By Abigail Ann Hamblen Have Stood in the Van of Every Moral Conflict, and Achieved All That Is Noble in the History of the World
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Quaker Thought and Life Today VOLUME 7 NOVEMBER 1, 1961 NUMBER 21 IN THIS ISSUE Aaron's Golden Calf f!l:a cho<en huoes of by Henry T. Wilt this earth have been in a mi nority. There is not a social, political, or religious privil ege that you enjoy today that Affirmation of Life: The John Wood was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient Case suffering of the minority that . by Abigail Ann Hamblen have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. Friends Conference in Ghana Discusses -J. B. GouGH Education and Religion • by Paul Blanshard, Jr. The Churches and the Voluntary Migrant THIRTY CENTS • . by Richard Feree Smith $5.00 A YEAR New York and Iowa Yearly M·eetings 438 FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1, 1961 Roger Clark FRIENDS JOURNAL D OGER CLARK, who died on August 28, 1961, at White R nights, England, was born at Greenbank, Street, England, on April 28, 1871, the second son of William Stephens Clark and of Helen Priestman Bright Clark, daughter of the Rt. Hon. John Bright, M.P. In 1888, Roger Clark began his business career at Northover with Clark, Son and Morland, where he learned the practical side of sheepskin dressing and rugmak ing. He also studied the subjects of chemical dyes, leather Published semimonthly, on the first and fifteenth of each dressing and tanning at the Yorkshire College, Leeds. Partner month, at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania (LO 8-7669) by Friends Publishing Corporation in the Northover business in 1896, he became an original WILLIAM HUBBEN director of Clark, Son and Morland, when the limited company Editor MILDRED A. PURNELL BUSH CLINTON was formed in 1899, a position which he retained until retire Associate Editor Business Manager ment. MYRTLE M. WALLEN TACY H. BROWNBACK Advertisements Subscriptions In June, 1900, he married Sarah Bancroft, daughter of CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS William Poole Bancroft of Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. Six RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia South Africa ...................... Maurice Webb, Durban of the seven children of their long and happy marriage are England ...................... Horace B. Pointing, London Joan Hewitt, London living; there are 23 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. France .................. ............... Wolf Mend!, Paris Germany .............................. Anni Halle, Berlin Coming from a long line of Quaker ancestors, Roger Clark India ............................ Benjamin Polk, Calcutta Japan ........ .............. ...... Paul M. Sekiya, Tokyo took his full share in the activities of the Society of Friends. Kenya ......... Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Kabete For many years he held the office of Clerk of London Yearly Scandinavia ......... ...... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway Midwest (Five Years) ... Errol T. Elliott, Indianapolis, Ind. Meeting. West Coast ................ Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. In being a lifelong abstainer and a staunch supporter of BOARD OF MANAGERS 1958-1961: Carol P . Brainerd, Arthur M. Dewees, Miriam the Western Temperance League he was following hereditary E. Jones, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood, Mildred B. Young. 1959-1962: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, principles. A Liberal in politics, he combined with his liberal Bliss Forbush, Lawrence McK._Miller, Jr., Philip Stoughton, ism a very broad-minded and sympathetic approach to human Carl F. Wise. 1960-1968: Mary C. Calhoun, Eleanor S. Clarke, James Frorer, Francis Hortenstine, Emily Cooper and social problems and a never-flagging interest in education. Johnson, Elizabeth H. Kirk, Elizabeth Wells. THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five In this and in all his work for the community's well-being dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help his wife shared to the full. In memory of their son, Hadwen meet the over-all cost of publication. Make checks pay able to Friends Publishing Corporation. Contributions Priestman Clark, who died in boyhood, they gave to Street in are tax-exempt. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions: $5.00 1928 the Hindhayes School for Children, a pioneer in the field a year, $2.75 for six months. Foreign countries, including Canada and Mexico: $5.50 a year. Single copies: twe11ty of infant education. Roger Clark also shared with his brother cents, unless otherwise noted. Checks should be made and sisters in the gift to Elmhurst School of an assembly hall payable to Friends Journal. Sample copies sent on request. Second Class Postage Paid at Philadelphia, Pa. as a memorial to their father. For many years Roger Clark was one of the Overseers for the Poor of the parish. H e served as a trustee of many of Street's institutions such as the Crispin Hall-as well as put ting in much personal work in the Club and Institute, for a period as Secretary and later as President-the Library, the Contents Page Strode School, and the T echnical Institute, and was a valued Roger Clark . 