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Milty's Mag, issue 9, March 1943
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MILTY'S MAG Page seven overseas is fine. Personally, I'm in a position to buy all my own, but others may not be so lucky. So they would appreciate it. And I appreciate what a fine thing it is to send them the mags. Lord knows, I'm too lazy to do much in that way myself. I content myself with seeing that everybody in my barracks gets a chance at my magazines when I'm finished with them. What rubs me against the grain is the atmosphere that Cunningham builds around all this. Look at Salute: The cover with a conglomerate bunch of mystical symbols; the formal letters, signed John M. Cunningham on every page; the British and U-S- Seals; the air of slushiness about the whole thing. Hell, we FAPA'ers don't have to be so formal. Isn't it sufficiently effective to say: "Well, jerks, I've went and gotten into the army. In case I get out of touch with the bunch, it's been nice knowing you. But who knows? There's lots of mimeographs around. Maybe I'll find one. Then I'll be back." See? Letters of Henry S. Whitehead: I like this kind of people. Where do they hide? Jan. 31, 1943 Gad, but time swishes along. Business at camp has been booming since the first page of this mag was written. Goldbricking days are over. When I'm not teaching class, I'm giving psychological tests for the purpose of picking out the guys who are going to get high ratings or be made instructors. And when I'm not doing that I'm preparing a new course in the administration of the Medium Maintenance Company. I look at army organization charts until I'm blue in the face and cuss the guys who wrote the technical manuals for using the most unclear language I've ever laid eyes on. So, since time's a-wastin', let's get back to the last mailing for a few final comments. Jack Speer has loads of interesting things to say. He was on the ball when he wrote this Sus Pro. No need to wonder how I felt at the compliment that in describing my own feelings I have depicted the common man's mind towards the war. I would be very happy if that were really true. For I'm not the kind of person who goes around with his head in the air, despising everybody but his own tight little group of intellectuals. There are many ways in which I think differently from most people (resulting from a more materialistic and behavioristic way of observing things), but when it comes to social questions I look at myself as being part of the world. Speer had the insight to note that freedom of speech is something different in time of war than it is in peace. What's the sense of sending soldiers overseas to fight with guns if we allow our enemies--the people we are fighting against -- to shoot their mouths off on this side of the water? The concept must be held clearly in our minds: we are fighting a war; there are people and ideas we have decided we must get rid of. At the same time we must think: What effect will this have on democratic processes after the war. Maybe you can't get one without compromising ion the other. Here you have to evaluation. Actually, what I was talking about was an extension of the democratic process. Democracy is a loosely organized debating contest,
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MILTY'S MAG Page seven overseas is fine. Personally, I'm in a position to buy all my own, but others may not be so lucky. So they would appreciate it. And I appreciate what a fine thing it is to send them the mags. Lord knows, I'm too lazy to do much in that way myself. I content myself with seeing that everybody in my barracks gets a chance at my magazines when I'm finished with them. What rubs me against the grain is the atmosphere that Cunningham builds around all this. Look at Salute: The cover with a conglomerate bunch of mystical symbols; the formal letters, signed John M. Cunningham on every page; the British and U-S- Seals; the air of slushiness about the whole thing. Hell, we FAPA'ers don't have to be so formal. Isn't it sufficiently effective to say: "Well, jerks, I've went and gotten into the army. In case I get out of touch with the bunch, it's been nice knowing you. But who knows? There's lots of mimeographs around. Maybe I'll find one. Then I'll be back." See? Letters of Henry S. Whitehead: I like this kind of people. Where do they hide? Jan. 31, 1943 Gad, but time swishes along. Business at camp has been booming since the first page of this mag was written. Goldbricking days are over. When I'm not teaching class, I'm giving psychological tests for the purpose of picking out the guys who are going to get high ratings or be made instructors. And when I'm not doing that I'm preparing a new course in the administration of the Medium Maintenance Company. I look at army organization charts until I'm blue in the face and cuss the guys who wrote the technical manuals for using the most unclear language I've ever laid eyes on. So, since time's a-wastin', let's get back to the last mailing for a few final comments. Jack Speer has loads of interesting things to say. He was on the ball when he wrote this Sus Pro. No need to wonder how I felt at the compliment that in describing my own feelings I have depicted the common man's mind towards the war. I would be very happy if that were really true. For I'm not the kind of person who goes around with his head in the air, despising everybody but his own tight little group of intellectuals. There are many ways in which I think differently from most people (resulting from a more materialistic and behavioristic way of observing things), but when it comes to social questions I look at myself as being part of the world. Speer had the insight to note that freedom of speech is something different in time of war than it is in peace. What's the sense of sending soldiers overseas to fight with guns if we allow our enemies--the people we are fighting against -- to shoot their mouths off on this side of the water? The concept must be held clearly in our minds: we are fighting a war; there are people and ideas we have decided we must get rid of. At the same time we must think: What effect will this have on democratic processes after the war. Maybe you can't get one without compromising ion the other. Here you have to evaluation. Actually, what I was talking about was an extension of the democratic process. Democracy is a loosely organized debating contest,
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