Quaker Thought and Life Today

VOLUME 11 MARCH 1, 1965 NUMBER 5

The Tangled Skein of Life by Floyd Schmoe

''Amongst Friendly Folk" fJ:m outer world, with all by A. Margaret W orsdell its phenomena, is filled with divine splendor, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves before we can Winston Churchill hope to discover it in our en­ vironment. by William Hubben -RUDOLF. STEINER An "Opening" by Paul Trench

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Passing* the Torch OR twenty-five years the American Friends Service Com· F mittee has maintained programs of community develop· ment in Mexico. During the early years the volunteers who served in this program came mainly from North America, but 1961 Published semimonth1y on the first and fifteenth of each since young men and women from Central and South month, at 152-A Nortn1 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. America h ave been especially recruited and assisted to take 19102, by Friends Publishing Corporation (LO 3-7669). FRANCES WILLIAl\IS BROWIN part. To date 52 Latin Americans have participated, and of Edltor and Manager the workers currently engaged in projects in two villages 50 WILLIAM HUBBEN Contributing Edltor per cent are Latin. Americans from Peru, Colombia, Brazil, ETHAN A. NEVIN MYRTLE M. WALLEN Costa Ric_a, and Uruguay. Assistant Editor Advertising DOROTHY H. HUMPHRIES F. B. WALKER When this special scholarship program was initiated it was Editorial Assistant Circulation hoped that young South Americans would take home with CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS them the ideas of giving volunteer service to the community Richard R. Wood, Philadelphia and of helping people to help themselves. That this hope ·has England...... Horace B. Pointing, London Joan llewltt, London· been realizep is made clear in a letter received recently by Ed­ Germany...... :...... Anni Sabine Halle, Berlin Rhodesla...... Maurice Webb, Bulawayo win Duckles, director of the Mexico program, from Fernando West Coast ...... :...... Madge T. Seaver Madeira da Costa, a young Brazilian architect who served in BOARD OF MANAGERS a community-development unit in San Francisco Tepeyecac. 1961-1965: Carol P. Brainerd, Arthur M. Dewees, Mlriam E. Jones, Emerson Lamb, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne "I am working now in a small city about 120 kilometers Wood, Mlldred Binns Young. 1963-1966: Howard H. Brinton, Ada C. Rose, Benjamin R. Burdsall, Walter from Rio de Janeiro," he writes, in part. "It is a center of one Kahoe, Philip Stoughton, Gordon D. Whitcraft, Carl F. of the largest steel mills in Brazil. I and another architect are Wise. 1g64·1967: Mary Roberts Calhoun, Eleanor Stabler Clarke, James Frorer, Francis Hortensttne, Emily developing organized extra activities outside of our work. This Cooper Johnson, Elizabeth H. Klrk, Elizabeth Wells. city is made up in great part of workers from the steel mills. THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help Their families live in subhuman condition, lacking comfort meet the over-all cost of publication. Make checks payable to Friends Publishing Corporation. Contribu· and hygiene, and in addition they have very large families. ttons are tax-exempt. They have little incentive to improve their lives and have SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions: $5.00 a year, $2.75 for six months. Foreign countries, nothing to divert them during their free hours. Including Canada and Mexico: $6.00 a year. Single copies: thirty cents, unless otherwise noted.. Checks "We have given thought to these problems and are organ· should be made payable to Friends Journal. Sample copies sent on request. izing an educational campaign, using as a pattern the 'social Second Class Postage Paid at Phlladelphia, Pa. evenings' which the people enjoyed so much in San Francisco Tepeyecac. We bring films every fifteen days on popular art, home economics, how to improve houses and gardens, family planning, public health, and sanitation. On Sundays and fiesta Contents days we utilize the large local orchestra and arrange for con­ certs in the plazas and parks of the community.. . . I am Under the Red and Black Star...... 102 making a booklet on ideas for home improvement similar to Editorial Comments ...... 1011 the one which I saw put out by the Department of Housing The Tangled Skein of Life-Floyd Schmoe...... 104 in Mexico." An "Opening"- Paul Trench ...... 106 Fernando Madeira da Costa may not realize it, but he is Letter from Pakistan- Virginia Costales ...... 107 not alone. In recent months the Service Committee has heard Winston Churchill-William Hubben ...... 108 from eleven other Latin American volunteers, all referring to "Amongst Friendly Folk\'-A. Margaret Worsdell ...... 109 various ways in which they have put their AFSC experience to good account: in community development, teaching, work. Change in Conference Leadership ...... 110 camping. All of these would doutbless join with. the young First South Africa General Meeting-Christine D. Agar. . Ill Brazilian as he wrote: "We are doing these things by ourselves Extracts from Yearly Meeting Epistles...... Ill because at present there is no official government program Book Reviews ...... 112 being carried on in this community. I hope we will have the Friends and Their Friends ...... 114 perseverance and the faith necessary to aChieve our goals. . My Letters to the Editor ...... 116 stay in Mexico, although short, was very useful, and I would Coming Events ...... 119 like some day to have time to learn more from the work of Announcements ...... 119 the Friends Service Committee." FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)

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Editorial Comments

Forecast: Cloudy she felt sorry for Britain's teen-age delinquents because "England is so finished. English children must find it ITH war clouds in Vietnam and continuc:;d resist­ difficult to find a sense of purpose because everything is ance to Negro voting registration in Alabama the W ready for them." current dominant concerns in the minds of many Friends, Almost all young people, she suggested, tend to be and with new complications developing daily, what can naturally energetic and idealistic, but unless these quali­ be said by the editor of a magazine that must be sent to ties are channeled in constructive ways they may be press almost two weeks before its publication date? From twisted into unconstructive ones. When her interviewer all sides come expressions. of deep disturbance at the per­ reminded her of how nobly the British always have met sistent denial of fundamental human rights and at the the crises of war she exclaimed: "How terrible to need obsessive militaristic psychology that seems determined a war to have people rise to the occasion!" to drag the United States-and, perhaps, the world-into It is a strange world, certainly, in which achievement a war nobody wants. These two sore symptoms of our of the goals for which men strive so often seems to stultify troubled times are not so far removed from each other further endeavor. Some there are who complain about as they may seem; both may be fruits of the same hard­ the persistent tendency in the AFSC and similar organiza­ dying conviction that certain races and nationalities are tions to find fault with the status quo and to be aspiring entitled to control the destinies of others. always to the land beyond the horizon. Yet, if we may Possibly the only safe thing to do, in view of the time judge by this testimony from one who has been trans­ which will elapse between the writing of these lines and planted from a "finished" country to an unfinished one, their: publication, is to follow the example of the Negro it may be that this perpetual groping toward new goals exponents of nonviolence in Selma, Alabama, who, upon is essential in any society that is to survive and grow. hearing of the sudden illness of the white sheriff who had been continually harassing them, embarked upon a New Address for Friends Journal campaign of public prayer for his recovery, bearing plac­ For over thirty-four years the FRIENDS JouRNAL and, ards expressing the hope that he would recover in mind before it, the have had as their as well as in body. Friends lntelligencer, address 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, which is the address of the various Friends' offices located in the Something Bigger than Themselves Cherry Street end of Philadelphia's Race Street Meeting A percipient analysis of the motives that have inspired House. The curious thing is that for more than three so many young people to volunteer for difficult assign­ quarters of that period the magazine's offices actually have ments with the American Friends Service Committee and not been located at 1515 Cherry, but in another building such kindred programs as the Peace Corps is found in across the yard to which a move was made in 1939. Be­ the remarks of a British-born Jewish girl in a recent BBC cause everyone was accustomed to the Cherry Street ad­ radio broadcast while she was on a brief visit to her na­ dress, however, no change was made in it, despite the tive England from her present home in Israel. Accord­ realities of the situation, and for twenty-six years Intel­ ing to a report in the Christian Science Monitor, she ligencer and JouRNAL staff members have been trudging presented a vivid description of her life in Israel, saying across the yard through all kinds of weather in order to that what kept her and her fellow workers going during collect the publication's mail, patiently sorted out for the hardships of building a new country was a sense of them by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's office staff. teamwork and purpose-the challenge of finding some­ At long last, however, the worm has turned. The thing bigger than themselves to do. And she added that Yearly Meeting office has suggested, politely but firmly, 103 104 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1, 1965 that, since the JouRNAL seems to receive more mail than the Society of Friends is owned and operated by Phila­ all the other offices combined (a fact for which the delphia Yearly Meeting." JouRNAL is profoundly grateful), the magazine really Certainly he has a good point in suggesting that the ought to start making use of an address more in keeping presence of such Quaker agencies in new locations might with the facts. With this reasonable dictum the JouRNAL serve as stimuli to other yearly meetings. Yet in defense cannot help agreeing, reluctant though it is to part with of the concentration in one locale (a phenomenon which its familiar 1515 Cherry Street label. Accordingly the a New England Friend, objecting to Philadelphia's tradi­ long-overdue step is now being taken, and from now on tional Quaker dominance, refers to in Jan de Hartog's (at least until further notice) the address of the FRIENDS recent book, The Hospital, as "those Mandarins in Phila­ JouRNAL will be 152-A North Fifteenth Street, Philadel­ delphia''), it may be only fair to point out that the close phia 2. (And, even with the new address, it is a hard geographical association of the offices of Friends General place to find, as everyone knows who ever has searched Conference, the American Friends Service Committee, for it among the conglomeration of Quaker structures the FRIENDS JouRNAL, the Friends World Committee, and around Fifteenth and Race Streets.) other Quaker organizations makes possible not only a In connection with this change of address perhaps considerable financial economy but also a continual in­ attention should be called to the correspondent in this terflow of ideas and resources that would be well-nigh issue who urges that the offices of Friends General Con­ impossible if the offices were widely scattered. ference and the FRIENDS JouRNAL be moved away from Still, our correspondent's recommendation has merit Philadelphia in order to help dispel "the impression that and is worthy of consideration. The Tangled Skein of Life By FLOYD SCHMOE HE evolutionary ascent of life from its primitive million years. They dominated the ancient lands and T beginnings to its present level of development has primordial seas; they even learned to fly! Yet they faded not always been the "magnificent upward spiral" some­ away, leaving no offspring or relative larger or more intel­ times pictured by the inspired professor of biology and ligent than a lizard. accepted by his enthusiastic pupil. Actually the plot has What of the other thousands of species which have been more involved and the conclusion a little less satis­ survived but have failed to flower? A modern oyster, as fying than we may like to think. far as anyone can see, is the same old oyster his great­ This "way of all flesh," though upward, has been ex­ grandfather was five hundred million years ago. (My ceedingly rough. There have been countless mysterious figures are merely approximate, designed to paint pic­ turnings, backslidings, unexplained depressions, sealed tures in broad strokes, rather than to convey exact time doors, blind alleys, and dead ends. And, if the way has or space.) There are today some ninety thousand known not always been clear, neither has the end always been varieties of mollusks (the family of the oyster), with al­ certain. To feel that there is a goal may at times require most as many fossil forms, and the highest development more faith in a divine plan and an ultimate goodness they ever have attained is demonstrated by the sullen than most observers have. octopus which dwells in the murky nooks of the sea. What, one may ask, of the many species of organic Or what of the almost a million species of living in­ life which (as we know from paleontological evidence) sects which inhabit all the terrestrial world except pos­ lived for millions of years, failed to reach any high order sibly the highest mountain summits and the polar ice, of physical or mental development, and then disappeared competing stubbornly with man and the other animals from the face of the earth, leaving hardly a trace or a for food and living space? Biologically they are rather descendant? There were, for example, thousands of spe­ highly successful animals, but their highest "civilization" cies of dinosaurs, large and small, aquatic and terrestrial, is represented by the social insects, the bees and the ants. carnivorous and herbaceous, which lived for a· hundred Whaf of the millions of fish which graze the seas as the vast herds of hoofed animals once grazed the lands? They Floyd Schmoe, a member of Seattle (Wash.) Meeting who has have lived through all geological ages since the ancient taught biology at the University of Washington and the University of Hawaii, is the author of several books, including For Love of Devonian, yet the most versatile and intelligent fish is Some Islands (1964), dealing not only with his adventures and ob· still a fish. servations as a naturalist during a summer spent in a glass-bottomed Or consider what is perhaps the most numerous of all houseboat on Puget Sound but also with the philosophical musin~ induced by these observations. the animals on earth; the huge family of crustaceans-- March I, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL 105 simple-minded creatures· encased, like the insects, in rigid has discovered that he can live without his dumb but armor. They dominate the aquatic world as insects (with loyal slaves. competition from man) dominate the land. These crus­ Scientists hope soon to control life even more fully by taceans, copopods to crayfish, may have lived a billion discovering the secrets of creation-by synthesizing life years, .and apparently they have prospered. They have itself. This, I think, will be very difficult, if not impos­ grown from microscopic size to that of a ten-pound lob­ sible, but I do not doubt that soon they will synthesize ster-a range relatively greater than that between the protein and even crack the mystery of photosynthesis. smallest mammal, a half-ounce shrew, and the largest Then man will have no necessity for animals or plants. animal the earth has ever produced, a hundred-ton whale. And, if the demographers' curves are reliable (which I Yet, after all these millenia and this vast proliferation, greatly doubt), the time will soon arrive when there is the largest form ever produced is the Maine lobster-not no room left on earth for plant life (except perhaps bat­ as smart, perhaps, as his distant relative, the garden teries of bacteria in laboratories) or for any animal life spider. except man. Such a world may be possible even now, . Indeed, some animal forms, after promising begin­ although I would see it as sadly impoverished. So, regard­ nings, actually have evolved in the wrong direction, less of the process, man . (physically and mentally, at becoming lower forms or even loathsome parasites upon least). has arrived. Yet, in view of the process, how is it the bodies of others, possible for anyone to have faith in a "divine plan"? -(Even· man, it seems-and this confuses me most of I have been both the bright-eyed student and the all-had to become a predator before he made any sig­ enthusiastic professor, but I have also had my doubts. nificant advance in the direction of culture and civiliza­ However, if I were asked to give just one reason for my tion. There js evidence that our primate ancestors were present faith, I would present man himself. Scientist­ mild-mannered herbaceous creatures, but those who re­ philosopher Lecomte du Noiiy, in his Hu man Destiny, mained so remained apes. The predatory, carnivorous says that the chances of accidental formation of a single killers became men.) protein molecule are one in so many trillion that the All these myriad forms of life, most of which lived term "astronomical" is barely applicable. But then to and died long before man was born, contributed in some form this molecule into protoplasm and to give it organic way, both physical and spiritual, to man's rich heritage. life-not just for the mechanism which is this unbeliev­ They formed a vast pyramid whose base is world-encom­ able cell but for the integration and coordination which passing; at the top of this pyramid now sits man-its make it function as a cell- that is inconceivable. apex, its capstone, and presumably its justification. Such Then take, for example, the human eye. That billions a concept admittedly is a pill difficult to swallow, but, of highly organized and differentiated living cells could whether or not we accept the theory, we still have man by chance form the lenses, retina, optic nerves, and all the fact. There he sits. the hundreds of parts which make up this marvelous But what happens now, since this Johnny-come-lately organ is beyond human imagination. Moreover, to make hominid rides high in the saddle? this magnificent instrument function- to make it project Man has climbed to this pinnacle of biological suc­ to the brain an image, in detail, with color, motion, sym­ cess by using the "lesser" animals as stepping stones: by metry, and perspective, along with thousands of other preying upon them, by enslaving them (we call it domes­ items of information about the object seen- this again tication), and (when it has suited his fancy) by extermi­ compounds the incredible wonder. nating them. Until very recently man never traveled Consider, next, that in the human child at birth faster than a swift camel could carry him; he measured there are scores of organs fully developed, each as intri­ energy in "horsepower" and food supply in pounds and cate and as astounding as this eye, that they were all bushels of plant and animal produce. He even employed forecast in the genes at conception, perhaps even in that animals to help him fight his wars, entertain his mobs, primitive stuff of life, the protoplasm, and that they will and heat his homes. continue to function together as a fairly satisfactory en­ Only within the very last moment of recorded time tity, and (to add one last miracle) that this unbelievably has man been able to stand upon his own feet and com­ complex organism is able to maintain and to reproduce pete. On land, at least he rules as monarch. Hardly a itself, obtaining for itself thereby a certain immortality­ land animal today-not even an insect~lives except by wl)en I consider all this and more I am forced to believe consent of man. And now he has the power and the that somewhere there is a blueprint, a master plan. My means to exterminate all life on earth, including his mind will not tolerate less and cannot encompass more. own, and he has made a frightening beginning at doing But if we accept the "grand design" (or, if you pre­ so. Every animal _that still lives, lives by sufferance. Man fer, "God's plan") then why all this prologue? Does it 106 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1, 1965 mean that for a billion years God has been "playing An "Opening" around with life" or (to be more reverent) that the Crea­ By PAUL TRENCH tor is also a "Seeker," a Divine Experimenter, and that man is only, to date, His most promising project? Or ROPHECY and revelation, which are two aspects of was it all preconceived in this manner in order that man, P the same gift of God, have an awesome quality that the end product, might perhaps be more knowing, might tends to make them seem beyond the orbit of the ordi­ have an understanding commensurate with his superb nary worshipper. We associate them with the Bible, physical and mental form? If this is true, then all that especially the Old Testament, and this gives them a his­ which has gone before is loving parent to that which is torical remoteness. and is to be, and man may yet become the "image of Really, though, it is only the words themselves that God." 1set prophecy and revelation apart, for when George Fox I do not know, but I have a feeling (and at this point speaks of an "opening" he brings revelation down to I would value "feeling" above "knowing") that this crea­ earth, so to speak, and we have the feeling that such an ture, man, will somehow find the moral stamina to matC;h experience is by no means unimaginable. Suppose we his physical and mental stature, and that the sealed doors go a little further and substitute the words "foresight" will yet be opened, the downhill stretches and wrong and "insight." Do they not sound comfortably contem­ turnings explained, and the dead ends closed, that wider porary? Do they not suggest the kind of mystical experi­ gates may be opened. Where man has not yet overcome ence that is known to many of us? For we do not always his ignorance there is yet hope of overcoming it. Man has "see through a glass, darkly." lived only about a million years, a brief moment of geo­ An actual example of what was truly an "opening" logical time, but in that time he has gone vastly farther may be helpful and encouraging to Friends, whether than the great reptiles did in a hundred million. And his they have had similar insights or not. It happened ten pace is accelerating. Evolution will continue, and man, years ago, but the details were written down at the time with a firmer grip on the controls, will help to advance and have been preserved. his own salvation. The blind past and the stumbling One evening, I was sitting at home with a Bible on present will become prologue to the glorious future, my knee, looking for a certain verse in the New Testa­ though we yet have much to learn. ment. Sine~ the Bible had no index, I was browsing I remember, not so many years ago, hearing a revival­ through the Gospels, hoping to come across the verse meeting preacher say that he still believed in a heaven by chance. Eventually, I reached the eighth chapter of on high and a golden city inside pearly gates, and that John, glanced at it, and saw that it began with the story he was sure that when bigger and better telescopes were of the woman taken in adultery. This was so familiar built we would look out into space and discover this far that I knew it did not contain the verse I was seeking. kingdom, just as Columbus discovered America and as Nevertheless, I felt drawn to it and began to read the astronomers have discovered the planets. And I remem­ story once more. ber groaning inwardly and saying to myself, "What colos­ In the King James version that famous encounter in sal ignorance, what dumb naivete!" But look, already we the Temple is told in 230 words, but I found that I was are spending billions of dollars (some of it my owrl hard­ now reading a great deal between the lines, and the earned savings) on space vehicles and are setting dates for story was no longer cut and dried from repetition. Be­ interplanetary voyages! What is more, our most respected tween the lines there was suspense--even surprise. It was biologists and astronomers are telling us with confidence fresh, urgent, and inspiring. And it went like this: that a million or so celestial bodies like our earth are Jesus walked into the Temple early one morning to capable of developing and sustaining life, and that high teach, as he often did, and he found that the scribes and forms of intelligent life may well exist in other realms Pharisees had laid an ambush for him, as they often did. of outer space. They thrust forward a woman, and they said to him, Well, I still believe that my evangelical friend was "Master . . . " (You will have noticed the deferential wondrously naive and grossly ignorant-but, for that form of address, and you may wonder how much sincerity matter, aren't we all? prompted it.) "Master," said one, "this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now the law of Moses com­ There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as mands that she shall be stoned, but what sayest thou?" of time,, and about which we ought to be more solicitous, since without it we can do nothing in this world. Time is Paul Trench, an English·born member of Austin (Texas) Meet· ing, is local editorial writer on the San Antonio Light. He has what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst. written on a wide range of subjects in English and American news· -WILLIAM PENN papers and magazines. March 1, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNA L 107

