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Science Fiction Weekly, v. 2, issue 2, May 26, 1940
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page four ADDENDA: NANCY WARNER writes: "the information about current trends in fandom -- organizations along state lines, I found quite interesting. It seems that the fans are at last waking up and getting down to realities. For several years, I've watched with amusement while fans started national, international, and inter-planetary organizations, with constitutions, by-laws, and rules miles long, and dozens of officers with branches, sub-sections, & Allah knows what not. At last it seems to have percolated into some minds that this sort of thing not only is silly, but that it can't work. If the majority of fans were in the upper-income groups, who could take a plane out to Chicago, Los Angeles, Frisco, Texas, Maine, St. Louis, etc any time they wanted to have a conference, and could guarantee a regular weekly publication without fail over a period of years, in addition to reliable monthlies, quarterlies, etc, then it might be different. But, since nothing of the kind is the case, so long as the fans were under this stupid world federation of fans (or national ditto) idea, just so long were they behind the 8-ball. "With each locality that has enough fans to make it worth the trouble organized along its own particular lines, publishing its own journals, etc., and keeping in touch with the others via the pro magazines, national conventions, and a sort of national congress -- which is the onlt sensible suggestion for organization on a large scale that anyone has thought of so far. (It's not impractical or impossible, either; tho USA has been hanging together on this principle for years.) "As far as anything like utopian cooperation between all fans goes, the sooner this idiotic idea is forgotten, the better. Wherever you have a conglomeration of similar interests, you will have cooperation according to the degree of mutual interest and mutual ego-gratification. Fans, as a whole, do cooperate with each other, as a whole. But there will never be such a thing as all fans working together on one definite scheme of action, project, or whatever you may call it so long as such things as individual differences remain. Every clique, society, or group has an individuality and a group - individual differentiation from any other ditto, just as differences can be found between two given individuals, no matter how many points of similarity can be raised. "I hope the present indications of maturity and a spark of intelligence in the fan field as evidenced by this new development is not merely a flash in the collective fan-pan." THE FANMAG REVIEWER seems to have gone on a vacation of late, however we might mention a few items which have more or less forcibly been brought to our attention. For example, there's "Detours", a new affair sponsored by Louis Russell Chauvenet of 5 Reidesel Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. This sells for ten cents, is well hoctographed, and is due monthly. Contents consist of anything that LRC feels like putting in; we found the first issue rather interesting. ... If you have not your 3rd copy then run, do not walk, to the nearest 20 cents, and ship it off to W. Lawrence Hamling, 2609 Argyle Street, Chicago, Illinois. The name of this magazine i s Stardust, the magazine unique. Yes! ... Mercury has just come forth with its latest issue -- that's Tom Wright's item also published monthly, obtainable at RFD # 1, Martinis, California. Also from Wright is The Comet whose latest issues carries a bell-ringer of the #1 water "I Sent a Message to the Fish", by James Tillman. For every fan who is familiar with "Through the Looking-Glass etc" this "interpretation" of Carroll's verse will prove priceless- --- We also seem to recall that a recent issue of Le Zombic, Tucker, Box 260, Bloomington, Ill., was hot stuff as usual, and that the 3rd issue of Fantasy Fictioneer left us quite cold as a whole -- except for the official statement in reference to Fantasy News' libels on the IFF. TUCKER WRITES: "Bill Hamling informs me that the next issue of "Stardust", to be out the first week in July, goes to 36 pages, will accept professional advertising; circulation jumps to 1000, and twill go on the newsstands in Chicago. And the great BT will have his picture in it." page four
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page four ADDENDA: NANCY WARNER writes: "the information about current trends in fandom -- organizations along state lines, I found quite interesting. It seems that the fans are at last waking up and getting down to realities. For several years, I've watched with amusement while fans started national, international, and inter-planetary organizations, with constitutions, by-laws, and rules miles long, and dozens of officers with branches, sub-sections, & Allah knows what not. At last it seems to have percolated into some minds that this sort of thing not only is silly, but that it can't work. If the majority of fans were in the upper-income groups, who could take a plane out to Chicago, Los Angeles, Frisco, Texas, Maine, St. Louis, etc any time they wanted to have a conference, and could guarantee a regular weekly publication without fail over a period of years, in addition to reliable monthlies, quarterlies, etc, then it might be different. But, since nothing of the kind is the case, so long as the fans were under this stupid world federation of fans (or national ditto) idea, just so long were they behind the 8-ball. "With each locality that has enough fans to make it worth the trouble organized along its own particular lines, publishing its own journals, etc., and keeping in touch with the others via the pro magazines, national conventions, and a sort of national congress -- which is the onlt sensible suggestion for organization on a large scale that anyone has thought of so far. (It's not impractical or impossible, either; tho USA has been hanging together on this principle for years.) "As far as anything like utopian cooperation between all fans goes, the sooner this idiotic idea is forgotten, the better. Wherever you have a conglomeration of similar interests, you will have cooperation according to the degree of mutual interest and mutual ego-gratification. Fans, as a whole, do cooperate with each other, as a whole. But there will never be such a thing as all fans working together on one definite scheme of action, project, or whatever you may call it so long as such things as individual differences remain. Every clique, society, or group has an individuality and a group - individual differentiation from any other ditto, just as differences can be found between two given individuals, no matter how many points of similarity can be raised. "I hope the present indications of maturity and a spark of intelligence in the fan field as evidenced by this new development is not merely a flash in the collective fan-pan." THE FANMAG REVIEWER seems to have gone on a vacation of late, however we might mention a few items which have more or less forcibly been brought to our attention. For example, there's "Detours", a new affair sponsored by Louis Russell Chauvenet of 5 Reidesel Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. This sells for ten cents, is well hoctographed, and is due monthly. Contents consist of anything that LRC feels like putting in; we found the first issue rather interesting. ... If you have not your 3rd copy then run, do not walk, to the nearest 20 cents, and ship it off to W. Lawrence Hamling, 2609 Argyle Street, Chicago, Illinois. The name of this magazine i s Stardust, the magazine unique. Yes! ... Mercury has just come forth with its latest issue -- that's Tom Wright's item also published monthly, obtainable at RFD # 1, Martinis, California. Also from Wright is The Comet whose latest issues carries a bell-ringer of the #1 water "I Sent a Message to the Fish", by James Tillman. For every fan who is familiar with "Through the Looking-Glass etc" this "interpretation" of Carroll's verse will prove priceless- --- We also seem to recall that a recent issue of Le Zombic, Tucker, Box 260, Bloomington, Ill., was hot stuff as usual, and that the 3rd issue of Fantasy Fictioneer left us quite cold as a whole -- except for the official statement in reference to Fantasy News' libels on the IFF. TUCKER WRITES: "Bill Hamling informs me that the next issue of "Stardust", to be out the first week in July, goes to 36 pages, will accept professional advertising; circulation jumps to 1000, and twill go on the newsstands in Chicago. And the great BT will have his picture in it." page four
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