Evening star., 1946-10-11
Lutherans Told Half
I0f Relief Goal Raised
F.. Session Ends Today
By cospor Nonnes
Stor Sfoff correspondent

CLEVELAND, OcC. ll.-MOre fAnan
half of the $4,000, 900 goal for over
seas relief has been raised by the
eight Lutheran church bodies par
ticipating in the relief drive, the
Rev. DR.. Ralph H. Long. executive
director, National Lutheran Council,
today told the convention of the
United Lutheran church in America
at it's final sessions.
The United Lutheran church has
raised $2,200,000 of its $4,731, 1885
quota. the report stated. 1t showed
the Maryland synod, to which the
United Lutheran churches in Wash
ington belong, has raised $l15,1 of
Its $245,431 goal.
Twelve European countries and 10
nations in Asia, Africa and the Pa
cific islands have been beneflciaries
of the relief funds, the report
showed. The Lutherans in the
United States raised $500, 900 for
overseas relief between 1889 and
1945.
Goal of Council.
Nearly 100000 pounds of cloth
ing and food were sent overseas last
year, DR.. Long reported. He said
the eventual goal of the council for
relief to war-ravaged countries is
100000 pounds of food and cloth
ing.
There is conspiracy of silence
concerning God in modern secular
education, DR.. Morris Wee, execu-
tive secretary of the Student Serv-
ice Commission of the National
Lutheran Council, today charged at
the 18th biennial meeting of the
United Lutheran Church in Amer
lea. The convention will end today.
DR.. Wee asserted that this con-
spiracy tends to make God appear
unimportant to the college student
and declared the church must break
the silence by means of campus
ministers. These ministers must
assert the need of God for our time
and for the happiness and good Of
the world, he said.
165 Lutheran Helpers.
More than go per cent Of the pa
tients now in the 109 Veterans Ad-
ministration and allied hospitals
are psychiatric cases, the Rev. Carl
r. Plack, institutional chaplaincy
consultant for the National Lu-
theran Council and liaison officer
with Government agencies, told the
gathering.
Mr.. Plack said there were 165
Lutheran chaplains and contact
pastors serving in these institutions.
He pointed out the potential mill
tary hospital load for 1865 is 20,o00,-
900 patients of all kinds.
The Rev. L. Ralph Tabor, chair
man of the Committee of Reference
and Council and pastor of Luther
Place Memorial Church in Wash
ington, introduced resolution call
ing attention to the reported
enormous increase in the manufac-
ture, sale and consumption of al
coholic beverages" and requesting
the church members to do what they
could to remedy this dangerous Sit
uation" The Rev. Mr.. Tabor's
resolution also urged the Parish and
Church School Board to encourage
"the practice of temperance"
throughout the country by example
of the United Lutheran church
members.
1949 Budget Set Higher.
Convention delegates set prece-l
dent yesterday by overruling the
Executive Board and increasing byf
S250,000 the amount to be raised for
the 1949 budget. This brings the
total for that year to 100000. The
1948 budget of $2,750,000 was un-
changed. /
The salaries of pastors should
be raised so they and their families
may live in keeping with the dig
nifty of their positions, the Rev.
Mr.. Tabor said His recommendation
that the church take definite steps
to meet this condition was passed
by the convention. The gathering
also voted to take steps to induce
young men to enter the ministry of
the church.
"The United Lutheran church
last year ordained 40 ministers
when 43O are needed" ]. K. Jen-
sen of Minneapolis, told the con-
vention. I'VE need more men to
do the job properly"
Debate over whether THE Star
Spangled Banner" should be in
cluded in the proposed Lutheran
church hymn book went through
heated discussion yesterday. The
issue was finally referred to the
Executive Board.