Music Trade Review
Issue: 1927 Vol. 84 N. 21 - Page 3
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THE
REVIEW
VOL. LXXXIV. No. 21 Pmblithed Every Saturday. Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y., May 21,1927
Sin
*H oco °& erB US en *'
North Carolina
Is the Latest State to Organize
New State Body Organized at
Greensboro Applies for Affil-
iation With National Ass'n
N. C,
G REENSBORO,
oughly representative
May 16.—A thor-
group of North
Carolina music merchants met at the King
Cotton Hotel, Greensboro, at luncheon, Wednes-
day noon, May 11, and before they adjourned
they had organized a State Association, elected
officers, applied for a charter in the National
Association of Music Merchants, provided for
•A legislative committee to take up several im-
portant matters of State legislation and au-
thorized a committee to study a State-wide
piano-playing contest under the Melody Way
club plan.
It was voted also to hold a special meeting
in August, subject to call of the president and
at such place as the executive board would
decide on.
The officers elected are: President, C. S.
Andrews, Charlotte; first vice-president, C. H.
Stephenson, Raleigh; second vice-president, W.
R. Murray, Durham; secretary, S. W. Gardner,
Gastonia; treasurer, H. A. Dunham, Asheville;
board of directors: C. W. Parker, Charlotte;
Jesse G. Bowen, Winston-Salem; J. S. McFad-
yen, Fayetteville; J. R. Maynard, Salisbury.
J. R. Maynard, of Salisbury, was appointed
the elected director of the new State Associa-
tion, to serve with the president and treasurer
as designated by the national by-laws on the
Auxiliary Board of the National Association and
also on the national Board of Control.
Delegates and alternates to the national con-
vention in Chicago, June 6 to 9, who will
exercise the voting power of the State mem-
bership under the charter plan, are Mr. May-
nard and Frank M. Hood and G. G. Freeland,
of Greensboro.
The North Carolina convention was called
by Mr. Andrews as State Commissioner of the
National Association, appointed by President
Edward H. Uhl, and by Frank M. Hood, of
Greensboro, as chairman of the local commit-
tee on arrangements. Mr. Hood provided for
the entertainment of visiting delegates, not the
least of the attractions he offered being an
exhibit of a possum and eleven little ones.
Following luncheon at the King Cotton Hotel,
J. E. Gawthrop, secretary of the Greensboro
North Carolina Music Merchants in Convention
Chamber of Commerce, extended the city's crganization, giving the States a working basis
welcome to delegates and spoke of the ad- for meeting their local legislative problems. He
vantages of organization, especially under the gave the report of the Pennsylvania legislative
modern conditions of competition between committee as an example, then referred to the
promotional activities, which the leaders of the
various lines of business.
Mr. Andrews, who was in charge of the trade consider so vitally necessary at this time.
"If you do not put this association machinery
meeting, was elected temporary chairman, and
J. Ivy Jessup, of Raleigh, was elected temporary you have created to work at once, on legisla-
secretary of the meeting. Charles W. Parker, tion questions and on promotion of business,
of Charlotte, former president of an old asso- you might as well scrap it," said Mr. Dennis.
ciation several years back, spoke on the pur-
Jesse G. Bowen, of Winston-Salem, presented
poses and value of organization work. J. R. a proposal to take up the matter of licensing
Maynard, of Salisbury, also a former president merchants and salesmen under a complicated
of the old association, presented a resolution
provision of State Laws, which would be ex-
to organize the North Carolina Music Mer- pensive and annoying if enforced. Upon mo-
chants' Association and take over the former tion, President Andrews was instructed to
State charter and the responsibilities of the old appoint a committee to report on State laws
association, including a small balance in the affecting the music trade at the next meeting,
treasury. Frank M. Hood, C. W. Parker and looking toward correction at the next session
