# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S316
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316 Publication Matters

We must reserve till June the delivery of the financial report,
because our fiscal year closes on April 30, and at the present time
such a report cannot be furnished. For the sake of ready com-
parison this financial report will be arranged in the same form
as in former years,

Owing to the advanced years of our Manager and also owing
to the increased volume of business details we have, after long
deliberation and hesitation, filled the office of assistant manager
by electing Mr.O. A. Dorn, formerly business manager of the
Walther League. Mr. Dorn assumed his duties on March 17, 1941.

Owing to the increased volume of business we were forced
to enlarge our facilities. A contract for a one-story annex to the
north of our present factory building was awarded on March 13,
1941. The cost of this one-story and basement annex amounts to
about $65,000. This annex will give us the much-needed floor space
for the press and pamphlet-bindery departments; it does not give
us the much-needed space for the composing- and proof-rooms.
This deficiency can be corrected only by erecting a fourth story
on the factory building, for which emergency preparations had been
made at the time of the erection of this building. We should be
pleased to have Synod’s approval and encouragement to go forward
with such plans if and when in the opinion of our Board such
addition seems mandatory.

Acknowledging with due gratitude the loyal cooperation of
our whole personnel, the Literature Board, the Faculty of Con-
cordia Seminary, the Board for Young People’s Literature, the
Board of Christian Education, and many others, we respectfully
submit our report. Rup. H. C. Mever, Secretary

Report of Committee 8
1. Wuerzas, Subscriptions to the Lutheran Witness have in-
creased in those nine synodical Districts in which a District edition
of the Lutheran Witness is published, your Committee
Recommends, That Synod encourage the Temaining Districts
to adopt the plan.

2. WHEREAS, The new hymnal has now been placed on the
market; and

Wuereas, Its publication has been a truly gigantic under-
taking, your Committee
Recommends:

a. That Synod express its appreciation to the Intersynodical
Committee on Hymnology and Liturgics by a vote of thanks;

b. That we congratulate Concordia Publishing House for its
alert and Progressive handling of this project; ;