Presto
Issue: 1923 1929 - Page 22
PRESTO
22
STANDARDS IN HARDWOOD
In Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of National
Hardwood Lumber Association Topic
Is Discussed.
The question of standardization was freely dis-
cussed at the recent annual convention of the Na-
tional Hardwood Lumber Association in Chicago
and some grading changes and simplifications were
adopted. President McClure, in his address, chal-
lenged the action of the government on its standard-
ization activities and on the government's action in
ignoring the suggestions of the association.
Continuing, Mr. McClure said: 'Efforts have been
made to dislodge the National Hardwood Lumber
Association from its position, but the clear import
of your resolution has been consistently followed.
Much capital has been made of the situation by
agitators who have lost no opportunity to misrepre-
sent our motives and to malign our organization.
You will clearly understand, however, that through
force of circumstances the attitude of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association is one of non-par-
ticipation. By no means can it fairly be construed
as one of opposition, but on the contrary, we have,
on our own initiative, made rapid progress along the
lines laid down by Secretary Hoover at the prelimi-
nary Washington conference.
"We may say that the hardwood industry, through
the activities of this association during its twenty-
six years of efforts, has reached a point in the stand-
ardization of nomenclature, in the simplification of
grades and sizes and in adequate guarantees of meas-
Pian-O-Grand
Beautiful Piano Case
Design and Construction
ure and quality, far in advance of any other organ-
ized effort in the lumber trade.
"Standardization is a slogan popularized by our
esteemed Secretary of Commerce and to many indus-
tries the movement is an innovation which promises
progress and improvement, but in the hardwood in-
dustry standardization has been the watchword of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association for twenty-
six years and has been accomplished along the same
lines now suggested by Mr. Hoover for other indus-
tries and for other branches of the lumber industry.
Twenty-six years ago there were as many standards
as there were large markets where hardwoods were
bought and consumed in important volume. Today
we have one standard of inspection applying to all
markets and governing all of the twenty-eight or
more varieties of hardwoods. This standard includes
specifications, nomenclature and grading rules gener-
ally accepted as fitting satisfactorily the practical
necessities of the trade. If science means exact
knowledge, and if the word 'scientific' implies the
practical application of exact knowledge, our stand-
ards are scientific to a high degree. If, on the
other hand, the term 'scientific' is understood to al-
lude to imaginary standards devised by impractical
but highly educated theorists who probably under-
stand the Einstein theory but who never ran a saw-
mill or climbed a lumber pile, then we admit that the
word does not properly apply to our work. There
may perhaps be a small element of the trade who
would benefit through the general adoption of rules
so intricately technical and involved as to come under
their interpretation of the term 'scientific' requiring
the services of a scientist to apply them successfully.
But practical men will doubt the possibility of secur-
ing white-colared scientists to stand on lumber piles
under the blistering sun of a Southern sky and apply
themselves to the monotonous task of turning and
grading lumber."
PROGRESSIVE WEST VIRGINIA STORE.
The Galperin Music Shop, Charleston, W. Va.,
moved this week to its newly remodeled four-story
building. The proprietor and manager is S. H. Gal-
perin and it is to his great energy the progressive
character of the house is due. The company repre-
sents the line of band instrument of C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
Elkhart, Ind., carries a fine line of Ludwig drums,
Q R S and Vocalstyle music rolls and the Victor and
Columbia lines of phonographs. The business was
established by Mr. Galperin in 1918.
ADDS SHEET MUSIC.
The California Phonograph Co., 1009 Market street,
San Francisco, is carrying out its plans for installing
a sheet music department. The building is being
remodeled and proper attention to effective layout
of a sheet music department has been considered.
The house is no longer an exclusive talking machine
concern, although that was the purpose when the
business was established. Pianos were added a year
ago and later a small goods department.
NEW PHONOGRAPH TRAVELER.
E. L. Gratigny, president of the Oklahoma Talking
) Machine Co., Oklahoma City, Okla., has appointed
R. R. McGee on the traveling staff. Mr. McGee has
a wide knowledge of the wholesale phases of the talk-
ing machine business and had a valuable experience
with the Schmelzer Co.
Nothing in the Automatic field to com-
pare with it.
Biggest money maker and most effective
expression coin control instrument on the
market.
