# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S261
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Communications from Prof. W. H. Kruse.

A. In the name of the Professors' Conference:

"It is urgently requested that a separate catalog in the English language be printed at the Synod's expense for every institution."

B. On behalf of the teaching body at Springfield (Prof. F. Streckfuß, Secretary):

"The teaching body has set two Latin class hours for the first seminary class instead of one." (February 2, 1911. — Cf. Report of the General Synod, 27th, pp. 66, 75.)

Relief of Our Educational Institutions' Household Budgets.

To an Honorable Delegate Synod, assembled at St. Louis, Mo., in May 1911.

The Professors' Conference, assembled at Maywood, Ill., from June 28 to July 1, 1910, dealt, among other things, with the question of how the institutions' household budget might be arranged so that it need not continually run into debt. After thorough deliberation, the conference agreed to ask the Honorable Delegate Synod to pay for

a. the fuel,

b. a fireman or janitor, and

c. the physical-education instruction.

The reason that compels us to bring such a request before the Synod is a shortfall in the household budget. And the cause of this is not luxury or waste, but rather prices for life's necessities that have risen by 30 to 50 percent. If we were now to raise the board fee by the same proportion, that would not only discourage many parents from sending their sons to the institutions, but would also make it nearly impossible for those who now have sons there to afford the board fee, since there is, after all, much else besides board to be paid for. Since we now prepare young people almost exclusively for the teaching office in the church, it seems to us only fair that individual Christians and whole congregations that have no student at the institution should help bear the burden borne by those who give up their sons for the service of the church. We do not, indeed, conceal from ourselves that the Synod already provides institutions and teachers, but since the fathers of the students also contribute to their support, the distribution of the burden is a very unequal one. Nor, furthermore, does it occur to us to aim at a wholly equal distribution of all the expenses that the training of pastors and teachers requires. We know that this cannot be achieved, and indeed that it is not even desirable; but we nevertheless believe that thousands of Christians in