1. We recommend that our churches and associations of churches continue and strengthen their support of local state leaders in their temperance activities. We recommend that our efforts in the several states be intensified to achieve the legal elimination of beverage alcohol through local option elections and statewide referenda.
2. We recommend that all Baptists unite in their insistence upon the need for the elimination of misleading and deceptive advertising of alcoholic beverage. This will put upon us all the responsibility of writing or expressing to our representatives in the national Congress our Christian convictions concerning not only the deceptive advertisements of liquor, but also all phases of the liquor problem.
3. We recommend that this Convention commend the efforts of leaders in local, state and national government who are investigating the activities of organized crime and gambling with a view to the prosecution of those who are guilty of promoting and participating therein. Because the rising waves of crime, vice and gambling must be ended we call upon our representatives in all branches of government to enact and enforce laws whereby professional gamblers, crime racketeers and promoters of organized vice can be curbed. We further call upon local citizens to co-operate with law enforcement officials to eliminate these evils. We commend especially as a concrete example the co-operation of the officials of the telephone and telegraph companies of Louisville, Kentucky, with the local County Judge and other enforcement officers who have virtually eliminated the “bookmakers” in that city and county. We believe that the same co-operation is possible in other communities.