Jesus made no reply whatsoever, and he gave no in­ Now, just what had Jesus done? He had acted on dication that he had even heard what they said. Instead, the assumption that the scribes and Pharisees were not he stooped down and apparently began to write some­ wholly evil men, that there was "somewhat of God" in thing with his finger in the dust on the Temple floor. each of them. And so he had taken what we sometimes Why was he writing, and what was he writing? This call the Quaker approach, but which ought to be called is a puzzle that the Gospel does not explain. But now, the Christian approach. He had appealed to the decency, suddenly, it was a mystery no longer. The reader knew the sense of justice, of fair play, of right and wrong, and intuitively that what the finger traced in the dust, to the Godliness that is in every man. And it worked, whether words or patterns, was unimportant because as it will always work when faith is strong enough. The Jesus was praying with all the fervor and concentration Gospel tells, in wonderful words, just how it worked: at his command. We use the word "doodling" for some­ "They, being convicted by their own conscience, went thing that the hand does half-consciously while the mind out one by one, beginning with the eldest. . . ." is deeply preoccupied, and Jesus' mind must have been And so, when Jesus finished his prayer of thanks­ deeply preoccupied, for he had seen at once what a clever giving and stood up, only the woman was left. "Where trap they had laid for him. On the surface, there were are those, thine accusers?" he asked. "Hath no man con­ only two alternatives. Either he must denounce the demned thee?" She said, "No man, Lord." Then said Mosaic law, which was the basis of the Jewish faith, or he, "Neither do I condemn thee. Go, and sin no more." he must acquiesce in the stoning of a woman. At this point I closed my Bible. I had not found the From what followed, it is clear that Jesus was pray­ verse I was looking for, but I had found something ing, and with a little insight we can even deduce the better. sense of his prayer. The climax of the story is the clue to what Jesus must have been saying. Letter from Pakistan Was he praying, in effect, "Father, help me to outwit By VIRGINIA CosTALES these rogues"? No. That was not his way. With com­ pas&ion, he was praying, "Father, help m~ to save them. y work has been teaching health visitors in the ..." (Them, mark you; not the woman. It was the M public health part of their curriculum. I also have scribes and Pharisees who were in the greater danger.) been giving newly admitted students basic courses in "Help me to save them. Help me to overcome the evil anatomy, microbiology, etc. I have felt very frustrated that is ip their hearts." and handicapped because of the too-short time allowed Meanwhile, the scribes and Pharisees, mistaking Jesus' for each course and because of the dearth of teaching aids, silence for weakness and indecision, must have been the girls' paucity of educational background, and the lan­ growing very confident. We can imagine the sly winks guage hurdle. These schools require English-medium that were exchanged. Now they began to repeat their teaching, but the entrance exams are a farce. I have tried question, and perhaps this time their manner was not to fill in with my inadequate Bengali, but all the State quite so deferential. exams are in English. Jesus' request was the kind that must be granted at Health visitors are a combination of midwives and once, if it is to be granted at all, and evidently it was, public-health nurses. The idea is to broaden their educa­ for suddenly he stood up and confronted the scribes and tion so that they can do the so-much-needed generalized Pharisees. And the moment they saw his face they must public health nursing in the future. But the obstacles are have known that something had gone wrong, that once the kind that are hardest to remove: political, economic, again the plot had failed. Then Jesus uttered the words and administrative, plus this difficult society and the posi­ that we all know so well: "He that is without sin among tion of women. Plus the deep psychological set of all you, let him first cast a stone at her." these people in Asia (especially Bengalis), making it hard Jesus did not wait to see what effect his words would for them to accept Western help or advice. have. His faith was so strong that he already knew. In­ They have good reasons for this psychological resist­ stead, he stooped down again, and once more his fore­ ance. Most of the foreign agencies, I am afraid, bring this finger traced patterns in the dust. What was he doing on themselves by their style of living while here. As far this time? The Gospel does not say, but again the reader as I can learn, the World Health Office and the Peace found an old mystery suddenly dissolving. Of course, Corps are the two that are consi~ered different and are Jesus was doing what needs to be done when a petition accepted with appreciation-especially the Peace Corps. has been granted. He was saying, in effect, "Father, I thank thee that thou has heard my prayer; I thank thee Virginia Costales, a member of Hartford (Conn.) Meeting, has just completed a term of service with the Peace Corps at Dacca in that thou hast saved these men from an error." Pakistan, where she has been instructing public health visitors. 108 FRIENDS JOURNAL March I, 1965

We have many Pakistani visitors in our little apartment statesmen and politicians fare badly at his hands. Con­ here in the middle of a crowded Bengali neighborhood, quest, defeat, triumph, or destruction-these he consid­ and they always notice, and often remark, how simply we ered elements of a divine world order that had assigned live-"like them." We try hard to learn their language. a privileged position to unconquerable Britain. Chur­ Some of us are almost fluent, and others are still strug­ chill's speeches, unforgettable in their aphoristic strength, gling, but we try. were always on the wave length of England's most ardent The big satisfaction and joy of this whole experience ambitions. Although open to interpretation, they were has been getting to know and love some of the wonderful never mysterious or obscure. Once he quoted the people. I have been very lucky in this, because· my col­ statement that "nations are ruled by force or by tradi­ leagues and the beautiful woman doctor who is head of tion." That may have meant that foreign nations must the school are great in every way. We work (epecially be ruled by force but England by tradition. The will of they do), but we have fun together, too. They have help­ the people and democratic procedure in general were ed me to understand the Muslim faith and to under­ rather uncongenial elements in the fabric of his thinking. stand many things about this sad country and its society He was criticized for having praised Hitler and Mus­ -some things which should not be changed and some soHni. But we must always view speech-making blunders which must be changed. Of urgently needed changes, the and rhetorical tricks with the actions of the speaker in position of women has priority. I must not omit to say mind. It was significant that England was rearming as that family planning is now getting a lot of support­ speedily as possible when her Prime Minister tried to and none too soon! win time by establishing good relations with the dicta­ tors. Churchill's anachronistic thinking appears much Winston Churchill more of a weakness when seen in his belief that speeches -any speeches-could make any impression on a modern By WILUAM HUBBEN dictator. For Sir Winston, as for all of us, the tree of IR Winston Churchill shared with many another history was shedding its leaves too rapidly. His Sgreat leader the fate of having to spend the conclud­ thoughts lingered fondly in the world of the nineteenth ing years of a long life in the new historical era he had century when many Englishmen still thought of war as helped to create without being able to comprehend its a violent football game, an age in which Disraeli had spirit. Few men have been so categorically assigned a haughtily proclaimed that the world was not made for back seat when they were no longer needed as was a few but for a very few. Winston Churchill. At the end of the Second World This philosophy had its inglorious finale in the per­ War the British, with their unfailing instinct for political son of Anthony Eden, Churchill's favorite young man. realities, let him go, as one dismisses the efficient Fortunately, the protest arising out of England herself captain of a fire company after the conflagration because against the impromptu Suez campaign was by no means he is not the right man to gather the debris and rebuild an insignificant factor in bringing the incident to a quick what has been destroyed. His initiative was frustrated end. Those who did not yet know it learned at precisely during his final term as prime minister (1951-1955) when this moment that a new structure of thought and organ­ he would not have dared repeal the socialistic programs ization exists that rallies and registers world opinion in legislated by. the Labour party. a manner no longer to be ignored by any nation. Burke's Churchill's greatest years were those of impending praise of the unique heritage of liberties· and rights from catastrophe or actual warfare. The boom of artillery the Magna Charta to the Declaration of Rights as "an salvos is over his whole life, as it also rumbles through estate especially belonging to the people of this kingdom" all his books. Foreign wars were to him the prime movers pleased nobody more than Churchill. But it was no of history. As a historian he loved the imagery of gigantic. longer true that these privileges remained, as Burke had struggles and destructive battles in sea and sky. In his said, "without any reference whatever to any other more universe the currents, tides, and fires of dramatic events general or prior right." Rights and liberties are eager propel mankind forward. They give his books some of travelers, gladly welcomed in many a nation. Moreover, the panoramic sweep of the great, classical accounts they are at the point of creating new international laws. of the past. Sir Winston's array of generals and ad­ The world is full of men and women impatient to see mirals is a brilliant gallery of heroes in shining armor this come about. eager to cross swords with their enemies, whereas Do Churchill's stately volumes not demand dispro­ portionate acreage on our overcrowded bookshelves? William Hubben, for many years (until 196!1) the FlliENDS JoUR• Their style, alternating between near-classical diction and NAL's editor, is vice chairman of Friends General Conference and a teacher at William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia. Victorian gravity, their outdated philosophy of history March 1, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL 109 as a spectacle of butchery and land grabbing, and their tial to survival. Of course, we in our small suburban biased outlook would affect the next generation if these houses here also "do it ourselves," but we seem more limi­ anachronisms did not militate against them. His books ted in scope by lack of space to keep tools and by the are first and foremost a preface to our time, which con­ shortage of really good timber. tinues to instruct us in puzzling paradoxes about the Most of all I enjoyed the unlimited warmth and gen­ insanity of war. We are, for example, still paying a heavy erosity of the Quaker fellowship I experienced every­ price for the lesson that victory and defeat are where. Naturally, coming from Woodbrooke to Pendle now close to becoming synonymous. We must spread Hill one feels very quickly at home, for the basic ways of everywhere a higher view of history as the communal life are common to both. Again, a Britisher accustomed life of all nations, to be ruled by law and justice. We to the activities of Quaker life in Birmingham or London shall return to Churchill's accounts primarily in order finds very similar happenings in Philadelphia. The to measure our progress in thought and achievement Friends World Committee reaching out to Friends every­ and to pay our respects to his rare dedication and where, the American Friends Service Committee involved courage in a world whose errors teach us more than its in countless practical activities, the Religious Education military heroes ever will. Committee plannil}g new programs, and so on-how familiar it seemed! Yet in each case one realized that the "Amongst Friendly Folk" work of American Friends is set against a vast back­ By A. MARGARET WoRSoELL ground of many differing Yearly Meetings, instead of representing only those of London and Ireland. HEN visiting the USA for the first time (a visit I was much impressed by the work being undertaken based on a term at Pendle Hill and not intended W by the Friends Committee on National Legislation at to be a fact-finding tour) I made one definite resolution: Washington and by the value of the contacts made pos­ on no account to form, and certainly not to put in writ­ sible by the existence of Quaker House and the Quaker ing, any generalizations on political, social, or even Quak­ United Nations Program at New York. The great prob­ er situations. The following remarks, therefore, are only lems of racial desegregation and civil rights demand the outcome of an unexpected invitation to contribute wider attention and offer more scope for practical proj­ something to this journal! ects in the US than in Britain, though we have our own My visit of four months was spent amongst Friendly acute areas of these challenges. To see the vast, almost all­ folk; I had no contact with the ultra-rich and very little Negro audience gathered to hear Martin Luther King in with the extreme poor; I met no Daughters of the Ameri­ Philadelphia was a moving experience to me, and to can Revolution nor any Black Muslims, yet even so I was attend local rallies demanding civil rights, to see films surprised at the variety of opinion I did meet! It is impos­ illustrating housing discrimination, and to meet Negroes sible to generalize even about reactions to the Presiden­ personally in their homes-all these experiences certainly tial election, to the value of the work of the UN, or the brought the urgency of these matters home to me. importance of contacts with China, and points of view Frequently I was reminded of how our transatlantic differed widely over the possible methods or speed of fellowship has its roots deep in the past. I felt this espe­ racial integration and the need for "medicare." So, no cially, perhaps, when visiting the charming, tiny, ancient conclusions are being stated! meeting house at Seaville in southern New Jersey, where- To be on safe ground, I shall refer to my impression 1 reread parts of the Travels of Thomas Chalkley. Again, of the extraordinary variety of the coastline between at Virginia Beach, reading George Fox's account of strug­ New York and Virginia Beach. I never had pictured those gling through the "plashy" swamp and lying, wet curving bays and those inland lakes and creeks, linked by through, by a small fire at night, made me realize more innumerable bridges and fine new state roads. The Chesa­ strongly than ever what indefatigable courage carried peake Bay Bridge and that of the Verrazano Narrows at these first Friends to and fro across the stormy Atlantic in New York are surely triumphs of engineering. their unbelievably tiny ships and through such untamed I was impressed everywhere by the enterprising "do-it­ countrysides in their determination to bring their mes­ yourself" atmosphere in the homes I visited, giving a feel­ sage to these new shores. What would George Fox think ing of nearness to pioneering generations to whom to be of a trip by air from coast to coast in 171 minutes? Yet he able to tackle every form of practical problem was essen- would surely be glad that, 300 years later, such a warm Until her retirement last year, A. Margaret Worsdell was a welcome awaits an English Friend in these east-coast lecturer on the staff of Woodbrooke, the Quaker adult college at Meetings. This hospitality, I noticed also, was not re­ Selly Oak, Birmingham, England. She recently returned to England served for a Friend from Europe but was given equally after spending a term at Pendle Hill, the Friends' study center at Wallingford, Pa. warmly to ari unknown Friend from the Pacific coast llO FRIENDS JOURNAL March I, 1965

