Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
MISSION GROUPS
CHOOSE OFFICERS
Business Session of North
American Body Held at Cal
vary Baptist Church.

Election of officers of the North Amer
lean Home Missions Council and of the
Council of Women for Home Missions
was held in Calvary Baptist Church late
yesterday afternoon, following the ad-
| journment Of the five-day meeting of
the North American Home Missions
Congress. A number of resolutions and
suggestions, bearing on national mat
tiers, were adopted at the latter meeting.
DR.. John Mcdowell of the Board of
National Missions, Presbyterian Church,
United States of America, headquarters
| in New York, was elected president of
| the Home Missions Council. Other off,
GERS elected were: First vice president,
DR.. Ernest NJ. Halliday; second vice
| president, DR.. r. A. Hutchinson; third
vice president, DR.. Homer McMullin;
fourth vice president, Edward .. Kohl
stedt; fifth vice president, DR.. Charles
A. Brooks; recording secretary, Rev.
Ralph S. Adams; executive secretary,
DR.. William r. King; treasurer Miss
A. M. Behrens, and chairman Of Ad-
ministrative Committee, DR.. Ernest NJ.
Halliday.
Heads Council of Women.
Mrs. Grin r. Judd of the Northern
Baptist, New York, was elected presi-
dent of the Council of Women for Home
Missions. The other officers chosen in
this group were: First vice president,
Mrs. Philip NJ Rossman; second vice
| president, Mrs. Willard T. Robinson:
third vice president, Mrs. Fred S. Ben
nett; recording secretary, Miss Julia
Florance, and treasurer, Mrs. Edwin w.
Leutz. Executive officers: Miss Flor
| ence e. Quinlan. executive secretary;
Miss Helen M. Brickman, director, In
dian work; Miss Edith E. Lowry, secre-
| tary, migrant work, and Miss Adela T..
Ballard, Western supervisor, migrant
work.
The delegates to both groups attend
ed the Home Missions Congress.
The Home Missions Congress, toward
the end of its final session, went on rec
ORD expressing deep concern" over the
unemployment situation and pledging
itself to aid "all feasible plans for eco
nomic relief"
Resolutions commencing plans for
world peace, Sabbath observance, Pres
ident Hoover's stand on child welfare
work, sympathetic support of the eight
zenith amendment and its enforcement
and Federal supervision of the motion
picture industry were adopted.
The missions congress also went on
record "deploring the un-Christian, I'M
American and uncivilized practice of
! lynching." It urged the placing of
Orientals under the quota immigra-
ton laws of the United States.
Golden Rule Week Stressed.
Another resolution urged the observ-
ance Of Golden Rule week." December
to IA.
Resolutions approving the work of the
| Council Of Women for Home Missions
! Committee, the work of the committee
among the mountain children of the
South and that of the Porto Rico Feed
ing Committee also were adopted.
DR.. William r. King, executive secre-
tary of the Home Missions Council, re-
ported that the Home Missions Con-
gress meeting and organization was part
Of the f1ve-year program of the coun-
Gil, which has as its object the obtain
! ing Of more complete and effective CO.
operation in general church and home
missionary work.
A Joint dinner of the Home Missions
| Council and the Council of Women for
Home Missions, in the Hamilton Hotel
! last night, closed the meetings.