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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JANUARY 30, 1926
Chamber Adopts Plan for Instruction in Music Among the Schools—(Continued from page 3)
In its vote on the resale price maintenance
referendum of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, the Chamber, in effect, reaffirmed
its approval generally of resale price main-
tenance legislation. Its vote approved legisla-
tion to legalize contracts providing for the main-
tenance of resale prices on identified merchan-
dise under certain restrictions, but opposed as
unnecessary legislation bringing price cutting
on such merchandise under the law of unfair
competitions.
The board approved the "Army Bands Act"
recently introduced in Congress, which is de-
signed to improve and enlarge the army bands
and to develop the Army Band School.
It was voted to offer cups and certificates as
prizes at the retail advertising and window dis-
play exhibits at the coming convention, as in
the past several years.
The delegates and members of the executive
and advisory board of the National Association
of Music Merchants, the executive committee of
the National Piano Manufacturers' Association
and the directors of the Musical Supply Asso-
ciation of America were guests of the Chamber.
A luncheon preceded the meeting. The fol-
lowing directors were present: Mark P. Camp-
bell, Walter W. Clark, M. V. DeForeest, A. K.
Gutsohn, C. D. Greenleaf, E. Paul Hamilton, K.
R. Jacobson, Richard W. Lawrence, Max.J.
deRochemont, C. Alfred Wagner, Robert N.
Watkin, Henry K. Weisert and Arthur L. Wes-
sell.
Merchants' Ass'n Plans to Charter
State Bodies in the Future
Revision in By-Laws Adopted by Board of Control for Submission to National Convention Whereby State,
Regional and District Associations Will Receive Charters From National Body With Voting
Power in National Meeting and Direct Representation on the Board of Control
REVISION of by-laws to provide for
chartering State, regional and district
associations whose delegates will vote for
national officers and who will each be repre-
sented by three officers on the Board of Con-
trol of the National Association of Music Mer-
chants, was adopted at the mid-Winter execu-
tive meetings of that body in the Hotel Com-
modore January 20 and 21. The action is sub-
ject to ratification of the next national conven-
tion in New York City during the week of
June 7.
For the first time in the history of twenty-
five years of the association delegates of affil-
iated associations sat in with the members of
the Executive and Advisory Boards of the Na-
tional Association to take part in the move
which is expected to make the State association
activities an integral part of the national organ-
ization work. President Henry E. Weisert, of
Chicago, announced at the beginning of the
meeting that the delegates were to have the full
privilege of the meeting. Delegates were pres-
ent from the Ohio, Illinois and Michigan State
Associations and affiliated city associations in
New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Dallas.
The executive board members present were
President Weisert, Vice-President Charles H.
Yahrling, William C. Hamilton, of Pittsburgh;
William Howard Beasley, of Dallas; Alex Mc-
Donald, of New York, and Secretary Parham
Werlein, of New Orleans. The advisory board
(past presidents) of the National Association
was represented by Robert N. Watkin, of Dal-
las; M. V. De Foreest, of Sharon, Pa.; E. Paul
Hamilton, of Newark, N. J.; P. E. Conroy, of
St. Louis, and Col. F. B. T. Hollenberg, of Lit-
tle Rock. Other delegates were Frank J. Bay-
ley, of Detroit, president of the Michigan As-
sociation; R. J. Von Fossen, of Beardstown,
president of the Illinois Association; Otto C.
Muehlhauser and Rexford C. Hyre, president
and secretary, respectively, of the Ohio Asso-
ciation; Fred N. Goosman, of Toledo; J. J.
Glynn, president; Albert Behning, secretary; V.
J. Faeth, treasurer, and Milton Weil, of the New
York Piano Merchants' Association. All of
the delegates were invited to attend the meet-
ing of the board of directors of the Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce on Friday, at
which Roger S. Brown and Jerome F. Murphy,
of Boston, were delegates of the New England
Music Trades Association.
