# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S378
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Such appropriations for buildings from the Wartime Mis-
sions and Conservation Fund are made on the following con-
ditions;

such congregations so dictate.

“b) Disposition of any such. moneys repaid on appropria

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tors of Synod.”

That our Mission Boards’ and the Emergency Planning
Council have not permitted the wartime emergency to stampede
' them into spending moneys to begin projects which in a few
years will become ghosts, is evidenced by the

Permanency fact that 50 Per cent of the moneys allocated’
from the Wartime Missions and Conservation
Fund in 1948 have bee taken over by the Districts in 1944 as

Manpower At the Present time we could Place a large
Sho rtage number of men into _war-production areas. But

the men are not available. Sometimes it takes six
to eight months. efore a missionary is secured for a place that
cries for immediate attention. In a few instances we have been
able to secure trained women — but in all too few,

The tremendous upheaval and the trek of 100,000 people.
coming from all Sections of the United States and squatting down