who arrived unexpectedly and needed shelter while wait­ Change in Conference Leadership ing for his freighter going to Europe. He was accepted into the family at once. T AWRENCE McK. MILLER, JR., general secretary of Friends L General Conference since 1954, has been granted a two­ If one has been involved in British Quaker work at year leave of absence in order to serve as director of the Ameri­ all, one finds, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, a whole can Friends Service Committee's Voluntary International Serv­ network of overlapping contacts, and there seems always ice Assignments (VISA) unit in Bangalore, India. His new some mutual friend to be discovered! Most precious is the duties will begin early this coming summer. His wife, the for­ immediate fellowship in worship. Central Meetings in mer Ruth Passmore, and three of their four children will ac­ Philadelphia reminded me much of similar ones in Bir­ company him to India. In granting the leave of absence, the mingham or London (down to the problems raised by the executive committee of the Conference has united with Larry city's redevelopment schemes demanding parts of the Miller's concern to undertake a period of international Quaker present sites). The smaller Meetings scattered in the sub­ service. urbs and beyond seemed to have much in common with Replacing Larry Miller during his two-year absence will ours, though I could wish more of ours had as many be George B. Corwin, now director of Program Services of children, as spacious accommodation for them, and as the National Board of YMCA's, a member of Wilton (Conn.) regular classes as most of those I saw seemed to have. At Meeting who has been clerk of New York Yearly Meeting since some Meetings I shared in very enjoyable "cover-dish" meals. These were occasions of much warmhearted fel­ lowship, but I realize many English Friends without cars would find it difficult to carry hot cover dishes in a public bus! In conclusion I should like to emphasize again how great a privilege I feel it to be to share in such real spirit­ rooted fellowship across the Atlantic. All who realize the urgency in these critical times of upholding the Christian message, rooted in worship and expressed in daily prac­ tice, have our times of discouragement. An opportunity to meet others keenly concerned in similar work and also seeking spiritual strength in worship brings fresh hope and encouragement. Pendle Hill and Woodbrooke have their differences, of course, in organization of studies and of ways of outreach, arising from their differing situa­ tions, but both have the same basic concerns. Both seek Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr. George B. Corwin to give help to men and women in their search for mean­ 1961. He is chairman of the executive committee for the ing in life and to offer the Christian "Good News" in Friends Mississippi Project and has served as a member of the such ways as will show its relevance in a world where so board of managers of Oakwood School and of the Powell many have left it on one side, have deliberately rejected House Committee. He will retire in May from the Program it, or never have had the opportunity to know it. Friends Services staff, with which he has worked since 19!18, having in the USA have far more varieties of opinion and prac­ previously been executive secretary of the University of Roches­ tice to take into consideration than have Friends in Bri­ ter YMCA. He and his wife, Elizabeth, expect to move to the tain, and local Friends may be far more cut off by distance Philadelphia area in June. During the last week of June they and feel less able to share in central activities than in hope to be at the General Conference for Friends in Traverse Britain, but I am left with a strong feeling of hope for City, Michigan, and, later in the summer, to attend the annual the future in the growing understanding between Friends sessions of Baltimore, Illinois, and Indiana Yearly Meetings. everywhere and for an increasingly imaginative uphold­ Larry Miller is a member of Doylestown ,(Pa.) Meeting. ing of each other in all our widely varying circumstances. Prior to his connection with Friends General Conference, he was an administrative assistant in the American Friends Serv­ ice Committee's finance office. An alumnus of St. Paul's School The difference in the kinds of peace one may enjoy is illus­ (Concord, N. H.), he was graduated from Antioch College in trated by the fact that one may live in peaceful surroundings 1945 and received his M.A. in Religious Education from Chi­ while experiencing utter turmoil within, or he may find him­ cago Theological Seminary in 1948. As VISA director in Ban­ self amid the destruction and bloodshed of war but enjoy un­ galore, he will direct a unit consisting of nine volunteers speakable peace in his heart. involved in varied forms of community development. The -L. NELSON BELL volunteers are in scattered locations in South India, but they March 1, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL 111

gather for quarterly meetings at the home of the field director Waterford and on London Yearly Meeting, held at Newcastle­ and his wife. The director pays periodic visits to each vol­ upon-Tyne, where they represented Southern Africa Yearly unteer. Meeting. Friends General Conference's executive committee feels Informative reports were presented by clerks of Monthly fortunate in having been able to secure such an experienced and Regional Meetings on their meetings for worship and their and sensitive a Quaker executive as George Corwin to fill Larry several activities: feeding African school children and assisting Miller's place in his absence. needy Africans with food, rent, clothing, and education, as well as through bursaries for higher education. Much of this work First South Africa General Meeting is made possible by gifts of funds from Friends Service Council RIENDS in the Republic of South Africa met at the end of of London, and of Australia, together with clothing from Ox­ FDecember for their first General Meeting since the Southern fam and monetary gifts from individual Friends and interested Africa Yearly Meeting decided at the end of 1962 to have a Meetings in England and America. Central Africa General Meeting and a South Africa General A statement of the Quaker position regarding pacifism was Meeting, linked by the Yearly Meeting. drawn up for the assistance of our young men and of any who The gathering of twenty-nine adults and seventeen children may inquire ·of us regarding conscientious objection to military was held at Forest Sanctuary, Stutterheim. Many Friends service. travelled over 700 miles to attend; they were rewarded by a The Young Friends held separate sessions on the theme, joyful and inspiring time. From the spacious lounge in which "Learning of Christ." They also joined with the adults in our meetings were held, one could see God's gift of beauty­ meetings for worship and in attendance at any sessions in garden, veld, and tree-covered mountains-while birds in which the older ones were interested. It was a great joy to have nearby trees sang praises to Him. them with us. In the evenings, before short closing meetings We were privileged to have with us, from England, L. Hugh for worship, we had a social time and relaxation. On Old Doncaster, extension lecturer from Woodbrooke. He gave us a Year's night (our last evening) the children entertained us. valuable talk on "Quakerism: A Religion of Personal Ex­ Friends left on New Year's Day strengthened for the tasks perience" and answered numerous questions in the stimulating awaiting them at various centers in the country, and inspired discussion which followed. with fresh vision of our Quaker faith to share with those who Our Friends Audrey Hoole and F. William Fox spoke could not be with us. inspiringly on the Friends World Committee Meeting at CHRISTINE D. AGAR

Extracts /rom Yearly Meeting Epistles Baltimore Yearly Meetings (Homewood and Stony Run): Monteverde Meeting, San jose, Costa Rica: In many of Friends, as individuals and as a group, should feel a deeper our meetings today there is grave concern over dwindling commitment to be in the vanguard of sustained efforts toward membership. Much is being said about the necessity for being reconciliation and reduction of tensions. This requires keeping more open-minded to beliefs other than Quaker beliefs, that continual contact with the Creative Center of all life. May we through the understanding and perhaps acceptance of other join with each other in seeking the divine-human encounter kinds of religions we might strengthen our own. We are all and a oneness in the outworking of God's purposes! And may aware that increasingly the saying is true that "you can believe we confidently, in every phase of life, open to an anguished anything and be a Friend." world the historic vision of Friends-our mystical heritage, our If George Fox could travel amongst us today, how would we loving concern for the individual potential, and our devotion appear to him? And how would he appear to us? Would his to the Christ spirit! preaching seem harsh and intolerant to us? Or would his ring­ ing message of faith bring us back from our wanderings to our Canadian Yearly Meeting: Once again we have been con­ spiritual home? ... Could George Fox tell us, ... that we will scious throughout our worship and deliberations that the never find peace in our souls until we wait to hear the voice spiritual growth we all seek can best be fostered in the local of God speaking to us within our hearts? Meeting, which contains the potential "growing edge" of the Society of Friends. We are convinced that frequent intervisi­ Southeastern Yearly Meeting: Areas of special concern are tation, with time enough for the development of substantial the needs of migrant workers and the struggle for civil rights. personal ties, affords all Meetings, but especially those small in We are constantly aware, close around us, of the suffering, the membership, valuable assistance in their spiritual life. The tensions and even violence which are part of this struggle, and presence of members from all across Canada and of visiting we realize only too keenly how inadequate we are in under­ Friends from the United States, East Africa, Australia, and standing and meeting the responsibilities in which we are in­ Japan, and the greetings that have come to us from many escapably involved. As we try to find our part in this effort to places, have made us thankful to be together and conscious establish a community of human brotherhood we share the that we are but a part of a great company striving to live in prayer quoted in our sessions . . . that we too may h ave "a true witness to God's love. more fervent sense of our inspiring and demanding vocation." 112 FRIENDS JOURNAL March l , 1965

Indiana Yearly Meeting: We are learning that both the in­ Book Reviews sights of Friends long experienced in'Quaker traditions and the A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS. By JoHN F. KENNEDY. religious vitality of newer members must be fully shared. Harper & Row, New York, 1964. Ill pages. 95 cents (paper­ Traditions, like symbols, are valuable as long as they are use­ back). ful and meaningful. A Nation of Immigrants is a timely and concise narrative We have not been involved directly with racial and other of a f>eople "willing to leave their homes and begin an adven­ problems besetting our country, but we are aware of the great ture filled with incalculable uncertainties, risks, and hard­ need for prompt correction of injustices. We should be im­ ships." This little book represents one of the late President's patient, with great patience, for an equitable solution and great interests: the phenomenon of a homogeneous nation remember with Emily Dickinson that "too late for man is built by a heterogeneous race. early yet for God." It is more than a history: it is a testament of a man's faith Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative): Silent meditation and in America. "Immigration is by definition a gesture of faith obedience to the guiding light within are necessary as we seek in social mobility. It is the expression in action of a positive to know our responsibilities in a world that teems with prob­ belief in the possibility of a better life" and has "reminded lems and tensions. We see how often we fail and tragedy results. every American, old and new, that change is the essence of ... The very peacefulness and isolation of our rural surround­ life and that American society is a process, not a conclusion." ings may blind us to these problems and cut us off from taking Quakers are mentioned several times, both as early immi­ our rightful part in their solution. May our awareness be grants and for their tolerance toward those who followed sharpened and our courage strengthened so that we can see them. Friends' testimony on the worth of the individual was the needs more clearly and help to meet them! reflected in the willingness of William Penn and other Near East Yearly Meeting: We have attempted to assess our Quaker leaders to accept immigrants into Pennsylvania without work in schools, in Quaker outreach, and in social work. We requiring religious conformity. continue to feel called to witness to the traditional Friends' Today, Congress is reconsidering our immigration policy­ testimonies of peace, good will, and concern for all men. We a discriminatory policy based on selecting immigrants accord­ also have to recognize that our changing world provides a ing to their ethnic or racial background. This book provides changing context for these testimonies, so that we must con­ a ready resource on a subject that is becoming a national stantly be evaluating our past efforts and searching for new issue. RICHARD F. SMITH expressions of these testimonies. INDOMITABLE FRIEND: CORDER CATCHPOOL, 1883- Switzerland Yearly Meeting: We have been reminded of 1952. By WILLIAM R. HuGHEs. Housmans, London, 1964. the special task of our country, the necessity of facing reality. 236 pages. Available from the publisher, 5 Caledonian Rd., Neutrality as conceived in the past is no longer possible in the Kings Cross, London, N. I, at five shillings (70 cents). world of today. Nevertheless, we still have a task, if we have Eight years ago the original British edition of this first-rate the necessary vision to accomplish it: to present to the world biography of one of the great modern Quakers was issued in a a harmonious diversity in which local patriotism does not very limited edition. The publishers have now reprinted, in an exclude love of country nor love for the whole world. attractive hard cover at paperback price, this inspiring account Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative): In this modern world, of the Friendly peace witness as seen in the life of Thomas where increasing pressure is aimed at making each person a Corder Pettifor Catchpool. mere cog in a huge machine, we nevertheless know that the But it is much more than a record of Corder Catchpool's individual is' still of prime importance and that he still has service in and leadership of the world peace movement. It is freedom of choice and responsibility for th.e results of his the history of a roving ambassador and bridge builder, com­ decision. May such choice be made, not on the basis of fear, bined with a history of his times. It makes peace-making come negligence, and silence, but, rather, in total commitment to alive as a glorious adventure. our Savior, allowing his loving spirit to permeate our being. Corder Catchpool discovered his mission in life while May we be given the courage to speak and to witness, the climbing mountains. His life ended prematurely on holiday awareness to see and to understand, and the purity of heart to just after the Friends World Conference in 1952. He is buried know God's will and to obey in love and tenderness! in the village graveyard at the foot of Zermatt, in Switzerland. "Oh, why should he have tried to climb so high, at his age, Western Yearly Meeting: A recurring note this year has risking a life of such value to us all?" That question, posed by been the concern that our concept of the church is too narrow. his biographer, has been answered by his telling of the whole We too often think of it merely as the assembly of persons on story of the consistent life of an indomitable Friend, ever First-day morning, and of church activities as only those which climbing toward a peaceful world, in fellowship with man take place within the four walls of the meeting house. We tend and God. to forget that the real task is in the world, and that the church Those who missed the earlier edition of this testimony to a should be bringing its message to men everywhere, through all great life now have a second opportunity to climb with Corder the channels of daily work and life. Catchpool in the pages of his biography. (To be continued) RICHMOND P. MILLER March l, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL 113

POVERTY ON A SMALL PLANET. By EDWARD ROGERS, and emotional milieu have more weight in producing delin­ Macmillan, N. Y., 1964. 120 pages. $2.95 quent behavior. He plans another publication analyzing these Professor Rogers, former chairman of Interchurch Aid and factors. Refugee Service of the British Council of Churches, faces This is a technical book, giving research methods and frankly the question of Christian responses to the motives and analyses on which this reviewer is not competent to comment; hopes of the campaign to free the world from hunger. In crisp however, it would seem to be a thoughtful, well-done study of and informed analysis he penetrates beyond vague sentimen· interest to sociologists, correctional workers, and other special· tality. Each chapter could be the focus for a discussion within ists in the field. each Meeting and within each family. HILDEGARDE P. WISE He concludes that Christians have both the moral respon· THINK ON THESE THINGS. By J. KRISHNAMURTI. Edited sibility and the essential techniques. In the race between the by D. RAJAGOPAL. Harper and Row, New York and Evans­ threatening misery of the population explosion and increasing ton, 1964. 224 pages. $3.75 food production a war on world poverty could be the "moral A better title for this book would not be possible. To think equivalent of war." He distinguishes between material living on many things of serious consequence to us--our education, standards and standards of life. He calls for "awakeners"­ our religion, our politics, our traditions--is the challenge pre· dedicated and imaginative individuals of religious conviction sented by Krishnamurti. The book is composed of talks and who will go beyond the "dull and worn" humanitarian cliches questions presented at meetings of students and their parents and engage in a demanding, often frustrating, but not im· and teachers in India. As we read, we realize that the author's possible experiment in world brotherhood. message is universal and that people the world over will do RoBERT H. CoRY, JR. well to think of the condition of civilization today. We may REBELS WITH A CAUSE. By FRANKS. MEAD. The Abing­ question some of his penetrating statements, but as we think don Press, New York, 1964. 160 pages. $2.75 we admit he speaks truth. I should like to quote Krishnamurti on many subjects. Here This is a book about religious nonconformists. As such, it are a few extracts: "The function of education, surely, is to should appeal to a religious group some of whose members eradicate, inwardly as well as outwardly, this fear that destroys from time to time still choose prison rather than conformity. human thought, human relationship and love.... Our pres· This reviewer, however, found it disappointing. It opens with an apocryphal contemporary letter about three rebels--John ent education is rotten because it teaches us to love success and not what we are doing. The result has become more im­ the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, and Saul of Tarsus-and ap· portant than the action." proaches its conclusion with a chapter about Mather Byles, "It requires enormous intelligence to be alone; and you must whose chief claim to nonconformity seems to have been a pen· be alone to find God, truth." chant for exercising an unclerical wit out of the pulpit. Be· "It is our problem to find out what God is, because that tween, there is a strangely assorted gallery, from Simon Magus and Simeon Stylites through Francis and Theresa to Roger is the very foundation of our life. A house cannot stand for long without a proper foundation, and all the cunning inven· Williams and finally William Booth. The narratives are enter· taining enough, but they are told in a style too smart for the tions of man will be meaningless if we are not seeking out subject. Rebels with a Cause is not recommended. what is God or truth." ELIZA A. FouLKE CARL F. WISE

