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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



January 1, 1921 



Our work as it is being conducted today is two-fold — our 

 monthly meetings in Chicago and our bulletin and informa- 

 tion service. The acquaintances and spirit of good fellow- 

 ship that have been fostered by the monthly luncheon and 

 meeting have been of undoubted benefit to all who have 

 attended, as there is nothing an association can do that equals 

 in value the bringing together in social relations the compet- 

 ing members of the same trade. The discussions that have 

 been held at the manufacturers' meetings as well as at the 

 general meetings after the luncheons have resulted in valu- 

 able information being exchanged, and trade conditions gone 

 into carefully. It is hoped that the manufacturers liiem- 

 selves will take more advantage of these meetings in the 

 future, for they can make them most valuable to themselves. 

 Despite the conditions, not a monthly meeting has been 

 omitted during the past year, and the attendance has varied 

 from 40 to (". The summer outing at Cedar Point, Ohio, in 

 August w. .i a disappointment in respect to attendance, due 

 to the ■ .-.ditions of the trade. 



TI>' other important department of our work is the bulle- 

 tin and information service, which, I hope, the members find 

 frf value and will provide the funds to continue it. The prin- 

 cipal point we have to face is that our fixed income from dues 

 is too small to carry on the kind of work we are attempting. 

 Our plan to ask our regular members to pay to the Associa- 

 tion a fee of 3 cents per 100 pounds on crude rubber pur- 

 chased by them since July 1, 1920, fell through, as only IS of 

 our regular members agreed to the plan and as a matter "of 

 fact very little crude rubber has been purchased by any 

 manufacturer since the time mentioned. We need a perma- 

 nent plan of finance if the work of the Association is to be 

 continued along present lines. We should try to raise a sum 

 not less than $15,000 annually. Evidently this must be done 

 by increased subscriptions among our present members and 

 additional efforts to increase the membership. 



After the adjournment of the annual meeting the newly elected 

 directors met and elected officers, as follows ; 

 President 

 D. M. Mason, general manager, The Mason Tire & Rubber Co.. 

 Kent, Ohio. 



First Vice-P&esident 



W. W. Wuchter, general manager, Nebraska Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Omaha, Nebraska. 



Second Vice-President 

 M. J. Flynn, treasurer. Inland Rubber Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



TrE.\SLR£R 



George B. Dryden, president, Drydcn Rubber Co., Chicago, 

 Illinois. \ 



Secretary and Generai. Manager 



Harry S. Vorhis, 332 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 



SiK'cial committees were appointed as follows : 

 Committee on Cooperation 



S. P. Woodard, Chairman, Gillette Rubber Co., Eau Claire, 

 Wisconsin. 



Ashton W. Caney, Achilles Rubber & Tire Co., Binghamton, 

 New York. 



John W. Maguire, The Portage Rubber Co., .^kron, Ohio.' 



VV. G. Brown, The Consulting Co., Cincinnati. Ohio. 



Wesley E. Wilson, Akron Rubber Mold & Machine Co., 

 Akroii, Ohio. 



W. E. Myers, Denman-Myers Cord Tire Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 



William L. Burgess, Surety Tire & Rubber Co., St. Louis, 

 Missouri. 



Ways and Means Committee 



j'ohn T. Christie, Chairman, Hawkeye Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Des Moines, low'a. 



Edward E. Allen, Allen Machine Co., Erie, Pennsylvania. 



Stanley W. Harris, Akron Rubber Mold & Machine Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, 



T. M. Gardner, Brighton Mills, Inc., Passaic, New Jersey. 



T. J. Carroll, Brunswick-Balke-CoUender Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



Paul A. Bloom, Fred Stern & Co., Chicago. Illinois. 



Charles F. Sawyer, Sioux City Tire & Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co., Sioux City, Iowa. 



Committee on Research and Statistics 

 Ole Hibner, Chairman, Cleveland Rubber Corporation Co., 



Cleveland, Ohio. 



W. F. Harrah, National-Standard Co.. Niles, Michigan, 



Edward T. Meyer, F. R. Henderson & Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



P. E. Finlay, Bibb Manufacturing Co., Macon, Georgia. 



J. Matthias, Jr., Mineral Point Zinc Co., Chicago, Illnois. 



E. S. Babcox, India Rubber Revicz^', Akron, Ohio, 



Robert Wishnick, Wishnick-Tumpeer Chemical Co., Chicago, 



Illinois. 



Credit Committee 

 J. E. Grady, Chairman, Archer Tire & Rubber Co., Minne- 

 apolis, Minnesota, together with representatives from the follow- 

 ing companies : Gillette Rubber Co., Brunswick-Balke-Collender 



i".i , Tlic Mason Tire & Rubber Co., The Portage Rubber Co. 



Second Annual Banquet of the Mid-West Rubber Manufacturers' Assooation, Held at the Chicago Athletic 



Association, December 14, 1920. 



