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Our job in a time of crisis, then, is to increase or at least do the
same amount of publishing with less money. We here in Pasadena are
working on ways in which we can keep those new PT responses coming
in f:com the public even with a reduced number of PT magazines out
on the newsstand racks.
This is where we need your help (both in your prayers and suggestions)
on how to do a more cost effective job. Please write or call if your
PT newsstand coordinators have an.1 suggestions on two we can improve
the existing program as it is now, using the present method of distri
bution from the printer. You fellows have come up with ideas in the
past. We need ideas now. Please start evaluating each of your out
lets, not on how many magazines it will take per month, but on its
ability to get us new PT subscribers.
--Roger Lippross, Publishing Services
EDITORIAL SERVICES UPDATE
Nothing special to report about the PT at this point except that we
are looking into ways of saving printing costs at this time of financial
difficulty. Although decisions have not been made at this point, we
are not planning to reduce the size of the PT or combine it with the GN.
I would like to take this opportunity to quell a rumor. I have heard
from several sources that it is rumored that "half the PT staff quit."
Actually only one person quit -- and that was in order to take another
position outside of the Work.
I was obliged to lay off several of
our writers and researchers, however. George and Carole Ritter, Paul
r ·aunke, and Scott Rockhold were all terminated.
We are again planning an "introductory" copy of the PT for new sub
scribers. We have been working closely with Boyd Leeson and Roger
Lippross on this and the issue will be produced on a test basis very
soon (pending Mr. Armstrong's full approval of copy and layouts, of
course)
--Brian Knowles, Editorial Services
THE STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Worldwide Church of God, both directly and through the Ambassador
International Cultural Foundation, has made continuous efforts to
strengthen the spiritual bonds between peoples everywhere and to build
better understanding among men and women of different faiths.
This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came
to be dedicated to two propositicns;
first, a strong religious
conviction, and secondly a recognition that this conviction could
flourish only under a system of freedom.
I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitu
tional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the
Constitution: the principle of religious independence, of religious
liberty, of religious freedom. And I think it is also important
that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that
is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no