# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S38
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38 Proceedings of the twenty-seventh convention

[Printed in English.]
Total Balance is accounted for as follows: —
Cash in Bank, July 1, 1920          $5801.14
Bank Certificate                     4000.00
Liberty Bonds                        3200.00
War Savings Stamps                     50.64
Building Bonds                         25.00
Denver Note                           500.00
Alabama Working Capital               100.00
Due from Missions                    1216.01
                                   $14892.79

“Other expenses” referred to above cover such items as fuel, poor stu-
dents' expense, books and stationery, insurance, and household expense in
Immanuel College, which for the last fiscal year amounted to $5,061.25.

Condition of the various treasuries of the Negro Mission is as follows,
July 1, 1920: —
                                                Deficit.    Balance.
Chapel at Carrollton                                        $ 135.00
Chapel Fund                                                  2910.88
Chapels: In Chicago                                            10.00
   In Ingomar                                                  55.00
   In Napoleonville                                          1517.72
   In Nyland                                                   79.14
   In Plaquemine                                               46.00
   In Springfield, Ill.                                         5.00
   In St. Louis                                              6176.88
   In Washington                                               61.67
Church Extension Fund, Colored                                279.48
Dormitory at Greensboro                                      1466.35
Henry Daehnke, sick-help                                       26.30
Million Dollar Fund                                          5684.92
Mission Fund                                    $5290.59
Pecan Trees                                        83.00
Poor Students' Fund                                           932.19
Transitory Accounts                                           179.85
                                                $5373.59   $19566.38
                                                             5373.59
                                                           $14192.79
Bills payable                                                 700.00
                                                           $14892.79

The actual deficit for the last fiscal year is $5,609.92, as will be seen
from the reported receipts and disbursements. This is due, in your Treas-
urer's humble opinion, to the increased cost of living as well as the growth
of our Mission, with which our donors have not kept pace. We must have
$90,000 for the following year, and should have $100,000, judging from
present conditions. This calls for a live interest in Negro Mission work
by all our Lutherans.
The Endowment Fund referred to by our Field Secretary is perhaps
the best method of financing work of this magnitude; but even such fund
should be increased from time to time in order to keep pace with the in-
creased demand of this growing mission.
Your Treasurer sincerely and respectfully petitions the honorable of-
ficers and delegates of Synodical Conference on behalf of the laborers in
the Negro Mission, and the many helpless negroes who continually call
to us for help, to devise ways and means to command a greater interest
in our work, and provide for more liberal support financially.
Respectfully submitted,
EWALD SCHUETTNER, Treasurer.