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SPACEWAYS 15 UNITED STATES ROCKET SOCIETY 781 Riford Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois Officers: R. L. Farnsworth, President Evelyn H. Swenson, Secretary I. A. Lesher, Vice President Directors: H. Emerson Canney, Jr., Aeronautics Lee O. Farnsworth, Counsel No. 1 Jan. 15, 1942 Address all inquiries to the Society at 4108 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago, Ill. Season's Greetings! A little late? Yes, but as good stf. fans you will bear with us, and do a little time traveling in reverse! This, the first report of the UNITED STATES ROCKET SOCIETY, is being typed up on Dec. 14, 1941, in the year of His Satanic Majesty's! So we travel forward while you will have to backtrack. Since our first annual meeting is not to be held until Jan. 17, we cannot report on the universe-shaking event in this issue, but you will have full tidings in the April 15 issue of Spaceways, which, with this issue, becomes the official organ of the Society. Policy In response to the many inquiries which we have received in regards to the policy of the society, we want to take the time to outline our present policy, which may be changed at the first annual meeting. For the time being we are engaged in obtaining members. And there is no question but that the war will seriously affect our quest. We are eager to form branch organizations of Rocket fans and other far seeing minds all over the country, as only by widespread participation will Rocketry advance in the public interest. In our opinion present Rocket activity is so situated as to become the property of large corporations immediately upon its effective development. War, which is an outburst of national energy, will bring vast changes, and Rocketry should be one of them. Finances At present the society is operating at a deficit, which is being absorbed by the officers. Postage, stationery, advertising, and letter service and library acquisitions are the only expenses, to date. FLASHES! On Nov. 29, 1941, we received by Air Mail a report which we had requested that Mr. Canney write up in regard to the launching problems of Rocket flight, and landing dangers. In addition he sent us a suggested design for a button or insignia which is very good. You may be interested in Mr. Canney's address: Pfc H. Emerson Canney, Jr. United States Army Air Corps 17th Air Base Squadron Bellows Field, Waimanalo OAHU, HAWAII! We have recently been sent, for our library, the March-April issue of The Telescope, a magazine put out by Harvard Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. ($1.00 per year.) This issue contains a splendidly detailed report on the new 200-inch telescope at Mt. Palomar, Calif. Those interested in this telescope would do well to see whether any of these are still obtainable. Adopted for the Society's use has been this excerpt from Daniel H. Burnham, great American architect and planner: "Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing asserting itself with ever growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us!"
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SPACEWAYS 15 UNITED STATES ROCKET SOCIETY 781 Riford Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois Officers: R. L. Farnsworth, President Evelyn H. Swenson, Secretary I. A. Lesher, Vice President Directors: H. Emerson Canney, Jr., Aeronautics Lee O. Farnsworth, Counsel No. 1 Jan. 15, 1942 Address all inquiries to the Society at 4108 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago, Ill. Season's Greetings! A little late? Yes, but as good stf. fans you will bear with us, and do a little time traveling in reverse! This, the first report of the UNITED STATES ROCKET SOCIETY, is being typed up on Dec. 14, 1941, in the year of His Satanic Majesty's! So we travel forward while you will have to backtrack. Since our first annual meeting is not to be held until Jan. 17, we cannot report on the universe-shaking event in this issue, but you will have full tidings in the April 15 issue of Spaceways, which, with this issue, becomes the official organ of the Society. Policy In response to the many inquiries which we have received in regards to the policy of the society, we want to take the time to outline our present policy, which may be changed at the first annual meeting. For the time being we are engaged in obtaining members. And there is no question but that the war will seriously affect our quest. We are eager to form branch organizations of Rocket fans and other far seeing minds all over the country, as only by widespread participation will Rocketry advance in the public interest. In our opinion present Rocket activity is so situated as to become the property of large corporations immediately upon its effective development. War, which is an outburst of national energy, will bring vast changes, and Rocketry should be one of them. Finances At present the society is operating at a deficit, which is being absorbed by the officers. Postage, stationery, advertising, and letter service and library acquisitions are the only expenses, to date. FLASHES! On Nov. 29, 1941, we received by Air Mail a report which we had requested that Mr. Canney write up in regard to the launching problems of Rocket flight, and landing dangers. In addition he sent us a suggested design for a button or insignia which is very good. You may be interested in Mr. Canney's address: Pfc H. Emerson Canney, Jr. United States Army Air Corps 17th Air Base Squadron Bellows Field, Waimanalo OAHU, HAWAII! We have recently been sent, for our library, the March-April issue of The Telescope, a magazine put out by Harvard Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. ($1.00 per year.) This issue contains a splendidly detailed report on the new 200-inch telescope at Mt. Palomar, Calif. Those interested in this telescope would do well to see whether any of these are still obtainable. Adopted for the Society's use has been this excerpt from Daniel H. Burnham, great American architect and planner: "Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing asserting itself with ever growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us!"
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