Automatic Age

yar concentration of workers.
And in this area can be found
many locations catering to this
type of International patronage.
Yes, the polka is coming into its
own, and by the index of sales
of such tunes, operators foresee
a great increase in the use of
tunes that cater to the musical
tastes of International clientele.
PATRIOTIC FEVER
HITS MUSIC PUBS
No sooner had the Japanese
g o v e r n m e n t betrayed the
United States with the bombing
of Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley,
and that very night, started to
burn the midnight oil. Patriotic
fever had settled upon the brow
of every tune tinker on Broad­
way. Each had a better patri­
otic tune than the other, and
from the looks of things the
market will soon be flooded with
recordings of patriotic tunes
that reek with murderous ven­
geance upon the Jap.
Already, “Remember Pearl
Harbor” has been written by
several different song writers
and in several entirely different
versions and all offered to the
trade under the same identical
title “Remember Pearl Harbor
But, remember music opera­
tor, the particular “Remember
Pearl Harbor” tune you will
want for your automatic turn­
table.
The first batch of patriotic
ditties are not really paeans in
praise of America — but rather
shin kicking, backbiting, etc.
But all this will come to pass
and Tin Pan Alley will get hep
to itself and start producing
tunes like “Oh, How I Hate To
Get Up In The Morning
“You’re In the Ai'my Noiv”,
“IVs a Long Way To Tipperary”
and such greats as written to
sing of World War number one.
But the bitterness of Amer­
ica’s betrayal is still stinging
the pens of the song writer.
That bitterness will pass and in
its place will come the song that
will sing praises to America—to
American valor and to the
American home.
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COURT EXCLUDES
PHONOS FROM
"GAMES” ACT
N o r t h Dakota’s Supreme
Court recently rendered a deci­
sion which excludes automatic
phonographs from the licensing
and regulation act of 1941 on
amusement games. Officials had
attempted to license all coin­
operated phonographs in the
State. After an unfavorable de­
cision from the District Court,
the operator’s case was carried
to the State’s Supreme Court.
In unanimous decision the
Supreme Court reversed the
lower court’s decision, stating
that the amusement games act
is too broad, that the act is in
violation of the constitution,
and that phonographs are not
within the meaning of the
statute.
Justice W. L. Nuessie, in com­
menting on the decision, said:
“It is clear to us such instru­
ments cannot be in any sense of
the word considered as games.
There is no room for chance,
skill, or contest. The user
makes his choice, puts in his
coin, sets the mechanism in mo­
tion and gets just what he
chooses and pays for.”
T O ASSIST THE
U.S. TREASURY
departm ent
IN THE S A II
O F BONDS
•I rosmoN
t OU*. r
MACH1NI
WOOD
Barry W o o d , who vocals "A n y Bonds T o d a y" fo r the Treasury D ept, and fo r V icto r, stops
long enough to be p ictu re d w ith a M ills Empress. "K eep A n y Bonds Today in firs t p la ce ," says
Barry, "n o t in tenth o r fifth , bu t always in the N um ber One sp o t."
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