Presto
Issue: 1924 2003 - Page 29
December 13, 1924.
RADIO BILL HALTED
Proposed Measure in Congress Delayed by
Secretary of Commerce Hoover Who
Calls Situation Too Chaotic.
"The development of the art is such that the whole
situation is changing rapidly, and the opinion of today
on the solution for a given difficulty is worthless to-
morrow," said Secretary of Commerce Hoover last
week in calling a halt to plans of Congress to pass a
radio regulation bill at this session. Mr. Hoover
said his action was in view of new inventions that
will either make possible unlimited broadcasting or
necessitate the practical suppression of all but public
service broadcasting.
The situation is too chaotic, the secretary holds, for
any authority to say definitely now what sort of regu-
lation should be provided. When the new Congress
meets next year it should be possible, Mr. Hoover
thinks, to determine the results of improvements in
the art and the character of regulation required.
In the meantime the secretary requests passage of
a brief bill to meet the urgent requirements, wherein
this provision is made:
"The wave length of every radio transmitting sta-
tion for which a license is now required by law, its
power, emitted wave, the character of its apparatus,
and the time of transmission shall be fixed by the
Secretary of Commerce as in his judgment and dis-
cretion he shall deem expedient, and may be changed
or modified from time to time in his discretion."
In a letter to Representative White, in charge of
radio legislation, Mr. Hoover said:
"With only fifty-seven wave lengths and 500 sta-
tions—rapidly increasing—we are today forced to cer-
tain duplication of waves and to the division of time
between stations. This is retarding. If there were
enough wave lengths for all the matter would be
Blanketing the Country
This advertisement will appear in all the im-
portant newspapers in North America.
Which of these Song Hits
do you like best f
TALLAHASSEE
BROKEN DREAMS
much simpler. Any attempt to give preference
among stations in the allotment of wave lengths on
the basis of quality of programs raises the question
of censorship, the implications of which I cannot at
present accept.
"Beyond this three major things have developed
during the last twelve months. The first is the inter-
connection of stations by which a single voice may
generally be broadcast. It is difficult now to see the
future of this.
"During the last year there have been discoveries
in the use of higher power with larger broadcasting
areas, which may result in a single station being able
to cover a large portion, if not all, of the country.
This raises questions of the rights of local stations
and the rights of local listeners.
"Still another development has been the fact that
by indirect advertising broadcasting can be highly
profitable. If this were misused service more ad-
vantageous to the listeners might be crowded out for
advertising purposes.
"Thus a demand is growing for the limitation of
the number of stations in a given area, and that such
a limitation would be based on the service needs of
the community, just as public utilities are generally
limited by the rule of public convenience and neces-
sity. Again, this enters a dangerous field of recog-
nizing monopoly and implied censorship.
"On the other hand, we may be in a rush of
broadcasting which may in time die down and the
number of stations may decrease. Alternatively im-
provements in the art may increase the number of
available wave lengths, and no priorities need then
be contemplated.
"These are not all of the shifts in progress, and
we may have to conclude that many station owners
must be considered as having abandoned the field of
private enterprise and entered that of public service.
In view of these changes we may have to reconsider
the regulation of the whole art from the point of view
of the listener.
"From all of this it seems to me that there is a
tendency which may require an entirely different
basis in character, theory, and extent of legislation
than any we have contemplated in the past. The
basis of regulation and the fundamental policies to
be followed must be finally declared by Congress,
not left to an administrative officer."
Booklet 5x8 for Piano Manufacturers and Dealers.
Used in large editions every year. Order now.
Send for samples to
STATE REGISTER, Dept. A, Springfield, 111.
BOBBED HEAD'
BRINGING HONE THE BACON
BETTER K E E P AWAY
No BjwrnAfs/cE FEE
1st. Prize
2nd .
3)'d
8 Prizes of
$50022
$2002-°
$ 1002?
*25 0 -*
NlMIT M«IIC PlILIlClMM
Take Advantage of this Business Pushing Publicity
Get your full share of the business by putting
this competition over.
All Material Supplied FREE.
Write any of our offices.
HEARST MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF CANADA
Limited
WINNIPEG
TORONTO
Evidence of Popularity and Big Sales Seen in Many
Places Throughout the Country.
Charles W. Homeyer & Co., Boston, is featuring
"Follow the Swallow," the popular fox-trot of Jerome
H. Remick & Co., which also has big sales in other
music stores in that city. Foremost among them of
course is the local Remick Shop on Tremont street,
which uses attractive window displays to further
stimulate the calls for the free-selling fox-trot. The
success of the song is another tribute to Ray Hender-
son, the composer of the music, who has quite a long
list of winners to his credit.
