News and Notes by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 22, 1910

News and Notes

By A. J. S. B.

WRITING from the Canal Zone, Brother C. F. Innis says: “During the past two months we have made rapid increase. In May our sales went above the $2,000 mark. The first five months of this year our sales have equaled those of all 1909.”

THE manager of the periodical department of the Review and Herald Office informs us that he could have sold not fewer than twenty thousand copies more of the Temperance number of the Instructor, had the edition not been completely exhausted. This periodical has proved to be one of our best sellers.

ON August 5 a man prominent in Southern railway circles, sent a money-order to the publishers of the Protestant Magazine, accompanied by seventy-nine yearly subscriptions secured from fellow employees. These subscriptions were obtained by showing to the men twenty-five sample copies, which he had received from the publishers. Although he has already sent in 114 subscriptions, he promises to send in other lists soon.

SPEAKING of the Protestant Magazine, a business man writes to the publishers as follows: “Your circulation in this city and State should be increased to many thousand; for every one who has seen your magazine has commented upon the need of just such a publication. Your magazine being so free from vituperation, but placing cold facts before the public, and allowing the readers to draw conclusions, commends it to every one.” This gentleman examined the sample copy sent him, took it to four of his friends, and secured their subscriptions.

THE following is an average report from one of our “plodding” agents, who does not pretend to be doing a large work, yet succeeds in doing a good business: “I expect some more subscriptions soon. Sold my five hundred of the August number of Life and Health in nine days, but did not put in full time any day.” This worker averaged fifty-five sales and a little more a day—a net profit of four dollars and thirty cents. This is certainly a good salary for an average worker, putting in only short hours. There is perhaps no other vocation in which an individual can do so well financially, without investing capital.

THE secretary of the Religious Liberty Association, Elder K. C. Russell, recently related the following incident:—“Not long ago one of our brethren in Grand Rapids, Mich., secured the subscription of a prominent citizen (a Christian Scientist) for the Protestant Magazine. The gentleman left it on his table; and when a company gathered at his home one evening, they examined the magazine, with the result that fifteen subscriptions were taken. Subsequently, our brother met this gentleman again. He said that he had gotten hold of another magazine even better than the Protestant, and that it was Liberty.”

This means that those who are interested in one of these magazines ought to be made acquainted with the other. By investing fifty cents a year the subscriber receives four copies of each, or eight splendid ten-cent magazines, especially adapted to thinking people.

A. J. S. B.