Presto
Issue: 1924 1970 - Page 5
PRESTO
April 26, 1924.
CHRISTMAN
The First Touch Tells
COURT LETS RADIO
BROADCAST FREE
Case Just Heard Before Judge in Cincinnati
Is Decided in Favor of Broadcasters
Who Refuse to Pay
Royalties.
AN IMPORTANT RULING
Purposes of Broadcasting Set Forth in Manner New
and in Clear Opposition to Contentions of
Composers and Publishers.
Studio Grand
Some of the Greatest Pianists have pro-
nounced this instrument the peer of any
produced. It is powerful and yet it is but
five feet long. It is a veritable "little giant"
among pianos, and its artistic qualities
command attention in any dealers' ware-
room.
Reproducing Grand
The very highest type of piano attainment
is exemplified in this remarkable instru-
ment. It is as perfect in operation, repro-
duction and in volume of tone, and as
reliable in every detail of construction, as
skill and flawless materials can create.
CHRISTMAN
Uprights and Players
Are favorites with dealers who sell fine
instruments. They are as Perfect in
Operation as can be made, and they
are the True Christman in Tone and
Construction.
We Will be Glad to Send Particulars, Prices
and Terms to Live Piano Merchants
(€
The First Touch Tells
>9
Reg. U S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co,
597 East 137th St.
New York
What appears to be a clean knockout of the Society
of Authors, Composers and Publishers was delivered
in Cincinnati on Wednesday of this week. It was in
the form of a decision in favor of broadcasting sta-
tions using musical numbers on which a copyright has
been granted, in the United States District Court in
Cincinnati. On Wednesday of this week when Judge
Smith Hickenlooper dismissed a petition filed to halt
the broadcasting of such numbers without paying the
holder of the copyright.
The suit was filed by Jerome H. Remick & Co.,
New York music publishers, against the American
Automobile Accessories company of Cincinnati, a
manufacturer of radio receiving sets and parts.
Judge Hickenlooper said he does not think the
rendition of a song in the seclusion of a broadcasting
studio is a 'public performance within the intendment
of Congress in enacting the copyright law.
Purposes of Broadcasting.
Judge Hickenlooper said: "These radio stations
are operated for the transmission through space of
intelligence and music. Such a station is undoubtedly
maintained to stimulate interest on the part of the
public, to advertise receiving sets and instruments of
defendants' manufacture, and to permit the persons
having receiving sets to receive a reproduction of the
sounds broadcast.
"It must also be kept in mind that broadcasting
stations are maintained throughout the United States
by those who have no direct connection with the man-
ufacture or sale of radio equipment, solely for the
advertising value of such broadcasting stations. A
notable example of this is the station maintained by
newspapers a various points.
Not a "Public Performance."
"In order to constitute a public performance in the
sense in which we think Congress intended the words
"perform publicly for profit,' it is absolutely essential
that there be an assemblage of persons, an audience
so congregated for the purpose of hearing which
transpires at the place of amusement.
"We simply feel that the rendition of a copyrighted
piece of music in the studio of a broadcasting station,
where the public are not admitted and cannot come,
but where the music is converted into sound waves
that are received in the homes of owners of receiving
sets, is no more a public performance than the per-
forated music roll which is a reproduction of copy-
righted music."
Radio Loses to Vaudeville.
Radio and vaudeville have clashed in New York
City, and radio has lost. The B. F. Keith circuit,
controlling most of "big time" vaudeville, is including
in its contracts a clause which prohibits broadcasting,
it was learned today.
"Our investigation has shown that the interests of
radio and vaudeville are opposed in practically all
cases," said John J. Murdock, general manager of the
Keith circuit. "We found that advertising gained by
broadcasting does not offset the loss of patronage."
BUSINESS ETHICS
ARE FORMULATED
Fifteen Principles Comprised in List Em-
bodied in Report of Committee of
Chamber of Commerce.
Fifteen fundamental principles for the conduct of
business are formulated in the report of the Commit-
tee on Business Ethics of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States which will be submitted for con-
sideration at the annual meeting of the Chamber to
lie held in Cleveland, May 6th to 8th.
