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National Fantasy Fan, February 17, 1945

Page 5

[underlined and centered] PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Notice how much finer an issue we have this time? That is all because of two of our members -- Tucker and Dunkelberger. They decided that your pore ol' president had too much work to do, and was to be relieved of his job of getting out the Official Organ. Thus it comes about that this issue is being published by Dunk, and by next ish we should have an Official Editor. Well, I AM thankful to the boys -- the President's job is getting to be entirely too much for one person to handle as a hobby, if it were to include publishing a monthly magazine, too. Not that I don't enjoy work, for I do, but it takes so much of my not-working-at-a-job time that it precludes doing anything else (outside of a little poker over the week-ends -- and I feel guilty about that time.)

Your organization is growing right along, not only in size of membership, but in recognition and prestige in the world about us. Two or three times a week I get letters from perfect strangers who have heard of us, are intrigued by us, and want further information and an application blank. In spite of some criticisms advanced about the Welcom Booklet, these people usually write back and tell how much they have enjoyed the booklet, and add thanks for the information it contains. And, best of all, they usually return their application blank, signed, and accompanied by the lettuce.

Looks like the Chanizine Fiction Fanzine is just about set, and so those of you who have longer stories you would like to see contained therein, send them to the Official Editor, Charles R. Tanner, 3007 E. Sutter Ave., Cincinnati, 25, Ohio. And any of you who have Elite typers, and can do ten, fifteen or twenty pages inside of a week's time, and want to volunteer for helping out, please send in your names and the number of pages you can do. We can still use a few more typists. The issues are expected to come about every two months or so, so it wouldn't be much work to handle 10 pages an ish.

The idea of publishing the FANZINE PUBLISHERS' MANUAL in our magazine seems to have caught the popular fancy, to judge from your letters, and it may not be otherwise published after all, unless we get a much different reaction as time goes on. The general tone of comments so far is that Widner did a grand job on his Introduction. But, knowing Art, who would expect otherwise.

Capt. Donn P. Brazier sends us in some concrete ideas for the handling of a Manuscript Bureau -- a project often talked about but never put into practice because there were so many bugs to be ironed out. Now it begins to look feasible. Further comments and suggestions welcomed. Donn says: "Appoint a Director. He maintains a rotating roster (first name on list becomes last, etc.), changing each month of all editors subscribing to the service. Director to maintain a list of submissions by title, author, length, and one-sentence description, which will be mailed to each subscriber the first of each month. Editors will return the list marked: 1 for the item they want most; 2 for second choice, etc. Those not interested do not mark anything; those interested do not mark those items

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[underlined and centered] PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Notice how much finer an issue we have this time? That is all because of two of our members -- Tucker and Dunkelberger. They decided that your pore ol' president had too much work to do, and was to be relieved of his job of getting out the Official Organ. Thus it comes about that this issue is being published by Dunk, and by next ish we should have an Official Editor. Well, I AM thankful to the boys -- the President's job is getting to be entirely too much for one person to handle as a hobby, if it were to include publishing a monthly magazine, too. Not that I don't enjoy work, for I do, but it takes so much of my not-working-at-a-job time that it precludes doing anything else (outside of a little poker over the week-ends -- and I feel guilty about that time.) Your organization is growing right along, not only in size of membership, but in recognition and prestige in the world about us. Two or three times a week I get letters from perfect strangers who have heard of us, are intrigued by us, and want further information and an application blank. In spite of some criticisms advanced about the Welcom Booklet, these people usually write back and tell how much they have enjoyed the booklet, and add thanks for the information it contains. And, best of all, they usually return their application blank, signed, and accompanied by the lettuce. Looks like the Chanizine Fiction Fanzine is just about set, and so those of you who have longer stories you would like to see contained therein, send them to the Official Editor, Charles R. Tanner, 3007 E. Sutter Ave., Cincinnati, 25, Ohio. And any of you who have Elite typers, and can do ten, fifteen or twenty pages inside of a week's time, and want to volunteer for helping out, please send in your names and the number of pages you can do. We can still use a few more typists. The issues are expected to come about every two months or so, so it wouldn't be much work to handle 10 pages an ish. The idea of publishing the FANZINE PUBLISHERS' MANUAL in our magazine seems to have caught the popular fancy, to judge from your letters, and it may not be otherwise published after all, unless we get a much different reaction as time goes on. The general tone of comments so far is that Widner did a grand job on his Introduction. But, knowing Art, who would expect otherwise. Capt. Donn P. Brazier sends us in some concrete ideas for the handling of a Manuscript Bureau -- a project often talked about but never put into practice because there were so many bugs to be ironed out. Now it begins to look feasible. Further comments and suggestions welcomed. Donn says: "Appoint a Director. He maintains a rotating roster (first name on list becomes last, etc.), changing each month of all editors subscribing to the service. Director to maintain a list of submissions by title, author, length, and one-sentence description, which will be mailed to each subscriber the first of each month. Editors will return the list marked: 1 for the item they want most; 2 for second choice, etc. Those not interested do not mark anything; those interested do not mark those items