STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1648, sig. 109-4/1403

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<6 - 2. Pinanzierung der "Voor-God-Acti" About the financing of the Dutch KA, it says in § ll of the "statutes": "We receive the money for the work of the Comités from gifts, legates and inheritances". Therefore no cigential fixed membership contributions are used, but donate smaller and larger members. The grants of bishops, etc., which changed year after year and occur once a year in a total amount of about 20 000, regularly went to legates. Whether inheritances have been made in favour of the comit, does not occur from the documents. Another important source of money was the Easter Lotterie, which was organized annually by the KAvG. In order to increase the number of lottery tickets as much as possible, the Comité of each country developed an extensive propaganda. As a propaganda organ, the K. R. O. (Catholic RacLo organization) was first drawn up, which passed three times a lecture and repeated an advertising slogan in all Kro-llittailungen. All church organizations were still claimed. The most touching of all was Msgr, Poels, who was the director of the Werkliedenbond in all sections.Thirdly, the entire press, e.g. in Ansterdam: De Tijd, De Nieuwe Dag, Het Cen. trum, Noord-Hollandsch-Dagulad, De Noorder Post, in the Hague: Residentiebode, in Utrecht: De Volkskrant, in Rotterdam: Dortsche Courant, Dagblad van Zid-Holdand, Nieuwe Schiedamer Courant; in short, the KA press carried the lottery advertising through the whole country for two to three weeks, praised the chances of winning, exposed the individual main lotteric gifts and announced above all the "ideal" idea of victory of a kath. Community sacrifice. As a lot market, each KA organization could easily be used, as well as every parish, which according to its strength of soul had to take over a certain lotion and had to leave by its own lottery organization. After installation and type of preparation it can not