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SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD 363
vades the privacy of the homes of the land through the radio. In both cases it
violates, in spirit at least, the law which requires truthful advertising on the part
of just ordinary businesses. If liquor were required to tell the truth in its
advertisements we would rejoice in the extension of such publicity.
Within very recent years beverage alcohol has made some advances up the
ladder of respectability. In addition to educational scholarships, contributions
to certain religious organizations, and to Y.M.C.A.'s, and Y.W.C.A.'s, liquor
has recently become a sponsor of the Boy Scouts in certain communities and is
actively supporting movements to build hospitals to take care of alcoholics who,
in the opinion of liquor, are sick people, and, of course, should be treated as such.
We have the utmost sympathy for any victim of liquor but we object seriously
to this effort to relieve the alcoholic of responsibility for his condition. No
matter how much liquor may be had in the land, one has to voluntarily drink
it before it can have any effect on him. Liquor has become conspicuous also in
its advocacy of schools for the purpose of studying the effects of liquor upon
the human body. A majority of those who attend such schools are what we might
call social drinkers who believe that beverage alcohol is a luxury which should
be used by a gentleman in a gentlemanly way.
Through social channels, especially the more exclusive ones, liquor is winning
recruits from officials and members of most churches. In fact, this situation
is possibly the most serious that we face at all. We have found some local
church covenants from which the words committing the members to total
abstinence had been eliminated. We believe that the time is right at hand, if
not already present, when our churches must insist upon the observance of
their covenants or surrender them. We have little hope of correcting the more
or less glamorous conditions that obtain among certain elements of our young
people until their fathers and mothers and older people generally manifest enough
interest in youth to deny themselves the very doubtful satisfactions of even
occasional indulgence in beverage alcohol.
The Sunday School Board continues to be solidly opposed to liquor. It believes
that liquor's influence is wholly bad, that it has no redeeming features,
that it is responsible for more misery and unhappiness in the world than any
other one thing, that it is the most dependable agent of the devil, and that it
continues to be the archenemy of everything dear to the heart of our Lord. We
have no notion of surrendering and shall continue to use every facility at our
disposal against this enormous evil.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
The accounts and records of the Board as kept by the Accounting Departme
are thoroughly audited at the end of each year and a copy of that audit is given
both the state and local members of the Board.
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
Balance in Checking Account January 1, 1945 $ 349,703.69
Balance in Pay Roll Account January 1, 1945 2,000.00
Balance in Petty Total Cash funds Fund to January be accounted 1, 1945 for
Disbursed Balance in by Stamp check Account during January 1945 1, 1945
Total Stamps in disbursed Bank and during Office 1945..... '. $ 352,876.36
Cash received and deposited during 1945
Stamps Total disbursements received with orders $4,345,892.47 during 1945 »
390.00
$4,342,579.52 782.67
3,312.95
$4,524,125.25
2,625.75
$4,879,627.36
Total
Balance
current
in Bank
receipts
and Office
during
(Petty
1945
Cash
$4,526,751.00
& Stamps) December 31, 1945 $ 533,734.89
DISTRIBUTION OF ABOVE BALANCE
Checking Account $ 531,249.42
Pay Roll Account 2,000.00
Petty Cash Account 390.00
Stamp Account 95.47
$ 533,734.89