Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1942 September - Page 18
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J 942
ing of half a dozen; and any half-dozen
they could hire would be pathetic competi-
tion for a recording by one of the top
"name" bands.
Philadelphia Record: No one can blame
a man for fighting for his job. But we wish
the cause of the musicians were led by
someone more worthy of respect than the
man who has been called the "musical Hit-
ler" of America_
Petrillo says he fears for the future of
American music, but we do not share his
fears.
We recall that the coming of movies was
to end acting as a career. Actors in Hol-
lywood today are many times better paid
than stock company members ever thought
of being.
We recall that the invention of the lino-
type was to end the trade of printing as a
career. There are more printers today than
there ever were, they are better paid-and
there are far more books, magazines and
newspapers available to the public than
ever before.
Introduction of mechanical music- over
the radio, in juke boxes, over private wires
- has brought more and better music to the
American publIc_ That is what will count
in the long run.
Charlotte (N. C.) News: James Caesar
Petrillo, as heavy-handed a labor leader as
ever ran loose in our tolerant land, has
commanded the realm of recorded music to
be still, and thus far no man has actually
called his hand.
Worcester (Mass.) Gazette: The maneu-
vering of James C. Petrillo as president of
the American Federation of Musicians dur-
ing the past few weeks has, as predicted,
placed him in an uncomfortable position
and his union in an unfavorable light. He
is getting more than he bargained for.
The dictatorial head of the musicians'
union thus stands to lose more than he can
possibly gain. He has overestimated his
own powers and has underestimated the
value of public goodwill. The union itself
may soon discover, if indeed, it does not
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
415 Brannan St.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.
already realize, that its boss is a liability
rather than an asset.
Daywn (Ohio) News: The initial in the
name of James C. Petrillo may indeed
stand for Caesar, but there must be those
who incline to think it is the symbol for
Canute. For Mr. Petrillo is striking an
attitude suspiciously reminiscent not of a
man crossing the Rubicon but of one who is
going to get his feet wet. He is command-
ing the tides of technology to recede in
obedience to his wish. . . . It is much too
late in our age for even Mr. Petrillo to con-
clude that the phonograph, the radio, the
motion picture with music and, for that
matter, the juke box, are mechanisms that
ought never to have been invented.
Danbury (Conn.) News-Times: The gov-
ernment seeks an injunction to nullify the
czar's edict. Music may have charms to
lull Mr. Petrillo out of the picture. We do
not see just how he has worked himself
into the symphony of democracy. He is a
sour note.
New York Herald-Tribune: Petrillo con-
tends that half the membership of his
American Federation of Musicians needs
jobs and that it is his duty to provide them.
While allowing for ,gross exaggeration, it
is possible to sympathize with him in his
objective. But the end, however worthy,
hardly justifies his means, which are both
intolerably ruthless and unutterably stupid.
It is unnecessary to elaborate the point that
because some persons want work is no
excuse for victimizing the public. And as
for the small radio stations, the bars, res-
taurants and soda fountains that he would
deprive of canned music, how many, does
he think, can or will substitute live musi-
cians? -Almost none. If his order holds,
many of the radio sta tions will close, de-
priving other labor of jobs; silence will suc-
ceed the juke box, and new records for
the home will be wanting. For more than
one reason he would do well to pray that
the injunction is granted.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: This man
Petrillo annoys us. It's about time some-
body did something to curb the despotic
power he exercises over the broadcasting
of musical entertainment. Any talk about
the danger of dictatorship from Washington
is mere hypothetical speculation compared
with the actual dictatorial power he wields
in telling radio stations what they can and
what they cannot broadcast.
Collier's: Petrillo of late, however, has
in our estimation been getting too big for
his hat. He and some of his minions have
taken to keeping Army band programs off
the air, and to crusading against Iadi'o
presentation of amateur musical pro-grams
of any kind. Petrillo when last heard from
was determined somehow to halt manufac-
ture in this country of phonograph .¢~cords
for use in juke boxes.
,.
.
.. ,
These Petrillo cutups can do Petrillo's
musicians no good that we can detect, and
they can do them a great deal of harm.
It is axiomatic in all the arts that if you
alienate your public's affections you per-
sonally get hungrier and hungrier.
Music is a seminecessity to most of us.
But we do not need it so desperately that
we have to submit to every whim and im-
pulse of a union dictator who inhabits a
luxurious hotel suite in the most luxurious
city in the world .
The foregoing are only a few of the men-
tions concerning Petrillo in the nation's
press. The National AssociatIon of Broad-
casters has received more than 12,000
clippings on the subject and more than
1,000 newspapers have carried editorials
excoriating Petrillo in' terms usually re-
served for the Axis dictators and their satel-
lites.
