Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-29
CHURCHMEN PLAN
ANNUAL FARLEY
Executive Committee of Fed
eraI Council Meets De-
Cember 2.

Prominent church leaders from all
parts of the country will attend the
annual meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Federal Council of
Churches, to be held at the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church December
2 and 8. Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell
Of the New York area of the Methodist
Episcopal Church is president of the
council, and the general secretaries are
DR.. Charles S. Mcfarland, DR.. Samuel
M. Cavert and DIR. John M Moore. DIR.
Walter L. Lingle, president of Davidson
College and chairman of the Executive
Committee, will preside. Addresses OF
welcome will be made by Bishop Will
liam F. Mcdowell and DR. j. r. Sizoo.
Questions of church policy regarding
such issues as world peace, race rela-
lions, prohibition and unemployment
will be discussed from the floor by the
officially appointed representatives OF
the 81 denominations constituent to the
council.
Col. Woods, chairman of President
Hoover's Committee on Employment, Is
expected to address the Executive Com
mittee Wednesday morning. Considera-
ton will then be given to the action to
the present unemployment emergency.
In speaking of this particular part OF
next weeks program James Myers, in
dustrial secretary of the councils Com
mission on the Church and Social Serv-
ice, said: THE churches are interested,
to be sure, in every proposal designed
to give relief to the economic distress
prevalent on all sides But beyond this
the churches are concerned with the
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these pressing economic problems. We
believe the conscience of the Nation
should be focused on the necessity OF
adequate, constructive measures TO ELM
mate the evil of recurring unemploy-
ment from our economic and Industrial
order"
DR.. Sidney L. Gulick, secretary of the
Commission on International Justice
and Good Will, said the Washington
meeting would be asked to indicate what
the attitude of the churches should be
on such questions as American mem
bership in the World Court. the ratlf1-
cation of the Pan-American arbitration
treaty. the possible negotiation OF
multilateral consultative pact by which
the United States would agree to confer
with other powers in the event Of a
threatened breach of the Kellogg pact,
and the further reduction OF arma-
ments.
Churches which will be officially rep
resented at the conference are Northern
Baptist Convention, National Baptist
Convention, Free Baptist Churches,
Christian Church, Churches Of God in
North America general eldership),
Congregational Churches, Disciples OF
Christ, Evangelical Church Evangelical
SYNOD of North America, Friends, Meth
odist Episcopal Church, Methodist
Episcopal Church South, African M E.
Church, African M E. Zion Church,
Colored M. E. Church in America,
Methodist Protestant Church, Moravian
Church, Presbyterian Church in the
United States of a erica. Presbyterian
Church in the United States (South),
Protestant Episcopal Church Cooper
ating agency, Reformed Church IN
America, Reformed Church in the
United States, Reformed Episcopal
Church. Seventh-day Baptist Churches,
united Brethren Church, United Pres
byterian Church, and United Lutheran
Church consultative body.