Evening star., 1946-10-09
Lutherans Indorse
U. n. as Highway 10
Order in World
By Cospor Names
Stor SfuH Correspondent

Sfor Sfoff Sorrsspondsns
CLEVELAND, Oct. 9.-The United
Lutheran Church in America today
indorsed the United Nations as an
Important means for achieving
world order" and urged its members
to support those measures taken by
the world organization to achieve
that objective.
The action was taken as the
church body, meeting at the Cleve-
land Music Hall, entered the fifth
day Of its 18th biennial convention
The meeting also called on the
Federal Government to release con-
scientious objectors from civilian
public service camps lin the same
ratio as men are being released from
the armed services of the country" :"
Tt urged the Government to shift
conscientious objectors in camps
from "unproductive labors" to farm
work or other work where labor is
sorely needed and to pay these
men wages commensurate with
their jobs.
The convention also petitioned
the Federal Government to grant
amnesty and the restoration of
civil rights to all men imprisoned
because of conscientious objection
to the war"
= Byplay on Conservation.
A bit Of byplay lightened the in
PRODUCTION of proposal that the
church request its members to "co-
operate with every sane effort of
the Government to conserve food
and to minister to the material
needs of the people" Some laugh
ter greeted the use of the word
sane" In the motion After short
discussion, during which one dele
gate protested the use of the word
as discourtesy to the Government,
the word reasonable" was sub
stituted. The motion carried.
Declaring that four-fifths of the
world Is in misery and looking to-
ward America for help, DR.. Oscar
r. Blackwelder, pastor of the Church
Of the Reformation in Washington,
last night urged churchmen to see
that business interests and GER
tain representatives of our Govern
ment do not undo the goodwill the
church has achieved" by its actions
overseas. DR.. Blackwelder spoke to
more than 1000 Lutherans at the
Lutheran Laymen's Movement for
Stewardship dinner at the Hotel
Hollenden. Thomas P. Hickman
president of the organization and
vice president of the City Bank OF
Washington, presided.
Outlining a six-point plan Of &C
ton for the church, DR.. Blackweldel
said Lutheran world action must be
expanded to help heal the wounds
OF war and to provide the goodwill
on which war-torn countries car
rebuild their lives. He also said the
church must help create "a con-
science on economic and social in.
Justices, promote racial apprecia.
ton, exalt the worth Of the individ.
uai and inspire a world spirit o.
forgiveness SO international peacs
becomes possibility"
Warns Old-Line Churches.
The Washtn gton clergyman
warned "our old line churches tx
come down from our sophisticated
pedestals and practice hrotherhoot
Nth the maseee On deE stde Of
the railroad tracks" SO they would
not be left "to the frail ministry OF
tie emotional fringe cults. He also
called on "churchmen members OF
the old-line political parties" to
speak for men on both sides of the
railroad tracks" to stop them from
going into the arms Of the political
radicals" 4
The influence of churchmen must
be exerted to see that racial and
religious minorities are not op-
pressed; that every qualified person
has a right to vote; that mob vio-
Ilence is denounced wherever it lifts
its ugly head and that selfish pres
sure groups shall not control our
Government" the speaker said He
declared religious liberty is the
foundation of free government and
asserted that the freedoms of press,
speech and other rights are de-
Tended ultimately by the freedom
of unrship