Favor for Remick songs is a notable feature in the
sheet music department of Kr.esge's store in Toledo,
O., a chain store with a wonderful trade in popular
music. "Follow the Swallow," "Mandalay," and "It
Had to Be You" are the Remick songs which the
Toledo buyers eagerly demand.
In Buffalo, N. Y., recently Egbert Van Alstine,
composer on the staff of Jerome H. Remick & Co.,
appearing at Shea's Hippodrome, repeatedly won
audiences to an appreciation of the merits of the new
Remick songs. On a grand piano in a "music room
set" he played "Dreamer of Dreams," accompanied
by the theater orchestra. He also accompanied vocal-
ists who sang Remick hits as solos or duets.
BIG ORCHESTRA MUSIC TRADE.
An effort to develop its orchestra music department
has brought its reward to the C. J. Hamblitzer Music
House, Milwaukee, Wis, and its fine music and
teacher's supply sections have benefited by the stimu-
lative efforts of the company. All the orchestras in
Wisconsin and adjoining states have been circu-
larized and musical people generally throughout a
wide section made acquainted with the size and ex-
tent of the music stock in the progressive Mil-
waukee house.
NEW BOOK OF CAROLS.
The growth of the custom of carol singing at
Christmas is recognized by Carl Fischer, Inc., Bos-
ton, in the production of a booklet containing the
music of five Bohemian folk song carols with tradi-
tional English words by Rutherford Kingsley. The
carols included in the book are: "The Stars Are
Shining," "Glory to God," "Ring Out Ye Bells,"
"The Angel's Message" and "Shepherds Rejoice."
ADVERTISING SONG BOOKS
Ask your Music Dealer about the
HEARST MUSIC COMPETITION and fet
uour Voting Coupons from him
CHICAGO
FAVOR FOR REMICK SONGS
QUIGLEY HAS HEARST LINE.
Thos. J. Quigley, music publisher, Garrick Build-
ing, Chicago, has notified the trade that he has taken
over the catalogue of the Hearst Music Publishers
in the United States. Mr. Quigley will continue to
feature and sell the line from his present offices in
the Garrick Building. Just now he is concentrating
FRESHMEN BOOST SONG.
The University of Alabama is located at Tusca- on "Broken Dreams," "In a Wonderful World of
loosa and that fact has always accounted for the Our Own," and "Bobbed-Head."
lively nature of the sheet music sales in local music
EFFECT OF RADIO.
stores. The Remick song "Mandalay" is one of the
The radio has made a big hole in the sale of talk-
big sellers, and "Old Pal" promises to have local
sales exceeding that of any song of the season. The ing machines, says Waldo Ruess. The Victor Talk-
song, arranged as a quartet, was recently sung at ing Machine company paid $600 a day for thirty days
a celebration by freshmen, and the sales of the song for research work. The Victor company had ex-
in the music stores were stimulated in a wonderful pected to make a new combination of a Victrola and
radio, but the radio has knocked its business so
way.
heavily that it will be unable to have this combina-
tion.
Best Loved CHRISTMAS CAROLS " f f i T 1
V! WONDERFUL WORLD °&T'
NEW YORK
29
PRESTO
VANCOUVER
Editor Presto: One of our customers inquires
about a collection of old-fashioned songs, suitable for
giving out to prospects and the general public. If
you can inform us where these are printed, you will
confer a great favor, and incidentally boost the piano
business, as it is a foregone conclusion that every-
one receiving a book will need a piano on which to
produce the accompaniments.—A Jobber.
Reply: About the best book of the kind within
our knowledge is put forth in quantities by the Illi-
nois State Register of Springfield, 111. We believe
if you write to that concern you will get a sample of
about what you want.—Presto.
Over 50 songs, words and music for 4 voices and piano,
82 p.p., 0x9, in editions with special illuminated cover
printed to order as wanted. Mention Presto.
ERS
Estimates
9est
x
ANY PUBLISHER
OUR REFERENCE
BAYNERDALHEIM& Co:
-^
WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
205,4-2060 W.Lake St..ChIcago,Ill.
REMICK SONG HITS
Mandalay
It Had to Be You
There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes
Dreamer of Dreams
Follow the Swallow
New Kind of Man
My Best Girl
Me and the Boy Friend
Little Black Buddy
Until Tomorrow
Old Pal
Goodnight, Sleep Tight
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
Bring Back the Old Fashioned Waltz
The Grass Is Always Greener (In the
Other Fellow's Yard)
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
D«ti«it
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RADIO BILL HALTED
Proposed Measure in Congress Delayed by
Secretary of Commerce Hoover Who
Calls Situation Too Chaotic.
