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is meager compared with the needs. Southern Presbyterians have at Montreat
a great collection under the promotion and direction of a fully employed
director and clerical help. They are at this time engaged in raising a fund of
not less than $75,000.00 for a special building for housing the materials and for
administrative offices. The great wealth of materials that needs to be collected
by us is far greater than that of the Southern Presbyterians.
We regret, to have to report that the history of the first hundred years of
Southern Baptists under our own Convention has not yet been completed as
we had expected. The long continued, desperate illness of Mrs. Barnes, culminating
in her death the latter part of March, made it impossible for him to
devote the necessary time for completion of the manuscript. The work is far
advanced, so that we may confidently look forward to its completion in time for
publication before the next Convention.
We are aware of a number of items of definite interest in the field of history
in the various states, and of certain special projects; but it is not necessary to
detail them in this report. We do call attention to the opportunities which
will now be opened up for availing ourselves of the micro-filming process for
accumulating documentary materials as soon as funds can be made available
for this.
Now that we have entered upon our second century as an organized denomination
and in a time of unprecedented crisis it is urgent'that we take account
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CARVER, Kentucky, Chairman J. L. BOYD, Mississippi
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CHAPMAN, Alabama
H. I. HESTER, Missouri
MRS. C. B. MAXWELL, Arizona
S. M. MORGAN, New Mexico
J. S. COMPERE, Arkansas
G. W. PASCHAL, North Carolina
RUFUS W. WEAVER, District of Columbia C. C. RISTER, Oklahoma
W. A. HOBSON, Florida
W. C. ALLEN, South Carolina
P. E. BURROUGHS, Georgia
L. S. EWTON, Tennessee
T. J. WHEELER, Illinois
JOHN A. HELD, Texas
C. P. ST. AMANT, Louisiana
J. T. WATTS, Maryland
GARNETT RYLAND, Virginia
74. T. "E. Miller offered a resolution which was referred to the
Committee on Resolutions.
75. The report of the Radio Committee was presented by Director
S. F. Lowe and further discussed by Carl M. Townsend, North Carolina,
John L. Waldrop, Georgia, Ramsey Pollard, Tennessee, and was
adopted.
RADIO COMMITTEE
S. F. LOWE. Director
In this year of 1946 Southern Baptists begin their second century and radio
begins the second quarter of its first century. In this new century which Southern
Baptists are launching this year, radio will be an inevitable factor which
cannot be overlooked. True, with radio alone Southern Baptists will not be
able to win the victories God would have, but we cannot hope to win the victories
God has planned for us without an extensive use of radio.
I. THE RADIO PICTURE
According to published reports, big business spent $311,500,000 advertising
its wares by radio in 1945. Increasingly, radio is taking a larger percentage
of the advertising dollar in the American business setup. There is a reason for
this; it is recognized that what is spent in advertising by radio produces results.
Big business is convinced that radio influences the lives and actions of
the people of America.
In round figures, there were 950 radio stations in the United States as of
October 1, 1944. Hundreds of new permits have been granted for the erection