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AUGUST 12,
1922
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
EEVIEW
NEW BILL TO HELPEXPORT TRADE
SUGGESTS MODEL MUSICAL TOWN
Measure Introduced in Senate Would Grant
Charters to Corporations Engaged in Foreign
Trade—Would Make Them Tax Free
Jas. J. Davis Urges Members of Industry and
Others Interested in Music to Raise Fund to
Erect Conservatory at Mooseheart, 111.
The organization of American corporations to
do business in all parts of the world under con-
ditions relieving them of certain burdens now
experienced is provided for in a bill which has
been introduced in the Senate by Senator Jones,
of Washington. The measure is along the lines
of the China Trade bill, but has been extended so
as to cover corporations operating in any for-
eign country.
Under the terms of the bill 25-year charters
would be granted to corporations organized to
do business in foreign countries, and they would
be exempt from domestic taxation to the same
extent as is contemplated under the China Trade
bill. The measure was drafted by officials of the
Department of Commerce to meet the compe-
tition offered abroad by corporations of other
countries, which are exempted from taxation on
their foreign business.
There is little likelihood that either the China
Trade bill or the new Jones bill will be passed
at the present session. The China Trade bill
is now before the Senate Committee on Foreign
and Domestic Commerce and will not be brought
out until after the tariff is out of the way. The
Jones bill will probably be the subject of con-
ferences between members of the committee and
Secretary Hoover and other Commerce Depart-
ment officials and business men interested in the
question before any report is made to the Senate
on it.
In a recent letter to M. V. DeForeest, Sharon,
Pa., past-president of the National Association of
Music Merchants, James J. Davis, Secretary of
Labor and head of the Loyal Order of Moose,
tells of his ambition to make Mooseheart, 111.,
the official headquarters of the Moose, where they
maintain homes for orphans and the aged, a model
American musical town.
Mr. Davis suggests that members of the music
industry and others interested in music join with
him in building a conservatory of music at Moose-
heart at an estimated cost of $25,000 to $30,000,
and offers to head the movement with a subscrip-
tion of $5,000.
The offer was referred to J. Edwin Butler,
president of the National Association of Music
Merchants, who thanked Mr. Davis for his gen-
erosity and stated the matter would be taken up
at the next meeting of the executive and advisory
boards of the Association.
EMPLOYES ENJOY FINE PICNIC
Lechner & Schoenberger Co., Pittsburgh, Enter-
tains Staff Members at Annual Outing
PITTSBURGH, PA., August 7.—The employes of the
Lechner & Schoenberger Co. are still enthu-
siastic over the success of their second annual
picnic, which was on the spacious grounds of
Robert J. Peel, West Hoffman Station, near
here recently. The company acted as host and
did not overlook any details that would tend to
make the affair a success.
The most enjoyable feature of the outing was
the music furnished by an orchestra of select
talent: Miss Helen A. Senger, at the piano;
George Hunt, violin; Charles W. Glass, saxo-
phone; Jacob Schoenberger, Jr., saxophone; Law-
rence Fitz, French horn, all taken from the ranks
of the co-workers. Games and contests of va-
rious kinds made it possible to distribute honors
to nearly every entrant. As head of the re-
freshment department, Arthur Schoenberger de-
serves especial mention.
ADVERTISE JBARLY CLOSING
Dallas, Tex., Music Concerns Tell Public o<|
Mid-week Holiday Plan
When a number of the music houses of Dallas,
Tex., reached an agreement to close at 1 p. m.
every Thursday during July and August in order
to give their employes a mid-week holiday, the
fact was announced to the public through the
medium of large advertisements in the local
newspapers bearing the name of seven of the
leading music concerns of the city.
BREAKS PIANO PLAYING RECORD
EAGERVILLE, I I I . , August 7.—David J. Livingston,
twenty-seven, a native son, to-day broke the
world's record for continuous piano playing. Mr.
Livingston left the piano at the Central Saloon
at 6.30 a. m., after having played continuously
for seventy-two hours, twenty mirrutes and thirty
seconds. The previous record was seventy-two
hours and nine minutes.
The Duanz Piano Co., of Downey, Cal., has
opened a store at 207 North Crawford street. A
complete line of pianos is handled.
MANY VISITORSjVT WESER BROS.
Dealers Drop in and Order Pianos and Players—
Two Australians Also Leave Good Orders*—
W. S. Weser Returns From New England
The past week has shown a splendid revival of
dealer interest and the number of merchant visi-
tors at the Weser Bros, showrooms, New York,
has been far in excess of what would ordinarily
be expected at this time of the year. The export
market has also been well represented. William
Buchanan, of Win. Kuhnel & Co., Adelaide, Aus-
tralia, and Charles Taite, of W. H. Paling & Co.,
Sidney, were among the visitors. Weser Bros,
regard this early activity as symptomatic of a
marked change for the better and believe it
presages a heavy Fall demand.