"The development of the art is such that the whole
situation is changing rapidly, and the opinion of today
on the solution for a given difficulty is worthless to-
morrow," said Secretary of Commerce Hoover last
week in calling a halt to plans of Congress to pass a
radio regulation bill at this session. Mr. Hoover
said his action was in view of new inventions that
will either make possible unlimited broadcasting or
necessitate the practical suppression of all but public
service broadcasting.
The situation is too chaotic, the secretary holds, for
any authority to say definitely now what sort of regu-
lation should be provided. When the new Congress
meets next year it should be possible, Mr. Hoover
thinks, to determine the results of improvements in
the art and the character of regulation required.
In the meantime the secretary requests passage of
a brief bill to meet the urgent requirements, wherein
this provision is made:
"The wave length of every radio transmitting sta-
tion for which a license is now required by law, its
power, emitted wave, the character of its apparatus,
and the time of transmission shall be fixed by the
Secretary of Commerce as in his judgment and dis-
cretion he shall deem expedient, and may be changed
or modified from time to time in his discretion."
In a letter to Representative White, in charge of
radio legislation, Mr. Hoover said:
"With only fifty-seven wave lengths and 500 sta-
tions—rapidly increasing—we are today forced to cer-
tain duplication of waves and to the division of time
between stations. This is retarding. If there were
enough wave lengths for all the matter would be
Blanketing the Country
This advertisement will appear in all the im-
portant newspapers in North America.
Which of these Song Hits
do you like best f
TALLAHASSEE
BROKEN DREAMS
much simpler. Any attempt to give preference
among stations in the allotment of wave lengths on
the basis of quality of programs raises the question
of censorship, the implications of which I cannot at
present accept.
"Beyond this three major things have developed
during the last twelve months. The first is the inter-
connection of stations by which a single voice may
generally be broadcast. It is difficult now to see the
future of this.
"During the last year there have been discoveries
in the use of higher power with larger broadcasting
areas, which may result in a single station being able
to cover a large portion, if not all, of the country.
This raises questions of the rights of local stations
and the rights of local listeners.
"Still another development has been the fact that
by indirect advertising broadcasting can be highly
profitable. If this were misused service more ad-
vantageous to the listeners might be crowded out for
advertising purposes.
"Thus a demand is growing for the limitation of
the number of stations in a given area, and that such
a limitation would be based on the service needs of
the community, just as public utilities are generally
limited by the rule of public convenience and neces-
sity. Again, this enters a dangerous field of recog-
nizing monopoly and implied censorship.
"On the other hand, we may be in a rush of
broadcasting which may in time die down and the
number of stations may decrease. Alternatively im-
provements in the art may increase the number of
available wave lengths, and no priorities need then
be contemplated.
"These are not all of the shifts in progress, and
we may have to conclude that many station owners
must be considered as having abandoned the field of
private enterprise and entered that of public service.
In view of these changes we may have to reconsider
the regulation of the whole art from the point of view
of the listener.
"From all of this it seems to me that there is a
tendency which may require an entirely different
basis in character, theory, and extent of legislation
than any we have contemplated in the past. The
basis of regulation and the fundamental policies to
be followed must be finally declared by Congress,
not left to an administrative officer."
Booklet 5x8 for Piano Manufacturers and Dealers.
Used in large editions every year. Order now.
Send for samples to
STATE REGISTER, Dept. A, Springfield, 111.
BOBBED HEAD'
BRINGING HONE THE BACON
BETTER K E E P AWAY
No BjwrnAfs/cE FEE
1st. Prize
2nd .
3)'d
8 Prizes of
$50022
$2002-°
$ 1002?
*25 0 -*
NlMIT M«IIC PlILIlClMM
Take Advantage of this Business Pushing Publicity
Get your full share of the business by putting
this competition over.
All Material Supplied FREE.
Write any of our offices.
HEARST MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF CANADA
Limited
WINNIPEG
TORONTO
Evidence of Popularity and Big Sales Seen in Many
Places Throughout the Country.
Charles W. Homeyer & Co., Boston, is featuring
"Follow the Swallow," the popular fox-trot of Jerome
H. Remick & Co., which also has big sales in other
music stores in that city. Foremost among them of
course is the local Remick Shop on Tremont street,
which uses attractive window displays to further
stimulate the calls for the free-selling fox-trot. The
success of the song is another tribute to Ray Hender-
son, the composer of the music, who has quite a long
list of winners to his credit.
