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REVIEW
MAY
18, 1918
promote thrift is spreading. That the country is getting more
completely on a war footing each week's reports make clearer."
after week the roster of piano men who have joined
W the EEK I'fational
Army continues to grow, and at the present
time the industry is well represented in France, and in the camps
throughout the Nation. Many of these men have entered the
ranks as privates, and have displayed such marked ability as to
win the notice of their superiors, Avith the result that some of
these men are now commissioned officers.
For instance, last week it was recorded that Clarence G.
Campbell, president of the Knight-Campbell Co., Denver, Col.,
and who is Avidely known in the trade throughout the country
as one of the live, progressive young men of the piano industry,
was certified for a commission as Second Lieutenant. Ava W.
Poole, president of the Poole Piano Co., of Boston, Mass., an-
other young man whose family have been long associated with
the piano industry, has enlisted in the ordnance department of
the United States Army, and it goes without saying that at
an early date we may look for a recognition of his ability to
win promotion and distinction, for in the National Army of the
United States, as in the great army of France under Napoleon,
every soldier has a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
The music trade is indeed proud of all of its boys who
have gone to the front to fight for Uncle Sam. It matters little
whether they come from the factory or the office, every member
of the industry will follow their career with interest and with
pride.
HE New York Piano Merchants' Association is now one year
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old, and gaining strength steadily, with 90% of the eligible
members of the trade carried on its rolls. It has been a year full
of accomplishments that have proven that not only is there a gen-
uine place for an association in Greater New York, but that
through co-operation members of the trade can do things in the
matter of improving conditions that were not generally considered
NEW YORK, MAY 18, 1918
possible without legislative authority.
The influence of the Association is to be seen in the fact that
hardly an advertisement of a piano house today quotes terms of
EDITORIAL^
payment, or advertises pianos below $225 or players below $450.
Then, again, the schedule of allowances adopted by the Associa-
tion has been accepted as standard by merchants in all sections
HERE has been a distinct improvement in all branches of
of
the country. The delinquency list of those piano purchasers
business during the past ten days, with especial activity in
whose
credit has been found bad by one or more houses can be
the retail trade. The universal complaint, however, is of a pos-
said
to
have saved thousands of dollars for competing houses who
sible shortage of stock in view of the fact that dealers are unable
have
profited
by the information given.
to get their orders filled as quickly as they desire.
The
Review,
without boasting, feels that it is largely respon-
Dealers, however, forget that they have been urged time and
sible
for
the
fact
that
there is an association of piano merchants
time again to place orders early with the manufacturers to give
to-day.
It
was
through
the columns of The Review that individual
them a chance to prepare stock, t h e eleventh-hour man is
members
of
the
trade
voiced
their opinion that such an organi-
going to suffer these days, and it behooves every business man
zation
was
not
only
desirable
but possible, and it was The
to look a long ways ahead when considering his requirements for
Review
that
developed
this
interest
to a point where it was worth
stock. Pianos and players are going to be scarcer as the year
while
for
C.
M.
Tremaine
to
call
an
organization meeting, with
grows older, and dealers must co-operate with the manufacturers
an
idea
of
developing
the
interest
into
something tangible.
so that the highest degree of efficiency in manufacture and dis-
There
are
many
problems
in
the
local
trade that still remain
tribution is attained.
to
be
solved.
Some
of
them
can
be
handled
by the Association
The bumper wheat crop forecast made by the Government
and
some,
it
must
be
acknowledged,
are
not
within
its ken. The
the past week, which gives hope for a million-bushel crop, has
spirit
is
there,
however,
and
with
the
energy
that
has already
been one of the favorable factors in inducing an optimistic view
been
displayed
by
the
Association
officers
and
the
membership
at
of the business situation in all industries. As Dun's review says:
large,
we
may
look
for
still
further
accomplishments
during
the
"The best news of the week, and with a highly significant bearing
next year.
on the war situation, has come from the great grain-producing
regions, and there is perceptible strengthening of confidence as
HE Red Cross drive for $100,000,000 begins May 20 and
agricultural prospects grow more promising. Not only have the
will last throughout the week. The generous response to the
cereal crops made gratifying response to almost ideal weather
last appeal for funds for the Red Cross makes those at the head
conditions, but the manner in which retail trading, especially in
of the drive sanguine as to the outcome of the present cam-
the East, has broadened under the stimulus of higher tempera-
paign. The work of the Red Cross is too well known to need
tures indicates that the most extraordinary prices of modern
elaboration here, save that there has been no other one agency
times have not generally or seriously impaired' the Nation's pur-
that has brought so much real comfort to the men in the camps
chasing power.
and in the field, that has done more to alleviate the horrors
"The notable success of the Third Liberty Loan affords a
measure both of the patriotic spirit and the strong financial posi- and the sufferings of war, and that has been freer from politics,
red tape, and mismanagement than has the. Red Cross. True,
tion of the people. Yet the fact is not obscured that economy
all sorts of libelous stories concerning the organization have
and retrenchment are being practiced in many quarters, either
been circulated throughout the country, but in every case they
through necessity or from a disposition to conserve resources in
have been proven untrue, and have shown the cunning hand
anticipation of future Federal borrowing, and the movement to
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