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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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HENRY C. PEARSON, Editor 



Vol. 51. 



JANUARY 1, 1915. 



been interrupted for some four issues only. In subject 

 matter and as a whole it bears ii" evidence of unusuaj 

 conditions at home or abroad. Or, raon i actly, there 

 is one difference— no market quotations for crude rubber 

 are appended as ol yore, \ letter from Editor Springer 



in another column gives a g 1 idea of rubber conditions 



in ( lermany. 



( hir very interesting contemporary "Le Caoutchouc & 

 la Gutta-Percha" has unfortunatel) been forced to sus- 

 pend publication. A. D. ( illard, its able editor, writes as 

 follows : 



" Ml our collaborators and workers are at the tiring line. 

 Seine of them have alread\ fallen on the held of ho 

 We have no one any longer here. There is no business 

 and the losses experienced by our publication, 'Le 



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THE RUBBER EMBARGO. 



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THE SEASON'S COMPLIMENTS. 



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V/ ( >U who read this, whatever your place in the world's 

 *■ rubber trade, are given our Happy New Year. May 

 1915 bring prosperity and content. May all race preju- 

 dice vanish and wars cease. May efficiency and fair- 

 dealing, wealth and integrity, join hands. 



OUR CONTEMPORARIES 



INCE the great war's beginning scores of trade 

 journals large and small have ceased to exi-t. This 



'. Rubber Embargo has not been lifted. The news- 

 papers from time to time say that it has, but they 

 are in error. In the meantime, the American Rubber 

 Committee have done everything possible at Washing- 

 ton and are in close touch with the British Committee in 

 London. Very wisely, they have insisted on keeping the 

 rubber embargo separate from all other embargoes, as,, 

 for example, wool, graphite, etc. They are also at work 

 upon a form of guarantee, which it is hoped will be ac- 

 ceptable to the British Government. In this connection a 

 new-paper note that is going the rounds is of special 

 interest. It reads : 



"A continuance of the rubber embargo for a protracted 

 period will have the result of putting a large number of 

 people out of employment. It will also raise prices ti 

 consumers of rubber goods to almost unprecedented 

 figures, and will particularly affect every user of an 



is particularly true in England, Germany and France, automobile. If the American manufacturers are obliged 



to depend upon rubber from Brazil, which would seem 



almost inevitable if this embargo is indefinitely continued, 



they will be in the position of manufacturing their 



goods from rubber purchased at ati extraordinarily high 



price, with the possibility that at any time Creat P.ritain 



The English "India Rubber Journal" is one of the few might decide under certain conditions to raise this em- 



to continue to appear regularly and shows no sign of bargo. This would immediately bring the price of crude 



slacking in interest. Congratulations and felicitations! rubber down to practically a normal figure, and leave the 



The "Gummi-Zeitung" also arrives regularly, having manufacturers with a stock of merchandise on their 



Those that remain are perforce the necessary ones. \t 

 the same time, with the unavoidable curtailment of adver- 

 tising, the disintegration of subscription lists ami slow 

 collections, the burden of publishing has been greatlv 

 augmented. 



