The Edison phonograph monthly (Jan-Dec 1912)

<m EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1912 Page Nothing Stands Still 2 ] The Boy's Life of Edison 2 ! Edison Window Displays for February and March 3-4 Denver Record Exchange Enjoined 5 Factory Visitors 5 jj Current Printed Matter 6 Will Oakland in Seattle 7 New Holland-Dutch Records 7 Record Return Guide for January 8 Suspended List, December 20, 1911 8 Price Cutting Enjoined in Michigan 8-9 Nothing Stands Still It seems so difficult to thoroughly know that we cannot stand still. Life is an endless procession of events. Standing still really means dropping back to the rear. The procession never stops. We do well if we keep step and position. Only vigor and endurance can sustain us to the end of the journey. It takes energy, ambition and intelligence to place us in the lead. The pedometer is an attachment which registers the distance traveled by the walker. Every pedestrian on the Road of Life should be equipped with one and read it frequently. How many miles have you traveled today? You don't know? Then you had better estimate your relative position in the procession. It has been moving all the time. If there was anything in the universe that was fixed and unchangeable, there might be an excuse for the belief that standing still is a possibility. You cannot think of anything that is not changing, moving, integrating or disintegrating. Forgetfulness or ignorance of this great truth is the source of all failure. We are all too ready to believe that evolution ends with us. We have constituted ourselves the last sentence of the Darwinian theory. To our discomfiture we find that the new generation has in contemplation our placing on the same shelf with Plato, Herodotus, Marco Polo and Munchausen. Nothing stands still save in a relative sense. The first breath drawn by the infant is the first step to the tomb. The statue, fresh from the chisel of the sculpture, with all its beauty and freshness, is already in the destroying hands of the greatest sculptor, Father Time. Truth itself is on the way to become fallacy as soon as it has been expressed. The ^ truth uttered by masters is soiled by the repetition of the pupils, and the truth-substance, passing from mind to mind, until it permeates the great mass, becomes devitalized until in its final form it bears but little resemblance to its original presentation. Yet men are often content to place the name of the founder on the resultant hodge-podge. "Traitor" and tradition both come from the same original root. — Music Trade Review. Page Error in Machine Catalog 9 Sousa's Band 9 The Edison Transcribing Contest 10 Bessie Wynn 10 Record Shipping and Sales Dstes — 1912...11 Among the Jobbers 11 Concerning Record No. 900 12 The Other 13,000 13 Ready-made Advertising 14 Advance List of Edison Records for March. 15 Foreign Records for January— 1912 19 Jobbers of Edison Phonographs and Records 20 Well! Well! Grinding and scratching, groaning and squeaking nearly 30,000,000 graphophones and Phonograph Records annm:'.!y carry their hidden melodies and near-tunes into American Homes, according to the Census Bureau in a bulletin relative to the manufacture of talk..ig machines which has been issued. — Salisbury, Md., Advertise''. There is certainly some educating still to be done in this country! The man who perpetrated that brilliant effusion must have indigestion and insomnia — and a bad ear for music. Or perhaps he has never heard an Edison! We offer the last suggestion for what it is worth to the Maryland Dealers. The Boy's Life of Edison William H. Meadowcroft, a member of Mr. Edison's laboratory staff, has recently written "The Boy's Life of Edison," in one volume. As a daily associate of Mr. Edison for years, iie has gleaned his facts at first harj from the inventor's own lips, and has won for the book his personal authorization of the facts cited. Mr. Edison's recent achievements are matters of common gossip, but not a great deal is known of the remarkable history of his earlier days, upon which Mr. Meadowcroft dwells at considerable length. The narrative deals graphically with the origin and genesis of the great iiventions for which Mr. Edison has become so famous. No better or more interesting popular review of Mr. Edison's life could be placed in the hands of a boy to read, and perhaps to srimulate him to greater industry along similar lines. The book is obtainable from any bookstore or its publishers, Harper Bros., Union Square, New York City, at $1.25 per copy, but cannot be furnished from Orange. For important announcements concerning current printed matter, see page 6.