Music Trade Review

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MARCH 8, 1919
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
51
REVIEW
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
MUSIC PUBLISHERS FORM
GENERAL ORGANIZATION
Members of Music Publishers' Protective Asso-
ciation Join Music Publishers' Association of
the U. S. as Result of Conference Held Last
Week—An Important Move in the Trade
The long-pending plan to bring about one
general organization among the music pub-
lishers, to take in all members of that branch of
the trade, was consummated on Wednesday
evening of last week at a meeting held in the
Columbia Theatre Building when the members
of the Music Publishers' Protective Association
agreed to join the Music Publishers' Associa-
tion of the United States as individuals, the name
of the latter organization to be maintained.
At the same meeting there was brought up
the question of joining the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce. The final action on
that matter was left until a later date to admit
of investigation regarding the benefits that
would come to the publishers through being af-
filiated with that central body. Maurice Good-
man, chairman of the executive board of the
Music Publishers' Protective Association, will
look into the merits of the case and report at a
meeting to be held in March.
A strong drive will be made to bring new
members into the association, the membership
committee consisting of Walter Fischer, Law-
rence B. Ellert and Michael Keane.
The failure of the music publishers to affiliate
at once with the Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce was due apparently largely to the
fact that the self-appointed temporary chairman
was unable to offer any concise information
as to what the general movement for the unity
of the industry presaged for the music pub-
lishers and the latter did not believe in dealing
in generalities.
H..B. Marks, president of the Music Publish-
ers' Protective Association, spoke in favor of
the members of his organization joining both
the National Association and the Music Indus-
tries Chamber of Commerce and a committee
appointed from his organization also favored the
move.
C. A. Woodman, president of the Music Pub-
lishers' Association of the United States, in a
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speech welcomed the new members into his
organization. He said it would give the work
of the body a decided uplift, and he proposed at
the annual meeting in June that the organiza-
tion elect younger men into some of the most
important offices. He pictured the associa-
tion with its new power and stated that he felt
its- future work would do much for the industry
as well as assist in gaining for music the recog-
nition it deserves.
The temporary chairman of the meeting in-
sisted that at the annual meeting of the body,
when the constitution would undergo necessary
changes, there should be embodied therein
a clause making it necessary for a publisher to
be in business at least two years before he was
eligible to membership. Just what is the object
in excluding young publishing houses will prob-
ably be hard to define other than it has been
suggested that they often flood the market
with goods that are not over salable and fre-
quently carry their offices in their hats. Be
that as it may the fact that a young publisher
is excluded from the organization will not keep
him from entering the publishing field. As a
matter of fact he probably will frequently first
hear of the association after his entry into the
ranks of the publishers.
During the past few years several very esti-
mable young men have started publishing
houses, and in the course of time it is likely
that others will do likewise. If they are mem-
bers of the body they will learn much in the
way of good business practice and they will fol-
low the ideals of the older houses and men
with whom they come in contact.
Much has been done in the past few years
to give music a prominent position in the life of
our people, and the association will be charged
with the responsibility of doing more than their
share of keeping it so and of adding to its rec-
ognition. This can best be done with new
entries in the field as members. The undesir-
ables certainly can be excluded without exclud-
ing publishers because they are young. Being
young in business is not necessarily a crime.
Prior to the meeting on Wednesday night the
executive committee of the Music Publishers'
Association of the United States held two ses-
sions, during the course of which they agreed
to take in the members of the Music Publishers'
Protective Association, to increase the dues of
their organization from $10 to $25 per year,
and to hold meetings quarterly instead of an-
nually as has been the rule in the past.
Now that the big, all-encompassing associa-
tion is in active'process of formation, the results
of bringing all classes of the trade into one cen-
tral body will be watched with considerable in-
terest.
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