Plays Standard 65-Note Rolls
Whether for public places, theatres or
private parlors, it is all that its name
suggests—Pian-O-Grand.
Send for Descriptive Circular
NELSON-WIGGEN PIANO CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.
ADDS CONN LINE.
The entire line of band instruments made by C. G.
Conn., Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., will be handled by Quarg's
Music House, 206 Powell street, San Francisco. An
attractive display of the Conn polychrome saxo-
phones was a window feature in the store last week.
TUNERS'
Here ore
BASS STRINGS
Special attention given to the needs of the tuner and
the dealer
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
2110 Falrmount Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, FA.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. £. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Crad* Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs l,M0
•zpert workmen.
All of the most celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of tke
Conn Instruments in their organisations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable Talre or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to aay point in th U. S. subject to ten
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
July 14, 1923
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
COLUMBIA
WORD ROLLS
JULY—Advance
Title
Choo Choo Blues
Faded Love Letters
A Kiss in the Dark
I Never Miss the
Sunshine
filfi Keep Off My Shoes
617 That Red Head Gal
61S Wolverine Blues
619 Tell Me Gypsy-
620 Gulf Coast Blues
621 Every Step Brings Mo
Closer to By Lovin'
Honey Lamb
623 Look for the Silver
Lining
624 Dreamy Melody
625 In June
627 Snake's Hips
628 I Love Me
629 I Dream of a Castle
in Spain
631 Yes! We Have No
Bananas
632 Pappa Better Watch
Your Step
612
613
614
615
Played by:
Clarence Johnson
Nell Morrison
Nell Morrison
Florence Sanger
James Blythe
Florence Sanger
James Blythe
Wayne Love
James Blythe
Blues
Waltz
Ballad
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Blues
Fox Trot
Blues
Florence Sanger Fox Trot
Wayne Love
Nell Morrison
Wayne Love
Paul Jones
Florence Sanger
Fox Trot
Waltz
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
One Step
Wayne Love
Fox Trot
Gladys Baywill
Fox Trot
Paul Jones
Fox Trot
To Retail at
Why Pay More?
75
None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Columbia rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
A trial order will con-
vince you.
Columbia Music Roll Co.
22 S. Peoria St.
CHICAGO
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ILL.
22
STANDARDS IN HARDWOOD
In Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of National
Hardwood Lumber Association Topic
Is Discussed.
The question of standardization was freely dis-
cussed at the recent annual convention of the Na-
tional Hardwood Lumber Association in Chicago
and some grading changes and simplifications were
adopted. President McClure, in his address, chal-
lenged the action of the government on its standard-
ization activities and on the government's action in
ignoring the suggestions of the association.
Continuing, Mr. McClure said: 'Efforts have been
made to dislodge the National Hardwood Lumber
Association from its position, but the clear import
of your resolution has been consistently followed.
Much capital has been made of the situation by
agitators who have lost no opportunity to misrepre-
sent our motives and to malign our organization.
You will clearly understand, however, that through
force of circumstances the attitude of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association is one of non-par-
ticipation. By no means can it fairly be construed
as one of opposition, but on the contrary, we have,
on our own initiative, made rapid progress along the
lines laid down by Secretary Hoover at the prelimi-
nary Washington conference.
"We may say that the hardwood industry, through
the activities of this association during its twenty-
six years of efforts, has reached a point in the stand-
ardization of nomenclature, in the simplification of
grades and sizes and in adequate guarantees of meas-
Pian-O-Grand
Beautiful Piano Case
Design and Construction
ure and quality, far in advance of any other organ-
ized effort in the lumber trade.
"Standardization is a slogan popularized by our
esteemed Secretary of Commerce and to many indus-
tries the movement is an innovation which promises
progress and improvement, but in the hardwood in-
dustry standardization has been the watchword of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association for twenty-
six years and has been accomplished along the same
lines now suggested by Mr. Hoover for other indus-
tries and for other branches of the lumber industry.
