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May 29, 1920.
oughly discussed the situation, coming to the con-
clusion that nothing should be taken up directly with
either the Interstate Commerce Commission or th&
Federal Reserve Bank unless the music industry is
directly affected. On the other hand, the committee
decided that the music industry should do everything
within its power to assist the Interstate Commerce
Important Matters, Which Affect Every Commission to clear up the present railroad situation
and prevent more aggravating conditions which may
Branch of Music Industry, Are Taken Up
cause further pressure to be brought to bear upon the
With Interstate Commerce Commis-
commission to curtail particular lines of industry.
The Chamber of Commerce has communicated this
sion and Other Authorities.
week with representative members of the music in-
Developments during the past week relative to dustry in all important cities, asking them to use
regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission every possible effort to induce local chambers of
for the purpose of relieving the freight congestion commerce and similar associations to appoint com-
and the curtailment of loans by the Federal Reserve mittees to assist in clearing up congestion locally.
Banks, indicate that there will be little discrimination, They are requested especially to see that local or-
if any, against particular lines of industry on the ganizations and the local press urge business men
grounds that their products are luxuries and non- to fill cars to capacity, load all available cars prompt-
essential, according to a statement issued by the ly, order cars only when absolutely necessary, use
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce.
the motor truck for transfer and terminal service and
Counsel Geo. W. Pound has been in Washington expedite package service through consolidated ship-
during the week, and has laid before the Interstate ments.
Commerce Commission the argument that no cur-
Prevent Priorities.
tailment of particular industries should be put into
This
matter
has
also been taken up energetically
effect. He reports that the Commission realizes the
importance of granting no preference to any indus- with the Chamber of Commerce of the United States
try unless absolutely necessary, and also the great and the National Association of Manufacturers, as
difficulties which would be encountered if even the well as the leading National trade organizations, in
most rudimentary priority system should be put into order that all associations of business men may
stand behind the Interstate Commerce Commission
effect.
its present plan of relieving the situation without
The special committee of the directors appointed in
resort
priorities and by the more effective use
by Richard B. Aldcroftt met last week and thqr- of such to equipment
as is available.
If a single campaign for these purposes is started
throughout the country, the effect on the railroad
situation should be sufficient to materially relieve
conditions and eliminate the tendency on the part of
certain interests to advocate embargoes on shipments
of less essential merchandise.
Music An Essential.
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The
noticeable
absence of reference to the music
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PLAYED
industry in the various statements which have ap-
peared in the press and elsewhere concerning lux-
uries and their possible curtailment, is undoubtedly
due to the growing realization during the past year
or two of the importance of music as an essential
element in our national life.
PLAN TO PROTECT
TRADE INTERESTS
REP
WARER00M WARBLES
(A New One Every Week.)
By The Presto Poick.
SONGS WE USED TO SING.
How many songs we used to bawl,
And bellow forth in glee,
Are now scarce ever sung at all
Though dear to memory;
For instance there was one we'd cheer,
About when we'd "go home,"
And one about "the gang's all here,"
And "Brothers, Blow the Foam!"
Do you remember "fill the bowl,"
"Let joy be unconfined"?—
While sea on sea of laughter rolled—
What pleasures come to mind!
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OPEN DOORS IN NEW
PIANO SELLING VENTURES
No.
43018
Title
Writer
DABDANELLA BLUES (Fox-Trot)
Black
Played by J. M. Delcamp.
41318 EVERYBODY'S BUDDY (Fox-Trot) . . .Frisch
Played by J. M. Delcamp.
41418 HIAWATHA'S MELODY OF LOVE
( Waltz Song)
Meyer
Played by J. M. Delcamp and Adam Carroll.
41518 ALABAMA MOON (Syncopated Waltz)..Green
Played by Adam Carroll and Victor Lane.
41618 IN OLD MADEIRA (Fox-Trot)
Carlo
Played by Victor Lane and Cal Adams.
41718 CHASIN' THE BLUES
(Blue Fox-Trot)
Piantadosi
Played by J. M. Delcamp.
41818 SHIMMY MOON (Novelty One-Step)
Frost
Played by Adam Carroll.
41918 DING TOES (Novelty Fox-Trot)
Story
Played by J. M. Delcamp and Nan Foster.
42018 I'M THE (>OOD MAN THAT WAS HARD TO
FIND (One-Step)
Piantadosi
Played hy Cal Adams and Victor Lane.
42118 DANOE-O-MATS'IA (Fox-Trot)
Cooper
Played by Adam Carroll and Victor Lane.
42218 SUNNY SOUTHERN SMILES
(Fox-Trot)
Cooper
Played by Victor Lane and Cal Adams.
42318 FOREVER AND THEN FOR A DAY
(Ballad)
Lutter
Played by Nan Foster.
42418 THE BAREFOOT TRAIL (Ballad)
Stare
Played by Victor Lane.
42518 TELL ME, PRETTY MAIDEN (FLORODORA)
(Fox-Trot)
Stuart
Played by J. M. Delcamp.
