LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 245

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1932. 245

testimony of its members, and the use of God’s latest gift to man-
kind, the radio, have all been employed to arrest man’s attention to
give heed to his soul’s salvation. The publicity endeavors of your
Press Committee have chiefly been of the kind which might bring
helpful suggestions to the pastor and his people in the preparation of

_ local publicity and missionary endeavors. During the last triennium:

your Committee issued the material given below: —

February, 1930: Service sheet, four sections, containing suggestions
for the Lenten season. Easter material and general publicity.

January, 1931: A clip-sheet presenting a program for National Lu-
theran Publicity Week, February 8—15, 1931.

July, 1931: Manual— Proposing an Aggressive Offensive against
Modernism along Positive Lines—and clip-sheet, two sections, which
brought helpful material, newspaper articles and other copy which might
aid to carry out the suggestions offered in the pamphlet.

November, 19381: Manual for a congregational missionary campaign
and an eight-page clip-sheet containing suggestions, articles for newspapers,
parish-papers, and catlog of electrotypes. All campaign material suggested
in manual. .

January, 1982: Clip-sheet, eleven pages, containing suggestions for
special services, from letters for a Lenten campaign, parish-paper articles,
newspaper article, copy for newspaper advertising, etc.

In October, 1930, President Hoover provided the American Lu-
theran Magazine with the following message: —

“The White House,
Washington. “October 3, 1930.

“I send cordial greetings to the Americans of Lutheran faith who are
celebrating on October 31 the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation |
and the four-hundredth anniversary of the reading of the Augsburg Con-
fession, from which date so many changes in point of view from older
conceptions both of religion and government. The effects of these historical
events are reflected in our national life and institutions, in religion through
the predominant numbers of adherents to Protestant faiths and in govern-
ment through the principle of separation of Church and State. It is fitting
that we should commemorate the persons and events from which these
mighty forces have sprung.

(Signed.) “Hersert Hoover.”

The President’s greetings were carried as a special feature by the
Associated Press and other news agencies, whereupon the Rev. J.J.
Burke, General Secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Con-
ference, issued a statement attacking the accuracy of the President’s.
statement and made an attack upon the Lutheran Confessions. The,
Synodical Press Committee sent a letter to the Rev. Burke and also
made public answer through the Associated Press and provided editors,
whenever the opportunity afforded itself, with accurate defensive
statements.

In cooperation with the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau