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Reverie, v. 3, issue 3, whole 10, September 1940

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16                            Reverie

quickens the pulse and accentuates joy. Meeting one's contemporary writers, editors and publishers face to face, feeling the warmth of their flesh and blood in friendly handshake, and seeing written in their eyes sincerity and love for the things we love; hearing their voices utter the cherished gospel of amateuria, learning at first hand that they are all we thought and hoped they would be, opens a vista of gladness and light within us which lingers on.
   The day of parting soon draws nigh, however, and though Shakespeare meant well when he wrote "parting is such sweet sorrow," had the bard of Avon been in attendance at a convention of amateur journalists I am sure his description would reveal not only abject sorrow but poignant grief and deepest gloom in describing leave-taking. Consolation is possible only in the thought that we shall meet again some time, somewhere.
   A long line of illustrious predecessors in the presidential chair, excluding a few of the less active ones, sets the pace for my administration. If conscientious effort and consistently hard work will be fruitful of accomplishment, my mind rests easy. I shall be pleased to hear from any of our members at any time. If members who are in good health and eager to exercise their mental faculties will write, print or publish; if each member will try to get a new member; and if those who have papers to dispose of will donate them to the Recruiting Chairman for propaganda purposes, the lethargic period will soon be obliterated from memory and a new and brighter era will dawn for thr National Amateur Press Association. 
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   The National Amateur should be in the reading room of every Public Library for effective publicity.
   Fifty cents will place it in your Public Library.

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16 Reverie quickens the pulse and accentuates joy. Meeting one's contemporary writers, editors and publishers face to face, feeling the warmth of their flesh and blood in friendly handshake, and seeing written in their eyes sincerity and love for the things we love; hearing their voices utter the cherished gospel of amateuria, learning at first hand that they are all we thought and hoped they would be, opens a vista of gladness and light within us which lingers on. The day of parting soon draws nigh, however, and though Shakespeare meant well when he wrote "parting is such sweet sorrow," had the bard of Avon been in attendance at a convention of amateur journalists I am sure his description would reveal not only abject sorrow but poignant grief and deepest gloom in describing leave-taking. Consolation is possible only in the thought that we shall meet again some time, somewhere. A long line of illustrious predecessors in the presidential chair, excluding a few of the less active ones, sets the pace for my administration. If conscientious effort and consistently hard work will be fruitful of accomplishment, my mind rests easy. I shall be pleased to hear from any of our members at any time. If members who are in good health and eager to exercise their mental faculties will write, print or publish; if each member will try to get a new member; and if those who have papers to dispose of will donate them to the Recruiting Chairman for propaganda purposes, the lethargic period will soon be obliterated from memory and a new and brighter era will dawn for thr National Amateur Press Association. ____________ The National Amateur should be in the reading room of every Public Library for effective publicity. Fifty cents will place it in your Public Library.