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Fantasy Amateur, v. 9, issue 4, Summer 1946
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Due to the depressing absence of strife in uncertainty the last three months, there is no vice-president’s report. In its place, we give you an extract from a letter Ted Carnell wrote to Langley Searles in returning his special ballot: FAPA has done very well over the years, despite feuds. I only wish that the war years had allowed me time to devote to doing something worthy for the cause. But they haven’t. Now, with the war over, my time is even scarcer. I am pro editing, with the first issue of a new stf mag on the stands here before this reachs you, and with a quarterly weird book and a quarterly fantasy book to edit. Push on top of that the fact that British Amateur Press Assoc. ballot this month will make me Prez or Vice-Prez – and you can see that I’m coming up for the third time. Under the circumstances, I realize that I am holding a seat on FAPA which should be filled by an Active American member from your waiting list. For this reason alone I would like to tender my resignation. I would, however, especially esteem the favor of receiving the FAPA mags containing fiction, with a view to obtaining First British Rights to any stories I feel suitable for my publications. (“Mr Pobbles and the Gjinn” is the last The Thing is a typical example of the fantasy I require, and I have written direct to Burton Crane with the view to obtaining British Rights). ______________________________ I hope this election gets more than that “normal” turn-out of 30, Norm. ______________________________ The editor will now fill up space with some comments about the advisory ballot. The purpose of this ballot is to secure your opinions on proposals that have been advanced, in order to guide whoever undertake a revision of the FAPA constitution. Immediately i must apologize to anyone who suggestion is inadvertently omitted or misstated; having kept no notes, i had to make up the ballot fromemory. The results of this constitutional balloting; they may not even be statistically compiled. It will be the job of the revisers to turn out an harmonious document, which may mean that not every proposal which gets more yesses than noes can be included. But the revisers will do well to consider that they’ll have to satisfy as many people as possible in order to squeeze out that majority vote of the entire membership. If answering these questions will seriously delay your election ballot, you’d better send the letter on first. On the advisory ballot, you’re not required to answer any question on which you have no opinion or no preference; but in order to get an accurate picture of members’ opinions, it is desirable that every member do return the ballot. Send it to the same committee as counts the election votes. With reference to the bonding of the treasurer, i’d again like to express a contrary opinion. The security provided by bonding is problematical, especially since the treasurer can just neglect to get the bond; and it’s doubtless considerable trouble, for Art Widner, who as NFFF secretary is constitutionally required to be bonded, has not gotten around to doing it yet, and sure he is an honorable man. No one has yet told us what annual bonding will cost the treasury. Some people seem of the belief that we could not pursue an absconding treasurer if he were not bonded and of age. Not so; and if we aren’t willing to subject a fellow-fan to suit, i doubt that we’d be willing to as sic a bonding corporation on him if he, like Ephless El, was temporarily (for a few years) unable to remit quite all of the funds charged to him. Bonding at best gives security against only one type of breach of trust, and there are many other defaults just a serious in their consequences, of which president, secretary, or editor might be guilty, against which there’s no defence save the trust we repose in eachother. Let’s continue to bank on that. #13 is intended to meet situations such as Myrtle Douglas’s and the servifens, on whom the exemption while overseas expires now.
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Due to the depressing absence of strife in uncertainty the last three months, there is no vice-president’s report. In its place, we give you an extract from a letter Ted Carnell wrote to Langley Searles in returning his special ballot: FAPA has done very well over the years, despite feuds. I only wish that the war years had allowed me time to devote to doing something worthy for the cause. But they haven’t. Now, with the war over, my time is even scarcer. I am pro editing, with the first issue of a new stf mag on the stands here before this reachs you, and with a quarterly weird book and a quarterly fantasy book to edit. Push on top of that the fact that British Amateur Press Assoc. ballot this month will make me Prez or Vice-Prez – and you can see that I’m coming up for the third time. Under the circumstances, I realize that I am holding a seat on FAPA which should be filled by an Active American member from your waiting list. For this reason alone I would like to tender my resignation. I would, however, especially esteem the favor of receiving the FAPA mags containing fiction, with a view to obtaining First British Rights to any stories I feel suitable for my publications. (“Mr Pobbles and the Gjinn” is the last The Thing is a typical example of the fantasy I require, and I have written direct to Burton Crane with the view to obtaining British Rights). ______________________________ I hope this election gets more than that “normal” turn-out of 30, Norm. ______________________________ The editor will now fill up space with some comments about the advisory ballot. The purpose of this ballot is to secure your opinions on proposals that have been advanced, in order to guide whoever undertake a revision of the FAPA constitution. Immediately i must apologize to anyone who suggestion is inadvertently omitted or misstated; having kept no notes, i had to make up the ballot fromemory. The results of this constitutional balloting; they may not even be statistically compiled. It will be the job of the revisers to turn out an harmonious document, which may mean that not every proposal which gets more yesses than noes can be included. But the revisers will do well to consider that they’ll have to satisfy as many people as possible in order to squeeze out that majority vote of the entire membership. If answering these questions will seriously delay your election ballot, you’d better send the letter on first. On the advisory ballot, you’re not required to answer any question on which you have no opinion or no preference; but in order to get an accurate picture of members’ opinions, it is desirable that every member do return the ballot. Send it to the same committee as counts the election votes. With reference to the bonding of the treasurer, i’d again like to express a contrary opinion. The security provided by bonding is problematical, especially since the treasurer can just neglect to get the bond; and it’s doubtless considerable trouble, for Art Widner, who as NFFF secretary is constitutionally required to be bonded, has not gotten around to doing it yet, and sure he is an honorable man. No one has yet told us what annual bonding will cost the treasury. Some people seem of the belief that we could not pursue an absconding treasurer if he were not bonded and of age. Not so; and if we aren’t willing to subject a fellow-fan to suit, i doubt that we’d be willing to as sic a bonding corporation on him if he, like Ephless El, was temporarily (for a few years) unable to remit quite all of the funds charged to him. Bonding at best gives security against only one type of breach of trust, and there are many other defaults just a serious in their consequences, of which president, secretary, or editor might be guilty, against which there’s no defence save the trust we repose in eachother. Let’s continue to bank on that. #13 is intended to meet situations such as Myrtle Douglas’s and the servifens, on whom the exemption while overseas expires now.
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