# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S349
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Miscellaneous Matters 849

Wuereas, The increased demand made by the congregations for
the services of this committee has made it impossible for the several
members thereof to accomplish efficiently their work; there-
fore be it

Resolved,

1. That a full-time executive secretary for the Architectural
Committee be engaged;

2. That the congregations pay one per cent. of the cost of their
building program to Synod for these services.

Respectfully submitted,
Tue Hupson Conrerence or New Jersey
Cartton A. ADLER, Secretary

Report of Committee 18:

Regarding Memorials 802 and 803, page 275, your Committee

a) Realizes and acknowledges the importance of this work;

b) Recommends that a vote of thanks be tendered to Synod’s
Architectural Committee and to its secretary, the Rev. F. R. Webber;

c) Recommends that this entire matter be referred to the Board
of Directors.

Action of Synod: These recommendations were adopted.

German Daily Minutes Omitted

The following recommendation was submitted on the floor of
Synod:

The volume of business that awaits transaction at a convention
of Synod is so great that every reasonable effort must be made to
expedite it. This implies that the time of the delegates be con-
served as much as possible. The rule which has prevailed here-
tofore requiring the reading of both German and English minutes
at each session might well be amended so as to eliminate one of
these readings. At this time and age it may be reasonably ex-
pected that the vast majority of the delegates can understand
English. It does not seem to be justified that the time of these
many delegates be consumed in listening to the reading of the Ger-
man minutes, which many of them do not understand. For these
reasons it is respectfully suggested that Synod’s regulations —
“M. Synodical Conventions,” chapter II, “Organization and Atten-
dance,” Paragraph 5 (page 59 of the Synodical Handbook) — be
amended by striking out the words “in both English and German,”
so that, when amended, it shall read: “Short daily minutes are to
be read to the synodical conventions to keep the delegates in touch
with the business transacted.”

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.