PRESTO
16
SECRETARY DENNIS SENDS
WARNING TO DEALERS
Notifies Trade Against Man Who Defrauded People
in Many Places.
Warning against a man giving the name of Jo:.
B. Flatow, who represented himself as vice-presi-
dent of the Lester Piano Company in several west-
ern states and passed worthless checks to music
merchants and others, was sent out recently by C.
L. Dennis, secretary of the National Association if
Music Merchants to all members west of the Mis-
sissippi River and to the trade press.
The Lester Piano Company does not know tin:
man and has had reports of his fraudulent transac-
tions from the Clive Music Company, Blackfoot.
Idaho; La Junta Music Company, La Junta, Colo.;
Eccles Hotel Company, Logan, Utah; Nielsen Jones
Furniture Company, Montpelier, Idaho! American
Hotel Association, Chicago, 111., and David
Schwartz, Green River, Wyo.
POWERFUL PROMOTION OF
OUR EXPORT INTERESTS
Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. Issues Bulletin
Showing 27 Varieties.
Evidence of unusual activity in the promotion of
foreign trade, even in inland cities, is found in a
survey of the foreign trade activities of chambers of
commerce in various parts of the country just com-
pleted by rhe Foreign Trade Department of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
In many cases it was found that chambers of com-
merce in inland cities are displaying as much interest
in matters of foreign trade as cities along the sea-
board. In such cities as Chicago. Cleveland, St.
Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit and other large
interior manufacturing centers intense interest in
foreign commerce was shown. Many inland cham-
bers of commerce have established foreign trade bu-
reaus.
This study of foreign trade activities developed
that organizations consider foreign trade matters of
three more or less distinct varieties: Foreign trade
matters of national importance; foreign trade mat-
ters of general importance in local communities;
matters of foreign trade information and service.
Regarding the last phase of foreign trade promo-
tion, it was pointed out by the National Chamber
that greater use should be made of the valuable com-
m< rcial and other information to be obtained from
government agencies. The investigation showed that
chambers of commerce indulged in twenty-seven
various activities in promoting foreign trade,
0UT=0F=T0WN DEALERS
ENCOUNTERED IN CHICAGO
Men in Search of Pianos and Players Make Things
Lively in Offices.
C. C. Fehr, piano merchant at Geneseo, 111., was
in Chicago on Wednesday of this week. He deals in
Packard pianos. Geneseo is in the midst of a rich
agricultural section, about 25 miles east of Rock
Island.
Irving G. Pearcc, of McLogan & Pearce, Calumet,
Mich., was in Chicago this week buying pianos. He
attended the baseball game on Friday to see the New
York club play.
[>oth members of the firm of Bunch & Schultz,
Aurora, 111., piano dealers, were in Chicago this week
selecting stock.
C. F. Wolcott, piano dealer of Indianapolis, Ind.,
was in Chicago on a buying trip this week.
APPEALS TO THRIFTY.
"Save so that you may have intellectual pleas-
ures" is the advice of the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Mu-
sic Co., Fort Smith, Ark. "Conserve—have music
in the home" is the appeal in newspapers. This
is added: "Cut down the unnecessary expenditures.
A piano or playerpiano will make a great saving in
the money your family spends for recreation and
entertainment and will build up a happy, wholesome
home life. A small payment down and a little
each month will enable you to 1 own a beautiful in-
strument on the Jenkins plan.'
QUOTES THE CUSTOMER.
The Frederickson-Kroh Music Company, Oklaho-
ma City, Okla., recently quoted a young business
man who is an eager buyer of the latest music rolls:
"When I return home in the evening after the even-
ing meal and the newspaper is finished, L find that
I get more restful enjoyment, a recreation of mind,
body and soul, from my playerpiano than I can get
in any other way. It seems to take me out and
away from the cares of the daily grind, and no
money could buy it if I couW not get another just
like it."
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September 18, 1920.
PRACTICE KEYBOARDS
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Milwaukee Association of Music Dealers Suggests
A. L. White Device in Educational Campaign.
An interesting proposition has been made by Paul
F. Netzow, of the Waltham Piano Co., Milwaukee,
designed to stimulate music study in the public and
other schools. Tt is that the practice clavier be made
a part of the regular course of musical education. In
an interview Mr. Netzow said:
"One of the important subjects coming up for dis-
cussion at the next meeting of our association will
be the suggestion of practical methods in having our
local schools adopt a music course, with understand-
ing that regular credits be given, same as for other
studies. I am under the impression that possibly
the practice keyboard would help solve the problem."
It has also been suggested that the A. L. White's
practice keyboard may be just the thing for the pur-
poses outlined by Mr. Netzow. Mr. White has been
invited to send a representative of his Chicago fac-
tory to Milwaukee to demonstrate the keyboard be-
fore the association, and to give full details as to the
way in which it might be made to assist in the
campaign. The meeting in Milwaukee was sched-
uled to take place on Thursday—too late for further
mention in this issue. It is almost certain, however,
that Mr. White's practice keyboard would prove a
valuable schoolroom aid, and Mr. Netzow seems to
have hit upon a happy thought.
STILL WASTING LUMBER.
In response to a resolution of the United States
Senate, the Forest Service has restudied the forest
situation of the country. It was found that recent,
high prices of lumber, newsprint, turpentine, and
other forest products have seriously affected many
industries and in various ways have imposed formida-
ble burdens on the public. Lumber prices have
risen' out of proportion to increased costs of pro-
duction and distribution. The pulpwood and paper
industry is in straits for raw material from the for-
ests. Depletion of the timber supplies in the east-
ern and even southern markets are being invaded by
West Coast lumber, hitherto barred by the high
cost of transportation. The timber of the country
as a whole is being used and destroyed four times
as fast as new timber is growing, and the saw tim-
ber, the most valuable and most needed part of the
stand, is being cut five and one-half times as fast
as it is produced.
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