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TWENTY years ago "experts" said that the demand for rubber, by reason of the coming of the automobile, was in excess of the supply, and that if the automobile industry was to be developed much further it would be necessary to find some other resilient substance from which to make tires. Nothing of the kind has happened. Rubber is still being used for automobile tires and for a thousand other purposes not dreamed of in the year 1900.
Whence comes the rubber? That question was asked of Harry Levey, managing director of the Educational Department of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, some eight months ago and he made up his mind to find the answer. The answer has just reached New York in tin cans — tin cans filled with some thirty thousand feet of negative motion picture film made by Roswell Johnson, of the Universal-Educational staff, in Sumatra and other parts of the Far East.
According to letters received from Johnson, he has lived a life of ad_ venture since he started out to make
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dustry. His first stop for work was at Sumatra, where he found that an American automobile tire manufacturing company has developed from some twenty thousand acres of jungle land a rubber plantation that looks like Central Park. Only American III entei-prise, directed by an American, could have brought about such a development from the tropical jungle with native labor to depend upon. The man who did it is William Vaughn, who is shown in one of the accompanying illustrations.
Aside from the rubber industry, Mr. Johnson filmed the additional thousands of feet of film. All this material, innatives of Sumatra and Borneo, their manner of living and eluding the storj^ of nibber, is to be released by the Unithe scenic wonders of the Far East. When he had finished versal-Educational Department for theatrical sho-wing. In with the islands he went on to India whence he is sending Sumatra and in Borneo, as well as in other wilder