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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 2, June 1941
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from the DUAL CONTROLS by . . . THE EDITORS [[illustration text]] Frd. Aft. Port Sebd. Temp [[end illustration text]] This is Gilbert. the delay in the first issue was inevitable and I have no apologies to make for it; after all, no first issue is ever on time, and the difficulties encountered with that first number, were unique. The business firm where I brought my first batch of took advantage of my innocence in such matters and sold me white cellulose stencils. Seems that said stencils are worthless, completely utterly no-good. After two weeks of the hardest work I've ever done in my life I discovered the fact, but then it was rather late to do anything about it. Every single stencil had to be thrown away and the entire thirty cut over on decent stencils. Which naturally wasn't much fun. That would seem to be enuf trouble to do any one fanzine editor. for a while, but then it seemed that the pro firm I'd intended to have do the mimeoing had given me the wrong impression of the price. The correct impression was a horrible one. No such amount of money had ever been seen in this section of the country. But if the comercialism shown by the business firm was not at all nice, the willingness shown by you fellows to help more than made up for it. It was more than a little overwhelming, and thanking you enuf is not difficult; it is impossible. To Low Martin, to Harry Warner, to the Plutonians -- your offer to mimeograph the magazine without charge was pretty darn decent and I'd like for you to know that I appreciate it infinitely more than I can say. I am also grateful to Mrs. Jones of the local letter shop for her loan of equipment and all-around help and advice; and to Harbin's, our mimeograph supply dealers in this city, for their co-operation and assistance, assistance that went far beyond mere business courtesy. But most of all my thanks must go primarily to the two people who have made this issue possible -- Louis and Gertrude Kuslan. The loan of their mimeograph is responsible for the continuation of this magazine. Incidentally, the camp, while fascinated by the gadget, has a lot to learn about it. We aren't promising anything special in the way of mimeographing, except that we'll do our dangdest on it, and will doubtless have a fairly legible magazine by the first issue. And let me say here that the bad art in the first issue was completely my fault. The originals were beautiful, but I didn't use a ruler and the work showed it. We think that the art this issue is an improvement, despite the fact that most of it was cut with no more equipment, really, than a pane of glass, a stylus, and a fingernail file for a screen. Credit for the forty-page idea goes to Columbia Camper, Leo Eastman, poetry editor extraordinary. He broached the idea only one week after the first issue, and Gilbert made a whimpering noise and promptly
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from the DUAL CONTROLS by . . . THE EDITORS [[illustration text]] Frd. Aft. Port Sebd. Temp [[end illustration text]] This is Gilbert. the delay in the first issue was inevitable and I have no apologies to make for it; after all, no first issue is ever on time, and the difficulties encountered with that first number, were unique. The business firm where I brought my first batch of took advantage of my innocence in such matters and sold me white cellulose stencils. Seems that said stencils are worthless, completely utterly no-good. After two weeks of the hardest work I've ever done in my life I discovered the fact, but then it was rather late to do anything about it. Every single stencil had to be thrown away and the entire thirty cut over on decent stencils. Which naturally wasn't much fun. That would seem to be enuf trouble to do any one fanzine editor. for a while, but then it seemed that the pro firm I'd intended to have do the mimeoing had given me the wrong impression of the price. The correct impression was a horrible one. No such amount of money had ever been seen in this section of the country. But if the comercialism shown by the business firm was not at all nice, the willingness shown by you fellows to help more than made up for it. It was more than a little overwhelming, and thanking you enuf is not difficult; it is impossible. To Low Martin, to Harry Warner, to the Plutonians -- your offer to mimeograph the magazine without charge was pretty darn decent and I'd like for you to know that I appreciate it infinitely more than I can say. I am also grateful to Mrs. Jones of the local letter shop for her loan of equipment and all-around help and advice; and to Harbin's, our mimeograph supply dealers in this city, for their co-operation and assistance, assistance that went far beyond mere business courtesy. But most of all my thanks must go primarily to the two people who have made this issue possible -- Louis and Gertrude Kuslan. The loan of their mimeograph is responsible for the continuation of this magazine. Incidentally, the camp, while fascinated by the gadget, has a lot to learn about it. We aren't promising anything special in the way of mimeographing, except that we'll do our dangdest on it, and will doubtless have a fairly legible magazine by the first issue. And let me say here that the bad art in the first issue was completely my fault. The originals were beautiful, but I didn't use a ruler and the work showed it. We think that the art this issue is an improvement, despite the fact that most of it was cut with no more equipment, really, than a pane of glass, a stylus, and a fingernail file for a screen. Credit for the forty-page idea goes to Columbia Camper, Leo Eastman, poetry editor extraordinary. He broached the idea only one week after the first issue, and Gilbert made a whimpering noise and promptly
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