Editorial Emanat

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I: BACK ON THE BEAM: This issue reaches you late but not as late as #33. I sincerely apologize for the delays that struck us with the June issue of both TVia and the Mirror. The reasons are too complicated to go into but believe me I did all I could but it wasn't enough. Part of it was labor problems with the printer, but even so I didn't get the magazine copy to him until the day it should have been ready for mailing.

I certainly can't blame any of you for wondering what had happened when your items didn't come. And I don't mind your writing to ask. I do mind those who write and accuse Thea and myself of being four-flusher of bilking people out of their money and "gloating to ourselves as we make out another bank deposit". Such cracks have been made. In the latter case I just upped and sent back what money he had coming to him. I work too hard on this whole thing to have to put up with that. If I haven't proved my honesty and my dedication to this cause by this time I never will and we might as well call it quits. Circumstances have in the past, and may in the future, put a crimp in my activities but if it is possible to get TVia and our other publications off the press we will certainly do so.

II: MY THANKS: In line with the above but on the other side of the ledger may I take this means of extending

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