LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 139

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204 Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular Convention,

appointed by the Synod (the President of Synod appointing a com-
mittee which shall serve until the next meeting of Synod) which
shall act in an advisory capacity to the Board of Valparaiso Uni-
versity.” The President appointed the secretary, Pastor O. Fedder
and Mr. E. Tatge as members of this committee, which met with the
Committee of the University at various times, discussing questions
of policy in which the Synod is vitally interested, thus bringing
about a closer cooperation between Synod and the institution in the
hope of bringing about the full spiritual accreditation of the insti-
tution as a Lutheran school. Both these committees agreed to come
before Synod with the request that the present arrangements be
continued. It is our opinion that Synod should instruct the Board
of Directors to appoint such a standing Advisory Committee to
operate as the present committee, which had been temporarily ap-
pointed by the President at the request of the Valparaiso Board and
upon the suggestion of the College of Presidents, the understanding
being that the Advisory Committee will be at all times responsible
to the Board of Directors. ;

4, After taking up the matter with the Lutheran Immigrant
Society of New York, Incorporated, it was decided to ask Synod to
discontinue the separate incorporation of our Immigrant Mission
Board, incorporated under two charters, one of 1887 and one of 1911.
The character of the work has changed so materially that the work
among the immigrants can be well taken care of by the Mission
Board of the Atlantic District, while other features, really amounting
to social-welfare work, can be taken care of locally. The question
of the disposition of the funds and property held by the Immigrant
Mission Board must also be ordered.

5. Since the Immigrant Mission in Western Canada has prac-
tically come to a standstill, our Board recommends to discontinue
the office of the executive secretary of this Mission Board, while
the Immigrant Mission work in Western Canada is to continue.

6. In connection with a report of our Committee on Missions
among the Blind it was resolved to bring the question of the censor-
ship of the Lutheran Messenger, our publication for the blind, before
Synod. The Board holds that a publication like the Lutheran Mes-
senger, representing our Church in practically all parts of the world,
should be under the.same kind of censorship as all our official pub-
lications. .

4. The Board joins the Appropriations Committee in its recom-
mendation that the two executive offices of the Board of Christian
Education be combined.

8. The Board asks Synod to clarify the rules and regulations of
the Relief Board.

9. A difficulty has arisen with regard to remuneration of in-
structors at your seminaries and your colleges.

Ev. Luth. Synod ot Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1932, 905

Your Board of Directors has interpreted Synod’s ruling in the
Handbook, p. 66, § 8 (Handbuch, p. 63, § 8), to mean that all services
of such instructors outside of the classroom have to be rendered with-
out remuneration and that Synod, in adopting a salary scale, meant
to define conclusively the amounts which each instructor is to receive
to support him in his work.

In this respect we have met with definite resistance on the
part of some boards.

We beg an Hon. Synod to affirm the stand of your Board of
Directors and to declare that all extracurricular work which your
instructors have to do for their respective institutions must be done
gratis.

10. There has developed a tendency to have our institutions and
boards not only depend upon Synod’s incorporation, but to have them
also incorporated in their respective States.

While we do not deny that there may be some advantages in such
special incorporation, we believe that the disadvantages of it are
greater than the advantages.

We therefore petition the Hon. Synod to resolve that institutions
and boards must not be incorporated in their respective States and
that such incorporations as have been made must be dissolved, or that
Synod should at least appoint a committee to look into this matter.

41. The Board resolved to ask Synod to sanction a Synod-wide
solicitation for funds to eliminate, if possible, the 1931 indebtedness
and to prevent a similar debt in 1932.

12. After hearing the annual report of our Treasurer, the Board
resolved, as an emergency measure, to cut the salaries of all those who
are on the pay-roll of Synod ten per cent. and to try to effect a similar
reduction of all other expenses. The Committee on Missions was
asked to see to it that the saving in our mission-budget be made in
such a manner that it will not work a hardship on our missionaries
and that the work itself be not restricted and that it be left to Synod
to find ways and means of making permanent adjustments in keeping

‘ with our income.

Respectfully submitted in the name of
Tre Boarp or Directors or Synop.
M. F. Kretzmann, Secretary.
ACTION,
As to Memorial 601, A, 7, 8, and 9, compare action under “Mis-
sions in General,” page 110.

As to “Surplus Funds,” brought up in 601, B, 1, also in the report
of the Board of Auditors, Memorial 603, 8, this was reported on by
Committee 18 as follows: —

“Since the resolution of Synod adopted in Milwaukee, 1917, has
been interpreted in different ways by various parties concerned, your