# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S166
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166 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

8. While the Lutheraner and the Witness would probably need
full-time editors, each department of the other combined publications
could have its responsible editor, thus diminishing the work of the
individual.

Every magazine should have an exhaustive table of contents.

A magazine in a cover is fifty per cent. more attractive.

Our publications could be materially improved by effective illus--
trative embellishments in keeping with their high-class contents. In
the interest of economy and yet efficiency and attractiveness one

‘iustrations subeditor for all except technical publications should be’ 4

appointed. Pictures make attractive, and attractiveness brings first
orders and invites careful study of contents. Once the high-class
contents are recognized, you have gained loyal subscribers.

May our publications ever be better fitted to serve the Lord’s
great cause!

Respectfully submitted by Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
N. P. Unuie, Pastor.
Ww. J. Kircnnorr, Secretary.

The foregoing memorial was supported by the Sioux City Special
Conference, assembled at Hanover, Iowa, April 6—8.

Report of Committee 14, — Action.

Your Committee recommends that the three professional maga- .
zines, Theological Monthly, Lehre und Wehre, and Homiletic Maga-
zine, be merged into one bilingual monthly of 80 to 96 pages. — Re-
solved to postpone action until the next convention.

Two additional recommendations of Committee 14, based on the 4
unprinted Memorial 31, that the Pioneer be merged with the Lu-
theran Witness and the Missionstaube with Der Lutheraner, provided
the Synodical Conference gives its consent, and that no changes be
made at this time in minor publications, were tabled.

Committee 14 concluded its report with the words: “In conclu-
sion we pray our heavenly Father that we may always use the print-
ing-press to His glory and to the welfare of our fellow-men and thus 4
achieve the real end and aim for which our Publishing House was
founded.”

Advance Payment of Synodical Publications.
Memorial 617.

The Atlantic District, assembled in Meriden, Conn., in May,
1925, resolved to petition Synod to reconsider the rule that “Con-
cordia Publishing House shall insist that all periodicals be paid in %
advance” (Synodical Handbook, p. 96) and ask Synod to resolve “that a