A Quaker Weekly
VOLUME 1 DECEMBER 31, 1955 NUMBER 27
IN THIS ISSUE
#EVEN disUke talk, or specially dislike talk, about obeying God, as if He were The Substance of Hope some Stalin or Hitle1·: I can not think that He wants me . . . . . by Dorothy Steere to obey Him: what He wants, I think, is that I should learn to cooperate, quietly and in complete freedom, with His Michael Scott Speaks blessed and blessing will, that ...... by Winifred F. Courtney will of His which I discover deep in my own heart as my own will also-as the best, essential me. E umenical World News -VICTOR GOLLANCZ . . . . . by J. Bernard Haviland
Fifth National Conference of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO by Esther Holmes Jones
FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY $4.00 A YEAR 422 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 31, 1955 One World Two Centuries Ago FRIENDS JOURNAL Letter from the Past-155 T IKE other persons I have supposed that the life of L our ancestors as compared with ours was very pro vincial and restricted in information. Without modern communications what could they know of world affairs and how could they have laid upon them "the burden of the world's suffering"? To test this somewhat unmodest sense of our superi ority, a device occurred to me. I was reminded by some Published weekly at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, items in the Sunday travel section of two bicentennials Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669) By Friends Publishing Corporation being celebrated this year in quite different places, the WILLIAM HUBBEN JEANNE CAVIN defeat of General Braddock's army near Fort Duquesne Editor and Manager Advertisements MILDRED A. PURNELL LOUISE K. CLEMENT in Western Pennsylvania and the evacuation of the Associate Editor Subscriptions Acadians from Grand-Pre. My memory of the "One CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia Ross Shay" added to these the Lisbon earthquake. Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban En~rland ...... Joan Hewitt, London Seventeen hundred and fifty-five, Horace B. Pointing, London Germany ...... Wilhelm Kohler, Braunsehwei~r That was the year when Lisbon town India . .... , ...... Benjamin Polk, New Delhi Japan ...... Bruce L. Pearson, Osaka Saw the earth open and gulp her down Tatsunosuke Ueda, Tokyo Jordan ...... Graham Leonard, Ramallah And Braddock's army was done so brown. Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway Switzerland ...... Robert J. Leach, Geneva Turkey ...... William L. Nute, Ankara Now what did our Quaker ancestors in Pennsylvania Lake Erie Association ...... Winthrop M. Leeds, Pittsbur~rh Midwest (Five Years) ...... Russell E. Rees, Richmond know about these things? The answer, of course, is that New England ...... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartferd West Coast ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. they knew nothing immediately. To learn when and BOARD OF MANAGERS how they came to know, I took the trouble to hunt up 1955-1956: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Margaret and go through the two contemporary Philadelphia L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr., Sarah F. Splint. 1966-1967: Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. Curtis, Arthur newspapers for the year. I found out that although the M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. Johnson. 1966- 1968: Carol P. Brainerd, Willis H. Satterthwaite, Lydia Pennsylvania journal and Weekly Advertiser and the F. Taylor, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood. THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five Pennsylvania Gazette appeared each Thursday in small dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all cost of publication. size as well as small print, the foreign or distant news SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States and possessions: $4.00 a year, $2.00 for six months. Foreign countries: was much more conspicuous in their pages than the local $4.60 a year. Single copies: fifteen cents. Cheeka should be made payable to Friends Publishing Corporation. news. This news had, of course, none of the competi Sample copies sent on request. tion for the attention of readers that we are exposed to Re-entered as second-class matter July 7, 1966, at the post office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the Aet of today. Mareh 8, 1879, · Incomplete information about the engagement near the Monongahela on July 9 was reported cautiously in the Pennsylvania journal for the 24th, and a week later both papers printed a circumstantial eye-witness ac count, indicating also what happened to the several officers, including the death of Braddock himself and Contents Page the unwounded survival of an aide then little known: One World Two Centuries Ago-Letter from "Mr. Washington had two horses shot under him and the Past- 155 ...... 422 his clothes shot through in several places, behaving the Editorial Comments ...... 423 whole time with the greatest courage and resolution." Six months after the event the two papers were able to The Substance of Hope- Dorothy Steere . . . . 424 provide their readers with what is rarely done today, Michael Scott Speaks-Winifred F. Cow·tney .. 426 an account of the engagement from the other side, "The Fifth National Conference of the U.S. National French Account of the Battle on the Monongahela." Commission for UNESCO- Esther Holmes The issue of the journal containing this item (No. ]ones ...... 428 683, January 8, 1756) contains also references to the two Ecumenical World News-]. Bernard Haviland 429 other events, namely, two letters from Portugal about Friends and Their Friends ...... 430 (Continued on page 430) FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRiEND (1827-1955) and FRiENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)
ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 31, 1955 VOL. 1-No. 27
Editorial Comments The New Year this thought uppermost in our minds: that which we HE turn of a new year has been likened to the did in the past or will do in the future can las t only to T closing of one door and the opening of a new one. the degree in which it is done in the spirit of obedience We do this closing and opening of doors daily so that and Christian love. We must make sure that a door has it becomes a mechanical matter, so mechanical that really been closed and that the door opened leads to a frequently we have to make sure a second time that a new and better room, that the anxieties of the past will door has really been closed. But closed or not, the room no longer need to becloud our vision of the future, and left behind remains with us. It is part of the inventory that our local satisfactions will not terminate in a mood of our mind. of parochial containment. When we close the old year to enter a new one, the Nowadays bold statements about God swarm over the closing seems even less definitive. We carry into the pages of our theological literature. These writers speak new year our human problems as well as our hopes. Our glibly of the nature of God and God's intentions for actions occur in a continuity that takes little heed of man. They ought to teach caution to those of us who the calendar. We are likely to make some kind of re speak readily about God's will for Friends, who act as statement, public or silent, of our good resolutions and though they believe in a kind of theological gold stand hopes. We pronounce heartfelt wishes to our friends ard and ignore man's progress in recognizing truth. But and neighbors. We relax momentarily from the tensions it seems safe to say that God's plans for Friends have and alarms which usually hold sway over our minds. a purpose far beyond the margins of our Society. This But after that the demands of every day assert them is the time to realize that Friends have a unique mes selves again. sage to articulate within the Christian world. The em phases on clerical guidance and theological dogma so A New Call evident at the 1954 World Council Assembly are not The year 1955 ranks in the history of the Religious our only challenges. Our religious testimonies for peace Society of Friends as one of special significance. Events and racial equality are far from being accepted by most in Philadelphia symbolized the closing of one door quite of our fellow Christians. Fundamentalism must not be independently from the order of our calendar. These permitted to reduce our faith in the inner light to a events had their effect beyond local history and the story sectarian attribute. It is our central tenet, to be shared of Friends General Conference. We have opened a door by all Christians. These affirmations are at the core of leading to new visions and concrete hopes, one that looks George Fox's "unity with all creation." We maintain that upon new spiritual and social hospitality. This step is these beliefs need expression in a way of life, and it is already spreading a sense of spaciousness over the Society more urgent to petition for God's help in the years to such as American Quakerism may not have felt for come than to claim His blessings for positions we may generations. We are beginning to realize that matters have taken in the past. of organization and perhaps even some traditions must give way to the abiding spiritual heritage of our for The Eternal Now bears. The inventory of the house they built will serve Such considerations imply an encounter with truth all the future. independent of tiine and the order of the calendar. Truth A new year in the realm of the spirit takes no heed is eternal and sometimes hard to recognize· when it ap of our astronomical order. And, again, unlike our calen pears in time. That aspect of it may blind us to the dar year, its impact is such that we can forgive and chances before our very eyes. There is something sad forget the past more easily than in purely human affairs. about the self-assured believer who specializes in de Philadelphia Friends were favored with a most felicitous nouncing atheism in Russia while ignoring the atheism expression of gratitude for the newly found unity. They of our own deeds at home. Not only are we tired of the spoke of it as God's own work. It behooves us to keep unproductive repetition of confessions of faith; we are 423 424 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 31, 1955 even more disillusioned by the absence of faith in our of God in flashes of momentous insights or in quietly own actions. The gospel contains some telling illustra offered opportunities for service. "Happy is the man, tions about this duality from which all of us are apt to who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting suffer. But whether we fail or are obedient to the inner beside my doors. For he who finds me finds life and call, doors and years are opening before us by the grace obtains favor from the Lord" (Proverbs 8:34).
