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June 13, 1925.
nection with Music Week. Aver 150 bands were
actually entered in these contests.
Continuing, Mr. Smith said:
Preliminary
work is now under way in accordance
Splendid Work of National Association of with the instructions
of the Association for the com-
Band Instrument Manufacturers' Associa-
pilation of a booklet on organizing bands and or-
chestras and the standardization of instruments.
tion Lucidly Explained the Annual
Supported Band Laws.
Reports in Chicago.
The association has actively supported the cam-
The activities of the National Association of Band paign for a band law in the state of Illinois, assisted
Instrument Manufacturers and the admirable result in the passage of the law in Texas and done con-
since last convention were embodied in the report of siderable intensive work in New York State to pro-
interest in the municipal band law. It has en-
Secretary Alfred L. Smith at the opening session most
listed" the interest and support of the American Fed-
at 2 p. m. on Monday of this week. An important eration of Musicians in the future work of getting
fact held by Mr. Smith was that "sixteen thousand state legislation promoting bands throughout the
booklets of envelope size including, a statement by country.
the association and the statement of the Federal
Credit Service.
Trade Commission relative to the announcement of
The Credit Service of the Music Industries Cham-
January 1st, 1924, concerning the elimination of secret ber of Commerce is being urged regularly by all but
subsidies to musicians have been printed and dis- four of our members. A special service has been
tributed through our members. A form letter of maintained for our members with respect to band
transmittal from the manufacturer to dealers, agents leaders and other non-dealer distributors of band in-
and professional musicians were provided our mem- struments. Several of our members are placing their
delinquent accounts with the Chamber for collection
bers."
The secretary was happy to state that the num- with good results.
I recommend that an income and expense budget
ber of complaints to the Better Business Bureau has
decreased during recent months. "An investigation be prepared and adopted and that the assessments of
members as well as the expenses of the association be
of most of the complaints indicate that they were governed
accordingly.
made on the grounds of suspicion only and without
real evidence. Most such complaints proved to be
groundless," said Mr. Smith, who added: "It is evi-
TYPE=WRITTEN SIGNATURES
dent that professional musicians have endeavored to
get secret subsidies from dealers by misrepresenting
that competing dealers were willing to grant such Illegible Writing at the End of the Letter Is Cause
secret subsidies. My impression is that the situation
of Misunderstanding and Mistakes.
has improved very much during the year."
No matter who it was that first suggested that the
School Band Encouragement.
written signatures on typed letters and documents
Mr. Smith advised the meeting about a special should be accompanied by the same name, over or
report to be presented by the National Bureau for near the written one, in machine-made duplicate, he
the Advancement of Music concerning the develop- w T as a benefactor to a considerable fraction of the
ment of the school band contests. To summarize human race.
that report, a sixteen-page pamphlet with circular
All the people who write illegibly write their names
letter was distributed to fifteen thousand music su-
pervisors. Contests have been held in New York, still more illegibly than they do anything else, and
Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, South Dakota, Indiana, Min- many whose writing as a rule is decently legible make
nesota, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, in addition mere hen-tracks when it comes to the one part of
to the Middle West Sectional Contest at Gary to be their communication for the reading of which the con-
held June 5th, the Mid-West High School Contest at text gives no help. They seem actually to be proud
Kansas City and a band conclave at Boston in con- of illegibility, as if it showed how many and how
large are the checks they constantly are signing.
BAND GOODS MFRS.
HIGH GRADE
STABILIZING RADIO
Effort Made by Means of Resolution Adopted
at Recent Meeting of the Talking Ma-
chine Men, Inc., Big Organization
of Trade in Three States.
The June meeting of Talking Machine and Radio
Men, Inc., the organization of the trade of New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and which was held
at the Cafe Boulevard on Wednesday, June 10, at
12:30 p. m., and as a guest at this meeting was an old
phonographic friend, George E. Brightsons, formerly
president of the Sonora Phonograph Company, now
president of the Brightsons Laboratories.
Mr.
Brightsons gave a short talk on the sales policies of
his new company, which manufactures the True Blue
Tube.
J. Bradford, the engineer in charge of construc-
tion of tubes, spoke on the subject of what "quality
and match tubes" mean in your sales.
The executive committee reported on recent trade
happenings of interest to both phonographic and
radio ends of the industry. There was also a report
of the entertainment committee.
The following is a copy of the resolution passed
at the May meeting:
THE RESOLUTION.
As the result of the two conferences by your
association with the leading radio manufacturers,
our executive committee and board of officers, now,
in order to assist in stabilizing the radio industry,
make the following recommendations to the entire
trade:
1. Success in business comes from concentration.
It is therefore that we recommend that the general
handling of sets by dealers should be discontinued.
A dealer should handle the products of no more than
three manufacturers; and these products should cover
the field in prices, style and hook-ups; thus, by con-
fining themselves to four products, the proper rep-
resentation and sales push can be put behind the
products of the manufacture. Proper representation
given to manufacturers will encourage them in their
future development. In selling the four products,
we earnestly urge that the dealers employ every pre-
caution to select manufacturers who use proper mer-
chandising methods and whose past can command
itself to the dealer, to the end that the industry can
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