THE WORK by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jun 10, 1909

THE WORK

By Editor

— AND — THE WORKERS

THE weekly edition of the REVIEW weighs about 2,000 pounds.

UP to June 1 over 45,000 copies of the June number of Life and Health had been ordered,—a remarkable record, indeed.

WE have been obliged to print a second edition of the June Life and Health, making a total of 60,000 copies thus far issued.

IN applying for agency, kindly send a written recommendation from your pastor, teacher, banker, State tract society, or leading business firm of your town.

“I SOLD my 1,000 copies of the May Life and Health, and had to buy 400 from Mrs. S. N. Haskell besides,” writes a brother from California. “I am selling all of these myself, and must do all my walking on a pair of artificial limbs and crutches. I sell from 50 to 90 copies a day, and hope soon to make it 100 copies a day.”

PROF. H. J. SHELDON, principal of Maplewood Academy, Maple Plain, Minn., informs us that his board approves of our magazine scholarship plan, and that they will allow ten per cent discount from their regular tuition to those earning a scholarship through the sale of our ten-cent magazines.

THOSE selling our magazines are entitled to the same consideration by police and other public officers as are the authorized agents of the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, or any other newspaper. Our magazines are not books, but newspapers, and can be sold wherever and whenever newspapers are allowed to be sold. As a rule, city and town authorities rarely object to the work of our periodical agents, as they recognize the missionary side of the work, and that it is not merely a financial enterprise. For instance, the chief of police of one of California’s largest cities informed the writer that he had instructed his police officers not to molest even the book agents of the California Bible House in their house-to-house work. Our agents should show forth in their daily lives the Christian virtues advocated in the journals they sell.

MRS. J. S. CHANDLER, one of our periodical workers who attended the General Conference, has the honor of being the first agent to order one thousand copies of the Protestant Magazine.

“I AM ordering herewith 1,000 copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor,” writes a young lady from Oklahoma, “to earn my year’s scholarship.” This is her first order.

ACCOMPANYING his order for five copies of the Protestant Magazine one year (seventy-five cents), a Washington brother says: “I hope this magazine will be the thing to help swell the loud cry.”

FOLLOWING are the names of the company of ten magazine agents appearing in the picture above, reading from left to right: (front row) Lowell M. Knapp, Mrs. Matie Williamson (company chaperon), Nellie Rothbaust, R. W. Leach; (rear row) Lora B. Duncan, Ada E. Achor, R. C. Spohr (company manager), Blanche E. Hicks, Elizabeth L. Kern, and Mina Andrews. Leaving Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday, May 5, this company completed its sale of magazines in Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday, May 19, just two weeks later. Brother R. C. Spohr, missionary secretary of the Indiana Conference, was in charge. These agents made their traveling and other expenses en route to the General Conference, and, in addition, earned enough to take them back to their homes in Indiana. One thousand magazines were sold in the city of Columbus, Ohio, in two days, and 1,500 copies in Pittsburg, Pa., in three days, the total sales amounting to 5,520 copies, valued at $552. From these and other like experiences it

would seem that of all our workers, the periodical agents are the best prepared to travel where they like and meet their own expenses. In order not to interfere with the work of our regular agents, the leaders of these traveling companies always arrange for territory with the tract societies through whose States they intend to pass.

ONE of our lady agents has just placed an order with us for 3,250 magazines and periodicals, as follows: 1,150 copies of the June Life and Health, 1,000 copies of the Protestant Magazine, 850 copies of Liberty, and 250 copies of the Thanksgiving number of the REVIEW.

IF at all possible, please order your magazines through, and arrange for territory with, your State tract society. If you must order direct, send cash with order.

THE following list shows where the May edition of Life and Health went. The figures inside the parentheses indicate the number of copies of the April number circulated in the States named. We feel sure that our conference officers will be glad to have these exact statistics for handy reference, from month to month. Which States will lead in the circulation of the June number? California, 5,247 (4,942); Indiana, 4,437 (671); Georgia, 3,889 (2,766); Illinois, 2,498 (5,190); Maryland, 2,171 (189); Tennessee, 1,349 (—); Iowa, 1,677 (1,561); New York 1,144 (1,623); Washington, 1,118 (1,423); Massachusetts, 1,117 (186); Nebraska, 925 (403); Oklahoma, 866 (338); Michigan, 775 (1,055); Minnesota, 703 (616); Pennsylvania, 676 (788); Kentucky, 571 (144); Oregon, 558 (1,116); Louisiana, 505 (471); Kansas, 479 (189); Ohio, 464 (775); Wisconsin, 377 (1,025); Maine, 328 (226); District of Columbia, 285 (461); Idaho, 264 (126); Colorado, 254 (161); Texas, 213 (241); Rhode Island, 210 (111); Alabama, 172 (319); Missouri, 160 (141); North Dakota, 152 (159); New Hampshire, 129 (58); New Jersey, 125 (86); Arizona, 111 (—); Virginia, 96 (93); Connecticut, 81 (149); Florida, 79 (65); Arkansas, 78 (55); West Virginia, 67 (189); Nevada, 63 (—); Utah, 58 (39); Montana, 57; South Dakota, 45; Vermont, 36; Mississippi, 27 (151); North Carolina, 25; New Mexico, 16; Wyoming, 8; South Carolina, 6; Delaware, 2. A united effort will largely increase all these figures.