The Substance of Hope By DOROTHY STEERE
HE title of this talk is taken from that passage in hope, but seeing the substance of things hoped for also T the Bible which says, "Faith is the substance of increases faith. It works both ways. things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen." There is nothing worse than a sentimentalist who In our two trips in the last four years we have seen wears a forced smile and goes about being sugary-sure much that has been disquieting and that has made us when the world seems tumbling about us. But there are wonder how men could be so cruel to other men and those who select despair only, and they are just as hard how governments could go on building power that would to endure. It is necessary to be realistic, but that doesn't seem to have no termination except in destruction. It mean blinding ourselves to the evidences of good in is easy enough to be pessimistic and disheartened and to people or the world. Hope and vision are both necessary feel that the substance of things hoped for leaves little to keep the people from perishing. room for faith, and that if you have any faith, it surely I expect that one of the most difficult things for us must rest in the things unseen, for it would seem that as a young nation and for the young of our nation is the ocean of darkness and death all but overwhelms the to keep from insisting that unless good things come to ocean of light and love. birth and are realized in their lifetimes, they are of no The Substance and Evidence of Hope use. I am not at all sure that modern young people Some of you have heard me say that years ago when would agree with Wordsworth when he says, I went to college my father and I had a talk which I Enough if something from our hands have power have never forgotten. We had been discussing the strug To live, and act, and serve the hour, gles you might encounter going off on your own for the And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, first time, and at the end of the conversation he looked Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent at me with great tenderness and said, "Dorothy, you will dower, always find what you are looking for." He was thinking We feel that we are greater than we know.... especially of people and groups and organizations. In To "feel that we are greater than we know" "through the years that have followed I have learned that there is love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower" isn't a great deal of truth in what he said. enough for people who want to see results here and now, Much of what you see does depend upon what you or at least before they leave this life. It is hard to work for are looking for. But does that make of it an illusion? the good as if it were coming tomorrow, and at the same My daughter has expressed the danger of refusing to time to realize without losing heart that our goals may admit the darkness and hopelessness if you are intent on be years and even generations away, or that they may , seeing the things which make for hope. But in a world be known only in an eternal order of thing~. "There like ours, with journalists and politicians and men of may not be time for this kind of future hope," we cry affairs shouting gloom from every newspaper and broad not with all the forces of destruction we have at our casting company or giving us words which send us first disposal. up and then down in our moods or elation or anguish, It is here that our faith needs to be strongest. If we it is important that we not lose sight of the substance can believe that there is a God working in the processes and evidence of hope. One's faith helps one to see this of history, that He is operative in our world and in our lives, and that He longs for our good, we can feel that This is the major part of the talk Dorothy Steere gave before we are in His hands, and that "in some good time,· His the Women's Problems Group, Philadelphia, on December 9, 1955. In the latter part of her talk she shared with her audience some good time, we shall arrive." Because of our faith in .·a of the experiences she had on her recent world trip with Douglas loving, caring God who holds us in the midst of anything Steere. that may happen to us, we Christians should say as Paul December 31, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 425 said to Timothy, "God hath not given us the spirit of hope is the stronger," and he goes on to say, "The Church fear but a spirit of power and love and of a sound mind." is well-founded on the joy human beings take in sharing No Lost Good their hope." I b~lieve t_h~t more of us could bear the uncertainty A sick and faithless generation, just as a sick and . ?f havmg positive goods come into being in our lifetime faithless person, tends to select despair: "What will be 1f we could feel that there is no lost good. I am not sure come of us, of me?" But those whose faith in God is liv ing have a health that