Automatic Age

HILLBILLY MUSIC
AFFECTS POLITICS
A “FABLE” FRO M
C IG A R E T T E S M O K E
R IN G S
E d i t e d By JAMES V. CHERRY
M a n a g e r, C ig a re tte M erchandisers Assn. o f N . J .
Nathan Leventhal, one of our
good members in Trenton, has
been engaged in the tobacco job­
bing business during the past 20
years or more. He has seen the
inception of many trade associa­
tions in the tobacco field and has
participated in the organization
of several of them.
Recently he told a story which
was related at the foundation of
some Jobber’s Association in
New York City and it seems to
be well worth repeating.
It seems that the wild animals
in the jungle had been stealing
food from each other and when
that was not available, ate each
other whenever the occasion
presented itself. Because of the
chaos which attended this pol­
icy, they decided that it would
be to the best interest of all of
them to come to some sort of an
agreement.
A meeting was called and it
was finally agreed upon that
from that time on, each animal
would respect the other one and
that they would all live in har­
mony and friendship.
The following day the bear,
the lion and the deer met to
spend the day together and
while wandering through the
jungle encountered practically
everyone with the exception of
the fox.
Having asked several of their
friends where the fox was, they
decided that since no one seemed
to know, they would go to his
home to see if he was there.
When they arrived they found
the fox at home.
The bear asked why he didn’t
come out and join them for the
day. The fox pointed to a far
hill and said, “Do you see those
ten dogs on the top of that hill?”
The bear said, “Yes, what of
it?” and the fox replied, “ Do
you mean to tell me that there
isn’t one dirty so and so among
them who will try to come after
me?”
Some of our members take
the same attitude as the fox and
then wonder why it is that
others do not have the necessary
faith in them.
Texas operators who wonder
what novelty tunes would go
best in their phonographs can
take a cue from a recent survey.
The survey showed that 60 to
70 percent of all Texans like hill­
billy music, at least occasionally.
Texas Surveys of Public Opin­
ion were influenced to make this
study by the big part such music
has played in the successful gov­
ernor and senatorial campaigns
of W . Lee O’Daniel. Farmers
like it better than other groups;
rural non-farm groups are sec­
ond; persons living in medium
cities are next. Only half those
living in big cities like hillbilly
music.
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OUTDOOR APPEALS
Whatley Craig, N a t c h e z ,
Miss., wanted his location sur­
rounded by music, so hooked an
outside wall box to a tree.
RED MAN SAYS WHITE MAN PLENTY SMART
Recent guests of W olf Rei-
witz and Al Roberts, officials of
W olf Sales Co., Wurlitzer Den­
ver distributors were a diminu­
tive pair of redskins, Chief
C o in -I n -T h e -S lid e and his
squaw, Minnie Nickels.
Interviewed in W o lf Sales
showrooms, the pint-size war-
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rior said, “ White man plenty
smart build ’em phonograph like
Wurlitzer— plenty smart oper­
ate ’em, too.”
Squat squaw Minnie Nickels
squinted admiringly at a Vic­
tory Model 850, promised to
name her next papoose, Pola­
roid.
October, 1941,
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