Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/01

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Subject: Re: Leicaphilia
From: "Roger Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 08:16:10 -0700

On 30 Apr 97,  ted grant <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>  wrote:

<snip>
 
> In Canada we have the Canada Council who give money to, I'll use the
> terminology in the loosest of term, "photographers" to do photo
> projects of no use to the Nation after it is completed and is a
> waste of tax payers money, when it should go for health care and
> education.

In the U.S., we have the National Endowment for the Arts! At least 
your organization, in its title, doesn't imply art.
- --
Roger Beamon  
       Naturalist & Photographer
       Docent: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
       Leica Historical Society Of America
       mailto:beamon@primenet.com
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