A Quaker Weekly

VOLUME 4 SEPTEMBER 6 , 1958 NUMIIER 31

IN THIS ISSUE

Cf)--(E think we mmt climb to a certain height of good­ Balancing Family Life in Unsettled ness before we can reach God. But H e says not, "At the end Times of the way you may find me"; . by Elizabeth Watson H e says, "I am the Way; I am the road under your feet, the road that begins just as low The Government of the Society of down as you happen to be." I f we are in a hole, the W ay Friends begins in the hole. The mo­ • by Thyra Jane Foster ment we turn to walk in the Way, we are walking in God. The moment we set our feet Religion Is Caught, Not Taught in the same direction as H is, . by Mary J. Carpenter we are walking with God. - H ELEN WoDEH OUSE Quaker Meeting in Russian . by Rose Pascal

Internationally Speaking-Letter from the Past FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY

$4.50 A YEAR 498 FRIENDS JOURNAL SepteDlber 6, 1958

FRIENDS JOURNAL Iowa Yearly Meeting, Conservative HE 1958 sessions of Iowa Yearly Meeting, Conservative, Twere held from August 12 to 17 at Whittier, Iowa. The weather was pleasant, and the people of the Whittier com­ munity provided most comfortable accommodations for a good Yearly Meeting. Although the attendance was not especially large, the Meet­ ing was favored with the presence of several members residing at a distance. Some came from as far as southern California,

Published weekly, except during July and August when Philadelphia, and Argenta, British Columbia. published biweekly, at 1615 Cherry Street, Philadel­ Sessions for business were held each weekday morning and phia 2, Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6- 7669) By Friends Publishin11: Corporation also on Saturday afternoon. WILLIAM HUBBEN MILDRED A. PURNELL Following collection for Bible reading in the evenings there Editor and Mana~rer Assistant Editor ELEANOR F. LILLY were meetings to consider matters of social concern. Herbert Subscriptions Smith described his work with the organization Farmers and CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS World Affairs. Bradford Lyttle of Chicago discussed the 'project RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia which is protesting the construction of a missile launching base Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban En~rland ...... Horace B. Pointin11:, London at Cheyenne, Wyoming. Cecil Hinshaw, of the American Friends Joan Hewitt, London Germany ...... Lottelore Rololf, Berlin Service Committee office in Des Moines, showed slides of his tour India ...... Benjamin Polk, Calcutta Japan ...... Jackson H. Bailey, Tokyo through the Middle East and Asia, devoting special attention to Lebanon ...... Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Beirut the problems of the Middle East. Wilmer Cooper, representing Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavan~rer, Norway Switzerland ...... Robert J. Leach, Geneva the Friends Committee on National Legislation, reported on leg­ Turkey ...... William L. Nute, Jr., Ankara Lake Erie Association ...... Winthrop M. Leeds, Pittsburgh islative matters in Washington in which Friends are interested. Midwest (Five Years) ...... RusseiJ E. Roes, Richmond New En~rland ...... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford On Thursday afternoon two bus loads of Yearly Meeting West Coast ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. attenders drove forty miles to visit Scattergood School near BOARD OF MANAGERS West Branch. This was the first opportunity for several to see 1965.. 1958: Carol P. Brainerd, Willis H. Satterthwaite, Lydia the new Central Hall at the school. The old Main Building F. Taylor, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood. 1956- 1959: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Ruth 0. Maris, has been torn down, and the new building is being made ready Mar~~:aret L. Matthews, Lawrence MeK. Miller, Jr. 1067- 1960: Mary R. Calhoun, Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. for the opening of school this fall. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Inln11: Hollin~rshead, Emily C. Johnson, Elisabeth H. Kirk. On Friday afternoon a number of Friends returned to Scat­ THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add ftve tergood to assist in the preparation of sweet corn for freezing. doJiaro or more to their subscriptions annuaJiy to help meet the over-aiJ cost of publication. Another group went to Anamosa to tour the Men's Reforma­ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions. Can­ ada, and Mexico: $4.60 a year, $2.50 for six months. tory. This tour was an outgrowth of the concern that Friends Foreign countries: $5.00 a year. Sin~rle copies: fifteen should devote more attention to the problems of prisons and cents. Cheeks should be made payable to Friends Journal. Sample copies sent on request. prisoner rehabilitation. There was a report and discussion of Re-entered a• second-class matter Jnly 7, 1955, at the post office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the Act of this tour after collection on Saturday evening. March 8, 1879. The children participated in an organized Junior Yearly Meeting program. Young Friends had their own meetings and activities besides attending the general sessions of the Yearly Contents Page Meeting. Iowa Yearly Meeting, Conservative-Herbert C. There were also informal late evening gatherings of older Standing ...... 498 Young Friends, many of whom were parents of young families. Editorial Comments ...... 499 These gatherings served as times for searching discussions of Balancing Family Life in Unsettled Times--Elizabeth how the rural Meetings constituting the Yearly Meeting can be Watson ...... 500 strengthened. This age group shared the concern of older The Government of the Society of Friends--Thyra Friends that our Quaker heritage might be carried forward as jane Foster ...... 501 a vital way of life during this time of transition from a rural Quaker Meeting in Russian-Rose Pascal ...... 502 to an urban oriented society. Internationally Speaking-Richard R. Wood ...... 503 The Yearly Meeting accepted the invitation to cooperate with Minnie Pickett Bowles--Gilbert, Gordon, and jane Des Moines Valley Meeting in holding a Mid-Year Meeting in Thomas Bowles ...... 504 Des Moines in the early spring of 1959. It was felt that the Mid­ Religion Is Caught, Not Taught-Mary j . Carpenter 504 Year Meeting offers an opportunity for the deepening of the Bad Pyrmont in 1958: Letter from the Past-173 ... 505 spiritual life of the Yearly Meeting and for widening the circle of World Quaker Meeting ...... 506 fellowship to include other groups of Friends in the Iowa area. Friends and Their Friends ...... 506 HERBERT C. STANDING FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRJEND (1827-1955) and FRJENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)

ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 6, 1958 VOL. 4-No. 31

Editorial Comments The Church and Atomic Warfare serted to serve as stepping stones toward church unity? OWARD the end of August a special commission Wobbling stepping stones they are, indeed. Tof the World Council of Churches reported to the The time is here to speak and act unequivocally World Council's Central Committee meeting at Nyborg, against all warfare, and against atomic warfare in par­ Denmark, that a Christian could "in conscience" agree ticular- in the name of the Prince of Peace. Are we to to the use of atomic arms in a limited war. The report, witness the destruction of whole cities with the pro­ which is the result of three years of deliberation, a1so nounced and official blessing of the clergy? What does states that "Christians should openly declare that the a limited war with atomic weapons mean? Will generals all-out use of these weapons should never be resorted to." and admirals appoint chaplains to their secret councils The report was criticized as too categorical in expression. and thus feel blessed, justified, and sanctioned by official It is also not clear whether it addresses itself to the Christianity? Church, the people, or to governments. The American We feel encouraged by the criticisms that have been delegation questioned especially the advice of the Com­ articulated within the World Council itself. At the mission that Christians should in a war urge a cease-fire, same time we sense a disturbing revival of the strong "if necessary on the enemy's terms, and resort to non­ doubts existing in many quarters of the Religious Society violent resistance." The Commission was asked to con­ of Friends about our membership in a body that now tinue its study. may sanction atomic warfare. We still hope the report was little more than a trial balloon and that it will never At this writing we have not yet seen the full text of the report in question. The attention given to it in sev­ appear again. The damning judgment that we are living eral reports of the New York Times leaves, however, in the post-Christian era could hardly be better illus­ trated than by the sanctioning of atomic warfare through little doubt about its disappointing character. In the the World Council. first place, the public debate of this particular report illustrates what harm bad timing can do to a great cause. In Brief This debate comes at a moment when Russia and the America was shocked by the Chicago fire in 1871; the United States have both agreed to cease atomic tests and Johnstown flood in 1889; the Iroquois Theater fire in when the United Nations report on radiation hazards 1903; the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906; the supports at long last the world-wide protests which have Titanic disaster in 1912; the Cloquet forest fire in 1918; forced the hands of Russian and American militarists to the Illinois tornado in 1925; the Florida hurricane in consider an . international control system of bombing 1928; the Long Beach (Calif.) earthquake in 1933; the tests. The lame verbalisms of the World Council in mat­ Morro Castle disaster in 1934; the Atlanta (Ga.) hotel ters of peace have, unfortunately, become part of its fire in 1946; and the Waco (Texas) tornado in 1953. short history and have inadvertently supported atheists The dead in all of these disasters total 8,212, while the and Communists to such an e:Xtent that they were able alcohol-involved traffic deaths in only one year-1956- to appropriate the term "peace" for their propaganda reached the shocking total of 12,000. (From the New vocabulary. When will the Church step down from its York Temperance Action, March-April, 1958) high seat of spectatorship and raise its prophetic voice In 1957 the United Nations Children's Fund com­ for peace and against atomic mass murder? When will pleted its eleventh year of service to the world's children. it abandon the studied impartiality that has left the It was a year during which more than 45,000,000 children earmarks of compromise all too clearly on the present and mothers benefited from disease control and nutrition report? Is it Christian both to allow atomic warfare and programs aided by the Children's Fund, and added mil­ also to employ the vocabulary of nonviolence? Does any­ lions were helped through the services of UNICEF­ one among the clergy think such duality will appease assisted maternal and child welfare centers, hospitals. Christian pacifists? Were the remarks about peace m- and other facilities. 499 500 FRIENDS JOURNAL September 6, 1958 Balancing Family Life in Unsettled Times By ELIZABETH WATSON HAT I want to do tonight is to make a few prac­ to a large extent determined by the wholeness of the W tical suggestions to those of you whose families mother. As I look back over our family life, I cannot are grown, or nearly grown, like ours, and to tell those help noticing that the periods of frequent family illness of you whose families are still young a few of the things match exactly the periods when I was least at peace with I I learned the hard way. myself. I believe current medical studies of the incidence I might take as a text Matthew 22:37-39: "Thou shalt of psychosomatic illness will support me in this. · love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all Once one has supplied children with a basic under­ thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and lying security in childhood, the hardest thing then is to great commandment. And the second is like unto it: let them go at the right time, to give them the freedom Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Religious to gain experiences on their own, to plan their own growth proceeds in reverse order, first building a healthy lives, to find out who they are. We have found that a self-respect, developing creative abilities, making peace very practical way to balance life in unsettled times, for with the person you are; or, as Gilbert Kilpack put it, both oneself and one's children, is to send them to a finding out who you are. Only on this foundation can Friends Boarding School for high school. I am convinced one build satisfying relationships with others and ulti­ it may be the best investment in your children you can mately come to terms with the universe. make. I am further convinced that adolescence is the When our youngest was ready for nursery school, I most important time for children to be away from taught nursery school for two years to pay her way. parents, and I stoutly maintain that I am closer to my Nursery school teachers work in pairs so that there is children today because we have not been battling over always one to deal with emergencies. In two years I was the use of the family car, amounts of make-up, and ex­ paired with two different teachers, both well trained and penditures for dangerous or frivolous recreation. By competent. With the first I had a great deal in common, letters we have discussed the nature of God, pacifism, and we got through the year with no disasters, and I con­ how one knows one is in love, to name a few. We have cluded that this was the hardest way in the world to earn exchanged poetry, both our own and the well-loved a living. With the second I had considerably less in com­ poems of others. mon, at least superficially. But somehow she had made Having made peace with ourselves, we are ready to peace within herself, and this wholeness communicated listen to Jesus' admonition to love our neighbors. But itself to the children and to me. The more disturbed we have some choice as to who our neighbors are. Look­ children grew less tense over the weeks, and I found ing back over our family years together, we are glad we myself still untired at the end of a morning, surprised chose the city. Long ago our children learned that people at how quickly the time had passed. are different. Some you can count on, and some you can't; A rested and relaxed mother is far more important some are more fun to be with than others; some like to to a child than an immaculately kept house or clothes do the same things you do, and some don't; some are free from "tattle-tale gray." Moreover, the longer I live prettier, or smarter, or more skillful than others. And these things have nothing whatever to do with skin color, the more convinced I am that the health of a family is the slant of the eyes, or the nationality of a last name. Elizabeth Watson, a member of 57th Street Meeting, Chicago, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, was one of three women who spoke on "Balancing Life in Unsettled and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found Times" the evening of June 29, 1958, at Friends General Conference, Cape May, N. J. the Society of Friends while I was in [a theological] Elizabeth Watson is "the wife of a University Dean, mother of Seminary, and after much prayer and searching decided four children, and keeper of a big, old house which shelters not that it was here I belonged rather than in the pro­ only three generations and the family pets, but is the American home of a group of foreign students." This past year they came fessional ministry. If my separate selves are integrate.d from Europe, Africa, Central America, and Asia. A minimum of to some degree, it is through the experience of worship forty hours in each of her busy weeks goes into work for the Hyde after the manner of Friends. Out of the central life­ Park-Kenwood Community Conference, an interracial community which nine years ago grew out of a concern of the Social Order giving power of the meeting for worship has come the Committee of 57th Street Meeting. means for personal wholeness; a creative center for family Her talk, here somewhat shortened, will be published in full life; the American Friends Service Committee, with its in the Religious Education Bulletin for September, issued free of charge by the Friends General Conference. work camps and seminars; the Social Order Committee, September 6, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 501 from which sprang the community organization for which own household and let the rest of the world "go to the I work; the Committee on National Legislation, to which dogs." Every mother has an obligation to her children my husband devotes his energies; the Friends schools, to develop some compelling interest or skill outside her which our children may attend; the very Conference we home, so that she can let go of her children at the right are now attending. Truly all else is at the rim of the time. Otherwise, she may be tempted at some point to wheel of our lives; at the hub, the center, is worship. go and live with them when they have homes of their Finally, I want to leave you with. something simple own, and the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the and uncontroversial. I have found the one simple secret third and fourth generations! for success in raising a family: reading aloud. The family In these unsettled times there are many organizations who reads aloud gives a sense of security and community to cope with the many problems, and the difficulty lies to its members which is a basic element in child develop­ in choosing among them. We spread ourselves too thin, ment, and the variety of books read over the years offers feeling we must contribute to every cause in which we an infinite number of. vicarious experiences of making believe. We would do well to remember Elizabeth Fry decisions and facing crises. The outcome of the decision­ and consider what one woman with eleven children and a large house accomplished under the weight of a con­ making is plainly spelled out. The child, identifying cern, the reformation of the prison system in England himself with a book character faced with a crucial deci­ and on the Continent; then see with prayer and medita­ sion, knows before the end of the book the consequences tion what concern is laid upon us. Every Friend ought of that decision. In the phrase of James Nayler, he "sees to have as required reading at regular intervals the to the end of all temptation." chapter on "The Simplification of Life" in Thomas It is not enough, of course, to be at peace with your Kelly's Testament of Devotion.

The Government of the Society of Friends By THYRA JANE FOSTER HE government of the United States was born in the A college boy once asked me, "Well, if Friends believe T city of Philadelphia, where for more than a hundred that every man should follow his own conscience, years the Society of Friends probably made its biggest wouldn't that result in chaos?" I replied that Friends contribution to the New World. The Society of Friends thought of conscience as something conditioned by the had arisen out of a great surge of religious insight and mores of the group in which the individual grew up and zeal. But George Fox was a practical man and drew that the inner light was more than this. It was like the around him many practical people. In the dire furnace mystical power of God which brought peace to the mind of persecution they had ample opportunity to find out of the individual and unanimity in many a business what would make people stand together, both when meeting which start~d with very different points of view. their zeal was hot and when it began to cool. These The Friends business meeting, in which decisions are early Friends were the ultrademocrats of their day, and reached according to the sense of the meeting without perhaps Friends still are. voting, has been said to be our only new contribution to The great discovery of Friends was that they indi­ society. In recent years we often see in current literature vidually could speak to God and that God Himself accounts of the application of the methods of the Friends would teach His people without the intercession of man­ business meeting to various organizations, small or made leaders. They felt that the inner light shone in large, even as large as the great corporations. How does the heart of every man, in greater or less degree, as he the Friends business meeting work? allowed it to operate in his life. Their first task, then, If we keep in mind that Friends are after a synthesis was to see that this seed or spark of the divine was not of the real insights of individuals, old and young alike, we understand the Friends business meeting better. Bar­ crushed in the individual or in society but continually riers against the growth of insight and its expression grew and received proper pruning and fertilization. must be avoided. The Clerk has no special powers; he Thyra Jane Foster is a member of Providence, R. I., Monthly merely guides the discussion, keeping it on the subject Meeting and teaches chemistry and physics in a public high school. until a decision is about to be reached. Then he states Before her marriage to Henry C. Foster she taught at Barnesville what he thinks is the "sense of the meeting." If there Friends School. Her family are active in Friends and American Friends Service Committee activities. is no objection, this statement is recorded in the minutes. 502 FRIENDS JOURNAL September 6, 1958

