Rubber, Limited, Toronto, Canada, Has 

 published a very neat little pamphlet picturing and describing the 

 decorations of honor which have been and are being awarded 

 by the British and French Governments for bravery, distinguished 

 service or conspicuous gallantry during the Great War. Each is 

 shown with the appropriate ribbons pictured in natural colors, 

 while a history of the decoration, the requirements for its award 

 and other facts are given. The company confines its advertising 

 to a few pages at the beginning and end of thte book. The 

 publication is small enough to fit in the pocket, and is therefore 

 convenient to identify such decorations, and gives information 

 as to 'he reason for their award. 



The Oak Tire & Rubber Co., Limited, Toronto, Canada, 

 sends out "The Story of the Royal Oak Tire" in handsome 

 pamphlet form, illustrated with half-tone cuts, showing processes 

 of manufacture. The full details of manufacture, from the crude 

 rubber to the finished tire are described and pictured, the whole 

 enclosed in a terra-cotta double cover, the outer one bearing the 

 legend "Tougher than Oak," an outlined landscape and an em- 

 bossed representation of the tire. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, sends to 

 garage owners and tire dealers, a monthly paper entitled "Good- 

 year Tire News." and another, "The Goodyear — a Family News- 

 paper." to the branch office of the company and to the employes. 

 The former gives news of Goodyear products, racing news, prac- 

 tical hints on lire repairing and for sale, wanted and business 

 opportunity items. The news items are copiously illustrated with 

 half-tones, and the paper is one which any tire dealer will 

 appreciate. 



The "Goodyear — a Family Newspaper" — is devoted to factory 



