# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S330
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330 Miscellaneous Matters

Recommendations

a. We recommend for the next triennium that the same appro-
priation, i. e., $2,500 for each year, be granted the Press Committee.

b. We ask this convention to renew its former plea: “Synodical
officers, commissions, committees, etc., keep the Press Committee
informed, send news items of interest to the general public to the
Press Committee office for release to the press.”

c, Upon numerous and insistent suggestions that the doctrines,
principles, and practises of the Lutheran Church be presented to
the general American public by means of publications with national
circulation, we recommend that a minimum of $20,000 be appro-
priated for this purpose.

Respectfully submitted,
F. H. Linpemann, Chairman
Louis BucnHermer, Secretary
J.F.E. Nickenspurc, Treasurer

Committee 17 reported: :

Your Committee, appointed to study the report of the Press
Committee, Memorial 618, submits the following for your con-
sideration:

1. We note with pleasure the fact that organizations and mem-
bers of Synod have become more publicity-minded, and we urge
that publicity efforts be continued and intensified.

2. We desire to call attention to the vast amount of publicity
which was made possible through the Lutheran Hour, and we re-
quest Synod to encourage pastors, congregations, and other organi-
zations to avail themselves of local broadcasting facilities.

3. We gratefully acknowledge the work which has been done by
the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau in having placed at the
disposal of pastors, missionaries, and congregations four million
Gospel tracts during the past triennium, and we urge that this work
be given further moral and financial support through the use of
these tracts and regular periodic contributions. We also note with
pleasure that the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau has cheer-
fully placed its facilities at the disposal of the Press Committee,
which effected a great saving of money to Synod.

4. We desire to acknowledge the cooperation of the local Press
Committee, the Associated Press, the United Press, all local news
agencies, and the Mutual Broadcasting Company, with Synod’s
Press Committee in the work of covering the proceedings of this
Centennial Convention.

Your Committee presents the following resolutions for your
consideration: So