The members of the committee are all business
men or closely in touch with important business af-
fairs. They are: Judge Edwin B. Parker, Umpire,
German-American Mixed Claims Commission, Wash-
ington; Paul W. Brown, editor of America at Work,
St. Louis; William Butterworth, president, Deere &
Company, Moline, 111.; Henry S. Dennison, president,
Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham,
Mass.; Noble Foster Hoggson, president, Hoggson
Brothers, New York City; James R. MacColl, presi-
dent, Lorraine Manufacturing Campany, Pawtucket,
R. I.; Henry T. Noyes, Rochester, New York and
George Rublee, Washington.
The committee takes the position that it is the func-
tion of business to provide for the material needs of
mankind, and to increase the wealth of the world
and the value and happiness of life. It is careful to
distinguish the motives which lead individuals to en-
gage in business from the function of business itself,
which, when successfully and conscientiously car-
ried on, it regards as rendering a public service of the
highest value.
In proposing the principles it has formulated, the
committee says: "We believe the expression of prin-
ciples drawn from these fundamental truths will fur-
nish practical guides for the conduct of business as a
whole and for each individual enterprise."
The fifteen fundamental principles are:
I. The foundation of business is confidence, which
springs from integrity, fair dealing, efficient service
and mutual benefit. II. The reward of business for
service rendered is a fair profit plus a safe reserve.
III. Equitable consideration is due in business alike
to capital management, employes, and the public. IV.
Knowledge—thorough and specific—and unceasing
study of the facts and forces affecting a business en-
terprise are essential to a lasting individual success
and to efficient service to the public. V. Permanency
and continuity of service are basic aims of business.
VI. Obligations to itself and society prompt business
unceasingly to strive toward continuity of operation,
bettering conditions of employment, and increasing
the efficiency and opportunities of individual em-
ployes. VII. Contracts and undertakings, written or
oral, are to be performed in letter and in spirit.
VIII. Representation of goods and services should be
truthfully made and scrupulously fulfilled. IX. Waste
in any form—of capital, labor, services, materials, or
natural resources—is intolerable, and constant effort
will be made toward its elimination.—X. Excesses of
every nature—the inflation of credit, over-expansion,
over-buying, over-stimulation of sales—which create
artificial conditions and produce crises and depres-
sions, are condemned.
XI. Unfair competition, embracing all acts charac-
terized by bad faith, deception, fraud, or oppression,
including commercial bribery, is wasteful, despicable,
and a public wrong. Business will rely for its success
on the excellence of its own service. XII. Contro-
versy will, where possible, be adjusted by voluntary
agreement or impartial arbitration. XIII. Corporate
forms do not absolve from or alter the moral obliga-
tions of individuals. Responsibilities will be as cour-
ageously and conscientiously discharged by those
acting in representative capacities as when acting for
themselves. XIV. Lawful co-operation among busi-
ness men and useful business organizations in sup-
port of these principles of business conduct is com-
mended. XV. Business should render restrictive
legislation unnecessary through so conducting itself
as to deserve and inspire public confidence.
NEWSY FACTS ABOUT THE
MEN WHO RETAIL PIANOS
Items gathered From Various Sources Relate Inci-
dents in the Trade Activities.
Joe B. Kelly, popular music dealer, is now residing
at Meyersdale, Pa. He was recently at Cumberland,
Md.
Smith & Heiby, music dealers, Bucyrus, O., an-
nounces that the firm is retiring from business. The
company is holding a closing out sale.
Guy Greirley and Oscar Meyers are owners of a
new store opened recently in Longmont, Cal. They
carry the music goods line of the Charles E. Wells
Music Co., Denver.
E. R. Brite, for five years assistant in Educational
Department of the Victor Talking Machine Co., has
resigned.
NEW "STORY BOOK" EDITOR.
The Story & Clark "Story Book," to which refer-
ence is made elsewhere in this sisue of Presto, has
changed editorship. J. Raybourn Bailey, who has
been getting out the bright little house organ, has
been replaced by Wliliam Braid White, a well-known
trade writer and advertising man. The "Story Book"
will continue to tell its Story & Clark stories better
than ever.
NEW OHIO STORE.
LeRoy Bland has opened a new music store on
North Main street, Sidney, O. Mr. Bland, who is ex-
perienced in the retail phase of music goods selling,
plans to carry a general line of instruments and sheet
music.
