We have undertaken to print this booklet, telling you how rubberis grown, gathered, and then made useful, for this reason:
The United States Rubber Company, as the largest rubbermanufacturer in the world, wants the coming generations of ourcountry to have some understanding of the importance of rubber inour every day life.
We hope to interest and inform you. We believe the rubber industrywill be better off if the future citizens of our country know moreabout it.
If you were asked, "What did Columbus discover in 1492?" you wouldhave but one answer. But what he discovered on his second voyageis not quite so easy to say. He was looking for gold when helanded on the island of Hayti on that second trip. So his eyeswere blind to the importanc