PRESTO
January 31, 1925.
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
and roll manufacturers, but to dealers who sell these
products, and the effect, undoubtedly, would be a sub-
stantial increase in the cost, and hence in the price
of records and music rolls.
THE PERKINS BILL
Record and Roll Industries Plan to Oppose
Legislation Which Might Prove Harmful
to the Music Trade.
FINE CONN DISPLAY.
Band instruments made by C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elk-
hart, Ind., were arranged in the Flanner-Hafsoos
Music Store in Milwaukee recently under the direc-
tion of H. W. Boone, manager of the band instru-
ment department. The feature of the display was a
group of brass goods, which were placed in the cen-
ter of the window and occupied a greater part of the
space.
Representatives of the leading phonograph record
and music roll manufacturers met in the offices of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, New York,
Monday afternoon, January 26th, to plan ways and
means for opposing the Perkins copyright bill, now
before Congress, which eliminates the principle of
compulsory mechanical license.
The Chamber has obtained the opportunity of ap-
pearing before the House Committee on Patents at
an adjournment meeting to be held at Washington on
February 3rd in opposition to. the bill. Those present
at the conference on Monday were:
Mr. Paine, Victor Talking Machine Co.; Mr.
Beattys, Aeolian Company; Mr. Germaise, Columbia
Phonograph Co.; Mr. Goldman, General Phonograph
Co.; Mr. Bliss, United States Music Roll Co.; Judge
Lanahan. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mr. Miller, Vocal-
style Music Co.; Alfred L. Smith, of the Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Case, Bruns-
wick-Balke-Col lender Co.
The bill affects the music industry particularly by
the elimination of the compulsory mechanical license
principle. At the present time if a copyright owner
releases his copyrighted composition to any record or
roll manufacturer, it is available to all manufacturers
and the rate is fixed at two cents per record or roll
reproduction made.
The Perkins Bill proposes to eliminate this prin-
ciple entirely so that a record or roll manufacturer
could make an exclusive contract with a composer or
publisher whereby no other record or roll manufac-
turer would be able to obtain the composition. In
the case of a big hit this would give the monopoly to
one record or roll company. Furthermore, there
would be no limit to the royalty fee which the copy-
right owner could obtain.
This should be of vital interest not onlv to record
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TO REPAIR WOOD SHORTAGE
American Forestry Association Meeting in Chicago
Hears Ills Described and Cures Suggested.
The American Forestry Association meeting in
Chicago last week sounded a warning that the coun-
try and particularly the eastern half of it, is moving
rapidly toward wood bankruptcy. The association
was formed fifty years ago in Chicago, so the meeting
at the Hamilton Club was in the nature of a semi-
centennial.
President George D. Pratt told of the fast disap-
pearing forests.
"'The forest problems of this nation are not yet one-
half or even one-fourth solved," he said. "To meet
requirements we must increase the growth of our
forest lands 312 per cent and to a point beyond any
so far achieved anywhere in the world outside of two
small countries in Europe.
"The outstanding need is for more aggressive lead-
ership on the part of industries and public service
organizations no less than on the part of the govern-
ment and the states."
He asked for support of the forestry bill now pend-
ing in Congress for the creation of additional national
forests in the eastern portions of the country.
Stephen A. Forbes, dean of the Illinois Laboratory
of natural history, brought the forestry problem home
to Chicago and Illinois.
"Over 42 per cent of the land surface of the state
was originally wooded," he said; "15,000,000 acres.
We now have only one-fifth of the original woods,
3,021 000 acres. Our forests are shrinking at the rate
of 4,530 acres a vear."
CONCERTS HELP SALES.
Charles Mauzy. manager of the phonograph and
radio departments of the Emporium, San Francisco.
is giving a series of concerts in the auditorium of
the company in which the phonographs and radio
sets are featured. Prominent vocalists engaged sing
the songs for which they have made records. The
radio department handles the Radiola. Atwater-Kent,
Eagle Neutrodyue and the Magnavox,
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