The talking machine world (Jan-June 1923)

26 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD February 15, 1923 MimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiimiiiiiiiiiiimiiH^ I Four-Minute Conference on Business Topics | VICTOR REPAIR PARTS CATALOG I No. 10 — Your Privileges — And iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiuii [This is the tenth of a series of four-minute conferences on topics of direct interest to business men in the talking machine trade which have been prepared for this publication by Lester G. Herbert. — Editor.] All of US have certain privileges. Some privileges are wise to use — and make the most of. Others are less desirable to exercise. Sometimes it is a good plan to stop and to consider which is which, and which is "t'other." The late Elbert Hubbard is reported to have remarked once that everybody has the inalienable right — and usually makes use of it — of being a darned fool for five minutes every day. And the more we reflect upon this saying of the sage of East Aurora the more we are bound to recognize the truth of this contention regarding special privilege — even if we differ from him on some other points. Being wise and self-restrained and efficient for twenty-three hours and fifty-five minutes out of every twenty-four is a dangerous schedule to follow. "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link" — and that darned-fool five-minute link is just long enough to spoil a business deal, a character or a life. It takes less than five minutes to misrepresent an important fact, or to propose to the wrong woman, or to agree to a dishonorable proposition, or to lose one's temper and undo the careful work of years, or to yield to lust or passion, or to destroy life and happiness itself. Being a darned fool five minutes a day means a total of 1,825 minutes a year or thirty and five-twelfths hours. That is approximately a day and a quarter per year — and few of us actually limit ourselves to the five minutes. We are so likely to stretch it to ten or twentj^ minutes or a whole hour. But a day and a quarter a year means time enough to travel a long way in the wrong direction. It means 365 weak links in the calendar of days — and no knowing where the strain may come. The young chap who exercised his privilege of speeding — "letting her out" once a day to test how the motor was running — had no intention of killing the widowed mother of five little children, as she stepped off the corner curb, but he did it in less time than it takes to tell it. How to Make Them Count i iiiiini!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;iiiiiiiii!iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin^^^ The girl who loved admiration and a good time had no notion of going too far, but it became easier and easier to go a little nearer the danger line and then — well, one day it was too late to turn back, and the shame and scorn were more than she could bear. So she ended it all, and people said, "We told you so. She has been making a fool of herself for some time!" And the business man who had been growing more and more intolerant when he was tired and worried snapped out angrily at one of his faithful employes one day, saying a bitter and unjust thing, and the emploj^e, who had in his pocket his written refusal of a fine of¥er from a competitor firm, went directly to his desk, destroyed the letter in his pocket and wired his acceptance. To-day he has taken most of his former employer's business away from him, for he is now head of the big opposing concern. A few seconds did that! The man who was trusted to do a small piece of work, seemingly inconsequential, could have slighted it. He could have failed to sterilize his instruments thoroughly — but he didn't. And when a great man was brought in for an emergency operation, a man upon whom the nation depended in the crisis of war — all was well — because the man out of sight had not been a darned fool and said, "Oh, that's good enough for this time. Who'll know the difference or give me any credit." Only mental two by fours are always looking for personal praise. Big men are too busy doing worth-while things to think of the unimportant matters. It doesn't pay to be a darned fool even for five little minutes, for those minutes or the acts committed in them can never be recalled. But it does pay big dividends to exercise the special privilege of resisting darned fool impulses and to school and discipline ourselves to poise, self-control and the resulting power. It makes a strong life — a cable without the dangerous and weakening links! Too many rules in the conduct of a business cause confusion and result in a let-down in efnciencv. -SSB^ PHONOGRAPH CASES RADIO CASES Reinforced 3 -ply Veneer The Standard Case for Talking Machines and Radio Sets Let as figare on your requirements MADE BY PLYWOOD CORPORATION, Goldsboro, N. C. Mills in Va., N. C. and S. C. First Sheets of New Repair Parts Catalog Mailed to Dealers — Valuable for Guidance of Dealers in Ordering Repair Parts The introductory page and fourteen sheets of a new loose-leaf repair part catalog for the goiidance of dealers have been mailed by the Victor Talking Machine Co. The sheets now available show the changes in a number of the instruments manufactured by the Victor Co. The loose-leaf catalog consists of two parts, part one showing the repair part structure of each type instrument as originally made and then showing in detail all subsequent changes. The information is classified according to t)-pe and serial number. Part two is an illustrated catalog of each part listed numerically. As other changes are made in the construction of instruments gummed slips describing these changes will be provided dealers for pasting in the catalog, thus making it an easy matter to keep it up-to-date. This catalog will prove of value to dealers when ordering parts. Main-Springs For any Phonograph Motor Best Tempered Steel Eacb % inch z 10 feet for all small motors % .30 % " I 10 " " Pathe. Columbia, Helneman 35 1 " I 10 " " Columbia 40 1 " X 11 " " Columbia with hooks 50 1 " X 13 " " Victor, old style 45 1 " X 15 " " Victor, new style 50 1^4 " X 18 " " Vlntor, new or old style 70 1 " X 12 " " Helneman and Pathe 45 1 " X 10 " Saal, SllTertone, Krasberg 45 1 " I 13 " " Saal. Sllvertone. Bninswlck 50 1 " X 16 " " Sonora, Brunswick. 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