Show Indians Inc liars of the Jungle j i First as Rubber Makers Maters Savages of South America hadI had hod I rubber Tubber shoes bottles and balls be be- before before 1 Indian I II fore foce Columbus was born An I in the jungle tapped a 1 rubber tree and from the milk or latex made what he wanted directly lIe He simply coagulate or dry on ona let the latex the New NewYork NewYork a form states a writer in York Times European technicians developed more complex methods not because la latex they were ignorant but because tex docs does coagulate spontaneously at times In fact this tree-milk tree is much like blood It clots So for genera genera- generations generations European and American man manufacturers manufacturers had to make mal e their rubber goods from crude rubber or huge clots of latex Such a clot can no nomore nomore nomore more be brought back to its original state than dried blood Hence the necessity of chewing or kneading crude rubber in powerful masticating masticating ing mills and manipulating it in machines of a dozen different kinds before it is possible to produce a I satisfactory rubber shoe or hot water bottle In spite of this expensive and troublesome kneading and chewing of crude rubber the finished ar are articles tides are not quite so good in some respects as those made by savages in the Amazon forests Our rubber products are well made but the Indians Indians' are tougher and stronger |