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Phanteur, whole no. 1, January 1946
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15 PHANTEUR namely, the numerous visits to various and sundry mediums. I suppose one may become a connoisseur of seances in time, but why? PHANTAGRAPH: Lowndes’ "Annals of Arkya" again, and so I like this issue. Doc surely can’t think much of these verses, ’cause I think they are rather good; we couldn’t agree so closely as that on poetry. ALLEGORY: A few more pages like the first page of my copy of this (some of the other pages aren't so good either!) will force me, rather reluctantly, to join in the campaign against ditto reproduction. I did manage to read all of the item, but it was rather rough on eyes and patience. The general result of the perusal was one of puzzlement; too many of the references were either too obscure, or else referred to facets of s-f and fandom with which I was insufficiently familiar. Wonder what the 1945 crop of fans would be able to get out of it? And that is all there is to say about the last Mailing. MUNDANE STUFF, BUT FANS’ MEAT; Or so I think, anyway. I’m referring to an article currently appearing in the magazine Industry and Power, which isn’t, so far as I know, on any newsstand, but I could be wrong. Title of the three-part article is "Stimulating Inventiveness." It is written by Carroll L. Wilson, a consulting engineer, who formerly was attached to the National Patent Planning Commission, and the material presented in the article will make up part of the contents of a book to be published some time in 1946. I’ve read only the two first parts, although the third will probably appear before this reaches you. The article is written for and from the standpoint of the business executive or industrialist; the writer, with this in mind, warns against letting the Government have any part in the program proposed. But, whatever your opinion on this matter (most of you know, or at least have an inkling, of mine, if you’ve read previous installments of "By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them") the program outlined is worth careful study, and certainly constitutes a good argument for the benefits to be gained from "stimulating inventiveness." Says Carroll, "A rich flow of innovations is our chief reliance for the increasing productivity and sustained employment essential to progress." The first part of the article deals with the subject on the college level, under the following heads: National Productivity, Goal For Innovators, Student Knowledge, Creative Talent, Teaching to Invent, Biography of Invention. The writer points out, however, that it is a little late to start at the college level, and advises it only for quick results, on the grounds that in the group represented by college students, a superior selection is available. The second part goes into the long-range plans, and advises starting with children of pre-school age. Headings include: Guide for Parents, Cultivation of Determination, Heroes and Hobbies, Fostering Hobby Clubs, Aptitude Tests (Carroll points out that existing tests are far too crude to be more than indicative and entirely inadequate as final determinants; Innovators (a sort of psychic bond, as it were, which really exists) and The Gifted Teacher. The second part also covers Frontiers panorama (new and o1d fields of research, etc.) New Science of Man, Fundamental Analysis (determining what problems need solving, etc.) Organized Research (he proposes a preliminary 50-year program, to start in a single small college, and be expanded as methods and probable results come into view), The American Family (as the ultimate consumer and market for new products). The third part will deal with: Teamwork, Organized Business Research, Institutes for Fundamental Research, Mobilizing Employee and Customer Ingenuity and Aid for Independent Inventors. (continued from Page 1.) sphere of Gubmuh's fantastic satellite, Oot-Yggub. Yggy, as the little world was fondly called in those good old days before its disintegration early in the first hour of Third (also known as the 90-minute) intergalactic Cimota war, possessed an atmosphere with astounding optic properties, the most notable of of which was the curious distortion of perspective, which property is well
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15 PHANTEUR namely, the numerous visits to various and sundry mediums. I suppose one may become a connoisseur of seances in time, but why? PHANTAGRAPH: Lowndes’ "Annals of Arkya" again, and so I like this issue. Doc surely can’t think much of these verses, ’cause I think they are rather good; we couldn’t agree so closely as that on poetry. ALLEGORY: A few more pages like the first page of my copy of this (some of the other pages aren't so good either!) will force me, rather reluctantly, to join in the campaign against ditto reproduction. I did manage to read all of the item, but it was rather rough on eyes and patience. The general result of the perusal was one of puzzlement; too many of the references were either too obscure, or else referred to facets of s-f and fandom with which I was insufficiently familiar. Wonder what the 1945 crop of fans would be able to get out of it? And that is all there is to say about the last Mailing. MUNDANE STUFF, BUT FANS’ MEAT; Or so I think, anyway. I’m referring to an article currently appearing in the magazine Industry and Power, which isn’t, so far as I know, on any newsstand, but I could be wrong. Title of the three-part article is "Stimulating Inventiveness." It is written by Carroll L. Wilson, a consulting engineer, who formerly was attached to the National Patent Planning Commission, and the material presented in the article will make up part of the contents of a book to be published some time in 1946. I’ve read only the two first parts, although the third will probably appear before this reaches you. The article is written for and from the standpoint of the business executive or industrialist; the writer, with this in mind, warns against letting the Government have any part in the program proposed. But, whatever your opinion on this matter (most of you know, or at least have an inkling, of mine, if you’ve read previous installments of "By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them") the program outlined is worth careful study, and certainly constitutes a good argument for the benefits to be gained from "stimulating inventiveness." Says Carroll, "A rich flow of innovations is our chief reliance for the increasing productivity and sustained employment essential to progress." The first part of the article deals with the subject on the college level, under the following heads: National Productivity, Goal For Innovators, Student Knowledge, Creative Talent, Teaching to Invent, Biography of Invention. The writer points out, however, that it is a little late to start at the college level, and advises it only for quick results, on the grounds that in the group represented by college students, a superior selection is available. The second part goes into the long-range plans, and advises starting with children of pre-school age. Headings include: Guide for Parents, Cultivation of Determination, Heroes and Hobbies, Fostering Hobby Clubs, Aptitude Tests (Carroll points out that existing tests are far too crude to be more than indicative and entirely inadequate as final determinants; Innovators (a sort of psychic bond, as it were, which really exists) and The Gifted Teacher. The second part also covers Frontiers panorama (new and o1d fields of research, etc.) New Science of Man, Fundamental Analysis (determining what problems need solving, etc.) Organized Research (he proposes a preliminary 50-year program, to start in a single small college, and be expanded as methods and probable results come into view), The American Family (as the ultimate consumer and market for new products). The third part will deal with: Teamwork, Organized Business Research, Institutes for Fundamental Research, Mobilizing Employee and Customer Ingenuity and Aid for Independent Inventors. (continued from Page 1.) sphere of Gubmuh's fantastic satellite, Oot-Yggub. Yggy, as the little world was fondly called in those good old days before its disintegration early in the first hour of Third (also known as the 90-minute) intergalactic Cimota war, possessed an atmosphere with astounding optic properties, the most notable of of which was the curious distortion of perspective, which property is well
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