TAP Classified No. C7 - Editor's Financial Appeal

Classified - 728 wt Tom’s $1 solution to: a $1 million problem PLEASE!! !PLEASE!IIPLEASEII! Read this entice article!!! TAP is in VERY big financial trouble and it's all YOUR fauitil! When I took over the job of Editor-in-Chief of TAP in 1975 I inherited a sinking ship. Tt has been an up hill struggle all the way with the last two years being the worst. The largest problem was the lack of a computer system to keep track of subscriptions and to print out mailing labels. Over the last two yeacs, in drips and drabs, TAP finally acquired a complete computer system and a printer. All very nice but unfortunately all VERY expensive I don't have to tell you about inflation. It affects everybody including us. Every time I go to our printer it costs more to have TAP printed. And I don't think that I have to say anything about the recent outragious Postal Monopoly rate increases. Postage has and will continue to be our qreatest expense. To help keep these and our other operating costs down and to keep from raising our subscription cates which I point out have NOT cisen in four(!) years, I have offered piece of TAP merchandise each year. Th included T-shirts, buttons, patches, tapes, mugs, and lastly, pens. This merchandise was sold not with the expectation of making a fortune but with the hope that most of our readers would realize that by buying some of these items they are helping TAP to stay alive! I am very sorty to report that most of our readers just don't give a damn! A good case in point is the fact that as of September 1st, 1981 only seven readers bought TAP pen We have to sell 300 just to break even!!! If every TAP subscriber had bought just one pen, the resulting profit would have been enough to pay for both the printing and postage costs of the next four issues . Over the last five years t have asked, pleaded, begged, screamed, bitched and complained to you deac ceaders about doing your share to help TAP. ALL you had to do was get us a new subscriber and buy some of the TAP goodies. You did not. You “pushed TAP up against the financial wall and there is no place we can go for help except to you. The resulting "Catch 22" situation has given me no tecourse other than to take a drastic step from the "Godfather" and “make you an offer you can't refuse". Any TAP subscriber who does not buy a TAP 10th Anniversary Pen between now and January 1st, 1982 will have two (2) issues removed from their subscciption, No if's, and's or but's!!! And before you tell me that I can't do that, I'm doing that!!! Just keep in mind the ugly alternative: the two issues of TAP that you have in your hot Little cheap hands may be the last aietggne The future of TAP is on the linc nly YOU can.do anything to,save it! I have bitched my ‘iasti’Remember that the biggest mistake you can make is to be apathetic and “Let the other guy do it". This has to be an all out effort by all of our subsccibers if TAP is to survive! My apologies to all our readers for not having the issues ready by September lst as promised. I would Like to blame our printer or our computer but the truth of the matter is that I was away on a long needed vacation down at Virginia Beach the last few weeks in August and just didn't have time to lay out the issues until ft got back in September. Again my apologies. TAP mugs are sold out. Please do NOT order them anymore. We have two red medium, two red extra large and three black extra large TAP T-shirts left in stock. Someone PLEASE buy them!!! TAP is still looking for new writers. Tf you have something of interest to suy, type it up using a five inch type column width and send it to me C/O TAP. All submitted work becomes the property of TAP and cannot be returned. ——. No. 7 89/79 - 1981 The TAP Classified Ad Sheet i published as a service to our readers, All ads MUST be typed and camera ready. Ads will appear in the next ad sheet unless they arrive after printing deadline in which case they will appear in the following ad sheet. The cost per ad per issue {s $2. If you wish to preserve your anonymity, TAP Box numbers are available at the cost of $4 per ad per issue. This extra cost is for the postage to mail you the replies to your ad. Pull page ads cost $10 and half-page ads cost $5. Payment must accompany all ads. Send cash and get a 10 § discount on all a Address all ad requests to : TAP, Room 603, 147 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10036. 1F YOU BELIEVE PEACE IS POSSIBLE NEW Menthly Se NEW OUTLOOK was founded in 1957 by Jaws and Arabs in areal on tne belie! that A Journal Of Jewish-Arab Dialogue islogue and 1 pexceful resolution af the Middle East confict are possible. in ine past'23 yours we have featured articiea by: . 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