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128 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
American youth in peacetime, and that the Convention in the interest of world
peace and human freedom urge the President of the United States, the Congress,
and the United States representatives in the United Nations to support with
determination the movement to abolish peacetime military conscription in all the
nations of the world.
6. Concerning Moral Conditions in Military Camps Abroad
Well authenticated reports, coming through enlisted men, officers, news
porters and others, establish beyond doubt the fact that moral and social conditions
in American military camps in Europe and the Orient, involving both
enlisted men and officers, are such as to bring disgrace upon the name of our
country, and fear and grief to the hearts of parents who have given their sons
to the service.
We recommend, therefore, that the Convention add its voice to the protest
that rises from the whole nation and urge that the military authorities do all
in their power to establish and maintain decency of conduct among all our
military forces, at the same time commending the action of General McNarney
and others who are engaging in efforts to accomplish this end.
J. B. WEATHERSPOON, Chairman
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73. The report of the Committee on Preservation of Baptist Hi
tory was presented and discussed by Chairman W. 0. Carver, Kentucky,
and adopted.
PRESERVATION OF BAPTIST HISTORY
The Committee had a meeting in Nashville in January at which its work
was surveyed, its needs appraised and some important plans projected.
We took seriously into account the fact that we now have three distinct
approaches to the matter of the discovery, collection, preservation and use of
our Baptist history materials. Throusrh all of these w» are faiMne to deal at
all adequately with the subject. We were thoroughly convinced that these
various approaches must somehow be effectively related. Perhaps they can be
lareelv integrated. It was our judgment and hope that it might seem "wise for
the Historical Society to be adopted bv the Convention as its acency for the
work of this field. We recognize that there are difficulties in this proposal.
At our suegestion a special committee of the Executive Board was appointed to
confer with our Committee with reference to this. We had in conference with
us Secretary Porter Routh of t^e Department of Statistics, Survey, and Information
of the Sunday School Board.
It is clear that it will require time to work through to a satisfactory adjustment.
. It is our expectation that this can be done in time for recommendations
to and action by the Convention in 1947. It is proposed that this Committee
as designated by this Convention will hold a full session at Rideecrest during
the last week in August, at which time the r e will be a meeting of the Historical
Society. This will be an opportune time for full conference of all the committees
and agencies in our proposed unification of our various present
approaches to this whole subject.
We are able to report that the Historical Society continues to operate as
largely and as successfully as its meager resources make possible. Considerable
additions have been made to its materials within the last year, including some
hundreds of volumes from the libraries of W. 0. Carver and the late Drs. C. M.
Thompson and M. P. Hunt and from Mrs. John S. Spalding from the collections
of her grandfather, Governor Joseph Emerson Brown and her father-in-law
Dr. A. T. Spalding, as well as her own. Hundreds of items of pamphlet and
magazine material, minutes, tracts, etc., have been given.
The financial support now provided for this important work is wholly
inadequate for the proper operations and needs in this field. The increase in
appropriation for our work in the current year is most welcome. However it