Anyone may bring up a concern, but it is necessary provided the check and balance on the individual. More that those taking part in the meeting do not come with recently it has been customary to make the committees a "plan to be put over." This does not mean that indi­ smaller and to stagger the terms of office of the members, viduals and committees do not prepare careful plans and a practice which keeps an ingrown condition from de­ think things out well, both at the meeting and before­ veloping. Committees whose usefulness is doubtful are hand. It simply means that they hold themselves in dropped. Only active interest fosters individual re­ readiness to see improvements or listen to the sugges­ sponsibility. No committee, therefore, could be a rubber­ tions of other people. It also means that if a decision is stamping group without grave damage to our concept. reached contrary to their present belief in a matter, they One might ask, "How do we know what Friends think accept the fact. They were either mistaken, or sufficient in such an ultradernocratic arrangement?" Friends have study has not been given to the matter by other people no creed because of its deadening effect on individual in the group. Friends long used to this method are well participation in affairs of the religious body, but every aware of times when there were sharp differences of effort is made to acquaint people with the history and opinion which seemed to melt away under the earnest philosophy of our sect as well as with those of other endeavor to find a solution and a sense of divine guid­ religions. It is true that Friends may be a very dynamic ance. The end product was a decision more satisfactory group, and people who work with Friends need to under­ to all than anyone had conceived at first, even if it was stand how precious and fundamental to their whole way a decision to postpone consideration until another of life this emphasis on the idea of individual responsibil­ meeting. ity to God and man is. I wish to point out here the complete involvement None of the things which have given us some acclaim of the individual in this method. The individual does could have been done without it. When the techniques not delegate his responsibility to come to a decision in of its development slip away from us, our morale is his own mind to anyone. To some, our method seems destroyed. We have no reason then for being a sect slow, but compared to the ups and downs of majority apart. But with the vital strength flowing into our sense and minority rule in politics and the wasted emotion of individual responsibility, we feel we can minister to and effort incurred, I do not believe it is slow. the needs of a distracted world because our action arises Last summer at the Avon-at-Pembroke Institute on from our inner peace as a group, that reservoir of calm "The Quaker Approach to Contemporary Affairs" a bit assurance and trust in God for direction in the affairs of sociodrarna was staged. It showed a Friends meeting of men. handling the question of our participation in civil de­ fense. After it was over, a French woman, who was a Quaker Meeting in Russian buyer of textiles in New York for a Honolulu firm, said, "I can see how the Friends might handle such a question ROCKEFELLER grant added the R~ssian Insti­ as this in their type of business meeting. But how would A tute to the Russian School at Middlebury College they decide something which carne up in the morning in Middlebury, Vermont. To this beautiful campus, sur­ and must be decided before two o'clock in the after­ rounded by the green hills and rich vegetation of Ver­ noon?" I replied, "For quick action they appoint com­ mont, carne men and women from every state in the mittees of people whose qualifications are well known t.o union, Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada. The military forces them and empower these people to act as they think were represented by officers of various ranks. Sister Mar· best, always, however, with the idea that a full account garita, Father Lawrence, and Father Philippe were sent will be rendered to the group as a whole." It is this con­ by their respective orders. ception that the group itself is the final arbiter that keeps These mature students carne to i~prove their knowl­ individual participation high. edge of the Russian language and to learn as much as Human nature being what it is, how do we hold in possible about Russian science, history, geography, and check our overzealous, overambitious, and ignorant the Soviet political setup. people? Open, kindly discussion in the manner which I Among the 135 members of the Russian School and have described is the best deterrent. We expect com­ Institute, Clara Walker of the Baltimore Monthly Meet­ mittees to follow this pattern, too. In the old days, when ing and I, of the Claremont, Calif., Monthly Meeting, people could not come often, committee meetings were were the only Friends. There may have been others at made very large and representative. Their members the French, Spanish, German, and Italian Schools, but were not changed often; sometimes names were added as we could not reach out to them because every member other members died. Their size and full representation of the Middlebury language schools pledges his word of September 6, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 503 honor to speak only the language of the school in which course of a policy of alliances a nation's true interests he is registered. Although the five schools are on the tend to be obscured by considerations of the desires of same campus, they are as completely separated as if a allies or prospective allies. He foresaw many of the diffi­ contagious disease raged in each one. culties the United States is now experiencing. Clara and I decided to have Russian Quaker Meeting. President Washington did not discuss a general inter­ The only place available was the music room in the Stu­ national organization such as The Spectator was suggest­ dents' Union Building. There we arranged our chairs ing. Although William Penn's Peace of Europe had been and tried to become absorbed in a religious feeling, think- published a century earlier, the idea of world organization ing of " . .. where two or three are gathered in my was not current among working statesmen in Washing­ name.... " ton's time. The conflicts from which came his experience Soon Sister Margarita came in to use the piano and of the inconvenience of alliances, the wars of the French began to play some gay Russian songs. Two students Revolution and Napoleon, were to raise the question entered to discuss their problems, but noticing us in anew, and at the Congress of Vienna a rough approxima­ meditation, sat down quietly, determined to discover tion of an elementary world organization was to be made, what kind of Russian course that was. After Clara recited with the unhappily named Holy Alliance. But Washing­ the Lord's Prayer in Russian and we shook hands, we ton could not see that far ahead in detail; his grasp of explained to our audience that we are Friends, that we the essential evil of alliances· is the more noteworthy. worship in silence, and invited them to join us the follow­ President Washington's condemnation of alliances did ing Sunday. not and does not apply to the obligations of a general "Oh, Quakers," said one of them. "I know. They are international organization. The purpose of such an organ­ the people who run the Youth Hostels in France." ization is to prevent the special arrangements and the par­ Soon the information spread that two Quakers sat in tisan hostilities inherent in alliances. Its objective is just silent worship every Sunday morning. Students and relations among all nations rather than a division of plun­ teachers began to tiptoe to the door for a look at us. der among allies. Above all, it aims at providing orderly The second Sunday a young organist from Salt Lake processes of reaching mutually satisfactory solutions of City joined us, and a Harvard man who had previously disputes and of common problems, to replace the danger­ studied at George School came to our third meeting. ous practice, now current, of seeking to impose solutions We continued to invite members of the staff and stu­ by the threat of force. The chief reason for alliances is to dents to worship with us. Most of them didn't know that increase the apparent menace of the threat of force. Quakers still exist. They thought that William Penn So when a reader asks whether I am prepared to trust was the last Quaker in America. an agreement with Russia, my answer is, "No!" National If the Russian Institute had lasted longer than six security is too important to be entrusted to agreements weeks, we might have been able to gather a sizable group with any individual nations. There is too much danger around us. Still, we h ad a gratifying feeling because at that, at the critical moment, the other party to the agree­ our last meeting we were seven worshipers. Five attenders ment will be preoccupied with other aspects of its affairs came voluntarily. or will be tempted to try to involve us in its adventures We ended our devotional with the 13th chapter of regardless of the consequences for us. Many enthusiasts First Corinthians on faith, hope, and love- in Russian, for Nationalist China have argued that the United States of course. RosE PASCAL ought to supply the military force to re-establish the au­ thority of Chiang Kai-shek on the mainland of China, regardless of the fact that such an action would leave Internationally Speaking Russia a free hand pretty much everywhere in the world. AN arrangement such that not Germany, not Russia, This is an inconvenient danger of our alliance with Na­ £l.. not we ourselves can break the peace." With words tionalist China; to a considerable extent it impairs our to this effect The Spectator in December, 1940, summar-­ sovereign right to decide whether and when to go to war. ized its idea of the kind of peace that should be made The great weakness of United States policy is now that after the Second World War. Its editor then was Wilson it has become involved in alliances and, despite lip serv­ Harris, a member of the Society of Friends. ice, has failed to support the growing international or­ President Washington discussed the inconveniences of ganization. The great advantage of international organi­ alliances. He showed that alliances tend to rouse parti­ zation, from the point of view of national patriotism, is that san disputes; current disputes in this country about Israel it maintains to the highest possible degree the nation's or China illustrate the point. He showed that in the freedom to do what it wants. The United States does not 504 FRIENDS JOURNAL September 6, 1958 want war; by seeking to defend itself by alliances it risks Guests who became members of the Bowles family included involving itself in all the quarrels of its allies and com­ university students, young missionaries studying the language, pletely losing its sovereign right to decide its own course. overseas visitors and refugees from Europe, some guests spend­ Assuming that we do not want to make war, we now find in ing considerable time in the home. A glance at a few pages of the Bowles Guest Book from 1911 shows visitors from around international organization the greatest amount of freedom the entire globe. and the best defense of that freedom for the United States. Minnie also had numerous other interests and responsibili­ August 20, 1958 RICHARD R . WooD ties in the wider Tokyo community. One special project was the Kobokan, a settlement in the slum area. She cooperated Minnie Pickett Bowles with the Women's Christian Temperance Union, . .. was active in Y.W.C.A. work, in mission circles, and in the school 1868-1958 for foreign children, now the American School in Japan. A Friends memorial service for Minnie Pickett Bowles was After Gilbert and Minnie Bowles came to Honolulu in held on july 27, 1958, two days after her death, in Honolulu, 1941, throughout the war years when Gilbert was busy visiting Hawaii. A biography prepared by Gilbert, Gordon, and jane Japanese families, Minnie not only kept open house for all Thomas Bowles was read in both English and japanese. A visitors but often helped in making important home calls.... meeting for worship followed. The homes of Minnie and Gilbert in Japan and Hawaii were Minnie Macy Pickett was born in Illinois on September 2, havens of love, of peace, of understanding, and of divine in­ 1868. She studied at Bloomingdale Friends Academy, Indiana, spiration. and later taught four years in Kansas, Tfhere her family had From April to July, 1951, Gilbert and Minnie, through the moved. Then, under a sense of concern for Friends work in generosity of the Japanese in Hawaii, had the privilege of japan and following a year of special study, she taught from again visiting Japan, living in the Friends Center, and sharing 1893 to 11198 at the Friends Girls School, Tokyo, which was life with the people from many parts of the country. While sponsored by the Philadelphia Women Friends M issionary in Japan they were honored by the presentation to each of Association. On january 1,1898, at her parents' home in Glen them, individually, of an Imperial Decoration and by an Elder, Kansas, she and Gilbert Bowles were married. They audience with the Emperor and Empress. had three children, Herbert, Gordon, and Helen ]oy, who died GILBERT, GoRDoN, and JANE THoMAS BowLEs when she was ten. These facts have been taken from the early part of the biography read at the memorial service. The rest of the biography follows.-Editors Religion Is Caught, Not Taught ROM January, 1901, to July, 1908, Gilbert and Minnie By MARY J. CARPENTER FBowles had their first experience in their joint life service in Tokyo, Japan, representing Philadelphia Friends, and from EACHING First-day school is, notoriously, one of February 6, 1901, to August 25, 1941, omitting the five furlough T the least satisfactory experiences adults ever let them­ periods back in the American homeland, Gilbert and Minnie selves in for. It is done with a deadening sense of duty, lived and shared in Friends work in Japan. During this period of personal inadequacy, and of certainty that the children of more than 40 years they lived on the grounds of the Friends will be bored and will misbehave, all of which is true. Girls School. In the remaining eight years, from December, A group of children can make a grown-up want to 1933, to August, 1941, they lived at Mita Daimachi in the home weep in despair and frustration, and mentally resolve, which they helped to make into the Friends Center. From the time of Minnie's first teaching experiences in "Never again!" And yet a man can refer, in a recent America her life radiated out through her pupils to the families magazine article, to his years of teaching boys as "Those in the surrounding community. In like manner, throughout Precious Hours." A teacher in our own school can smile her first five years in Japan, living and working in the Tokyo radiantly at the end of the class hour and say, "Those Friends Girls School, her daily contacts with each girl were wonderful youngsters!" Another teacher can chuckle the made channels of growing understanding and fellowship, rest of the week with remembered amusement over the reaching back to homes and out into the surrounding life. charm and delight of very active small boys. It can be From 1901 to 1941 Minnie Bowles' principal life service in a rich and thrilling experience. Japan was in and through her home and family life. This Why is there this difference? I believe that there are became a channel for reaching other homes through the people who entered her own. Her earlier experience in the Japanese two basic reasons. One is an enthusiastic willingness to language studies and in family visiting had given her ease and prepare oneself for a challenging job by reading, observ­ poise in meeting Japanese and other guests. From the begin­ ing, helping, planning- and praying. The other is a ning Minnie conducted in the home Bible classes, family life discussions, and cooking classes for Japanese women. A Japa­ Mary J. Carpenter is Director of the First-day School of Hart­ ford Monthly Meeting, Conn. The above paper is part of a report nese-style room was provided especially for older women who given to the business meeting of Hartford Monthly Meeting in the were unaccustomed to sitting on chairs. spring of 1958. September 6, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 505 recognition of the underlying meaning of our Meeting's and affection, where others care for them and want to First-day school. What do we really do? What do we help them. When we accept this as the fundamental basis have this school for? of our school, many of our disappointments and prob­ Obviously, because we are a school and not just a lems lighten. It is more important to give affectionate child care center, we are trying to teach. We try to teach understanding than instruction, as desirable as it is to about the Bible, Christianity, Quakerism, and some other have both. things besides. The idea also lurks in the back of our This is the reason our school must continue to be minds that we are trying to teach our children to be good; taught, watched over, and loved by our own parents and to be friendly, polite, helpful, interested-all the good Friends of the Meeting. Friendship, understanding, a Christian virtues that we want to see evidence of on sense of religion are long, difficult, and often painful Sunday morning. And we feel a failure if we don't. At processes, but more than worth our every effort. this point our frustrations and disappointments begin. Since First-day school time during the year amounts Bad Pyrmont in 1958 to ab~ut one public school week, not too much can actually be taught or learned, in view of the tremendous Letter from the Past -173 scope of the material. Oh, we try to stimulate interest HOUGH Bad Pyrmont, the location of the forth­ and give some information, true, but, by and large, T coming World Committee's meeting in September, is parents who want their children to learn specific things well known to many readers of the FRIENDS JouRNAL, an had better try to do it as a family project during meals impression of its present condition and a reminder of or while driving in the car, an excellent time and place its history may be appropriately offered. The history has to learn the books of the Bible, for instance. As teachers, several contacts with America. we are disappointed and impatient with our own efforts Here I shall go back less than forty years to the days and those of the children if seeds of biblical knowledge of the Kinderspeisung, or Anglo-American Quaker relief and religious virtue aren't planted, sprouted, and grown work in Germany. There were then no German Friends, full size to bloom forever, all on a Sunday morning. but a considerable interest in Quakerism arose because Let's just acknowledge that what little instruction in of contacts during and after the First World War. the Bible, Quakerism, etc., we can give is better than The most interested and sympathetic called them­ nothing, and that Quaker children, for better or worse, selves Friends of the Friends. Already in the summer of will act like normal children on Sunday as well as Sat­ 1920 they held a gathering, together with a few English urday, and that their behavior is trying to tell us some­ and American visitors. As I recall, there were some twenty thing we need to try to understand. or thirty of us in all, a few of whom still survive. The If this is all, is First-day school worth the time, money, German participants explained the source and course of their interest in Quakerism. They represented, as seekers effort, and interest that the members of this Meeting, parents, teachers, and children put into it? I'd say, "No!" have done at other times, a great variety of approaches. Some were literary figures, like Alfons Paquet or Wilhelm But there is something more important here than any Schaefer. The latter had lately addressed to our Society of these other considerations. It is this: There is a say­ the striking pamphlet Are You They T hat Should Come1 ing, as true as it is trite, that religion is caught, not Visiting Friends tried modestly to answer this and other taught. The religious atmosphere of worship, sincerity, questions, solicitous that no too appreciative or superfi­ kindness, and love are more contagious here at Quaker cial attraction should sway the hungry and war-weary Meeting than any other place I've ever been. I want my people to our charitable or pacifist characteristics. If children exposed to the people of this Meeting. I want there was to be a German Quakerism, it must be in­ them to know them, talk with them, worship with them. digenous and spontaneous, and must follow its own lines. People have become so separated- oceans away from In 1932, when I was next in Germany, there had been old friends, countries apart from families, emotionally a slow and natural development. A Yearly Meeting had apart from neighbors. Our communities and schools been formed in 1925 under the shepherding care of for­ seem crowded and impersonal, and will get more so. eign Friends and was finding its own way. In Bad Pyr­ There is a tremendous sense of being rootless and alone. mont, where the old meeting house had been reclaimed, Grown-ups and children alike are starved for attention, it was being rebuilt in a different location close by the affection, and love. Quaker graveyard, whose title English Friends had held This need and hunger our Meeting can help to fill. since the decline of the German Meeting. We can assure our children that this is a place of love Here again in August, 1958, in this beautiful watering 506 FRIENDS JOURNAL September 6, 1958 place, with its parks and medicinal baths and lovely coun­ Colin W. Bell of Philadelphia will introduce the second tryside, the Germany Yearly Meeting held what would discussion topic, "The Contribution of the Quaker Faith to have been, except for six years' omission, its thirty-third the Healing of the Divided World." There will follow two session. Few English or American Friends were present. introductory talks relating this topic to (1) deep political divi­ sions, by an East German Friend, and (2) racial divisions, by You will hear its epistle read at your own next Yearly David H. Scull of Washington, D. C. Meeting. In six business s'essions the FWCC will consider the report What can be briefly said today of the host Yearly of its General Secretary, a report of the Publications Commit­ Meeting for the World Committee and of the property? tee, an invitation from East Africa Yearly Meeting to hold the The substantial building is in good repair. In its main next triennial meeting in Kenya, proposals for future confer­ room now are attractive and comfortable new seats, 223 ences, and other matters. Two of the business sessions will be of them. They are believed to have improved the acous­ devoted to matters rising out of the consultative status granted tics. The graveyard and other adjacent land is, like so to FWCC by the United Nations and by UNESCO. Quaker much of Germany, beautiful with grass, trees, and flowers. International Affairs representatives from New York, Geneva, Bronze tablets for the deceased- a dozen or sO--were Paris, and Vienna will be present. For three days after the close of the FWCC meeting a smaller group will continue the lately installed along the graveyard walls, including discussion of Quaker responsibility at the United Nations level. markers for John Pemberton of Philadelphia (died 1795) The Chairman of the Friends World Committee for Con­ and Richard Cary of Baltimore (died 1933). sultation is Errol T . Elliott of Indianapolis, Indiana. The The Yearly Meeting has now between 500 and 600 General Secretary, Herbert M. H adley, has his office at Wood­ members and represents over thirty local Meetings in brooke, Selly Oak, Birmingham 29, England. various parts of Germany. It includes alike East Ger­ many and West Germany. Residents of East Germany often find it difficult to get visas for "unnecessary" travel Friends and Their Friends here to the Western Zone, but a full dozen of those who Sydney Bailey, British Friend who has served on the staff applied finally received permission and were present. of the Quaker Program at the United Nations for the past The political barriers are as unwelcome to Friends as four years, will be leaving the program in September to begin they are to most Germans. Mutual information and in­ a study on the procedure and practices of the United Nations terpretations are therefore in order whenever East and General Assembly. This study will be under the auspices of West meet. One finds that like other Yearly Meetings this the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is fi­ nanced by the Rockefeller Foundation. Elmore Jackson will one also now represents two theological emphases, the be returning to his position as Director of the Program early Christological a,nd the non-Christological. Yet with all in September. Team members for the 13th General Assembly their different backgrounds and with much strong per­ are as follows: Gerald Bailey (England), Edgar and Mignon sonal individuality, there is every evidence of much "love Castle (England), Cecil Evans (Canada), and Jotham and and unity." Indeed, both the host Meeting and the his­ Rhoda Standa (Kenya). toric Quaker site will make Pyrmont very fitting for this ecumenical gathering of Friends. Now AND THEN The American Friends Service Committee has received from Lebanon thanks for the aid already sent to relieve suffering there. In a message from the Brummana (Lebanon) Monthly World Quaker Meeting Meeting appreciation was expressed for contributions from the NE HUNDRED Friends from many parts of the world United States and Britain. Other contributions were sent to O will come to Bad Pyrmont, Germany, for the Seventh the area by the Canadian Friends Service Committee. Meeting of the Friends World Committee for Consultation. The six-day meeting will begin on September 23. One half of the attenders will come from American Yearly Meetings, in­ Henry S. and Rebecca C. W. Robinson, members of the cluding those in Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, and the United States. Oklahoma City Meeting, have gone with their three children to Greece, where Henry Robinson is to be Director of the Forty European Friends are expected, and ten from Africa, Asia, and Australasia. American School of Classical Studies in Athens. "Sharing Our Faith" is the first of two discussion topics which will claim the attention of the FWCC. After a general W. Herman Barcus, a member of Swarthmore Meeting, introduction by Paul D. Sturge of London Yearly Meeting, Pa., was recently appointed Manager of a new Research Serv­ there will be presentations of specific aspects of this subject by ice Division in the Sun Oil Company's Research and Develop­ Margarethe Lachmund of Germany, Ryumei Yamano of Japan, ment Department. In his 30-year association with the Sun Oil Glenn A. Reece of Indiana, and Andrianaly of Madagascar. Company, he has worked as chemist and chemical engineer, A set of background study papers has been prepared under the as Manager of the Development Laboratory, and as Manager title "Sharing the Quaker Faith." of the Product Development Division. September 6, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 507

