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Fandango, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 5, Summer 1944
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-SPEAK SOFTLY, BUT CARRY A BIG STICK. by Theodor Rosebud, the Rough-Rider.......OR The FTLaniac mulls over the mailing. -oOo- Several members have given suggestions on making my activity index more valid, such as counting pages for instance. It may be that I shall do this at some future time, when I have more leisure at my disposal, but for the nonce, I shall have to continue in my own gleepy manner. This does give a partial picture, and the very fact that it is here, mailing after mailing, may have a worthwhile psychological effect on certain of the less active membrs. I hope so anyway. (For the benefit of newcomers, I should mention that these figures are derived by dividing the number of members into the number of items in the mailing to present a percentage of activity which is then expressed in decimal form.) 24th Mailing. 35 papers from 51 members. .690 25th Mailing. 26 papers from 65 members. .400 26th Mailing. 48 papers from 65 members. .737 27th Mailing. *31 papers from 65 members. .477 (*Includes Celephais, post-mailed by Bill Evans.) . . . . . .And now to the mailing. -oOo- THE FANTASY AMATEUR. The portion of Ashley's message dealing with Degler has already been covered by me elsewhere in this and other mailings. Suffice it to say here that I shall never shut up on the matter until Degler has been tossed out of FAPA on his ear . . . . The matter of censorship of material to be included in the mailings is another matter, however. I am not so sure that a censorship is what we want. In the first place, few FAPA mags are written out in advance soon enough to go in and be censored, returned to the editor, mimeographed and submitted in time to make the mailing. I have a feeling that any such arrangement would result in a diminishing of activity, simply because the members would not want to go to all this trouble. A far better solution, it seems to me, would be to leave the matter to individual members' discretions, with some proviso to act to ban anything contrary to POSTAL REGULATIONS. (I do not consider the heading of this page to come under that category simply because the word used is one known only in fandom.) Any censorship would have to be watched very strongly to prevent any tendency to suppress iconoclastic material which might personally offend one of the censors, but which was still quite mailable. In connection with the 14-man waiting list and the ever present demand to increase our overall membership. I looked over our present roster, and found 18 names which do not seem active enough to be considered worthwhile FAPAns. If I have stupidly overlooked something, I wish to apologise in advance. Here are the ones I feel are too inactive: Buck, Carnell, Connor, Cunningham, Daugherty, Deutsch, Edge, Fortier, Hodgkins, Hurter, Jenkins, Ludowitz, Martin, Moffatt, Rogers, Ryder, Unger and Youd. If our activity requirements are upped hard, I think a couple or three mailings would see many of these names off the roster for good. I personally have neither, time, money, energy, nor inclination to run off a vast quantity of copies of Fan-Dango, simply because FAPA is too gutless to demand worthwhile contributions from all its members. Down with deadheads, says The FTLaniac! Norm Stanley's linking of The Knanves with all of Degler's "organisations" strikes me as being about the most offensive thing I yet have encountered in FAPA. If this was intended as humor, it certainly misfired; I suggest non-residents of Los Angeles either stay out of our local feuds altogether, or else inform themselves of the true facts in the case before going off half-cocked. -- 5 --
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-SPEAK SOFTLY, BUT CARRY A BIG STICK. by Theodor Rosebud, the Rough-Rider.......OR The FTLaniac mulls over the mailing. -oOo- Several members have given suggestions on making my activity index more valid, such as counting pages for instance. It may be that I shall do this at some future time, when I have more leisure at my disposal, but for the nonce, I shall have to continue in my own gleepy manner. This does give a partial picture, and the very fact that it is here, mailing after mailing, may have a worthwhile psychological effect on certain of the less active membrs. I hope so anyway. (For the benefit of newcomers, I should mention that these figures are derived by dividing the number of members into the number of items in the mailing to present a percentage of activity which is then expressed in decimal form.) 24th Mailing. 35 papers from 51 members. .690 25th Mailing. 26 papers from 65 members. .400 26th Mailing. 48 papers from 65 members. .737 27th Mailing. *31 papers from 65 members. .477 (*Includes Celephais, post-mailed by Bill Evans.) . . . . . .And now to the mailing. -oOo- THE FANTASY AMATEUR. The portion of Ashley's message dealing with Degler has already been covered by me elsewhere in this and other mailings. Suffice it to say here that I shall never shut up on the matter until Degler has been tossed out of FAPA on his ear . . . . The matter of censorship of material to be included in the mailings is another matter, however. I am not so sure that a censorship is what we want. In the first place, few FAPA mags are written out in advance soon enough to go in and be censored, returned to the editor, mimeographed and submitted in time to make the mailing. I have a feeling that any such arrangement would result in a diminishing of activity, simply because the members would not want to go to all this trouble. A far better solution, it seems to me, would be to leave the matter to individual members' discretions, with some proviso to act to ban anything contrary to POSTAL REGULATIONS. (I do not consider the heading of this page to come under that category simply because the word used is one known only in fandom.) Any censorship would have to be watched very strongly to prevent any tendency to suppress iconoclastic material which might personally offend one of the censors, but which was still quite mailable. In connection with the 14-man waiting list and the ever present demand to increase our overall membership. I looked over our present roster, and found 18 names which do not seem active enough to be considered worthwhile FAPAns. If I have stupidly overlooked something, I wish to apologise in advance. Here are the ones I feel are too inactive: Buck, Carnell, Connor, Cunningham, Daugherty, Deutsch, Edge, Fortier, Hodgkins, Hurter, Jenkins, Ludowitz, Martin, Moffatt, Rogers, Ryder, Unger and Youd. If our activity requirements are upped hard, I think a couple or three mailings would see many of these names off the roster for good. I personally have neither, time, money, energy, nor inclination to run off a vast quantity of copies of Fan-Dango, simply because FAPA is too gutless to demand worthwhile contributions from all its members. Down with deadheads, says The FTLaniac! Norm Stanley's linking of The Knanves with all of Degler's "organisations" strikes me as being about the most offensive thing I yet have encountered in FAPA. If this was intended as humor, it certainly misfired; I suggest non-residents of Los Angeles either stay out of our local feuds altogether, or else inform themselves of the true facts in the case before going off half-cocked. -- 5 --
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