fifty newspapers, magazines and trade
papers should be maintained and the public relations programs amplified.
Association, as distinct from affiliation, and untainted by any
participation in political matters, with the various organs, leaders and
representatives of the United Nations and kindred organizations should be
stimulated for the purpose of giving, on the one hand, greater publicity
to the aims and purposes of the Faith, and of paving the way, on the
other, for the eventual conversion of a selected number of capable and
receptive souls who will reinforce the ranks of its active and unreserved
supporters.

The process of the incorporation of properly functioning spiritual
assemblies must be simultaneously and vigorously carried out. The
forty-five assemblies now incorporated are the first fruits of an
enterprise of great significance, which must rapidly develop in the days
to come, as an essential preliminary to the establishment, and the
extension of the scope, of Baha'i local endowments, as soon as the
financial obligations incurred in connection with the completion of the
Temple have been discharged. The institutions of the three summer schools,
at Green Acre, Davison and Geyserville, and the International School at
Temerity Ranch, as well as the activities of the Baha'i Youth, must, under
the close supervision of their respective national committees, be
continually expanded and increasingly utilized as agencies for the
furtherance of the vital objectives of the Plan.

The beneficial and highly responsible activities undertaken by the
Publishing, the Reviewing, the Library, the Service for the Blind, the
Visual Education, the Pamphlet Literature and Study Aids Committees,
designed to disseminate and insure the integrity of Baha'i literature,
should, however indirectly connected with the purposes of the Plan, and
within the limits imposed upon them through its operation, be steadily
expanded, consolidated and be made to promote, in whatever way possible,
its paramount interests.

Nor should the "spacious territory of Alaska," particularly mentioned by
'Abdu'l-Baha in His Tablets of the Divine Plan, and at present the
northern outpost of the Faith in the Western Hemisphere, be ignored, or
its vital requirements neglected. The maintenance and consolidation of the
first historic spiritual assembly in Anchorage, the northernmost
administrative center of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in the world; the
multiplication