May 1. 19J1 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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largest in the city. It is surrounded by spacious lawns and 

 well-kept shrubbery. The old-fashioned building with large, 

 high-ceilinged rooms and numerous windows necessitated few 

 alterations to fulfill the purposes of the new tenants. 



The private office of the president, Gordon Cook, the space 

 buyer's office and the administrative and production offices, 

 including accounting, mechanical, checking, filing and forwarding 

 departments, are located on the first floor. The entire second 

 floor is occupied by the creative branches of the agency's work, 

 including the private office of vice-president Edward S. Babcox, 

 and the service and copy departments, and each account super- 

 visor has his own private office. The art director and his staff 

 take advantage of the exceptionally good lighting on the third 

 floor. 



Being close to the activities of the city, yet away from the 

 noise and distractions of a busy office building, the new quarters 

 are particularly well adapted to the needs of the agency, tending 

 to still greater improve the service rendered clients. 



CLEVELAiro 

 Otis Cook, fonncrly sales manager of the Kelly-Springfield 

 Tire Co., has acquired an interest in the Howe Rubber Co., New 

 Brunswick, New Jersey. McCook was elected vice-president and 

 general sales manager of the company on April 19 and will have 

 his headquarters in Cleveland. .'Associated with him will be H. H. 

 Grobe, formerly of the Kelly-Springfield sales organization. 



The Automotive Industry Convention will be held in Cleveland 

 May -1 — 7 inclusive. The program for this Eighth National For- 

 eign Trade Convention has been outlined and is quite constructive 

 in its scope. The general theme is "American Foreign Trade and 

 Its Present Problems." 



The Coliunbia Products Co., agricultural and industrial chemi- 

 cals, including whiting for the rubber trade, has removed from 

 1012 National City Building to 623 Union Building, 1836 Euclid 

 avenue, Cleveland. 



MISCELLANEOUS OHIO NOTES 



L. M. Barton, who has been appointed manager of pneu- 

 matic tire sales of The Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, 

 came to the company in 1920, after five years with The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, first as a member of the adver- 

 tising staff, then for several years as special representative 

 of the executive committee. In 1919, he took charge of the 

 dealers' specialization department of the Goodrich company's 

 tire sales division. Having spent five years as an automobile, 

 accessory and tire distributer in Iowa, he has a wide ac- 

 quaintance among the automotive trade throughout the 

 Middle West. 



E. F. Jones has resigned as president of The Republic 

 Rubber Co., Youngstown. He was with the Republic for a 

 little over a year, coming to them from Worcester, Massa- 

 chusetts, where he was an officer in the Morgan Wire & 

 Spring Co., to which he has now returned. Until his suc- 

 cessor is appointed William Wilms, chairman of the board 

 of directors, will assume the management of the Republic 

 company. 



The Wooster Rubber Co., Wooster, Ohio, manufactures 

 exclusively "Artcraft" toy balloons, from small airweight 

 sizes up to its famous "Giant," which inflates to SO inches 

 in diameter, all in assorted colors. It also manufactures the 

 popular airship balloons in assorted colors and in all sizes 

 and weights. 



The Ashland Tire & Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio, has built its 

 factory consisting of a main building, powerhouse, reclaiming plant 

 and a transformer house. The main building is 200 by 12^ 

 feet, one floor and basement, with a floor space of 45,000 square 

 feet. The buildings are modernly equipped throughout and the 



factory has a capacity of 1,000 tires and 1,500 tubes per day. 

 (Jperations were connnenccd February 24 and the appro.ximate 

 production is 300 tires per day. The company manufactures 

 high-grade cord and fabric tires ; also a special brand tire. Since 

 commencing operations sales connections have been made in all 

 the principal cities of the East and Middle West. 



.\t the second annual meeting of the stockholders, the following 

 directors were elected: George Hildebrand, Judge F. N. Patter- 

 son, F. L. Fickel, G. C. Weyher, A. A. Fickel, W. H. Roberts, 

 T. T. Elliott, and H. C. Bate. At the directors' meeting follow- 

 ing the same, officers were elected, as follows : Jacob Fickel, 

 president ; G. C. Weyher, vice-president ; A. A. Fickel, secretary 

 and treasurer; W. H. Roberts, second vice-president; T. T, 

 Elliott, assistant treasurer; H. C. Bate, assistant secretary. 



The Barr Rubber Products Co., Lorain, manufacturers of high 

 grade toy balloons having absolutely fast colors, states that its 

 factory has been running continually for the past year, at no time 

 having been closed down. 



Francis Gaskins has been appointed general manager of The 

 Avon Tire & Supply Co., Cincinnati, which claims to be tlie 

 largest company of its kind in the state. Because of his proven 

 ability as an executive and his success in handling men, Mr. 

 Gaskins was chosen for this position. 



J. C. Kearns has been appointed acting sales manager of The 

 Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, to fill the vacancy made by the 

 resignation of H. J. Woodward, vice-president, in charge (if sales, 

 Mr. Kearns is one of the oldest 

 employes of the company, starting 

 in the sales department in 1907. 

 then New York traveling sales- 

 man ; manager of the Boston 

 branch, and after three years' 

 service was given the more im- 

 portant post of manager of the 

 Detroit branch. 



In 1914 Mr. Kearns was made 

 traveling auditor and occupied this 

 position until 1916, when he was 

 called to Youngstown and made 

 assistant manager of mechanical 

 goods sales. In December of last 

 year he was further advanced to 

 manager of mechanical goods sales 

 department and following his ap- 

 pointment last week as acting sales 

 manager he now becomes head of the entire Republic sales organ- 

 ization. 



Mr. Kearns was born and has spent much of his life in Youngs- 

 town where he has made a wide circle of friends. Through his 

 years of service with The Republic Rubber Corporation he has 

 doubtless' carried the name "Youngstown, Ohio" into more places 

 throughout the United States than has any other salesman calling 

 Youngstown bis home. 



Kearns 



EVERY MOTOR A TUBE VULCANIZER 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., makes the surprising announcement 

 that every automobile carries an excellent tube vulcanizer, which 

 has been proven by ingenious motorists, who, when miles away 

 from an>'\vhere, find a tube in need of patching. The hot radiator 

 is a very satisfactory vulcanizer for inner tubes, and can be used 

 to advantage. A little vulcanizing cement is smeared on the 

 rubber patch and around the hole in the tube and then the twa 

 are put together, placed patch downward on the radiator and 

 held firmly with the pressure of the hand until the rubber is 

 cured. If no vulcanizing cement is at hand a little tube rubber 

 dissolved in gasoline may be used as a substitute. 



