The American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages Holds it's National Convention

A. B. C. B. Holds Its National Convention

Complete Proceedings Of The Twelfth Annual Meeting.... The Addresses Delivered By Guest Speakers.... Detailed Stenographic Reports Of The Business Sessions And Educational Discussions.... Text Of Story Supplementing The N.B.G. Telegraphic Report In The November Issue.... Exclusive Photographs, Close-Ups And Sketches of Convention Personalities

PROVING that the business depression had but little effect on the bottled carbonated beverage industry in the United States, the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages held one of their most successful meetings in the Milwaukee Auditorium, Milwaukee, Wis., from November 10 to 14, 1930. While no official. attendance figures were released, it was unofficially announced that the registration reached 3,006, with several hundred other visitors who did not register to add to the total. Considering, the unfavorable industrial and business conditions that have prevailed during the past thirteen months, this was an excellent showing, even outstripping the general expectations of those who had the arrangements in charge.

Probably the outstanding feature of "Bottlers' Week at Milwaukee" was the seriousness of the attending bottlers. While there was plenty of entertainment, both official and unofficial, it became more and more apparent that bottling plant executives and workers who went to Milwaukee, went with the avowed purpose of bringing back, with them constructive ideas regarding plant management and equipment.

This was no "one day" crowd. The bottlers and their families, as well as the host of supplymen, came early and stayed until the last day. On Monday morning, hours before the Beverage Exposition opened, the registration had topped the thousand mark. The day before (Sunday), officials of the A. B. C. B. were ready with the badges and hundreds had enrolled before nightfall. This saved considerable confusion on Monday and prevented those interminable delays at the registration desks which always occur when distribution of official badges is delayed until the opening.

As at Atlantic City in 1930, all activities of the 1931 Convention and Exposition were held under one roof. This saved, time and effort and helped to keep the attending bottlers on hand throughout the day. It gave them ample time to visit the Exposition, attend the Convention sessions and be present at the Educational Meetings, all without leaving the Auditorium. There was a lunch room, too, which saved many a trip back to the hotels.

Most of the well known bottlers were on hand, but among the missing, whose absence created no end of regret, was Charles P. Nevin, of Butte, Mont., a member of the Executive Board and President of the Montana State Association. Nevin was compelled to stay away due to a serious illness front which he is just starting to recover.

Plankinton Hall, in which the business sessions of the Convention were held, was well filled on Wednesday, November 12, when President Carl A. Jones, of Bristol, Va., called the Twelfth Annual Meeting to order. The gathering of bottlers, supplymen and their ladies, from practically every State in the Union, and from foreign countries as well, had been put in right good humor by Song-leader Carberry who had the audience singing many of the popular old-time songs.

After the usual preliminaries, such as the greetings to the Convention from Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, of Milwaukee, and the response by President Jones, the reports of President Jones and Secretary Junior Owens were presented. A brief explanation hy Arthur E. Low, regarding the new A. B. C. B. Cost Accounting System was then given, after which the Chairman turned the gavel over to Secretary Owens to permit him (Mr. Jones) to introduce Senator Millward E. Tydings, of Maryland, who was the first guest speaker. The Senator delivered a characteristic address that was replete with interest, and which is published, in full, in the following pages.

Following the feature address of the first session, more routine business was transacted, after which the Convention adjourned until Thursday morning.

While the second day's session did not attract so large an audience as on the first day, there was a fair attendance when the meeting was called to order at about 11 o'clock. Reports of committees were presented and then Mr. Wilmer C. Carter, of Baltimore, Md., took the dais and delivered an address on "Insurance", which contained many points of great interest to the bottlers present. This speech, in full, appears elsewhere in this issue of the N.B. G.

The second guest speaker of the day was Dr. W. A Evans, of Chicago, a physician well known throughout the country and a great student of matters pertaining to health. Dr. Evans made a most interesting address, which is reprinted in this issue, on the subject of "Bottled Beverages Are Safe" and his remarks were listened to attentively and loudly applauded at their conclusion. Following the address, routine business was disposed of, committees appointed and general discussion from the floor indulged in, until shortly after one o'clock, when the meeting adjourned.

The final day's sessions, held on Friday morning, November 14, attracted a good sized audience, that listened to two very effective addresses, one made by Mr. Harrison Jones, executive vice-president of the Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga., and the other by Captain Irving "Pat" O'Hay, soldier of fortune and humorous speaker extraordinary. The complete addresses of both of these gentlemen are printed elsewhere in this issue of the N. B. G.

