# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S242
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242 Publication Matters

a general proposition, though we did have a few unusually large
losses. We are carrying out the instructions we received at the
last convention to draw our credit lines a little tighter. That is a
hard proposition, however.

During the past triennium we were obliged to make several
larger replacements of machinery, and we are facing additional
ones in the immediate future. The very considerable increase in
the circulation of the Witness has forced us to install much faster
presses and will probably soon force us to substitute even more
speedy methods of manufacture. The increase in the circulation
of the Witness and, to a lesser extent, of the Lutheraner is due in
large part to the fact that whole Districts are buying at a very
close price District editions of these periodicals. Experience may
teach us that the price we set is not quite high enough. Unfor-
tunately we cannot conscientiously make similar attractive prices
to the smaller Districts. The following Districts are NOW buying
District editions of the Witness and the Lutheraner: Iowa East,
Iowa West, Western, South Wisconsin, Central, and Oregon ‘and
Washington.

We recommend to Synod to authorize discontinuation of the
Kinder- und Jugendblatt at the close of the current year and the
authorization to discontinue the publication of the Guide if and
when its place can be filled in some other way. We also should
have the same authorization with reference to the Young Lutherans’
Magazine as plans are being considered to rearrange the grticula-
tion between our three English juveniles, and our hands should not
be tied by the traditional policy under which we are not supposed

to discontinue any periodical without a resolution of Synod. Our

Sunday-school series has been improved and is still undergoing
improvements; it has gained in circulation quite satisfactorily,
though it is to be much regretted that this synodically ordered and
synodically regulated series must still compete for favor in our own
circles with privately published Sunday-school material or even
with non-Lutheran series.

The members of Synod have received reports of the Hym-
nology Committee on the proposed new hymn-book and recently
have received a proof print of the proposed new Catechism.

Other features of our business, such as the cheap devotional
series and the Teachers’ Training Series, ete, are undoubted
reported on by other boards.

Our financial report will be handed as 8 separate item t
the delegates at the convention. :

Respectfully submitted,
Rup. H. C. MEYER, Secretary