In Kenneth Bailey's SOUTHERN WHITE PROTESTANTISM, Bailey reminds the reader about historic ethical stances taken in the South among Baptists. In l920 the Southern Baptist Convention's Social Service Commission condemned teen dancing as a grave social evil. The Convention also had a chance to take a stand on the abuse of child labor practiced by many industrialists in the region. They declined to take a stand but instead passed several resolutions against tobacco and alcohol. Living in the midst of a two tier social system based on Jim Crow social justice. the convention was strangely silent. That is until people like Foy Valentine led the Convention to think in terms of a deeper Christian ethic. Richard Land took Foy's place and drug the Conventon back into an ethical system of justice limited to below-the -belt social concerns.