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THE
JANUARY 24, 1925
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
141
SUPPLY BRANCHES OF THE INDUSTRY
Standard Forms Endorsed at
Conference in Washington
Standard Invoice, Purchase Order and Inquiry
Forms Recommended for all Branches of
Industry as a Means of Economy
large associations have officially endorsed it
and have put it to actual use. Mr. Chandler
submitted the national standard invoice form
for adoption by the conference.
After considerable discussion the conference
voted unanimously to adopt the standard in-
voice form for recommended trial by American
industry and commerce.
The standard purchase order and inquiry
forms adopted some time ago by the National
Association of Purchasing Agents were like-
wise considered and adopted by the conference.
A standing committee was appointed to con-
sider any objections to these forms which may
arise and to arrange for later conferences to
review them in the light of their further and
wider use.
The Division of Simplified Practice will can-
vass all organizations and groups interested
in these standard forms to secure their ap-
proval and adoption. When a sufficient num-
ber of ratifications are secured the forms will
be published as American standards in the Elim-
ination of Waste Series of the Department of
Commerce.
A survey of a large number of representative
firms showed an estimated average saving of
$620 per year if all invoices received were stand-
ardized. This would amount to an aggregate
annual saving of fifteen million dollars in all
lines of American business. Since this figure
applies only to the standard invoice, the con-
ference has started a movement which will in-
volve a much larger figure through the stand-
ardization of purchase order and inquiry forms
as well. This indicates the tremendous possi-
bilities involved in the simplification of other
lines of office documentation and procedure.
Copies of the standard invoice, inquiry and
purchase order forms as adopted by the con-
ference may be secured upon application from
the Division of Simplified Practice, Department
of Commerce, Washington, D. C, or from the
National Association of Purchasing Agents,
Woolworth Building, New York, N. Y.
Standard invoice, purchase order and inquiry
forms for recommended use by all branches of
American industry and commerce were adopted
by a national conference held under the au-
spices of the Division of Simplified Practice,
Department of Commerce, at Washington,
D. C, January 14, and attended by fifty-five
representatives of various industries. Forty-
five organizations were represented at the con-
ference. These included the producer, distrib-
utor and consumer as well as the wholesaler
and retailer in the leading commercial fields.
Manufacturers of office equipment and account-
ing machinery were also represented. Letters
and telegrams were received from organizations
and associations in various sections of the
country endorsing the movement, though they
were unable to be represented.
R. M. Hudson, chief of the Division of Sim-
plified Practice, presided at the conference. Sec-
retary Herbert Hoover, in a brief but forceful
address, stressed the importance of simplifica-
tion in office forms, and complimented the con-
ference on its efforts to eliminate waste in
office procedure by attacking specific rather
than general problems.
Since the conference was called at the re-
quest of the National Association of Purchas-
ing Agents, \V. L. Chandler, its secretary, was
asked to make an introductory statement. In
his address Mr. Chandler showed that the idea
of a standard invoice is not a new one. The
movement started in 1919 when 417 associa-
tions were invited by the National Association
of Purchasing Agents to a conference in Phila-
delphia to discuss the subject. For two years
thereafter a joint committee representing the
Railway Officers' Accounting Association, the
American Railway Association, the National As-
sociation of Cost Accountants and the National
Association of Purchasing Agents studied the
problem from every angle. In 1921 a national Nearly 200 Sales Representatives and Execu-
standard invoice form was adopted by these
tives of Big Varnish House Gather in Buffalo
four associations for recommended use by its
for an "Opportunity Convention"
members. Since that time a number of other
BUFFALO, N. Y., January 17.—Over 175 sales
representatives, executives and managers of
Pratt & Lambert, Inc., varnish manufacturers,
this city, gathered here this week for a four
day "opportunity convention" and participated
in a number of business sessions at which
papers were read and the general business sit-
uation thoroughly discussed. President J. H.
Are you still wasting your time and
McNulty, of the company, viewed the excellent
going to the expense of scraping off old
work
accomplished last year and said that 1925
varnish and shellac to eliminate the
offered
still greater possibilities. Those at-
checks and cracks in order to secure a
tending the convention were entertained at an
smooth surface for refinishing?
informal dinner at the close of each of the first
Use Behlen's Varnish Crack Eradi-
three days and the annual banquet was held at
cator.
the Hotel Lafayette on Thursday evening.
It saves time, trouble and, incidentally,
The various addresses and discussions at the
expense, at the same time giving you as
meetings were more or less confined to matters
fine a body surface for the new finish
directly within the company s own province,
as you could possibly wish for.
and on Monday evening there was shown a new
A sample can for trial awaits your
motion picture taken by the company, entitled
request.
"The World's Greatest Film—Varnish."
Pratt & Lambert Sales
Staff Holds Convention
Sees Demand for
Grand Expression Actions
Tolbert F. Cheek, President of Peerless Pneu-
matic Action Co., Predicts Volume of Elec-
tric Action Business.
The prediction that the present year would
see a record production of electric expression
grand actions was made this week by Tolbert F.
Cheek, president of the Peerless Pneumatic Ac-
tion Co., Inc., New York, who stated that he
is basing his opinion on conditions in his own
business. Mr. Cheek said, "We have just com-
pleted the most successful Fall in our history,
and our actions have made permanent friends
for us in all sections of the country.
"We have received many repeat orders on
our holiday business, which convinces us that
we are producing the kind of an action that is
wanted by both piano merchant and manufac-
turer. In addition to our wholesale business,
we have received special requests for our ac-
tions from managers of piano departments in
three or four of the large metropolitan de-
partment stores. These men, who are in close
touch with popular demand in their stores, tell
us that we are making just the kind of grand
action they are looking for. In view of this
situation, I feel confident that 1925 will be the
must successful year in our history."
Buys a Stool Plant
EAST STROUDSBURG, PA., January 17.—The plant
of the New York Piano Stool & Mfg. Co., on
Burson street, here, has just been sold to the
Metal Crafters Corp., of this city, and will be
taken over in a month or so. The piano stool
concern has been the property of James Booth
since its sale by the Security Trust Co. last
year. C. G. Booth, son of the former, who
has been operating the plant for the past eleven
months, plans to close out the business of the
New York Piano Stool & Mfg. Co. in the near
future.
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