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Show COLLEGES HELP ROAD BUILDING Ninety-five Per Cent of Institutions In-stitutions Add Courses ! Regarding Travel With the world's realization. largi-J ly brought into focus by the exigencies exigen-cies of tho war, that motor transportation transpor-tation has become a real, If not urgent, ur-gent, necessity in modern travel needs and in the distribution of materials and products. It is not to be wondered won-dered at that no less than 90 of the nation's Important educational lnstt- I tutions hac, within a comparatively) recent period, included In the curn-CUll curn-CUll a tours.- on highway and high-way high-way transportation. So important also have federal cdu- catlonal authorities considered the i subject lhat some time ago tho l'mt-1 ed States commissioner of educution conferred With leaders in the tire I i manufacturing industry s ith a view) to formulating a standard course' which would be the fruit not only of, the expert knowledge of the manufac-l turer but of the producers f the raw materials Involved, In ;h- way presenting pre-senting a complete history of rubber, together with practical and tcnchab.'o' I Information respecting tire minufa-l ! tuiing and the place In world QCOn-1 I omics highway transportation claims , today. it was following this conference,' I and subsequent discussions with fed-i fed-i eral bureau of education officials. I that Harvey S Firestone, the well known Akron tire manufacturer, struck with the great educational possibilities pos-sibilities the plan presented and bearing bear-ing In mind tho nation-wide interest I Incurred ly the Firestone university! scholarship on the same subject, du-eided du-eided to at once put his own experts ; to work formulating plans not onl.v I for producing a complete manual on' rubber and how tires are produced, ! but to present a method whereby the ! Instructor mlghr have at hand the requirements re-quirements needed to interest and each Che student entering for the degree of highway engineer. After sceral months work, during Which some of the foremost crude rubber and tiro cotton experts of the day were culled into conference, and after consultation with many of the I country's leading educators, accustomed accus-tomed to teaching industrial subject?, a standard method has now been evolved by the Firestone company Whereby the vast extent of the entire en-tire subject is all contained In a simply sim-ply written and profusely illustrated i manual, several of which, together with actual samples of crude rubber, tire fabrics, seetions of finished tires and Inner tubes, in addition to BSV-eral BSV-eral reels of moving picture films Which trace the history of rubber from its growth to production in the finished tire, are all packed In a sim- pie traveling box easy of transportation transporta-tion from college to college, as the respective courses are completed. |