Important Points by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 8, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 18.

Important Points.

By Editor

A CAREFUL reading is invited of Elder Haskell's letter and of Bro. C. H. Jones' article on the Publishing Association, in this paper. If any have ever held any doubts of the advisability of so large an office in Oakland, and of so much machinery and material, those doubts must now be entirely dispelled. As stated in the article referred to, we have two first-class power presses running two days in each week to print the SIGNS. Now if we have no outside job work these presses would have to stand idle three or four days in the week, which would involve an expense which no office could bear. And if we double, or nearly double the subscription list of the SIGNS, it would take our present large presses four days in the week to print the paper, which would make us two or three days later getting it in the mails. Then we must run more presses; and then if we had no facilities for doing a large jobbing work it would be impossible to keep up the SIGNS without an immense yearly outlay of means to meet the expenses. The proposed improvements, to be begun this year and finished next year, will give all the facilities that will probably ever be needed on this coast. We rejoice at the prospect; the outlook is cheering. A great work is now being done, but a much greater is to be done, and we do well to be prepared for it.