Evening star., 1952-12-12
Methodist Elected
President Of National
Council Of Churches
By Cospor Nonnes
Stor Stoff Correspondent

By Cospor Names
star Stoff Correspondent
DENVER, Dec. 12.-Methodist
Bishop William c. Martin o1
Dallas, Tex. was elected today
as president of the National Coun.
Gil of Churches.
Bishop Martin succeeds the
Right Rev. Henry Knox Sher.
rill. presiding bishop of the Prot
eStant Episcopal Church. The
council, organized two years age
in Cleveland, now consists of q
Protestant and five Eastern Ortho-
dox oommunions with "a million
members.
Six instead of four vice presi-
dentS-at-large were also elected
today. They are the Rev. Her.
mann N. Morse of New York
Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.;
. Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale OF
New York. Reformed Church in
America; the Rev. Robert P
Daniels of Petersburg, Va, Ma
tional Baptist Convention: the
Right Rev. Karl Block of Sar
Francisco, Protestant Episcopal
Church, Mrs. Olive Ann Beech OF
Wichita. Kans., Methodist, anc
Jasper Crane of Wilmington. Del.
Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.
TwO-Year Terms.
Under the councils constitution
neither the president nor vice
president-at-large may succeed
themselves. All elections are for
two-year terms
Bishop Martin is vice president
OF the Council of Bishops of the
Methodist Church, and will be-
come head Of that body next year
Ordained in 1921, he was elected
bishop for the Methodist Pacific
area in 1888. He served from
1889 to 1948 as bishop of the
KanSas-Nebraska area and came
to his present charge In 1949.
DR.. Arthur S. Flemming, presi.
denC Of Ohio Wesleyan College
and former Civil Service Commits.
sioner, was one of four division
vice presidents chosen. DR.
Flemming was reelected as vice
president of the Christian Life
and Work Division.
Others named were the Rev
Paul c. Payne of PHILADELPHIA
Christian Education Division; the
Rev. Earl r. Brown of New York
Home Missions Division, and the
Rev. Raymond A. Dudley of Bos-
ton, Foreign Missions Division.
Dulles Speaks.
Secretary of State designate
John Foster Dulles in a recorded
message to the convention heard
last night declared "the basic So
luton Of today's problems rests
with free individuals and their
kAN1OC 4A4OUAGOO1O11S.
Nothing has been more disas-
trous to the cause of freedom than
our growing assumption thai
nothing happens unless GoygrTi-
ment does it," Mr.. Dulles said. he
noted earlier that lit is natural
our people should hope that fins
new Eisenhower administration
they have chosen will end the con-
ditions of peril and insecurity
which now aft1ict the world. It
can do much and I expect that
1t will. Perhaps the best that 1t
can do will be to encourage, and
make place for, the individual and
group efforts which are the most
precious jewels of freedom"
In addition to serving in the
political realm, the United Ma
tions has made some significant
contributions of an economic and
humanitarian order" Mr.. Dulles
asserted.
"The United Nations is a be-
ginning. 1t is inadequate and
faulty as all great beginnings are.
There are few substitutes for
learning by trial and error. There
has been trial. There has been
error. The lesson is to persevere.
There will probably be a gen.
eral meeting of the members to
review the United Nations Charter
in 1855. That meeting corresponds
in Importance with the original
San Francisco Conference of 1945.
The free people of this country
should take the lead in making
the United Nations into a more
effective instrument for achieving
international order and justice, "
he added.
Lodge View Echoed.
The Secretary of State desig-
nate echoed the view of Senator
Lodge. Republican. of Massachu-
sets who spoke last night. that
the United Nations has stopped
Russia from waging outright
armed war.
Observing that Russia did not
go to war despite Overwhelming
military power in Europe and
ASIA" he asserted that world
opinion, as marshalled by the
United Nations, was one impor-
tant restraining influence.
1T is no longer expedient for
any nation, no matter how strong
to disregard this association of
the nations with its capacity to
subject national conduct to the
opinions of mankind"
Mr.. Dulles repeated Senator
Lodges statement that our racial
and religious determinations are
a major international hazard" "
He further agreed with the Massa-
chusetts Senator, who will become
chairman of the United States
Delegation to the U. N. when
PreSident-elect Eisenhower takes