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A Tale of the 'Evans, v. 1, issue 2, June 1942
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5. to attend one of our conventions, lost they become tainted with this same taint. 'Taint so, and we know 'taint, but the impression certainly has been geeting abroad that 'tis. For instance, just before the Michiconfrence, the mother of a teen-ager who belongs to the Galactic Roamers, wrote me and asked if our meeting would be a clean and decent place for her son to go to, and asked specifically about drinking. I assured her that he would have a good time, and be in no danger -- and he did, and he wasn't. NOVA also received a letter from a youngster, who mentioned that he would like to attend a convention or conference, but was afraid a beer bottle might pop him one. So Ol' Man Evans sticks his neck out once more, and suggests to Fandom that it rather tone down this phase of their activities in the fanzine articles which go to young readers, AND THEIR PARENTS, before they give Fandom a black eye which it does not deserve, and which is not a true picture of conventioning Fandom. QUESTIONS THAT HAVE ALWAYS PUZZLED ME: In the beautiful Fantasy poem "A Visit From St. Nick" (('twas the night before . . . )) what did the fellow who was talking in the poem, have for supper that night? You remember it says "I rushed to the window and threw up the sash!"? ((And if Forry the Ack tries to tell me that it was evident he had a "pane" -- it gives mayhem.)) WHAT'S WRONG WITH FANDOM: I have noticed in the FAPA mailings and also in other fanzines, quite a lot of discussion on this subject. So here's my nickle's (or dime's) worth. Maybe it isn't even worth a plugged penny.) Concisely put, and with a bit of a pun, it seems to this hoary and aged observer that what is mostly wrong with Fandom is that too many Fans are trying to WRITE what is wrong with it, and not enough of them are trying to RIGHT what is wrong with it. It is self-evidently true that we must first find out the various things that are wrong before we can attempt to correct them. But that is not enough. We must then start working out ways and means of correcting the evils we see. In the NFFF's Long-Range Planning Committee we have an excellent start in the right direction. I have been especially pleased with the way the various members of that committee have been working (and they really have been putting in heaps and heaps of careful, logical, keen thinking into that work.) They have come up with a number of grand ideas,and have discussed these and their many ramifications until almost every angle of each of them has been touched upon.
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5. to attend one of our conventions, lost they become tainted with this same taint. 'Taint so, and we know 'taint, but the impression certainly has been geeting abroad that 'tis. For instance, just before the Michiconfrence, the mother of a teen-ager who belongs to the Galactic Roamers, wrote me and asked if our meeting would be a clean and decent place for her son to go to, and asked specifically about drinking. I assured her that he would have a good time, and be in no danger -- and he did, and he wasn't. NOVA also received a letter from a youngster, who mentioned that he would like to attend a convention or conference, but was afraid a beer bottle might pop him one. So Ol' Man Evans sticks his neck out once more, and suggests to Fandom that it rather tone down this phase of their activities in the fanzine articles which go to young readers, AND THEIR PARENTS, before they give Fandom a black eye which it does not deserve, and which is not a true picture of conventioning Fandom. QUESTIONS THAT HAVE ALWAYS PUZZLED ME: In the beautiful Fantasy poem "A Visit From St. Nick" (('twas the night before . . . )) what did the fellow who was talking in the poem, have for supper that night? You remember it says "I rushed to the window and threw up the sash!"? ((And if Forry the Ack tries to tell me that it was evident he had a "pane" -- it gives mayhem.)) WHAT'S WRONG WITH FANDOM: I have noticed in the FAPA mailings and also in other fanzines, quite a lot of discussion on this subject. So here's my nickle's (or dime's) worth. Maybe it isn't even worth a plugged penny.) Concisely put, and with a bit of a pun, it seems to this hoary and aged observer that what is mostly wrong with Fandom is that too many Fans are trying to WRITE what is wrong with it, and not enough of them are trying to RIGHT what is wrong with it. It is self-evidently true that we must first find out the various things that are wrong before we can attempt to correct them. But that is not enough. We must then start working out ways and means of correcting the evils we see. In the NFFF's Long-Range Planning Committee we have an excellent start in the right direction. I have been especially pleased with the way the various members of that committee have been working (and they really have been putting in heaps and heaps of careful, logical, keen thinking into that work.) They have come up with a number of grand ideas,and have discussed these and their many ramifications until almost every angle of each of them has been touched upon.
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