Editorial Emanations

I. MY APOLOGY IS ACCEPTED (NOT ACCEPTED): As I have said before I am just unable to keep up with correspondence. Thus it was that out of the dozens upon dozens of "where the hell is it" letters that came in due to the delay in no. 53s appearance, only a very few got answered and then only because there was something else that had to be straightened out also. By this time all who had it coming have gotten it and along with it a yellow sheet telling you how to keep from getting high blood pressure about similar situations in the future. I warned all readers several issues ago that I was no longer going to be able to adhere to the even numbered months publication date. You will get the magazine but only as I can get prepared. The big problem on No. 53 was that it was due (technically on Oct. 1 and I didn't arrive home from Alaska till Sept. 28 so. . . ??? That, compounded with delays with the compositor, printer and binder accounted for the whole problem. You never get something for nothing you know and our new format with justified (even) right hand margins means that there is a new hand in the stew, namely the compositor who has to get it all typed right on a special computer - IBM - typerwriter set up, then paste up the headings, pages, etc. It takes just that much longer. We will have made up some time on this issue and I hope to make up still more on No. 55, but as I am going to Europe this summer for 4-6 weeks you can figure for yourself what is going to happen to the June and August issues. So read over that yellow sheet again.

II. FPE MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS: Here is another matter that involves some delays and upsets people too. There is more to all the details than those uninvolved realize and both

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