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THE MUSIC TRADE
10
REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 19,
1925
Ohio Music Merchants' Convention—(Continued from page 7)
Another resolution changed by the bylaws
to read that the annual meeting be held on
the second Monday in September and continue
through the three entire days with afternoons
sessions only thus making future convention
three day affairs.
Other resolutions endorsed the code of radio
selling principles of the Talking Machine &
Radio Men Inc., New York; expressed the
thanks of the Association to the retiring offi-
cers and committee members and to the Cin-
cinnati convention committee; endorsed stand-
ard price principles; recommended that mem-
bers place part of their insurance at least
through the Mutual Insurance Bureau; and ap-
proved, ratified and adopted as its own action
the following resolution passed by the Western
Music Trades Association at its June, 1925,
meeting in Los Angeles "That it is the sense
of this convention that due to the increase of
overhead costs and to the greater expenses
incurred by all merchants in conducting their
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Columbus was selected as the place for 1926
convention.
The following officers were elected for the
coming year. President, Otto C. Muehlhauser,
who made them. They were varied and inter-
esting. A full list of those who exhibited is
as follows: Art Novelty Co., Auto Pneumatic
Action Co., Baldwin Piano Co., George P. Bent
Co., Buel Distributing Co., Chase-Hackley
Piano Co., Cleveland Radio Reproducer Co.,
Cleveland Talking Machine Co., Continental
Piano Co., Conway Securities Co., Columbia
Phonograph Co., Grossman Bros. Music Co.,
Hallet & Davis Co., Ivers & Pond Piano Co.,
Ludwig & Co., Milton Piano Co., Milnor Elec-
tric Co., The Ohio Musical Sales Co., M. Schulz
Co., 15. K. Settergren Co., Simplex Player Action
Co., Starr Piano Company Sales Corp., Steger
& Sons Piano Mfg. Co., Sterling Roll & Record
Co., Straube Piano Co., Strauch Bros., Inc., Tri-
State Ignition Co., United States Music Co.,
United Piano Cor])., Vocalstyle Music Co., Win-
ter & Co., and The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
Additional exhibitors included the Brunswick-
Halke-Collender Co., Davenport & Treacy Piano
Co., ISrambach Piano Co., Bchr Bros, and the
Autopiano Co.
Golf Association Formed
at Ohio Convention
Membership Limited to Fifty, With Henry
Dreher, President, and Chas. H. Yahrling,
Vice-President
Otto C. Muehlhauser
Cleveland, vice-president, O. H. Boyd, Marion;
treasurer; A. M. Alford, Canton, and secretary,
Rexford C. Hyre, Cleveland. R. E. Taylor,
was elected to the executive committee for
five years. The report of the Membership Com-
mittee showed a net gain of ninety-seven mem-
bers for the year making the membership 463.
Those securing five or more new members dur-
ing the year were presented with handsome
fountain pens.
The Banquet
The annual banquet was held on Wednesday
night with over 300 present. The chief speaker
was Alex McDonald whose topic was "Make
Americal Musical." He described the necessity
of creating musical interest and desire and
urged that work of this character be encour-
aged in the schools. He pointed out that good
music and not jazz made for permanency,
praising the work of Otto W. Meissner in that
direction and citing the demand for small goods
as a result of good promotional work.
President Henry E. Weist, of the National
Association of Music Merchants, made a plea
for all dealers to cooperate in the battle for
better business methods by their own examples
and also appealed for closer cooperation be-
tween manufacturers and dealers in meeting
trade problems, stating that the latter should
be consulted on matters of product and price
changes as they carried the burden of distribu-
tion. He made the interesting suggestion that
manufacturers might be induced to support a
merchants' bank to be used for discounting
paper at minimum rates. President E. R.
Jacobson, of the Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce, also spoke briefly. The retiring
president then introduced Otto C. Muehlhauser,
the new president and Chas. H. Yahrling on
behalf of the Association presented a silver
loving cup to Otto Grau.
Thirty-Seven Exhibitors at
the Ohio Convention
CINCINNATI, O., September 16.—The sixteenth
annual gathering of the Music Merchants' Asso-
ciation of Ohio here at the Hotel Sinton was
marked with a large number of exhibits by vari-
ous manufacturers. The exhibits were well at-
tended by the visiting dealers and more than
justified the investment on the part of those
CINCINNATI, O., September 14.—As is usual with
all well regulated conventions these days, the
annual meeting of the Music Merchants' Asso-
ciation of Ohio this week was launched properly
to-day with a golf tournament at the Hyde Park
Country Club, one of the finest courses in this
section. The details were arranged by a com-
mittee consisting of F. Joseph Volz and Wm. R
Graul. The tournament was participated in by
some forty members and associate members of
the association.
The morning was devoted to medal play in
mixed foursomes for low net score and was in
the nature of a qualifying round of nine holes
though five special prizes were provided for the
event.
The first prize for dealers' event to Henry
Dreher, of Cleveland, and second to F. Joe Volz,
Cincinnati. The first prize for associate mem-
bers went to Philip Wyman, Cincinnati, second
to Thos. M. Pletcher, Chicago, and consolation
prize to Otto Grau, Cincinnati, president of the
Association.
The afternoon was devoted to match play
based upon medal play of the morning, with all
members matched and associate members in
separate foursomes, the play being eighteen
holes. The results were, for members, first
flight, William Grau, winner, Charles H. Yahr-
ling runner up; second flight, E. W. Sawhill,
winner, C. D. Anderson, runner up, and third
flight, O. H. Boyd, winner and H. C. Wilder-
muth, runner up. The consolation prize in this
group went to L. H. Ahaus. The results of the
play of the associate members were: first flight,
F\ C. Filbert, winner, J. H. Parnham, runner
up; second, Philip Wyman, winner, Arleigh
Dom, runner up; third, Wm. Ultes, winner, J. C.
Mclntosh, runner up; fourth, John Shipplett,
winner, A. M. Koch, runner up; fifth, Gordon
Laughead, winner, George Ames, runner up, and
sixth, Corley Gibson, winner, C. L. Dennis, run-
ner up. The consolation prize in this group
went to J. D. Tebbins.
An excellent dinner at the club house fol-
lowed the tournament, and it was then decided
to organize as a permanent body the Ohio State
Music Merchants Golf Association with a mem-
bership list limited to fifty active and associate
members. The plan met with quick endorse-
ment and the following temporary officers were
elected: Henry Dreher, president; Chas. H.
Yahrling, vice-president; and Arleigh Dom, Cin-
cinnati, secretary and treasurer. The president
was authorized to appoint committees to draft
a constitution and by-laws and map out the pic-
ture activities of the new association.