Fraternity-Testvériség, 1966 (44. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1966-04-01 / 4. szám
6 FRATERNITY Chicago, May 22; Trenton, in either May or September; Cleveland, June 5; Hamilton or Toronto, June 18. Washington is being considered for September. The declaration of the 70th Anniversary Year as the “Bible Year” is another plan included in the Anniversary Year promotion campaign. During this year, all new members are entitled to receive gift Bibles through the local fieldmen. Distribution of these Bibles will begin this month (April). Publicity and good promotion media are closely connected with the follow-up work of organization, prospecting and acquiring as well as conserving members. Directing last year’s sales programs in two countries naturally meant more planning, more work and more responsibility. I have already reported on my specific work in this connection. I also mentioned that without the initial work of our two supervisors, the success of our Canadian work would have been less. For their good work in this area, they merit our sincere acknowledgment. This, however, does not apply to our American territory in those districts and sections where, because of irresponsibility or other reasons, the fieldmen and their supervisors also (whose job it is to supervise and help them) allowed the quota shortages to increase month after month to such a degree that by the year’s end these shortages could not be made up, thereby lowering the expected net production. Although the respective fieldmen are immediately responsible for their shortages because their salaries are commensurate with their work, it is the official duty of the supervisors to see that the fieldmen make up their shortages before the end of the year. It is their responsibility to remedy the negligence and retrieve the losses through mutual cooperation. Where our supervisors could not do this last year, because of the extra work in Canada, they must do so this year, through constant supervision of those with quota shortages, by encouraging their men and personally working with them. Furthermore, they must help the delinquent district or section managers through their personal production in branches which lie too distant from district and section managers. Not one of our fieldmen relishes the idea of going to distant places, because long distances require much time, more work and more expense. On the other hand, because of the neglect of such branches and places year after year, much business is lost; their neglect increases the number of dying branches and the possibility that in outlying territories our Federation will be forgotten. For this reason we made the regular visiting of these outlying places and the conducting of membership drives in these spots a serious responsibility of our supervisors. In this way, not only can they make up the shortages of some of the districts and sections, but they can also be of help in attaining the required quotas. As we used the services of our supervisors in our promotional and organizational work, and in training new workers in the past year, we will do so again this year, especially in Canada, until there are enough adequately trained men in that new field. On the basis of my years of experience, it is my conviction that through the above men-
