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And so here we go again, dear ones, with vol. 5, no. 3, FAPA number 13, whole number 19, of the poor man's Schopenhauer, Horizons. Harry Warner, Jr., having reached the age of reason, must be held responsible for most of the stuff herein and in an emergency can be addressed at 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown QY9, Mary-land. This is the June, 1944 issue, produced on Macbeth and duplicated upon the almost legendary Double double toil and trouble Mimeograph. Still an issue behind schedule.
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"...words of learned length and thundering sound..."
This time, I presume, brief notes on everything in the mailing are feasible, though I'd really intended to get away from that and concentrate on writing a couple of dozen lines on each of a half-dozen subjects that are particularly interesting. Be ore getting into this, I might add that the Degler Memorial Issue of Horizons, aimed at making up the issue skipped back in the winter, should be in the September FAPA mailing along with another complete issue like this one. 
Just to be contrary, we'll start with Celephais, and I'll underline the titles this time; to make up for the extra work involved therein I'm omitting the volume and number, since that dope is now available for future historians elsewhere in the mailing. It is rather inane, but proper, to say that I'm very happy to see Bill come out from behind his check-lists, and hope that this appears regularly--though I still want to see that listing of prozines' titles, dates, and issue numbers. The 4 4s business positively awesome. The Organization of Fandon: Walt is, from all I hear and the slight personal contact I've had with him, an extremely fine person, but I don't think he's fitted for the NFFF task he's been given. This publication is ample proof of that, with its misstatements and dogmatic non sequiturs. To pick out a few of the most obvious: Walt has not been active in fan circles for over six years; that would throw him back to the beginning of 1938, at the very latest, 6 months before I came in, and I never heard of Walt Daugherty until mid-1939 or thereabouts. Second paragraph: I very gravely doubt that there is a vital necessity for a representative body or recognized registered fandom, if that body is to be registered just for the sake of registration--and that has been the sole activity of the NFFF thus far. Fifth paragraph: for shame! The thing that worked against the Science Fiction League, New Fandom, and other previous attempts at organizing fandoms was the lack of real democratic self-government and the manner in which a very small group ran the clubs. Not that I'm attempting to justify the wondrous number of committees and sub-officials the NFFF has been burdened with! Two weeks of correspondence certainly isn't necessary for settling questions between fans 100 miles away; if they're willing to answer letters promptly, it can be done in less than a week, and if the matter is vital, by spending four bits for a long-distance telephone call. Daugherty shows painful ignorance of Widner's polling methods: apparently he has confused the Pollcat's actions with Le Zombie's postal ballots or de la Ree's picked list of voters. And so it goes: the membership blank is the only really satisfactory thing in the issue. A1 Apparently Doc forgot to remove his ribbon when stencilling Agenbite of Inwit, for the bottoms of many characters don't come out. Always take it off, boys, even if your cut-off lever works; very seldom do you find a typer on which there isn't a slight interference by the ribbon. Sorry, Doc, but I prefer Stokowski's Tschaikovski to that of any other conductor. As long as the sentimentality is there, it might as well be played up for everything it's worth. Trigger-Talk continues to be delightful and Wollheim's views on music show him considerably above most musical dilettantes in tastes; while I naturally regret to note that DAW dislikes music because he can't get picturizations from it, he's more honest than the people who claim to like it because it creates pictures. It doesn't, honestly, and one of these days Don is going to approach it in a mathematical frame of mind, or perhaps in an effort to work himself into a certain emotional state, and we'll have another fandom since Speer's discovery of three-dimensional time, in the form of its title faces. The Starrett column on Love craft is duly...

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And so here we go again, dear ones, with vol. 5, no. 3, FAPA number 13, whole number 19, of the poor man's Schopenhauer, Horizons. Harry Warner, Jr., having reached the age of reason, must be held responsible for most of the stuff herein and in an emergency can be addressed at 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown QY9, Mary-land. This is the June, 1944 issue, produced on Macbeth and duplicated upon the almost legendary Double double toil and trouble Mimeograph. Still an issue behind schedule. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: "...words of learned length and thundering sound..." This time, I presume, brief notes on everything in the mailing are feasible, though I'd really intended to get away from that and concentrate on writing a couple of dozen lines on each of a half-dozen subjects that are particularly interesting. Be ore getting into this, I might add that the Degler Memorial Issue of Horizons, aimed at making up the issue skipped back in the winter, should be in the September FAPA mailing along with another complete issue like this one. Just to be contrary, we'll start with Celephais, and I'll underline the titles this time; to make up for the extra work involved therein I'm omitting the volume and number, since that dope is now available for future historians elsewhere in the mailing. It is rather inane, but proper, to say that I'm very happy to see Bill come out from behind his check-lists, and hope that this appears regularly--though I still want to see that listing of prozines' titles, dates, and issue numbers. The 4 4s business positively awesome. The Organization of Fandon: Walt is, from all I hear and the slight personal contact I've had with him, an extremely fine person, but I don't think he's fitted for the NFFF task he's been given. This publication is ample proof of that, with its misstatements and dogmatic non sequiturs. To pick out a few of the most obvious: Walt has not been active in fan circles for over six years; that would throw him back to the beginning of 1938, at the very latest, 6 months before I came in, and I never heard of Walt Daugherty until mid-1939 or thereabouts. Second paragraph: I very gravely doubt that there is a vital necessity for a representative body or recognized registered fandom, if that body is to be registered just for the sake of registration--and that has been the sole activity of the NFFF thus far. Fifth paragraph: for shame! The thing that worked against the Science Fiction League, New Fandom, and other previous attempts at organizing fandoms was the lack of real democratic self-government and the manner in which a very small group ran the clubs. Not that I'm attempting to justify the wondrous number of committees and sub-officials the NFFF has been burdened with! Two weeks of correspondence certainly isn't necessary for settling questions between fans 100 miles away; if they're willing to answer letters promptly, it can be done in less than a week, and if the matter is vital, by spending four bits for a long-distance telephone call. Daugherty shows painful ignorance of Widner's polling methods: apparently he has confused the Pollcat's actions with Le Zombie's postal ballots or de la Ree's picked list of voters. And so it goes: the membership blank is the only really satisfactory thing in the issue. A1 Apparently Doc forgot to remove his ribbon when stencilling Agenbite of Inwit, for the bottoms of many characters don't come out. Always take it off, boys, even if your cut-off lever works; very seldom do you find a typer on which there isn't a slight interference by the ribbon. Sorry, Doc, but I prefer Stokowski's Tschaikovski to that of any other conductor. As long as the sentimentality is there, it might as well be played up for everything it's worth. Trigger-Talk continues to be delightful and Wollheim's views on music show him considerably above most musical dilettantes in tastes; while I naturally regret to note that DAW dislikes music because he can't get picturizations from it, he's more honest than the people who claim to like it because it creates pictures. It doesn't, honestly, and one of these days Don is going to approach it in a mathematical frame of mind, or perhaps in an effort to work himself into a certain emotional state, and we'll have another fandom since Speer's discovery of three-dimensional time, in the form of its title faces. The Starrett column on Love craft is duly...