The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1910)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. 23 About Needles One of the most important matters in connection with the develop^ ment of the talking machine busi= ness to=day is the sale of a talking machine needle that is correctly made — made by the greatest au= thority in the world— a needle, the POINT of which is warranted and which insures the best reproduction for each individual qual= ity of tone— a needle that doesn't wear out the record ; that preserves its life, and always gives forth the very best quality of tone that is contained in the record. Such a needle is the CONDOR It has the highest and most perfect finish, the smoothest grain, and gives unexcelled satisfaction. Why not get the customer who purchases a high-grade and a high-priced talking machine to buy needles of the highest quality, such as the Condor? One cannot be satisfactory without the other. We shall be pleased to give the fullest information to all interested. Address Sole Manufacturer Jos. Zimmermann Needle and Pin Works AACHEN GERMANY Edison are in good demand, and some of the: factors are running the Amberola. The Parker 'Phone Co., of Bradford, have sold one or two, and they expect to handle quite a number during the season. T. Dyson, Ltd., have issued from their Bradford depot a price list of accessories in talking machine goods that they will stock this season, and they report a pleasing trade activity in the leading lines. Gertie Gitana's two great songs, "Sweet Caroline" and "Queen of the Cannibal Isle," with which she has been delighting the natives of Liverpool, Birmingham and other northern and midland towns, are listed this month on Columbia records. They are excellently rendered by Jack Charman. A feature of this season's trade with the Colmore Depot, of Birmingham will be a special line of disc machines fitted to play both types of records, and they anticipate a roaring trade. A report reaches me of a motor car collision at Longton, Staffs., in which Eli Hudson (whose many piccolo records are admired by all music lovers) met with a serious accident. In addition to other minor injuries Mr. Hudson unfortunately sustained a broken collar-bone. However, we are glad to know he is making satisfactory progress toward recovery. In Belfast, Edens Osborne has been busy with his local newspaper advertisements, which in point of originality and style are very praiseworthy. At the co-operative exhibition he entertained a large audience with a selection of popular songs and orchestral pieces on the Auxetophone, described by the local reporters as a wonderful reproducer of sound. The concert was much appreciated and many of the items were encored. Carl Wagenhaus, of Manchester, desiring to make clear some recent business moves on his part, writes as follows: "I have transferred to Christian Duwe the Edison factorship only, Mr. Duwe at the same time taking over the bulk of my Edison stock. I am still a factor for several disc lines and still carry on business as a dealer in Edison goods and others, besides my extensive piano and musical instrument business at both my establishments, viz., 279-281 Stretford road and 60 Gile street, Manchester." WHAT LOYALTY IN BUSINESS MEANS. Just How Much the Buyer Should Be Bound by Obligations to the Houses He Buys From — Should the Employe Be Loyal to the Employer with Dishonest Methods? — An Interesting Question. Frequently we hear traveling men talk of the loyalty of dealers and buyers. Ths generally means that the dealers and buyers in the section covered by that salesman buy the goods he represents continuously and in satisfactory quantities. To him that demonstrates loyalty, but what about the intelligence of the buyer when a competing salesman enters the field with better values? Must the buyer, under such conditions, lose his reputation for loyalty in following the dictates of his intelligence and buying the new line? In the retail end of business what is the meaning of loyalty? Does it mean that the employes are to stand pat for their employers' methods when they know they are not honest methods? We trow not. We believe all humanity, employes and employers alike, should have only one standard of loyalty, and Shakespeare laid down the grandest as well as the only law when he wrote, "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day thou can'st not then be false to any man." That magnificent paragraph really covers the whole question of loyalty. It makes one standard for all, and employes who change their employers do not have to change their standard of loyalty. They continue true to their own ideals and that makes disloyalty in any form impossible. When our public servants, from the president up to the people whom he serves, attain genuine loyalty within themselves, there will be fewer trials of grafters, fewer "respectable" men of social prominence in our prisons and suffering humanity will come into its own because real loyalty will be the axis on which all service will turn without friction. The employe who is true to himself will not betray the confidence of his employer after he leaves him to enter the service of another. He can't do it and be true to himself. If an employe disproves of methods used by his employer, he should seek another position, even at less compensation. His work will be better, his advance faster, if he works under conditions that dc not create mental friction. The primary loss will be balanced by an intellectual freedom" that should work out its own recompense from a purely constructive standpoint. We close with the same advice we used in opening the article, "To thine own self be true." AN ANNOYING PUBLICITY SCHEME. An Instance Where Too Great Originality Was Not Appreciated. An enterprising advertising scheme was recently brought to light in Washington, D. C, when a man entered the office of the Comptroller of the Currency thoroughly angry because he had received a check for five cents to his order, drawn on a real bank for real money. He wanted to know if there wasn't "some way to stop this thing," but the officers told him there was not; that anybody who had money in a bank had a right to draw checks against it payable to anybody at his pleasure. The bank on which the check was drawn was fairly buried under literally bushels of other checks of the same sort which people brought in to be cashed. The man who drew the checks has a large account with the bank, and the checks, which were for five cents each, were mailed to hundreds of Washington people with a request to "spend this nickel for carfare" and visit the giver's place of business. WALTER STEVENS OFF TO MEXICO. Walter Stevens, manager of the National Phonograph Co.'s export department, left October 17 on an overland trip to Mexico City. He will be absent about six weeks, during which time he will devote himself to matters of company interest in that and other cities of the Mexican States. Tn his absence the duties of managing the department devolve upon his able assistant, Louis Reichert. The Talking Machine Company, of Birmingham, Ala., are now devoting more space to talking machines— in other words they have been compelled to owing to the growth of their business. MR. RECORDER, „S»^y WAX "F»," the best existing recording material for Berliner (Gramophone-) cut? If not, write for free sample to "KSES" E. 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