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Milty's Mag, June 1941

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Milty's Mag                                       Page sixteen
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Tying up loose ends Department:
   This issue started out to be twenty pages long. Comes the usual rush towards the deadline, and we decided to leave out a couple of book reviews and make it eighteen pages, fifteen pages already being stencilled. Then comes final exams with no work at all done on this for a couple of weeks, and suddenly Jack Speer rushes off to Oklahoma leaving me to run off his stuff, the Fantasy Amateur and ballot, and my own stuff in three evenings. 
Which is going to be over thirty pages. Ow. Did twelve last nite. Think I'll kidnap Del Rey and make him turn a handle while I stencil the membership list.

   Anyway, this isn't even going to be eighteen pages. Think I'll finish this page, mess up another with Elmer's picture and call it quits.

   So you are going to miss my campaign speech. What a pity, for it was going to be monstrously clever. I'm running for vice president, you know. I hope somebody votes for me. Besides myself, that is. It would be funny if Wollheim was elected. Lowndes, too. How would we ever explain having the editors of professional magazines as officers of an amateur association? And there is Wollheim, too, making a hue and cry about activity. I notice, from my little file box, that Wollheim went three quarters of a year last year without an item in the mailings, Astonishing, isn't it, how he perks up when an election comes around. And I shall personally laugh in his face if he tries to say that he was more busy than I. As for talk concerning the inviolacy of the constitution, it bores me. At my office they spend nearly as much time arguing about details of procedure and how the work should be done as in getting the work out. The FAPA is not my life nor my work. It is my hobby, and I like to get some fun out of it. I like to think that here, for a change, is a place where I can do things the logical way, rather than from the rules in a rule book. If a couple of nice fellows want to come in, and there are vacancies with no signs of being filled, and the rule book says that the new fellows don't have quite the requirements to get in, then I let them in. Otherwise a couple of mailings would go to waste. What's the logic? So I've made lots of mistakes in my time. The FAPA nearly went to pot on account of a couple of my mistakes. So I personally went and fixed them up. And in fixing up those mistakes I became more intensely interested in the FAPA than any of you members who turn out your little sheets every three months can imagine.  And the FAPA was quite a bit more interesting during those periods of turmoil. If, by reason of constricting rules and regulations rigidly adhered to, the FAPA becomes wizened and dried up and uninteresting and placid and mild and insipid, then I shall personally break all the rules in the constitution, if that would make it interesting again.

            And that is my platform.

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Milty's Mag Page sixteen ________________________________________ Tying up loose ends Department: This issue started out to be twenty pages long. Comes the usual rush towards the deadline, and we decided to leave out a couple of book reviews and make it eighteen pages, fifteen pages already being stencilled. Then comes final exams with no work at all done on this for a couple of weeks, and suddenly Jack Speer rushes off to Oklahoma leaving me to run off his stuff, the Fantasy Amateur and ballot, and my own stuff in three evenings. Which is going to be over thirty pages. Ow. Did twelve last nite. Think I'll kidnap Del Rey and make him turn a handle while I stencil the membership list. Anyway, this isn't even going to be eighteen pages. Think I'll finish this page, mess up another with Elmer's picture and call it quits. So you are going to miss my campaign speech. What a pity, for it was going to be monstrously clever. I'm running for vice president, you know. I hope somebody votes for me. Besides myself, that is. It would be funny if Wollheim was elected. Lowndes, too. How would we ever explain having the editors of professional magazines as officers of an amateur association? And there is Wollheim, too, making a hue and cry about activity. I notice, from my little file box, that Wollheim went three quarters of a year last year without an item in the mailings, Astonishing, isn't it, how he perks up when an election comes around. And I shall personally laugh in his face if he tries to say that he was more busy than I. As for talk concerning the inviolacy of the constitution, it bores me. At my office they spend nearly as much time arguing about details of procedure and how the work should be done as in getting the work out. The FAPA is not my life nor my work. It is my hobby, and I like to get some fun out of it. I like to think that here, for a change, is a place where I can do things the logical way, rather than from the rules in a rule book. If a couple of nice fellows want to come in, and there are vacancies with no signs of being filled, and the rule book says that the new fellows don't have quite the requirements to get in, then I let them in. Otherwise a couple of mailings would go to waste. What's the logic? So I've made lots of mistakes in my time. The FAPA nearly went to pot on account of a couple of my mistakes. So I personally went and fixed them up. And in fixing up those mistakes I became more intensely interested in the FAPA than any of you members who turn out your little sheets every three months can imagine. And the FAPA was quite a bit more interesting during those periods of turmoil. If, by reason of constricting rules and regulations rigidly adhered to, the FAPA becomes wizened and dried up and uninteresting and placid and mild and insipid, then I shall personally break all the rules in the constitution, if that would make it interesting again. And that is my platform.