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PRESTO
March 24, 1923
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ALEX MCDONALD TALKS
TO OREGON TRADE ASS'N
Member of Executive Board of National Asso-
ciation of Music Merchants, Guest at Ban-
quet in Portland.
Alex McDonald, member of the executive board of
the National Association of Music Merchants of
America, was the honor guest at a banquet March 12
at the Portland, Ore., Chamber of Commerce, given
by the Oregon Music Trades association. Over sixty
of the trade were present to greet Mr. McDonald and
to hear the message he brought to the west.
E. B. Hyatt, president of the Oregon association,
who presided, presented Mr. McDonald, who was
accompanied on his coast tour by Beeman P. Sibley,
Pacific coast representative of the Kohler Industries
with offices in San Francisco.
Those present were: Alex McDonald, New York;
John T. Dougall, Portland Chamber of Commerce;
B. P. Sibley, The Kohler Industries, San Francisco;
In a recent bid by the District of Columbia Board
of Education for sixteen pianos for the public schools
six Washington dealers replied. Three manufactur-
ers with no representation in the national capital also
sent in sealed bids. The possibility of the bids from
outside winning in the competition disturbs the local
trade, the views of which were clearly presented in a
letter to the Board of Education from William P.
Van Wickle, president of the Van Wickle Piano Co.,
one of the competing firms.
Mr. Van Wickle said he considered it an injustice
to Washington dealers for the board to solicit or
accepts bids from outside the District of Columbia
for pianos to be used in local schools. He suggested
that outsiders should be advised to present bids
through established dealers of Washington who pay
taxes to maintain the schools.
"The out-of-town manufacturer or dealer is with-
out overhead expense, yet he steps in and names what
seems a low price, and without contributing one cent
to the maintenance of the schools, gets the order and
the money goes out of the town," said Mr. Van
Wickle, closing his forceful letter.
In reply the superintendent of schools said, "I
think there is no doubt whatever that, everything
being equal, including price, the purchases will be
made of Washington dealers."
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William P. Van Wickle, in Letter, States Trade's
Opinion of Action of Board.
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be to regulate prices, terms, etc., but to stimulate
musical appreciation, and to this end get people to
sing, bands and orchestras to play and all things
along that line.
Then he turned his attention to the young ladies
present, who sell records, and said to them that a
great responsibility rested upon them as in a great
measure the desire for better music depended upon
them. He said that the sale of Red Seal records had
fallen off very much. Black records sell themselves,
but "you must sell Red Seal records." That here
they can show their salesmanship and he urged them
to get busy and look after that end of the record
business. Co-operation was his watchword through-
out his talk. "We are selling music and only through
organization and co-operation can we make the in-
dustry grow and grow and the future success of the
industry depends on spreading and creating a desire
for music of a higher class. Only by organization
can we be ready if any vital question arises such as
taxation on musical instruments, as arose in the last
congress."
ALEXANDER McDONALD.
from Hyatt Talking Machine Co.. E. B. Hyatt, Mrs.
E. B. Hyatt, C. A. Alphonse, Anna May Bartlett,
Winnilred Meade, W. A. Bartlett, Emma Reynolds,
Genevieve Peck; Sherman, Clay & Co., retail, J. M.
Dundore, Alice Levina Andrews, Z. Adams, Mary
John, Elsie Kraus, H. W. Johnson, C. M. Sunquist,
Robert S. Gilley, Annette Twigger, Nellie H. Mugler,
A. F. Reilly. J. G. Dundore, E. Barker, W. C. E.
Wright, Art Stein; Sherman, Clay & Co., wholesale,
E. B. Hunt, Mrs. E. B. Hunt, Bertha Jones, C. D.
Waters, Florence Nelson; Wiley B. Allen & Co.,
Frank M. Case, V. J. Chisolphy, M. Marlow, Ruby
E. Abeene, Harry C. Melvin, John T. Carr, Harry
Andrews, Lou H. Dockstader; Bush & Lane Piano
Co., J. C. Gallagher, George Gallagher, H. J. Howell;
Meier & Frank Co., W. D. Hedecker, Ernest Stetz,
J. D. Fleming; G. F. Johnson Piano Co., C. F. John-
son, Mrs. G. F. Johnson; Reed-French Piano Co., H.
G. Reed and wife, F. B. McCord and wife; B. B. & C.
Co., Frank Norton, M. Davis; Seiberling & Lucas
Co., Helen Briggs; Haddorff Piano Co., Charles H.
Dundore; Soule Bros., Buell Soule; George C. Will,
Salem, Ore.; L. Lunsford, Salem, Ore.; Mrs. John W.
E. Van, Seattle, Wash.; Irene Campbell, Presto rep-
resentative.
John Dougall, of the Portland Chamber of Com-
merce, spoke on "Industries of Oregon," and said
that his remarks were for the benefit of Mr. McDon-
ald. He called attention to the production of Ore-
gon along lumber, wheat and wool lines, and said that
in the Columbia river alone Portland had 22,000
horse power undeveloped. He said that Portland
ships an average of 2,000,000 feet of lumber daily
and that every good piano had a sounding board
made of Sitka spruce, which comes from Oregon.
He was followed by Mr. McDonald, who called
attention to the coming convention at Chicago and
made a strong appeal for the members to attend. And
he said that those members who can not go should
be sure to read the reports in the trade papers be-
cause "you will get much good from the splendid
articles appearing in them." He said that the im-
portant point of music trades association should not
TREASURER OF E. E. FORBES
& SONS WEDS FAIR SECRETARY
A Company Affair When Forrest Woods Marries
Miss Nol a Robinson in Birmingham, Ala.
Forrest Woods, treasurer of the E. E. Forbes &
Sons Piano Co., Birmingham, Ala., was married last
week to Miss Nolia Robinson, secretary of the same
company. The bride is daughter of L. C. Robinson,,
an official in the business department of the big music
company.
The wedding took place at the home of the bride
in Thorsby, a suburb of Birmingham, the Rev. S. L.
Heath of the Baptist Church officiating. The bride
and groom left on an evening train for Jacksonville,
Fla , where they will be guests of two sisters of Mr.
Woods, after which they will visit other places of in-
terest in Florida and Georgia, including the home of
the groom's mother and brother at Richland, Ga., and
will be "at home," 1020 South Beech street, Birming-
ham, after April 1.
PROMOTES SYRACUSE FESTIVAL.
Melville Clark, head of the Clark Music Co., Syra-
cuse, N. Y., is secretary of the Central New York
Music Festival Association, Inc., a position he has
filled in an able manner for the past ten years.
Through his efforts this year the annual music fes-
tival, to be held from April 30 to May 2 will be again
made worthy of the fame of the organization. For
the third consecutive season the Cleveland Symphony
Orchestra, of seventy-five pieces, Nicolai Sokoloff,
conductor, has been engaged.
INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.
In the case of a man having a bank account who
gives a check, and the check is returned for "insuffi-
cient funds," the person receiving the check can prose-
cute. The 1917 statute provides that any person who
with intent to defraud draws a check and thereby
obtains money or other valuable thing knowing that
he has not sufficient credit shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
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