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Show Nature's Adjustment While hot water bottles and auto- . mobile tires are made from rubber . ' produced In many parts of the world, ' use of the latex of the rubber trees was well known to the Amazonian In- . -dinns long before the time of Orel-lano, Orel-lano, the first white man to navigate " the Amazon, according to -Doctor Dahlgren, famous ethnologist. Despite De-spite the fact that rubber is In no sense a food. Its Importance to mankind man-kind Is so great that It deserves honorable mention among the many ' vegetable products which were unknown un-known to the Old world prior to the discovery of America by Columbus. " "The rubber tree was discovered : along the Amazon," states Doctor Dahlgren, "but Is little grown-there today. It seems -poetic Justice that South America, having lost rubber, gained through Introduction of the coffee tree from Europe. Coffee has become the full equal of rubber In economic Importance." |