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Fandango, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 7, Winter 1944
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YHOS. I have already mentioned Art's incomprehensible orthography. Otherwise, this is up to par. ----oo0oo---- THE FAPA BULLETIN. It is my personal opinion that Shaw made a fool of himself with this intemperate outbreak. Daugherty has already circulated an answer to this sheet in his post-mailed Cush-lamochree, so there is little point in my carrying on about it. However, this entire election was muffed all the way down the line, and I feel that a definite system of procedure be worked out and adopted to prevent further difficulties. In the first place, I know for a positive fact that neither Daugherty nor Brown received any notice of their appointments to count ballots except for that in the FA. Furthermore, neither of them saw this notice until I brought it to their attention. Appointments made in this fashion are slipshod, to say the least. What guarantee was there that one or more of these members might have been unable to serve on the committee? (That sentence is slipshod too, I see, but I guess you know what I mean. This composing on the stencil!!) Then there is the matter of reporting the results. While I see now, in retrospect, that the committee should probably have informed the elects of their new offices; I know that had I been chairman of the committee I would never have thought of it, and would have done no more than Walt did, namely to notify the president of the results. What all this is leading to is simply that a presidential directive should be issued, outlining procedures in elections. Among points that should be included are: (1) requirement that the committee be appointed far enough in advance so that appointees may have the opportunity to accept or reject the appointment. (2) it should be decided who is to notify the elects, so that there can be no buck passing on this point. (3) something (!) should be done about this matter of last-minute attempts to rule out the results of the ballot, so as to obviate further confusion such as that over the passage or failure of some of the legislation. Perhaps some provision should be made for advance ruling on certain points that are likely to be raised on controversial subjects. In any case, the confusion over the Degler ouster reflected credit to neither the Futurians nor to FAPA. ----oo0oo---- ELMURMURINGS. Elmer's two paragraph philosophy of the lush is about the business. I, at least, am willing to settle for it....That surrealistic poem is a scream! One of the best take-offs I've yet seen in FAPA. Are you blushing, Willie? ----oo0oo---- SPEER CLASSIFICATION. Some of the local members have shown me a revised and supposedly definitive version of Speer's Decimal Classification, purportedly received as a post mailing. For some reason I did not receive a copy, and am thoroughly burned about the whole thing. For some cause, I have had rotten luck with post mailed items--I've never received any of the postmailings Lowndes is supposed to have published, there are other now-forgotten items I missed, and now this. I sincerely hope that FAPA is not degenerating into something like the NAPA, in which circulation of many of the items is to a selected few only. If a person is accepted to membership in this group, he should receive everything published through it, even if he doesn't part his hair right, or even if he is a comparative newcomer. ----oo0oo---- FAN-TODS. Up to par, but I should like to know what was censored out of the comments on Fan-Dango. I have an idea it was a kicker, and am curious to know just what. -- 5 --
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YHOS. I have already mentioned Art's incomprehensible orthography. Otherwise, this is up to par. ----oo0oo---- THE FAPA BULLETIN. It is my personal opinion that Shaw made a fool of himself with this intemperate outbreak. Daugherty has already circulated an answer to this sheet in his post-mailed Cush-lamochree, so there is little point in my carrying on about it. However, this entire election was muffed all the way down the line, and I feel that a definite system of procedure be worked out and adopted to prevent further difficulties. In the first place, I know for a positive fact that neither Daugherty nor Brown received any notice of their appointments to count ballots except for that in the FA. Furthermore, neither of them saw this notice until I brought it to their attention. Appointments made in this fashion are slipshod, to say the least. What guarantee was there that one or more of these members might have been unable to serve on the committee? (That sentence is slipshod too, I see, but I guess you know what I mean. This composing on the stencil!!) Then there is the matter of reporting the results. While I see now, in retrospect, that the committee should probably have informed the elects of their new offices; I know that had I been chairman of the committee I would never have thought of it, and would have done no more than Walt did, namely to notify the president of the results. What all this is leading to is simply that a presidential directive should be issued, outlining procedures in elections. Among points that should be included are: (1) requirement that the committee be appointed far enough in advance so that appointees may have the opportunity to accept or reject the appointment. (2) it should be decided who is to notify the elects, so that there can be no buck passing on this point. (3) something (!) should be done about this matter of last-minute attempts to rule out the results of the ballot, so as to obviate further confusion such as that over the passage or failure of some of the legislation. Perhaps some provision should be made for advance ruling on certain points that are likely to be raised on controversial subjects. In any case, the confusion over the Degler ouster reflected credit to neither the Futurians nor to FAPA. ----oo0oo---- ELMURMURINGS. Elmer's two paragraph philosophy of the lush is about the business. I, at least, am willing to settle for it....That surrealistic poem is a scream! One of the best take-offs I've yet seen in FAPA. Are you blushing, Willie? ----oo0oo---- SPEER CLASSIFICATION. Some of the local members have shown me a revised and supposedly definitive version of Speer's Decimal Classification, purportedly received as a post mailing. For some reason I did not receive a copy, and am thoroughly burned about the whole thing. For some cause, I have had rotten luck with post mailed items--I've never received any of the postmailings Lowndes is supposed to have published, there are other now-forgotten items I missed, and now this. I sincerely hope that FAPA is not degenerating into something like the NAPA, in which circulation of many of the items is to a selected few only. If a person is accepted to membership in this group, he should receive everything published through it, even if he doesn't part his hair right, or even if he is a comparative newcomer. ----oo0oo---- FAN-TODS. Up to par, but I should like to know what was censored out of the comments on Fan-Dango. I have an idea it was a kicker, and am curious to know just what. -- 5 --
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