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Vol. 52. 



JULY I, 1915. 



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RUBBER MEN FOR PREPAREDNESS. 



Ni > one in the United States wants war. As a nation, 

 we no more desire war than we desire earthquakes 

 oi the bubonic plague. \nd that is the reason why many 

 well-balanced people urge that we gel so ready for war 

 thai no one will feel at all disposed to statu one with ns. 

 It is quite widely believed that at the present time we 

 are rather remote from such a condition, and hence the 

 universal choru — barring the ex-Secretary of State and 

 a few of his friends — for preparedness. 



The rir>t practical suggestions For general national de- 

 fense contributed from any industrial quarter have come 

 from large rubber companies, several of which have re- 

 cently voted :•• encourage enlistment in the National 

 Guard, on the part of their factory workmen, to give full 

 pa) to any who shall enlist, during the time they arc 

 engaged in their military duties, and not to deduct this 

 time from their usual vacations. 



It is probably safe to sa\ that there are 75,000 rubber 

 workers of military age — a very substantial bod) from 

 which the militia of the Eastern and Middle States — 

 where most of the rubber mills are located — mav be 

 recruited. This willingness of the rubber companies i 

 finance the patriotism of their employees — if it may be 

 so express^ highly important in itself, and especially 



a- an example which is likely to be followed by other 



large employers of labor. It may not solve the whole 

 question of national defense, but it certainly is a long 

 Step in that direction. 



THE WAR AND RUBBER TIRES. 



IT seems to be generalh believed that there has been a 

 great increase in the sale of American rubber tires 

 abroad since the outbreak of hostilities. This belief is 

 ed on the theory that as the motor car has largely sup- 

 planted all other means of military transportation alike in 

 the moving of troops and of ami) supplies, and as no 

 motor i ar can operate unless adequately tired, tl 

 have been a great demand lor both solid and pneumatic 

 tires and of necessity much of this demand must have 

 looked to the L'nited States for its suppiv. 



It is true that the sale of American tires abroad has in- 

 creased -mce the beginning of the war, but not to the 

 extent generalh supposed. Recent government repi 

 covering our export trade give an accurate idea of the 

 ut of out tire sales abroad. I omparing the ten 

 months ending April 30 — which covers the period from 

 the beginning of the war— with the same period of the 

 year earlier, we get the following results: For the ten 

 months ending with last April the value of rubber tires 

 for motor cars sent abroad amounted to $3,552,651, as 

 compared with $2,683,344 the year before. To these 

 figures must be added the value of the tires that were 

 senl abroad on cars during that period. For the ten 

 months ending last April the number of commercial 

 vehicles exported was 8,580, as compared with 595 the 

 year before. Assuming the tire equipment to avei 

 $300 a car. the respective tire values for the two periods 

 would he $-'.574.1)00 for the ten months of war. as com- 

 pared with S17S, 5(H) for the ten months of peace. The 

 export of passenger cars ;„ the meantime had decreased. 

 being 14.641 for the latter period as compared with 

 23,167 i"i- the former period. Assuming the tire equip- 

 ment of these car- to he an av< $100. and adding 

 these values to those already given above, we have as a 

 total valuation of the tire exports for the ten months end- 

 ing last \pril. $7,590,751, as compared with $5,178,544 

 tor the ten months ending with April. 1914. 



In other words, the total increase of tire exports for 

 the first ten months of the war. compared with the pre- 

 ceding year, measured in value, amounted to only $2,- 

 412,207, an item so small when compared with our total 

 yearly tire production that any one of the larger com- 

 panies could have taken care of it all without the slight- 

 est interference with its general routine. 



THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE AMAZON. 



ALL men who are concerned in a large way with, the 

 welfare of the rubber industry feel a profound in- 

 terest in the country of the Amazon. They have heard 

 with genuine sympathy the stories of distress that have 

 come from that section since rubber began to sell at the 