Orie Shimazaki, Principal of Tokyo Friends School, was ner's "Self-Discipline: Giver or Destroyer of Freedom?" tragically killed on July 31 in Kobuchizawa, near the School's The New Christian Advocate, Chicago, Ill., reprinted Carol summer camp. She was 45 years of age. As Miss Murota, one Murphy's "A Warning to Utopians" and part of Rachel R. of the English teachers, and Orie Shimazaki were walking along Cadbury's "Anxiety-a Tool for Growth." the main street of this little village, a drunken man at the The Wayfarer, London, reprinted our Editorial Comments wheel of a truck ran them down. Orie died almost instantly. "This Self-Conscious Age." Murota-san will probably be hospitalized for two months with The Canadian Friend, Toronto, reprinted a condensed a broken collarbone and a severe cut in her thigh. version of Clarence E. Pickett's "From Fear to Faith." Many Friends in various parts of America became acquainted The Rockford, Ill., Crusader reprinted Robert L. Wixom's with Orie Shimazaki when she was studying and visiting among "Letter from Little Rock: Inside Central High School." us in 1948-50. Reynard, London, organ of the Quaker Fellowship of Arts, reprinted the poem "Gift" by Agnes W. Myers. Congress has finally approved President Eisenhower's re­ quest for regularizing the status of some 32,000 Hungarian Pendle Hill Summer School refugees paroled into the United States in 1956-57. Pendle Hill Summer School, Wallingford, Pa., was held The new act provides that at the end of two years in this from July 3 to 31. Seventy-two adults and 13 children, includ­ country parolees may become permanent residents, eligible for ing the staff, made up the family, which included six Negro citizenship, if they meet the requirements of the Immigration and women and their children from the deep South, a young man Nationality Act. The new legislation does not guarantee perma­ from India, two young men from Japan, and two young women nent status to those who do not meet health and public charge from Canada. In addition, people kept dropping in-a monk specifications. Officials have given verbal assurance, however, in a saffron robe, a smiling native of Nigeria and his wife and that no refugee will be deported except for security reasons. child, a man from San Salvador, and then people one knew, like Gilbert Kilpack, Lewis Hoskins, Barnard· Walton, and Winifred Rawlins, a member of the staff at Pendle Hill, various members of the Board. The new dormitory, barely finished when we arrived, proved to be a very pleasant place Wallingford, Pa., has a poem, "I Saw You Stand Lonely," in The Christian Century for August 20, 1958. to live. We were kept quite busy with work, classes, lectures, excur­ sions, and just plain enjoyin g each other. Howard Brinton Two paintings by Edward Hicks are being exhibited at the in a course called "A Divine-Human Society" gave an inter­ Brussels World's Fair. "The Peaceable Kingdom" was lent by pretation of Quaker experience and methods and how Friends the New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, N. Y., might contribute to the solution of contemporary problems. and "The Cornell Farm" was lent from the Collection of Edgar Geoffrey F. NuHall, a Congregational minister from London, William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. in his course on "Christian Pacifism in History" discussed the convictions which animated the early Christians, the mediaeval Reprints sects, and the Quakers, and related these to present-day expres­ sions of pacifism. His lectures are published in a small book During the past few months a number of reprints from now on sale at Pendle Hill (Christian Pacifism in History; our pages have been made by organizations, individuals, and Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1958; $2.50). Robert C. Murphy in periodicals in the United States and abroad. "Resources of the Unconscious" dealt largely with the social The Tract Association of Friends, Philadelphia, Pa., re­ application of psychiatric insights. Haines Turner gave a series printed in pamphlet form 5,000 copies of Maurice Creasey's of talks on "Efforts to Meet Current Social Issues," which con­ article "Christ in Early Quakerism." The Friends Council on cerned primarily the application of our principles to business Education reprinted 4,000 copies of our April 5 edition of The Courier. T he Philadelphia Committee on Race Relations reprinted 1,000 copies of JoAnn Woodman and Helen Lovett's When Ordering Single Copies "An Experience That Convinces." Of Wilmer A. Cooper's "Another Look at Rufus M. Jones" 250 reprints were ordered This is to appeal to readers ordering extra copies of privately. The American Friends Service Committee ordered any issue to include in their letter the payment of 18 5,000 reprints of our Editorial Comments entitled "Walk cents per copy. The work involved in billing, bookkeep­ Those Steps Again." The same text was also reprinted by ing, or corresponding about such small orders taxes un­ The Crusader, Rockford, Ill. duly the time and labor available in our offices. The Netherlands Friends publication De Vriendenkring, We shall, therefore, fill in future orders for extra den Haag, reprinted the following articles from our pages: copies only when they are accompanied by 18 cents per Albert Fowler's "What It Means to Me to Be a Quaker," issue (15 cents, plus 3 cents for postage). from which also the Wayfarer, London, quoted extensively; Friends journal Robert A. Clark's "Friends and Depth Psychology"; John A. 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. Lester's "Two Ways Up Mount Everest"; and Gloria Kersh- 508 FRIENDS JOURNAL Septenaber 6, 1958