communicates itself to others, and wher~ this convic.tion of mine has come from. It prob ably 1s a composite of the Bible and Browning and a a confidence which comes from confidence in God and number of other books and persons who have strength His spirit operative in man. ened my own intuition of the way a good God must Evolution of Awareness work. But I bel_ieve with all my heart that every act, every We have progressed in our world to the place where wor_d, every attltude and longing that is creative is caught many have caught a vision of the kind of world we might up mto the heart of the Eternal and is preserved. In this be living in. Our consciences have evolved. We have sense man is greater than he knows. He is more than come to the place where we see not only that physical he se:ms. What each one of us does is more important violence is abhorrent, but that psychological violence is ~an 1t would appear, and hope can "spring eternal," for also abhorrent. We feel this in many areas of our life, 1ts triumph, if we are in the hands of God, is ultimate·. in child labor laws, in changed sweated-labor practices in the treatment of the insane (although there is a Faith in God Ion~ way to go yet in this field), in prisons, in discriminatory The "reason of the hope there is in you," as far as practices, in our uneasiness that war is the solution to the Bible is concerned, comes from one's faith in God. conflict. There is this "evolution of awareness," as Claude Do you remember how the psalmist cries, "Why art thou Bragshaw says in The Delphic Woman, "an increasing ca.st ~own, oh my soul? And why art thou disquieted realization, through fret and friction of time and space, w1thm me? Hope thou in God"? of that which is timeless and spaceless," or, one might ' In the face of everything that might happen to Israel, say, of that which is necessary, enduring, and good. to the chosen people, in the face of all that cast them Lillian Smith in her little book Now is the Time dow~ and disquieted, the prophets knew that their hope reveals more clearly than I realized before in her writings lay m God. The people often strayed and sinned and the quality of her own inner motivation for the work fell short of His commandments, but with Him there she has done against racial discrimination and where was still hope of salvation. she pins her faith. Speaking of an America that had its God is our hopei But man is not hopeless as long as democratic roots in Christianity and yet practiced segre there is that in him which was put there by God, that gation and discrimination, she says, "We were torn to spark of His own being which can be kindled and ignited pieces. Here was a moral problem, an earth-sized ambi and can burn with a flame that is not his own. Men and guity that would give our souls and our world no peace women with this flame have lived in every generation until it was solved . . .. The long cold war with our and have played their part in keeping men's consciences consciences had begun." There is vast hope in this crea uneasy about the evil and the suffering and sickness in tive guilt. And Lillian Smith shows her faith when she the world about them; they remained uneasy until some says, "The power of integrity and truth is so strong, thing was done to alleviate conditions as they found even a few speaking out at a critical time can close off them. God will not let us go until we work not only to the wrong path and start men on the right one. . . . perfect ourselves but to perfect the world we are placed [This might be the great historian Toynbee speaking!] in, and to make it a comfortable place for others besides There is no situation in the world today that is too diffi ourselves. cult to solve. If we could only believe it! Our difficulties . But ofte_n enoug~ ou_r minds and souls are besieged east and west lie in our state of mind. . . . Faith in our w1th numbmg or mbblmg fears, and pessimism holds moral strength will return to us too; as the old guilts us inert. And so we need to share the hope which we grow small, hope will grow large." have with one another "and be ready," as the Bible says "always to give an answer to everyone that asketh vo~ a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness ~nd During this season some local delays in mail delivery fear." are likely to occur. We suggest that our subscribers in In De Pury's journal From My Cell, which tells so quire at the local post office when copies of the FRIENDS JouRNAL do not arrive on time. Each issue is mailed graphically the substance of this prisoner's hope, he says regularly on Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia. "Despair consumes you, crushes you, destroys you, bu~ 426 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 31, 1955 Michael Scott Speaks By WINIFRED F. COURTNEY ANYONE who has attended sessions of the United the movement of low-flying helicopters and boats in the 1"1.. Nations General Assembly when a