THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1921
Men And Matters
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

Transcribed by Tina Hursh.

George W. Platt has arranged a dinner for next Saturday evening at the Hotel Sinton to the members of the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati Finance Company and to the sales organization of the Platt Bros. Company.  Joel C. Clore, Postmaster of Cincinnati, will preside.   A number of out-of-town bankers have accepted invitations to attend the dinner.

Cincinnati is being considered as the location for a large metal working plant employing about 300 men.  Inquiries concerning available buildings and grounds were received yesterday at the Chamber of Commerce and an immediate survey made to locate the desired property.  Among the requirements of the company seeking the Cincinnati location are a building containing upward of 200,000 square feet of floor space, 10 acres of land for the erection of a foundry and storage buildings and direct railroad switching facilities.  Last year this company did business aggreggating $2,000,000.

Officers for the ensuing year will be elected at the meeting of the Cincinnati Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, at the Chamber of Commerce this evening.  Previous to the election there will be addresses by Dr. Sidney Rauh and Dr. John P. Becker, dentist of the R. K. Le Blond Machine Tool Company, on the subject of "Industrial Dentistry, and Industrial Necessity." Dinner will be served at 6:30 0'clock.

Cincinnati will be well represented in the forthcoming "American City Guides" to be published in Japan for the information of Japanese contemplating tours in thei country.  Material for the publication is being prepared by the Convention and Publicity Department of the Chamber of Commerce and will be forwarded within a few days to Prof.  Keiji Uyehara, of the Tokyo Imperial University, who is touring America for the purpose of studying city planning and landscape gardening and who will have charge of the publishing of the American guide books.

Indorsement of the plans of the Chamber of Commerce for closer cooperation between the business men of the Cincinnati and the farmers of this section has been received from Henry C. Wallace, United States Secretary of Agriculture Mr. Wallace says that it is highly desirable that the farmers and the people of the cities should have an understanding of one another's problems and that this can come about only through personal contact.

Flowers in great profusion were grouped in the office of William C. Culkins, Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday in honor of his return to the position he occupied previous to this appointment as Street Railway Commissioner some years ago.  Numerous callers took occasion to felicitate Mr. Culkins on his resumption of activities in which he had been so conspicuously successful in the past.

President E.V. Overman and other newly elected officers of the Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club were in stalled at a meeting and chicken dinner at Philippi's Garden, Westwood.  The other officers are: R.E. Friederick, First Vice President; Peter J. Zimpelmann, Second Vice President; Emil E. Hess, Treasurer; Milford Wieman, Secretary, Mr. Overman is the first member of an accessory trade to be elected President of the club.  He is a steel company representative but formerly was a carriage manufacturer.  Retiring President Theodore Luth announced that the annual outing would be held on or about JUne 18 and an Ohio River steamer probably would be chartered for the occasion.  Treasurer Hess reported that the club is in a highly prosperous condition.

The Carriage Makers' Club of Cincinnati, at Philippi's Garden, Westwood, last night, installed the follwoing new officers: President, E.V. Overman; First Vice President, R.E. Friedrich; Second Vice President, P. J. Zimpelman; Secretary, Milford Wieman and Treasurer, Emil E. Hess.