Show RUBBER OUTPUT OF i I WORLD DOUBLES I SINCE WAR More Than Half of Total Supply in the United States OM One of the roan many lon lessons that war conditions con con- have WI brought forcibly to the at at- t Walton of American manufacturers U Is that without control of raw mat material supply sup up supply ply back to the In hi cae 0 of a disturbance disturbance dis dis- In market and nd traM transportation conditions burin bu can expect to DC oe greatly handicapped The rubber industry learned this leuon t earl early In iii the war when England established an embargo on crude rubber and of the e Fr J Eastern ster through b her ber control hable Pa rubber plot plantations plantation nt wa was able to make U It effective e In this way she ahe he helped to maintain her trade balance balence and insured the prevention pre of reshipment of ot rubber from neutral nations nation to the central pow pow- ers en lubber Rubber tubber manufacturers however bOo were later permitted to obtain crude rubber on their written agreement to withhold shipments of rubber or rubber products product a from the central powers power and certain neutral neu neue tale that might reship to them The I shipment of crude rubber to this country I Is s. 1111 still contingent nt upon the observance of meriL I meriL ih this agreement g The Goodyear Tire and Rubber cot con sensed the difficulties difficult pan pany however that lay ahead In the crude rubber world several years ears ago ogo and sent ent representatives to Investigate rubber plantations In the Far For East Cast with the Idea of protecting It its I own rubber a supply cuppl back to the tree t I through u the establishment nt of its own plantations I A As a result of these Investigations investigation the co company now owns a concession of 20 acres near an Sumatra where the problems of growing rubber for Goodyear's Goodyears Good Good- Goodyear Goodyears Goodyear's years year's multitudinous needs are being worked out At the tho time this tract wa wu was purchased about 2000 acres were already producing rubber So that rubber from this plantation is fa now coming to the factory fac rac factory tory at Akron and the company's plantation planta panta- then tion mADal managers enl are able to work out their Intensive methods of rubber culture the proportion of cr crude rubber 1 coming from n W f the Goodyear yr plantation n will become e larger laner and larger The e plantation Is divided v d Into six divisions divi IV 11 as I lions each taht having n Its own manager r In addition on to the one division which Is le no now producing several have been planted with young rubber trees while stilt still others othera are being toung cleared I d df off f preparatory t fun to planting panting N dt r In clearing clearing t the thicket e Chinese coolies are used for the heavy work and the natives natives na na- na tives live for lor the tasks that do not require so much muscle All An the good lumber Is saved and used to build living quarters for the workers worker In former da days dare it required U coolies to plow three acres acre in a day but Goodyear Goodyear Good Good- year has haa Introduced new methods and by utilizing a tractor twenty acres acre are now turned over in that time While Whilo the tho land has ha been cleared off orf and prepared for tor planting oung rubber trees tree ha e are been set setout growing growing in In the the nursery beds and are setout set setout out when from 6 months to a year ear old Seven million seeds have already been planted In these thue beds to grow the tho trees for the Goodyear plantation In the meantime the com company pan has us ite rubber buyers In all an parts of the world ready to take advantage of every opportunity opportunity to secure good rubber These men menie at are ie ieA A Akron in ro constant n cabling touch almost s with I dally daily although t the although t factory factor h rates rate are 10 high and In these war times no abbreviated code messages menages are per per- The worlds world's rubber production for this year is placed by conservative authorities ties at nt tons which Is la about double the production at the beginning of the war About bout 60 per cent of this is used In the tho United States Statu Goodyear alone consuming 10 per pel cent of ot the tho worlds world's sup sup- pi ply |