The NAB proposes to maintain the pres-
ent public interest and attitude regarding
the Petrillo ban, has already issued a com-
pendium of editorial opinion, and will
shortly distribute 13 newspaper cartoons
which accurately characterize Petrillo's ban
on recordings.
" The wide distribution given this ma-
terial should help to clarify the thinking,"
says NAB, "of the 8% of the American
people which, according to the Gallup poll,
think Petrillo is right, the 17% which have
no opInion; and to stimulate the organized
representatives of the 75% who know Pe-
trillo is wrong in taking positive action."
Phono. Gives Spy Scare
WEST ORANGE, N. J.-The mystery of
a "subversive" automatic phonograph was
solved here recently by a "detective" of the
Federal Communications Commission, aided
by an agent from the FBI Newark office.
The phonograph, located in a local tav-
ern, was a well-behaved instrument until all
at once, without previous warning, it started
to broadc.ast weather reports, instructions
to airplane pilots, and plain radio static
'along with his swing melodies. Over a
seven-day period various types of confiden-
tial informati'on emanated from the box
until customers became supremely curious
as to whether they were hearing things or
the tavern drinks were better than usual.
Finally a report was made to the' local
police which resulted in an investigation re-
vealing a defective tube. From the phono-
graph in the tavern the music was trans-
mitted to a loud-speaker in an adjacent
room by long-wave radio. When the tube
in the loud-speaker set went out of com-
mission it converted the receiving set of
the loud-speaker into a short-wave set that
picked up weather reports and other in-
structions to aviators broadcast from the
control tower at Newark Airport.
Phono. Electrocutes Man
SAN DIEGO-The combination of an
automatic phonograph and a dripping
water faucet brought instant death to John
Parks Claunch, 25, of a San Diego malt
shop in mid-August. Claunch, manager of
the store, was wiping the control box of
the music machine with a cloth while hold-
ing on to a dripping faucet. The result-
Ing shock electrocuted him' and "froze"
him to the fixtures and he could not be re-
leased until the electricity was turned off.
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Any 12 or 24-Record Wurlitzer or
20-Record Seeburg
•
QUOTE BEST 'CASH OFFER IN FIRST LETTER
•
Califol'nia Simplex Distl'ibuting Co.
1348 Venice Blvd.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
18
FOP.
SEPT.
J 942
ing of half a dozen; and any half-dozen
they could hire would be pathetic competi-
tion for a recording by one of the top
"name" bands.
Philadelphia Record: No one can blame
a man for fighting for his job. But we wish
the cause of the musicians were led by
someone more worthy of respect than the
man who has been called the "musical Hit-
ler" of America_
Petrillo says he fears for the future of
American music, but we do not share his
fears.
We recall that the coming of movies was
to end acting as a career. Actors in Hol-
lywood today are many times better paid
than stock company members ever thought
of being.
We recall that the invention of the lino-
type was to end the trade of printing as a
career. There are more printers today than
there ever were, they are better paid-and
there are far more books, magazines and
newspapers available to the public than
ever before.
Introduction of mechanical music- over
the radio, in juke boxes, over private wires
- has brought more and better music to the
American publIc_ That is what will count
in the long run.
Charlotte (N. C.) News: James Caesar
Petrillo, as heavy-handed a labor leader as
ever ran loose in our tolerant land, has
commanded the realm of recorded music to
be still, and thus far no man has actually
called his hand.
Worcester (Mass.) Gazette: The maneu-
vering of James C. Petrillo as president of
the American Federation of Musicians dur-
ing the past few weeks has, as predicted,
placed him in an uncomfortable position
and his union in an unfavorable light. He
is getting more than he bargained for.
The dictatorial head of the musicians'
union thus stands to lose more than he can
possibly gain. He has overestimated his
own powers and has underestimated the
value of public goodwill. The union itself
may soon discover, if indeed, it does not
Speciol 30-00y
Refinishing Offer
Up to, and including, October 15, 1 942,
we will completely refinish your phono.
graph in your choice of colors , for, from
S8.00 10 S12.00
Bring in your Old Machines TODAY •• .
Take them out looking Brand New
TOMORROW!
MILO J. HERRING
1705 W. Pico Blvd.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
415 Brannan St.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.
already realize, that its boss is a liability
rather than an asset.
Daywn (Ohio) News: The initial in the
name of James C. Petrillo may indeed
stand for Caesar, but there must be those
who incline to think it is the symbol for
Canute. For Mr. Petrillo is striking an
attitude suspiciously reminiscent not of a
man crossing the Rubicon but of one who is
going to get his feet wet. He is command-
ing the tides of technology to recede in
obedience to his wish. . . . It is much too
late in our age for even Mr. Petrillo to con-
clude that the phonograph, the radio, the
motion picture with music and, for that
matter, the juke box, are mechanisms that
ought never to have been invented.
