# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S246
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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284 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

are published in the Catalog of Concordia Publishing House under
the special head of “Catalog of Adult and J uvenile Literature,”
Also during the past triennium your Board has met in regular
sessions to consider books and manuscripts submitted for examination.
Owing to the: depreasion and other causes, publishers in late years
have not brought out as many new titles as in former years; hence
your Board has not been able to examine ag many new books as in the
first few years of its activity. Nevertheless, while its work is not as
voluminous as it used to be, the continuation of your Young People’s
Literature Board is justified, especially in view of the fact that it

One chair in your Board was vacated when the Rev. A. G. Merz,
a charter member of your Board, was called to his eternal rest in 19384,
For various reasons the vacancy has not been filled.

Your Board is now operating under its new name — The Young
People’s Literature Board. This name was chosen in agreement with
Synod’s resolution on this score, because the old name led many cus-
tomers of Concordia Publishing House to believe that your Board
was concerned principally, if not exclusively, with literature for
children in the primary grades, while actually most of its work per-
tains to young people in the grammar and high-school ages,

The chairman of your Board will be in attendance at the con-
vention and will be glad to give further information and receive
suggestions,

Your Board begs leave to submit the following recommendations:

1. That, in view of the fact that your Board has enjoyed complete
and considerate cooperation on the part of the officials and assistants
of Concordia Publishing House, the important contribution of
Synod’s publishing concern to this special part of Synod’s work
receive due recognition ;

2. That our Pastors, teachers, and all who are concerned in the
matter assist in the sale of such books as your Board has recommended
and as are listed in the Concordia Publishing House Catalog of
Adult and Juvenile Lnterature,;

3. That, since the spread of books that are not fit for Christian
children is continuing unabated throughout our country, especially
through the so-called three-cents-a-day lending libraries, housed
usually in drug stores and other similar shops, our pastors, teachers,
and parents pay more attention to what our children and young
people are reading, encouraging the use of such books ag may be read
without injury to their salvation;