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VISITORS TO MEHLIN FACTORY.
The Heads of the New York School of Music
and Art Who Visited Mehlin Plant Last
Week Accompanied by 25 Music Teachers.
Supplementing the story in last week's Review
concerning the visit of music teachers from the
Summer term of the New York School of Music
and Art to the Mehlin factory at West New York,
N. J., we print a snapshot taken in front of the
MU3IC TRADE
REVIEW
CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS
By the Federal Authorities, Federal Incor-
poration of Great Industrial Trusts with
Unwatered Capitalization and Government
Fixing of Prices of Finished Product Recom-
mended by Minority Report of Stanley In-
vestigating Committee.
(Special to The Review.)
We recommend that all corporations when they
acquire.-a United States charter shall be required
to recapitalize at an amount not to exceed the true
value of their- assets. In the valuation of their
assets we recommend that nothing be reckoned
for so-called monopoly value, or value which arises
merely from their exclusive, majority, or sub-
stantial control of the industry in which they are
engaged.
Washington, D. C, July 29, 1912.
Federal control and comp lsory Federal incor-
TRAVELERS GETTING TOGETHER.
poration of the great industrial* trusts, with an un-
Rapid Growth of the National Association of
watered recapitalization and Government fixing of
Traveling Men Betokens Wide Interest—
prices of the finished product, are the cardinal
Some of the Objects of the Organization.
recommendations of the principal minority report
of the Republican members of the Stanley Steel
Investigating Committee, made public last night.
In the general movement toward co-operation
The recommendation for Federal fixing of prices throughout the industries, professions and trades,
is the sensational feature of the report, and joins it is interesting to note the rapidity with which a
direct issue with the refusal of the Democratic new organization, the National Association of
members of the Stanley Committee to indorse Traveling Men, with headquarters in Chicago, is
the Gary-Perkins plan of Government price-fixing. bringing together the commercial traveler of the
The Democratic report, to be released later, will country, a class of men who perhaps more than
condemn Government price-fixing as impracticable, any other require the prestige of a strong and well
organized society and yet who through the neces-
unconstitutional and semi-Socialistic.
In discussing its program of constructive legis- sity of long absences from their home cities are
to a considerable degree handicapped in the matter
lation the minority offers the following:
From Left to Right—Prof. R. L. Sterner, Mrs.
We recommend that all corporations or combin- of organizing.
E. R. Sterner, H. Paul Mehlin.
The National Association of Traveling Men,
ations equaling in valuation or in capitalization the
factory, of the head of the school, Prof. Ralph amount of $50,000,000, or such other sum as may which came into existence last fall, will complete
Leech Sterner, and Mrs. Emma R. Sterner and H. be determined upon, shall be compelled to acquire its first year of life in September, and while the
Paul Mehlin, business manager of the Mehlin in- a United States charter before engaging in inter- aims and ambitions of the organization have been
terests. Perhaps a paper should not mention this, State commerce. We recommend that voluntary set unusually high there seems every likelihood
but it should say nice things when it can, so the Federal incorporation shall be provided for lesser
that the association will actually have enrolled
young-looking woman in the photograph, Mrs. organizations. The day has gone by when any 5,000 members during its first twelve months. Of
Sterner, is Prof. Sterner's mother—not his wife, niceties of historical policy should be permitted course, in the case of an organization of this sort
the first consideration must be membership, for to
as one might believe from a glance at the photo-
to blind us to the economic obliteration of State
secure legislative recognition of the needs of the
graph.
lines.
traveling men the association which seeks to attain
We recommend the establishment of an Inter- this aim must have the prestige of numbers. In
PIANO TUNERS TO MEET.
State Commission of Industry, which shall have this respect the National Association of Traveling
control over all corporations operating under Men may be said already to be a success, and as the
Third Annual Convention of the American
Guild of Piano Tuners to Be Held at the United States charter. This control shall be sim- organization has prepared a plan for its legislative
Hotel Havlin Aug. 5 to 10—Subjects to Be ilar to that which is exercised by the Inter-State
committee to submit to the lawmakers of the vari-
Commerce Commission over the railroad compan- ous States, there seems every probability that its
Considered at TJ-iis Gathering.
ies, and shall insure the requisite publicity.
members and the traveling public in general will
Whenever the price charged by a United States be materially benefited through the operations of
(Special to The Review.)
Cincinnati, O., July 31, 1912.
corporation for one of its products shall have been the association.
The third annual convention of the American
found, to be unreasonable by some competent au-
Guild of Piano Tuners will be held at the Hotel thority, to be determined hereafter, we recommend
If you desire a man for any department of
Havlin, in this city, August 5th to 10th. The first
that it shall be the duty of the Inter-State Com- your service, either for your factory or for
session of the convention will be called to order by mission of Industry to make public declaration of
your selling department, forward your adver-
General Organizer William Braid White on August the fact, and to recommend a price in lieu of that tisement to us and it will be inserted free of
6 at 10 a.m.
found unreasonable.
charge.
There will be three executive sessions and two
open meetings, at the latter of which practical
talks on various topics will be given by experts.
It is expected that the matter of requiring a
practical knowledge of player mechanism as a pre-
requisite to membership will be taken up and de-
cided at this convention.
It is also likely that something wjll be done to-
wards revising the form of government in such a
way as to take some of the present excessive
burden from the shoulders of the general organ-
izer. Other topics will also be taken up.
The Cincinnati branch has general charge of
the entertainment of delegates, and Chairman Mac-
pClellan, of the branch, is also chairman of the
entertainment committee.
General offices for the Guild have been opened
YOU can tell at a glance what your rolls are; where
at 532 Postal Telegraph building, Chicago, and
they are and how many there are.
General Orgar.izer White is in charge.
W h a t the public library is t o the city
TTTF
ONONDAGA
MUSIC ROLL RACK
is to the live player man!
., LONG DISTANCE PIANO RECORD.
South African Plays Seventy-four Hours
Without a Break.
A dispatch from Capetown, South Africa, dated
July 27, says that William Kendall, a twenty-three-
year-old South African musician, now holds the
world's Marathon piano-playing record, having
played the instrument at a Potchefstroom moving
picture 1 heater for seventy-four hours without
stopping. A crowded house witnessed the per-
formance, which he concluded with "God Save the
King." The best, previous record is said to have
been that of a young Kentuckian, 36 hours 36
minutes.
COSTS $T2 (wholesale) to properly "look after'" 400-
500 rolls.
T H E illustration on the left shows the wall style.
FOR retail sales the Onondaga gives you 100% or
more. Every player owner in your city is a prospect,
whether or not "you sold the player.
GET full details of the entire line (racks from $10 to
$30), or better, shall we send you a $12 sample?
The Syracuse Wire Works
Syracuse
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