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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JANUARY 21,
1922
TRADE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES HOLD CONFERENCES—(Continued from page 7)
order to bring the fund up to the quarter of a
million mark.
The Other Speakers
Other speakers of the meeting were F. N.
Goosman, president of the Ohio Music Mer-
chants' Association; F. B. T. Hollenberg, P. E.
Conroy and Murray Hulbert, president of the
Board of Aldermen, New York City, who deliv-
ered an interesting address on the State Barge
Canal, outlining what should be done to make
that waterway of genuine service to business
interests in providing a direct water route from
the lakes to the sea.
During the course of the evening William
Bonner, a young tenor of genuine ability, enter-
tained with several songs.
by the National Council of Traveling Salesmen's
Associations.
Those who attended the meeting included:
Carl C. Conway, president; C. C. Chickering,
first vice-president; Mark P. Campbell, secre-
PIANO MANUFACTURERS ACT ON NATIONAL ADVERTISING
At Meeting of Executive Committee of National Piano Manufacturers' Association Committee Is
Appointed to Consider Plans Advocated by T. M. Pletcher—To Confer With Supply In-
terests Regarding New Form of Contract—Other Important Matters Considered at Meeting
A meeting of the executive committee of the
National Piano Manufacturers' Association was
held at the National Republican Club, New
York, on January 13, for the consideration of a
number of important association matters. A
luncheon was served in connection with the
meeting.
Among those who attended the session was
Thomas M. Pletcher, president of the Q R S
Music Co., who placed before the piano manu-
facturers his ideas regarding a co-operative
national advertising campaign to create a pub-
lic demand for player-pianos. Mr. Pletcher
has aired his views on the subject of national
advertising on numerous occasions recently and
presented them to the manufacturers in no un-
certain terms at the dinner of the New York
Piano Manufacturers' Association Thursday
night of last week. He outlined the advertising
campaign being carried on by his company, with
each piece of copy urging the purchase of a
player-piano, and reiterated his offer of $50,000
to be added to a fund of $200,000 to be raised by
all player-piano manufacturers combined for
national advertising purposes. After consider-
able discussion of the project Richard W. Law-
rence and Otto Schulz were appointed a com-
mittee to ascertain the sentiment of the manu-
facturers generally regarding a co-operative
national advertising campaign.
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The question of credits also came up for con-
sideration during the meeting and E. B. Bogart,
Max J. deRochemont, C. C. Chickering, George
J. Dowling and Mark P. Campbell were ap-
pointed a committee representing the manufac-
turers to confer with a committee representing
the Musical Supply Association with a view to
drafting a new form of contract covering pur-
chases of supplies that would be fair and equi-
table to all concerned and give the smaller
manufacturer an equal chance with his larger
competitor.
The Credit Bureau of the_ National Piano
Manufacturers' Association also came up for
discussion and it was decided to expand the
operations of that Bureau to a limited extent
with a view to offering additional credit service
to those who may require it.
In the course of the meeting it was voted to
contribute $250 of the association funds to the
National Piano Travelers' Association to cover
half the assessment of $500 levied on that body
Carl C. Conway
tary, and Charles Jacob, treasurer of the As-
sociation; D. D. Luxton, Max J. deRochemont,
Paul B. Klugh and Kirkland H. Gibson, of the
executive committee, and R. B. Aldcroftt, R. W.
Lawrence and J. A. Coffin, of the finance com-
mittee.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEET
Decide Against Music Show This Year Owing to Opposition of Manufacturers—Matters of Na-
tional Importance Discussed—Special Traffic Committee Appointed to Work for Freight Decrease
No exhibition will be held in connection with
the 1922 conventions in New York in June. This
decision was reached by the Board of Directors
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
at a well-attended meeting in the general offices
in New York on January 13.
The general manager of the chamber reported
to the board that since the previous meeting
reservations had been made of two floors of the
Hotel Bel'mont, which would permit the holding
of a trade exhibition at regular hotel rates, and
that the mezzanine and second floors of the
Grand Central Palace might be rented for exhi-
bition purposes at about one-third of the cost of
the previous show held there. A questionnaire
presenting both these plans was sent to possible
exhibitors by the Chamber, with the result that
only twenty-seven voted for an exhibition, and
of these only nine stated that they expected to
take space in case an exhibition were held.
Discuss American Valuation Plan
The American valuation plan in the Fordney
Tariff Bill was discussed at length, and the board
voted against it, 4 to 3, and the general manager
was instructed to split the vote of the Chamber
on this question in Referendum No. 37 of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
On Referendum No. 38 on legislation for war
veterans the board voted in favor of reclamation
work and vocational education for former serv-
ice men and against appropriations for homes and
a cash bonus.
Decided to Drop Test Suits
It was decided not to continue the test tax
suits begun at Buffalo. This decision was based,
not upon the legal aspects of the cases, but as a
matter of policy in view of the fact that the bad
features of the excise tax had been recognized
by Congress and the tax eliminated.
To Appoint Special Traffic Committee
The president was instructed to appoint a spe-
cial traffic committee to appear before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission at Washington in
February to advocate horizontal instead of spe-
cific reductions in freight rates.
The special traffic committee was given power
to act in the matter of the establishment of a
Richard B. Aldcroftt
$3 freight rate from Chicago and Atlantic Coast
points to Pacific Coast points. Western manu-
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