matter involv East River. Here are heard some of the representatives ing the great Christian principles of human charity and of non-self-governing territories who come with dignity justice is at issue will have sometimes despaired at the to plead their cause before the great and the established endless wrangles which take place there. And yet, occa nations of the earth, a number of whom now share their sionally, humanity breaks through the procedure, the color and have known their aspirations. protocol, and the smooth-spoken expositions of the Waiting vested interest and the status quo. Then to attend and The morning was devoted to a discussion of whether to watch in partisanship can be a stirring experience. the Southwest Africa subcommittee was legally entitled One such day was Friday, November 11, 1955, in the to hear oral petitions, and disagreement was such that Fourth (Trusteeship) Committee debating the subject of a resolution to refer the question to the International Southwest Africa. To understand the occasion one must Court was decisively passed. Michael Scott sat in the know that Southwest Africa was a mandate under the press gallery as usual, waiting as he had year after year. League of Nations entrusted to the Union of South This day it seemed as if the morning's resolution would Africa after the First World War- a territory rich in effectively prevent his being heard. natural resources but poor in water, with most of her "But," said the delegate from Thailand just before native peoples confined to
not be held responsible for their departure.) But the can, the New Zealander, the Australian, and the English Committee's warmth, respect, and sympathy for the man did not stir, listening in spite of themselves. No man in the gallery were becoming unmistakable. India one chattered, hardly any moved about in the stillness and the U. S. S. R . added their pleas to the rising chorus -a contrast to the activity and consultation which had of yeas. gone on all day. It was 5:15. At 4:30 the young woman from Liberia again re For 40 minutes Michael Scott spoke, and for 40 min quested the vote. But there was still the document; the utes the more than 300 people in the room listened with delegates had not yet had a chance to read the precis of intense concentration. Scott spoke of the hope of the Mr. Scott's proposed remarks. The document, said the Herero people, who had waited nine years for the chair, would be ready in half an hour. United Nations to rescue them from the evil conditions The Committee adjourned to wait. I was sitting with in which they lived, of their poverty, of their helpless Gladys Walser, the international observer for the ness under oppression, of their lack of medical facilities. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the voice was quiet and inexorable; so must the Hebrew who h as assisted Michael Scott in the past. She thought prophets have spoken, challenging the conscience of he needed a cup of tea, and he was agreeable. We went their times. The stirrings of conscience were almost a up to the crowded cafeteria, where he seemed tense and presence in this room. This, he said, is what is being preoccupied with the long ordeal, a very lonely figure. done to these people who have put their trust in us, Gladys did her best to distract him. Did we think he and who are not allowed to come and speak for them might be called upon to speak today? From the in selves. This is what could be done for them through the terminable progress of the debate I thought not. Gladys United Nations in the way of technical assistance. This disagreed. He fingered some clippings from his briefcase is a letter from Hosea Kutako, the old Herero chief. and worried about the time. We returned to the cham This is our responsibility, which we cannot evade. ber almost in silence 'under the burden of his respon "Where One Suffers, All Suffer" sibility. A correspondent asked him for a copy of his And then, when it was over, the audience sat mute, statement for the Asian press. He took up his post again, carried away perhaps by this "living demonstration of away from us. the great Christian truth that we are, whatever our race The delegates reassembled. There was a busy in or nation, all members of one another, and that where terval in which the document was produced and read. one suffers, all suffer," as Michael Scott said on another Objections were raised that it had been prepared in occasion. One felt that even the delegates of the West English only, but these apparently were merely for the ern Christian nations knew in that moment the magni record. There had not been time for translations, the tude of our failures in brotherhood, and that what they chair said, and now, if the delegates were agreed, they knew in their hearts they would one day acknowledge. would proceed to the vote. The rollcall vote began. Michael Scott's power, which even his critics admit, Gladys and I feverishly recorded each