Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-02-17
Value of Automobile and Its Attendant Industries the y. y
Built Into a City by
Motor Tire Industries

mcUts to Industrial enterprises. fhs
doctor iourn', ed 10 ohio "a cit.ixess of
Akron triN cic1 back east with him,
returned and reported fnvorbblv on
the dortois plant the committees of
'itlEons extended lhoir co-opers tion,
hpd the rubber. making machinery
came tO Akron
lchuny was not 40 stupid then M
io pcrmii Immediate success, she de-
minded mercilessly the full measure
~ devotion 90 the great determine
iion. They speak In Akron OF ths
WAY that the doctor made u sAssn
almost spiritual aohieycme MT 40
work we'll with rubber. himsetf In
Npitcd. ho Inspired Tho men workinA
beside him with tho wonder OF build
Ing W u great new Industry. Evsrt
night al closing time, they say. thx
doctor would go about shaking hands
ana speaking with his men AZ they
LEFT the machines There were days
whom. iH spite of everything tbs
plant had TO shut down. then ~
doctor would pack his san,pis&. 70
out upon the rNad himself, gel orders
which others Ind failed 70 get for
him. 30 he'd return unlock the dpoFp
can his men 10 get up steam and
blow the whistle and start The busi.
ness bigger than ever.
These physical facts of hts exDAr-
lenc" were not perhaps. greatly or.
| fetept from the. yioissitudas OF others
arriving to build np great ihaninaon
| nom little. bat while most other mon
IN other lines undergoing the sAnse
ordeals, had ohiofly their own far.
tunes al stake this man 10 an extra.
ordinary degree carried also the fAts
OF great industry II he had fnlfeg.
ed or failed the suseranlty Of rubker
fnnst have slipped elsewhere. Nek
falling. he did much mora than -
tsblish what became the largest rub
Der factory In the world he crentod
Akron n community OF rubber wyrk-
els which made man about tNafa
mink. plan. an enterprise In rns Nhef
and which made others mt a dlstAHcS.
who already were planniaa or entof-
prlsing In rubber, think. of AkroH
and come there, uniil Akfna seRsne
the first rubber city,
The president Of the rorn sanx
which most emphaticaliy chailepnee
the original company FOR ieadsrnklp
today was | discovered the meet
generous In the ackno iedgsment ~
Akrons nebt 20 the docfor. Thn
does not mean that tho rival oosr,s
panles IN Ahrop arr IN any sensp a..
pendent upon fhe original sue. 1lAers
ohsraetsrlrtic OF rubber witch
seems 10 have come 60 ,haraetsrlno
also th'~o dealing In rubtser. Tl6a
most important of the many ts1Ao
ana shrubs and vines vieifins caouh-
choue u the Brazilian Iiesea tees.
wnloh increases IN most draSnn1be
manner II drops o pod. ccpsainleur
three seeds. which ~ 50 ceutr1ve6
utat II cxplodes with force whic&
Hcatters The seeds twenty Yards ard
mcre out OF tho shadow Of the fuli,
are OF the tree. Similarly n hen
seemed 20 me that many of lhn
newer companies have sp-uuu -.
stantiy out Of The shade ~ the older
onhs Into their own plse,s In the
sun. There are "a .ubber com - :
MES IN Akron, and n you want tp
start an argument there. ask which
~ several is growing fastest, which
makes me best TIRE. have satd
som thing about tho three ,nree~f
one or which makes nothing NIT
tires. both ~ the others have ne
Rreatnst volume of their buripsee In
tires The fourth largest corr,s,a,,,
! sudied out manufacturing sHreeons'
gloves In 1888: Il took on ,trcs ! Il
, added other lines and now u,ost ~
Ne business Is IN TIRES and lis otafbut
} Il doubling and rodouhiinr.
AZ present OF course. inuch OF I'm
business IL war business, Few cittes
occupy more important place In
| the economic sehoms Of supply pf
war essentials than Akron, Ruhn~,
: has been called the thir I great psce..
siiy 20 modern armies In the Nel6
. That may he ranking u 700 hisi,, hui
J is certain that the armlew on the a,
Hes possess no material advantnrA a,
. equipment freuinr than an, sdeguu 4,
supply OF rubber for military trses
, wtilc the enemy's rubber disnnpe,. -
Armies require rubber chiefly for
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