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National Fantasy Fan, v. 9, issue 3, June 1950
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and members who helped me in many ways: Rick Sneary, Art Rapp, Ed Cox, Eva Firestone, Harry Moore, Martin Carlson, Charles Kentfield, Frank Groves, Dot Keller, Les Hudson, Perdita Lilly, Joe Low, Shelby Vick, Roy & Deedee Lavender, Warren Baldwin and Stan Serxner. Also all the Welcommittee and Recruiters. A swell bunch. - A.EVERETT WINNE RECRUITING HARRY MORE It seems to me that the Chairman of the Welcomittee, unless he has some little private axe to grind, is, as far as reporting to the membership is concerned, on the activities of the Committee, rather superfluous. It is almost mathematically certain that someone, or indeed several people under him will have said it all elsewhere -- and so it has turned out in the past, several times. It says here that I'm an executive, and that executives make decisions, advise on other decisions, regulate the activities of those under them, allot jobs and distribute work where it's wanted -- that is, NFFF executives do -- and direct over-all policy. Okay, so I've been doing it, insofar as things come up for my decisions; when they bypass me I don't do nuttin. But the trouble with these decisions is that they were all made among NFFFs and so, will be reported by the Inner-Public-Relations Officer -- my Outer activities consisting mostly of recruiting, concern themselves with non-members -- unfit for reporting, except when successfully persuaded, in which case they're automatically listed elsewhere, again out of my hands. So I'll stick to recruiting, but not entirely to NFFF recruiting, as I have for some time been wanting to pass on the know-how that I've picked up on this game, and particularly at close-up here in the New Orleans Science Fantasy Society. The NFFF recruiting drive is still going at somewhat less than house-afire speed. Eva tells me that the names of the unpersuadable fans ARE coming in, but not at all such as to even overload her letter-writing ability, much less that of the auxiliary recruiters awaiting to write. They've been augmented lately, too, as a result of the questionnaire -- all ready and nowhere to go. We've got men watching ever, prozine letter column, and yet they haven' enough to occupy them. Selfishness? You don't care to give someone else the chance to cop that free-dues-earning where YOU could maybe yet make a go of it? Well, sure, selfishness is understandable here, but the rate of inflow shows that you are not taking advantage of the help we've got here waiting to make it easier for you. No, I don't mean just the formal recruiters and members of the WelCommittee; if you -- any of you -- would like to try persuading friends, but can't call to mind the benefits of membership readily, or balk at putting 'em all down on paper every time you try writing, we've got a mimeoed form ready now for you. It's simply an enumeration, and can be used as such, but has about a 2-inch space at the top where you can type-in a paragraph or two of a letter leading up tot he listing, then go smoothly into the mimeo'd section almost unnoticed, to end up with typing again for a snappy conclusion, having saved yourself all the 20 or so attractions, no effort. Hokay, and I'll now go on to give you a lecture on forming, recruiting-for, and organizing a local. The first tenet, know ye, is that PATIENCE, in large gobs, is the most important virtue; you can be as charming as FDR, and have 17-ideas-per-minute, but you won't be able to hold em by individual action, no matter how much you know, and the
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and members who helped me in many ways: Rick Sneary, Art Rapp, Ed Cox, Eva Firestone, Harry Moore, Martin Carlson, Charles Kentfield, Frank Groves, Dot Keller, Les Hudson, Perdita Lilly, Joe Low, Shelby Vick, Roy & Deedee Lavender, Warren Baldwin and Stan Serxner. Also all the Welcommittee and Recruiters. A swell bunch. - A.EVERETT WINNE RECRUITING HARRY MORE It seems to me that the Chairman of the Welcomittee, unless he has some little private axe to grind, is, as far as reporting to the membership is concerned, on the activities of the Committee, rather superfluous. It is almost mathematically certain that someone, or indeed several people under him will have said it all elsewhere -- and so it has turned out in the past, several times. It says here that I'm an executive, and that executives make decisions, advise on other decisions, regulate the activities of those under them, allot jobs and distribute work where it's wanted -- that is, NFFF executives do -- and direct over-all policy. Okay, so I've been doing it, insofar as things come up for my decisions; when they bypass me I don't do nuttin. But the trouble with these decisions is that they were all made among NFFFs and so, will be reported by the Inner-Public-Relations Officer -- my Outer activities consisting mostly of recruiting, concern themselves with non-members -- unfit for reporting, except when successfully persuaded, in which case they're automatically listed elsewhere, again out of my hands. So I'll stick to recruiting, but not entirely to NFFF recruiting, as I have for some time been wanting to pass on the know-how that I've picked up on this game, and particularly at close-up here in the New Orleans Science Fantasy Society. The NFFF recruiting drive is still going at somewhat less than house-afire speed. Eva tells me that the names of the unpersuadable fans ARE coming in, but not at all such as to even overload her letter-writing ability, much less that of the auxiliary recruiters awaiting to write. They've been augmented lately, too, as a result of the questionnaire -- all ready and nowhere to go. We've got men watching ever, prozine letter column, and yet they haven' enough to occupy them. Selfishness? You don't care to give someone else the chance to cop that free-dues-earning where YOU could maybe yet make a go of it? Well, sure, selfishness is understandable here, but the rate of inflow shows that you are not taking advantage of the help we've got here waiting to make it easier for you. No, I don't mean just the formal recruiters and members of the WelCommittee; if you -- any of you -- would like to try persuading friends, but can't call to mind the benefits of membership readily, or balk at putting 'em all down on paper every time you try writing, we've got a mimeoed form ready now for you. It's simply an enumeration, and can be used as such, but has about a 2-inch space at the top where you can type-in a paragraph or two of a letter leading up tot he listing, then go smoothly into the mimeo'd section almost unnoticed, to end up with typing again for a snappy conclusion, having saved yourself all the 20 or so attractions, no effort. Hokay, and I'll now go on to give you a lecture on forming, recruiting-for, and organizing a local. The first tenet, know ye, is that PATIENCE, in large gobs, is the most important virtue; you can be as charming as FDR, and have 17-ideas-per-minute, but you won't be able to hold em by individual action, no matter how much you know, and the
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