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Spring committee meetings of the Young Friends of North Three senior students representing Friends' Select School America will be held at Wilmington College April 9-11. The of Philadelphia defeated opposing teams from Woodrow Wil­ cost will be $6.00 for the weekend. Reservations should be sent son High School of Camden (N.J.) and Del Haas High School to Tom Johnson, Box 305, P.C.F.S., Wilmington College, of Bristol (Pa.) on the television quiz show "It's Academic," Wilmington, Ohio. presented by Station WRCV on February 13. Friends' Select Children's used clothing in good condition is needed now will receive a set of Great Books of the Western World as by the American Friends Service Committee for shipment to recognition of its representatives' victory. A runoff with three Algeria, the Congo, and Jordan. In Algeria, clothing is being other area high schools has already been taped for later view­ distributed to the many orphanages and other institutions for ing. children left fatherless or disabled by the war. In Jordan, dis­ tribution continues among Arab refugees from Israel. In the Frederick B. Tolles, professor of history at Swarthmore Col­ Congo, Angolan refugees in the vicinity of Leopoldville re­ lege and curator of the Friends Historical Library there, is at ceive AFSC shipments. present on leave of absence from Swarthmore to serve as special Both heavy and lightweight clothing is acceptable. Blan­ lecturer in early American history at Harvard. kets, soap, and sewing and school supplies will also be grate­ fully received. Almost every day brings to the JoURNAL office fresh protests Ben Norris, a member of Honolulu Meeting, is one of a or statements opposing the military venture of the United group of four Hawaii-based artists whose "Pacific Heritage" States in Vietnam. Among the most recent of these are an exhibition of painting is being displayed from March until announcement of the "Motorcade for Peace in Vietnam" which September in galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Barbara, and San Diego. sponsored on February 19 and a checklist of "Questions about the Conflict in South Vietnam" which the Westchester County FRIENDS JOURNAL-"' welcome gift to 'JOUrself (see Committee of Teachers for Peace (Box 296, Scarsdale, New preceding P4ge) or to 'JOUr /riefUls (coupon below) York) is seeking to have filled out by as many teachers as pos­ ·------~ sible. The committee asks teachers and the parents of school­ FRIENDS JOURNAL children to write for copies of the checklist for distribution in 152-A NORTH FIFTEENTH STREET their schools. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19102 Copies of an appeal to those who wish to withdraw their D I enclose $ D Bill me support from war (particularly the US war in Vietnam) by Send "' 'jear's gift subscription ($5; foreign, $6) to refusing to pay all or part of their income taxes or by reduc­ ing their incomes to a nontaxable level are available from the NAM.~------No Tax for War in Vietnam Committee, cf o the Reverend ADDRES·~------Maurice McCrackin, 932 Dayton Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

CITY______~TAT·~ ----COD•o:.E____ _ Incorporated in the appeal is a statement to which tax­ refusers can sign their names and addresses. Signed statements NAME OF DONOK------sent to Maurice McCrackin before the April 15 tax deadline will be used by the Committee as the basis for releasing to the ADDRES~------press on that day names and addresses of the signers. The CITY______$TAT~:,_ ____C0Dt:..E __ _ Committee suggests also that copies of the statement be printed Gift card to be dgnea..______in publications, posted on bulletin boards, and read in meet­ (Other -mes may be listed on a separate sheet) ings by those who have signed them. March I, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL ll5

East Lansing Meeting, many of whose members and attend­ dowing a new library building designed to house 25,000 vol­ ers are drawn from the faculty and student body of Michigan umes and to seat a hundred students. State University, is making progress toward its goal of purchas­ ing a property (now known as Howland House) to be used as Dorothy Hutchinson, widely known member of Abington a student cooperative house. Blueprints for recommended Meeting at Jenkintown, Pa., and president of the US Section alterations have been approved by the city building inspector of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and (unofficially) by the university, which seems feel that io will give the 1965 William Penn Lecture on March 28 at 2 such a project is badly needed. p.m. in the Race Street Meeting House (west of Fifteenth Street), Philadelphia. Her topic will be "Unless One is Born Germantown (Philadelphia) Monthly Meeting is so much Anew." impressed with the importance and significance of the special The William Penn Lecture is presented annually during issue on "The Radical Right" published by the Information Philadelphia Yearly Meeting week by the Young Friends Move­ Service of the National Council of Churches that it is sending ment of the Yearly Meeting. The public is invited. Tea will copies to all its members. Copies of this twelve-page presenta­ be served in the Cherry Street Room following the lecture. tion dealing with the tactics and identity of contemporary ex­ tremist groups may be obtained at twenty-five cents each from B. Tartt Bell, who for many years served as executive sec­ the National Council's Bureau of Research and Survey at 475 retary of the American Friends Service Committee's Southeast Riverside Drive, New York 10027. Regional Office before moving on at the beginning of Jan­ uary to become associate director of the International Affairs Gene Keyes, a member of Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting, who Seminars in Washington, is the subject of a recent editorial was released not long ago from the Federal Reformatory in in the Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News praising him for his quiet, El Reno, Oklahoma, where he had spent five months on con­ forceful leadership and his dedicated Christian concern. Of tempt-of-court charges growing out of his position on the draft, the AFSC's work in that area the editorial says: "Had it not has been indicted and arraigned since then in Federal Court often been available, Greensboro might not have moved so in East St. Louis, Illinois, because of his refusal to report for resolutely forward in racial amity or met so many of the tur­ induction. bulences of our time with fairness and good sense."

Twin Cities Meeting in Minneapolis is planning to inaug­ The Religious Education Committee of Philadelphia Yearly urate a novel series of weekly Sunday discussion programs com­ Meeting invites Friends and others interested in religious edu­ paring and contrasting various other religious sects with the cation to hear Eli Wismer speak on "Tomorrow's Religion" Society of Friends. The first of these, dealing with the Amish at 7: 15 p.m. on March 9 at the meeting house at Fourth and and the Mennonites, will be on March 21. The meeting place Arch Streets, Philadelphia. Eli Wismer, executive director of of the Twin Cities group is at the University YMCA, 1425 the National Council of Churches' Department of Educational University Avenue, S.E. (For inquiries telephone 336-9019.) Development, will discuss the challenge today's world presents to the churches and the need for relevant new patterns of religion. David H. Scull, clerk of Langley Hill Preparative Meeting, Since the Committee has asked that reservations for a 6 has been elected president of the 3000-member Virginia Coun­ p.m. dinner preceding the meeting be made by March 2, it is cil on Human Relations, the principal voluntary biracial or­ suggested that those who wish to be present but who may have ganization in the state working in the field of race relations. had no prior notice telephone promptly to the Religious Edu­ David Scull, a Swarthmore College alumnus who, with Ralph cation Committee, LO 8-41 11. Those attending the dinner are A. Rose, owns a printing and calendar-publishing firm in An­ asked to contribute $1.00 apiece toward its cost. nandale, Virginia, is the first business man to head the Council. As an added attraction, the Friends Book Store at 302 Arch He is active in the fields of many Quaker concerns and is on Street will remain open until 6 p.m. on the day of this meeting. the Planning Commtitee for the 1967 Friends World Confer­ ence. Backward Photo, or Why Your JoURNAL Was Late­ The editors were shocked when, upon receiving from the A letter signed by all present students of the William Penn printer copies of the JouRNAL of February 15, they discovered Charter School in Philadelphia, addressed to those who will that on page 79 the photograph of Miami's Tenth Avenue be students in 1989 (the 300th anniversary of the founding Meeting, with its Cuban pastor and his wife, had been printed of this Quaker educational institution for boys) was sealed on backward, so that the name of the Meeting appeared in mirror February 16. The letter tells the students of the future about fashion. The printer, upon hearing the cries of distress emit­ efforts by present alumni and parents to raise funds during ting from the editorial office, agreed to reprint the offending the current Development Campaign. In the course of this cam­ page. Naturally this consumed extra time; hence subscribers paign, incidentally, the school has received from an anonymous regrettably did not receive their JouRNAL till several days after donor a gift of $500,000 for the purpose of building and en- the normal date. 116 FRIENDS JOURNAL March I, 1965

Correction: The note in the FRIENDS JouRNAL of February Arnold Kawano, Merion Station, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia about George Byron Gordon, author of You, Your Heirs, Yearly Meeting); Robert Rees, High Point, North Carolina and Your Estate, erred in speaking of him as a member of (North Carolina Yearly Meeting, Five Years); Timothy Zuck, Montclair (N.J.) Meeting. His membership is in Summit (N.J.) Houston, Texas (South Central Yearly Meeting); Margaret Meeting. Alexander, Richmond, Indiana (Indiana Yearly Meeting, Five Years); Margaret Bronner, Haverford, Pennsylvania (Philadel· Loss of Job Follows Civil Defense Stand phia Yearly Meeting); Judith Bruff, Whittier, California (Paci­ The Milwaukee School System in January informed Rich­ fic Yearly Meeting); Rosemary Bunner, New Castle, Indiana ard Franz of New Berlin, Wisconsin, that he had been denied (Indiana Yearly Meeting, Five Years); Joan Hollister, Yellow a chance for a permanent job as art teacher because he cannot Springs, Ohio (Indi~na Yearly Meeting, General Conference); conscientiously participate in civil defense drills. Richard Marilyn Mills, Indianapolis, Indiana (Western Yearly Meet· Franz, a member of Milwaukee Friends Meeting who for many ing); Kathleen Taylor, Carmel, Maine (New England Yearly years has been a successful independent package designer, had Meeting); and Kesia Kakai, a member of East Africa Yearly a temporary appointment, replacing a teacher on maternity Meeting at Scattergood School, West Branch, Iowa. leave. His performance as a teacher is not questioned. When the matter of civil defense drill came up on the job, Richard Franz, who for some time has engaged in public Letters to the Editor debate in opposition to such drills, found himself unable to Letters are subject to editorial revision if too long. Anonymous participate. Conversations with authorities h ave been amicable. communications cannot be accepted. But at the midyear he was replaced by a teacher who has no Goodbye to Philadelphia? scruples about leading children in civil defense drills. (In the In a recent issue of the FRIENDS JouRNAL, suggestions were same school system children of Jehovah's Witness parents are invited for the solution of problems arising from the impend­ not required to pledge allegiance to the flag, as most other ing widening of Fifteenth Street and the relocation of Friends' children do under state law.) agencies. My suggestion is as follows: The drills are justified by the school system as necessary for the protection of children, just as fire drills are. Richard Franz The offices of Friends General Conference and the FRIENDS has stated to the school authorities his conviction that civil JouRNAL should be relocated a minimum of fifty miles outside of Philadelphia. defense drills do not, in fact, serve to protect the children, but At present Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Friends General rather create a dangerous illusion that nuclear war without massive loss of life is plausible. "Peace," he asserts, "is our only Conference, FRIENDS JouRNAL, A.F.S.C., and Friends World Committee are all located in Philadelphia within the same defense." FRANCIS D. HoLE block. This tends to enforce the impression that the Society Fifteen Chosen for Quaker Youth Pilgrimage of Friends is owned and operated by Philadelphia Yearly Meet­ Fifteen young Friends now in Eleventh or Twelfth Grade ing. The FRIENDS JouRNAL does little to squelch this impres­ have been selected to go to England this summer on the sion. For example, note that the coverage given a yearly meet­ Quaker Youth Pilgrimage sponsored by the American and ing varies inversely with its distance from Philadelphia. If the European Sections of the Friends World Committee. They offices of Friends General Conference and the FRIENDS JoURNAL were among 47 applicants from Meetings across the U.S.A. were moved to some other city, perhaps close to the headquar­ and Canada. Previous pilgrimages occurred in 1959, 1961, and ters of a less vigorous yearly meeting, a more representative 1963. coverage and a new stimulant to another yearly meeting would From July 17 to 31 the pilgrims will be based in Lancaster, result. where fourteen young European Friends of similar age will Washington, D. C. S. CLEMENT SWISHER join them. They will follow a schedule of visits to historic Quaker places in Northwest England. Information about the The Problem of Vietnam early Quaker movement will be provided by British Friends Howard Kershner's letter in the JoURNAL of February 1 who have an intimate knowledge of that area. A two-weeks makes valid criticism of the proposition for neutralizing Viet­ work camp, somewhere in the British Isles, will follow. The n am by a guarantee involving the communist nations. A more group will return to New York by air on August 17. workable alternative might be a guarantee for South Vietnam The American leaders are George and Helen Bliss, who will by semineutral Asiatic countries. Nations of all ideologies be with the group throughout the Pilgrimage. George Bliss is might offer various economic afds, such as the Mekong-River­ Clerk of the Meeting School, Rindge, New Hampshire, and basin proposal by Gilbert White aanuary 15 JoURNAL). Breath­ a former Clerk of New England Yearly Meeting. ing spaces for such constructive action rather than prolonga­ The fifteen pilgrims from North America are Gerald Bliss, tion of what Jim Lucas describes as a war on "the little people Rindge, New Hampshire (New England Yearly Meeting); -the noncombatants" are almost the only hope for this James Bradshaw, Virginia Beach, Virginia (North Carolina troubled world. Yearly Meeting, Conservative); Stephen Curwood, East Bar­ Howard Kershner's pointing out of certain errors in previ­ rington, N. H. (New England Yearly Meeting); Wilson Hunt, ous military policy should be amplified into a thorough review Fairmount, Indiana (Indiana Yearly Meeting, Five Years); of a generation's history, which could be summed up as vast March I, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL 117