New Memberships Created
The report of the committee on revision of
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by-laws, of which Vice-president Yahrling acted
as chairman, was explained in detail by William
C. Hamilton, of Pittsburgh, a member of the
executive board and the man who compiled the
report at last June's convention which paved the
way for the reorganization of the National As-
sociation structure.
A new form of affiliated active memberships
in the National Association was created through
the executive board action, subject to ratifica-
tion by the convention in June, which will be
added to the present forms of individual active
and associate memberships.
The new affiliated active members will pay $1
a year dues through their State, regional or sec-
tional associations which are granted national
charters, and they will be represented in the
National Association by one delegate for each
twenty members. There will be no individual
memberships in the National Association in the
territory covered by chartered associations.
City associations will not be granted charters
by the National Association, but may be affil-
iated, and the members of city associations will
be eligible for individual national memberships
as before, at $10 a year active dues, unless their
territory is covered by a chartered State, re-
gional or district association.
Membership certificates will be issued in the
several classes, showing the date of joining and
the payment of current dues, instead of mem-
bership emblems which have been in use for
several years past.
Delegates to Elect Officers
The delegates of chartered associations will
vote at the annual meetings with the individual
members from other States not organized and
chartered to elect an enlarged executive board
of the National Association, which will consist
of the president, four vice-presidents, secretary,
treasurer and nine elected directors—sixteen in
all—instead of the present executive board of
nine members.
The new by-laws provide that the executive
board may, at its discretion, employ an execu-
tive or field secretary or assistants, but that
no paid employe of any music trade association
shall be eligible to active membership or hold
elective office in the Association.
The new auxiliary board of the National As-
sociation, consisting of the presidents, a vice-
president and treasurers of each chartered as-
sociation shall, under the new plan, "consider
all matters pertaining directly to the relations
of the State or regional or district associations
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with the National Association and with each
other. The auxiliary board shall consider all
matters of specific int-ercst to State or other
chartered associations; 'shall supervise the prep-
aration of charters, constitutions and by-laws or
newly organized State or other chartered asso-
ciations, and shall pass upon the eligibility of
any proposed subsidiary association, making
their recommendations to the board of control,
which latter board may instruct or advise the
executive board as to what executive action
should be taken in all matters submitted by the
auxiliary board."
Association Has 987 Members
The National Association now has 751 active
members and 236 associate, a total of 987, ac-
cording to the report submitted by Secretary
Parham Werlein. The deaths were reported of
James F. Bowers, Chicago, 111.; W. C. Dierks,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; W. J. Dyer, St. Paul, Minn.;
Julius A. J. Friedrich, Grand Rapids, Mich.;
William L. Nutting, Nashua, N. H.; S. R. Rack-
ley, Goldsboro, N. C.; C. M. Sigler, Harrisburg,
Pa., and J. E. York, Okmulgee, Okla. The sec-
retary was instructed to send a message of con-
dolence to their families and business associates.
A message of sympathy was sent to Henry
Dreher, of Cleveland, past president of the As-
sociation, who is ill.
The report of Treasurer Carl A. Droop, of
Washington, D. C, showed a balance of $7,658.74
in the Association treasury.
Two Local Associations Admitted
Applications for affiliation of the Michigan
Music Merchants' Association and the Ft. Wayne
Music Dealers' Association were received and
accepted. President Weisert reported that the
organization data collected during recent
months indicated prospects of forming State as-
sociations in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Wis-
consin, with further suggestions for Alabama,
Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana (with Missis-
sippi, Tennessee and Arkansas), Maine and New
York State. City associations are suggested for
Freeport and Peoria, 111.; Houston, Tex.; Cin-
cinnati, O.; Norfolk, Va.; Washington, D. C,
and the Tri-Cities (Moline and Rock Island,
111., and Davenport, la.) These are all pros-
pective associations in localities not now organ-
ized, to be added to existing associations.
It was decided to assist in every way the
organization of such associations, with particu-
lar reference to the promotion of class instruc-
tion in the teaching of musical instruments, as
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