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MUSIC TRADE
and after all the talk and dire predictions it is true that the lines
uf discussion were not tensely drawn even for a short time. A
logical line of reasoning was followed from start to finish.
Col. Conway covered the association's position very succinctly
in his address at the banquet on the evening of the 5th inst, when
he stated: "In discussing the afternoon session with some friends
I said that if I had never received any other evidence of the splen-
did result of our contact during the past twelve years along the
lines of moral uplift the evidence of this afternoon would have sat-
isfied me that we were not organized in vain. We had a very
vexatious and a very troublesome question, one on which every
man had his opinion, and had a right to have it. I have no' earthly
use for a man who has no opinion, and yet we thrashed that out
for over three hours and there was not a word said except in kind-
ness, and when the meeting was finished and the voting counted we
were all one. That could not have happened ten years ago'. The
value and worth of this organization have been in the past, is now,
and will be in the future measured by our contact between each
other and the moral force of its character and standing together for
the higher elevation of our trade."
No one can deny, who has discussed with the members the
meetings of the past week, that the association is stronger than ever.
It is a factor in this trade which is to be considered in every phase of
trade development.
T
H E retiring president of the Piano Manufacturers' Association,
Edward S. Payson, has fulfilled the duties of the office abb
and well. He leaves behind him a clean record and more than that
he has the love and esteem of every member of the trade, for it may
be truthfully said of Mr. Payson that
"None know him but to love him.
And none name him but to praise."
In his address at the banquet Tuesday evening, Mr. Payson
said that the hundreds of loving letters during his recent severe ill-
ness which he had received gave him more vitality than all of the
medicines and nursing of the doctors. Mr. Paysou's reference to
his love for his fellow associates was touching and affecting, and
the splendid character of the man and his nobility of thought was
well revealed in his utterances at the banquet.
F
RANK A. LEE, the newly-elected president of the Piano Man-
ufacturers' Association, is a man who will make good in any
office. Mr. Lee is One of those virile energetic business men of the
Taft type who have capacity for any undertaking. Mr. Lee controls
manufacturing interests in the East and West and retail establish-
ments in various cities. He therefore is in the truest sense a repre-
sentative man of the music trade industry, and in assuming the
responsibilities of office there is no question as to the ability and
fairness with which he will preside at the association councils during
the next twelve months.
N
OW r however crop reports indicate an abundant yield and a
country which can produce crops of such magnitude as the
United States is unlikely to suffer long from any kind of industrial
stagnation. Then we must figure that the farmers have had nine
years of almost uninterrupted prosperity. Their buying power is
strong and the towns dependent upon them will remain prosperous,
so that the factors which tend towards producing good times are
with us in full force and with easy money and good crop prospects
to' which an element of confidence is now added by the enactment of
the Emergency Currency law, the outlook is bright indeed for the
men in every industry and there is no good reason why piano manu-
facturers and dealers should not share to the fullest extent in the
returning tide of prosperity. They certainly are ambitious and
keenly alert to take advantage to the utmost of conditions which
are around us. No one could view the members who came to this
city to attend the convention without being impressed with the
keenness and progressiveness evidenced in the faces of the visiting
members of the music trade. If a composite photograph could be
taken of the two conventions it would reveal features of the highest
intellectual business acumen, and with such an array of business
intelligence the future of the music trade industry is in safe hands.
It is bound to go ahead. Tt can't help it—it is impossible to resist
the combined efforts of business forcefulness. The music trade
men gain by pulling together.
REVIEW
IN LIGHTER VEIN
It seems that true originality is as rare as hen's teeth.
W. L. Bush is a good fighter. That is universally conceded.
Clothes may not make the man, but they surely help a lot toward it.
Methods may change, but principles never change. The square deal
is always right.
Don't be looking for the easiest way to do things.
in finding the best way.
Spend your time
The use of liquor was never known to be of assistance in making a
man a business success.
Your success demands that you consider the man at the other end
of the bargain as well as yourself.
HUMPTY UP AGAINST IT.—"What happened to Humpty Dumpty?"
"He bought stocks on a margin."
The convention was not lacking in picturesqueness. The little side
lights here and there supplied interest for the onlookers.
Read all the store literature that comes your way. Methods of doing
business are changing every day, and the live man changes with them.
Many a man goes through life complaining that he got into the
wrong sort of work in the first place or he might have been a great
success.
THE EXACT LOCALITY.—"Did you say the prisoner hit the plaintiff
between the courthouse and postoffiee?"
"No, I didn't. I said he hit him between the eyes."
NOT TO HUSBANDS.—"A woman's 'No' means 'Yes.'"
"You think so?"
"I know so. Don't you."
"No; I am all over that illusion. I am married."
SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT.—He—I like the English method of spell-
ing best.
She—And why, pray?
He—Well, take "parlour" for example; having "u" in it makes all the
difference in the world.
TOO TAME.—"But you can't expect this play to make a hit," pro-
tested the manager.
"Why not?" asked the ambitious young dramatist. "Don't you think
it has enough situations?"
"Oh, yes; the story is one that. might be discussed in anybody's
parlor."
HE KNEW THE PAINTER.—Two men were standing in a picture
gallery commenting on the different artists whose work was exhibited.
"What do you think of Claymore's 'Portrait of Miss Lawrence'?"
asked one.
"It's a good deal flattered," said the other.
"Ah, then you've seen her! Who is she?"
"I haven't the least idea," was the crisp response. "Never saw her in
my life—but I know him."
WHO THEY WERE.—They were a group of sporting men, and were
unable to raise a sovereign between them. One at a time they presented
themselves at. the paddock gate.
"I am the owner of Starlight," the first said. He was well dressed and
imposing: they believed and passed him in.
"I am Starlight's trainer," said the second. His red face and bluff
manner bore out his story, and they admitted him.
The third man was small and thin. "Starlight's jockey," he said,
shortly, and hurried through the gate.
The fourth and last man of the group was very shabby indeed. "Well,
who are you?" they said impatiently when he presented himself.
"I am Starlight," was the meek reply.
THE PHILADELPHIA CONDUCTOR.—When the horse cars were in
existence there was a greenhorn known as John who con-
ducted on the Thirteenth and Fifteenth street line. He boarded
with his two aunts, who lived on Catharine street, between Thirteenth
and Broad. One day his aunts thought they would take a ride
with John and see how he was getting along, so they waited for his
car. Soon the car began to get crowded and passengers got off and on
at every square. John began to get angry. At last he became so exas-
perated at having to stop so often that when an old lady asked him to
stop at Chestnut he bawled out: "I'm darned sick and tired pulling the
bell. It's nothing but stop here and stop there, stop here and stop there.
Away with youse all down to Catharine street with me aunts, and you
get out in a bunch."