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Personally, I don't care to be pushed around pajustly by a policeman, a postal Inspector or anyone else. I pointed out to Mr. Callahan that in Washington, Federal employees and agents are the principal population and everyone is used to them, but out in the sticks, even in other cities, the presence of a Fed- eral Officer strikes fear into most citizens. Knowing this, some Inspectors may use it as a weapon. I don't think that Mr. Montague or Mr. Callahan would approve of all that goes on in the field, but they can only carry out their obligations through the medium of the field men and doubtless, being human, the field men want to do a job too and may go a little over- board in the process.

So what were the results?

Naturally there were no immed-

I told our story and ex- I left him a copy of the

iate results, and none were expected. plained the purposes of the magazine. 4 page brochure A Brief Discussion of the Nature of TVism, and when I got home, I sent him a copy of #7 which has the long Virgin Views explanation of TVism in it. I feel that I have made our story and position clear at the top in Washington. Obviously, nothing I said revealed any identity-letters had been carefully clipped beforehand. But equally obvious is the fact that nothing I said in Washington is going to help anyon● who, in spite of my warnings, misuses the mails. Not only will he get himself in trouble, but he will bring disrepute on all the rest of the group and undo a lot of what I have suffered and paid to accomplish. So again I say, if you have any doubts about the propriety of sending something by mail--DON'T. If you re- ceive doubtful material, destroy it. And remember another thing. The Post Office has a rather difficult detective job to do in fer- reting out postal offenders. Among other techniques that they would obviously use would be to pose as TVs in ads or answers. I am sure we have some Inspectors among our subscribers. Maybe we can't make TVs out of them, but lets not let them make fools out of us.