International Publishing Association
By F. F. BYINGTON
The ninth annual meeting of this association was held in College View, Nebr., October 1, 2. The retail value of all publications sold during the past year amounted to $34,441, about $3,889 less than the preceding year. Of this amount, $8,047 was for foreign magazines, $15,267 for other periodicals, the remaining $11,127 being for books and tracts in various languages. We regret that the foreign literature circulated last year was less than the year before, although it was more than during any other preceding year. Nearly all the foreign periodicals are now working on a self-supporting basis, that is, the only one showing quite a large loss being Tidens Tecken, the Swedish weekly. It was decided in the future to issue only two magazine numbers each year, instead of the four which have been sent out with this periodical, thus reducing the expense. Plans were laid to secure a general foreign missionary agent to more thoroughly organize this work in the field; and with the cooperation of our foreign ministers and of the workers in the office, it is hoped that greater progress may be made. Heretofore, the business year of the association has closed June 30. A change was made by which the business year, in the future, will conform to the calendar year, ending December 31 of each year. The board of trustees, heretofore consisting of seven members, was at this meeting enlarged to twelve, adding the names of O. A. Olsen, J. H. Schilling, G. F. Haffner, L. H. Christian, and S. Mortenson, in order that the General Conference Foreign Department may be well represented. Elder E. T. Russell was reelected president of the board.