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Fantasy Amateur, v. 8, issue 2, November 1944
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THE FANTASY AMATEUR November 1944 Special Issue Vol VIII No 2 Official organ of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association Officers of the FAPA: President: Robert W. Lowndes Secretary-Treasurer: A.L. Schwartz Vice-President: Al Ashley Official Editor: Larry Shaw 30th FAPA mailing 179 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn 11, NY PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The result of the recent balloting show that the proposed article 13 failed to pass by one vote. However, inasmuch as, even had the situation been exactly reversed, its passage would not have represented the opinion of the majority of the membership, I, personally, am just as content. This is an important issue, one where, more than ever, I feel that 19 or 20 should not speak for 65, despite my own personal favoring of the proposed legislation. The problem of how to attack the matter of specific items in the mailings endangering the whole organization due to obscenity contained therein, remains unsolved so far as specific legislation goes. However, since your Prexy does have the power to deal with situations not covered elsewhere by the constitution, and since this is a matter which may assume considerable import, I'm filling in the gap by the following instructions to the Official Editor. Should the Editor note anything in any particular publication which strikes him as being such as to endanger us on the grounds of obscenity, he shall submit a copy of this publication to the Vice President, who shall decide upon the matter. The Vice President being our judiciary, should he decide that this item is indeed obscene, and such as to endanger FAPA's mailing privileges, he shall so notify the editor, who shall return the publication to the party or parties sending it in for mailing. Such publication, or publications, may not be included in any official mailing, or listed as part of any mailing. If the member in question wishes to distribute this item privately, he is perfectly free to do so, so far as FAPA is concerned, providing that any wording to the effect that the publication is a FAPA magazine is excised. The proposed amendment to change the dates of the mailing, and the follow-up alterations in other sections of the constitution having received a definite plurality, within a majority balloting, now becomes law; therefore, the next official mailing shall be due out on the second Saturday of January, 1945. Of course, as everyone knows, any mailing is likely to be held up, for any number of reasons, but that is the date to which editors will strive until and unless further changes in the constitution are made. The proposed amendment revising the rules for impeachment of officers, suspension of members, and the passing of amendments to the constitution having passed, all future proposed amendments may pass only by an affirmative vote on the part of a majority of the membership. The petition instrument for suspension of sections of the constitution in specific instances, without revising them, or of over-riding acts of officials, remains, but to be effective must receive signatures 1
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THE FANTASY AMATEUR November 1944 Special Issue Vol VIII No 2 Official organ of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association Officers of the FAPA: President: Robert W. Lowndes Secretary-Treasurer: A.L. Schwartz Vice-President: Al Ashley Official Editor: Larry Shaw 30th FAPA mailing 179 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn 11, NY PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The result of the recent balloting show that the proposed article 13 failed to pass by one vote. However, inasmuch as, even had the situation been exactly reversed, its passage would not have represented the opinion of the majority of the membership, I, personally, am just as content. This is an important issue, one where, more than ever, I feel that 19 or 20 should not speak for 65, despite my own personal favoring of the proposed legislation. The problem of how to attack the matter of specific items in the mailings endangering the whole organization due to obscenity contained therein, remains unsolved so far as specific legislation goes. However, since your Prexy does have the power to deal with situations not covered elsewhere by the constitution, and since this is a matter which may assume considerable import, I'm filling in the gap by the following instructions to the Official Editor. Should the Editor note anything in any particular publication which strikes him as being such as to endanger us on the grounds of obscenity, he shall submit a copy of this publication to the Vice President, who shall decide upon the matter. The Vice President being our judiciary, should he decide that this item is indeed obscene, and such as to endanger FAPA's mailing privileges, he shall so notify the editor, who shall return the publication to the party or parties sending it in for mailing. Such publication, or publications, may not be included in any official mailing, or listed as part of any mailing. If the member in question wishes to distribute this item privately, he is perfectly free to do so, so far as FAPA is concerned, providing that any wording to the effect that the publication is a FAPA magazine is excised. The proposed amendment to change the dates of the mailing, and the follow-up alterations in other sections of the constitution having received a definite plurality, within a majority balloting, now becomes law; therefore, the next official mailing shall be due out on the second Saturday of January, 1945. Of course, as everyone knows, any mailing is likely to be held up, for any number of reasons, but that is the date to which editors will strive until and unless further changes in the constitution are made. The proposed amendment revising the rules for impeachment of officers, suspension of members, and the passing of amendments to the constitution having passed, all future proposed amendments may pass only by an affirmative vote on the part of a majority of the membership. The petition instrument for suspension of sections of the constitution in specific instances, without revising them, or of over-riding acts of officials, remains, but to be effective must receive signatures 1
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