THE WORK AND THE WORKERS by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 6, 1911

THE WORK AND THE WORKERS

By Editor

MR. ROOSEVELT acknowledges with thanks our courtesy in sending him a bound volume and current issues of the Protestant Magazine.

THE manager of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company in one of the largest cities of the South has just ordered 25 copies of the Protestant Magazine, No. 2, 1911.

IN case you are in doubt as to which of our magazines to handle, send twenty-five cents in postage-stamps for a sample copy of the latest numbers of Life and Health, Liberty, and the Protestant Magazine.

As a special favor to us, and to avoid confusion in the assignment of territory, we are asking all our agents for Life and Health, Liberty, and the Protestant Magazine to order through their home conference tract society.

THUS far during this season eight members of our “Travelers’ Club” have sold 13,640 copies of Life and Health, in 46 of the leading cities of 13 States. These “Travelers” go from one city to another, and arrange with our tract societies in advance for supplies of magazines, territory, etc.

PASTOR W. A. SWEANY, of the Bahamas, has just given us an order to send Liberty and the Protestant Magazine one year to 75 of the most prominent people in those islands. The list includes the names of the governor, chief justice, colonial secretary, attorney-general, receiver general, leading pastors, etc.

PLEASE help us to reach 19,977,820 public-school pupils and college students through their 534,450 teachers and instructors. You can do this by sending $1.50 to your tract society office to pay for mailing Liberty or the Protestant Magazine for one year to ten of these teachers. Or, we will mail the beautiful Educational number of Liberty or the latest number of the Protestant Magazine to 30 of these educators for the same amount. Send the money through your conference tract society, and we will do the rest. We have the names and addresses of these teachers.

A LIST of the names of the prominent persons who read Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, and Life and Health, would more than fill this entire page. It would include such notable persons as the ex-president of the United States, numerous governors of States, university and college presidents and professors, judges, sheriffs, mayors, aldermen, editors, physicians, librarians, clergymen, political leaders, teachers, attorneys, etc. Kindly help us to extend the influence of these magazines still farther. Ask your tract society secretary how you may do this at but little cost on your part.

‘But,’ you may say, ‘I live in a country village, and could never sell many magazines here, for I have no territory.’ Perhaps you might follow the plan adopted by one of our agents in South Carolina. Although she lives in a small country village, she sells on an average 100 magazines a week. She writes: ‘I spent three days selling 100 magazines in the cities near by, and then returned home. I hope to sell 100 copies every week. I sold 250 copies in one week.’ Why not try this plan?

A NUMBER of our subscription book agents are finding out that it pays them to sell copies of Life and Health, Liberty, and the Protestant Magazine Saturday evenings. This enables them to pay their room rent with Life and expenses while they are waiting to make their deliveries. Speaking of this plan, Brother I. G. Bigelow, missionary secretary of the Columbia Union Conference, says:—

‘I am advising our city workers to pay their room rent with Life and Health, and those who are trying it find it works all right. After closing the canvass on their book, and as they arise to leave, they incidentally mention the fact that they have an interesting magazine on health themes for the home, and ask the party to take one copy. This is done generally when the worker fails to get an order for his book. It takes only about two minutes longer, and is almost always successful.’