Evening star., 1932-05-15
SOUTHERN BAPT|STS
TO BOLT ANTI-DRY
Won't Aid Any Party Whose
Platform or Nominees
Oppose Prohibition.
By the Associated Press.

~ VIC AoSoclateu FreSS
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Nav ID
A warning that Southern Baptists win
not support the political party that
nominates wet" for President was
issued here tonight by the seventy
seventh annual convention of the de-
nomination.
1t was contained in a 24-page report
OF the conventions social service COM
mission. The paragraph read:
If either Of the political parties shall
go wrong, either In platform or its
nominees and undertake to destroy
prohibition, we will turn away from
that party and support a party and
candidate that stand for maintenance
and perpetuation of prohibition rs our
greatest national policy"
The report commanded prohibition.
world disarmament, better inter-racial
relations and Boy Scout" work and op-
posed military training, the motion pic
ture industry "as it is operated at the
present time" gambling, mob violence
and clamoring for resubmission OF the
eighteenth amendment to the States.
Trend Of Movies Condemned.
Summarizing It's report, the commits
sion, through its chairman, DR.. Arthur
j. Barton of Wilmington, N c., Of
fered these resolutions:
Il. That We deplore and condemn
the salaeious and immoral features
Characteristic Of most Of the motion
pictures now being presented ON the
screen.
y. That we urge all parents to ex-
ercise the greatest care and diligence
that children and young people shall
be kept away from the theaters when
Objectionable or questionable pictures
are on exhibition.
"s. That we approve the Brookhart
bill, now before the United States Sen
ate, proposing TO prohibit block-book-
ing and blind-booking, whereby pro-
ducers have compelled exhibitors to
show their pictures without the right
Of choice, and that we give our support
to any other legislation intended to
prevent the exhibition Of unclean pic
lures.
-. That we condemn all forms Of
gambling; that We deplore all existing
legislation and every proposal for the
enactment of legislation to legalize
gambling in any form, especially race
track gambling, one of the most prev
alent and one of the most corrupting
forms Of this evil ..
Reafirm World Court Approval.
rs. That we commend the Boy Scout
movement and recommend that
each of our Baptist Churches sponsor
Scout troop.
"6. That we affirm our approval Of
the permanent Court Of International
Justice and our belief that the Senate
OF the United States without further
delay ought to ratify the protocol of the
court by which approval our Govern
ment could and would have official
representation on this court.
~. That We oppose the continued
large expenditure by the Government
for military and naval equipment; that
We oppose military training in the
schools and colleges, whether denomina-
tional or State, and that we favor full
and complete disarmament as rapidly
as 1t possibly can be accomplished, ex-
cept such armament as may be abso-
lutely necessary for police duty within
our own territory and on our borders.
"6. That We reafirm our devotion
to the eighteenth amendment to the
Constitution and to its support
ing legislation as the greatest and most
benehcent piece Of social, economic and
human welfare legislation ever enacted
by any free people.
"s. That we reaf1rm our purpose,
repeatedly expressed, as citizens to
support for President of the United
States and all other important oficial
positions only such candidates and
nominees as believe in and support pro-
hibition as the established policy of our
governments, both State and National,
and that We will seek the defeat of
any candidate or nominee who may op-
pose prohibition, regardless Of any party
afnliations or labels"
d. C. Gets Convention.
The Southern Baptist Convention.
faced with decrease in revenues and
mounting Indebtedness, today took steps
TO meet the situation by slashing its
1883 budget IL per cent and by order
ing reductions In salaries and consoli-
dations Of boards and agencies wher-
ever possible.
DR.. Fred F. Brown of Knoxville.
Tenn. was elected president, succeeding
DR.. w. j. McGlothlin of Greenville,
S. c., who retired after serving three
years.
Washington, D. c., was chosen for
dlately follow the Northern Baptist Con-
vention.
DR.. Meade E. Dodd of Shreveport.
La, was elected first vice president, and
DR.. j. E. billiard of Birmingham. Ala.
second vice president.