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tact with our schools today, and as a
suggestion of what goes on musically
in the educational field, we have attached
hereto typical printed material and pic-
tures which were prepared by some of
our schools quite independently of the
musical instrument industry.
"Just as there is a critical period in
the growth of each child during which
speech is most readily learned and if
passed over without contact with parents
or teachers of some sort, the learning of
language becomes limited in a large
degree, so also there is a critical period
for the growing child in the learning of
music. If in this period the child is de-
nied, for one reason or another, the use
of an instrument and the help of a
teacher, his musical education and all
the concomitant benefits issuing there-
from may be lost forever. Experienced
teachers and educators recognize that
when the opportunities of this propi-
tious period are neglected or denied,
they must be recovered, if ever, with
great difficulty.
"An increase in the rate of the tax
on musical instruments now may mean
a delay in the beginning of a child's
musical education, and that delay may
mean denial. This is of great practical
importance and deserves your careful
consideration. How easily it would have
been for any child of yours to have en-
joyed the advantages of an active part in
music "if he or she had only started at
the right time." We feel that no child
should be denied such opportunities
short of an actual all-out war, and we
believe that you will feel the same.
"In the tax bill which was under con-
sideration in early 1950, the present ex-
cise tax rate on musical instruments was
then about to be reduced one half, but
was not. May we not then logically con-
clude that the tax which we now have
is, in effect, double the tax which we
now would have had, but for aggression
in Korea and the need to resist possible
further aggression, And may we not then
in all fairness ask "Is not this doubling
enough?"
"At considerable expense in prepar-
ing the necessary legislation and the set-
ting up of the functioning agencies, and
in some cases by a direct outlay of funds,
our Government has in times past and
is at present helping certain industries.
It has bailed out certain industries or
sections of the economy which were in
distress. It has, for instance, financed
or guaranteed their installment sales,
and in many ways, direct or indirect,
advanced the earnings or the credit of
the taxpayers to the immediate benefit
of those in distress even though in a
manner thought befitting to the whole'
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, APRIL, 1951
economy. The desirability and propri-
ety of these aids to others is not here
in question, but we believe that the
Musical Instrument Industry which has
stood and survived its difficulties "upon
its own," and has, by the grace of its
enfranchisement of the hearts of the
people, withstood all economic storms
and hardships without governmental
aid;—we honestly believe, that it has
earned and especially deserves the de-
liberate consideration of the Committee
on its behalf.
"If we are correct in this assumption
that we, and our customers, have earned
this special care in your decisions, and
if the premises here set forth are factual,
relevant and pertinent to our plea, as
we believe they are, then we think that
we may entertain the hope that you will
recognize the present excise tax on musi-
cal instruments as being fully equal to
our fair share of excise taxes, and that
any rate of increase could not be worth
the risk of the ill-effects which would
flow therefrom.
"We reiterate, that we in no wise plead
to be permitted to escape our fair share
of any necessary increase in revenue
for the safety of our country, but we
sincerely believe that such revenue
should be sought elsewhere and not
through an increase in the rate of the
excise tax on musical instruments."
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