# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S670
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670 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS .

difficulty in securing proper transportation facilities, accommodél
tions, and the like. Aside from being an invaluable aid to:
Emergency Planning Council, our chaplains have substantia!
advanced the cause of Lutheranism in Europe ‘and have not faileg
to further the name of the Missouri Synod among all those wit H
whom they have come in contact.

Schlueter Manufacturing Company

A special vote of recognition and thanks is due the Schlue
Manufacturing Company, of which Mr. W. H. Schlueter, th
Treasurer of our Synod, is president. At the peak of our relief:
activities his company made space and facilities available to us¥
in his plant. Only because of these additional facilities was i d
possible for the Emergency Planning Council to send 275,000.
eleven-pound food packages to Europe in the space of four yearg.:
Except for labor and necessary overhead charges the Schlueter::
Company facilities were given to our Synod free of charge.

Dr. H. Harms

Because Emergency Planning Council’s relief work had gained
Such proportions during the last triennium, and because man:

Harms was appointed in the early months of, 1949 by Dr. J. W
Behnken as the Missouri Synod’s representative abroad. ile
visiting the leaders and officials of the Free Church, Landeskirché
Breslau Synod, and other denominations, Dr. Harms was well re:
ceived and accomplished much to further closer relationship
between “Missouri” and the Confessional Church in Germany. His *
sincere, orthodox, and Christian spirit influenced all whorti
Dr. Harms visited abroad. us

Special Thanks a
We owe thanks to many organizations and individuals who, g
have extended willing hands on more than one occasion for the
work of the Emergency Planning Council. We owe particular “
thanks to the Walther League for the splendid job in rousing its e
some 3,000 societies to the cause of relief; to the Lutheran Women’s 4
Missionary League for its work: of love, with its mountains of 3
clothing, shoes, toys for children, its hundreds of layettes, and 4
medicine kits, its heroic accomplishments in the orphanage program; *
to our fellow Lutherans in Canada, South America, Finland, Poland,
China, Norway, Sweden, France, England. To all these we owe,
thanks for their encouraging co-operation. * oy
To the executive members of the Emergency Planning Council,
who for many years, especially the last three years, have so gener~