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Texas Association
Completes Full Organization
Meeting in Dallas L. H. Walter Is Elected President, J. S. Aldredge, C. C.
Lang, Vice-Presidents; T. E. Leach, Secretary; and Edward Sanger, Treas-
urer—Piano Playing Contest to Be Held in Northern Part of the State
ALLAS, TEXAS., May 27.—Music mer-
chants from all sections of Texas met here
this week at the call of Robert N. Watkin,
of the Will A. Watkin Co., Dallas, on sugges-
tions of E. H. Uhl, of Los Angeles, president
of the National Association of Music Merchants,
and perfected the organization of the Texas
Association of Music Merchants.
L. H. Walter, of Hillsboro, was elected presi-
dent of the organization for a term of six
months. The other officers named at the meet-
ing are James S. Aldredge, of Fort Worth, first
vice-president; C. C. Lang, of Dallas, second
vice-president; T. E. Leach, of Waco, secretary,
and Edward Sanger, of Dallas, treasurer. J. T.
Couch, of McKinney, J. H. Adams, of Waco,
and Brooks Mays, of Dallas, compose the board
of directors.
It was announced another meeting of the or-
ganization will be held in Dallas in October,
during the State Fair of Texas, at which time
officers and directors for the association for
the next year will be named.
The Texas Association of Music Merchants
starts out with a membership of more than
seventy-five and between now and the meeting
in October the association expects to increase
the membership to 150. Already the organiza-
tion is actively engaged in securing new mem-
bers. It is announced a large number of the
music merchants of Houston, San Antonio, Gal-
veston, Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur,
Wichita Falls, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Amarillo
and other places have notified those connected
with the organization of the dealers that they
will be active members before the next regu-
lar meeting. Music merchants from Oklahoma,
Louisiana, New Mexico and Arizona have sent
in reports that they would like to be in the asso-
ciation. This may lead to the calling of a con-
ference of the music merchants from the five
States mentioned with a view to organizing a
music merchants' association of the Southwest.
It is understood President Uhl, of the National
Association, would like to see such organiza-
tion in existence as well as State bodies.
Officers of the Texas Association announced
its activities would be along the lines and
policies of the National organization and that it
will co-operate with the National body in plans
for spreading the gospel of the need of music
in all the schools and homes of the country.
The Texas association is actively engaged right
now in the matter of sending a large delegation
to the Chicago convention. It is announced the
music merchants of Texas and Oklahoma and
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Louisiana will leave Dallas in special cars for
the convention and hope to fill two special Pull-
mans.
Another matter which the new organization
is promoting now with a degree of success is a
north Texas piano tournament, in which prizes
of $10,000 to $15,000 will be offered. This tour-
The president of the National Association
stressed the part that music plays in cultivating
the finer sensibilities of children. He declared
the music merchants could and should make
music a part of the curriculum of every school
room in the country and that the easiest way to
do that would be to go at it from an organiza-
Some of the Merchants at the Dallas Meeting
Left to right, front row: Robert N. Watkin, Dallas; L. H. Walter, Hillsboro; Ed. H. Uhl, Los Angeles; Will
A. Watkin, Dallas; Robert P. Scott, Dallas; F. G. Whea tley. McKinney. Back row, left to right: T. E. Leach,
Waco; J. B. Graham, Waxahachie; C. C. Lang, D alias; W. H. Humphries; Paul Holcombe, McKinney
nament will consist of contests in the various
towns and cities in north Texas and a final con-
test in the big auditorium in Dallas. Entrants
in the contest will be narrowed down through
elimination recitals in their own towns and
cities and the winners from each city or town
sent to Dallas to compete in the final contest.
The music merchants in various towns in the
section involved are reported heartily in favor
of the move. They will contribute the prize
money to be distributed among the winners.
The principal address at the convention this
week was made by President Uhl, of the Na-
tional Association. Mr. Uhl stressed the need
of more music in the schools and homes. He
said a more general understanding of music and
more music in homes, schools and everywhere
else would result in reducing crime and de-
clared statistics reveal the fact that the majority
of the inmates of penal institutions in the United
States can not play any kind of musical instru-
ment. He pointed out that musicians are among
the most law-abiding citizens in any community,
or any country.
tion standpoint rather than individuals. He said
the schools should allow proper credits for
music.
He urged the new association to make every
effort to have music included in the course of
study in their schools, and if they failed on the
next year. His admonition was to keep ham-
first occasion to go back harder than ever the
mering away at the matter until the school
boards see it in the right light. "Get the
people, the young people, interested in music,
get them to playing it, loving it and listening to
it, and you will see less crime waves, fewer
electrocutions and happier homes in the future,"
he said.
There was a round-table discussion of music
merchants' problems following the address of
Mr. Uhl. The solution of all those problems lies
in interesting the people in more music, it was
decided. To that end the members of the new
association will dedicate its future efforts.
The new association did not discuss selling
campaigns at the first meeting nor other mer-
chandising problems.
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