etc. when I withdrew the opportunity for just anybody who wished to run ads in the Person to Person section of TVia. This was changed in 1963 because of two things. 1) The magazine began to appear on newstands and thus I had no knowledge about many of the persons who bought it and might want to advertise or answer ads. This was brought home to me clearly when one of our girls living half way around the world in another country was called to account by her boss as a result of writing an entirely innocuous letter to an ad- vertiser in TVia. The letter was simple, clear and straightforward, simply saying, in effect, "I am a TV too and I'd like to correspond with you." Naturally I passed it and forwarded it.

I had no way of knowing that the recipient in the east had been in correspondence with a 3rd person who was in trouble with the PO. When the inspectors swooped down on this 3rd party they also de- cended on my advertiser. Getting the right to intercept mail (which is the first thing they always ask for) they caught the letter from our home office, which notified the Colonial Office of the country, which notified the Prime Minister of that colony, who notified the head of the home office, which notified the Colonial Office of the country which notified the Prime Minister of that colony who notified the head of the Dept. for which our TV sister worked, who then called her on the carpet. Finding that this sort of thing could go on I instituted the present contact system requiring some information of those who plan to use the column (or the FPE application which serves the same purpose). For this act of protection I was roundly damned in some quarters as being a dictator and an exploiter since I put the $5 fee on membership in Contact as an indication of sincerity (It is in effect only an advance payment since it is returned by using the service).

About this time rumors went around that I was exploiting every- one in FPE by using the money paid in as dues for my own purposes. I therefore requested Fran whom I had known from the convention 2 years before and who had been very active in FPE organizing, if she would accept the position of treasurer of FPE. Upon her agree- ment I sent the entire treasury back to her and all FPE monies ever since have gone to her in order to remove the excuse for these attacks on my honesty. That didn't keep the opposition entirely quiet how- ever, as whenever a vote was conducted amoung councillors as to their feelings regarding the expenditure of money for some purpose such as my public relations efforts, I was accused of acquiring the money through a “yes or yes" vote. There is no way of proving

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