REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority State Letter 12 Sy ME, NARI Date 2498 Licenciado Gonzalo PACIO Segreda Director of Comissions of the Center of Studies.
Gerardo VERITANDEZ Durán Director of the magazine Surco.
Professor Carlos LONGE Alfaro Director of Propaganda.
Rafael Alberto ZUNICA Tristán Director of the cooperative iiovement, while from the foregoing it might appear that the structure of the Centro is over organized, in practice it.
seems to function with a high degree of cohesive efficiency.
Partially, doubtless, this is attributable to the fact that the key positioris are in the hands of a few per is these persons who aato taken ective charge of the organization since its inception, The collection of funds, so often the cause of difficulties in such enterprises, has not been a serious problem for the Centro. There is no initiation fee for membership nor do wenbers pay a fixed quota after joining; according to one of the directors of the movement, each member must make a monthly contribuvion of at least one colon (approximately 30. 18. Becaus, as stated above, many of the members are wealthy thi. ilethod sufi ices to insure the moderate operating expenses the ortunization. At the present time their ciisbursemen 13 are not heavy, for their news paper publicity is carried without cost, and the monthly magazine, Surco, is seli supporting by reason of its paid advertising.
TE orobabe, in fact, that the organization is slowly accuroulation surplus upon which to draw when the Centro actively whiters the political arena, PROPAGANDA MEDIA At the moment the Centro employs four methods of publicizing the results of its investigations and studies. These are, in the chronological order of their appearance, a monthly magazine, a weekly news paper commentary, published works on specific questions, and a weekly radio program.
Surco, the monthly review which is edited by the Centro, and which serves as an official mouthpiece for the movement, was started by a group of the merabers of the Centro, but was at first entirely unconnected with that group. The original idea, admittedly that of Professor Roberto BRNUS ivesén, was the founding of a fortnigutly review to be concerned with cultural and intellectual material. The project was carried into effect by a half dozen young intellectuals of San José, in colapany with a similarly interested group or San Ramón, and on September 15, 1940 the first number was published. At the suggestion or professor Isaac AZOTEIFA the name Surco (Furrow) was bestowed upon it, to symbolize the opening and development of a finer cultural ield in Costa Rican thought, The