Danbury (Conn.) News-Times: The gov-
ernment seeks an injunction to nullify the
czar's edict. Music may have charms to
lull Mr. Petrillo out of the picture. We do
not see just how he has worked himself
into the symphony of democracy. He is a
sour note.
New York Herald-Tribune: Petrillo con-
tends that half the membership of his
American Federation of Musicians needs
jobs and that it is his duty to provide them.
While allowing for ,gross exaggeration, it
is possible to sympathize with him in his
objective. But the end, however worthy,
hardly justifies his means, which are both
intolerably ruthless and unutterably stupid.
It is unnecessary to elaborate the point that
because some persons want work is no
excuse for victimizing the public. And as
for the small radio stations, the bars, res-
taurants and soda fountains that he would
deprive of canned music, how many, does
he think, can or will substitute live musi-
cians? -Almost none. If his order holds,
many of the radio sta tions will close, de-
priving other labor of jobs; silence will suc-
ceed the juke box, and new records for
the home will be wanting. For more than
one reason he would do well to pray that
the injunction is granted.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: This man
Petrillo annoys us. It's about time some-
body did something to curb the despotic
power he exercises over the broadcasting
of musical entertainment. Any talk about
the danger of dictatorship from Washington
is mere hypothetical speculation compared
with the actual dictatorial power he wields
in telling radio stations what they can and
what they cannot broadcast.
Collier's: Petrillo of late, however, has
in our estimation been getting too big for
his hat. He and some of his minions have
taken to keeping Army band programs off
the air, and to crusading against Iadi'o
presentation of amateur musical pro-grams
of any kind. Petrillo when last heard from
was determined somehow to halt manufac-
ture in this country of phonograph .¢~cords
for use in juke boxes.
,.
.
.. ,
These Petrillo cutups can do Petrillo's
musicians no good that we can detect, and
they can do them a great deal of harm.
It is axiomatic in all the arts that if you
alienate your public's affections you per-
sonally get hungrier and hungrier.
Music is a seminecessity to most of us.
But we do not need it so desperately that
we have to submit to every whim and im-
pulse of a union dictator who inhabits a
luxurious hotel suite in the most luxurious
city in the world .
The foregoing are only a few of the men-
tions concerning Petrillo in the nation's
press. The National AssociatIon of Broad-
casters has received more than 12,000
clippings on the subject and more than
1,000 newspapers have carried editorials
excoriating Petrillo in' terms usually re-
served for the Axis dictators and their satel-
lites.
The NAB proposes to maintain the pres-
ent public interest and attitude regarding
the Petrillo ban, has already issued a com-
pendium of editorial opinion, and will
shortly distribute 13 newspaper cartoons
which accurately characterize Petrillo's ban
on recordings.
" The wide distribution given this ma-
terial should help to clarify the thinking,"
says NAB, "of the 8% of the American
people which, according to the Gallup poll,
think Petrillo is right, the 17% which have
no opInion; and to stimulate the organized
representatives of the 75% who know Pe-
trillo is wrong in taking positive action."
Phono. Gives Spy Scare
WEST ORANGE, N. J.-The mystery of
a "subversive" automatic phonograph was
solved here recently by a "detective" of the
Federal Communications Commission, aided
by an agent from the FBI Newark office.
The phonograph, located in a local tav-
ern, was a well-behaved instrument until all
at once, without previous warning, it started
to broadc.ast weather reports, instructions
to airplane pilots, and plain radio static
'along with his swing melodies. Over a
seven-day period various types of confiden-
tial informati'on emanated from the box
until customers became supremely curious
as to whether they were hearing things or
the tavern drinks were better than usual.
Finally a report was made to the' local
police which resulted in an investigation re-
vealing a defective tube. From the phono-
graph in the tavern the music was trans-
mitted to a loud-speaker in an adjacent
room by long-wave radio. When the tube
in the loud-speaker set went out of com-
mission it converted the receiving set of
the loud-speaker into a short-wave set that
picked up weather reports and other in-
structions to aviators broadcast from the
control tower at Newark Airport.
Phono. Electrocutes Man
SAN DIEGO-The combination of an
automatic phonograph and a dripping
water faucet brought instant death to John
Parks Claunch, 25, of a San Diego malt
shop in mid-August. Claunch, manager of
the store, was wiping the control box of
the music machine with a cloth while hold-
ing on to a dripping faucet. The result-
Ing shock electrocuted him' and "froze"
him to the fixtures and he could not be re-
leased until the electricity was turned off.
TUBES
For Your Phonographs and
Panorams;
Miniature Bulbs, Too.
"'WE1VE GOT IEM"'
Maintenance Orders Only. List
Less 30%. No Deposit Required.
W. R. BURTT
308 Orpheum Bldg. Wichita, Kans.
Mention of THE COIN MACHINE REVIEW is y our b est introduction to our advertisers.
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