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OUR Co-Workers'
BULLETIN
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Box 111, Eugene, Oregon. June 9, 1943.
Dear Friend and Co-Worker:
Instead of the usual longer BULLETIN, I send you this
time just a quick one-page letter, which must be RUSHED to all
Co-workers today.
This great and important work for God and His Kingdom has
hit a serious crisis. I must ask our Co-Workers, without beating
about the bush or mincing words, to come generously to the aid of
this work AT ONCE, if it is to continue at all---let alone grow and
multiply in power as it has so phenomenally up to now. Frankly,
the past few weeks we have been receiving only about HALF enough
money to keep this work going. The work cannot survive another
week, unless our Co-workers respond quickly and liberally. The
crisis is just that serious!
There is a reason. It is a situation I have not been
able to prevent up to now, but it WILL be met. In a few words the
reason is that we have not been able to send out The PLAIN TRUTH
promptly. I'll have this difficulty solved now, if our Co-workers
will understand, and stand by me thru this crisis. Here is the
situation: I have written our Co-workers before how the very
SUCCESS of the Work plunged us into an emergency---how the response
from super-power WHO was five times what we had anticipated---how
it cost us twice as much to handle the thousands and thousands of
requests that poured in as the cost of station time alone. This
delayed us at least two months in getting out The PLAIN TRUTH. And
when it did come out the mailing list had jumped to 25,000 copies!
We finally hurdled that barrier, but once the magazines
were printed we encountered a new problem---and at a time when I
was in Southern California and the middle-west and unable to give
it my personal attention. Do you realize what a task it is to
address, fold, wrap, and sort for mailing, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
MAGAZINES? Two or three trained and experienced mailers could have
wrapped and mailed out this entire edition in a week. They would
fold, wrap, and sort eight to ten copies while one untrained in
that special job would do one. But the boys we have employed for
that job in the past are in military service---not one trained
mailer was obtainable. We hired and tried a number of girls. We
had to turn most of the mailing job finally over to the printers,
who put inexperienced girls on the job part time. Our own staff
has devoted what time they could to it. Result, the last copies
are going out only today---about two months after the magazine was
printed. Had this issue gone out promptly, enough of these many
thousands of new readers would voluntarily have become new
co-workers to have increased our income by 25%. More stations
would have been added. As it is, thousands have been perhaps
offended, not understanding our problem. I am going to find a way,
somehow, to see that the next number is mailed out speedily. I can
only trust you will understand, hold up my hands, and come now
quickly to the rescue.