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April 26, 1924.
CHRISTMAN
The First Touch Tells
COURT LETS RADIO
BROADCAST FREE
Case Just Heard Before Judge in Cincinnati
Is Decided in Favor of Broadcasters
Who Refuse to Pay
Royalties.
AN IMPORTANT RULING
Purposes of Broadcasting Set Forth in Manner New
and in Clear Opposition to Contentions of
Composers and Publishers.
Studio Grand
Some of the Greatest Pianists have pro-
nounced this instrument the peer of any
produced. It is powerful and yet it is but
five feet long. It is a veritable "little giant"
among pianos, and its artistic qualities
command attention in any dealers' ware-
room.
Reproducing Grand
The very highest type of piano attainment
is exemplified in this remarkable instru-
ment. It is as perfect in operation, repro-
duction and in volume of tone, and as
reliable in every detail of construction, as
skill and flawless materials can create.
CHRISTMAN
Uprights and Players
Are favorites with dealers who sell fine
instruments. They are as Perfect in
Operation as can be made, and they
are the True Christman in Tone and
Construction.
We Will be Glad to Send Particulars, Prices
and Terms to Live Piano Merchants
(€
The First Touch Tells
>9
Reg. U S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co,
597 East 137th St.
New York
What appears to be a clean knockout of the Society
of Authors, Composers and Publishers was delivered
in Cincinnati on Wednesday of this week. It was in
the form of a decision in favor of broadcasting sta-
tions using musical numbers on which a copyright has
been granted, in the United States District Court in
Cincinnati. On Wednesday of this week when Judge
Smith Hickenlooper dismissed a petition filed to halt
the broadcasting of such numbers without paying the
holder of the copyright.
The suit was filed by Jerome H. Remick & Co.,
New York music publishers, against the American
Automobile Accessories company of Cincinnati, a
manufacturer of radio receiving sets and parts.
Judge Hickenlooper said he does not think the
rendition of a song in the seclusion of a broadcasting
studio is a 'public performance within the intendment
of Congress in enacting the copyright law.
Purposes of Broadcasting.
Judge Hickenlooper said: "These radio stations
are operated for the transmission through space of
intelligence and music. Such a station is undoubtedly
maintained to stimulate interest on the part of the
public, to advertise receiving sets and instruments of
defendants' manufacture, and to permit the persons
having receiving sets to receive a reproduction of the
sounds broadcast.
"It must also be kept in mind that broadcasting
stations are maintained throughout the United States
by those who have no direct connection with the man-
ufacture or sale of radio equipment, solely for the
advertising value of such broadcasting stations. A
notable example of this is the station maintained by
newspapers a various points.
Not a "Public Performance."
"In order to constitute a public performance in the
sense in which we think Congress intended the words
"perform publicly for profit,' it is absolutely essential
that there be an assemblage of persons, an audience
so congregated for the purpose of hearing which
transpires at the place of amusement.
"We simply feel that the rendition of a copyrighted
piece of music in the studio of a broadcasting station,
where the public are not admitted and cannot come,
but where the music is converted into sound waves
that are received in the homes of owners of receiving
sets, is no more a public performance than the per-
forated music roll which is a reproduction of copy-
righted music."
Radio Loses to Vaudeville.
Radio and vaudeville have clashed in New York
City, and radio has lost. The B. F. Keith circuit,
controlling most of "big time" vaudeville, is including
in its contracts a clause which prohibits broadcasting,
it was learned today.
"Our investigation has shown that the interests of
radio and vaudeville are opposed in practically all
cases," said John J. Murdock, general manager of the
Keith circuit. "We found that advertising gained by
broadcasting does not offset the loss of patronage."
BUSINESS ETHICS
ARE FORMULATED
Fifteen Principles Comprised in List Em-
bodied in Report of Committee of
Chamber of Commerce.
Fifteen fundamental principles for the conduct of
business are formulated in the report of the Commit-
tee on Business Ethics of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States which will be submitted for con-
sideration at the annual meeting of the Chamber to
lie held in Cleveland, May 6th to 8th.