Twenty-six years ago there were as many standards
as there were large markets where hardwoods were
bought and consumed in important volume. Today
we have one standard of inspection applying to all
markets and governing all of the twenty-eight or
more varieties of hardwoods. This standard includes
specifications, nomenclature and grading rules gener-
ally accepted as fitting satisfactorily the practical
necessities of the trade. If science means exact
knowledge, and if the word 'scientific' implies the
practical application of exact knowledge, our stand-
ards are scientific to a high degree. If, on the
other hand, the term 'scientific' is understood to al-
lude to imaginary standards devised by impractical
but highly educated theorists who probably under-
stand the Einstein theory but who never ran a saw-
mill or climbed a lumber pile, then we admit that the
word does not properly apply to our work. There
may perhaps be a small element of the trade who
would benefit through the general adoption of rules
so intricately technical and involved as to come under
their interpretation of the term 'scientific' requiring
the services of a scientist to apply them successfully.
But practical men will doubt the possibility of secur-
ing white-colared scientists to stand on lumber piles
under the blistering sun of a Southern sky and apply
themselves to the monotonous task of turning and
grading lumber."
PROGRESSIVE WEST VIRGINIA STORE.
The Galperin Music Shop, Charleston, W. Va.,
moved this week to its newly remodeled four-story
building. The proprietor and manager is S. H. Gal-
perin and it is to his great energy the progressive
character of the house is due. The company repre-
sents the line of band instrument of C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
Elkhart, Ind., carries a fine line of Ludwig drums,
Q R S and Vocalstyle music rolls and the Victor and
Columbia lines of phonographs. The business was
established by Mr. Galperin in 1918.
ADDS SHEET MUSIC.
The California Phonograph Co., 1009 Market street,
San Francisco, is carrying out its plans for installing
a sheet music department. The building is being
remodeled and proper attention to effective layout
of a sheet music department has been considered.
The house is no longer an exclusive talking machine
concern, although that was the purpose when the
business was established. Pianos were added a year
ago and later a small goods department.
NEW PHONOGRAPH TRAVELER.
E. L. Gratigny, president of the Oklahoma Talking
) Machine Co., Oklahoma City, Okla., has appointed
R. R. McGee on the traveling staff. Mr. McGee has
a wide knowledge of the wholesale phases of the talk-
ing machine business and had a valuable experience
with the Schmelzer Co.
Nothing in the Automatic field to com-
pare with it.
Biggest money maker and most effective
expression coin control instrument on the
market.
Plays Standard 65-Note Rolls
Whether for public places, theatres or
private parlors, it is all that its name
suggests—Pian-O-Grand.
Send for Descriptive Circular
NELSON-WIGGEN PIANO CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.
ADDS CONN LINE.
The entire line of band instruments made by C. G.
Conn., Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., will be handled by Quarg's
Music House, 206 Powell street, San Francisco. An
attractive display of the Conn polychrome saxo-
phones was a window feature in the store last week.
TUNERS'
Here ore
BASS STRINGS
Special attention given to the needs of the tuner and
the dealer
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
2110 Falrmount Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, FA.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. £. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Crad* Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs l,M0
•zpert workmen.
All of the most celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of tke
Conn Instruments in their organisations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable Talre or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to aay point in th U. S. subject to ten
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
July 14, 1923
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
COLUMBIA
WORD ROLLS
JULY—Advance
Title
Choo Choo Blues
Faded Love Letters
A Kiss in the Dark
I Never Miss the
Sunshine
filfi Keep Off My Shoes
617 That Red Head Gal
61S Wolverine Blues
619 Tell Me Gypsy-
620 Gulf Coast Blues
621 Every Step Brings Mo
Closer to By Lovin'
Honey Lamb
623 Look for the Silver
Lining
624 Dreamy Melody
625 In June
627 Snake's Hips
628 I Love Me
629 I Dream of a Castle
in Spain
631 Yes! We Have No
Bananas
632 Pappa Better Watch
Your Step
612
613
614
615
Played by:
Clarence Johnson
Nell Morrison
Nell Morrison
Florence Sanger
James Blythe
Florence Sanger
James Blythe
Wayne Love
James Blythe
Blues
Waltz
Ballad
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Blues
Fox Trot
Blues
Florence Sanger Fox Trot
Wayne Love
Nell Morrison
Wayne Love
Paul Jones
Florence Sanger
Fox Trot
Waltz
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
One Step
Wayne Love
Fox Trot
Gladys Baywill
Fox Trot
Paul Jones
Fox Trot
To Retail at
Why Pay More?
75
None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Columbia rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
A trial order will con-
vince you.
Columbia Music Roll Co.
22 S. Peoria St.
CHICAGO
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All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
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