activities. "Creative Activity through Arts and Crafts" included Glenn, Doris Jones, Myrtle G. McCallin, Linda C. Paton, Olcutt painting with water colors, block printing, paper sculpture, Sanders, G. Macculloch Miller, 2nd, William H. Cleveland, Jr., and Barnard Walton. etc., under the guidance of Alexandra Docili. Arthur Little J. Correction: Homecoming Meeting at Mill Creek Meeting, Del., of Earlham College conducted a series of dramatic sessions and originally scheduled for September 7, was changed to August 31. play readings which were a lot of fun. In addition to these regular courses there were lectures by BIRTHS Raymond Wilson, Sydney Bailey, William Edgerton, Thelma BACON-on July 8, to Edmund Norwood and Ruth Holmes Babbitt on Levittown, Robert Wixom on Little Rock, and Bacon, a son, KEVIN NORWOOD BACON, their sixth child and the Mary Nuttall on "Slavery in the World Today." We also heard fourteenth grandchild of Ellis W. and Helen C. Bacon. recordings of the speeches made at Cape May by Norman DOWNING--On July 29, to George and Christine Downing, Cousins and Martin Luther King. their first daughter and fifth child, SANDRA LEIGH DOWNING. The family are all members of Summit, N. J ., Meeting. The grandpar­ The spirit of the summer school might be summed up in ents are George and Dorothea Downing of Salem, Va., and Edgar two quotations from Robert Murphy and Geoffrey Nuttall, and Herta Rosenblatt of Montclair, N. J., Meeting. respectively: "We live in a schizophrenic world. Each patient WERNER-On July 2, to Dickson and Ray Garrett Werner, a in my office is like a test tube, and his cure is the same that son and their fourth child, DAVID WERNER. His parents and grand­ we must apply to the world. It is to go within, and in the parents, Stevenson P. and Marjory S. Garrett and Fred. A. and Marguerite D. Werner, are all members of Lansdowne, Pa., Meeting. depths where no fear is, we find the source of all knowledge WILLIAMs-on July 31, to Richard Edmund and Mary Eliza­ and all appropriate human behavior. To seek any lesser goal beth Trafford Williams, a son, SEAN DAviD WILLIAMS, recorded at is merely to treat the symptoms, not the disease." "Somehow Manasquan Monthly Meeting, N.J. His maternal grandparents are we must learn to let the healing power of God work through Charles W. and Gillette Peterson Trafford of Manasquan Monthly us for the redemption of power as men and as nations know Meeting, N. J. power. 'Whosoever will be great among you shall wait upon MARRIAGES you; and whosoever of you will be first shall be everyone's slave.' Somewhere there lies the redemptive power to which ANDERSON-PRATT-on June 28, in the Binningham Meeting House near West Chester, Pa., RuTH E. PRATT, daughter of G. Merril our pacifism must be dedicated." FRANCES RICHARDSON and Esther Chambers Pratt of Pocopson, Pa., and JoHN PYLE ANDER· soN, son of Frances B. Anderson of West Grove, Pa., and the late Lawrence M. Anderson. The bride is a member of Binningham Coming Events Monthly Meeting, Pa., and the groom a member of London Grove Monthly Meeting, Pa. They will reside in Kennett Square, Pa. (Calendar events for the date of issue will not be included if they BECKER-LAISE-On August 9, under the care of Flushing have been listed in a previous issue.) Monthly Meeting, N. Y., MARY ANNE LAISE, daughter of Mr. and SEPTEMBER Mrs. Herbert F. Laise of Little Neck, N. Y., and AUGUST W. BECKER, son of Mrs. Frederick E. Becker and the late Frederick E. Becker, 6---Nottingham Quarterly Meeting at Buck Meeting House, Cal­ of Jamaica, N. Y. The groom is a member of Flushing Monthly vert, Md. Ministry and Counsel meeting, 10 a.m., followed by Meeting, N. Y. meeting for worship. Business session and conference after lunch. Bring a box lunch. BIDDLE-LINDRUD-on June 28, in the Hope Lutheran ?-Annual meeting of the Adams Society of Friends' Descendants Church, St. Paul, Minn., DOROTHY EVELYN LINDRUD, daughter of at the Adams, Mass., Meeting House, 3 p.m. Members of Easton, Stanley E. and Evaline S. Lindrud of St. Paul, Minn., and JUSTIN M. N. Y., Monthly Meeting will be in charge of the worship. BIDDLE, son of George D. and Geraldine S. Biddle of Putney, Vt. ?-Public meeting at Colora, Md., Meeting House, 2 p.m., for The groom is a member of Binningham Monthly Meeting, Pa. The Friends and their friends. Speakers, C. Canby Balderston, "Friends couple will reside in Torrance, Calif. in Education and Business," and Richmond P. Miller, "Friends as ROSENBERG-DARLINGTON-on June 14, at Woodstown, I Know Them." Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. N. J ., Meeting House, ESTHER C. DARLINGTON, daughter of Charles 11- Memorial meeting for Minnie Pickett Bowles and Orie J. and Eleanor C. Darlington, and ALBURT M. RosENBERG of Phila­ Shimazaki in Room A, 20 South 12th Street, Philadelphia, 1:15 p.m., delphia, son of Abraham and Lois T. Rosenberg of Coral Gables, preceding the regular meeting of the Japan Committee. All welcome. Florida. The bride is a member of Woodstown Monthly Meeting, 11-Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting at Medford, N. J., 3 p.m. N. J ., and the groom of Powelton Meeting in Philadelphia. They 13-Haverford Quarterly Meeting at Willistown Meeting, Goshen will reside at "The Wishing Well," North Church Street, Moores­ Road, north of Route 3, two miles from Edgemont, Pa. Meeting for town, N. J. worship, 4 p.m.; business, 5 p.m.; supper, 6 p.m. (bring your own STEWARD-DONER-Qn July 2, in Van Wert, Ohio, Pleasant sandwiches; beverage and dessert provided); age-group varied pro­ Chapel Church, MARILYN SuE DONER, daughter of Poe and Grace gram: supervised play, crafts, discussion; adults, 7:15 p.m., William Doner of Van Wert, Ohio, and 0MAR WADDINGTON STEWARD, son Hubben, "Religious Trends in Our Time." of Owen F., Sr., and Mary Steward of Woodbury, N.J. The groom 13-Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting at Fourth and Arch Streets, is the grandson of the late Asher and Helena B. Waddington of Philadelphia. At 2:30 p.m., Meeting on Worship and Ministry; Woodstown, N. J. The young couple will reside at 2933 Ashby 4 p.m., worship and business; 6 p.m., supper; 7 p.m., Roy F. Road, Midland, Mich. Larson, President of the Philadelphia Art Commission, "Old Roots DEATHS and New Growth in Historic Philadelphia." 14--Annual Meeting for Worship at Plumstead Meeting House, EATON-On August 10, in Ann Arbor, Mich., HoRACE AINS· Pa., 2 p.m. All are welcome. WORTH EATON, aged 87 years, a member of Syracuse Monthly Meet­ Coming: Fall Teacher Training School, September 20 and 27, ing, N.Y., which he helped to found. Surviving are two daughters, at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, 10 a.m. to 3: 15p.m. Addresses, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Boys of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. Rebecca E. Douglas V. Steere, Rachel R. Cadbury; age-level groups, Georgie Widgwood of Chappaqua, N. Y.; two sons, Sidney L. Eaton of Septenaber 6, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 509

