We notice that our friends and supporters accepted with great satisfaction the enlarged size of our newspaper. We are receiving daily thousands of letters from all parts of this country, congratulating us on our efforts to improve the reading, matter and enlarge the size of our daily. This makes us happy and gives us energy to continue such policy.

But in order to fulfill the already made promises to give our readers a newspaper of high standard and quality, as well as to meet the growing expenses incurred with newspaper expansion, we must have additional capital. We are in great need of a new and modern printing machinery to speed up work on a higher rate circulation. New appearance of the newspaper enlarged size, increase in reading matter, all these require more capital which, we are sorry to say, we are unable to secure from any other sources except from the reading public. Our plan to secure additional capital is plain, 2 we figure that the increased expenses can be covered by securing from 700 to 800 new subscribers, and we are strongly appealing to our readers and friends for this support.

We do not need go further with an explanation why our Slovenes need their own and the only Catholic newspaper, nor what benefits they are getting by reading its very interesting and highly educational pages. We hope that such reasons already have been printed on many pages of this paper, but the only opinion we do express is that it would not be nice of Slovenes if, in this critical hour for our newspaper's existence, they will withdraw their helping hand. We do not have other means to provide additional capital, and we must assure you that without sufficient capital this paper cannot be published in an enlarged form or have better reading material.

Now that we have laid down our problem, it is up to you, friends and readers, to help us with solicitation of a few hundred new subscribers, and if you succeed in this work we will keep our promises of going to the limit.

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All Catholic organizations are requested to organize their work on solicitation, and as soon as we have the required number of new subscribers filled, our work on developing the newspaper will be fast.