Style 20 player continues to be by far the
most called-for model and preparations on a
large scale are in progress for handling the an-
ticipated heavy demand for the Weser line.
Winfield S. Weser, vice-president and general
manager, has just returned from a combined
business and pleasure tour of New England.
KNABE WAREROOMS, INC., SOLD
Homer L. Kitt Co., Recently Formed, Secures
Old-established Business
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 7.—Knabe Ware-
rooms, Inc., at 1330 G street, one of the oldest
and best-known music houses in this city, which
has been operated by J. H. Williams, now presi-
dent of the United Piano Corp., has been sold to
the Homer L. Kitt Co., a recently formed cor-
poration.
Homer L. Kitt, formerly with the Arthur Jor-
dan Piano Co. here, is president of the new con-
cern, and associated with him are C. M. Hopkins
and H. R. Appold, both well known in local
music trade circles.
The name of the Knabe Warerooms will be
changed to that of the new concern. Plans for
the remodeling of the building and the addition
of talking machines to the stock are being con-
sidered. George Dowd, former manager of the
Knabe Warerooms, Inc., is now manager of the
Arthur Jordan Piano Co.
TO SELL INTERNATIONAL PLANT
FALL RIVER, MASS., August 7.—A petition to sell
the real estate and the riparian rights of the In-
ternational Piano Mfg. Co., this city, will be
heard on Saturday, August 12, at the offices of
George W. Stetson, referee in bankruptcy, in
Middlesborough, Mass. The petition requests
permission to dispose of the holdings to any one
offering $40,000 or more.
Frederick Grebe, of Kranich & Bach, is spend-
ing his vacation at Babylon, L. I.
USE SAND SOAP
4 —Mental Physical Culture
BY MARSHALL BREEDEN
LOSJRNCELES
If you exercise your arm the muscles
will develop and consequently you will be-
come stronger. Did you ever think that the
same change takes place in your mind if
you exercise your brain? Mental physical
culture! It's easy to do and very, oh, very
profitable after you do it.
Instead of allowing your thoughts to
dwell upon some trivial thing, such as a
dance or a picture show, think of something
you know almost nothing about. Take the
newest thing, radio. Few of us know the
intimate details of radio. Therefore to ex-
ercise your mind, think for yourself about
how radio works. What makes the ether
carry the sound, and how can it be con-
trolled? You will surely arrive at many
erroneous conclusions, but each conclusion
you arrive at will exercise many of your
brain cells which have been more or less
dead for many moons.
Another good mental stuntl Try to con-
struct a piano from the tree and iron mine
to the customer's home. That is, try to
figure out for yourself how the tree grew,
and why it grew, then see it cut and later
milled and built into the piano. Do the
same thing with the other parts of the in-
strument and you will refresh and rest your
mind enormously.
The Other Fellow Is No Stronger
This writer, during a recent trip to New
York City, called upon America's greatest
editor, or at least the man who has the
reputation of being the greatest. He found
a quite ordinary-looking man who certainly
did not have anywhere near the personality
the printed page had endowed him with.
In fact, in both his appearance and con-
versation he was very, very disappointing,
because more had been expected.
The other fellow is better only because
you think he is. If you give him the oppor-
tunity he will think that you are better.
As a matter of fact neither is better. Each
has his own personality and each fills his
own place in the world. The man, how-
ever, who uses Sand Soap, and so gets
deeper into life, is possessed of a tremen-
dous advantage. This advantage he can
use to create a better man within himself,
or he can use it to demote his own per-
sonality.
Again the iteration. Ability means doing
a thing reasonably well and forgetting the
thought that anyone else can do it better.
Perhaps someone else can, but if you go
ahead and do it he won't have the oppor-
tunity.
JOHN J. COLLJNSjN NEW POST
Joins Gibbs' Piano Go., in Springfield, Mass.—
Had Wide Experience
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., August 8.—John J. Collins,
who has been connected with the piano business
as a salesman for the past eighteen years, has
joined the sales force of the Gibbs' Piano Co., 185
Dwight street, this city. During his connection
with the business he has been associated with the
John Wanamaker store, the Aeolian and the Wil-
liam Knabe store in New York City, besides be-
ing associated with a local concern for two years.
He comes here from Boston, where he has
served as sales promoter for a concern in that
city for the past two months.