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Fandango, v. 1, issue 2, whole no. 6, Fall 1944
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sheets.) I decided to hold open house twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) and for several months the group published vigorously. In actual practise, these sessions were no end of fun. There were usually two crew mimeographing (crank-turner and slipsheeter), and generally two or three idle hands, who variously read, played records, or otherwise lent moral support to the laborers. By default, I took charge of these sessions; deciding whose stencils would be run when, whip-cracking at delinquent stencil cutters, and in general strawbossing the deal. It worked beautifully, though I fear many of the kiddies decided that my mother must have been scared by Simon Degree. Other activities of the group (aside from the feuding) revolved largely around the weekly dinner meetings Saturday nights, and informal get-togethers on other occasions. While in the earlier days of [[underline]] The Outsiders. [[/underline]] far too much attention was paid to bickering with the LASFS, or in holding hate sessions; after a month, most of the members had settled down to the pursuit of life, liberty, rosebud, and fan activity. The productivity of the group may be judged by the 106 pages of material in the 28th mailing. The casual reader may perhaps be wondering why [[underline]] The Outsiders [[/underline]] failed as a club. The group had the seeds of its own early decease in its very nature, or rather, in the very nature of its members. The majority of [[underline]] Outsiders [[/underline]] were older fans who had largely lost their interest in the field--thus, the group obviously needed new blood. These same members were adamantly opposed to letting any newer, more enthusiastic fans associate with them. Thus, the group was foredoomed to failure. But our experiences with cooperative publishing, with informal meetings utterly without constitutional quibbling, with unorganized individuals acting in cooperative harmony without the stultification of formal laws and precedents--all these things point along the lines that fandom are, generally speaking, far more interested in fantasy-weird-stf, fan publishing, and intelligent discussion than in the squabbles which will invariably arise when they allow themselves to be yoked with constitution, by-laws, officers, and all the rest of the paraphernalia of the average DAR chapter. And the best fan club is the one which provides heavily of activity in which each members can participate personally. From experience, I would say that if the group has one or two members of an aggressive type as leaders, it can rise to great heights without once going through the misery of a formal meeting. We, at least, found this to be so. ----oo0oo---- THE CONSTITUTION OF THE OUTSIDERS [[underline]] CONSTRUCTION [[/underline]]: [[underline]] The Outsiders [[/underline]] is a loosely knot body of persons professing an interest and inclination in that form of literature known as fantasy and/or science fiction, as represented in pulp news-stand magazines and/or better and lesser known literary books of this nature. In addition, there is a predominate interest on the part of the group in amateur printing, writing, and editing. For this purpose, various individual members maintain reproducing equipment, and from time to time issue amateur magazines. The OFFICERS of [[underline]] The Outsiders [[/underline]] shall consist of a Regulator, whose duties differ from that of a constitutional president or chairman in that he functions according to neither Robert's parliamentary procedure nor any similar local document, but regulates the order of business and -- 4 --
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sheets.) I decided to hold open house twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) and for several months the group published vigorously. In actual practise, these sessions were no end of fun. There were usually two crew mimeographing (crank-turner and slipsheeter), and generally two or three idle hands, who variously read, played records, or otherwise lent moral support to the laborers. By default, I took charge of these sessions; deciding whose stencils would be run when, whip-cracking at delinquent stencil cutters, and in general strawbossing the deal. It worked beautifully, though I fear many of the kiddies decided that my mother must have been scared by Simon Degree. Other activities of the group (aside from the feuding) revolved largely around the weekly dinner meetings Saturday nights, and informal get-togethers on other occasions. While in the earlier days of [[underline]] The Outsiders. [[/underline]] far too much attention was paid to bickering with the LASFS, or in holding hate sessions; after a month, most of the members had settled down to the pursuit of life, liberty, rosebud, and fan activity. The productivity of the group may be judged by the 106 pages of material in the 28th mailing. The casual reader may perhaps be wondering why [[underline]] The Outsiders [[/underline]] failed as a club. The group had the seeds of its own early decease in its very nature, or rather, in the very nature of its members. The majority of [[underline]] Outsiders [[/underline]] were older fans who had largely lost their interest in the field--thus, the group obviously needed new blood. These same members were adamantly opposed to letting any newer, more enthusiastic fans associate with them. Thus, the group was foredoomed to failure. But our experiences with cooperative publishing, with informal meetings utterly without constitutional quibbling, with unorganized individuals acting in cooperative harmony without the stultification of formal laws and precedents--all these things point along the lines that fandom are, generally speaking, far more interested in fantasy-weird-stf, fan publishing, and intelligent discussion than in the squabbles which will invariably arise when they allow themselves to be yoked with constitution, by-laws, officers, and all the rest of the paraphernalia of the average DAR chapter. And the best fan club is the one which provides heavily of activity in which each members can participate personally. From experience, I would say that if the group has one or two members of an aggressive type as leaders, it can rise to great heights without once going through the misery of a formal meeting. We, at least, found this to be so. ----oo0oo---- THE CONSTITUTION OF THE OUTSIDERS [[underline]] CONSTRUCTION [[/underline]]: [[underline]] The Outsiders [[/underline]] is a loosely knot body of persons professing an interest and inclination in that form of literature known as fantasy and/or science fiction, as represented in pulp news-stand magazines and/or better and lesser known literary books of this nature. In addition, there is a predominate interest on the part of the group in amateur printing, writing, and editing. For this purpose, various individual members maintain reproducing equipment, and from time to time issue amateur magazines. The OFFICERS of [[underline]] The Outsiders [[/underline]] shall consist of a Regulator, whose duties differ from that of a constitutional president or chairman in that he functions according to neither Robert's parliamentary procedure nor any similar local document, but regulates the order of business and -- 4 --
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