Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-13

in oil wells is- now under control of the Georgians,. Christian nation but, in sym pathy with the soviet. The bolshevists now threaten. the principal port of the Black sea, cutting off the grain supply. If the bolshevists get into the Caucasus the devil will be to pay. What is Amer ica's duty?
 Everybody, from the Nile to the Red sea, wants America to control Constanti- nople,- the key to the Near East, and if America should accept a mandatory of this a te deum would go up from all these people. Why? Because they trust us as they do no other nation. It is our duty.
 Armenia is starving. I have seen 1t with my own eyes. have seen children nibbling grass in the fields, eating egg shells that have been thrown from trains and eating anything, in fact, that can possibly keep the breath of life in their bodies. I have seen these people die just for the want of food. We cannot stand i by and see this ally die from starvation. It is our duty to pass the Williams bill, and the American flag will do the rest The ArmeniaHs will do the fighting. We must be a big brother to these people. I have Seen young girls who have escaped from the Turkish harens return to their homes with the tattoo marks on their l foreheads. I have seen young girls try to burn off the marks with red hot irons 1 because they had been branded by the | damnable Turk. We must put a stop to | these brutalities of the Turk. It is Americas challenge.
 l In connection with his address pr. 1 Littlefield showed photographs taken during his stay in the Near East. These ] photographs showed the horrible suffering | to which the Arrnenians had been. sub | iected during their fight against the foes ] of Christianity. i History of Rubber Making. | Following Dr. LittlefeId's address | Herbert H. O'Neill of New London, a 1 salesman for the United States Rubber ] company, gave an interesting talk on l rubber, it's history, manufacture and use i Mir. O'Neilrs talk showed he had put ] much time and study into his work or | one of the worlds greatest industries. Its l history dates back as far as .1536, wher | reports were brought back to75the old 1 world of this new substance that Colum. ] bus and Magellan had seen the native: 1 of the West Indies and the South Amer ican countries using. MT. 'O'Neill review
 ed the history of rubber up to the presen | time. The speaker told of the differen | methods of collecting rubber in Brazil 1 Ceylon and Africa, SaVlng that the Pars
 or Brazilian rubber was the hest, al
 though that which came from Ceylon wa
 of an excellent quality. He also spoke o
 the methods of curing rubber. In Brazi
 it is cured by palm nut smoke. while il
 Ceylon and other places creosote is used
 The African rubber is of a poor quafit.
 and there is 50 per cent commercial
 loss.
 Speaking of the manufacture of rub
 bers, MT. O'Neill told of the method o
 washing rubber, compounding it, and tn l various methods of working it into tn
 commercial product the rubber overshoe
 In reviewing the history of the rubber in
 dustry in this country. the speaker told c ] the struggles of Charles Goodyear of thi
 state to commercialize the use of rubber
 About 1892 Nathaniel Hayward, a citize
 of Massachusetts, discovered that flower
 of sulphur scattered upon leaves of rlt
 Der weakened their adhesive power, but
 remained. however. for Charles Good
 year to discover in 1899 the method b
 which rubber could be put to practice
 use. While experimenting with rubbe
 and sulphur, he accidentally overturned
 small quantity of the composition upon