Show I ME MI DOUGALL ON OM OMI MUSICIANS AIM I Salt sul Lithe O City CI Jan Jail 25 20 Editor eret Newt Dear Doar Sir In your our of oC la laM t even evening OCI lug ing In appeared lle a Il very ury CV ablo editorial on toil 01 titled tithed As AH to 10 Licensed d Music I l h to tU II my I IU that It I Is based mi Ill 11 entirely erroneous conception of t the I he intentions of ot tile tho of ot this thie city d I The 1110 Idea Idell of Ir attempting to 10 have IUle laws In iii this tilts state stale e compelling 1111 nil all ni n u l to 10 undergo nn alt Al examination VIM M at itt II a l recent meeting hold holl hero heroIt he It 1 took 1001 only nitty Olly Il a few to 10 decide that t I such Ilch an uI In attempt it t would ho bo md account of or the tue I 1 wan wat misquoted In ill II an lilt m when the tho following t Mr Mr MI Dougall Dougal and others 1 nn un II II Immediate 0 organization 1111 Mi 11 MI ll advocating advocat ills l l favoring lit Ill of or ti It 1 state board loarl of or ex cx examiners Ii I who vIto should pasa upon 1011 Ii the tho tit lit l ness hess of or nil all persons of ut Hiving giving 11 IS In Ill II mu k before they the would he be permitted to tn to practise the tho seine mime us UM with wih II it II the tho doctors doctor lawyer und anti barber barberIn In I I Ii some way WiY IY till the newspaper misconstrued my for what I said v Wit an this thit While It might Ill gb t bo lie a n good thing for tor the public if Ir all 11 musicians 1011 hll to In ii pass nn nIl exam examination I similar to that required of 0 doc doe doctor tore tor lawyers rl Il still to I at ot attempt tempt to 10 get got any II legislation 1001 touching hlll bIg tile the mutter matter would be bo utterly absurd I 11 U Il IlI I No HUch Ilch lats lawa ait a Io known In ill the great Areat tut lt centers of or the tho world wold Paris Homo Honl Berlin and HII other cites and none of Ir If I out states have mich luch lare II WI What I bol IH it II wo 10 organize u a 1 State I I Music Teachers association similar to 10 those existing exl In iii II New CI York Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania III Illinois I I I I and ol other sta tee I The was 11 Immediately net act acted ed cd upon and taken to begin th hIll of fr such Buch an all 11 II Tho iilO sentiment of or 0 f lie tho t enlo oil 1 to gather gatherIng got lag Ing II Itis Wil as all 1 the chairman stated II for CO united action among to raise fluMe the Iho standard of 1 le among tile the peo heo people pie pIc at lt the seine same mun time not Ilot attempting to 10 Interfere with wih ith the tho humblest I member of hf the tue profusion Hoping you 01 can cnn find space for tor this th explanation I nm urn 11 Very VI respectfully 1 HUGH HUGl W V DOUGALL |