Pleasant Grove Review | 1933-12-01 | Page 3 | Nature's Adjustment

Nature's Adjustment While hot water bottles and automobile 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 Indians In-dians 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 hds become the full equal of rubber in economic importance."