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With this issue, The Freeman undergoes certain changes in the personnel identified with it. A new editor is taking over, and new names appear among its makers. Mr. Frank Chodorov has retired from the editorship. Mr. C. O. Steele has been appointed his successor. For the new editor I should like to bespeak the same cooperation, and the same indulgence that the efforts of his predecessors have enjoyed.

Among its several thousand subscribers, The Freeman has won many devoted friends. Among the several hundred persons who at one time or another have contributed to its columns, The Freeman has many devoted supporters. The paper is now in its fifth year. The immediate future should determine whether it has made for itself a permanent place in the literature of the Henry George movement. To have that place, it must have several thousand additional subscribers, and the ranks of its supporters must include a broader cross-section of the thinkers and leaders of our movement. The policies that will be continued, and the new policies that will be introduced, will be aimed to determine whether there is a need for The Freeman, and whether The Freeman can fill that need.

The men and women who collaborate in making the paper, and those who collaborate in building it as subscribers and friends of the paper, are those who will make the decision whether The Freeman is to go on through another half-decade. We who have faith that The Freeman will one day amply fulfill its promise will give these self-sacrificing friends of the paper all our support. Our prayers and our hopes are theirs.