July 9, 1927.
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PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
of
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
that is, the owners of business establishments which
deal with one another, rarely or never meet. Busi-
ness dealing is carried on by subordinates and inter-
More States in the Union Have Active Movements mediaries. When people do not know one another
at first hand the opportunity for misunderstanding is
for the Passing of Taxing Laws.
much greater and lack of confidence is much greater."
Mr. Filene advocated greater co-operation between
Ohio and Nevada have movements for the passing
of a law enabling municipalities to form and main- buyer and seller as one of the most effective means
of doing away with trade abuses. As the first step
tain bands.
In Ohio the local bodies which have been making in the movement to do away with unethical practices,
the campaign have had the support of the National he suggested that a joint trade relations committee
Bureau for the Advancement of Music, which has be set up, representing on one side the manufacturers
corresponded with the various locals of the Ameri- in a prominent European industry, and on the other
can Federation of Musicians, through which it has side the American retailers of its products. A manu-
brought the matter to the attention of the leading facturers' trade association in one of the European
countries, he added, might furnish the medium for
band masters.
The new band law in West Virginia, has recently organizing the European side of such a committee,
been utilized by the city of Morgantown, where at and the National Retail Dry Goods Association,
the municipal election the taxpayers gave consent to which represents the department store interests of
a levy for municipal concerts. The rate is a tax of the United States, might be responsible for organiz-
ing the American side.
five mills on an assessed valuation of one hundred
dollars. This will give about $2,000 for the concerts.
THE MAC DOWELL FESTIVAL.
The MacDowell festival under the auspices of the
National Federation of Music Clubs for the benefit of
the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N. H., was
Radio Corporation of America Files Opposition to held Wednesday, 3' p. m., June 29, at Willow Grove
Park, N. Y. The MacDowell Colony is the first at-
Chas. Raymond Ablett's Trade-mark.
tempt to provide a place where artists may work to
Radio has brought about a long series of patent the best advantage, as a scientist works in a labora-
battles among the competing manufacturers and tory, an astronomer in an observatory, a surgeon in a
broadcasters. But none is more unusual than the hospital, an executive equipped with telephone and
attempt to keep Charles Raymond Ablett of New dictograph. It is a valuable and practical asset to the
York from using his own initials on radio tubes of his art of the country free from sentimentality, based on
sound business principles.
own manufacture.
This is all the more unusual in that Ablett has been
FOR RADIO WORLD'S FAIR.
using his initials for the last twenty years in the
G. Clayton Irwin, Jr., who managed the first an-
manufacture of electric lights. His expansion into
nual Radio Trade Show in Chicago, is now engaged
the radio vacuum tube field he considers logical.
But the Radio Corporation of America has filed in perfecting the program for the Radio World's
opposition proceedings before the examiner of inter- Fair, opening in the New Madison Square Garden,
ference of the Patent Office, maintaining that Ablett's Sept. 19. "Dealers from all over the country report
trade-mark of his initials conflicts with their "RCA" a demand even beyond their own sanguine expecta-
tions for the new receivers, which are so far in ad-
mark on their vacuum tubes and radio sets.
Ablett, however, insists it is his "inalienable right" vance of previous sets in tonal reproduction and sim-
to use his initials as trade-mark, especially since he plicity of operation, the two factors most desired by
had been using them for twenty years. He produces a public that has become decidedly critical," Mr.
birth and baptism certificate to prove his name with Irwin stated.
the C. R. A. initials was given to him at birth.
ALMA GLUCK'S ROYALTIES.
It is a peculiar case, in which patent authorities
are waiting to learn whether a man's name is his
Madame Alma Gluck Zimbalist, soprano and wife
own.
of Effram Zimbalist, received nearly twice as much
money from royalties on sales of phonograph records
from 1914 to 1919 as she was paid for concert sing-
ing and operatic engagements, she revealed recently
in federal court. Testifying in a suit in which she
is seeking to recover $7,781.42, alleged to have been
an excessive tax payment on her income, Mme. Zim-
They May Be Eliminated by a Closer Contact Be- balist told of receiving $600,000 in royalties from the
Victor Talking Machine Co. and $345,000 from other
tween Producers and Distributors.
singing engagements.
"Unfair trade practices in international trade can be
eliminated to a large extent through closer co-opera-
FOR BETTER BUSINESS PRACTICE.
tion and a better understanding between producers
"Within the last sixty days the National Better
and distributors," declared A. Lincoln Filene, Boston Business Bureau has made public standards of busi-
merchant, in an address in Stockholm June 29 before ness practice adopted by four important industries,"
the Fourth General Congress of the International stated its president, James C. Auchincloss, this week.
Chamber of Commerce.
"Possibly the briefest and most graphic way to show
Mr. Filene attributed the growth of unfair trade the real importance of such a trend in today's business
practices to the distrust existing between the busi- is to point to production values for these industries,
ness men in one country who sell goods and the busi- which total over $700,000,000."
ness men of another country who buy. Where sus-
picion exists, he said, there develops what are known
IMPROVES GERMAN BROADCASTING.
as trade abuses, that is, attempts by either a producer
Organization of broadcasting in Germany is such
or a distributor to take an unfair advantage of the
that most listeners have not the choice of different
other.
"In every trade," he pointed out, "there are a programs offered in the United States. That condi-
minority of business men whose business practices tion is to be remedied in the near future by the erec-
are regarded by the concerns with which they deal as tion of a mammoth station working with 100 kilo-
uneconomic and unfair, although they may not be watts of power in the antenna, using a wave-length
dishonest in the strictest sense of the word. Some- of 1,250 meters at Zcesen, which is about twenty miles
from Berlin.
times unfair practices unwittingly may be absorbed
into the general body of practices of a particular
Another attractive sheet music window in the store
trade.
"In international trade there is the complicating of McKnight-Campbell Music Co., Denver, Colo.,
factor that the principals to business transactions, was a big aid to sales of "Mexicalli Rose Waltz."
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