The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-01-19
Will Bring all A. M.
b. Printing Here
PROPOSES TO SAVE
MONEY TO CHURCH
Delegf Coming to See the Plan as
Feasible 0ne-.Part OF Plan as
Outlined.

Outlined.
With the turn of events it seems
probable that, beginning with the
1uadrennium of the A. M. E. Church
That Will begin after the adjourning
OF the Conference that will convene
at Kansas City in May, that all the
printing of that Church will be done
in Nashville.
Mr.. Ira T. Bryant, who is finishing
up his first quadrennum as Secretary
OF the Sunday-NSchool Union of the
A. M. e. Church, with headquarters
in this city. has made a proposition
to his Church that is as clear-cut, from
a business point of view, as possible,
and one that it is believed will receive
the approval Of the delegates of the
General Conference. TIC use Mr..
Bryant's own language, the plan in
Part is as follows, as suggestive of a
remedy for avs made by the last
General Conference and which have
not worked smoothly
II you should ask us how they are
20 get better support, in the face of
our statement that the church is al
ready doing as much as she is able
70 do, we might refuse to reply. pre-
fering to confne ourself here to the
question of publishing interests, and
not discuss our newspapers. If you
should insist, we would give it as our
opinion that the thing for us to do at
Kansas City is to apply bit of COM
lOOlr tha 0f
financial weakness "squarely in the
face" and decide to abolish either the
Christian Recorder, the Southern Re-
corder, or the Western Recorder; take
$1,000 of the money now going to the
abolished Office, giving $500 each to
the remaining two as a subsidy, the
remaining $3.50 keep in your Finan-
cial Department. Abolish this sense
less practice Of issuing a special Mis-
sionary Department paper-the Voice
Of Missions-and provide for a GER
tain amount of space in the two Re
corders for the Secretary of this de-
partment
One Central Publishing Piant-What
It Means.
But We started out to discuss "our
one big manufacturing plant" the
subject nearest our heart, the one, we
believe, that offers the greatest OBJ
unity for increasing tde revenue
of any that will come before the next
General Conference, and the one we
are anxious to interest you in, to the
and that we can get it we'll before
those who are to constitute the Kan
sas City gathering. Let us remind
/ you that the Church has given us, a
layman all the honor within its gift,
and we cannot possibly be influenced
by other than most altruistic motives,
in urging this plan upon the church;
we can have nothing but the purest
motives-the interest of this old
church 50 lear to our hcart-in adj
Vancing a reform that means such in
Increased burdens and responsibilities
without increased emoluments.
Our Reasons Illustrated. What a
Single Management Means.
single management of ur two
houses simply means that the work
will be so divided that best results
will be obtainable To illustrate:
Neither the Book Concern nor the
Sunday-School Union has enough Of
the bareback book work, such as
our disciplines, hymnals, etc, to war
rant it in buying the necessary ma
chinery to do job Of this kind; as
a result, the Union, when it gets a
job of this kind must content itself
with setting the type executing the
press work, folding, and sewing while
the cases, etc, must be made and
supplied by white concerns. On the
other hand, our Book Concern Is posi-
lively unprepared to do any part of
the work, but must sub-let the entire
Job to the white man. A single
management for our two houses
would mean that all work the Book
Concern could not handle, would be
sent to Nashville, where our own
boys and and girls are employed,
rather than to white concerns. Then
there is a class of work, such as cal
endarmaking and fine cut work, etc,
that could be gotten out to better adj
vantage at Philadelphia, where we
would be in close touch with high
class engravers, photographers etc.
The Plan Not New.
Putting several houses under one
management is nothing new The
/ NJ. r. Church has houses in Nashville
and Dallas, Texas, both under the
direct management Of Smith & La
mar; The American Baptist Publica-
ton Society has houses in four or
five cities ether than Philadelphia,
but all under one single management:
the great Western Methodist Book
Concern composed of houses in four
or five cities, all under the same
management; the same can be said Of
the great Methodist Book Concern
= of New York; and why this talk about
the plan not being practical in the
maintenance Of two little Negro print
ing plants at Philadelphia and Nash