Presto

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March 26, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
chine records, by \\\ft new auditory method, would
he plainly unsuitable for showing saxophones, banjos,
cornets or any of the instruments which now have a
Eugene O. Sykes, Vice-Chairman of Radio Commis- big demand from trie public.
A place, for instance, which would be suitable 'to
sion, Defines Broadcasting Purposes.
the sale of sheet music may not be of equal suit-
Assurance that the new radio commission will be ability for the sale of small goods. The small goods
actuated by a desire to serve the public interest was section must be a place free from the element of dis-
given by Eugene O. Sykes, its vice-chairman, in a traction.
radio speech last week, broadcast by more than 30
But the musical merchandise department must
stations.
have other advantages that assure pleasant shopping
"The new radio law was the production of an im- and the quick way to the closed incident. The try-
mense amount of discussion, both within Congress out is an important feature of band instrument sales
and outside of it," said Mr. Sykes. "This doctrine, and the progressive store provides that opportunity
that broadcasting exists only for the purpose of prop- for its customers. The department, to be successful,
erly serving the listening public is the constitutional must be provided with the proper number of dem-
basis for every action the commission may take. You onstration rooms where the trombone, cornet and
trumpet customers may evoke the tuneful toot and
who are listening tonight, you and the millions of
the saxophone buyers may bleat to their heart's con-
others for whom radio has become an integral part
of normal life, are the ones who in the long run tent. Give the buyers an opportunity to test out the
must determine what is in the public interest—and bugles and saxophones and clarinets and the sales are
may I say here that I count myself as one of you, all the same as made.
for until I was unexpectedly called to serve on this
commission my only connection with radio communi-
MAHOGANY FROM HONDURAS.
cation was as a listener, doing just what all of you
United States Consul Bonnet, of Belize, British
are doing now."
Honduras, says that more mahogany was shipped
from that country during 1926 than in any prrevious
year. The exports of mahogany logs to this coun-
try amounted to 66,646, containing 14,050,915 feet and
invoiced at $1,630,848, an average of $116.07 per thou-
Success with Musical Merchandise Depends Consid- sand feet.
erably on Place It Occupies in Store.
ANCIENT PATENT BUILDING.
A subject which invites great difference of opinion
Thomas E. Robertson, Commissioner of Patents,
in music dealers is the location of the small goods
department. When the small goods line was a species Washington, D. C, is urging that a new building be
of "poor relation" of the music trade, the opinion erected, in which to house the office, now located in
was general that any place not good for anything an old building of inadequate character. When the
else was good enough for the small goods. But present building was erected only 200 or so patents
when the small goods stock assumed a new im- were issued annually; now more than 45,000 patents
portance, the question of its location became a seri- and about 25,000 trade marks and designs are han-
dled yearly.
ous one.
Band instruments and orchestra instruments are
now grouped with the smaller goods and accessories,
SPECIAL RADIO BUILDERS.
and the space they should occupy in the store has a
Cawker City, Kansas, has an industry which makes
bearing on the results in sales. The space for this a specialty of building radio receivers into all makes
important stock must be as spacious as the size of
of phonographs. They put machines into shape to be
the store permits, and the position must necessarily used either as radios or phonographs. The concern
be advantageous for the selection and sale of instru- is the E. D. Richardson Mfg. Co., which conducts an
ments. A position near the main entrance, which experimental and clinic laboratory.
might be highly satisfactory for selling talking ma-
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