J. R. Maynard acted as nominating committee. of the legislature in 1928.
C. L. Dennis, executive secretary of the
G. L. Mclntyre, of the Kohler Industries,
National Association, arrived directly from Har- reported on the adoption of the Melody Way
risburg, where he attended the Pennsylvania plan of piano-playing contest in Birmingham
convention the two days preceding. He told and Atlanta, where the dealers and newspapers
of the aims of the national organization and were signed up, as examples of the rapid ex-
their fulfillment under the charter plan of re-
(Continucd on page 14)
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THE
REVIEW
VOL. LXXXIV. No. 21 Pmblithed Every Saturday. Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y., May 21,1927
Sin
*H oco °& erB US en *'
North Carolina
Is the Latest State to Organize
New State Body Organized at
Greensboro Applies for Affil-
iation With National Ass'n
N. C,
G REENSBORO,
oughly representative
May 16.—A thor-
group of North
Carolina music merchants met at the King
Cotton Hotel, Greensboro, at luncheon, Wednes-
day noon, May 11, and before they adjourned
they had organized a State Association, elected
officers, applied for a charter in the National
Association of Music Merchants, provided for
•A legislative committee to take up several im-
portant matters of State legislation and au-
thorized a committee to study a State-wide
piano-playing contest under the Melody Way
club plan.
It was voted also to hold a special meeting
in August, subject to call of the president and
at such place as the executive board would
decide on.
The officers elected are: President, C. S.
Andrews, Charlotte; first vice-president, C. H.
Stephenson, Raleigh; second vice-president, W.
R. Murray, Durham; secretary, S. W. Gardner,
Gastonia; treasurer, H. A. Dunham, Asheville;
board of directors: C. W. Parker, Charlotte;
Jesse G. Bowen, Winston-Salem; J. S. McFad-
yen, Fayetteville; J. R. Maynard, Salisbury.
J. R. Maynard, of Salisbury, was appointed
the elected director of the new State Associa-
tion, to serve with the president and treasurer
as designated by the national by-laws on the
Auxiliary Board of the National Association and
also on the national Board of Control.
Delegates and alternates to the national con-
vention in Chicago, June 6 to 9, who will
exercise the voting power of the State mem-
bership under the charter plan, are Mr. May-
nard and Frank M. Hood and G. G. Freeland,
of Greensboro.
The North Carolina convention was called
by Mr. Andrews as State Commissioner of the
National Association, appointed by President
Edward H. Uhl, and by Frank M. Hood, of
Greensboro, as chairman of the local commit-
tee on arrangements. Mr. Hood provided for
the entertainment of visiting delegates, not the
least of the attractions he offered being an
exhibit of a possum and eleven little ones.
Following luncheon at the King Cotton Hotel,
J. E. Gawthrop, secretary of the Greensboro
North Carolina Music Merchants in Convention
Chamber of Commerce, extended the city's crganization, giving the States a working basis
welcome to delegates and spoke of the ad- for meeting their local legislative problems. He
vantages of organization, especially under the gave the report of the Pennsylvania legislative
modern conditions of competition between committee as an example, then referred to the
promotional activities, which the leaders of the
various lines of business.
Mr. Andrews, who was in charge of the trade consider so vitally necessary at this time.
"If you do not put this association machinery
meeting, was elected temporary chairman, and
J. Ivy Jessup, of Raleigh, was elected temporary you have created to work at once, on legisla-
secretary of the meeting. Charles W. Parker, tion questions and on promotion of business,
of Charlotte, former president of an old asso- you might as well scrap it," said Mr. Dennis.
ciation several years back, spoke on the pur-
Jesse G. Bowen, of Winston-Salem, presented
poses and value of organization work. J. R. a proposal to take up the matter of licensing
Maynard, of Salisbury, also a former president merchants and salesmen under a complicated
of the old association, presented a resolution
provision of State Laws, which would be ex-
to organize the North Carolina Music Mer- pensive and annoying if enforced. Upon mo-
chants' Association and take over the former tion, President Andrews was instructed to
State charter and the responsibilities of the old appoint a committee to report on State laws
association, including a small balance in the affecting the music trade at the next meeting,
treasury. Frank M. Hood, C. W. Parker and looking toward correction at the next session
J. R. Maynard acted as nominating committee. of the legislature in 1928.
C. L. Dennis, executive secretary of the
G. L. Mclntyre, of the Kohler Industries,
National Association, arrived directly from Har- reported on the adoption of the Melody Way
risburg, where he attended the Pennsylvania plan of piano-playing contest in Birmingham
convention the two days preceding. He told and Atlanta, where the dealers and newspapers
of the aims of the national organization and were signed up, as examples of the rapid ex-
their fulfillment under the charter plan of re-
(Continucd on page 14)
3
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