CHRISTMAS MESSAGE BY PRESIDENT FELDER
New Orleans, La.
Dec. 3rd, 1940
Dear Friends:
As Christmas and all that it means approaches there are many things
for which to be thankful. It is the holiday season when we remember friends
and loved ones and the family circle widens with the usual Christmas cele-
bration and the significance of this occasion should be particularly impres-
sive at this time.
This year we will celebrate our Christmas in peace in contrast to the hate
and turmoil of Europe. Christ was the first real Democrat. What he taught
in love and friendship is not the way of Europe today, but in our country,
in commemorating the birth of our Saviour, we must also give thanks that
we are of a land that still believes in freedom and the rights of the individual
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We should give thanks for the many blessings our people have enjoyed in
the year about to pass into history. Business in our nation has prospered
and our particular part of this business, MUSIC, has shown such remarkable
gain that to me it seems almost miraculous. We have seen the sale of pianos
increase fivefold in eight years. We have seen the school music program
steadily going forward and getting larger and larger, and recorded music
of the master composers, as well as semi-classical and popular music, steadily
gaining in favor. So, in our business, the work is being well done. Musical
education, culture, and refinement are on the increase and their influence for
good is immeasurable. Every manufacturer, jobber, and merchant has had a
glorious part in the joy-giving, peace-loving art of MUSIC, which builds
friendly relations, not deadly hatred, fear, and despair.
So, I say Greetings to the music fraternity. Keep going and fighting for
the things we love and which make the world a better place in which to live.
MERRY CHRISTMAS this year and may the next and the next be Merry.
And may love and friendship be our portion, not hatred.
Yours fraternally,
Paul S. Felder.
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