June 14, 1924.
P R E S T O
due to these plain but important factors in its policy.
The wider uses of the banjo within recent years in
a way accounts for the enormous growth in banjo
demand. Only a little while ago the banjo was almost
Slingerland Banjo Co., Chicago, Anticipating altogether used as a solo instrument or as an accom-
paniment means in "black" acts on the vaudeville
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dance orchestras and its usefulness in broadcasting
dance music is generally acknowledged. All the later
One of the favorites on the list of the Slingerland
Banjo Co., 1815 Orchard street, Chicago, is the May uses of the banjo have been considered by the
Bell, which is developing most amazing sales. It is Slingerland Banjo Co. and specialties suited to novel
only one active number in a successful line of banjos, purposes are featured in the new styles.
banjo mandolins, tenor banjos and banjo ukuleles.
In the list of instruments are forty styles.
The Slingerland Banjo Co. has grown with the
demand for banjos, but it is to the credit of the house Silver Tone Tenor Makes Three Records of Unusual
that it has been powerful in arousing and preserving
Character for Richmond, Ind., Firm.
interest in banjos by making instruments of a de-
Ambroce Wyrick, widely known tenor, recently
sirable kind to be sold to customers at a reasonable
price with just and proper profit rewards to the completed for the Gennett records, Starr Piano Co.,
dealer. The success of the Slingerland Banjo Co. is Richmond, Ind., three unusual numbers in "When
I'm with You" and the Melrose number, "My Old
Home of Daye Gone By," and "Mother," written by
Mr. Wyrick in memory of his mother.
Mr. Wyrick, who is popular in concert and Chau-
tauqua circles, gave a concert to a large audience at
the Studebaker Theater, Chicago, Sunday, June 8th.
And on Tuesday of this week he gave a concert to
President and Mrs. Coolidge. Mr. Wyrick will start
on a Chautauqua tour on the 15th of June.
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GOVERNMENT LICENSE REQUIRED
Broadcasting Stations Can Not Operate Without Per-
mission and Only Three Months at a Time.
Talking of the controversy which broke out among
the radio broadcasters, Secretary Hoover makes
this statement as his contribution to the debate: "I
believe it is safe to say, irrespective of claims under
patent rights, that broadcasting will not cease, and
neither will our public policy allow it to become
monopolized."
That is cautious and a little vague, says the New
York Times, and there is difficulty in seeing how any
action taken can be "irrespective of patent rights,"
as they are the very substance of the dispute.
The Secretary is more helpful when he recalls the
fact that no broadcasting station can operate without
a Government license, and that the licenses, issued for
only three months at a time, create no vested rights
either in the license itself or in a wave length.
That is as much as to say that, if the conduct of
any broadcasting agency is sufficiently displeasing to
the licensing authority, that agency can be put out of
business for as long as the authority pleases. That
would be a way of getting around patent rights and
also of bringing effective pressure to bear on any
company or individual who seemed disposed to make
unwise or excessive use of legal powers.
To stop broadcasting, however, is not in itself a re-
formative measure, and it cannot be doubted that
the Secretary is right in saying that broadcasting is
not to cease.
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