indifference to constructive action until crises, when power The JouRNAL's expression of willingness to publish (wi thin blocs become aware of their distant neighbors' problems and limits) letters commenting on proposed "changes brewing in proceed to stop-gap measures. Whether economic or military, Philadelphia" regarding future use of Friends' properties causes these are sure to be inadequate, because comfortable peoples me to present the following ideas. are never fully roused from inertia until gunfire comes much First, I want to repeat the complaints I made at Philadel­ closer home, when their action becomes hysterically excessive, phia Yearly Meeting a year ago concerning the holding of with the power elite trying to conscript even the little groups Yearly Meeting at Fourth and Arch Streets. These involve who have been working steadily at basic problems. Then, hazardous steps between the entrance doors and the main more than ever, the latter must keep themselves separate from seating area, poor lighting, lack of ventilation, and uncom­ the "war effort," as a brake on the "inertia in reverse." This, fortable benches. Add to these the danger, especially to women on a small but ill-controlled scale, is what we have in Vietnam. Friends, inherent in the neighborhood, especially after dark. Pittsburgh, Pa. JoHN C. WEAVER None of these obstacles are present at Fifteenth and Race About Marjorie Sykes Streets. Many problems would be solved by the building of a multi­ I feel a bit badly about the printing of the "Postscript from story building on the Friends' Select School grounds on the India" in the January 1 issue, well-intentioned though it Parkway and Race Streets from Sixteenth to Seventeenth. obviously is. The word "retired" has a very strange ring when This building would be easily accessible. Adequate parking, applied to someone like Marjorie Sykes, and I greatly suspect entered from Race Street, could be provided in the basement. Marjorie's modesty has badly misled her interviewer. She is at The first four to six floors should be reserved for such facilities present active in many different ways-all within the Indian as a large meeting room, several smaller committee meeting scene, so that they may not be at once apparent to those on rooms, and office space for all Quak~r activities in Philadelphia. projects: teaching, demonstrating and exploring nonviolent The upper floors, twenty to thirty of them, would be rented for methods of solving conflicts, and finding time to share her income purposes. It would be hoped that only the part of the experiences in the USA as well. She is a person who cannot building that is rented would be subject to taxation. (Of course, well be dealt with in a few paragraphs. the property pays no taxes now.) A building of colonial design, New York City BENJAMIN PoLK such as the Aetna Life Insurance building in Hartford, "Changes Brewing in Philadelphia" Connecticut, would be a pleasing addition to the surrounding When faced with a setback such as the impending widening city. of Fifteenth Street in Philadelphia (see FRIENDS JouRNAL, Lake Wales, Fla. ARTHUR C. JACKSON 12-15-64, 1-15-65) the thing to do is to salvage as much as A Book with a "Quakerly" Style possible from the loss. The solution outlined in the brochure, An Opportunity for Friends, does this admirably. There can The review of Dr. S. K. Stevens' Pennsylvania: Birthplace be no doubt that organizations with offices around the Race of a Nation in the December 1 issue of the JOURNAL was on the Street Meeting House will all be more happily housed in the whole quite fair and satisfactory-except for one point. It said projected building than they are now and that other organ­ that "Dr. Stevens' style is a bit on the pedestrian side" and that izations, like the bookstore, will be better located. The old "this is no tome for a light hour's reading." On the contrary, I Whittier Hotel (now an international students' house) will be find his book delightful because of both its intrinsically inter­ missed, but it was never one of our prime concerns. In fact, esting contents and the author's clear, clean, direct, and un­ ,the only really controversial issue involved is the fate of the complicated style. It is even Quakerly in its economy of means. meeting house itself, and here the issue seems to be one of But style is, of course, a matter of taste. A more important sentiment against practicality. point, as the reviewer suggests, is that the book's comments on It is picturesque, though perhaps not beautiful. It has Quakers, and especially his chronological allocation of space to served our society long, if not in recent years particularly well. them, should give us something to think about. And through the yeats many worthy Friends have passed University Park, Pa. MAuRICE A. MooK through its doors. But it is drafty, it is too large for all but a very few of the meetings that are held there, and it is difficult "Danger on the Right" to heat. Furthermore, its appearance, awkward at best, will In the review of Danger on the Right (JouRNAL, January 15) suffer further in comparison with the new office building that your reviewer; Paul A. Lacey, indulges in misrepresentation, must be built next to it. The building will not be a complete innuendo, and just plain name-calling. As a long-time reader loss, in any event, because the foundations and quite possibly of your magazine, having great respect for the traditional moral some of the walls of the present building may be used in the precepts of the Religious Society you represent, I am shocked proposed new structure. and disillusioned. It used to be said of things in Philadelphia that the one way Your reviewer concedes that "Though one may feel it is to assure their preservation was to suggest that they be only poetic justice when the autho,rs impale William Buckley, abolished. Let us not allow this sort of thinking to hinder an Jr., on the phrase 'the aging boy wonder of the American effective plan for the use of our quadrangle! Right and a leading light of unabashed Reaction,' this is Philadelphia ALBERT C. GEROULD propaganda, not evidence." After this magnanimous admission 118 FRIENDS JOURNAL March I, 1965

Mr. Lacey goes on to say, "The facts are damning enough with­ "Man and Outer Space" out journalistic tricks." Now just what is he hinting at? What It is apparent that Mary Louise O'Hara, in her article of damning facts is he aware of, and why, admiring "facts" so January 15, "Man and Outer Space," has allowed worthy much, does he not disclose them? motives to blind her to reality. In asking space-oriented sci­ William Bucltley, Jr. is a man who feels strongly; he is also entists "to lower their sights and raise their ethics," she per­ a man of deep religious conviction and the highest ethical formed a disservice to some of this country's most valuable standards. While his views may not be in accord with yours, citizens. he is deserving of respect. He has presented his position Man's abounding curiosity about "what's up there?" goes courageously and with great seriousness, and has debated all back hundreds of years before Sputnik I, which served to comers successfully and tirelessly. focus public attention on the entire field. It is true that Yout: reviewer, with his penchant for the sweepjng general­ politicians, economists, business men, and many an average ization and the unsubstantiated charge, says that "supercilious­ citizen leaped to the effort of building international prestige ness seems endemic to the opinions in such rightist publications and developing a hardware and weapons arsenal through space as the National Review . .." Very well, but let him be science. But to accuse space scientists of being motivated by no reminded that it was the student paper of Haverford College other concern and (by implication) of lacking the principles -no rightist publication, we may be sure-which ran a pic­ that guide all men of good will is truly unfortunate. ture of Adolph Hitler captioned "William f. Bucltley, Jr." Space science has made a long series of contributions to Mr. Lacey concludes with the observation that we must see man's knowledge and well-being. We have learned from space , "the activity of the rightist as an illegitimate means of coming facts about the earth itself that had escaped our attention in to grips with legitimate feelings." May I suggest that your read­ thousands of years of land-based research. ers come to grips with the reality of the right by reading what Some of the beneficial results of space science have come as responsible thinkers on the right (and there really are some) side effects of research for space travel. Thus, space science are saying? Read National Review or the quarterly Modern has contributed to new ideas on power, economics, psychology, Age and, instead of such a pretentious conglomeration of biology, and medicine. Other boons have resulted from direct innuendo and misrepresentation as Danger on the Right, Will­ application of space techniques. These include weather satel­ moore Kendall's The Conservative Confirmation. It will be a lites, comunications satellites, and navigation aids. The Tiros refreshing experience, I assure you. satellites, for instance, have proved that meteorological data HENRY REGNERY, President thus obtained could be used for daily weather analysis. It is Chicago Henry Regnery Co., Publishers virtually impossible to assess the number of lives saved and the property damage avoided through Tiros' pictures of the Books for New Harrisburg Meeting House earth's cloud cover during our annual hurricane season. Harrisburg Friends have been gratified by the sincere inter­ Relay, Syncom, and Telstar increasingly provide the kind est in the progress of their new meeting house (described in of communication between nations which leads toward closer FRIENDS JouRNAL, January 1) which Friends outside our own contacts and better understanding. In the not distant future Meeting have shown, and by the generous financial aid which we shall witness the most significant world events as they has been received. occur. We in Harrisburg have envisioned this meeting house not If Mrs. O'Hara is truly concerned about space science and simply as a home for our own Meeting but as .a center for international cooperation, I would refer her to the following Friends' activities in the capital city of Pennsylvania and a facts. By the fall of 1964, agreement had been reached for the place where special concerns can find expression. One feature launching of thirteen international satellites. Scientific sound­ of the building which thus takes on very real importance is its ing rockets (whose cost is far less than that of satellite projects) library. Books on the history and development of Quakerism, have been launched cooperatively from India, Sweden, Nor­ the general subject of religion, and testimonies and concerns way, Pakistan, Italy, Canada, and New Zealand. Agreements having particular meaning for Friends should be available to between the countries in these ventures include dividing persons seeking them. responsibility for the scientific instrumentation of the flight, Although funds donated and promised to Harrisburg Meet­ for the rocket itself, for the ground instrumentation to receive ing will permit completion of the building itself, it has not data from the rockets, and for analysis of the data. Personnel been possible to lay aside funds adequate for the kind of exchanges and training arrangements have an important place library which we feel this meeting house ought to have. If in international space-science cooperation. other Meetings or individuals have books which they would There is another reason why religious groups should know be willing to give, it is suggested that they notify me so that whereof they· speak on this subject. It will come as a shocking arrange_ments for their transfer can be made. The generosity of revelation when some day man unravels the nature of the Friends or their friends in this regard will be deeply appre­ universe and knows for sure whether it is finite or infinite. We ciated. cannot prepare for that day and that knowledge by sticking GEORGE R . BEYER not only our feet but also our heads deep into the sands of the 2729 N. Second Street, Member of Overseers earth. Harrisburg, Pa. 17110 Harrisburg Monthly Meeting Falls Church, Va. DORSEY BAYNHAM March 1, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL 119

Coming Events new concerns from Yearly Meeting committees and Friends' organi­ zations; 7 p.m.: "Friends' Responsibility in National Defense" (dram­ (Deadline for calendar items: fifteen days before date of publication.) atization by younger Friends). Wednesday: closing sessions; 2 p.m.: MARCH concerns from individual members, unfinished business, final con­ sideration of Epistle; 7 p.m.: "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and 5-Philadelphia Quaker Women, Fou.rth and Arch Streets Meet­ Women"; Exercise of the Meeting, reading of Epistle, Closing Minute. ing House, 10:45 a.m. Speaker: Mary Ewing, executive secretary, For further information, write to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Department of United Church Women, Greater Philadelphia Coun­ 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2. cil of Churches. Topic: "Fulfilling Our Mission Together as Church Women." 5-7-Retreat at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa., led by Dan Wil­ Announcements son, director. Brief notices of Friends' births, marriages, and deaths are 6-Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, Green Street Meeting House, published in the FRIENDS JoURNAL without charge. Such notices 45 West School House Lane, Germantown. Meeting on Worship (preferably typed, and containing only essential facts) will not and Ministry, 2:!10 p.m. Worship, 4 p.m., followed by meeting for be published unless furnished by the family or the Meeting. business. Supper, 6 p.m. (To make or cancel reservations, call VI 4-4924.) Discussion of Monthly Meeting Annual Reports, 7 p.m. BIRTHS 6-Nottingham Quarterly Meeting, Nottingham Meeting House, BURLEIGH-On January 20, in Rochester, N.Y., a son, STEPHEN Main Street, Oxford, Pa. Ministry and Counsel, 10 a.m., followed HoDGE BURLEIGH, to William P., Jr., and Laura Hodge Burleigh. by worship and business. Lunch served by host Meeting. Confer­ Laura Burleigh and son William are members of Rochester Meeting. ence session in afternoon. The maternal grandparents, William J. and Evelyn K. Hodge, are 7-Haverford Quarterly Meeting, Merion Meeting House, Mont­ members of Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting. gomery Avenue and Meeting House Road, Merion, Pa. Worship and MAGEE-On February 6, to James S. and Judith Jacobson Magee, Ministry, 10 a.m. Meeting for worship, II a.m. Lunch (donation basis), a son, STEPHEN SHALLCROSS MAGEE. The mother and maternal grand­ 12:15. Business session and annual reports, 1:15 p.m. Send lunch parents, Sol and Barbara Jacobson, are members of Wrightstown reservations to Theodora Schreiber, 509 Monroe Road, Merion. (Pa.) Meeting. The father is a member of Radnor (Pa.) Meeting. 14-Baltimore Quarterly Meeting, Baltimore (Stony Run) Meet­ MILLER,-On February !I, at Santa Barbara, Calif., to Richmond ing House, 5116 North Charles Street. Ministry and Counsel, 9:45 P., Jr., and Elinor Kellogg Miller, their third child and second son, a.m. Worship, 11 a.m. Lunch served by host Meeting. Business and PEARSON KELLOGG MILLER. The father is a member of Central Phila­ conference session in afternoon. delphia Meeting. 19-21-Conference on "The Nurture of Vocal Ministry in Quaker MARRIAGES Worship," Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa., sponsored by Religious DURKEE-SMITH-On December 28, 1964, at Annapolis, Md., Life Committee, Friends General Conference: 6 p.m. dinner Friday BARBARA SMITH of Millersville, Md., and DAVID W. DURKEE of to 1 p.m. dinner Saturday. Open meetings Friday, 8 p.m., with Crownsville, Md. The bride is the daughter of Joseph Samuel Smith, Howard Brinton on "The Quaker Ministry in Historical Perspec­ Jr., and Bette Jane Smith of Severna Park, Md. The groom is the tive," and Saturday, 8 p.m., with James R. Stein on "A Living son of Captain Richard W. Durkee (retired), Berwyn Heights, Md. Ministry." Resource leaders: Francis Hall, Jesse Stanfield, Dean Both are members of the Annapolis Friends' group. Freiday, and others. Total cost for weekend: $14.00. Evening ses­ HELD-DAVENPORT-On January 25, at and under the care sions free of charge. Send registrations ($2.25) to Friends General of Buckingham (Pa.) Meeting, ANNE N. DAVENPORT, daughter of Conference, 1520 Race Street, Philadelphia 2. Franklin N. and Ellen Atkinson Davenport of New Hope R. D., Pa.. 20-American Friends Service Committee New York Metropoli­ and MicHAEL HELD, son of Julius and Ingrid-Marta Held of New tan Regional Public Conference, Purchase (N. Y.) Meeting House, York City. The bride and her parents are members of Buckingham Purchase Street, !I to 8:45 p.m. Box supper, 6 p.m. Theme: "Inter­ (Pa.) Meeting. Her maternal grandmother, Beulah E. Atkinson, is national Communication and Crisis." Speaker: William Hunting­ a member of Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. ton of the Quaker UN Program. High School and children's pro­ LEW-MILFORD-On October ll, 1964, under the care of West­ grams. For further information address Robert S. Vogel, AFSC, bury (N.Y.) Meeting, BARBARA ANN MILFORD, a member of Reading Room 220, 2 West 20th Street, New York. (Pa.) Meeting and sojourning member of Westbury Meeting, and 25-!11-Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Fourth and Arch Streets WILBUR LAMBERT LEw, a member of Westbury Meeting. Meeting House (except as noted). Thursday 10 a.m.: organization, MAcNUTT-RUDE-On December 19, 1964, at Cleveland, Ohio, welcome to visitors, Epistles, Nominating Committee report; 2:15 ROBERTA DIANE RUDE and F. BARRY MACNUTT of Westbury (N. Y.) p.m.: Yearly Meeting on Worship and Ministry. [NOTE: Annual Meeting, son of Alexander and Elizabeth MacNutt. Meeting of Friends Journal Associates and Friends Publishing Cor­ PEARSON- EKLUND-On December 27, 1964, at the Beach poration, March 25. Dinner, 5:!10 p.m., followed by evening meeting Haven (N. J.) Lutheran Church, BRENDA EKLUND, daughter of Nils with Henry J. Cadbury as speaker. See news note on page 114.] Fri­ and Olga Eklund of Beach Haven, and Ensign NILS PEARSON, son day, 2 p.m.: annual report of Representative Meeting; 7 p.m.: con­ of Louise and the late Henry Pearson. The groom and his mother sideration of pla.ns for proposed new Friends Center in Philadelphia. are members of Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. Saturday, 10 a.m.: report and recommendations of Mission to Mis­ PILBROW-GREENSTEIN-On November 28, 1964, at and under sissippi project; special program for children in East Room; 2:15 the care of Providence (R. 1.) Meeting, ELAINE GREENSTEIN and DAVID p.m.: Friends' Education (reports from George School and West­ WAYNE PtLBROW. The groom and his parents, Myron and Corinne town). Sunday: meetings for worship: adults, 10:!10 a.m., Arch Street Pilbrow, are members of Germantown Meeting, Philadelphia. and 12th Street Meeting Houses; high school young Friends, 9:45-12, RAY- ABBOTT-On November 27, 1964, at Chapel Hill (N.C.) International House, 15th and Cherry Streets; junior high school, Meeting, CoNSTANCE H. ABBOTT, daughter of Mary B. and the late 9:!10-12:15, Race Street Meeting House; boys and girls (kindergarten Roy T. Abbott, Sr., and TIMOTHY B. RAY, son of Dr. Archie C. and to grade VI), 10-12, Friends' Select School; 2 p.m.: William Penn Eliza B. Ray. The bride, a graduate of George School, is a member lecture at Race Street Meeting House by Dorothy Hutchinson, fol­ of Chapel Hill Meeting. Her father was a member of Brooklyn lowed by tea in Cherry Street Room. Monday. 2 p.m.: The State (N.Y.) Preparative Meeting. of the Meeting: Supplementary Queries, Quarterly Meeting reports, statistics, finances, stewardship; 7 p.m.: "Caring for Our Member­ DEATHS ship" (presentation led by Working Party on Cultivation and Care ARCHER--Qn February !1, at Stapeley Hall, Philadelphia, M. of Membership). Tuesday, 2 p.m.: opportunity for presentation of ANNIE AllCHER, aged 80, a member of Central Philadelphia Meeting. 120 FRIENDS JOURNAL March I, 1965

