Presto

July 25, 1925.
PRESTO
will go into a cabaret and she will go on "joy-rides."
So I say, as I said in my speech, that the prohibition
law is the most damnable thing that ever happened
to this country, and I believe it firmly.
My father was a Congregational clergyman, and I
had two uncles clergymen, and was destined, accord-
ing to my parents, to be one myself; so you may
know that I know something about the Bible and
everything else of that nature.
Law Violations.
I wish you would particularly read the speech I
made about the violation of the law. Nobody talks
today about "violation" except those who talk about
the violation of the eighteenth amendment. They do
not talk at all about the violation of the fourteenth or
fifteenth amendments, or the violation of any other
amendment than the eighteenth.
I will be in Chicago until Thursday night, 5 p. m.,
and if you wish to make reply to this do so by that
time; or I will be back a little later on and can be
reached at above address.
Please feel free to publish this letter if you wish
to do so. Certainly I shall publish it together with
copy of your letter to me.
Very truly yours,
GEORGE P. BENT.
PIANO TRAVELERS'
COMPLETE ROSTER
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third vice-president, Vocalstyle Co., Cincinnati, Ohio;
George H. Bliss, treasurer, 122 Fifth avenue, New
York.; Albert Behning, secretary, 105 West 40th
street, New York.
Advisory, Executive and Grievance.
Advisory Committee: Former Presidents W. S.
Rich, W. M. Plaisted, A. Dalrymple, J. H. Shale,
W. J. Keeley, C. T. Purdy, G. W. Allen, G. H. Bliss,
W. E. Hall, O. W. Williams, F. E. Edgar, D. E.
Fabyan, J. A. Krumme, A. A. Mahan, A. S. Shonin-
ger, W. C. Heaton, Chas. J. Cunningham.
Executive Committee: The President, chairman
ex-omcio; the First Vice-President, the Second Vice-
President; the Third Vice-President, the Treasurer,
the Secretary; R. E. Briggs, Ludwig & Co., 136th
street and Willow avenue, New York City; H. D.
Hewitt, M. Schulz Co., 711 Milwaukee avenue, Chi-
cago, 111.
Grievance Committee: Ralph H. Day, chairman,
Ivers & Pond Piano Co, 114 Boylston street, Boston,
Mass.; L. O. Rogers, Premier Grand Piano Co., 510
W. 23rd street, New York City; Arthur Reams, Wal-
ton Building, Atlanta, Ga.
Hotel, Railroad, Delegates.
Hotel Committee: Chas. A. Eyles, chairman, Chas.
M. Stief, Inc., 315 N. Howard street, Baltimore, Md.;
Harry W. Crooker, McPhail Piano Co., 40 Waltham
street, Boston, Mass.; F. P. Bassett, M. Schulz Co.,
711 Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, 111.
Railroad and Water Ways Committee: Gust.
Adolph Anderson, chairman, Van Wert, Ohio;
Jerome F. Murphy, M. Steinert & Sons, Boston,
Mass.; Earl R. Billings, Billings Player Roll Co.,
Milwaukee, Wis.; Wallace Reynolds, Automatic
Pneumatic Action Co., 653 W. 51st street, New York
City.
Delegates to National Council of Traveling Sales-
men's Association: G. H. Bliss, R. E. Briggs, Wm.
J. Keeley, Albert Behning, W. B. Williams.
Alternates: C. E. Jackson, Gordon C. Campbell,
D. D. Luxton, Henry J. Gearman, Roland L. Strat-
ford.
Delegates to Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce: W. J. Keeley, Roger S. Brown, M. J. Ken-
nedy, F. E. Edgar, Corley Gibson.
Makes Good Reading.
Just to read over the foregoing list will create
pleasure in the minds of dealers everywhere. For
there are the names of occasional visitors to the music
stores, and every one of the visitors is a personal
friend of the dealers. There are names of veterans
on the road in the interest of famous instruments,
and other names of comparative youngsters whose
enthusiasms are still bubbling over. There are names
of piano men who have risen from the ranks, and are
now heading large industries, even if they do occa-
sionally get out "on the road," to cheer and assist
their old-time customers and friends. That is a part
of the piano "game." It is one of the features of the
business that keeps friendships warm and helps the
business to grow.
