Presto

September 26, 1925.
25
PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
RADIO AND COPYRIGHT
National Association of Broadcasters in An-
nual Meeting Discuss Relationship with So-
ciety of Authors, Composers and Publishers.
The National Association of Broadcasters held its
annual meeting at the Hotel Commodore, New York,
last week, discussing the problems of paid advertising
on radio programs, censorship of broadcasting and
the relationship of broadcasters with the Society of
Authors, Composers and Publishers in so far as it
concerned the broadcasting of music on which the
society held the copyright.
The association opposed legal censorship and was
in favor of keeping the control within the organiza-
tion of broadcasters. It also went on record against
any legislation by Congress to compel the use of cer-
tain legal phraseology in any program that is being
paid for by an advertiser. The association also op-
posed any ruling that would require a statement by
an announcer that a program about to be broadcasted
was advertising.
The conference also expressed the desire to meet
the Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers on
equitable grounds. The opinion was expressed that
by broadcasting selections controlled by the society
the association aided composers by advertising their
compositions.
A resolution was reported by a special committee
favoring the extension to broadcasting of the present
copyright law as it affected the mechanical reproduc-
tion of copyrighted music, Congress to determine the
amount of royalties to be paid to owners of copy-
rights.
William E. Harkness of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company opposed the resolution on
the ground that the members present were not repre-
sentative of the 575 broadcasters in the United States.
He suggested that every station be brought into the
discussion before any attempt was made to approach
Congress or the Society of Authors, Composers and
Publishers.
Mr. Harkness said that the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company had been advised that under
the present copyright laws composers were entitled
to revenue from the broadcasting of copyright selec-
tions, and that on the basis of this advice his com-
pany had obtained a license from the Society of
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
Authors, Composers and Publishers. He said that
under the present agreement the terms had increased
in a ratio of five to one, that certain selections had
been withdrawn and that the present rate was not
satisfactory to his company. He was of the opinion
that the American Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany might have to give up the contract when it ex-
pired on Jan. 1, 1926, as indications for renewal looked
even less satisfactory than the present terms.
MUSIC TRADE IN RADIO SHOW
Prominent Men in Music Business at Los Angeles
Make Exposition Striking Success.
With the third annual National Radio Exposition,
Los Angeles, Cal., opened recently at Ambassador
Auditorium, much of the interest of the show focuses
on the men behind the scenes. Much of the difficult
work of the exposition fell to J. A. Hartley of the
Braun Corporation, who was named chairman of the
show's finance committee.
The job of telling about the exposition fell to J.
W. Boothe of Barker Brothers, and Les. Taufenback
of Western Radio, Inc. of California.
As chairman of the committee of arrangements,
Carl A. Stone, formerly president of the Radio Man-
ufacturers' Agents' Association of Los Angeles, and
head of the Carl A. Stone Company, was pressed
with duties at the inception of the show plans.
Co-operating with committee chairman, C. H.
Mansfield of Fitzgerald Music Company; H. S. Ma-
son of Electric Equipment Company; Lombard J.
Smith of Lombard J. Smith & Company; W. D.
Scott of Herbert H. Frost, Inc., and G. F. Hall of
Platt Music Company, have been called upon for
long hours of active service in the interests of the
exposition.
A. G. Farquharson, secretary of the Los Angeles
Music Trades Associations, and of the several radio
associations connected with the exposition, attended
scores of committee meetings and acted in an advi-
sory capacity throughout the preliminary proceedings
of the show. Later, he was called East, but he re-
turned in time to be one of the many sponsors pres-
ent when the show opened its doors for the review
Friday.
CHECKS FOR HEARST CREDITORS.
Creditors of the defunct Hearst Music Publishers,
Ltd., of Canada, with headquarters in Montreal, who
had written off their accounts, received last week a
check for an interim dividend of 40 per cent of their
respective individual claims. The amount distributed
amounted to approximately $13,000, payment being
made through the Traders' Trust Co., the permanent
trustee. Recovery of approximately $19,000 paid to
the Dominion Government as excess profits tax dur-
ing the time of the company's operations provided the
means for payment of the dividend.
TORNADO IS SONG TOPIC.
Norman E. Hooker, railroad mail clerk residing in
Mattoon, la., has written a song suggested by events
of the tornado last March. The song is entitled,
"After the Tornado Is Over," and Hooker has had
the song published and a company manufacturing
playerpiano rolls has also placed the song in music
roll form on sale.
Manufacturers of
RADIO
THE RED TOP RADIO TUBE.
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
The Q R S Music Company, which took over some
time ago the Radio Essentials Corporation and the
Red Top Radio Tube, reports a warm interest by the
trade in the tube. It represents over two years' re-
search to construct a radio tube that would combine
power, quality, reception and rigidity and at the same
time eliminating microphone noises which are found
in most tubes.
Music Printers
ANY PUBLISHER
\
OUR REFERENCE
-
KAYNEB, DALHEM SCO:
-WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
'2054-2060 W.Lake St., Chicago, III
ENCOURAGING MUSIC
Sheet Music Dealers Should Take Part in
Every Activity, Local and National,
Which Stimulates Music.
It is claimed by observant men in the music busi-
ness generally, the selling of sheet music and music
goods of all kinds, that no phase of the music trade
is so directly influenced by the various movements
tor the encouragement of music as that of sheet
music and music books. Music Weeks, stimulation
of music in schools, municipal plans for providing
free musical programs for the people, are influences
plain in their effects on people, especially the younger
people. All the activities named increase the interest
in music, which is reflected in the increased sales of
musical instruments and sheet music. Every com-
munity in the country is making some effort similar
to that stated and the activities of Music Week now
are widely extended.
The culmination of all the activities is bound to
effect the sheet music business in a material way and
publishers and dealers should not only participate in
the activities but also should anticipate the events.
C. A. Woodman, addressing a meeting of sheet music
dealers, said:
"If by the use of some magic carpet we, as music
publishers and music dealers, should find ourselves
years hence, when these children are taking the places
of men and women of today, in the music business,
we would, I believe, find our present equipments and
stocks wholly inadequate to meet demands, for it
seems to me the seed that has been sown and that is
being sown in the field of music, as exemplified by
these children, will bear results for the future that
we cannot realize.
"Now for the question of participation by the sheet
music trade in the activities of Music Week, although
results are slow in maturing we should not be dis-
couraged for the ultimate effects are bound to be im-
mense. There is a time honored saying: 'In times of
peace prepare for war' and we can change that to
meet our own requirements and say: 'In time of seed
sowing, prepare for harvest.' Publishers by antici-
pating needs and issuing music and books to meet
the demand of educators, and dealers, by working
every available avenue in their territories and by
painstaking attention to personal requirements, should
secure all orders from music teachers and music
lovers for their Old Home Town. Music publishers
and music dealers should amicably agree to work
hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder in an endeavor
to co-operate with National Music W 7 eek activities
and in all other activities that have for their objec-
tive better music in the schools, in the home, in the
studios, on the concert platform and on the operatic
stage."
The new Brunswick machine, called the Panatrome,
is equipped with vacuum tube amplifiers and disk
resonators and is run either by batteries or by connec-
tion with an electrical system.
REMICK SONG HITS
By the Light of the Stars
Sometime
Got No Time
Oh Say Can I See You Tonight
Sweet Georgia Brown
Swanee Butterfly
Old Pal
Don't Bring Lulu
We're Back Together Again
If I Had a Girl Like You
Everyone Home Is Asking for You
I'm Going to Charleston, Back to
Charleston
When Eyes of Blue Are Fooling You
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/