Ai-KU. 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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vacuum-drying crude rubber, compounding, calendering, vul- 

 canizing, etc. 



During the war the resources of the Maywald laboratory have 

 been devoted to inspecting specification goods for the United 

 States Shipping Board and other government departments. 



JAMES H. LEARNED. 



JAMES H. LEARNED, who sails next month on another trip 

 across the Atlantic, has had a varied experience since he 

 graduated at the age of IS from the public schools at Chelsea, 

 Massachujeits. For a year he did clerical work in the office of 

 Judge W. H. H. Emmons in 

 Boston. The lawyer's profession 

 not suiting his commercial ideas, 

 he transferred his services to the 

 sales department of the Revere 

 Sugar Refinery, leaving there in 

 1888, and serving one year as 

 bookkeeper at the shoe factory of 

 Faunce &: Spinney, Lynn, Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



But bookkeeping was not to his 

 taste, and in 1890 he joined the 

 force of the Revere Rubber 

 Co., Boston, as city salesman, 

 afterwards becoming sales man- 

 ager of the New England de- 

 jiartment. Besides covering this 

 territory, special business for the 

 Tamks H. LF\RNicri. company required him to make 



one or two trips abroad annually 

 for ten years previous to the opening of the European war, some 

 of them extending over the Continent as far as Petrograd and 

 Moscow, Russia. 



As manager of the specialty department of the company, Mr. 

 Learned has a widespread list of customers who regard him as 

 a personal friend. He is fond of sports and is a crack golfer. 

 He is a member of the Art Club and City Club of Boston, the 

 Commonwealth and Country Clubs of Brookline, Massachusetts ; 

 the Rubber Association of America, New York City, and is high 

 in ^Masonic bodies. He lesides in Brookline, Massachusetts. 



FISK SALES DISTRICTS REORGANIZED 



The rctnarkable growth of the business of The Fisk Rubber 

 Co. in the East has made necessary the division of its New 

 England and New York territories into two separate sales dis- 

 tricts. These will be known as the New England district, with 

 Walter Oakes as district manager, and the western New York 

 district, with Ccrce T. Xcwton holding the district managership. 



GiioRGE T. Newton 



\V.\i.TF.R Oakes 



In his elevation to the New England district managership, 

 Walter Oakes receives a promotion for which he is well fitted 

 by twelve deserving years of service with the Fisk company. 

 His long association with the tire trade of Boston, Massachusetts, 



lias won fur hiin a wide acquaintance whose best wishes go with 

 him in his greater opportunity. 



George T. Newton, who for the last three years has been in 

 charge of Fisk sales in the two territories, will hereafter con- 

 centrate his efforts upon the supervision of direct factory 

 branches in eight cities, including Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, 

 Utica, Binghamton, Elmira and Albany, New York,- and Erie, 

 Pennsylvania. His headquarters will be at the Rochester branch. 



FIRESTONE'S NEW ADVERTISING MANAGER. 



Justin R. Weddell, who has recently been appointed adver- 

 tising manager of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 comes from the Corday & Gross Co., the well-known printing 

 and advertising concern in 

 Cleveland, Ohio, of which he 

 was sales manager. 



Mr. Weddell's wide acquaint- 

 ance with national advertisers 

 was acquired during his ten 

 years' service with one of the 

 large advertising agencies in 

 Chicago, Illinois, and later with 

 the Barnes-Crosby Engraving 

 Co. of that city, of the Cleve- 

 land branch, of which concern 

 he later became manager, de- 

 veloping the office by building 

 up a special advertising service, 

 with a large staff of artists and 

 copy writers. This led to es- 

 tablishing the Weddell-Schmidt 

 Co., in Cleveland, which en- 

 larged still further Mr. Weddell'.' 

 quaintances. 



This large business was amalgamated with tlie Corday & 

 Gross Co., where Mr. Weddell's abilities as an urgaiuzcr and 

 developer of business were given full play, and he was ap- 

 pointed sales manager three years ago. He brings to his new 

 position a thorough practical knowledge of every branch of 

 the advertising business. 



BABCOX GOES TO THE RUBBER PRODUCTS CO. 

 At the completion of its twentieth year of prosperous growth. 

 The Rubber Products Co., Barberton, Ohio, announces the ap- 

 pointment of Edward S. Bab- 

 cox as sales manager. Mr. Bab- 

 cox goes to a company whose 

 well-known products have been 

 giving satisfaction to increasing 

 thousands of users, and which, 

 with the new Stronghold cord 

 tire, soon to be ready for the 

 trade, will offer a complete pneu- 

 matic tire line of great excel- 

 lence. On the other hand, Mr. 

 Babcox brings a wide e.xpcri- 

 ence to his new post. For the 

 past six years he has been ad- 

 vertising manager of the Fire- 

 stone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, and before that had been 

 in charge of the advertising of 

 the Burroughs Adding Machine 

 Co., Detroit, Michigan, the Yaw- 

 man & Erbe Manufacturing Co., Rochester, New York, and 

 other nationally known organizations. He recently retired as 

 president of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and as vice- 

 president of the Association of National .'\dvertisers. 



Edward S, 



