1. News of the day. At the last few PW meetings, 10 or less members showed up, and if this poor attendance keeps up, my druthers are to cancel our leasing agreement with the Pilgrim Church. With so few members in attendance, it's a shame... no, it's a crime... to keep paying the church the monthly rental rate of $45 for the one evening a month. We've paid our rent through June, and right now, PW has around $300 dollars in the bank, enough to write checks out to the church for the months of July through December. Which means that we can, if we want, keep meeting at the church until year's end. Now the question arises... if we quit the church, where do we meet? And my immediate answer is, if there are so few members coming to each meeting, we can meet at my house in my rec room at no cost to anyone. I keep a ping-pong table set up on a permanent basis, and we can always get a game going, and he who wants can bring his own figures, or use mine. In the meantime, I'll keep looking for a new, cheaper(?) meeting place. A second question... what happens to the REVIEW? The raison d'etre for the existence of the REVIEW is to pay a large part of the rental of the church meeting area. No church, no rent... no reason to keep the REVIEW going. My first inclination was to keep publishing the REVIEW until the last subscription ran out. I should note that Pat Condray has me over a barrel on this one, for he just sent in a check for a two year subscription, lasting until mid-2000. I do feel an obligation to the people who, over the years, have expressed an interest in the REVIEW, and have renewed their subscriptions over and over again. An interesting fallout is that if the REVIEW continued to be published after we left the church facilities, the subscription rates could decrease, for there'd be no r need to make a profit for PW to pay its rent. Assuming stamps go up by a cent, a mailing would cost two stamps, or 66 cents per issue per month. That's 66 cents times 12, or about 8 dollars a year for the 12 issues, which is all I'd have to charge for a break-even position for a subscription, vice the 18 dollars we charge now. Note that the above analysis ignores publishing costs... right now, I have Fred Haub to thank for running off the monthly issues on his xerox machine on a freebee basis. This is no small task, and if this situation changes, then I'd have to find a local publisher. And here, too, I have my druthers... publishing is an expensive affair, and I have no desire to emulate Hal Thinglum, and have to devote time and effort into raising funds by drumming up advertisements and articles and what-not. Back to PW Review May 1998 Table of Contents Back to PW Review List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 Wally Simon This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com