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; GQ . , itheran Rese... rnwy ; OFFICIAL ORGAN—Tibe Elevensl ‘one BOX 338), JEFFERSON STATION \ LAWRENCE REILLY DETROIT 14, MICHIGAN . Diegcror . March, 1947 Dear Christian Friend: ou \ * This letter is tremendously important. It is urgent that you read it . from beginning to end. Unless we can secure your attention at sence an > Amportant work in thia day and age may have to stops. p | The Lutheran Research Society is just slightly over. one year old. we started out from scratch with just a few people interested in what we are trying to accomplish, In this time we have grown 1,000%, fe now reach men and women Christian leaders in every state of the union, in Canada, and Alaska. ‘e are at the service of pastors, teachers, busi- nessmen, housewives, factory workers. fe serve members of the colored race as well as of the.white race, Ye serve legislative and congress- {onal representatives of the people, Today we have an office. While it is only a few blocks from downtown Detroit, our rent is very reasonable and our quarters adequate at pre- sent, ‘Te never had these things a year agoe XN There are countless routine tasks in the office such as filing, book- ; keeping, clipping, marking, folding, assembling, mailing, etc. which, thank God, are taken care of through the services of fine Curistian Womsn who have worked out a echedule among themselves so that we re- 3eive the help we need, but ag the same time it permits them io take care of their household and motherly duties, Some of these women travel as far as fifty miles each way in order to help in our office the greater part of a day each week. This is the way they spend their time, ‘sé . would not know how to go on without this fine services . Besides these rbutine tasks and the job of writing, assembling, mimeo- eX grashing, and printing the regular articles and magazines which all of 1. you receive, we have been able to serve in some of the following ways “through the information we have at hand or are in a position to secure; |’ t ) We were able to prevent communist-minded individuals fron infile rating one of Detroit's impertant tecnnical schools a few months agode + \ Why? Because the President éf the Student Council is on our mailing : list and came to us as soon as he suspected what was going on. Armed : with the information gathered from our files, he presented his case to the school authorities, and these redical individuals were stopped at once from spreading their red propaganda, a. CORDED - 37093 ' : Ze :& 2) Dewn in a town in Missouri, Langston Hughes, tne noted communist poet. who wrote such blasphemous and un-American eee nSAG Linore’ wae to a“ : “Put Another 8 in the U,S,A," and "Revolution" am ra, was to . address the local high school students, evidently for paye One.of she, 3 local pastors on our list remembered reading our warnings about Hughes THE SOCIETY IS AN INDEPENDENT INTER-SYNODICAL GROUP AND NEITHER REPRESENTS . NOR SPEAKS POR ANY PARTICULAR OFFICIAL SYNOD IN AMERICA 61 APRI INF