Dedham, Mass., and Robert E. Eaton of Philadelphia; and twelve EVES-On August 7, at her home on State Street, Millville, Pa., grandchildren. loA M. EvEs, aged 88 years. Her husband, Pascel L. Eves, preceded Born in Quincy, Mass., Dr. Horace A. Eaton held bachelor's, h_er in death on August 8, 1938. Surviving are a son, E. Eugene master's, and doctoral degrees from }Jarvard. He taught in the Eves of Millville, R.D. I, Pa., and a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth English Department of Syracuse University for 41 years, during Leighow of Bloomsburg, Pa. For several years Ida M. Eves was 25 of which he was <;hairman of the department. He also taught active in the Millville, Pa., Meeting. She also was a teacher of the eight summers at Columbia University, two summers at the Uni­ children's class in First-day school. versity of Oregon, and was visiting professor for a semester ·in 1932 LIPPINCOTT-On August 20, MARY EWING LIPPINCOTT of Lans­ at the University of Illinois. After his retirement he headed the downe, Pa. She was born in 1875 in Greenwich, N.J., and had been Friends international school, Eerde, at Ommen, The Netherlands. , He was the author of two books on the life and writings of Thomas a member of Lansdowne Monthly Meeting, Pa., for most of her DeQuincey. married life. She is survived by a daughter, Grace L. Merriam of The champion of many forward-looking movements. he was often Lexington, Mass.; a son, Laurence C. Lippincott of Aldan, Pa.; a termed "the conscience of Syracuse University and of Syracuse as grandson, a sister, and two brothers. A memorial service was held well." We shall not look upon his like again. on August 23 in the Lansdowne Meeting House.