While there was not much interest shown in discussing trade problems from the floor of the Convention, what was lacking there was largely made up at the five Special Educational Meetings, more popularly known as the "Educational Meetings." In line with the plan suggested by the NATIONAL BOTTLERS' GAZETTE immediately after the close of the Atlantic City Convention in 1929, these meetings were so arranged as not to conflict with the attendance of bottlers at the Exposition. It is worthy of note that the meeting held on Tuesday morning — the first morning session of the Experience Meetings ever held at the Convention, was the best attended meeting of the five. Walker Hall, where it was held, was completely occupied and even standing room was at a premium — this, too, in spite of the fact that the Convention sessions did not begin until the following day. Apparently, morning educational meetings are destined to become very popular.

Ever since the present National Association came into being, it has been the policy of the NATIONAL BOTTLERS' GAZETTE to place a comprehensive report of the entire proceedings of the Convention and Beverage Exposition before every one of the thousands of progressive bottlers who comprise the world-wide family of regular N. B. G. readers. And so this year, as in the past, since the first meeting of the A. B. C. B. in Chicago, in 1919, we publish in the following pages, in word and in picture, a detailed report of the proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Convention of the A. B. C. B.

This report, with its accompanying Pictorial Review, should serve as a perpetual souvenir to those who attended the gathering in Milwaukee, as well as to the thousands in the soft drink bottling industry and allied fields, who were unable to make the trip to Milwaukee.

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In and Around the Exposition Hall — With the N. B. G. Photographer.

l. — C. V. Leach, Hapeville, Ga. 2. — J. Starman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; D. J. Walsh, Far Rockaway, L. I., N. Y. 3. — G. L. Leininger, St. Paul, Minn. 4. — Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Novak, Pittsburgh, Pa. 5.—At the Hemingray party. 6. — A. Margolis, J. Bate, Brooklyn, N. Y. 7. — J. A. Michels, Wahpeton, N. D. 8. — L. W. Antell, H. Kralitz, Brooklyn, N. Y. 9. — B. D. Melchor, Jr., Norfolk, Va.; W. R. Martin, Winston-Salem, N. C. 10. — J. T. Meyer, Palestine, Tex.; W. I. Lovenstein, Dallas, Tex.; J. G. Buston, N. Tazewell, Va. 11. — J. M. Leonard, Boston, Mass. 12. — Mr. and Mrs. H. Mester, Springfield, Ill. 13. — H. R. Torrence, Ontario, Calif.; I. G. Kaim, Lebanon, Pa. 14. — C. D. Cecil, Exposition Director, A.B.C.B., Washington D. C.; Louis Saperstein, N.B.G., New York City. 15. — F. Witte, Rockville Center, L. I., N. Y.; G. Schneider, Brooklyn, N. Y. 16. — At the Hemingray party. 17. — W. C. Carter, Baltimore, Md.; Senator Milliard E. Tydings, Maryland; I. M. Oberfelder, A.B.C.B. Treasurer, Baltimore, Md. 18. — E. J. Sturz, Chicago, Ill.; F. F. Pasch, Milwaukee, Wis.; Chris Volkman, Oclar, Wis. 19. — Dr. B. H. Smith, Bill Wrench, Brooklyn, N. Y. 20. — M. Alterwitz, Stamford, Conn.; L. Firstenberg, New York City. 21. — S. R. Casey, Ed. Lawson, Cambridge, Mass. 22. — At the Hemingray party. 23.—A. P. Angell. Providence, R. I. 24. — Mr. & Mrs. S. Singer, Philadelphia, Pa. 25. — Stewart Hall, Toronto, Ont., Canada. 26. — L. R. Huesman, Wymore, Nebr.; L. F. Quinn, Fairbury, Nebr.

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Were They Glad They Came? Just Look and See!

