OTHER EDITORS SAY
WRAL-TV VIEWPOINT
On Baptist Committees
Perhaps it was Mr. Dooley, the
Irish wit, who first defined a
committee as being a group of
the incompetent appointed by
the unwilling to do the unnec
essary. Mr. Dooley may not have
been a Baptist, but he knew a
thing or two about Baptist com
mittees.
At the time of the recent Bap
tist State Convention, we put
aside the temptation to com
ment upon a couple of petty and
petulant resolutions brought
forward by the convention’s so
called Public Affairs and Christ
ian Life committees. The gents
who compose these committees,
it seems, do not like to hear
opinions on television and ra
dio with which they do not
agree. So, they offered a handy
solution: Just let the Baptist
State Convention call on the fed
eral government to increase its
control over broadcasters..
It hardly seems necessary to
reflect upon the absurdity of the
position of those behind these
resolutions. We know some of
the gentlemen personally. They
have been absurd before and
we would not, for an instant,
deprive them of their right to
absurdity in the future. In the
first place, they seem always to
display a talent for providing
a curious sort of slapstick com
edy when they march, as so of
ten they do, onto the political
stage. The rest of society has a
right to smile, perhaps, at these
men who know not, and know
not that they know not.
It is not comfortable, how
ever, to witness these men as
they engage in comical conduct
instead of logical persuasion.
Still, it is an interesting devel
opment that those who are the
prime beneficiaries of free
speech in our society would so
unhesitatingly make a spectacle
of themselves with a demand
that free speech be whittled
upon by an all-powerful govern
ment.
But so be it. The moving hands
of the committees wrote, and
having written, moved on to a
slumbering, disinterested con
vention which, with machine
like detachment, voted aye. The
Baptist State Convention, in one
grand sweep, voted approval of
something it neither understood
nor had considered.
It boggles the imagination to
contemplate so large a group
so manifestly unaccustomed to
public thinking. One hardly 1
dares to imagine what other
kind of resolutions might have
been slipped under the door to
win the approval of such a
sleeping giant of a group. Such
is the work of a committee; such
is the frustration of a conven
tion.
One need not wonder, then,
at the bewilderment of Mr. Har
ry Severance, who this year
serves as president of the North
Carolina Association of Broad
casters. Mr. Serverance sought
first to obtain reasonableness
from the camp of the Baptists.
Then he sought justice. He re
ceived neither. He sent a tele
gram remarking upon such gra
tuitous attacks by the Baptists
upon the one medium of com
munication that does most to
serve the cause of religion. He
recited the fact that broadcast
ers of North Carolina give free
ly of their time and facilities for
such service. And he requested
that the Baptists at least give a
hearing to broadcasters before
letting the ink dry on the res
olutions.
Nothing doing, said the Bap
tists in reply. The convention
had neither the time nor the
inclination to correct any mis
takes it had made. After all,
said the Baptists, we weren’t
talking about broadcasters of
North Carolina; we were talking
about broadcasters of the na
tion.
Whereupon Mr. Severance,
having done his best to reason
with the self-righteous, turned
away from the affair, wondering
if the Baptists knew what they
were talking about, much less
whom. It was, all in all, a re
markable performance. On one
hand, the Baptist State Conven
tion rejected federal aid on the
valid grounds that it would lead
to federal controls. On the oth
er, it struck a blow against free
dom of speech, by inviting furth
er federal controls to silence
voices with which some few
Baptist convention committee
members personally disagree.
The total picture is a study in
awkward absurdity, a spraddle
legged attempt to walk on both
sides of the street at the same
time.
Perhaps even the Baptists real
ize that if you want something
hopelessly confused, just turn
it over to a committee.
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