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For information telephone UN school, 10:30 a.m.; wors hip, 11 a.m. (July, 1-126% or TW 7-2179. A ugust, 10 a.m.). Visitors welcome. COLORADO PLAIJIJPIBLD-Watchung Avenue & Third MARYLAND Street. Worship, 11 a.m. Visitors welcome. BOULDER-Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. Location variable; call Clerk, HI 3-1478, ADELPHI-Near Washington, D. C., & U. B.IDGEWOOD-224 Highwood Ave., family for information and transportation. of Md. Clerk, R. L. Broadbent, JU 9-9447. worship, 10:30 a.m.i meeting and First-day SAJIJDY SPB.IJIJG - Meeting (united), school, 11 a.m. (Ju y & August, 7:30p.m.). First-days, 11 a .m.; 20 miles from down­ CONNECTICUT town Washing-ton, D. C. Clerk: Robert H. SKB.EWSB'O'B.Y-On Route 35 south of KABTPOB.D-Meeting, '11 a.m., 144 South Miller, Jr.; telephone Spring 4-5805. Red Bank, worship, 11 a.m. Telephone Quaker L ane, West Hartford. SH 1-1027, S. E. Fussell, Clerk. lfBW KAVElf-Meetlng, 11 a.m., Conn. Hall, Yale Old Campus; phone MA 4-8418. M ASSA.CHUSETTS NEW YORK AKKBB.ST-Meeting for worship, 10 a.m., ALBAJIJY-Worship and First-day school, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Old Chapel, Univ. of Mass.; AL 3-5902. 11 a .m., YMCA, 423 State St.; Albany 3-6242. WASKIJIJGTOlf-Meeting, Sunday, 9 a.m. CAMBB.mGB-Meeting, Sunday, 5 Long­ B'O'l"l'.A.Lo-Meeting and First-day ·School, and 11 a.m., 2111 Florida Avenue, N.W., fellow Park (near Harvard Square), 9:30 11 a.m., 1272 Delaware Ave.; phone EL 0252. one block from Connecticut Avenue. a.m. and 11 a.m.; telephone TR 6-6883. WOB.OESTBB - Pleasant Street Friends LOJIJG ISLAJIJD-Northern Boulevard at FLORIDA. Meeting, 901 Pleasant Street. Meetlm.; for Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset. First-day worship each First-day, 11 a.m. Telephone school, 9:45 a.m.; meeting, 11 a.m. GAilfBSVILLB - Meeting for worship, PL 4-3887. NEW YORK-Meetings for worship, First­ First-days, 11 a.m., 218 Florida Union. days, 11 a.m. (Riverside, 3:30 p.m.). Tele­ JACKSOJIJVILLB- Meeting for worship phone GRamercy 3-8018 about F irst-day and First-day school, 11 a.m., Y.W.C.A. MICHIGAN schools, monthly meetings, suppers, etr.. Board Room. Telephone EVergreen 9-4345. AlfJIJ AB.BOB-Meetlngs for worship at Manhattan: at 144 East 20th Street; and at Riverside Church, 15th Floor, Riverside MIAMI-Meeting for worship at Y.W.C.A., 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Sunday school for children at 10 a.m., adult discussion Drive ~t nd 122d Street, 3:30 p.m. 114 S .E. 4th St., 11 a.m.; First-day school, Brooklyn: at 110 Schermerhorn Street; 10 a.m. Miriam Toepel, Clerk: TU 8-6112!l group, 11:30 a.m. and at the corner of Lafayette and OBLAlfDO-WIJIJTEB PABK-Meeting, 11 DETROIT-Meeting, Sundays, 11 a.m. in Washin g-ton Avenues. a.m., 316 E. Marks St., Orlando; MI 7-3025. Highland Park YWCA, Woodward and Plushtng: at 137-16 Northern Boulevard. Winona. VIsitors phone TOwnsend -15-4036. PALM BBAOK-Friends Meeting, lO:aO SCARSDALE-Worship, Sundays, 11 a.m., a .m., 812 South Lakeside Drive, Lake Worth. KALAMAZOO - Meeting for worship, 10 133 Popham Rd. Clerk, Frances Compter, a .m., discussion, 11 a.m., Friends' Meeting 17 Hazleton Drive, W hite P lains, N. Y. ST. PETEBSB'O'BG-First-day school and House, 508 D enn er. Call FI 9-1754. meeting, 11 a.m., 130 19th A venue S. E. SYBAC'O'SB-Meeting and First-day school at 11 a.m. each First-day at University HAWAll MINNESOT-4 College, 601 East Genesee Street. KIJIJJIJE.A.POLIB-Meeting, 11 a.m., First­ HOlfOL'O'L'O' - Meeting, Sundays, 2426 day school, 10 a.m., 44th Street and York OHIO Oahu Avenue, 10:15 a.m.; tel. 994-447. Avenue S. Richard P . Newby, Minister, 4421 Abbott Avenue S. ; phone WA 6-96715. CIJIJCIJIJJIJATI - Meeting for worship, ILLINOIS 10:30 a.m., 3601 Victory Parkway. Tele­ phone Edwin Moon, Clerk, at T R 1-4984. CHICAGO-The 57th Street Meeting of all MISSOURI Friends. Sunday worship hour, 11 a.m. at CLEVBLAlfD-Meetlng for worship and Quaker House, 5615 Woodlawn Avenue. KAJIJSAS CITY-Penn Valley Meeting, un­ First-day echool, 11 a.m., 10916 Magnolia Monthly meeting (following 6 p.m. supper programmed., 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.. Drive. Telephone TU 4-2695. 510 FRIENDS JOURNAL Septenaber 6, 1958

