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THE YPRES TIMES
7, Waterloo Road,
New Brighton.
4/11/1933.
To the Committee, Ypres League.
Dear Sir,
I am rather concerned about the depleted funds available for the continuance each
quarter of our little journal, and should like you to consider my suggestion of making
a charge to members of the Ypres League of sixpence per copy for The Ypres Times,
but if you think this is asking too much of the members' generosity, I think we might
as well say threepence per copyone shilling per annum which is a fair enough
compromise.
I myself am taking the law into my own hands, Committee or no Committee,
and shall start sending sixpence per quarter commencing with the next January, 1934,
issue, in the meantime I enclose ten shilling which pays for the last five years' editions
I have received.
The quarterly Ypres Times is the only link we distant and scattered members
of the League have, and publication regularly is most essential to all of us. It is
worth a penny a month I am sure.
We must get down to business in matters like this, and the journal cannot be
published and kept going by the aid of voluntary contributions for long. It is too
haphazard and I feel sure that most of our members would prefer to fall in with
my suggestion rather than risk losing this link with our memorious past.
Let us all face up to the position and settle the matter in the next issue of
The Ypres Times. If difficulties have arisen, we members of the Ypres League
would, I am certain, welcome the opportunity of overcoming these obstacles in the
only sensible manner possible.
If shot and shell failed to overwhelm us in those distant days surely a few
coppers won't do it now.
Let our New Year's resolution therefore beThreepence per copy in future.
Very best regards,
Yours faithfully,
E. F. Williams.
The Committee of the Ypres League have written to express their grateful
thanks to Mr. E. F. Williams for his keen interest and loyal support of The Ypres
Times, and publish the above letter with a view to bringing his proposition before
all its members.
The Committee respectfully asks those who desire to conform with Mr. Williams'
suggested New Year's resolution, or have any further suggestions, to be so kind
as to communicate with the Secretary, Ypres League, 20, Orchard St., London, W.l.