The members of the committee are all business
men or closely in touch with important business af-
fairs. They are: Judge Edwin B. Parker, Umpire,
German-American Mixed Claims Commission, Wash-
ington; Paul W. Brown, editor of America at Work,
St. Louis; William Butterworth, president, Deere &
Company, Moline, 111.; Henry S. Dennison, president,
Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham,
Mass.; Noble Foster Hoggson, president, Hoggson
Brothers, New York City; James R. MacColl, presi-
dent, Lorraine Manufacturing Campany, Pawtucket,
R. I.; Henry T. Noyes, Rochester, New York and
George Rublee, Washington.
The committee takes the position that it is the func-
tion of business to provide for the material needs of
mankind, and to increase the wealth of the world
and the value and happiness of life. It is careful to
distinguish the motives which lead individuals to en-
gage in business from the function of business itself,
which, when successfully and conscientiously car-
ried on, it regards as rendering a public service of the
highest value.
In proposing the principles it has formulated, the
committee says: "We believe the expression of prin-
ciples drawn from these fundamental truths will fur-
nish practical guides for the conduct of business as a
whole and for each individual enterprise."
The fifteen fundamental principles are:
I. The foundation of business is confidence, which
springs from integrity, fair dealing, efficient service
and mutual benefit. II. The reward of business for
service rendered is a fair profit plus a safe reserve.
III. Equitable consideration is due in business alike
to capital management, employes, and the public. IV.
Knowledge—thorough and specific—and unceasing
study of the facts and forces affecting a business en-
terprise are essential to a lasting individual success
and to efficient service to the public. V. Permanency
and continuity of service are basic aims of business.
VI. Obligations to itself and society prompt business
unceasingly to strive toward continuity of operation,
bettering conditions of employment, and increasing
the efficiency and opportunities of individual em-
ployes. VII. Contracts and undertakings, written or
oral, are to be performed in letter and in spirit.
VIII. Representation of goods and services should be
truthfully made and scrupulously fulfilled. IX. Waste
in any form—of capital, labor, services, materials, or
natural resources—is intolerable, and constant effort
will be made toward its elimination.—X. Excesses of
every nature—the inflation of credit, over-expansion,
over-buying, over-stimulation of sales—which create
artificial conditions and produce crises and depres-
sions, are condemned.
XI. Unfair competition, embracing all acts charac-
terized by bad faith, deception, fraud, or oppression,
including commercial bribery, is wasteful, despicable,
and a public wrong. Business will rely for its success
on the excellence of its own service. XII. Contro-
versy will, where possible, be adjusted by voluntary
agreement or impartial arbitration. XIII. Corporate
forms do not absolve from or alter the moral obliga-
tions of individuals. Responsibilities will be as cour-
ageously and conscientiously discharged by those
acting in representative capacities as when acting for
themselves. XIV. Lawful co-operation among busi-
ness men and useful business organizations in sup-
port of these principles of business conduct is com-
mended. XV. Business should render restrictive
legislation unnecessary through so conducting itself
as to deserve and inspire public confidence.
NEWSY FACTS ABOUT THE
MEN WHO RETAIL PIANOS
Items gathered From Various Sources Relate Inci-
dents in the Trade Activities.
Joe B. Kelly, popular music dealer, is now residing
at Meyersdale, Pa. He was recently at Cumberland,
Md.
Smith & Heiby, music dealers, Bucyrus, O., an-
nounces that the firm is retiring from business. The
company is holding a closing out sale.
Guy Greirley and Oscar Meyers are owners of a
new store opened recently in Longmont, Cal. They
carry the music goods line of the Charles E. Wells
Music Co., Denver.
E. R. Brite, for five years assistant in Educational
Department of the Victor Talking Machine Co., has
resigned.
NEW "STORY BOOK" EDITOR.
The Story & Clark "Story Book," to which refer-
ence is made elsewhere in this sisue of Presto, has
changed editorship. J. Raybourn Bailey, who has
been getting out the bright little house organ, has
been replaced by Wliliam Braid White, a well-known
trade writer and advertising man. The "Story Book"
will continue to tell its Story & Clark stories better
than ever.
NEW OHIO STORE.
LeRoy Bland has opened a new music store on
North Main street, Sidney, O. Mr. Bland, who is ex-
perienced in the retail phase of music goods selling,
plans to carry a general line of instruments and sheet
music.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).