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Plenum, issue 2, July 1946
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PLENUM Page fourteen Even tho you didn't like World of A, Davis, Korzybski's philosophy follows your non-credo very closely. (And why not, since you both derived it from Bertrand Russell.) You'd like many of the ideas in Science and sanity if you could find the time to plow through the book. HORIZONS: Gardner's article explains why, whenever I pick up an odd copy of FFM, I put it on the shelf without howing the courage to read the novels therein. I thought it was something wrong with me. THE VOICE: Les should perform arithmetic and see that raising the number of members will not do the treasury any good at all if the treasury is short on dough. (We went thru all this about five years ago, as a matter of fact. Have to explain this everytime there is talk of raising the dues.) FAPA expenses are equally divided between members. If it costs 26[[cent symbol]] per person mailing to run the club, and if each member pays 25[[cent symbol]] per mailing, it isn't going to do one bit of good to have more members, for each new one will simply run the treasury a cent more in a hole each mailing. Expenses are stencils, secretary's supplies, postage, and envelopes. The first two are the only fixed charges (that is, independent of the number of members) and are insignificant compared with the postage. FAPA expenses may be expressed by the following equation: y - mx + b where y is the total expense per mailing, m is the postage and envelopes for each member, x is the number of members, and b is the total fixed charge per mailing. After a certain number of members, mx becomes very much larger than b, so that each increase in x increases y by almost an equal amount. (Differences in individual postage due to location ought to average out.) On the other hand, dues of two bucks per year is a lot more than is required to balance the budget. But it will be nice not to have the wolf barking on the heels of the treasury. We've never had a cent to spend for extras. The Voice in general I find a most mixed up publication. Some of the stuff gripes hell out of me, and other stuff, like the discussions of phonographs, I like. One of the things that griped me was the ravings about Yamashita. Croutch should learn to restrain his impulse to sit down and dash off something like that when he is in a wild mood. Inevitably you will later on regret some of the things you said. I admit I've been guilty of that fault in the past, but I was 18 or 19 then. Now I'm older and I try not to do it. Croutch is older, too.
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PLENUM Page fourteen Even tho you didn't like World of A, Davis, Korzybski's philosophy follows your non-credo very closely. (And why not, since you both derived it from Bertrand Russell.) You'd like many of the ideas in Science and sanity if you could find the time to plow through the book. HORIZONS: Gardner's article explains why, whenever I pick up an odd copy of FFM, I put it on the shelf without howing the courage to read the novels therein. I thought it was something wrong with me. THE VOICE: Les should perform arithmetic and see that raising the number of members will not do the treasury any good at all if the treasury is short on dough. (We went thru all this about five years ago, as a matter of fact. Have to explain this everytime there is talk of raising the dues.) FAPA expenses are equally divided between members. If it costs 26[[cent symbol]] per person mailing to run the club, and if each member pays 25[[cent symbol]] per mailing, it isn't going to do one bit of good to have more members, for each new one will simply run the treasury a cent more in a hole each mailing. Expenses are stencils, secretary's supplies, postage, and envelopes. The first two are the only fixed charges (that is, independent of the number of members) and are insignificant compared with the postage. FAPA expenses may be expressed by the following equation: y - mx + b where y is the total expense per mailing, m is the postage and envelopes for each member, x is the number of members, and b is the total fixed charge per mailing. After a certain number of members, mx becomes very much larger than b, so that each increase in x increases y by almost an equal amount. (Differences in individual postage due to location ought to average out.) On the other hand, dues of two bucks per year is a lot more than is required to balance the budget. But it will be nice not to have the wolf barking on the heels of the treasury. We've never had a cent to spend for extras. The Voice in general I find a most mixed up publication. Some of the stuff gripes hell out of me, and other stuff, like the discussions of phonographs, I like. One of the things that griped me was the ravings about Yamashita. Croutch should learn to restrain his impulse to sit down and dash off something like that when he is in a wild mood. Inevitably you will later on regret some of the things you said. I admit I've been guilty of that fault in the past, but I was 18 or 19 then. Now I'm older and I try not to do it. Croutch is older, too.
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