Presto

October 24, 1925.
PRESTO
ALL SET FOR
INDIANA MEETING
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Address Department "E"
National and State Association Heads Will
Take Part in Organization of New Hoosier
State Body at Lincoln Hotel, Indian-
apolis, October 28 and 29.
SEE BIG ATTENDANCE
Responses to Invitations Sent Out by Acting Secre-
tary Assure Enthusiastic Gathering of
Music Merchants.
A national aspect will be given to the organization
meeting of Indiana music merchants, to be held in
Indianapolis October 28 and 29, through the attend-
ance of national officers prominent in association
work. Representatives of sister state associations in
Ohio and Illinois, whose conventions were held last
month, have been invited to attend.
President W. J. Baker of the Indianapolis Music
Dealers' Association, in his announcement setting
the new dates for the organization meeting, requested
the national headquarters in New York to assist in
arranging the program. President Henry E. Weisert
of the National Association of Music Merchants
promised to attend and also invited Col. F. B. T.
Hollenberg of Little Rock, Ark., of the National
Association and one of its earliest presidents, and
Clayton A. Grinnell of Detroit, also a former presi-
dent, to be present.
President E. R. Jacobson of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce, himself an Indiana man, has
agreed to assist the organization work, and there
will be other representatives of the Chamber, the
national association and the state associations in
attendance.
Early Registrations Urged.
The meeting of Indiana music merchants will be
held in the Lincoln Hotel at Indianapolis, whose
manager, R. L. Myer, has subscribed his full co-oper-
ation and will make a special effort to take care of as
many individuals or firms as may register for the
convention.
Those who expect to attend are asked to send in
early reservations to Mr. Myer at the Lincoln Hotel,
Indianapolis. Announcements are being sent to every
music merchant in Indiana, from the headquarters
of the National Association of Music Merchants in
New York, and a good attendance is expected.
The committee in charge has appointed sub-com-
mittees to work out by-laws, program, publicity and
entertainment. Final announcement of the business
program, speakers and entertainment features will be
made next week.
The Indiana meeting is regarded as a good ex-
ample of growing state association work, in line with
the new program of organization effort outlined by
the National Association of Music Merchants at its
annual convention last June. Coming as it does im-
mediately following the annual state conventions of
Ohio and Illinois associations, and preliminary meet-
ings of the Milwaukee trade, toward the end of
developing a Wisconsin association, the Indiana asso-
ciation activity is gratifying to national organization
men who are interested in strengthening the entire
field of retail music trade distribution.
Further evidence of growing interest in state asso-
ciation work is found in the Michigan organization
meeting in Grand Rapids on November 2 and 3, the
week following the Indiana meeting.
Ft. Wayne Trade Active.
The Indiana meeting was stimulated largely by
the interest of the Ft. Wayne Music Dealers' Asso-
ciation, whose recent experience in eliminating a bad
competitive condition proved to the members the
value of trade organizations, national and local.
C. R. Moores of the Packard Music House, repre-
sented the Ft. Wayne Association at a meeting of the
Indianapolis Music Dealers' Association on October
7, to perfect plans for a state association. Mr.
Moores reported as follows:
"W T e decided to change the date in order to have
the full co-operation of the National Association and
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, to the end
that this organization meeting may go over in a big
way which will mean a lot to the future of the asso-
ciation. I found the local association here in Indian-
apolis very enthusiastic and willing to do all in their
power to co-operate in this movement. It is the de-
sire of the committee in charge that as many national
officers and prominent men in the music industry as
possible be in attendance at this meeting, prepared
to give their valued experiences.
The interest of the Ft. Wayne trade in forming an
Indiana State Association was shown also in the
request of the president of the local association,
George W. Jacobs, Jr., for extra copies of the July
Monthly Bulletin of the Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce, in order to bring to the attention of
leaders of the Indiana trade the following editorial:
Organization Stands Guard.
"Tn the Ft. Wayne situation, where an old offender
against better business standards attempted to raise
the black flag of Picture Puzzle advertising, after it
had been discredited for years and deserted by its
former followers, we have an excellent example of
the power of organization to suppress tricky competi-
tion which the individual dealer alone is powerless to
combat.
"The Ft. Wayne Music Dealers' Association, strong
in its conviction that there was something wrong in
the competition its members had to face, called upon
the Chamber as the national headquarters of the
trade for guidance. Immediately the record of the
offender was forthcoming, the postoffice authorities
were notified, the newspapers informed, the manufac-
turer was called upon to protest the use of his name
(without authority, as it developed), and the National
Vigilance Committee of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World called into action to advise with
the Ft. Wayne Better Business Bureau. Upon infor-
mation furnished by the Chamber, the Ft. Wayne
Bureau had the exact facts necessary to publish a
'WARNING' to the public, in the same newspapers
where the puzzle advertising had appeared. The
local bureau already was in contact with members of
the Ft. Wayne trade, and the latter were advised by
the Chamber to give the bureau every bit of co-
operation and support possible. The puzzle scheme
was stopped. When trade opinion is clear that a
given business method is wrong, the organized
agencies for better business usually make short work
of it."
BUSY MEETING OF THE
CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
J. J. O'Shea Appeals for Salvation Army, and
Several Guests Add to Interest of a
Full-House Attendance.
Another full house attendance at the noonday
luncheon of the Chicago Piano Club, last Monday,
gretted the new president of the club, Henry Hewitt,
on his second week as the club's "overseer." Among
other things dispatched by President Hewitt was the
introduction of J. J. O'Shea, of Lyon & Healy, who
asked for aid from the music trades and industries in
the Salvation Army drive.
Mr. Shea explained briefly the work of the Salva-
tion Army and said he hoped the music trades of
Chicago would join the other trades and industries in
helping to make up the $300,000 which the Army is
endeavoring to raise within the next few weeks. Mr.
O'Shea will probably give a talk on this matter be-
fore the Chicago Piano and Organ Association at its
next monthly meeting.
Among the several visitors at the Monday meeting
this week was I. N. Rice, known as the Chicago-
Pacific Coast man, and who, although one of the old-
time members of the club has not been able to attend
the meeting often because of his travels in the west.
This was also his farewell visit to the club, prior to
moving to San Francisco, which city is to be his
future home and headquarters.
R. H. McCabe, southern traveler for the J. P. See-
hurg Piano Co., was the club guest of Marshall See-
burg and Will Collins. Mr. McCabe brought a good
word for the business outlook in his territory. Elmon
Armstrong, former Chicago, Texas and Kansas City
piano man, was there also.
WHEELING TUNERS ORGANIZE.
The piano tuners of Wheeling, W. Va., and vicinity
have given the best expression of favor for organiza-
tion by creating the Wheeling Division of the Na-
tional Association of Piano Tuners, with Howard In-
gram as its first president. Other officers elected at
the meeting recently, at 160 South Park avenue were:
II. H. Polling, vice-president; and H. .Wilson, secre-
tary and treasurer. Active in the formation of the
new division were: Henry Newman, T. T. Sligar,
Charles Lucas and E. J. Seitter.
PIANOS IN FURNITURE SHOW.
At the second annual Home Beautiful Exposition
held in Cleveland recently, pianos were given an ef-
fective representation. The show, held under the
auspices of the Cleveland Retail Furniture Dealers'
Association and the Cleveland News, filled the Audi-
torium. The Geo. M. Ott Co. showed the Hardman
piano, the May Co., a Chickering grand, as part of its
display of fine furniture and the Knabe Warerooms,
in two booths, showed Mason & Hamlin, the Ampico
in the Knabe and the Gulbransen.
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