438 member of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural His Editorial Comments ............................. 439 tory Society, the Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, and the Aaron's Golden Calf-Henry T. Wilt ............. 440 Historical Society, of which last he was the Hon. Treasurer. Spires-Dan Kinsey ............................ 441 He was also a member of the Street Higher Education Com Affirmation of Life: The john Wood Case- mittee, which he first joined more than 50 years ago. Abigail Ann Hamblen ....................... 442 He was a member of the Somerset County Council for 11 Friends Conference in Ghana Discusses Education years from the mid-thirties until he retired in 1947. and Religion-Paul Blansha1·d, Jr. .......... .. 443 Roger Clark liked and lived a simple life but a life of The Churches and the Voluntary Migrant-Richard constant activity in all that he held to be for the good of his Feree Smith .... ............. ...... .... ... 444 fellow men, for whom he felt and to whom he at all times New York Yearly Meeting-Frances B. Compter .... 445 showed sympathy and kindly considerateness. He read widely, Books ........... .............................. 446 he was fond of music and paintings; he was a natural choice Iowa Yearly Meeting, Conservative - Herbert C. as President of Street's Society of Arts. H e was Treasurer of Standing . 448 Rutland Boughton's Glastonbury Festival just before and Friends and Their Friends . 449 after the First World War. His knowledge of and interest in Letters to the Editor . 452 (Continued on page 448) FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955) ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 1, 1961 VoL. 7 -No. 21 Editorial Comments The Moscow Peace Pilgrims in the peace message prevailed in spite of some futile SOVIET propaganda film once showed an old attempts of Russian professors or meeting chairmen to A Russian peasant pulling his plow because he did curtail discussions. Thoughts entirely new to the Rus not· own even a horse. Before and after work he made sians received a hearing. the sign of the cross and bowed in all directions to l?espeak God's blessings upon his labors. The film then The Message for Us showed a tractor from a collective farm. A strong young The diplomatic game of our statesmen is somehow man ran it, smoking a cigarette and singing joyfully, at the point of appearing outdated and wearisome. It while the machine worked for him much more efficiently continues to nourish the sense of fear that prevails in than a hand- or horse-drawn plow could. the United States more than anywhere else in the world. Nobody will wish that the peasants should ever have We are beginning to feel haunted. \,Ye barely manage to labor as hard as they did before 1917. At the same to gallop ahead of the next poll that once more will time we know that Russia has suffered great losses with measure our heartbeats to compute the increase of the disappearance of the simple faith that upheld people danger. In contrast to our diplomats, the peace marchers in times of suffering. The spiritual history of Old Rus chose a medieval technique to spread their undiplo sia is inseparably linked with the story of the pilgrims matic message. Many of us had doubts about such a slow who crisscrossed Russia's soil from one comer to the moving enterprise in an age of instant global communi other in search of God. They shared their prayers as cation. But even Mrs. Khrushchev received the peace well as their poverty with the plain people in country marchers-how clever and wise a gesture! And the world and city, and many of them deserved their reputation listened. For a moment her boorish husband was for of being endowed with rare spiritual insight. The God gotten, together with the "boom of sorrow" that occupies seeking pilgrim has disappeared from the Russian scene, us more than the boom of our war industries. as have so many other symbols of Russian piety. Are peace marches and vigils perhaps an answer also How strange that now, 45 years after the revolution, to the frustrated pacifist who despairs of finding his way we hear again of pilgrims. Their message attracts the beyond wishing, thinking, and praying? Does the return Russian public more than the routine notes which the to medieval ways point to ways of the future? Are our diplomats toss across the border like unruly boys who thoughts at long last to rise above the uncanny word of hurl stones at each other. This vicious ping-pong game King Hezekiah, who said, "Children have come to the has pleased militarists everywhere, benefited the military birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth" (2 economy, and kept journalists busy in their effort to Kings 19:3)? make the public docile from sheer exhaustion.