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Show I OLD TIRESAIO COUNTRY ROADS Expert Gives Interesting Data on Rubber Goods and Their Uses J NEW YORK. Utilising "down-fit H the-ueol" and "worn-out" automobile BJ :m ,,r aid to '-.""i rood building BflBflJ is a n.' contribution to tblfl vital lub- BflBfl eol In a statement Riven forth by John BSflH. K'l'arns, ntic of th donna of tho tlrr BflBfl h Industry and elinlrni'ui of tho tire dl H jl vision of the Rubber Association ol BflBfl y "In tho world of mannjartiiri . m m- .J aba have l.fcorr.o taboo." 8riys Mr. BflBfl 1 ,irn. "Xnlhinp. Is waited. Gold BflBfl 1 miiuks arc salvaged from sold worker' BflBfl "j rlothos by miction Tho modern fOC-J H'l iy guards tf waste .in a miser trons-. HflBfl j: urei bis pennies. Nrw lists dla-j BBf 1 1 covered hourly tor the residue- of man-j H . ufacture. Wo know that th ragman HHHJ j thlivea at his trade and that the un-l 'j i lean Indlvblual who collects entrails '1 irom the butcher often sports dla-1 JJH ; monds. Every by-product Is a tribute Hig to the man who wastes not. Hjfl "I hove been band Una rubber,! H'l moulding rubber and fabricating it foi ' foo muny years, but I Have never BBJ I yet had anyone toll me just what he- HHBJ j comef of the one million aixl a half H tons of old vulcanized robber K .p. H i the yearly remains of deceased nuto- HHH j mobile tires. Nobody has evifr found H any real use for it. This over-lncrei - Hjfl I'Uf surplus of dead rubber will con- Hjj tlnuc to pile up as Ion;; as people ji tmuc to wear out tires. HNJ 'At a meetir.c of tho tiro dlvU BBJ lj the rubber association. It was recom-mended recom-mended tbat the tire manufacturers BRi dlscoiitluue then- preseM practice q HHBJ il -riling to n builders scrap alii nan HHH ;i which have been returned in the lac- Bfjj lory for adjustment and that I hey so tf mutilate and destroy them M to make B thoni unavailable fur us" as so-called BHBJ I rebuilt tires. BBBJI1 I am of i ho opinion old scrap BBJI rubber could be profitably used in the D inaklncr or subjrradeS for highwhys. ri Roughly trroumi old ruobi to Ju about the slsc of a cublo inch, laid down to a thickness of four or five BHBJu Inches. 1 believe could be used as an HOI evcellent base for hjahway-bulldlmt j ljl The surfacing . ould be of either man VjU cad am Or concrete! Reenl n Ration of road subfrrades indicates that Atl ? percent of rood fallurca are due to Vjlj faulty foundation and not to th. HHH j surface. HbVU "A subgrade of rubber scrap would jll not be expensive. It would. I believe. U afford great cushipnirg power to tie jlj road to absorb the heavies! blows tWHli would not resist the expansion of the road surfacing dtie to frost. It is the 91 resistance of the roadbed, as at j.k it BS structed. to surface expansion f which is responsible for ers cks. A rub- HAVnl v" f sur-prado wi.uld give the runeiMll ji Dl play when frost Is disterdliiR the ,. |