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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1919. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN OHIO. 



By Our Special Correspondent. 



LiEUTENANT-CoLONBj. A. B. JoNES, of The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co . Akron, has returned from overseas where he has 

 been Depnty Commissioner of the Red Cross in France and 

 in charge for the last three months 

 of all Red Cross work in that 

 > untry. He resumes his duties as 

 ilircctor of plant administration for 

 the (ioodrich company, feeling that 

 the Red Cross has done a man-sized 

 job during the four years of the 

 world war. 



Tliere wiere approximately 6,500 

 jicoplc in the Red Cross organiza- 

 tion in France, about half of them 

 women. The monthly expenditure 

 was $5,000,000, of which Mr. Jones 

 had the supervision. The overhead 

 administrative cost, including sal- 

 aries, of which there were few 

 ;imong the executives, amounted to 

 perhaps three per cent, of the total. 

 Mr. Jones says that the whole 

 story of the Red Cross is one of in- 

 numerable instances of devotion, 

 l..\al service, and fine intelligence. 

 It was the Red Cross that revived 

 the morale of the French in 1916 

 when the soldiers returned home on 

 ve to find their families starving. 

 The Red Cross looked after the 

 families and so put new heart into 

 the men. 



.\fter the armistice was signed the first job was to get the 

 American prisoners out of Germany. There were only 3,500 

 of them and the Red Cross got them all back in 10 days. 



H. L. Zimmerman has been promoted to the position of traf- 

 fic manager for The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron. 



The balloon room of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, has 

 been converted into a gymnasium and will be in charge of the 

 Athletic .Association, of which Edward Connelly is athletic 

 director. Three basket-ball courts will be laid out as well as 

 spaces for volley ball and hand ball. Noon-day dances are 

 being held in the new gymnasium. 



The Goodrich organization will play independent baseball this 

 season, not having become identified with the newly formed 

 league of industrial athletes. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. has added ten more names to the 

 list of its pensioned employes. The terms of service of these 

 men range from eight to 43 years. 



Robert T. Griffith, general superintendent of the Miller 

 Rubber Co., Akron, has been elected to membership on the 

 Board of Education to succeed Dr. J. H .Seiler, resigned. 



Lieutenant-Colonel 

 A. B. Jones. 



John B. Tuttic, head of the research department of the Fire- 

 stone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, has become abstractor of rub- 

 ber literature in the department of rubber and allied substances 

 for "Chemical Abstracts," published by the .\merican Chemical 

 Society. He succeeds Raxley F. Weber, recently deceased. 



R. J. Firestone has resigned as vice-president and director of 

 sales of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, but retains 

 his interest in the company and membership on the board of 

 directors. 



The Faultless Rubber Co., Ashland, had a pleasing exhibit of 

 its rubber toys and balloons on display at the toy show held at 

 the Imperial Hotel, New York City, during February. The dis- 

 play was in charge of A. H. Otis, the former European repre- 

 sentative of the company. One of the features of the exhibit 

 was "Sweetie," one of the company's red rubber dolls, in half- 

 size, three inches tall instead of six. Another interesting toy 

 was a red balloon of extra quality rubber which an individual 

 could inflate to a diameter of approximately 18 inches, but which 

 it was said could be inflated by pressure to 27. 

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The United States Government has taken over Wingfoot Lake 

 for a central training station for lighter-than-aircraft. The 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s control of the property will 

 terminate June 1, 1919. At this station there have recently been 

 about 275 men in training, of whom half were enrolled in the 

 Navy, being instructed in observation work and the operation 

 of dirigible balloons. It is said that this will be the only train- 

 ing station of the kind in the United States. Early in February 

 thirty men were graduated, on which occasion balloon races 

 were held between pilots and Goodyear company officials made 

 addresses. In future, only West Point and Annapolis graduates 

 are to be eligible to train at Wingfoot Lake, under government 

 ruling. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. .\kron, has made the fol- 

 lowing appointments in its e.xport department : C. L. Diers, 

 former Indianapolis district manager, now manager of Euro- 

 pean division of export department, covering all activities of 

 the company in Europe, Asiatic Russia, and the northern coast 

 of Africa; C. H. Williams, former Chicago branch manager, 

 now manager of Far Eastern division, covering the Philippines, 

 China, Japan, Java, Siam, India, and Eastern Russia ; A. G. 

 Cameron, former St. Louis branch manager, now manager of 

 Australasian division, covering .\ustralia. New Zealand, and 

 South .Africa. Although this work will be carried on mainly from 

 the Akron offices, these men will personally visit their respective 

 fields at regular intervals to familiarize themselves with mer- 

 chandising conditions and requirements. 



The Silent Club, composed of mute employes of The Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co., recently opened club rooms in the 

 building opposite the factory office of the company. This is 

 perhaps the only club of the kind in the country. The facilities 

 of the new quarters include reading and lounging rooms, pool 

 tables, and the usual club-house features. On the opening night 

 the club gave a smoker and open-house party at which the mute 

 athletic organization furnished the entertainment. The Good- 

 year company employs about 300 mutes in various departments. 



J. F. Barnett. manager of the crude rubber department of the 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, has gone to Singapore to 

 investigate banking and financial conditions as well as to visit 

 rubber plantations and study planting conditions in that locality. 

 He will probably be absent six months. 



W. W. Wright will represent the export department of the 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, in Singapore, to which he 

 has recently gone. 



William Tecuwen will represent the Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, in the Dutch East Indies as a salesman. 



The Mohawk Rubber Co.. .Akron, recently elected the follow- 

 ing officers : R. M. Pillmore, president : J. K. Williams, vice- 

 president: M. E. Mason, secretary: C. W. McLaughlin, treas- 

 urer: and S S. Miller, factory manager. These also constitute 

 the board of directors, together with Messrs. H. L. Rose, 

 Francis Seiherling. and George -A. Parker, who were reelected. 



O. L. Travis has been appointed sales manager for The Owen 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Bedford, Ohio. 



