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FEBRUARY 3,
1923
THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Association Executives Meet in Chicago
Directors of Music Industries Chamber of Commerce and Merchants', Manufacturers' and Supply Organizations
Annual Mid-Year Meetings—Full Program for June Conventions Adopted— 1923 Gathering to Be
Known as "Prosperity Convention"—Meetings Marked With Fair Attendance
Evening—National Association of Music Mer-
chants' banquet.
Thursday, June 7
Morning—Meeting of delegates to the Cham-
ber and election of officers. Open day for bal-
ance of Associations.
Noon—Piano Club luncheon.
Afternoon—Band tournament.
Evening—National Piano Travelers' Associa-
tion banquet and business session. Piano Club
frolic at 11 p. m.
The same schedule as used at the last con-
vention for the sessions to apply, except the
travelers will have their business sessions at
their banquet.
Exhibits at the Drake to be confined to Asso-
CHAMBER DIRECTORS' MEETING
ciation members and those who contribute to
The meeting of the board of directors of the the Chamber.
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, held
The Hotel Drake has set aside reservations
at the Hotel Drake, Chicago, on Friday morn- which will accommodate a total of 510 dele-
ing, January 26, dealt with a number of the gates, 170 in 170 single rooms and 340 in 170
Chamber's activities since the last gathering. double rooms.
Three important reports concerning activities of , Band Instrument Manufacturers' Contribution
the Chamber's Trade Service Bureau which are
Supplementing the report of the committee
of particular interest to the merchants and the President C. D. Greenleaf, of the Band Instru-
approval of the convention details as reported ment Manufacturers' Association, announced
by the Chamber's convention committee were that his Association had underwritten the band
the outstanding results of the meeting.
tournament on Thursday, June 7, to the extent
Report of Convention Committee
of $10,000 and proposed that it be open to all
The report of the convention committee, grammar and high school bands throughout the
which was acted upon favorably after having United States. It is expected that this will
first been submitted to the favorable considera- prove to be the great publicity function of the
tion also of the Piano Manufacturers' and convention, and will assist materially in the
Merchants' Associations in their sessions, fol- campaign of the National Bureau for the Ad-
vancement of Music for school musical organ-
lows:
At a meeting of the convention committee izations.
held at the Drake at 8 p. m., Thursday, Janu-
Income Taxes on Instalment Sales
ary 11, 1923, Chicago, the following members
By action of the Board a pamphlet will soon
were present: J. Edwin Butler, C. D. Greenleaf, be distributed to the trade embodying income
John McKenna, R. E. Davis, K. W. Curtis, tax regulations on instalment sales. The Trade
M. J. Kennedy, Harry Bibb, W. S. Jenkins, C. Service Committee, which recommended this,
C. Chickering, T. Hindley, Eugene Whelan, A. lias practically completed the proposed pam-
phlet, which has been put together after a very
L. Smith, Fred Lehman and J. T. Bristol.
The following recommendations for the next careful and exhaustive analysis of all income
convention were agreed upon: Place, the Drake, lax regulations bearing on instalment sales and
which, before publication, will be subject to
Chicago, 111.; time, June 4, 5, 6, 7, 1923.
THE PROGRAM OF THE CONVENTION the systems for music merchants. It has had the
co-operation of the Amos Tuck School of Ad-
Monday, June 4
ministration and Finance of Dartmouth College,
Morning—Registration.
Noon—Piano Club Luncheon. Entertainment. through its Department of Accounting, and also
Immediately following the luncheon and before a committee of the trade consisting of men fa-
the people have left the tables R. W. Lawrence, miliar with the. retail situation, under the chair-
president of the Music Industries Chamber of manship of C. J. Roberts, of Charles M. Stieff,
Commerce, will open the first session of the Inc. After receiving the report of the commit-
Chamber. No reading of reports. All reports tee the Board voted to publish a treatise written
by M. W. Newcomb, formerly of the Amos
to be printed and distributed.
Tuck
School, with an appendix prepared by the
Tuesday, June 5
Chamber
with the advice of the members of the
Morning—Opening sessions: National Piano
committee.
Manufacturers' Association of America, National
As a result of action of the Board the Cham-
Association of Music Merchants, Musical Sup-
ply Association of America and Organ Builders' ber will become a member of the Association
of Wood Using Industries. The Chamber has
Association.
Noon—Piano Club luncheon. Entertainment. for some time been co-operating with this Asso-
Short talk by C. C. Chickering, president of the ciation, particularly in the work done through
the Government wood testing laboratory at
National Piano Manufacturers' Association.
Madison, Wis. Emil Wolff, of the M. Schulz
Afternoon—Same sessions as morning.
