Article: FLAT EARTH SOCIETY PRESIDENT DEDICATED TO KEEPING IDEA ALIVE.(NEWS)

Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer

Making his office in a small house trailer cluttered with letters and books, Charles K. Johnson sits proudly next to a large map depicting an Earth flattened out like a disc - the North Pole at the center, Antarctica and unexplored ice around its rim.

As president of the Flat Earth Society for the past 25 years, which he inherited from an Englishman, Johnson sends out literature to people who write him and publishes a quarterly two-page newsletter that carries vehemently serious articles like ``Einstein Proved Spinning Ball World a Delusion'' and ``100 Proofs Earth Not a Globe.''

``What everyone has ...

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