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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
We have also been accused of making some people uncomfortable in
the Association, and of undercutting Texas history and Texana. To the
former charge, we can only answer that the increased membership and
participation must be a sufficient refutation. To the charge that we are
opposed to the spirit of Texana, we retort, "Not Guilty!"
If your pet project didn't receive our full attention, we can only an-
swer that we have only so much time and money. If your article was
rejected, I can only point out that we receive six times as many manu-
scripts as we can accept-which means that five out of every six authors
who contact us go away disappointed. And some of them are just down-
right angered.
But we are 240 articles and 6,ooo-plus pages deeper into the Texas
story than we were eleven years ago. And we have never once over-
ruled our board of editors to publish any article, whatever the pressure
of friendship. This is our only rigidity-to go with the best we can get.
We have printed oo,ooo copies of the old cartoon book, Texas His-
tory Illustrated, which had lain dormant for nearly forty years. Repub-
lishing it required considerable editing, especially of dated racist text,
but we put together a tri-ethnic editorial board which combed the text
for any remarks that would be insensitive-and we have never had a
complaint. We have already sold 50,000 copies of this book, which sub-
stantiates the demand for its reappearance. And it hasn't cost the Asso-
ciation a cent!
Fiscally we have been solid rather than spectacular. Our assets as of
February 28, 1966, were just less than $169,000. Of this total, nearly
$120,000 was invested in United States government bonds paying 21/
percent to 4/4 percent. We freed ourselves from the low-interest gov-
ernment bonds, invested where the market seemed best, and as of Sep-
tember 14, 1976, our assets stood at more than $346,000, with compara-
tively little addition of outside capital.
In one sense we have been true to our heritage. In 1966 we were liv-
ing beyond our means. Eleven years later, we still are. Our 1966 re-
ceipts were $21,500 against disbursements of $22,365. This past year
total receipts ran $10o,ooo against disbursements of $121,000. In this
aspect we are as Texan and American as the federal government and
most of its citizens.
Total book sales in 1966 were less than $13,000; last year's sales ran
more than $18,500. Lord knows what it will total with the availability
of the new Handbook! We have $20,000 in back orders for the new
volume.
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