Co., luis been actively representing the Chamber
Wednesday, June 6
Morning—Sessions: National .Association of in this matter.
The Board approved and voted to place all
Music Merchants, National Piano Manufacr
turers' Association, Organ -Builders' Association, the facilities of the Chamber behind a campaign
Band Instrument Manufacturers' Association to bring about, if possible, uniform conditional
and National Musical Merchandise Association. sales laws and laws compelling draymen to re-
Noon—Piano Club luncheon. Entertainment. port moving musical instruments in the various
Short talk by J. Edwin Butler, president of the States.
Affiliates With Arbitration Society
National Association of Music Merchants.
The Board voted to affiliate with the Arbitra-
Afternoon—Same sessions as morning, ex-
cept National Piano Manufacturers' Association. tion Society of America and adopted the fol-
Executive committee meeting of the National lowing resolution at the request of the New
Association of Music Merchants, following York State Chamber of Commerce:
"Resolved: That we approve the draft of the
election of officers.
CHICAGO, III.,
January 26.—The mid-year
meetings of the executive groups of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce and several
of the trade associations affiliated with that
body, Jield at the Drake Hotel yesterday and
to-day, proved routine affairs in spite of the
rumors to the effect th;at"' jome unusually in-
teresting developments Tmglit be expected. The
meetings brought out a fair sprinkling of trade
members' from both East and West and when
gathered together at'the dinner of the Chicago
Piano and Organ; Association last night it
seemed as though a national convention was in
town.
Hold
Federal Arbitration Law, and the draft of the
Commercial Arbitration Treaty, adopted by the
Chamber of Commerce of the State of New
York, both of which were unanimously ap-
proved by the American Bar Association at its
conference in San Francisco, August, 1922."
The vote of the Chamber on Referendum No.
40 of the Chamber of Commerce of the United
States was negative to all of the three questions.
"1. Do you favor the creation of a Federal
Department of Education with a Secretary .in
the President's Cabinet?
;
"2. Do you favor enlarging the present Fed-
eral Bureau of Education?
"3. Do you favor the principle of -Federal
aid to education in the States on the basis ,pf
the States appropriating sums equal,to, those
given by the Federal Government?"
Representation at Chickering Centennial
President Richard W. Lawrence was author-
ized to represent the Chamber at the coming
centennial celebration at Boston during April
of the founding of the old Boston house of
Chickering & Sons by Jonas Chickering.
The following directors were in attendance:
R. W. Lawrence, president; James T. Bristol, J.
Edwin Butler, C. C. Chickering, M. V. De-
Foreest, Charles Deutschmann, C. D. Greenleaf,
C. A. Grinnell, E. Paul Hamilton, Herman Irion,
E. R. Jacobson, Paul B. Klugh, James T. Rose
and Alfred L. Smith.
The following officers, executive committee
members and members of constituent associa-
tions were in attendance by request: D. D.
Luxton, C. A. Wagner, A. G. Gulbransen, Max
DeRochemont, Jerome Murphy, Edmund Gram,
Arthur L. Wessell, Herbert W. Hill, E. C.
Johnson, A. W. Johnston and M. J. Kennedy.
MERCHANTS' ASS'N MEETING
The meeting of the officers, executive com-
mittee and advisory board of the National Asso-
ciation of Music Merchants, held at the Drake
January 25, gave much attention to matters con-
nected with the annual convention of that body
to be held in June, the dates selected for the
various sessions being June 4, 5, 6 and 7.
The annual discussion regarding exhibits at
the convention headquarters was taken up at
the meeting and it was decided that manufac-
turers be invited to display their products at
the Drake during the period of the convention,
as was the case in 1921. That this move met
with the approval of a number of the manufac-
turers was indicated by the fact that they had
anticipated it and already made reservations at
the Drake Hotel. It was the consensus of opin-
ion among the merchants that exhibits would
tend to increase the attendance at the sessions
of the Association conventions proper.
The 1923 convention will be known as the
"Prosperity Convention," signifying that the
prosperity in the industry so long anticipated
has actually developed and plans under way by
the convention committee are such as will in-
sure the convention sessions and activities con-
nected therewith receiving national attention.
During the course of the meeting various mat-
ters of Association interest were handled. The
treasurer reported the financial condition to be
satisfactory and the secretary, Matt J. Ken-
nedy, announced that the membership now ex-
ceeded 1,200. It is hoped that the membership
roll will be materially increased before the next
convention through the efforts of the merchants
themselves and those in other divisions of the
trade. It was decided to offer a series of prizes
for those bringing in the greatest number of
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