Music Trade Review
Issue: 1951 Vol. 110 N. 12 - Page 5
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Established 1879
December, 1951
REVIEW
. 110-No. 12
THE
PIONEER
PUBLICATION
OF
THE
2,861 $t Issue
MUSIC
INDUSTRY
Protect Your Business by Promoting
the Cause of Better Government
A Year End Message
by RAY S. ERLANDSON, President
National Association of Music Merchants
teaching of his Representative on earth
some 1950 years ago. No one denies bul
that the beneficent favor of Almightly
God helped to make America what shi*
is today; the leading nation in the world
in the preservation of the individual's
rights and privileges.
Music has contributed much to the
glorification and exaltation of religion.
Those of us who are engaged in the
distribution of music, in all of its as-
pects, have a right to feel that we are.
in a small way. contributing to the
continual sustenance of a free enter-
prise; of a democratic form of govern-
ment, and rightly so. But, the time has
come when sincere and conscientious
thoughtfulness on the part of music
merchants, as well as all Americans,
must direct themselves to the larger
aspects of the problem. So I appeal to
you today, not in the narrow field in
which we work, but in the broad area
of our citizenship in a still free nation.
I
T is confidently predicted that Bing
Crosby's "White Christmas", and
the beautiful Christmas hymns wiil
tagain be among the best sellers in music
ores and on record counters this
Christmas season.
I wonder, with increasing alarm, how
many years it will be possible to pub-
lish this statement in a free and inde-
pendent United States of America. It is
no idle statement to say that thoughful
"Americans must view with deepest con-
cern the rapidly increasing growth of
Bureaucracy combined with the holo-
•caust of unrest which inflames practic-
ally the entire world—East and West.
Unprecedented spending at home and
abroad continues to complicate the
economic base of America and brings
••closer a day of inevitable reconciliation.
In the gigantic whirling cauldron ot
world affairs, we in the music business
are but an infinitesmal aspect. The ag-
gregate of our business, of our taxes
and of our influence is minute indeed.
It is a situation which could easily dis-
courage the thoughtful, and perhaps
'even the thqughtful today are beginning
to wonder whether or not to cease con-
cern for the future.
Consider Our Blessings
Since basically the current struggle
• in ideologies is between the philosophy
of atheism and autocracy versus the
philosophy of deism and democracy,
the Christmas season is one in which all
believers in the American way of life
'should well pause to review the bless-
ings that have been theirs under the
philosophy of the Prince of Peace.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1951
RAY
S. ERLANDSON
whose birthday we celebrate on the 25th
day of December.
I firmly believe that every reader of
these columns and every music merch-
ant should recognize the deep religious
convictions of leadership of the people
in the building of the fundamental prin-
ciples written into our Declaration of
Independence and our Constitution.
Most, if not all of our great "De-
fenders of Faith", who in times of
crisis rose to protect the principles of
freedom and of individual enterprise
and the sovereignty of man. were Chris-
tian men who possessed an abiding and
underlying faith in God, and in the
Keep America Free from Evils
America must be kept free from the
evils which would destroy it. Graft and
corruption in high places must be
eliminated. Excessive wastefulness and
spending in all forms abhorred by all
honest Americans must be fought with
all the power we possess. Politicians
must learn again that they are the ser-
vants of the people and not their mas-
ters.
This is perhaps the most serious
problem facing our beloved country at
this Christmas season. Governmental
agents with increasing recklessness are
dominating and domineering all phases
of American business and economic
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Established 1879
December, 1951
REVIEW
. 110-No. 12
THE
PIONEER
PUBLICATION
OF
THE
2,861 $t Issue
MUSIC
INDUSTRY
Protect Your Business by Promoting
the Cause of Better Government
A Year End Message
by RAY S. ERLANDSON, President
National Association of Music Merchants
teaching of his Representative on earth
some 1950 years ago. No one denies bul
that the beneficent favor of Almightly
God helped to make America what shi*
is today; the leading nation in the world
in the preservation of the individual's
rights and privileges.
Music has contributed much to the
glorification and exaltation of religion.
Those of us who are engaged in the
distribution of music, in all of its as-
pects, have a right to feel that we are.
in a small way. contributing to the
continual sustenance of a free enter-
prise; of a democratic form of govern-
ment, and rightly so. But, the time has
come when sincere and conscientious
thoughtfulness on the part of music
merchants, as well as all Americans,
must direct themselves to the larger
aspects of the problem. So I appeal to
you today, not in the narrow field in
which we work, but in the broad area
of our citizenship in a still free nation.
I
T is confidently predicted that Bing
Crosby's "White Christmas", and
the beautiful Christmas hymns wiil
tagain be among the best sellers in music
ores and on record counters this
Christmas season.
I wonder, with increasing alarm, how
many years it will be possible to pub-
lish this statement in a free and inde-
pendent United States of America. It is
no idle statement to say that thoughful
"Americans must view with deepest con-
cern the rapidly increasing growth of
Bureaucracy combined with the holo-
•caust of unrest which inflames practic-
ally the entire world—East and West.
Unprecedented spending at home and
abroad continues to complicate the
economic base of America and brings
••closer a day of inevitable reconciliation.
In the gigantic whirling cauldron ot
world affairs, we in the music business
are but an infinitesmal aspect. The ag-
gregate of our business, of our taxes
and of our influence is minute indeed.
It is a situation which could easily dis-
courage the thoughtful, and perhaps
'even the thqughtful today are beginning
to wonder whether or not to cease con-
cern for the future.
Consider Our Blessings
Since basically the current struggle
• in ideologies is between the philosophy
of atheism and autocracy versus the
philosophy of deism and democracy,
the Christmas season is one in which all
believers in the American way of life
'should well pause to review the bless-
ings that have been theirs under the
philosophy of the Prince of Peace.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1951
RAY
S. ERLANDSON
whose birthday we celebrate on the 25th
day of December.
I firmly believe that every reader of
these columns and every music merch-
ant should recognize the deep religious
convictions of leadership of the people
in the building of the fundamental prin-
ciples written into our Declaration of
Independence and our Constitution.
Most, if not all of our great "De-
fenders of Faith", who in times of
crisis rose to protect the principles of
freedom and of individual enterprise
and the sovereignty of man. were Chris-
tian men who possessed an abiding and
underlying faith in God, and in the
Keep America Free from Evils
America must be kept free from the
evils which would destroy it. Graft and
corruption in high places must be
eliminated. Excessive wastefulness and
spending in all forms abhorred by all
honest Americans must be fought with
all the power we possess. Politicians
must learn again that they are the ser-
vants of the people and not their mas-
ters.
This is perhaps the most serious
problem facing our beloved country at
this Christmas season. Governmental
agents with increasing recklessness are
dominating and domineering all phases
of American business and economic
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