Administration
Charles Péguy
Our longtime subscribers know that in addition to the free subscriptions announced above, we offer: supporter subscriptions at one hundred francs; regular subscriptions at twenty francs; and promotional subscriptions at eight francs.
It goes without saying that there is not a single difference in service between these various subscriptions. We simply wish for our cahiers to be equally accessible to everyone. The regular subscription is roughly equal to our cost; the promotional subscription is therefore considerably below cost.
We earnestly ask our new subscribers to kindly inform us without any delay which category we should count them in. It is indeed important to us that our budget projections be solidly established at the start of this new series. We earnestly ask our new subscribers to kindly send us by the same post, if necessary, any corrections to their address. It is important to us that our files and directory be perfectly up to date before the second series begins.
The same freedom we leave entirely to all our contributors, we leave no less entirely to the first among them, the administrator: my old friend André Bourgeois, a bank clerk, without intervening in any way in the editing of these cahiers, will this year devote to their administration all the effort of his effective patience and his laborious tenacity. As last year, our subscribers will find on the second, third, and fourth pages of the cover the necessary details regarding administration.
Without at all relinquishing this same freedom, without sharing with anyone the responsibility for what we intend to do, we have with great pleasure chosen a new residence. At 16 rue de la Sorbonne, where the École des Hautes Études Sociales is located—school of ethics—school of social studies—school of journalism—we shall have the happiness of dwelling door to door with the secretariat of the society of popular universities.
Exercising this same freedom, acting myself as a free contributor, I shall take the liberty, at the threshold of the second series, of offering some information about the very institution of these cahiers. For more than ten months I have let people talk and slander. I believed that the worker must first produce, and only later present a defense of the work he has produced. But at the beginning of this important series, I would fail the good people who have entrusted to me their time, their labor, their means, their friendship, if I did not begin by presenting a defense of our common institution. I am accountable to these honest people and to the public. It is inevitable that at the start of the next cahier I speak a little on behalf of my house.