BACON-On December 12, 1964, HELEN CoMLY BAcoN, aged 92, DYER-On January 28, after a long illness, MAURICE RICHARD wife of the late Ellis W. Bacon. A member of Providence Meeting, DYER, aged 36, of Churchville, Pa. A former member of London Media, Pa., she is survived by three sons, Sterling, Edmund, and Grove Meeting, he is survived by his wife, Kathryn Parker Dyer. Robert, and by fourteen grandchildren. Also surviving are his parents, John Richard, Sr., and Ruth Darling­ BAlLY-On January II, at LaJolla, Calif., in her 75th year, ton Dyer of Doylestown, Pa.; two sons, Richard Alan and Kent RUTH INGERSOLL BAILY. She is survived by her husband, Dr. Joshua Arthur; and two brothers, John R., Jr., of Doylestown and Robert L. Baily, a former member of Haverford (Pa.) Meeting, with whom Darlington, a student at the University of Maine. His parents aftd she was a founding member of LaJolla Meeting. brothers are members of Doylestown, Pa., Meeting. BOYD-On January 22, LAURA T. BoYD, aged 79, wife of the late GREGG-On February 1, FLORENCE J. GREGG, aged 90, a resident Elias D. Boyd. A member of Kennett Meeting, Kennett Square, Pa., of the Friends Boarding Home, Kennett Square, Pa. A member of she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Lupton of New York Kennett Meeting, she was the wife of the late George H. Gregg and City, and by five grandchildren. a daughter of the late Joseph H. and Hannah A. Bailey. CARNOVSKY-On January 13, in Chicago, Ill., MARIAN W. JONES-On January 17, suddenly, in Lake Wales, Fla., EDwARD SATTERTHWAITE CARNOVSKY, wife of Leon Carnovsk.y and daughter MORRIS JoNES of Philadelphia. A member and for many years of the late Linton and Florence Satterthwaite. A lifelong member of clerk of Green Street Meeting, Philadelphia, he was clerk of the Trenton (N. J.) Meeting, she is survived by two brothers, Linton S., Meeting's overseers at the time of his death. He is survived by his Jr., and Willis H. Satterthwaite, and a sister, Edith Thorn, all of wife, Esther Holmes Jones, a daughter, Esther Jones Bissell, and two Philadelphia. grandchildren, all of Philadelphia, and by a sister, Catherine Jones CARPENTER-On December 23, 1964, at Baker Nursing Home, Cadbury of Moorestown, N.J. Mechanicsburg, Pa., FLORENCE HA WXHURST CARPENTER, birthright KISNER-On February 1, DAVID RoBERT KISNER, aged 58, hus­ member of Westbury (N. Y.) Meeting. She is survived by a son, band of Thelma Short Kisner. He was a member of Solebury (Pa.) Richard, a daughter, Barbara Whyte, and several grandchildren. Meeting. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Ann Eyler and Carol Fitzgerald, and nine grandchildren. COMLY-On December 23, 1964, CYRus LESTER CoMLY, of Nar· berth, Pa., a birthright member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, ROBERTS-On January 26, at Nokomis, Fla., DR. LINFORD B. Race Street (now Central Philadelphia Meeting). He is survived by RoBERTS, aged 79. A member of Richland Meeting, Quakertown, Pa., his wife, the former Elizabeth McDowell of Ardmore, Pa., and a he is survived by a sister, Marian Duffy, and a brother, N. Joseph brother, Robert R. Comly of Princeton, N. J. Roberts, both of Quakertown. DEWEES-On January 15, at his home in Swarthmore, Pa., VOORHEES-On December 25, 1964, at Devon, Pa., NELLIE DR. LoVETT DEWEES, aged 84, husband of Edith Rilles Dewees. He THOMPSON VooRHEES, aged 81, wife of the late Harris W. Voorhees, was a member of Swarthmore (Pa.) Meeting and a former chairman formerly of Morrisville, Pa. A long-time member of Trenton (N.J.) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Family Relations Committee; a Meeting, she is survived by a daughter, Margaret E. (Mrs. Willis H.) member of the University of Pennsylvania Medical College staff; one Satterthwaite, and a son, Malcolm D. Voorhees. of the founders of the American Association for Marriage Counsel· WAY-On February 3, PHEBE B. WAY, aged 78, wife of the late ors; and the first president of Philadelphia's Planned Parenthood Frank T. Way, both members of Kennett Meeting, Kennett Square, Association, which recently named its center-city clinic after him. Pa. She is survived by a son, Robert M., of Kennett Square, two Surviving, in addition to his wife, are two sons, Allen H. and daughters, Edith W. Zimmerman of Philadelphia and Ruth W. Robert L., a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Flash, and nine grandchildren. Woodward of Mendenhall, Pa., and seven grandchildren.

COSTA MESA-Harbor Area Worship Group. MEETING ADVERTISEMENTS Rancho Mesa Pre-school, 15th and Orange. Connecticut Meeting for worship, 10 a.m. Call 496-1563 HARTFORD-Meetlng for worship, 10 a.m.; NOTE: This is not a complete Meet· or 548-8082. First-day School and adult disCussion, 11 ing directory. A directory of all Meet­ a.m., 144 South Quaker Lane, West Hartford; LA JOLLA-Meeting, 11 a.m., 7380 Eads Ave­ phone 232-3631. ings in the United States and Canada nue. V1sltors call G~ 4-7459. is published by the Friends World NIW HAVEN-Jieeting, 8:45a.m., Conn. Hall. LOS ANGELES-Meeting, 11 a.m. •i167 So. Yale Old Campus; phone 2111-21511. Committee, 152A North Fifteenth Street, Normandle. Vlsltors call AX UU2. Philadelphia 2. (Price 50 cents) NEWTOWN-Meeting and First-day School, 11 PALO ALTO-First-day School for adults, 10 a.m., Newtown Junior High SchooL a.m.; for children, 10:40 a.m. Meeting for STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for wor­ worship, 11 a.m., 957 Colorado. ship and First-day School, 10 a.m. Westover Arizona and Roxbury Roads, Stamlord. Clerk: WWlam PASADENA-526 E. Orange Grove (at Oak· E. Merrl.ss. Phone: Greenwich NO 1-8178. PHOINIX-8undays: 9:45 a.m., adult study; land). Meeting for worship, Sunday, 11 a.m. 11 a.m. meeting for worship and First-day WILTON-First-day School, 10:30. Meeting for School. 17th Street and Glendale Avenue. REDLANDS-Meeting, 10 a.m., 114 W. Vine worship, 11:00 a.m. New Canaan Road, Cleo Cox, Clerk, 4738 North 24th Place, Phoe· St. Clerk, PY 3-5613. WUton, Conn. Phone WO 8-8081. Bemice Mer· nix. rltt, C1erk; phone OL 5-9tH8. SACRAMENT0-2620 21st St. Discussion, 10 TUCSON - Pima Friends Keeting (Paclfte a.m.; worship, 11. Clerk: 451-1581. Yearly Meeting), 3625 East Second Street. Delaware Worship, 10:30 a.m. Harold Fritts, Clerk, 12S5 SAN FRANCISCO - Meetings for worship, East Seneca, MA-41987. First-days, 11 a.m., 2160 Lake Street. NIWARK-Meeting at Wesley Foundation, 192 S. College Ave., 10 a.m. TUCSON-Friends Meeting (California Year­ SAN JOSE-Keeting, 11 a.m.; children's and WILMINGTON - Meeting for worship: at ly Meeting), 129 N. Warren. Sunday School, adults' classes, 10 a.m.; 1041 Morse Street. Fourth and West Sts., 8:111 a.m. and 11: 111 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Bible Study1 Wed· nesday, 7:30 p.m. Julia S. Jenks, ClerK, 2146 SANTA CRUZ - First-day School, 10 a.m-.1 a.m.: at 101 School Rd•• 8:15 a.m. E. 4th St. Main 3-5305. meeting for worship, 11 a.m. YWCA, 30;j Walnut. Call 426-3552. District of Columbia California WHITTIER-216 W. Hadley St. (Y.M.C.A.). WASHINGTON-Meeting, Sunday, 8 a.m. and Meeting, 10:00 a.m.; dlscusslon, 10:45 a.m. 11 a.m. First-day School, 10:30 a.m., 2111 Flor· BERKELEY - Friends Meeting, First-days. Claues for children. ida Avenue, N.W., one block from Connectl· 11 a.m., northeast comer of Vine and Walnut cut Avenue. Streets. Monthly Meeting, the third Sunday of each month, 7:30 p.m. Clerk, Harriet Florida Schaffran, 525-5773. Colorado DAYTONA BIACH - Keeting, 3:00 p.m.1 CARMEL - Meeting for worship, Sundays, BOULDER-Meeting for worship-'· 10 a.m.; first and third First-days, social room or First-day School, 11:00 a.m. Bob Auller, 443- First Congregational Church, 201 Volu.sta. lO:SO a.m., Lincoln near 7th. 2770. CLAREMONT - Meeting for worship and FORT LAUDERDALE AREA-1739 N. E. 18th Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. 727 Harrison Ave. DENVER-Mountain Vlew Meeting, 10:45 a.m., Ave. Fourth Sunday at 7:30 p.m., or call ses- Leonard Dart, Clerk, 421 W. 8th St. 2028 S. Wllllams. M. Mowe, 477-2413. 2666. March 1, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL 121

GAINESVILLE-1921 N.W. 2nd Ave. Meeting WESTPORT- Meeting, Sunday, 10:45 a.m. BUFFALO-Meeting and First-day School, 11 and First-day School, 11 a.m. Central VUlage: Clerk, J. K. Stewart K1rkaldy. a.m., 72 N. Parade; phone TX 2-8645. Phone: 636-4711. JACKSONVILLE--344 W. 17th St., Meeting CHAPPAQUA-Quaker Road (Rt. 120). First­ and Sunday School, 11 a.m.. Phone 389-4345. WORCESTER-Pleasant Street Friends Meet· day School, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. 914 ing, 901 Pleasant Street. Meeting for worship CE 8-9894 or 914 MA 8-8127. MIAMI-Meeting for worship at Sunset and each First-day, 11 a.m. Telephone PL 4-3887. Corsica, Coral Gables, on the south Miami CLINTON- Meeting, Sundays, 11 a.m., 2nd bus llnll.L 11 a.m.; First-day School, 10 a.m. floor, Kirkland Art Center, College St. M1rtam TOepel, Clerk. TU 8-6629. Michigan ANN ARBOR-Rellglous education for all LONG ISLANO-Northern Boulevard at Shel­ ORLANDO-WINTER PARK-Meetin.J.z 11 a.m., ages • 9:45 a.m. Meeting for worship, 11 a.m., ter Rock Road, Manhasset. First-day School, 318 E. Marks St., Orlando; MI 7-30:l:>. Meeung1 House, 1420 H1ll St., call 663-3856. 9:45 a.m.; meeting, 11 a.m. PALM BEACH-Friends Meeting, 10:30 a.m., DETROIT-Meeting, Sundays, 11 a.m;t. IDgh­ NEW YORK-First-day meetings for worship, 823 North A Street, Lake Worth. Telephone: land Park YWCA, Woodward and vvtnona. 11 a.m. 221 E. 15th St., Manhattan 585.aoso. TO 7-7410 evenings. 2 Washington Sq. N. ST. PETER-BURG - First-day School and KALAMAZOO-Meeting for worship, 10 a.m.; Earl Hall, Columbia University meetint, 11 a.m., 130 19th Avenue S.E. discussion, 11 a.m., Friends' Meeting House, 110 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn 508 Denner. Call FI 9-1754. 137-16 Northern Blvd., Flushing 3:30 p.m. Riverside Church, 15th Floor Georgia Telephone GRamercy 3-8018 (Mon.-Fri., 9-4) ATLANTA-Meeting for worship and Flrst· Minnesota about First-day Schools, Monthly Meetings, day School, 10 a.m., 1384 Fairview Road, N.E., MINNEAPOLIS- Meeting, 11 a.m.· First-day suppers, etc. Atlanta 8. Phone DR 3-7988. Patricia Wester­ School, 10 a.m., 44th Street and York Ave­ velt, Clerk. Phone 373.0014. nue S. Harold N. Tollefson, Mtnlater, 4421 PURCHASE-Purchase Street at Route 120 Abbott Avenue S.; phone WA 8-9675. (Lake St.). First-day School, 10:45 a.m. Meet­ Hawaii MINNEAPOLIS-Twin Cities; unprogrammed ing, 11 a.m. worship, 10:15 a.m., University Y.M.C.A., FE ROCHESTER-Meeting and First-day School, HONOLULU - Meeting, Sunday1, 2428 Oahu 5-C272. Avenue, 10:15 a.m.; tel. 982-714. 11 a.m., 41 Westminster Road. Missouri SCARSDALE-Meeting for worship and First­ KANSAS CITY- Penn Valley Meeting, 306 day School, 11 a.m., 133 Popham Rd. Clerk, Illinois West 39th Street, 10:00 a.m. Call m 4-e888 or Lloyd Balley, 1187 Post Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. CHICAG0-37th Street. Worship, 11 a.m., 5615 CL 2-6958. Woodlawn. Monthly Meetint every first Fri­ SYRACUSE-Meeting for worship tn Chapel day, 7:30 p.m. BU 8-3068. ST. LOUIS-Meeting, 2539 Rockford Ave., House of Syracuse University, 711 Comstock Rock Hlll, 10:30 a.m.; phone PA 1.0015. <\venue, 9:45 a .m., Sunday. DOWNERS GROVE - (suburban Chle&~o}­ Meeting and First-day School, 10:30 a.m., 5710 Nebraska Lomond Ave. (new meeting house); telephone North Carolina WOodland 8-2040. LINCOLN-Meeting for worshlp1.J.~:45 a.m., LAKE FOR,ST-10 a.m., Sundays. Deerpath 3319 South 46th Street. Phone M~H178. CHAPEL HILL - Meeting for worship and School, 95 W. Deerpath. Clerk, Ellzabeth First..(fay School, 11:00 a.m. Clerk, Claude Shetts, Y.M.C.A. Phone: 942-3755. Simpson. Phone 537~12. Nevada PEORIA-Meeting, Sundays, 11 a.m., 912 N. RENO-Meeting Sunday, 11:00 a.m., 210 Maple CHARLOTTE-Meeting for worship, u a.m. University. Phone 87'-6704. Street. Phone 329-4579. First-day education classes, 10 a.m. 2039 Vall Avenue; call 525·2501. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN -Meeting for wor­ ship, 11 a.m.: 714 W. Green st., Urbana. New Hampshire DURHAM-Meeting for worship and First-day Clerk, phone 385-2349. DOVER-Meeting, Flrst-day, 11 a.m., Central School, 11 a.m. Clerk, Peter Klopfer, Rt. I, Avenue, Dover. Box 293 Durham, N. C. Iowa HANOVER-Eastern Vermont, Western New DES MOINES-South entrance, 2920 30th Hampshire. Meeting for worship and Flrst· Ohio Street; worship, 10 a.m.; classes, 11 a.m. day school, 10:45 a.m., SUnday, D.C.U. Lounge, College Hall, except 9:30 a.m., on Dartmouth E. CINCINNATI-sunday School for all, 9:45 a.m. Meeting 11 a.m., 1828 Dexter Ave.; College Union Service Sundays. Wllllam 861-8732. Grant Cannon, Clerk, 752-1105 (area Kentucky Chambers, Clerk. code 513). LOUISVILLE-First-day school, 10 a.m. Meet· MONADNOCK - Southwestern N.H. Meet­ lnl for worship, 10:30 a.m., at the meeting ing for worship, 10 a.m., The Meetlng School, CLEVELAND- First-day School for chUdren house, 3050 Bon Alr Avenue. Phone TW 3-7107. Rindge, N.H. and adults, 10 a.m. Meeting for worship, 1i a.m., 10916 Magnolla Drive, TU 4-2695. New Jersey N. COLUMBUS-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 Louisiana ATLANTIC CITY .:._Meeting for worship, 11 a.m., 1954 Indianola Ave., AX 9-2728. NEW ORLEANS-Frlends meeting each Sun· a.m.; First-day School, 10:30 a .m., South Caro­ day. For information telephone UN 1-8022 nna and Pacific Avenues. SALEM- Sixth Street MonthlY Meeting of or 891·2564. Friends, unprogrammed. First-day School, DOVER-First-day School, 10:45 a.m.; worship, 9:30 a.m.; meeting, 10:30 a.m. Franklln D. Maine 11:15 a.m. Quaker Church Rd., just off Rt. 10. Henderson, Clerk. CAMDEN-Meeting for worship each Sunday. HADDDONFII!LD - Meetint for worship, 11 WILMINGTON-Campus Meeting of Wilmlng· For information call 238-3239 or 236-3084. a.m.; First-day School, 9:45 a.m., Lake Street. ton Yearly Meeting. Unprogrammed worship, 11 a.m., First-day School at 10, in Thomas MANASQUAN - First-day School 10 a.m., Kelly Center, Wllmtngton College. Hell).n Hal· Maryland meetint,.. 11:15 a.m., Route 35 at M:anasquan Circle. walter Longstreet, Clerk. Jlday, clerk. Area code 513-382-0067. ANNAPOLIS - Meeting for Concerns, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 11:00 a.m. Call CO 3-2214 or MONTCLAIR - 289 Park Street. First-day co 3-6921. School and worship, 11 a.m. Vlaltors welcome. Oregon EASTON-Third Haven Meeting and Flrst· SEAVILLE - Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. PORTLAND-MULTNOMAH-Frlends Meeting, day School, 11 a.m., South Washington St. Main Shore Road, Route 9, Cape May County. 10 a.m., 4312 S. E. Stark Street, Portland, Vlsiton welcome. Oregon. Phone AT 7-9194. Massachusetts ACTON-Meeting for worship and First-day New Mexico Pennsylvania Schoo!, Sunday, 10:00 a.m., Women's Club, ALBUQUERQUE - Meeting and First-day Maln :street. School, 10:30 a.m., 815 Girard Blvd., N.E. ABINGTON-Greenwood Ave. and Meettng John Atll:lnson, Clerk. Alpine 5-9588. House Road, Jenkintown. First-day School, CAMBRIDGE-Meetin~ Sunday, 5 Longfellow 10 a.m.; meeting for worship, 11:15 a.m. Park (near Harvard :square), 9:30 a.m. and SANTA FIE-Meeting, Sundays, 11 a.m., Ollve 11 a.m.; telephone TR ~- Rush Studio, 630 Canyon Road, Sante Fe. Jane BUCKINGHAM at Lahask-Meeting for wor­ H. Baumann, Clerk. ship, 11:00 a.m. First-day School, 10:00 a.m. SOUTH YARMOUTH, CAPE COD- Worship Family meeting the fourth First-day of the and First-day School, 10 a.m. month, 11:00 a.m. New York WELLESLEY-Meeting, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. at Tenacre Country Day School, Benvenue Street ALBANY-Worship and First-day School, 11 CHESTER-24th and Chestnut Street. Meet· near Grove Stree*. a.m., 727 Madison Ave.; phone 485-9084. tng for worship, 11 a.m. 122 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1, 1965