TOLEDO - Unprogrammed meeting for worship, First-days, 10 a.m., Lamson Chapel, Y.W.C.A., 1018 Jetrerson. AVAILABLE WANTED COMPANION-HOUSEKEEPER f or elderly MATURE WOMAN NEEDED by happy OKLAHOMA person or couple. No laundry. H addonfield couple to help the mother care for 3 young or Woodbury, New J er sey preferred. Ref­ children and country house with all mod­ STILLWATER--Meeting for worship, 11 e rences. W rite Box P61, Friends Journal. ern appliances, 17 miles from Boston. a.m., 417 South Lincoln .Street; telephone Generous salary and time off arranged. FRontier 2-5713. TWO FURNISHED ROOMS with bath. Comfor table large r oom, bath, TV. Please Newly renovated. Quiet section, West Ches­ write or phone questions and self-descrip­ ter, Pa. Write Box R60, Friends Journal. tion. Mrs. Charles Brown, 249 Belknap PENNSYLVANIA. Road, Framingham Centre, Massachusetts; AT THE ONLY HOTEL in Philadelphia TRinity 2-1949. DUNlnNGS C:&BEX-At Fishertown, 10 belonging to Friends: a three-acre garden; miles north of Bedford: First-day school, comfortable rooms and tempting meals for A WOMAN WITH PRACTICAL experi­ 10 a.m., meeting for worship, 11 a.m. transient or permanent guests. Call Arch ence to care for an elderly sweet woman Street Centre, MArket 7-2025. in Connecticut, who through a stroke is HARB.ISBU:&G -Meeting and First-day deprived of articulate speech. Mrs. R. L. school, 11 a.m., YWCA, 4th and Walnut Sts. PROPERTY CARETAKER: A-1 care of Dickinson, 27 Crescent A venue, Summit, LANCASTEB.-Meetln~ house, Tulane Ter­ residential or other in city or country, N ew Jersey; telephone CR 3-3810. race, 1 'h miles west of Lancaster, otr U.S. w1th honest, energetic interest, ably as­ 30. Meeting and First-day school, 10 a.m. sisted by wife, daughter aged 13, and d og. HOUSEKEEPER for a Doctor and wife. PHILADELPHIA- Meetings, 10:30 a..m., ~roducti on Manager thoroughly grounded All modern laundry and k itchen equip­ unless specified; telephone LO 8-Hll for m metal trades wants out of industry. ment. Part time daily or live in with pri­ Information about First-day schools. T rained In plant maintenance. Know horse vate bath. Located in Fort Washington, Byberry, one mile east of Roosevelt Boule- care. Good labor relations, work, personal near Philadelphia. Recent referen ces and vard at Southampton Road, 11 a.m. habits and activities. Friend, age 50, ex­ able to start early September. W r ite Central Philadelphia, 20 South 12th Street. cellent health. Require living quarters, George Kummer, Carversville, Pa., or call Chestnut Hill, 100 East Mermaid Lane. salary, Have car. Write for resume and re­ collect Doylestown, Pa., Aptel 7-5452. Coulter Street and Germantown Avenue. ferences. P.O. Box 482, El Dorado, Kansas. Fair H ill, Germantown& Cambria, 11:15 a .m. HOUSEKEEPER; some nursing experi­ Fourth & Arch Sts., First- and Firth-days. ence; sleep in. Call after six p.m. Phila­ Frankford, P enn & Orthodox .Sts., 11 a.m. PLEASE NOTIFY US THREE WEEKS IN delphia, Pa., GE 8-8728. Frankford, Unity and Wain Streets, 11 a.m. Green St., 45 W. School House L., 11 a.m. ADVANCE OF ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS Powelton, 36th and Pearl Streets, 11 a .m. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS! PITTSBU:&GH- Worship at 10:30 a.m., adult cla.se, 11:4~ a.m., 18~8 Shady Avenue. MUSIC INSTRUCTION BEADING - First-day school, 10 a.m., meeting, 11 a.m., 108 North Sixth Street. With the increasinJr opportunities amon~r Friends to sing, Friends msy wish sound in­ YEAR ROUND GUESTS STATE COLL:BGB- 318 South Atherton struction to develop their voices and to ex­ Street. First-day echool at 9:30 a.m., Spacious Chester County form home meeting for worship at 10:411 a.m. pand their enjoyment and appreciation of vocal music. To organize sin&ing classes, or modernized-secluded for private instruction in voice in the Greater Small families, older people our specialty PUERTO RICO Philadelphia area, contact William A. Cun­ Mary louise Maule, Cochranville, Pa. ningham, Box C58, Friends Journal. SAN JUAN- Meeting, second and last Telephone Lyric 3-5544 Sunday, 11 a.m.; Evangelical Seminary In Rio Piedras. Visitors may call 6-0560. SUGAR FREE FOODS THE PENINGTON ALLERGY FOODS • SALTLESS FOODS TENNESSEE 21S EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 3 NUTRITIONAL FOODS SINCE 1869 Next door to the Meeting House MEMPKI8-Meetlng, Sun day, 9:30 a.m. Descriptive literature on r equest A Friends Hostel In New York for Friends Clerk, Esther McCandless, JA IHS7011. and friends of Friends. Comfortable rooms Thomas Martindale Company and wholesome meals for permanent ~ruests. 25 South 11th St., Phua, 7, Pa. Accommodations for transients limited. Ad· vance reservations requested. TEXAS James J. Martindale William M. Martindale Telephone GRamercy 5-9193 AUSTIN-Worship, Sundays, 11 a.m .. 407 W. 27th St. Clerk, John Barrow, GR 2-5522. DALLAB-Worshlp, Sunday, 10:30 a .m., COUNSELING SERVICE 7th Day Adventist Church, 4009 North Cen­ FRIENDS BOOK STORE tral Expressway. Clerk, Kenneth Carroll, of the Department of Religion, S.M.U.; FL 2-1846. FAMILY RELATIONS COMMITTEE 302 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. For appointment. in Philadelphia telephone HOUSTON- Live Oak Friend s Meeting, MArket 7-3576 Sunday, 11 a.m., Council of Churches John Charles Wynn, MAdison 8-8069, in Building, 9 Chelsea Place. Clerk, Walter the evenlnJr, Quaker books, British and American, bloJrl'a­ Whitson; JAckson 8-6413. For appointments with Dr. Lovett Dewees write him at Glen Millo, Pa., or telephone phies, new books, large selection of children' s Globe 9-2474. books. Any book in print will be ordered. UTAH For appointments with Dr. Genevra Driscoll Mail and telephone orders filled promptly, telephone WElsh Valley 4-7118 after 8 p.m. Branch, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. SALT LAXB CITY-Meeting for worship, Sundays, 9:30 a.m., 232 University Street. VIRGINIA Elnwood Convalescent Home ASK OUR OPINION CLEAB.BB.OOX-Meetlng for worship at OF YOUR SECURITIES Hopewell Meeting House, First-days a.t Baltimore Pike & Lincoln Avenue 10:15 a.m.; First-day school at 11 a.m. Swarthmore, Pa. LINCOLN-Goose Creek U nited Meeting House. Meeting for worship, 11:15 a.m., Telephone Klngswood 3·0272 HECKER & CO. First-day school, 10 a.m. Members of New York Stock Exchange WINCHESTEB.- Centre Meeting House, corner of Washington and P iccadilly Private and semiprivate rooms LIBERTY TRUST BUILDING Streets. Meeting for worship, First-days at 10:15 a.m.; First-day school, 10:45 a.m. Quiet 10-acre estate Brood and Arch Streets 24-hour understanding nursing care Philadelphia 7, Pa. WASHINGTON LOcust 4-3SOO SEATTLE-University Friends Meeting, Under personal •upervi&ion of CHARLES J. ERICKSON 3959 15th Avenue, N.E. W orship, 10 a.m.; discussion period and First-day school, 11 MRS. ELLEN M. wOOD Registered Representative a.m. Telephone ME lrose 9983. Septen1ber 6, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 5ll

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