Favor for Remick songs is a notable feature in the
sheet music department of Kr.esge's store in Toledo,
O., a chain store with a wonderful trade in popular
music. "Follow the Swallow," "Mandalay," and "It
Had to Be You" are the Remick songs which the
Toledo buyers eagerly demand.
In Buffalo, N. Y., recently Egbert Van Alstine,
composer on the staff of Jerome H. Remick & Co.,
appearing at Shea's Hippodrome, repeatedly won
audiences to an appreciation of the merits of the new
Remick songs. On a grand piano in a "music room
set" he played "Dreamer of Dreams," accompanied
by the theater orchestra. He also accompanied vocal-
ists who sang Remick hits as solos or duets.
BIG ORCHESTRA MUSIC TRADE.
An effort to develop its orchestra music department
has brought its reward to the C. J. Hamblitzer Music
House, Milwaukee, Wis, and its fine music and
teacher's supply sections have benefited by the stimu-
lative efforts of the company. All the orchestras in
Wisconsin and adjoining states have been circu-
larized and musical people generally throughout a
wide section made acquainted with the size and ex-
tent of the music stock in the progressive Mil-
waukee house.
NEW BOOK OF CAROLS.
The growth of the custom of carol singing at
Christmas is recognized by Carl Fischer, Inc., Bos-
ton, in the production of a booklet containing the
music of five Bohemian folk song carols with tradi-
tional English words by Rutherford Kingsley. The
carols included in the book are: "The Stars Are
Shining," "Glory to God," "Ring Out Ye Bells,"
"The Angel's Message" and "Shepherds Rejoice."
ADVERTISING SONG BOOKS
Ask your Music Dealer about the
HEARST MUSIC COMPETITION and fet
uour Voting Coupons from him
CHICAGO
FAVOR FOR REMICK SONGS
QUIGLEY HAS HEARST LINE.
Thos. J. Quigley, music publisher, Garrick Build-
ing, Chicago, has notified the trade that he has taken
over the catalogue of the Hearst Music Publishers
in the United States. Mr. Quigley will continue to
feature and sell the line from his present offices in
the Garrick Building. Just now he is concentrating
FRESHMEN BOOST SONG.
The University of Alabama is located at Tusca- on "Broken Dreams," "In a Wonderful World of
loosa and that fact has always accounted for the Our Own," and "Bobbed-Head."
lively nature of the sheet music sales in local music
EFFECT OF RADIO.
stores. The Remick song "Mandalay" is one of the
The radio has made a big hole in the sale of talk-
big sellers, and "Old Pal" promises to have local
sales exceeding that of any song of the season. The ing machines, says Waldo Ruess. The Victor Talk-
song, arranged as a quartet, was recently sung at ing Machine company paid $600 a day for thirty days
a celebration by freshmen, and the sales of the song for research work. The Victor company had ex-
in the music stores were stimulated in a wonderful pected to make a new combination of a Victrola and
radio, but the radio has knocked its business so
way.
heavily that it will be unable to have this combina-
tion.
Best Loved CHRISTMAS CAROLS " f f i T 1
V! WONDERFUL WORLD °&T'
NEW YORK
29
PRESTO
VANCOUVER
Editor Presto: One of our customers inquires
about a collection of old-fashioned songs, suitable for
giving out to prospects and the general public. If
you can inform us where these are printed, you will
confer a great favor, and incidentally boost the piano
business, as it is a foregone conclusion that every-
one receiving a book will need a piano on which to
produce the accompaniments.—A Jobber.
Reply: About the best book of the kind within
our knowledge is put forth in quantities by the Illi-
nois State Register of Springfield, 111. We believe
if you write to that concern you will get a sample of
about what you want.—Presto.
Over 50 songs, words and music for 4 voices and piano,
82 p.p., 0x9, in editions with special illuminated cover
printed to order as wanted. Mention Presto.
ERS
Estimates
9est
x
ANY PUBLISHER
OUR REFERENCE
BAYNERDALHEIM& Co:
-^
WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
205,4-2060 W.Lake St..ChIcago,Ill.
REMICK SONG HITS
Mandalay
It Had to Be You
There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes
Dreamer of Dreams
Follow the Swallow
New Kind of Man
My Best Girl
Me and the Boy Friend
Little Black Buddy
Until Tomorrow
Old Pal
Goodnight, Sleep Tight
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
Bring Back the Old Fashioned Waltz
The Grass Is Always Greener (In the
Other Fellow's Yard)
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
D«ti«it
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).