After a painting tiy G. P. A. Healey in the Museum of the 
Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science 
Jin Accounting 
to the ' ' ' 
American People 
T HIS MONTH marks the fiscal close of the most phen¬ 
omenal year The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company 
has ever known. 
Goodyear tire sales were far, far greater than in any pre- 
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vious year. • 
They were far greater 'than the sales of any other tire in 
the world. Other Goodyear products registered an equally 
enormous gain. . 
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It seems to us a fitting time to render an accounting to the 
American people, to whom we are indebted for this un¬ 
precedented prosperity. 
And it also seems to us a propitious time to acknowledge an¬ 
other debt to one of the world’s great industrial genuises, who 
spent almost his last days in a debtor’s prison. 
What this business is, in its first and last essence, it owes to 
Charles Goodyear. 
It was not founded by the man whose honored name it bears. 
But it has brought to that name, at last, the world-wide eminence 
which was denied him during his life. 
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His indomitable spirit has been a never-failing source of in¬ 
spiration — in every branch of its thousandfold activities 
“his soul goes marching on.” 
Charles Goodyear was a man with a fixed idea — pre-destined, 
almost by reason cf that fact, to disappointment, disaster 
and seeming disgrace. 
His fixed idea was the vulcanization of rubber — and on this 
bed-rock idea there rests today that mighty industrial structure, 
the rubber business of the world. 
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In the remotest corners of the globe, wherever civilization pierces 
its way into the wilderness; in the jungles, and on the planta¬ 
tions, where millions cf black men toil to satisfy the world’s 
supply —Goodyear means rubber and rubber means Goodyear. 
By right of inheritance, by right of adoption, by right of devotion 
to his high ideals, not merely the tire supremacy of the world, 
but the rubber supremacy of the world belongs to the Good¬ 
year Tire & Rubber Company. 
And so this business which perpetuates his name is also 
animated by a fixed idea. 
And that fixed idea is that The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com¬ 
pany is bound to win the world-wide rubber supremacy if it 
simply upholds and maintains the goodness of Goodyear. 
We believe firmly in the ultimate triumph of manufactured 
goodness. 
We believe that the American people are everlastingly on the 
alert to find that which is worthy. 
We believe they have awarded first prize to Goodyear because 
they believe in Goodyear. 
We are convinced that no one can take that place away from 
us as long as we are true to them, and true to ourselves. 
And because we prize this good will as the most precious asset 
of this business, nothing unworthy shall go out into the world 
under the brand of Goodyear. 
The spirit of Charles Goodyear stands guard over every opera¬ 
tion and every department in these great factories. 
It says to every man on the Goodyear payroll, from the highest 
to the lowest: “Protect my good name.” 
Wherever, and whenever, man, woman, or child, thinks of aught 
that is made of rubber — we want their second thoughts to 
be of Goodyear. 
And to the end, we repeat — nothing unworthy shall ever go 
out of these great factories under the brand of Goodyear. 
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company 
AKRON, OHIO 
F. A. Seiberling, President 
Leading Goodyear 
Fabric and Cord Automobile Tires 
Laminated Tubes for Automobile 
Tires 
Automobile Tire Accessories 
Repair Materials 
Automobile Rims 
Pneumatic Tires for Trucks 
Solid Motor Truck Tires 
Tires for Fire Apparatus 
Carriage Tires 
Motorcycle and Cycle Car Tires 
Motorcycle Tubes 
Bicycle Tires and Tubes 
Aeroplane Tires. Springs and Fabric 
Military and Other Balloons 
Akron Products • 
Rubber Soles for Shoes 
Wingfoot Heels for Shoes 
Lawn Hose 
Radiator Hose 
Kantkink Garage Hose 
Steam Hose 
Suction and Miscellaneous 
Hose 
Goodyearite Packing 
Conveyor Belts 
Transmission Belts 
Rubber Bands 
Molded Goods 
Offset Blankets 
Rubber Specialties 