DOYLESTOWN-East Oakland Avenue. Meet­ Ing for worship and First-day School, 11 a.m. Vermont BENNINGTON-Meeting for worship, 10 a.m. POSITIONS WANTID DUNNING$ CREEK-At Fishertown, 10 mlles Old Benn. School House, Troy Road, Rt. #9. north of Bedford; First-day School, 9:30 a.m ., meeting for worship, 10:30 a.m. BURLINGTON-Worship, 11:00 a.m., First­ MAN IN LATE 40's, RETIRING from reli­ day, back of 179 No. Prospect. Phone 862-8449. gious counselling work1 desires employment HARRISBURG-Meeting and First-day School, Monthly Meeting first Sunday of month fol­ In Los Angeles area mvolvlng opportuni.ty 10:30 a.m., YWCA, 4th and Walnut Sts. lowing meeting, for service to others. Has done religious teaching and considerable public speaking. HAVERFORD-Buck Lane, between Lancas­ VIrginia College graduate. English major. Write 3066 ter Pike and Haverford Road. First-day School, Valevlsta Trall, Los Aneeles 28, California. 10:30 a.m. Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. CHARLOTTESVILLE-Meeting and First-day School, 10 a.m., also meeting First and Third LANCASTER-Meeting house, Tulane Terrace, Sundays, 7:30 p.m., Madison Hall. Univ., 1~ mlles west of Lancaster off U.S. 30. Meet­ YMCA. FOR RENT ing and First-day School, 10 a.m. LINCOLN - Goose Creek United Meeting LANSDOWNE-Meeting for worship, 11 a.m.; House. Meeting for worship, 11:15 a.m., First­ ONJ; ROOM_,}CITCHEN; BATH, porch, private Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. Lansdowne and day school, 10 a.m. entrance. nrst ftoor, furnished or unfur­ Stewart Aves. McLEAN-Langley Hill Meeting, Sunday, 11 nished, quiet. 200 block Winona ~t_, Phila., Pa. Near Friends Meeting. Call v 1 4-1123. a.m.1 First-day School, 10:30 a.m. Junction old MEDIA-125 West Third Street. Meeting for Route 123 and Route 193. worship, 11 a.m. MUNCY at Pennsdale-Meeting for worship, Washington WANTED 11 a.m., Mary F. Bussler, Clerk. Tel. LI 6-5796. SEATTLE-University Friends Meeting, 4001 9th Avenue, N.E. Worship, 10 a.m.; discussion HOUSEKEEPER, {or university professor and NEWTOWN-Bucks Co., near Georf.e SchooL period and First-day School, 11 a.m. Tele­ high-school-age son. Suburban Philadelphia. Meeting, 11 a.m. First-day Schoo , 10 a.m. phon~ MElrose 2-7006. Prefer good cook, not servant type, but quali­ Monthly Meeting, first Fifth-day, 7:30 p.m. fied member household,. accustomed to good home. Call MU 8-2988. PHILADELPHIA-Meetings, 10:30 a.m., unless specified; telephone LO 8-4111 for Information MISCELLANEOUS MATURE MARRIED COUPLE, without chil­ about First-day Schools. dren, to serve on a minimum two-year Byberry, one mlle east of Roosevelt Boule- LEARN TO DEVELOP YOUR NATURAL appointment (starting In April or May) as vard at Southampton Road, 11 a.m. INTUITION. Write: ROSICRUCIAN ORDER, Host and Hostess at the Casa de los Amigos Central Philadelphia, Race St., west of 15th. AMORC, Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, Call· (Friends House) In Mexico City. The position Chestnut Hlll~ 100 E. Mermaid La., 10 a.m. fornia. Includes fun maintenance plus a little more. Coulter Street and Germantown Avenue. For detaila write to Ed Duckles, Ignacio Fair HlU, Germantown and Cambria, 10 a.m. Mariscal 132, Mexico 1; D. F. Fourth & Arch Sts., First- and Fifth-days. AVAILABLE Frankford, Penn & Orthodox Sts., 11 a.m. NURSE - Resident RN for coeducational Frankford, Unity and Wain Streets, 11 a.m. boarding school, to start September 1, 1965; Green street, 45 W. School House Lane. OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS LOCATED. Any title. mostly night duty; meals Included; all school Powelton, 36th and Locust Sts., Christian Free book lists. Ardent BookFlnders, 19 holidays and two months summer vacation. Association, 11 a.m. Salem, Cos Cob, Conn. For further Information, contact Thomas Purdy, Headmaster, Oakwood School, Pough­ PITTSBURGH - Worship, 10:30 a.m.; adult keepsie, New York. class, 11:45 a.m.. 1353 Shady Avenue. RE-UPHOLSTERY, SLIPCOVERS, 40 years experience, reasonable. Serving Philadelphia SUPERINTENDENT FOR SMALL 24-bed READING-First-day School, 10 a.m., meeting, and suburbs within 20 mlles of Media, Pa. SEREMBA-LUdlow 6-7592. children's residence, boys and girls, 6 to 18, 11 a.m. 108 North Sixth Street. primarlly court-referred. Salary commen­ surate with training and experience. Living STATE COLLEGE--318 South Atherton Street. In residence optional. Friends Home 'for First-day School, 9:30 a.m.; meeting for wor­ Children, c/o Mrs. Joseph J. Myers, 304 ship, 10:45 a.m. FOR RENT OR LEASE Upland Road, Havertown, Pa. SWARTHMORE-Whittier Place, College cam­ PRIVATE HOME, NICELY FURNISHED l'US. Adult Forum, First-day School, 9:45 a.m. with large enclosed living room!. porch and Worship, 11:00 a.m. attached outside porch, large amlng room Wanted with open fireplace, large modem kitchen, IMMEDIATl NEED FOl UNIONTOWN-Meeting, 11 a.m., YMCA, N. two bedrooms, bathroom, two toilets, auto­ Gallatin Ave. Phone GE 7-5936. matic gas heat, finished attic for storage, ADMINISTRATIVE SECHTARY finished basement, brick garage with en­ Varied, Interesting work for woman with closed yard. Rent-$125 per month. Write experience in all aspects of secretarial work. WEST CHESTER-400 N. High St. First-day Jack Martin, 146-01 133rd Ave.t._South Ozone Rehabilitation center; family-type commu­ School, 10:30 a.m., meeting for worsh1p, 10:45 Park, 36, Long Island, New xork. nity. Salary $135 a month plus room board, a.m. Fourth Day 7:3.0 p.m., Hickman Home. Blue Crass-Blue Shield. Time off: 1Y:z dQys a wHk, long wHkend each month; 2 wHics' vacation the first year; 3 wHks the second Jenness•• Please Mention year. ThrH hours from Boston or New York. The Friends Journal Inquire: liV. HAM,TON E. 'liCE, Execv· KNOXVILLE-First-day School, 10 a.m.; wor­ tive Dir-, Gould Farm, Great lerrington, ship, 11 a.m. D. W. Newton, 588-0876. When Writing to Advertisers MaosachuHtts. 'hana 11,._W2 ar 2165. MEMPHIS - Meeting and First-day School, Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Eldon E.. Hoose, Clerk. Phone 275-9829. IT'S SO EASY TO OPEN NASHVILLE-Meeting and First-day School, Sundays, 10:30 a.m., Scarritt College. Phone AJ,. 6-2544. AN INSURED SAVINGS ACCOUNT BY MAIL rexas Send a check and your name and address; your account will be AUSTIN-Worship, Sunday, 11 a.m., First-day insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation School, 11 a.m.f.Forum, 10 a.m. 3014 Washing­ ton Square, G 2-1841, Eugene Ivash, Clerk. up to $10,000. Legal investment for Trust Funds. DALLAS - Sunday, 10:30 a.m., Adventist Churclh 4009 N. Central Expressway. Clerk, LANGHORNE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Kennem Carroll, Religion Dept., S.M.U.; FL 2-1846. 126 S. B•llevue Avenue, Langhorne, Pennsylvania HOUSTON-Live Oak Friends Meeting, Sun­ days, 11 .a.m., Cora Peden, Y.W.C.A., 11209 A. PAUL TOWNSEND, JR., Secretary SKyline 7-5U8 Clematis St. Clerk, Lois Brockman, Jackson 8-641.3. March I, 1965 FRIENDS JOURNAL 123

BUYING A HOUSE POSITION WANTED ON LONG ISLAND, N. Y.? For Sale Young Quaker, aged 26, desires manage­ ment or administrative position with !tfan11 Qualit11 L istings ( See our Photo F iles) HOUSE THAT IS A .HOME business which exhibits social concern or with Quaker institution. Has BA in basi· WILBUR L. LEW IN HISTORIC NEWTOWN, BUCKS· COUNTY, PA. ness and accountinc. Current salary about Licensed Real Estate Broker Perfectly located two houses from GEORGE $7500 a year. Will relocate for satisfy­ SCHOOL campus. Older type, in excellent ing work. Reaume sent on request. 516 IV H423 1082 6rand Ave., Ho . Baldwin, H. Y. Write Box M-321, Friends Journal. condition, on well·landscaped one acre, with three·car garage, including boys' club Have you noticed the JOURNAL'S new address? house; first floor has hall, full dining room, front parlor, rear living room or television Meditations room, ste p·saving full ceramic bath, also modern kitchen with many special features; FURNITURE IE-UPHOLSTERY four bedrooms on second floor include one newly paneled in knotty pine, a real boy's AND SLIP COVERS room, and ceramic bath with many extras; third floor has two bedrooms and half bath, THOM SEREMBA retreat for older son or daughter. Recently near Philadelphia. Please see our advertise­ appraised at $25,500. ment in classified column under "Available." Call THOMAS, 215 Worth 8-3206 for appointment, before we decide to keep it. • 215 EAST 15TH ST. Th e Penmgton NEW YORK 3, N. Y. The Quaker residence in a desirable location of :-\ew York City-welcomes Friends and friends of Friend s. Write FYFE &BOYD or telephone for reservations. Telephone Code 212 - GRamercy 5-9193 FUNERAL HOME *]ames E. Fyfe lrvi11 B. Boyd CREMATION C remation SerTice A,ailable Friend.~ are reminded that the Anna T. 7047 Germantown Ave. Jeanes Fund will reimburse cremation CHutnut Hill 7-8700 rJ'orld'a "'0" tr itlf'l,v "'"'' tlally rfu·orlorurl k"id• costs. ( AI>r>licCible to members of - • Member Germantown M ee ting ____, 1908 Grand Ave. Nub ville. T ea n. 37203 PhilCidelphia Yearly Meeting only.) -For lnfortuntlon \\·rltt" or 1thone HF:NHY IIECii: !!R6:! G e rntnnto\\·n Al·e., l'hlhuleh•l•ln !t!l, Pn.-IIA :J-11:>0 A Complete, Modern Printing Plant

Elnwood Convalescent Home T H E LEGAL INTELLIGENCER Baltimore Pike & Lincoln Avenue 10 SOUTH 37th STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19104 Swarthmore, Pa. Telephone Klngswood 3-0272 'Telephone EVergreen 6-1535

Priva te and semiprh·ate rooms Quie t I 0-acre estate opposite 24-hour understanding nursing care SPring field Under persorwl $upervision of Friends MRs. ELLEN M. W ooo Meeting

Advertising Rates OPEN TUESDAY THRU SATURDAY 10:30 to 5:30 DISPLAY-20¢ per agate"' line ll·lncb mlallau•l ; Closed Sunday 1"-$2.80; 2"-$5.50; 3"-$8.20; 4" ­ and Monday $10.80; 6"-$15.25; tt!UIIII-$23.00; balf• page-$34.50; 2 columas-$45.50: page­ $68.90. Discounts for sir or more lasertloas. We BUY as CLASSIFIED-I 0¢ 1 word. Dlscoaats for sil tr 1nore Insertions. Marple Store Antique Shop well as SELL: MEETING NOTICE5-26~ per lloe. Ht d!StOials. STUART AND i\IABEL BREMILLER • FURNITURE DEADLINE-15 dars before date tf Issue. 816 WEST SPRINGFIELD ROAD • CHINA FRIENDS "'JOURNAL SPRINGFIELD, DELAWARE COUNTY, P A. • GLASS 152-A NORTH 15th STREET, PHILA. 19102 Area Code 215 Klngswood 3-3809 • PRINTS, etc. 124 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1, 1965

ARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL Wanted FRIENDS' SELECT SCHOOL F0t GaADU 7, I AND 9 IMMEDIATE NEED FOR NURSE-HOSTESS THE PARKWAY AT SEVENTEENTH ST. A ••all coedacational boardlq and day Older, mature woman, sill&'le or widow. aclleel Ia ._•tlflll •--tala ...... PHILADELPHIA 3, PINNSnYANIA lntonoal, nonco•petltlve, experl•mtal; OPPOrtunity for a restorative "ministry'' eea"-• acaM

