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Reorganization Movement Gaining Impetus
A. P. S. LEADERS FAVOR HOLLYWOOD
Progress is being made in the right direction in spite of many misinterpretations concerning the purposes of the impromptu committee that met in Hollywood to discuss ways and means of promoting academic and fraternal endeavor within the society. It was the intention of this group that represented five of the largest A. P. S. Chapters in existence to stir the long sleeping national organization into wakefulness. This attempt has not yet been wholly successful. There are however faint rumblings of the awakening giant.
Crossing and re-crossing of opinions have proven a national interest in the movement. Thinking projectionists all over the country have expressed themselves as being heartily in favor of reorganization. Many easterners have frankly stated that they believed that the headquarters of the society should be in the West. This is a very logical solution to the problem.
Welman Favors Coast
The following statement was made by Victor A. Welman of Cleveland, Ohio, Chapter 18, in a letter to The Loudspeaker. Bro. Welman said in part :
“Secession is usually the first thing thought of in such situations, but time has proven that it should not be resorted to until all other possible remedies have been tried. There is no use trying to hide the fact that the A. P. S. as a whole is not functioning satisfactorily, and it is apparent that many members are disgruntled and ready to throw up the sponge. However, I am confident that a good job of reorganization will answer the needs of the situation. I favor the headquarters being on the Coast; and
I do not think the present national officers will oppose a reorganization.”
Numerous other letters, each expressing a very similar line of thought, have been received.
Burton Interviewed
Bro. Sidney Burton, who is president of California Chapter No. 7, A. P. S., was interviewed by The Loudspeaker in regard to the reorganization movement and gave the following statement: “Chapter No. 7 has
sought constantly since its organization three years ago to promote the interests of the American Projection Society in every way possible. Our scope was limited by two things, namely, lack of jurisdiction and limited finances. The chapters organized by us in the West contributed nothing to our attempts to further the cause in other locations. These chapters sent their financial assistance to the Supreme Chapter in New York. The Supreme Chapter was content to devote these funds to some purpose other than assisting our Chapter or (to our knowledge) any other Chapter to promote academic or fraternal endeavor. It is my hope that in this reorganization a plan will be perfected that will make possible an organization campaign that will unite the entire projection craft on this continent into one organization devoted to academic and fraternal endeavor. Bro. Seavier in starting this movement has, in my opinion, created the proper opening for just such an accomplishment.”
Georgia Man Sends Views
One of the outstanding figures of the projection craft in the South who has been in close communication with this paper for many months is Bro. P. Dozier Colson of Clayton, Georgia.
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