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Cushlamochree, issue 1, September 1944

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CUSHLAMOCHREE........PAGE 7

If I had been contacted on this ballot counting task I would have given you the names of several FAPA localites that could have worked on the committee and things would have been taken care of long before anything would have come up about the situation.

I am more than glad to fill any job that comes up in fandom that I am either elected into or appointed to, Officially. You have a job which I would like very much to have, that of official editor but what chance would I have when I've always had a few crackpots like you let loose with a bunch of half-baked charges that are so full of holes you could use them for a seive? [sic] Why don't you calamity-howlers sit down and investigate the facts before you shoot off your mouth in print?

I have no doubts that there will be plenty who will jump to your side of the fence on this subject but that is one of the few things wrong with fandom. I was amazed to see how many FAPA members voted to retain deller in the organization. Some people certainly like to help raise the postage on the mailings with his waste-paper and for a group that is supposed to look towards the future it is interesting to note that so many want the proper percentage of the insane in our midst to carry on our ideals.

I make a lot of mistakes, Shaw, and I'm quite sure we all do. To make mistakes is human. We are not robots of perfection yet. But when I get something in the mail like that toilet paper you put out to drag my name through the mud I properly boil. 

I challenge you, Mr. Shwa [i.e. Shaw] to answer this article in FAPA. Let me see you break this up into paragraphs and answer each one with facts that are not a lot of suppositions and heresay. If you can do it and prove me wrong you will have my apology. Until that time all I can say is, " TO HELL WITH YOU, MR. SHAW!!!"
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FANCYCLOPEDIA DEFINES FAPA

ONE of 657 defanitions [fan underlined], here's how Speer's [title underlined] FANCYCLOPEDIA defines the FAPA: "The Fantasy Amateur Press Association, constituted in 1937 by Wollheim and Michel. Others soon joined, up to its constitutional limit of 50 (changed to 65 in 1943). The FAPA's first year was stormy with party politics and sociological feuds, and its third year, 1939-1940, was marked by the Interregnum. Thereafter the profets [sic] of the Third Fandom came into control, and it prospered to become the longest-lived successful fan organization.  '' It is primarily an agency for distributing to its members publications put out by its members at their own expense. This it does by mailings every three months. Members are required to be active in some way, writing or publishing. There are annual elections in June of a president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, and official editor (he also does the mailing), who cannot hold the same post again for five years. Other officials are the official critics, laureate committee, and ballot counters. Red tape is at a minimum."

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CUSHLAMOCHREE........PAGE 7 If I had been contacted on this ballot counting task I would have given you the names of several FAPA localites that could have worked on the committee and things would have been taken care of long before anything would have come up about the situation. I am more than glad to fill any job that comes up in fandom that I am either elected into or appointed to, Officially. You have a job which I would like very much to have, that of official editor but what chance would I have when I've always had a few crackpots like you let loose with a bunch of half-baked charges that are so full of holes you could use them for a seive? [sic] Why don't you calamity-howlers sit down and investigate the facts before you shoot off your mouth in print? I have no doubts that there will be plenty who will jump to your side of the fence on this subject but that is one of the few things wrong with fandom. I was amazed to see how many FAPA members voted to retain deller in the organization. Some people certainly like to help raise the postage on the mailings with his waste-paper and for a group that is supposed to look towards the future it is interesting to note that so many want the proper percentage of the insane in our midst to carry on our ideals. I make a lot of mistakes, Shaw, and I'm quite sure we all do. To make mistakes is human. We are not robots of perfection yet. But when I get something in the mail like that toilet paper you put out to drag my name through the mud I properly boil. I challenge you, Mr. Shwa [i.e. Shaw] to answer this article in FAPA. Let me see you break this up into paragraphs and answer each one with facts that are not a lot of suppositions and heresay. If you can do it and prove me wrong you will have my apology. Until that time all I can say is, " TO HELL WITH YOU, MR. SHAW!!!" [line break] FANCYCLOPEDIA DEFINES FAPA ONE of 657 defanitions [fan underlined], here's how Speer's [title underlined] FANCYCLOPEDIA defines the FAPA: "The Fantasy Amateur Press Association, constituted in 1937 by Wollheim and Michel. Others soon joined, up to its constitutional limit of 50 (changed to 65 in 1943). The FAPA's first year was stormy with party politics and sociological feuds, and its third year, 1939-1940, was marked by the Interregnum. Thereafter the profets [sic] of the Third Fandom came into control, and it prospered to become the longest-lived successful fan organization. '' It is primarily an agency for distributing to its members publications put out by its members at their own expense. This it does by mailings every three months. Members are required to be active in some way, writing or publishing. There are annual elections in June of a president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, and official editor (he also does the mailing), who cannot hold the same post again for five years. Other officials are the official critics, laureate committee, and ballot counters. Red tape is at a minimum."