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JULY 19, 1919
would seem that every manufacturer of, or dealer in, a trade-marked
article should be earnest and unhesitating in support of the Federal
Trade Commission's plan for a price maintenance measure.
THE DAYLIGHT SAVING PLAN ASSURED
is no question but that President Wilson is to be com-
T HERE
mended upon his act in vetoing the Agricultural Appropriation
bill, owing to the fact that it carried a rider repealing the Daylight
Saving Act. The failure of the House of Representatives to over-
ride the veto would seem to insure to those who believe in the
economy of fuel for lighting purposes, and in attending to their
business during daylight hours, the gratification of their desires.
It appears that the opposition to the Daylight Saving Act was
not of a purely political nature, but came from the agricultural
element in the Middle West, supported to a considerable extent by
lighting interests. The men of the industries, both in the East and
West, stood strongly in favor of the continuance of the plan, in the
belief that it was not only a matter of economy, but provided for
increased efficiency on the part of their employes. The average
workman has been in favor of daylight saving, because by that plan
he has been enabled to enjoy a longer period of daylight for rest, or
recreation, as the case might be. Fortunately, for once, the busi-
ness man has not been forced to bow to the demands of the farmer.
In some respects it is quite a new experience.
MUSIC AND THE PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION
HE growing influence of music throughout America is, accord-
T
ing to some of the most noted thinkers, one of the most
satisfying developments of our time, because it is in the art of
music, as in all the arts, that the immortality of a nation is pre-
served. In discussing the subject the other day Richard Rowley
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out as an example the case of Greece, whose intellectual
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influence
was indestructible, whilst that of other warrior races had
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musician, the poet, and the painter. Despite the general opinion
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of efficiency experts, these types do not easily tolerate the stupidity
and waste they see around them. However, it is not the function
RECOGNITION FOR PRICE MAINTENANCE
of art to teach reform. Art only expresses in a symbol what the
artist
has seen and felt, and by means of it man would perhaps ulti-
HE renewed recommendation of the Federal Trade Commis-
mately
begin to build up a civilization more in accord with the Divine
sion to the effect that manufacturers should be permitted by
Will.
law to fix and maintain resale prices on goods identified by trade-
There can be no real permanence in our civilization unless the
mark or trade name, as a protection to their intangible property
artist
creates and develops it. Life that is merely material is doomed
right or good will, created through years of fair dealing, is un-
to
extinction.
So long as a nation is content with having its in-
questionably a move in the right direction. The Commission, of
dividuality
expressed
only in piles of gold, then so long will it
course, qualified its recommendation to the extent of providing that
fail
to
win
immortality.
both prices and the contracts under which they are to be main-
These words clearly indicate the importance of the great cam-
tained must be subject to review by a disinterested agency, on the
paign
which the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music
premise that unlimited power to fix and to enforce a resale price
is
carrying
on in helping to make America musical. It may be that
may not be made lawful with safety.
the
primary
motive is selfish. Be that as it may, the end is one that
Those in the lines of business that have reached their present
must
result
in
a wider appreciation of music and of the polite arts.
development largely through the observance of price maintenance,
It
all
tends
to
refine
our civilization—to take the rough corners off
such as the talking machine trade, as well as those who believe on
our
material
progress,
and make life more endurable and more
principle that a manufacturer of a trade-marked product, or one
pleasant
for
all.
having a recognized trade name of standing, should be empowered
to protect his business from the inroads of the price cutter, will be
BRINGING PROFESSION AND TRADE TOGETHER
interested in the outcome of the Federal Trade Commission recom-
mendation, particularly as that body holds that unrestrained price
USIC trade organizations generally will watch with interest the
cutting is not in the public interest. The Commission is broad
work that has been planned by the Detroit Music Trades
enough to say that bills now before Congress, such as the Stephens
Association for the cause of music in that city, and a feature of
bill, the Kelly bill, etc., may well be made to meet the situation by
which will be a mammoth music festival to be held in September
under the auspices of the association. The association has also gone
being amended so as to provide for a review of. the terms of resale
on record as being ambitious to establish a more friendly relation-
contracts, or any revision in those contracts, by a disinterested
ship between the music profession and the music trade, and to that
agency.
end
will give an elaborate banquet to Ossip Gabrilowitsch, director
The majority of modern business men have long been in favor
of
the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
of some form of price maintenance for the protection of articles
bearing trade-marks or names that have been given definite standing
The Detroit Association has already done some excellent work
through years of effort and the expenditure of much money. The
for music generally during the past season, and the plans being
made for the fall indicate that the association members are still
only objection seems to have been, with some men, that the unquali-
active in music's cause. The plan of bringing together the profes-
fied right to maintain prices would give to the manufacturers a
sional and mercantile interests on a more permanent footing is in
power that would tend to create a monopoly were it used improperly.
itself worthy, of study and emulation by music merchants in every
If the recommendations to the Federal Trade Commission are car-
section of the country. The campaign for music is too widespread
ried out the manufacturer will be protected in his trade-mark or
and too important to permit factions of any kind to exist among
trade name, and, by being subject to control, may not use that power
its supporters.
of protection in the wrong direction, and overstep the mark. It
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