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Goddard College The Committee on a Friends World Since 1697 "a patient quest College invite. high school &ncdenta for understanding" offers B.A. program for ma­ to ;oin one of thTee .ummet" .rudy ture adults who discontinued trip&: to Eg11Pt--Ea.t Africa.; to Sca.n- college before graduation. dina.via.--Ruuia.; a.nd to Mexico. Write ABINGTON Series of six-month cycles Friond1 Worlcl Collogo, Glen HMcl, N. Y. combine two weeks in resi­ FRIENDS SCHOOL dence in August and Feb­ Jenkintown, Pennsylvania ruary with study at home. The Sidwell Friends School by Friend~ in 1811 'f Swled . --a college preparatory Thoma& W. Sidwell, Principal, 1883-1936 day school for girls from Wr~ lox F, Aclult DegrM Program, nursery through high school Goclclarcl College, PlalnWcl, y.,_nt A coeducational day school in the nation's capital-Kinder- NOW OFFERING COEDUCATION ganen through Grade 12. THROUGH SECOND GRADE WITH .4dr~er1Uern.ena. in lhe JOURNAL Sound scholarship in prepara- PLANS FOR ITS CONTINUATION are ine%pendr~e and produdir~e don for colleges best suited THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL to individual needs. FRANK BARGER, .Acl;ng Hellllm4slw HowARD W. BARTRAM, Head1114$ter FRIENDS ACADEMY 3825 WISCONSIN AVENUE. N.W. TUrner 6-4350 W ASHlNGTON, D. C. 20016 ESTABLISHED 1177 This coeducational day school with­ in 25 miles of New York provides a well-balanced college preparatory If you enjoy the FRIENDS JOURNAL, a gift subscription to program designed to stress in the someone else will double your enjoyment student a desire to live a creative Christian life in today's world. Kindergarten through Grade 12 A reclaetlon In tuition u anllable to meaben of The Soelety of Frlencla. ALEXANDER TUNSTALL MAcNUTl" OAKWOOD SCHOOL Hellllm4sler lox I, Locust Valley, Long lsloncl, N. Y. Poughkeepsie, New York A QUAKER COEDUCATIONAL BOARDING SCHOOL Horizon's Edge Country-Home School Grades 9 through 12 College Preparatory A family school for boys and girls, grades 1-8. Young children need THOMAS E. PURDY, Headmaster wholesome family life. Horizon's Edge, a home-centered school, helps "We believe that each individual, as he each child find and become himself, attempts to follow the example of Christ and develop basic values and responsi­ put his beliefs into action, should live and work bility. Sound academic foundation to express the best of himself and encourage the moves at individual's speed. best in others, and try to promote the welfare HORIZON'S EDGI SCHOOL of social units both within and beyond the WILLIAM AND MILDRED MEEH school." ENTRANCE TO CRAIG HALL From the Oakwood Philosophy 1964 CANTERBURY, N.H. DOJIMITORY FOR GIRLS OAKWOOD has an enrollment of 205, almost equally divided among FRIENDS' boys and girls. There are 155 boarding students. Here, after first meet­ ing his academic obligations, each student can find additional oppor­ CENTRAL SC!IOOL tunities for further development, physically, socially, intellectually, and OVERIROOK, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19151 spiritually, through an enlarged sports program, an expanding social service works program, the student foreign exchange program, annual spring conference with emphasis on some foreign country, interna­ Fou ...yoor ldnclergarte through 12th Gracie tional weekend, senior work project and other related activities. Colloto Preparatory Curriculuen Foaad.. Ia 1845 by tho Soelet:r of Fri..,... For further information write to oar odleol contlnae1 to emphaelae tutoa-rlty, fneolo•, •l•pllelty Ia eclatatloa KENNETH VOGT, Director of Admissions throqh eoncern fer the ladiYldaal ltudeat. OAKWOOD SCHOOL, POUGHKEEPSIE, N . Y. 12601 MERRILL E. BUSH, He.ulm4slw 126 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1, 1965

WANTED: POSITION WANTED Counseling Service DIRECTOR FOR FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD of the Applicant must .be ·an lma~riaative, creative in­ VOLKSWAGEN SALESMAN, 26 years old, Family Relations Committee dividual of mature age, with administrative mo"ied. Plenty of Hlling experience and experience, who enjoys aa110eiatlon with people For appointment. call """"'elor• of retirement age. The director shall have the public contact. Would like to associate with responsibility of assisting In the planning and Karoline Solmits, 11.8.8., Bryn llawr, Pa., building of the project. VW .dealer In lay Area. Will be relocating call LA 5-0752 \loehreen 8 and lt p.m. in San .loH, California, early July, '1965. His ftrst service will be to Inform Friends Chrlatopher Nicholeon, II.S.W., Philadelphia Meetlngti, other groups, and individuals about Contact JACK TATUM, 706 N. FRANKLIN 44, Pa., call VI ·4-8809 between 8 and lt p.m. Foulkeways. After the project Is ready for occu­ STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19123; or Annema1'J'ret L. Osterkamp, A.C.S.W., Phila­ pancy, his work will be the continuing of recruit.. delphia U, Pa., call GE 8-2821 between 8 ment of residents for this total life-care com. phone (collect) 1-215-WA-2-6593 after 7 and 10 p.m. munity of approximately 300 people; and the p.m. (Pacific Standard Time). overall management of Foulkewa;vs. He will be Rosa Roby, II.D., eonaaltant. responsible fot' the substantial number of em­ ployees servicing the community. Salary will depend on qualifications and exper­ Ience and (upon completion of the projeet) may Include adjacent dwelling accommodations. Applicant should include reference. and put International Vacation Courses in Scandinavia employment reeord. Write Ia strict confidence to International Understanding Through Living and Learning Together William H. Harned, 115'1 P~h Road, Wayne, Pa. The Folk High School concept, with its broad educational appeal to people of every background, is of special interest to Friends. This concept is coupled with PLEASE NOTIFY US THREE WEEKS IN a unique opportunity for international fellowship and understanding in the Inter· ADVANCE OF ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS national Vacation Courses. This summer in delightful locations in Scandinavia the opportunity to combine lectures, discussion groups, and purposeful travel will again be provided by Dr. Peter Manniche. Participants will come from Africa, Asia, Europe, and America. Dr. Belvedere Manniche's concern for world peace and for "the happy development ·of the newly independent countries"' is central to this experience. Convalescent Home Individual Friends and Friends Meetings are invited to consider th,is interesting possibility. The sponsoring of a Friend or student in this project would be a 2507 Chestnut St., Chester, Pa. significant contribution toward international understanding. TR 2-5373 Write now for illustrated brochure givi-ng complete information to: Visit our most recently completed wing • • • MARGARET SCAITERGOOD, US. Representative private and semiprivate room• with bath; large solarium overlooking six-acre estate International Vacation Courses on the edge of Swarth'!"ore. • • • Men, 4607 Chain Bridge Road women, and couples • • • 24-hour nursing McLean, Virginia, 22101 care under the personal supervision of MRS. SADIE P. TURNER SEE INVITATION, PAGE 114, TO FRIENDS JOURNAL'S ANNUAL MEETING

P'ENDLE HILL SEMINAR IT PAYS TO SAVE AT May 14-16, 1965 LANSDOWNE FEDERAL with JAN de HARTOG

Theme: FAITH AND PRACTICE

If a Meeting should want to put faith into practice, as a Meeting, what kind of involvement should it seek? Fun A. WERNER, Presidenl 32 So. lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, Pa. COST: $15.00 (including advance reservation of $5.00) NO TRAFFIC • • • NO WRITE: PARKING • • • WHEN .P. HALE, Secretary, Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. · 19086 YOU SAVE • BY ·MAIL March 1, 1965 FlliENDS JOORNAL 127

ANTIQUES ASK OUR OPINION I am alwaJ'I iat.ereiCed io bayios (or IN YOUR ATTIC OF YOUR SECURITIES eelllq) 18th ceohlr)' faroinare Do you have photographt or me· aod faroishiap mentos of earlier days in the ield BIOREN & CO. with the American Friends Service + Member& of New York Stock Exchange BIDRBIDRT K. LOWRY Committee? Any year, any country, Philadelphia-Baldmore Stock Exchange '1'111 Geraaatewa Pike at home or abroad, from. 1917 to American Stock Euhange ...fa7ette Bill, Pa. 1965, If you do, would you con· tribute them to our archives? 1424 Walnut Street Jlet~~&.r o/ CMCNI PAllo. JlOttel\llf JluUflll Write: Grace Perkinson Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 PE 5-9400 PATRONIZE OUR .4DJ'ERTISERS· AIJ\EIICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE 160 North 15tft St., Phlla., Pa. 19102 CHARLES J. ERICKSON R•gisleretl Rel!resemillifle Deadline for Advertising Our deadline for advertising ia the first of each month for the issue of the 15th, and the 15th of each PRELUDE TO PERMANENT PEACE month for the following issue, LIGHT IS THE MASTER KEY dated the first of the month. "A1Ul lh6 glory of the L«tl sh.Zl be rwealetl, tmtl Ifill flesh sh.Zl see il log61her, for lh6 moulh of lhe L«tl bas spoken." -ISAIAH 40:5 The Hebrews made power and breath to be the most important words associated~ with STRAWBRIDGE Deity. But modern 1cience finds that all the dements, induding oxygen and nitrogen, are made of dec:tric or radiant energy. In. other words, science finds that light is higher or & CLOTHIER more ultimate than breath, which in Latin is called spiritus. For a luminous picture of the cosmos as revealed by Einstein and others, read in prose THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIGHT (doth-bound $3.10) or THE ELECTRIC NATURE OP MIND (.doth-bound $2.10; paper-bound $1.80). In poetry read THE OCEAN OP LIGHT or THE RADIANT UNIVERSE (doth-bound $2.10; paper-bound $1.80). Price refunded if not satisfied. The author is FLOYD IRVING LORBEER, M.A., B.D. Order books (or send for free /rrochvre) from the LAUREL FOUNDATION 214 W. Lancaster Blvd. Lancaster, California

Builders of Confidence Nearly every Friend intends to Since 1868 spend some time at Pendle Hill r QUAKER TEACHERS • ENROLL NOW How about a term or more FOR a desirable opening in a in the year 1965-66? Friends' school in the U.S.A. or FOR placement in a college or • university, or in a good sec­ In addition to the regular staff, ELFRIDA VIPONT ondary, elementary, or FOULDS and GEORGE GORMAN from primary school in the Southeast. England will be here for the y Free Enrollment for Frienth Autumn Term! BnoN IUwouH, Manager • Haworth Teachers Agency For details write: PENDLE HILL High Point, North Carolina WALLINGFORD, PA. 19086 Phone 883-6024 THE ,RIENDS SCHOOL BUCK LAN£ HAVERFORD, PA. F

INVEST IN GROWING MEETINGS FRIENDS JOURNAL'S Camp You can Invest in the bulldlnc of meetinc new address is houses by purchulnc mortcqe pool notes of FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE FUND, 152-A North 15th Street I INC. Interest: 4% payable semiannually. CHOCONUT For prospectus and specimen note, write: Philadelphia 2, Pa. FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE A summer of constructive fun for 40 boya 9 to 1521 Race Str.. t PlliWelpllla, Pa. 11112 (If yours aloo has chanted, please let us know) 16 in Pennaylvania's Blue Rl~eKountaina, 17 milee south of Blnclulmton, N.Y. 800 wooded acrea aurround our pure, aprinc-fed lake. Emphaala on basic camplnc and on teachlnc MINIATURE BOOKS FROM PEACOCK PRESS fundamental skllla to increaae Independence ZtthSeaaoa and self-aaaurance. Procram includes: camp­ Printed by band, 2%:1<1 in. CAMP RIGIS 7-14 On beaatifal craft, trips, natural science, work projects, Limited edition•. Paper. APPLE JACK shop, farm animals, sports and extensive BEAMS. Selections from William Blake .... $1.00 14-17 Adl'!-::i..!i:':ear waterfront procram. Bookut Ort reqoout. BOOKS by Clarence Day ...... $1.50 REN CAMP Lab Placid, N. Y. S. HaMill Home, lox 33-f, Gladwyne, Pa. AN INDIAN PRAYER by Tom Whltecloucl .. $1.25 NO MAN IS AN ISLAND by John Donne .. . $1 .25 Ideal campinc for 65 clrla and 65 boys of dis· Telephone 215 Midway 9-3548 PEACOCK FABLES by Ali H. Campbell. ceminl' parents. Empbaalzinl' concenlal croup Number One. lady ...... $1 .50 livinc. Otrerlnc oppartunlty and eballencea to A PEACOCK PILLOW K. TaiH from develop new Interests and capabilities in all Mother Goole. Compiled by A Peocock ..$ .75 water and land sparta or creative arts. Mature Have you joined the Associates? THE PEACOCK PRESS NUMBI!R BOOK. statr. Quaker leadership. ACA accredited. ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE ....•. . . $1.00 Non-«ectarian. Writ-hoae KR. AND KRS. EARL F. DUKES, .. WILDWOOD ROAD, PEACGa PlESS - ...I!Uers tf Slllikllf lttu CHAPPAQUA, N. Y. (IU) CB 8-8517 An Investment in Peace P01t Ollce lea 175 lerlroley 1, Callfernle Travel to the USSR In Philadelphia the FRIENDS JOURNAL is on sale at the John Wanamaker store and at the Friends Book Store, 302 Arch Street for Teenagers Nine-week camping trip by microbus through Germany, Poland, Hungary, POCONO the International Camp for Boys with 28 days in the Soviet Union. Em­ phasis on studying social, economic, and At" 7 to 17 in four teparate ... eroups A friendly camp where boys of varied and lntereatlnc backcronnds political problems. $1250. For high­ eome to learn and share a wide ranee of worthwhile experiences. Sail school students and college freshmen. and canoe on U-mlle lake bleb In the Poeonos. All sparta and erefts. CANOE TRIP In CANADA for QUALIFIED OLDER CAMPERS. Write Dick Hiler 41U. -· ladu!Te ,.._ Qwaker l_.enlllp. CHAUNCEY F. PAXSON, PENNS PAll(, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNA. 6619 Ridgeville St.. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15217 (Room for a few qualified counaelora on this y•r'• atatr)

For more than 25 years The FARM AND ~CANOE TRIPS WILDERNESS CAMPS FOR 36 BOYS, AGES 11 TO 17 - THREE AGE GROUPS TIMBERLAKE, too boya, t-14 OF 12 BOYS - EACH UNDER QUAKER LEADERSHIP Base camp, "THE BIRCHES," located on Grand Lake In Eaatem Maine. Six or INDIAN BROOK, 100 tlrla, t-14 seven weeks of outdoor livlnc In Maine and Canada. • Po•t and Pre-SectiOn WORK CAMP of One Week Offered • TAMARACK FARM, coed "tt~ •-P· Extensive canoe triPI-flahlnc tripe under the direction of Kaine culde-lncludlnc 7 white-water tripa for older bo71 on the Allo,...A, St. Croi,., and Mtu:hia.a In Kaine and SALTASH MOUNTAIN CAMP, selected trips In New Brunawlek. 40 boya, 11-15 Write: GEORGE AND JANE DARROW CAMP R.YING CLOUD, 780 MILLBROOK LANE, HAVERFORD, PA. PHONE: (215) Ml 2-1216 ba.. cl on Indian culture, 40 boy1, 11-15 W • owtftt and orgat.Sse ca110e triJ>• for famili•• and adtdt growS>•· have featured friendly, 1"*-ol, Kake llP your own party or join oura. teloxecl -Pint with dolly ~lnt ,., Wonhlp. . unclar. OHker. leadenhlp Outstandlnc camperaft traininc with moun­ tain hikes and canoe trips. Carefully planned work and service projects on the farm, In the forest, In local communities. CORPORATE MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, SALES. Natural science "safaris" In the unspoiled mountain wllderneaa surroundlnc the Campa ; REORGANIZATIONS AND FINANCING trail hulldlnc and conservation on 2200-acre Wllderneaa Corporation tract. Games, sparta, physical fitneaa, folk danclnc. Excellent waterfront procram, with top.fllcht LESLIE CRETTY & CO. ataft who return year after year. For many years these campa have been fully BUSIN&•a BROKERS AND FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS lntetrrated, with campers and statr from other countriea also. Outdoor Education Fund aa­ aurea campera from varied backl'rounda and all parts of the country. The Fund helps PARRY BUILDING SKYLINE 7-3300 Quaker children especially. LANGHORNE, PA. BoolcUta Kenneth & Su.an Webb, Woodltock, Vermont