THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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the medium of circular letlers. 



Distinctive bulletin forms printed in colored inks will be used 

 to cover the dissemination of information for the present under 

 the following classifications : 



General information, 



Traffic information, 



Legislative information. 



Industrial relations information. 



Bureau for the exchange of mill information (surplus 

 new and second-hand material and equipment for sale 

 and purchase). 



The bulletins of each class will be numbered consecutively and 

 will be issued as frequently as is necessary. 



May we not suggest that provision be made in your office for 

 tiling these bulletins according to the classification indicated, thus 

 building a convenient means of reference to the information ema- 

 nating from the Rubber Association. An index to the numbered 

 bulletins will be issued at frequent intervals, to expedite refer- 

 ence to them. A. L. Vlles. General Manager. 



PERSONNEL OF ASSOCIATION STAFF. 



Xcw York, .\pril 26, 1920. 



To members: 



The following promotions in the stafif of the Association, 

 effective as of April 1, have been approved by the Board of 

 Directors : 



Harvey Willson, formerly assistant secretary and office man- 

 ager, is promoted to the newly created position of assistant gen- 

 eral manager. 



R. H. Goebel, formerly assistant to the manager of the traffic 

 department, is appointed manager of the traffic department, 



A. L. ViLES, General Manager. 



subscribers the Bureau h 

 any change in the marke 



NEWS TICKER SERVICE FOR THE RUBBER TRADE. 



The Export and Import News Bureau, 24 Moore street. New 

 York City, which several months ago began the operation of a 

 foreign trade news ticker, will shortly establish a separate ticker 

 unit devoted exclusively to the rubber trade. The Bureau will 

 have daily cables from London, Singapore, Colombo, Batavia and 

 other foreign markets. Consular and trade representative re- 

 ports as well as other Washington news, legislative and ad- 

 ministrative, of interest to the trade will be secured by private 

 wire from the Bureau's Washington office. Imports at the port 

 of New York in detail as well as steamship arrivals will be 

 promptly bulletined. 



The New York market on crude rubber of all grades, spot and 

 future delivery, will be covered both by quotations and by bids 

 and offers of subscribers for the ticker service. Over forty rubber 

 dealers, brokers and importers have contracted for the service 

 and are given the privilege of telephoning in at any time dur- 

 ing the day to have announced on the ticker what they want to 

 buy or sell. The subscriber does not have to use his name 

 unless he chooses, as he can have assigned to him an office 

 designation, as X-27 and then all replies coming to the office of 

 the Bureau are promptly telephoned him. 



The foreign exchange market will be covered very compre- 

 hensively. Continuous quotations on cable sterling will be pub- 

 lished and twice each day, at noon and closing, the prices, never 

 published heretofore, will be given on forward sterling by months, 

 for nine months in the future. 



An interesting feature of the Bureau's foreign quotations on 

 crude rubber will be their translation into New York parity at 

 the current rate of exchange- For example, if crepe is quoted in 

 London at 26d. and cables are i3.97, the announcement on the 

 ticker would be, "London 1 p. m., crepe, 26rf., New York parity 

 43 cents." 



To serve out-of-town subscribers as well as those in New 

 York, quotations, bids, and offers of fabrics and chemicals used 

 by rubber manufacturers will be published. To the out-of-town 



md telegrams as often as there is 

 vering both the New York quota- 

 lions and foreign cables as received, and the out-of-town sub- 

 scriber by using the wire can have his announcements made on 

 the ticker as well as the New York subscriber. 



THE ADVERTISING MANAGERS' COUNCIL. 



More than fifty representative advertising managers of 

 the automotive industries attended a meeting at the Hotel 

 Cominodore, New York City, March 26, 1920, under the 

 auspices of the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, and approved plans for the organization of an ad- 

 vertising managers' council, as a central clearing house to 

 handle constructive cooperative work on vital problems of 

 mutual interest. 



.\mong those present were: E. C. Tibbitts, advertising 

 manager, The B. T. Goodrich Co., .\kron, Ohio; M. S. Con- 

 nelly, advertising manager, Hood Rubber Products Co. Wat- 

 ertown, Massachusetts; M. F. Judd, sales manager, R. B. 

 Davis, district manager, and J. E. Elliott, Raybestos Co., 

 Bridgeport, Connecticut; George B. Hendrick, publicity 

 manager, The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachu- 

 setts; H. B. Joseph, assistant advertising manager, and H. R. 

 Hurd, manager copy division, Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., 

 New York City; L. L. King, advertising manager, The 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, and J. C. Mc- 

 Quiston, advertising manager, Westinghouse Electric & 

 Manufacturing Co., New York City. 



-At the luncheon which preceded the executive session of 

 the conference, addresses were delivered by Richard H. Lee, 

 special counsel of the .\ssociated Advertising Clubs of the 

 World, and David Beecroft, directing editor. Class Journal 

 publications. 



E, C. Tibbitts, advertising manager. The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, pleaded for a broader vision by advertising 

 men in meeting the complex and crucial 'problems facing 

 America. It is the special privilege and duty of advertising 

 men, he said, to render patriotic service of the most vital 

 importance by supporting the various movements for .Ameri- 

 canization, greater production, and better roads and trans- 

 portation. He urged the advertising managers to think, not 

 only of their own particular problems in marketing and sell- 

 ing their products, but also to enlist their talents and their 

 services in the interest of the larger national movements. 

 This can best be done, he said, through concerted action and 



team-work. 



S. A. E. SUMMER MEETING. 



The Society of Automotive Engineers will hold its summer 

 meeting this year at Ottawa Beach on Lake Michigan, June 21 

 to June 25 inclusive. The Ottawa Beach Hotel and the 

 Waukazoo Inn have been engaged for the members, and arrange- 

 ments have been made for the accommodation of ladies. There 

 will be daily lectures and business meetings, a program of 

 sports spread over three days, and a grand ball on Thursday. 

 June 24. Ottawa Beach is at the junction of Black Lake with 

 Lake Michigan, six miles from Holland, Michigan, and can be 

 reached from Chicago by boat and by train. 



RUBBER GOODS BOUGHT BY THE QUARTERMASTER'S 

 DEPARTMENT. 



In the year and a half since June I. 1918, the General Sup- 

 plies Branch of the Quartermaster General's office has bought the 

 following rubber goods : 



Rubber bands, 6,696 pounds, @$1.I308 per pound $7,572.50 



Rubber erasers, 25,336, @ $0.02001 each 507.02 



Rubber matting, 864 yards, @ $1,017 per yard 878.99 



Cuspidor mats, 1,500, (H $0,245 each 368.75 



Floor mats, 11. @ $20.5175 each 82.07 



Treads for stairs, 90 pieces, <S $0,751 per piece 67.60 



Finger cots, 250 dozen, (3 $0.42 per do:en 105.00 



Rubber type, 100 sets, (3 $0.65 each ^SOO 



Total $9,646.93 



