P R E S T O
April 21, 1923
Many a Dealer
Is Finding
Real
Actual
Prosperity
And
Financial
Independence
With The
SEEBURG
HOW WOMEN'S CLUBS
ENCOURAGE TRADE
How Music Taste Is Fostered Told by C. M.
Tremaine in Tribute to Mrs. Oberndorfer,
Chairman of General Federation of
Women's Clubs.
Music goods dealers freely admit the important aid
to encouraging interest in music given by the women's
clubs in all parts of the country. Such clubs inci-
dentally help the music goods trade when they make
the cause of music in home and school, in public and
in the domestic scheme a paramount one. In the
following article, C. M. Tremaine, director of the
National Bureau for the Advancement of Music, pays
an earned tribute to Mrs. Anne Faulkner Obern-
dorfer, chairman of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, and to the clubs generally:
MR. TREMAINE'S TRIBUTE.
It has become increasingly evident that the
Women's Clubs are rendering a great service to music
and incidentally to the music trade, said C. M. Tre-
maine. director of the National Bureau for the Ad-
vancement of Music. This is especially true since
Mrs. Oberndorfer became music chairman of the
General federation. The average music merchant
does not realize the influence this great organization
exerts on the country at large, but the politicians do
not underestimate it and they vie with one another in
carrying favor with it.
There is nothing for the betterment of the coun-
try which the women's clubs think does not come
within the province of their activities. Mrs. Obern-
dorfer has done much to direct their attention to
music and to organize their efforts in its behalf. Al-
though the National Bureau has not been in as close
co-operation with the women's clubs as with many
other organizations, these clubs have been a valuable
aid in pushing many of the movements inaugurated
by the Bureau as well as many others initiated by
themselves, but of which the Bureau is a strong
advocate.
Bureau and the Clubs.
The Bureau's relation to the women's clubs is an-
other illustration of its policy. It co-operates with
and endeavors to stimulate all forces, but it concen-
trates chiefly where its assistance is most needed and
is of greatest value. The Bureau has been in direct
contact with about fifty women's clubs during the
last ten months, whereas it has been in touch with
more than 400 music clubs, but the number of
women's clubs would have been far larger had there
been a less efficient music chairman at the head of
the General Federation to guide and arouse them and
take care of matters which might otherwise have
come to the Bureau.
A Potent Factor in Music.
This has allowed the National Bureau more time
and energy to devote elsewhere, but because the Bu-
reau has spoken less frequently of the women's clubs
than others with whom it works it is by no means
less appreciative of their work and is taking this
occasion to pay them credit. They have been and
still are a potent factor in the spread of music mem-
ory contests and music weeks. They have also added
outdoor Christmas caroling. They are doing a great
work in their campaigns for establishing music sec-
tions' in local public libraries and in combating inde-
cent songs. Their aid in eliminatng the obnoxous and
unjustified government tax on musical instruments
through the support given by the Chicago Piano and
Organ Association is too well known for comment.
The way for the music industry to secure the as-
sistance of the multitude of powerful outside organi-
zations is to appreciate the help which is given. This
is one of the fundamental principles of the Bureau,
and it takes great pleasure in acknowledging its in-
debtedness to Mrs. Oberndorfer and the women's
clubs.
EXPANDS IN BELLEVILLE, ILL.
Walter L. Rhein, head of the Walter L. Rhein
Piano Co., Belleville. 111., has purchased the three-
story building adjoining the company's store and will
use it for ware-room purposes for the piano and
talking machine departments. Mr. Rhein has been
looking for this opportunity to expand for some
time. Cable-Nelson pianos and players and Brinker-
horT and Gulbransen playerpianos are carried by the
company. The house has a fine business in talking-
machines, records and music rolls.
CO-OPERATION WITH RAILROADS.
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce is
co-operating with the Department of Commerce in
an organized effort to assist in the orderly develop-
ment of efficiency of the railroads. The Chamber has
received a letter from Mr. Hoover which shows
clearly the co-operation which each individual ship-
per should give, and why.
BROOKLYN PIANO MAN DIES.
Alphonzo Smith, a well-known piano man of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., died recently at his home in Patchogue,
L. 1., after a long illness. He was formerly asso-
ciated with J. W. Smith & Bros., piano manufac-
turers and dealers, and became head of the company
at the death of J. W. Smith, sixteen years ago.
The Cable Piano Co., Bloomington, 111., recently
furnished five miniature upright pianos for the State
Music Teachers' Convention which met in that city.
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