The list of delegates is so large that it seems, at
first reading, that none of the popular travelers have
been omitted. But there are many whose names are
not there. But scan the advisory committee list.
There isn't a name there that isn't known the
breadth of the country.
A Notable Roll Call.
And every man of them has done the kind of work
that stimulates the dealers, and has helped them to
make progress. Some of them, too, are veterans in
the industry who have crossed the continent so many
times that they couldn't count them. And the fine
pianos they have taken orders for would make a
double track of shining cases around the world sev-
eral times.
It's a fine list of the active piano travelers, and it
would tax any other industry than that of piano
manufacture to produce'a finer lot of useful, energetic
and resourceful business men.
STARR SCHOOL PIANOS.
A new folder prepared for distribution by dealers
by the Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., is proving
very effective. It describes and pictures Starr musi-
cal instruments for the school room, physical culture
and other educational cases, which include Starr up-
right and grand pianos, and Starr phonographs. The
uses of Gennett records are also covered in the new
booklet. Starr Style D upright designed for schools
treated in the booklet is a piano of small measure-
ments and with the tone and beauty of the standard
size instrument it becomes a delight and inspiration
in any school room.
HAIXET & DAVIS CO'S.
NEW FACTORY PLANS
Famous Old Boston Piano Industry Will Con-
centrate Manufacturing Facilities at
Its Worcester Plant.
The Hallet & Davis Piano Co., of Boston, will
concentrate its producing facilities at its large fac-
tory at Worcester, Mass. Heretofore the Worcester
factory has been restricted to the manufacturer of the
Simplex player action industry, but it has been de-
cided that the facilities there are ample also for a
large output of pianos and completed playerpianos.
Consequently the removal of the Hallet & Davis
Piano Co.'s factory to the Worcester plant will take
place in the near future, and the famous instruments
will issue from the city so long famed as the center
of the music industry in its various aspects. The
move is considered a good one by all interested in
the Hallet & Davis line. In the entire list of Ameri-
can pianos there are few that stand so high in the art
world as the Hallet & Davis. In case designs, as in
other features, the Hallet & Davis is sui generis. It
has enjoyed a world-wide sale and it is represented
as a leader in many of the foremost houses in this
country. There can be no question as to the con-
tinued progress of the fine old instrument which has
been in the field since 1839.
LATE MATTERS IN THE
TRADE OF CLEVELAND, 0.
Effect of the Fifty Per Cent Cut of "Victrola"
Prices, and Other Talking Machine
Matters of Interest.
Those dealers who sold Victrolas on small down
payments and on small monthly terms are finding
that it is necessary to "pull" them since the fifty per
cent cut has gone into effect. One store is reported
to have had close to fifty machines returned within
a week and one department store twenty-five
M. H. Glick, manager of the Robert L. White
Music Co., Superior Arcade, has won the grand prize
of $150.00 from the Brunswick Co. for selling the
most amount of Brunswick phonographs and Ra-
diolas from April 13th, 1925, to July 6, 1925. In that
period of time he sold $33,840.00 worth of these ma-
chines. He also won the weekly prize of $25.00 and
the monthly prize of $50.00 in the same contest.
Robert L. White received a $500 bonus as well. The
contest was based entirely on the successful selling
of Brunswick phonographs and Radiolas by retail
salesmen and dealers who personally sell merchan-
dise. Mr. Glick leaves for New York and Boston
this week on a buying trip of small musical instru-
ments for fall, after which he will take a week's va-
cation at Atlantic City.
STORY & CLARK IN MEXICAN EXPOSITION
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The activity of the Story & Clark Piano Co. rep-
resentatives in Mexico was shown in a recent im-
portant event. The occasion was the Regional Expo-
sition, Mazatlan, Mexico, which was held last month,
a big annual event with the people of the immediate
community and surrounding country. The booth
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of Huerta y Villalobos, enterprising music firm of
Mazatlan, capable representatives of the Story &
Clark line, was a strong attraction.
One of the big features of the exposition was the
selection of the Queen of the Community and
of the firm named and the ceremony took
place in the Story & Clarke booth.
There
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were many contestants for first honors and the
event drew large crowds to the Story & Clark
exhibit and was a fine advertising feature for the
dealers. In a grouping the queen was placed in the
center with other winners on either side and the
Story & Clark instruments in an interesting back-
ground.
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