42018 YOUR EYES HAVE TOLD ME SO
(Novelty Ballad)
Kahn
Played by J. M. Delcamp.
42718 STOP IT (One-Step)
Kaufman
Played by Adam Carroll.
42818 ROAD'S ROCKY BLUES
(Blue Fox-Trot)
Bradford
Played by Bradford.
43118 IN SWEET SEPTEMBER (Fox-Trot) Wendling
Played by J. M. Delcamp and Adam Carroll.
STANDARD BALLADS THAT NEVER GROW OLD.
42918 AT DAWNING (Ballad)
Cadman
Played by Irene D'Giovanni.
18618 THE HEART BOWED DOWN
(Ballad)
Balfe
Played by Neil Shannon.
18818 OH PROMISE ME (Ballad)
De Koven
Played by Irene D'Giovanni.
REPUBLIC PLAYER ROLL CORP.
PAUL B. KLUGH, Pres.
75th St. and Broadway, New York City
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Opportunity Seen and Grasped by Vigorous Ones
in the Piano Selling Field.
The Coleman-Stewart Co., Selma, Calif., has opened
a branch in Delano. T. F. Martin is manager. The
line carried includes the Starr pianos and Starr
phonographs.
The Zellner Piano Co., Los Angeles, moved to
839-841 South Broadway, right across the street
from the old location. The new store has twice the
floor space of the old one.
The Eastern Oregon Music Co., La Grande, Ore.,
has moved to a new location in the La Grande
National Bank Building.
Max Franck & Son, Alameda, Calif., is now com-
fortably settled in its fine new store, where the fa-
cilities for doing a larger business have been found.
A. F. Tanner & Co., Monrovia, Calif., have in-
creased the size of the music department.
Cook & Bender is the name of a new firm selling
a general music goods line at 262 N. Crawford ave-
nue, Chicago. The Cable-Nelson pianos and players
are handled. The partners are L. K. Cook and Wil-
liam Bender.
Schrader's Music House, Ishpeming, Mich., will
open a new branch store at Marinette, Wis., next
week. Packard pianos and players will be handled.
J. T. Morrison, Bakersfield, Calif., has bought a
half interest in the Baldwin Piano Store in that
place.
The Jessop Piano Co., opened recently at 106
West Tenth street, Wilmington, Del., handles the
Weaver, York and Livingston pianos, made by the
Weaver Piano Co., Inc., York, Pa.
The songs we'd carol at the bar
And clink our glasses bright,
Till care was something dim and far
And joy filled half the night.
And then how each familiar thing
Would act when we went home—
The earth that heaved so we would cling
Together lest we'd roam,
The while we'd make the welkin ring
About the "brimming cup"—
What jolly songs we used to sing
Before the world dried up!
ORVILLE P. BASSETT HEADS
BAND INSTRUMENT CO.
General Manager of Martin Band Instrument Com-
pany, Elkhart, Was Formerly Newspaper Editor.
Orville P. Bassett, formerly one of the publishers
of The Daily Gazette, Sterling, 111., owns the con-
trolling interest and is general manager of the Mar-
tin Band Instrument Company's factory of Elkhart,
Ind. Mr. Bassett has completed the organization of
a company to handle the band instruments, manu-
factured at Elkhart, in a Chicago office.
A new organization has been formed for retail
purposes and it will have the exclusive right in Chi-
cago to sell the instruments made by the Martin
Band Instrument Company of Elkhart. The officers
of the new organization, the Martin Band Instru-
ment Company, are: President, A. L. Koolish, of
Chicago; vice president, Orville P. Bassett, of Elk-
hart; secretary and treasurer, H. Berlin, of Chicago.
Mr. Berlin will be the manager of the Chicago store,
located at 305-307 South Wabash avenue. It was
H. J. SHEA INHERITS FARM.
H. J. Shea, manager of the Vose Chicago store, opened Saturday, May 1.
After leaving Sterling some years ago, Mr. Bas-
has been notified by a firm of barristers in Ireland
that he is sole heir to a farm of 100 acres of land at sett located in Elkhart and for many years was pub-
the Lakes of Killarney, that island. Mr. Shea's lisher of the Elkhart Review. He sold his property
ancestors dwelt in great stone houses near Killarney there a year or two ago and bought control of the
Lakes, and the blarney stone of song and story was Martin Band Instrument factory and has a very
in one of their original castles. He visited the bright outlook for the future of this business.
region a few years ago, and he declares the scenery
TEXAS STORE ENLARGED.
the finest in Ireland. Lake McDougal is about a
Owing to an increasing volume of business the
mile from his farm. A modest estimate of the value
of the farm is $25,000, as the soil has not been al- W. L. Pace Piano Company, 702-04 Pearl street,
Beaumont, Tex., the warerooms were recently en-
lowed to run out.
larged and equipped in the most modern way. W.
Frank M. Hood, traveler for the Schiller Piano L. Pace is president of the concern. Soundproof
Company, is on the road at present for that com- booths were erected of glass where pianos and talk-
ing machines will be demonstrated.
cern.
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