We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
PUTS BAN ON "SONG PLUGGING" BY RADIO
One of the first orders from Oswald F. Schuette, di¬ rector of copyright activities of the National Association of Broadcasters since "absolute powers in copyright' activities" were conferred upon him at the St. Louis Convention of the broadcasting industry was that "song plugging" should cease.
The order is "directed against the American Society of Com¬ posers, Authors and Publishers which is seeking to exact an extravagant royalty from radio stations at the same time its members are asking broadcasters to advertise their compositions", reads the announcement from the offices of the National Associa¬ tion of Broadcasters here. "The Society ha,s declined to con¬ sider a revision of the copyright contract which would re¬ lease from these royalty demands programs in which no ASCAP music is used".
Mr. Schuette also advised all broadcasting stations to make no further requests for "special permission" to perform music which has been placed on the Society’s "restricted list" and to keep such "restrictions" permanent by refusing to re¬ store to their programs any numbers which have once been so "restricted" by the publishers.
"The broadcasting industry must protect itself as well as the public", said Mr. Schuette. "’Song plugging’ and the abuses of the ’restricted’ lists have become serious nuisances. They have interfered with the artistic compilation of programs „ Publishing houses should understand that once they have placed a composition on the 'restricted lifet’ it will remain there, at least until ASCAP has given seme evidence of a genuine de¬ sire to deal fairly with the broadcasters".
XXXXXXXXXX
HARBORD ADVISES INDUSTRIES TO IMPROVE PLANTS
Manufacturers throughout the country must proceed at once to modernize their plants "to put themselves in readiness for the return of better days that are near at hand", Gen. James G. Harbord, chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America, told members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at their annual meeting in New York.
Such, General Harbord declared, was the immediate pro¬ gram of President Hoover's Committee on Industrial Rehabilitat ion.
"Equipment can be purchased and installed today at costa much below normal", General Harbord pointed out. "For every dollar spent for rehabilitation of plants and for every dollar spent to repair or replace worn-out equipment in an office, a warehouse or a store three dollars will be spent in consumer goods and materials industries, and more people will be put to work and speed the recovery of general business. " ' ,
XXXXXXXXXX