1. — E. L. Husting, O. T. Husting, Milwaukee, Wis. 2. — B. D. Melchor, Norfolk, Va.; V. B. Melchor, Winston-Salem, N. C. 3. — L. J. Hedrich, Presque Isle, Me.; K. P. Ham, West Lynn, Mass.; U. J. Hedrich, Presque Isle, Me. 4. — Mrs. F. B. Lomax, Mrs. J. F. Lasser, Chicago, Ill. 5. — E. A. Wagner, Tiffin, Ohio; C. J. Stang, Cleveland Sandusky Co., Sandusky, Ohio. 6. — Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. McMackin, H. J. McMackin Co., Boston, Mass. 7. — Mrs. B. Sorkomsky, J. J. Riley, A. B. C. B., Washington, D. C. 8. — R. Josephson, Penrith-Akers Mfg. Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; L. Krause, Fairbury, Nebr.; R. A. Reid, David City, Nebr. 9. — J. T. Willard, Hickory, N. C.; S. L. Willard, Baltimore, Md.; C. E. Culpeper, New York, N. Y. 10.—Hemingray's party hostess. 11.—M. Strickland, J. R. Avey, Vending Machine Corp. of America, Tulsa, Okla. 12. — G. J. Meyer, Jr., Geo. J. Meyer Mfg. Co., Cudahy, Wis., Mary Pat and Kathleen Meyer. 13. — Martin L. Schmidt, vice-president, A. B. C. B., Louisville, Ky. 14. — Andre Preslier, Maison L. Preslier, Orleans, France; D. Tempestini, Geo. J. Meyer Mfg. Co., New Orleans, La. 15. — Mrs. F. Goetze, Mrs. Lena Goetze, San Francisco, Calif. 16. — William Tehel, Cedar Rapids, Ia. 17. — Chas. Gray, J. W. Burke, Glenshaw Glass Co., Glenshaw, Pa, 18. — J. M. Rodgers, Vallejo, Calif.; T. A. Deasy, John Mulhern, Co., San Francisco, Calif. 19. — C. Adams, Mrs. C. Adams, Mrs. W. A. Benz, New Kensington, Pa. 20. — H. L. Sieg, Grafton, N. D.; C. W. Akers, Penrith-Akers Mfg. Co., Minneapolis. Minn. 21. — H. D. Keeler, Pure Carbonic Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; E. P. Springer, Pure Carbonic, Inc., Chicago, Ill. 22. — E. T. Tonnissen. O. W. Pees, G. F. Ezekiel, Consolidated Cork Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.

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They Wondered How They'Ed Look — Well, Here They Are!

1. — J. J. Brinkos, Binghamton, N. Y.; S. Yoffe, B. Kravitz, South Boston, Mass. 2. — Arthur McWilliams, Secretary, Ohio State Bottlers' Ass'n, Columbus, Ohio. 3. — E. Wagner, Tiffin, Ohio; Ed. Mohr, Toledo, Ohio.; Frank H. Schille, Columbus, Ohio. 4. — E. E. Smith, Seydel Chemical Co., Jersey City, N. J. 5. — F. B. Lomax, W. L. Lomax, Frank B. Lomax Co., Chicago, Ill. 6. — R. M. Klass, Sec'y, Iowa. Bottlers' Ass'n, Cedar Rapids, Ia. 7. — Mr. & Mrs. H. T. Campbell, Hemingray Glass Co., Muncie, Ind. 8. — J. A. Noe, Sharpsburg, Pa. 9. — H. Kirsch, Brooklyn. N. Y. 10. — Dr. Buchanan, Arthur Hellwig, O. E. Gore, Dr. J. Toulouse, A. B. C. B. Fellowship, Ames, Ia. 11. — J. B. Hartman, U. S. Ozone Co., Chicago, Ill.; Louis Saperstein, National Bottlers' Gazette, New York City. 12. — Louis B. Montfort, Washington, D. C. 13. — Mr. & Mrs. F. O. Eisenmann, Mrs. J. Scully, Oil City, Pa.; F. G. Bronnenkant, Root Glass Co., Terre Haute, Ind. 14. — Advertising car of the Anheuser-Busch Co., St. Louis, Mo. 15. — J. G. Dorsey, Des Moines, Ia.; E. H. Rush, Omaha, Nebr.; A. Westerland, Chocolate Products Co., Chicago, Ill. 16. — Albert Lederer, Chicago, Ill.; A. Siegel, Chicago, Ill.; P. Bell, Chicago, Ill. 17. — J. G. Buston, N. Tazewell, Va. 18. — Eric Scudder, Citrus Products Co., Chicago, Ill.; W. F. Meyer, Warner-Jenkinson Co., St. Louis, Mo.; W. F. Cox, St. Louis, Mo. 19. — Oscar T. Husting, Milwaukee, Wis. 20. — Mrs. C. Hogenson, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Sylvia Graf, Milwaukee, Wis.; H. F. Koch, Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio. 21. — Cinderella, W. C. Drake, Little Boy Blue, J. F. Lazier Mfg. Co., St.. Louis.

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