Presto

PRESTO
January 19, 1924.
Make This Year Your Best
By Selling The
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells
The Christman
Electrically Operated
Reproducing
Grands and Uprights
These Instruments have the demand
that follows long years of consistent
striving to produce the most satisfac-
tory that Money, Experience and Effi-
ciency can present.
The Christman is recognized as the
very highest type of the most ad-
vanced development of the Reproduc-
ing Piano. It has no superior and it
is representative of the
Entire Christman Line
CHRISTMAN
Studio Grand
Only 5 Feet Long
Built with a careful eye to the exacting
requirements of the space at the command
of city dwellers and owners of small houses,
the CHRISTMAN GRAND combines every
essential that wins for the grand piano first
consideration in the mind of the artist.
Every day you are
without the CHRISTMAN
agency you overlook
a good source of profit.
"The First Touch Tells"
Reg. U S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
DISCUSS MEANS TO
AID TRANSPORTATION
Freight Carrying Problem of Railroads Can
be Solved by More General Use
of Trucks.
The more general use of motor trucks for short
hauls will remove the congestion which provides the
great problem of transportation today is the belief
expressed in the report of the National Transporta-
tion Conference held recently in Washington under
the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States.
The conference was composed of one hundred and
one members representing commerce, industry, min-
ing, agriculture, labor, finance, insurance and trans-
portation. Of those present 48 had served as mem-
bers of the special committees which had been organ-
ized in March, 1923, and had prepared detailed reports
on the several phases of transportation for consid-
eration by the full conference. The other 53 members
of the conference were invited as additional leaders
in the several fields of transportation and representing
the various sections of the country. The conference
adopted a series of resolutions constituting the frame-
work of a proposed national transportation policy
covering all agencies,—railways, waterways and
highways.
With reference to the railroads the Conference reaf-
firmed the principle of private ownership and oper-
ation under government regulation, proposed the
retention of the Transportation Act in its present
form with such supplemental legislation as may be
found necessary to perfect its provisions for railroad
consolidations, and endorsed the present rule of rate-
making as essential to the establishment of the credit
of the railroads necessary to enable them to meet the
needs of expanding commerce. It advocated volun-
tary railroad consolidation and urged the continua-
tion of relative freight rate readjustment but held
that present rates as a whole are not high and do not
hinder the processes of production or distribution.
The conference embarked upon a new field by lay-
ing stress upon the availability of the motor truck as
an important agency of transportation, characteriz-
ing store-door delivery as "the greatest contribution
which can be made to the solving of the terminal
problem." "The congestion of transportation today,"
the conference declared, "centers around the terminal
areas of our great cities, where the railroads find the
greatest difficulty in keeping pace with the public
need, although their main tracks have sufficient capac-
ity for the movement of more freight than is offered
them."
The wider use of waterways to afford the cheapest
and most effective transportation possible and to
safeguard against a transportation shortage -was also
advocated by the conference. It urged that a national
survey of waterways be undertaken and suggested
measures for linking water with rail transport.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADfc
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
M. Hohner, 114 East Sixteenth street, New York
City; $500,000; to manufacture harmonicas and
accordions.
The Janssen Piano Co., Inc., New York, formed
from a consolidation of the Janssen Piano Co. and the
Janssen Retail Stores, Inc.; combined capital,
$290,000. Ben H. Janssen.
The Kohler & Campbell Piano Industries of Cali-
fornia, San Francisco; $10,000. The directors are
B. P. Sibley, E. P. Coxhead, D. L. Covington, J. H.
Spiro and A. C. Spiro.
IS THE INSTALLMENT PLAN
IN NEED OF SUPERVISION
Vague Report That the Government Is Considering
an Investigation Causes Newspaper Comment.
Now it appears that the Government of the United
States is to take- a hand in investigating the buying
of things on installments, says the New York Times.
This is on the theory, as announced, that many
all over the country are mortgaging their future in
providing for present real or supposititious needs.
In one respect pretty much all of the business of
the country is done on the basis of credit or payment
in the future. Every charge account in a city or
country store is on this theory. The only difference
between such transactions and sales on installments
is that payment for the former ir to be in bulk in-
stead of piecemeal.
Within bounds, there is no doubt but that instal-
ment buying is to be encouraged as something really
advantageous. Buying of the kind on the part of
young couples setting up housekeeping has been long
in practice and has justified itself by the results at-
tained. And it would be a queer kind of a curmud-
geon who would cavil at the action of a young lover
in arranging to pay by instalments for a costlier en-
gagement ring than his existing funds would pro-
cure. Nor could one fairly criticize the buying of
homes on instalments through the medium of a build-
ing and load association if proper judgment is shown.
When it comes to other purchases, such as auto-
mobiles, phonographs, radio sets, expensive furs and
jewelry, there may be another story. But even as
to these the Government inquirers may bump up
against something like Mark Twain's weather state-
ment. He said lots of people spoke about the weather,
but nobody did anything about it.
NOTED RUSSIAN DANCER
PROUD OF HIS BALDWIN
Adolph Bolm, in Letter, Points to Possibilities of
Instrument As Aid to Art.
Adolph Bolm, the noted Russian dancer, is proud
in his possession of a Baldwin Reproducing Piano
made by the Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati, and
enthusiastic about its possibilities for aiding him in
his art. His opinion of the instrument is expressed
in the following extract from a letter:
"The height of creative art is to dance to the actual
playing of so many great pianists. For the artist
ADOLPH BOLM.
there is nothing more finished and exact than this
marvelous instrument. I am proud to own and
endorse the Baldwin."
A D O L P H BOLM.
Adolph Bolm, who came to this country with the
famous company of dancers brought here some years
ago by Serge Diaghileff, feels that America offers
him a mission.
After the Diaghileff company
returned to Europe, Bolm felt that America had
taken a hold on him and he returned and has been
here ever since. He appears here as part of the
personnel of the Metropolitan Opera Company, the
Chicago Civic Opera Company and with his own
delightful little company of highly trained specialists
known as the Adolph Bolm Ballet Intime which
tours with the equally famous miniature orchestra
known as the Little Art Orchestra.
MANY LEARNING TO TUNE.
Piano salesmen are realizing that an important
part of their education has been neglected if they
can not tune the piano before or after selling it. A
piano out of tune is an impossible proposition if the
buyer has a musical ear. Polk's School of Tuning, at
Valparaiso, Ind., is constantly enrolling pupils. The
player repair department is especially busy. Piano
men generally should look into the Polk's School
proposition and make themselves one hundred per
cent efficient.
OHIO DEALERS RESPOND.
The dealers all through Ohio have responded to
the suggestions of the promoters of the Second An-
nual State Music Memory Contest and everywhere
the merchants are co-operating with the teachers and
others in local control. Musical people are free in
providing funds where such are lacking. The finals
will take place in Columbus on March 29.
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