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PROCEEDINGS 117
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Convention Officers: Louie D. Newton, President; Porter Routh, Senior Secretary.
Term Expiring 1947: W. K. Sisk, Illinois; Guy Oakes, Louisiana; Walter
Goodson, Missouri; H. L. Fickett, Texas; J. T. Barbee, New Mexico; C. V. Rock,
Arizona. At Large: John H. Buchanan, Alabama; Mrs. Geo. R. Martin, Virginia;
C. H. Bolton, Florida; J. M. Dawson, Texas.
Term Expiring 1948: Frank Tripp, Alabama; Homer G. Lindsay, Florida;
Frank A. Hooper, Jr., Georgia; George Ragland, Kentucky; T. B. Lackey,
Oklahoma. At Large: J. C. Wilkinson, Georgia; Merrill D. Moore, Tennessee;
Mrs. Frank S. Burney, Georga; J. R. Jester, Kentucky.
Term Expiring 1949: E. L. Compere, Arkansas; George B. Fraser, District
of Columbia; Francis A. Davis, Maryland; Chas. S. Henderson, Mississippi;
R. C. Campbell, South Carolina; R. Paul Caudill, Tennessee; H. W. Tiffany,
Virginia; C. C. Warren, North Carolina; Isam Hodges, California. At Large:
Perry Crouch, North Carolina.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST FOUNDATION
Louie D. Newton, President Southern Baptist Convention
J. M. Dawson, President Executive Committee
L. Howard Jenkins, President Foreign Mission Board
G. Frank Garrison, President Home Mission Board
W. F. Powell, President Sunday School Board
Wallace Bassett, President Relief and Annuity Board
John W. McCall, Chairman Executive Committee, Baptist Brotherhood
Mrs. George R. Martin, President Woman's Missionary Union
J. Clyde Turner, President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Trustees
C. E. Matthews, President Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Trustees
P. I. Lipsey, President New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Trustees
T. L. Holcomb, Chairman Commission on American Baptist Theological
Seminary
Joseph E. Brown, President Southern Baptist Hospital Board
Laymen: William Gupton, Tennessee; W. Maxey Jarman, Tennessee; Raymond
Rogers, Tennessee; M. P. Brothers, Tennessee; Jack Massey, Tennessee;
Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma; J. A. Southern, South Carolina; Lowry Eastland,
Louisiana; L. L. Gellerstedt, Georgia.
69. The report of the Committee on Public Relations was presented
by Chairman E. Hilton Jackson, District of Commbia, and
adopted:
PUBLIC RELATIONS
The Southern Baptist Convention in 1936 appointed a Committee on Public
Relations whose work was defined in the following words: "As situations arise
in which agencies of this Convention are compelled to confer, to negotiate, to
demand just rights that are being threatened or to have other inescapable
dealings with our American or other governments, this Committee shall function
as the representative of Southern Baptists, when so requested by any existing
board or agency and shall report in detail the results of such conferences or
negotiations." . „ ,. , ,., ,-,
The following year the Northern Baptist Convention created a like Committee
to co-operate with the one set up by the Southern Baptist Convention
whenever "principles held alike by Northern and Southern Baptists are in any
way endangered." Two years later the National Baptist Convention, Incorporated,
took similar action.
Every thoughtful person recognizes that civilization today contronts the
most serious crisis that mankind has ever known. It is the conviction of the
people of God called Baptists that the application of their distinctive principles
to the organization of the coming One World, together with the unrestricted
preaching of the Gospel to all who dwell upon the earth provides the surest,
if not the only way, for the securing of a lasting peace and the establishment of
a world order grounded upon justice and goodwill.