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PRESTO
May 30, 1925.
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
RETAILERS TO /MEET
Among the Topics for Discussion by National
Association of Sheet Music Dealers at
McAlpine Hotel, June 8 to 10, Is That
of False Prices and Discounts.
IS A TEACHER A DEALER?
Some Publishing Houses Reply in the Affirmative
and Answer Will Evoke Hot Comment at
Convention Sessions.
The National Association of Sheet Music Dealers
will meet at the Hotel McAlpin, New York City,
June 8, 9 and 10. Never before in the history of the
association has the interest in trade topics been so
keen and plans for their discussion in a comprehen-
sive way will be satisfyingly carried out, according to
E. Grant Ege, president of the association.
In addition to the scheduled inducements for busi-
ness and social events many facilities for cheaper
traveling to the convention city have been made
available through the efforts of the association offi-
cials, among whom Thomas J. Donlan, secretary, is
most active. Members from distant points can pur-
chase round-trip tickets to Atlantic City at reduced
rates. Reservations at the McAlpin Hotel should be
secured as early as possible. The importance of the
subjects that will be discussed at this convention
should bring every member who can possibly come.
Topics for Discussion.
Prominent among the topics that concern sheet
music dealers is that of prices. The retail sheet music
dealers of the United States and Canada have been
endeavoring to eliminate false prices and false dis-
counts, in conformity with the resolution of the
music publishers, which resolution was approved by
the Federal Trade Commission. Some publishers,
however, are said to be still offering their own pub-
lications at retail at prices which are lower than their
printed selling prices. The condition is alluded to in
an announcement of the officials mailed this week:
"These publishers say that teachers are dealers, or
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Sweet Georgia Brown
Me and the Boy Friend
My Best Girl
Dreams
Lucky Kentucky
Just Lonesome
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Effect of Decisions.
"The Federal Trade Commission's decisions have
all the force of law. Either the publishers will have
to print their retail selling price or the Federal Trade
Commission will have to rescind its approval of the
resolution of the music publishers. The matter as it
stands is in the nature of a paradox. No retailer can
afford to give a discount fro mthe present selling-
prices of copyright music. No retailer will concede
that teachers are dealers. In spite of the promise
held out by the publishers' own resolution, the sheet
music trade is deadlocked again. This time, however,
the federal government has to be reckoned with and
the federal government has absolute control over all
interstate commerce.
Other interesting subjects will be discussed at
the business sessions.
Extensive Program Planned.
A big program has been planned. The president
will allot the above and other subjects to members
who will prepare papers to be read at the convention.
A paper on the new mail and parcel post rates will
be read.
The present rate of dues will apply to all new mem-
bers who shall be enrolled before the opening of the
annual convention. Every member is urged to try
to bring in at least one new member during the next
few weeks.
The Officers.
The following are the officers of the association:
President, W. Grant Ege, Kansas City, Mo.; vice-
president, Paul A. Schmitt; secretary and treasurer,
Thomas J. Donlan.
The following comprise the list of directors: Rob-
ert T. Stanton, J. Elmer Harvey, Charles W.
Homeyer. William H. Levis, Holmes R. Maddock,
Leslie E. Miller, S. Ernest Philpitt, Edward P. Little,
Joseph M. Priaulx, J. Edgar Robinson, William
Gamble, Laurence Sundquist, William L. Belrose,
W. H. Witt and Harvey J. Woods.
PUBLISHERS TO MEET
Big Attendance Expected at Annual Convention of
Publishers' Association at McAlpin Hotel.
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
that teachers are entitled to a discount, or that they
offer discounts because other publishers and dealers
do the same.
What to Accept.
"No publisher or retailer can be forced to accept
more profit than he needs. It is a simple matter for
the publisher to print on his publications the prices
at which he intends to sell them at retail under con-
ditions of normal competition. There was nothing
said about teachers in the publishers' resolution re-
ferred to above. Normal competition in the sheet
music business is the selling of music and books to
teachers and to schools. No distinction has been
made in favor of teachers. Printed prices from which
discounts are being allowed at retail under condi-
tions of normal competition are, therefore, false
prices. Discounts which are allowed to everybody
are false discounts.
Detroit
A big attendance is expected by the Music Pub-
lishers' Association of the United States, which will
hold its annual convention in New York on June 9.
The common interests of both branches of the sheet
music industry will be discussed in a friendly spirit.
Upon the welfare of the sheet music retailers depends
to a great extent the welfare of the publishers and
vice versa.
Members from distant points can purchase round-
trip tickets to Atlantic City at reduced rates. Reser-
vations at the McAlpin Hotel should be secured as
early as possible. The importance of the subjects
which will be discussed at this convention should
bring every member who can possibly come.
VICTOR IN RADIO FIELD
Victor Talking Machine Co. to Produce Vic-
trola with Superheterodyne Receiving
Set Next Fall.
About September this year the Victor Talking" Ma-
chine Co. will place on the market in collaboration
with the Radio Corporation of America a Victrola
combined with the newest and most highly developed
superheterodyne receiving set which has been manu-
factured under the patents of the Radio Corporation
of America.
The announcement as to its plans with reference
to radio was made at a dinner given by the company
at the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York, recently, at
which were present officials of the Victor Co. and
officers of three of the largest corporations connected
with the radio industry.
Representatives of the Victor company present in-
cluded E. R. F. Johnson, vice-president of the com-
pany and son of Eldridge R. Johnson, president;
Ernest John, E. E. Schumaker, W. J. Staats, F. K.
Dolbeer, C. G. Child, E. J. Dinglcy, F. W. Arm-
strong, W. W. Clark, E. T. Kieffer, J. G. Paine, J. F.
Pasternack, W. L. Marshall and J. S. Macdonald.
The Radio Corporation of America was represented
by David Sarnoff, General Guy Tripp, member of the
board of directors and chairman of the board of the
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., and William
Brown, vice-president. E. N. Herr, president of the
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., attended the
dinner, and two representatives of the General Elec-
tric Co., President Gerald Swope and Owen D.
Young, chairman of the board, were unavoidably de-
tained elsewhere and could not be present.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
The officers of the Music Publishers' Association
of the United States elected at the convention of
1924 are:
George Fischer, president; Q. Walter Fischer, vice-
president; E. T. Paul, secretary, and Harold Flam-
nier, treasurer.
The following are directors in addition to the offi-
cers named: Gustavc Schirmer, Dean Preston,
Harry Crosby, Walter Coghill, C. A. Woodman, R.
L. Huntzinger, E. E. Bitner, Michael Keenc, Sam
Fox and Isadore Witmark.
RADIO FOR JAPAN.
Japan wants our radio, according to the jump in
radio exports from the United States to Japan dur-
ing the month of March. From a position as the
fifth largest buyer of American radio goods in Janu-
ary, and the eighth largest buyer in February, Japan
climbed to second place during March, just behind
Canada, which latter country has for many months
been the biggest customer country for American
radio products, according to the Department of Com-
merce. Much of the radio supplies included in the
March sales to Japan consist of superheterodyne
receivers, spare tubes and transmitting apparatus.
TO MOVE IN L O U I S V I L L E .
F M. Tiller, Second and Walnut streets, Louis-
ville, Ky., is conducting a removal sale prior to mov-
ing the business to a new location at 515 South Third
street, on the East Side, between Walnut and Guthrie
streets.
The Kellerman Music Co., of Boise, Idaho, recently
opened a branch at Caldwcll, Idaho.
Manufacturers of
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