The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-02
FORMAL CALL MADE
 ID MUSIC CLUBS State Organization to Meet
 Here During Reunion GUESTS IN HOMES
Plans Will Also Be Made for Biennial Meeting of the National Organization Here
 Next Year

Formal call for the first annual con- Nention of the State Organization of Music Clubs was issued yesterday by Mrs
 Victor H. Hanson as follows:
 ''The State Organization of Music Clubs first annual convention in Birmingham one wedpesday, Thursday and Friday May r, IS and 19.
 "A full representation (two delegates) from each club is desired.
 Gable hall will be headquarters.
 MRS. VICTOR H. HANSON, Pres"
 Twenty Alabama music club are all ready members of the state organization and others are expected to join before the date of the convention, and indi- cations are that the Birmingham conven- tion will be brilliant affair.
 It will be made especially notable by the attendance of at least four national figures in the world of music. These include: A. J. Ochsner of Chicago, pres ident of the National Federation of Music clubs; Mrs. Ella May Smith of Columbus, O., chairman of the American music department, and Mrs. David AL | leIl OdulpDGll, uOUOldIy wee pTCSIucul and editor of the Musical Monitor, the national organ.
 The meeting will be held the week
 of the Confederate Veterans reunion, and low railroad fares will be granted
 by every road entering Birmingham. Each of the 20 clubs in the federation is entitled to two delegates, and all are ex- pected to be represented not only by the authorized delegates but by visitors as well.
 The national officers will be here to assist in making the first convention 8 success, and also to perfect plans for the biennial session of the national or ganization in 1917. They will also go over the plans for the biennial with the local leaders, and will complete the pro- gramme arrangements It is expected that the complete programme for the bi- ennial will be announced shortly after the state convention
 GUESTS IN HOMES The delegates to the state convention will be guests of Birmingham during the
 convention, and will be entertained in the homes of prominent Birmingham
 women There will be no expense to the clubs outside of Birmingham in con- nection with either the state convention this year of the biennial next year. Some misapprehension seems to have arisen over the state," said Mrs. Han- son Saturday, lover the expenses or holding the biennial next year. Birming ham would ask for outside help. Such is not the case Birmingham will enter tain the state convention this year and the biennial next year, and those who come will be guests, not hosts.
 Though the first business session of our state convention will not be held until Thursday morning. May IS, am very anxious that all the delegates get here on May II, as the Confederate Vet erans' concert will be given at the BiJou theatre that night. The concert will be a part of the convention, and every dele- gate should be present.
 "All of our state convention pro- grammes will be given by Birmingham musicians and we are planning some very attractive concerts Our state or ga nization is young yet, but 1t has hao marvellous growth so far. Already ~ clubs are members, and nuvlber of others probably will be enrolled before the state convention meets
 URGES COOPERATION Mrs. William James Gifillan of Mem rhis. associate editor of the Monitor, official organ of the national organiza- Ition, has addressed the following letter to the Alabama clubs on the eve of their first convention:
 "The stirring call for meeting next month in Birmingham of representa- tives from all the musical interests III Alabama seems to have provoked some opposition The opponents of the move ment having gone so far as to voice their protest through the public press and assuming an attitude of defense against a supposed invasion of the prov ince of the musical committee of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs
 s.So erroneous is this Interpretation ot the motives of the National Federation of Musical Clubs as voiced through it's state president, Mrs. Victor H. Hanson, that l feel moved to an effort to cor rect this misapprehenson. The prin- ciple on which the National Federation works is cooperative with, not opposi- ton to all established musical endeavor.
 ''In an article which appeared in the Mo- bile Register just after Mrs. Hanson call was issued, the question was raised -'sDoes Alabama Need Two Musical Organizations?'- meaning this proposed state organization and the above men, ticned music committee. This query re minds me of the young woman who ques- tioned the advisability of giving her young gentleman friend a book for Christ man, on the grounds that he's already got book
 Having been closely associated with the work of the federation since the beinnial held in Memphis in 1907, and serving until just recently as vice president of the southern district, I feel may speak with a measure of au- thority on these matters, and unhesi- tatingly give as my opinion that all our states need this state organization. They need that and the music committee and the State Music Teachers associa- ton and every other organized effort along these lines possible, because one will stimulate the other and all work together for the good of those who love music and see the need of it iH our na- tional life It is not conservation bur expansion we want
 'sIr the article before quoted it was intimated that this innovation to form Ia state organization was no more than an expedient to secure material assist ance in entertaining the tenth biennial convention in 1917. Now Mrs. Hanson's invitation to the clubs to assist in en- tertaining the national body implies ex- actly the same obligation as one as- sumes when asked by any hostess to help receive; it is an honor extended, with no more responsibility than the ob- lipation to look plea sant and enjoy the