vote as it came is that what he speaks he also lives. This was the man - "si ... non ... oui . _ . no ... abstention.... " who had braved the anti-Indian riot in Durban, who But from the start the ayes had it, 29 to 11, with 10 ab had faced the angry owners of farm prisons in the Trans stentions, including the U. S. A. vaal, who had suffered jail for trying to bring order to Victory a shantytown in Johannesburg, who has endured the The chair said, "And now, in view of Mr. Scott's lonely path of persecution in the way of his Master, and presence in this room . . .," and an official started to who asserts Christian ethic in terms no man can forget. ward the door. The morning's defeat was turned to vic On Sunday Michael Scott delivered an impassioned tory. Scott's work, the hopes of those he was to speak for, sermon in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, ex and the waiting had not been in vain. The focus of at tending his theme in terms of the great Christian tradi tention shifted to the press gallery and the tall, ascetic tion. On Monday he testified the whole day in answer figure with the briefcase and clerical collar, who now to Fourth Committee questions. On Tuesday South stood. His descent to the floor and across it to the peti Africa took umbrage again and closed her U. N. offices tioners' table seemed endless. Arriving there, he sat at this "calculated affront" on the part of the Fourth down very deliberately with his back to us, and quietness Committee, which she considered more serious than the settled over the chamber. He adjusted his papers with first. out hurry. One need not rejoice at the discomfort of an in Then the voice, reading slowly and without vitupera transigeant nation, nor wonder that one man could have tion in beautiful eloquent English, began. The Ameri- such an effect on her. Rather may we dwell on the gentle 428 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 31, 1955 prayer of Hosea Kutako at Michael Scott's leave-taking, a multiplier is the Pilot Public Library project in New Delhi, petition in hand, in 1946: "You are the great God of all which was wanted by the local people. No such library had the earth and heaven. We are so insignificant. In us existed, and a library expert went to India to set it up. there are many defects. But the power is yours to make UNESCO'S investment was light during five years; lndia's was heavy. In October 1955. when an Asian Conference was and to do what we cannot do. Yo~ know all about us. held there, this library system for the advancement of educa For coming down to earth you were despised, and tion was observed by many other countries. Another example mocked. and brutally treated because of those same de of the idea of multiplying information is the European Cen fects in the men of those days. And for those men you ter for Nuclear Research. which is being built outside of prayed because. they did not understand what they were Geneva under a treated drafted by UNESCO and signed by doing, and that you came only for what is right. 0 12 European nations. UNESCO has contributed $25,000, but Lord, help us who roam about. Help us who have been the nations have pledged $28,000,000 for seven years. placed in Africa and have no dwelling .place of our own. Dr. A. F. Spilhans of the University of Minnesota told of Give us back a dwelling place. 0 God, all power is the plans for a International Geophysical year in 1957-58. yours in Heaven and Earth. Amen." Physical scientists of 40 nations are banding together to study These are the voices that are slowly coming to be the physics of our planet and the extraterrestrial forces, to heard. help us withstand better the vicissitudes of our physical environment. In its Arid Zone program UNESCO has given high prior ity to the encouragement of research on desert control and Fifth National Conference of the U.S. water supply. In the round table on this subject a report was National Commission for UNESCO given of the recent New Mexico International Symposiu~ on the "Future of our Arid Lands." About one half of the HE Fifth National Conference of the United States Na United States is arid or semiarid. The Rio Grande River basin T tional Commission for UNESCO met in Cincinnati, Ohio, will be an experimental zone. November 3 to 5. The theme, "UNESCO: The First Nine In a panel discussion at the third plenary session on "The Years--An American Appraisal and Forecast," was considered National Interest and Foreign Language" it was stated that by over 1,000 delegates, who met in plenary sessions and in the child should "begin a second language in the first grade 20 different round tables to study the agency's program in at the latest." Imitative learning declines as a child ap advancing the educational, scientific, and cultural relations proaches adolesence, and at this age analytical learning in among the peoples of the world in the cause of peace. creases. We need both imitative and analytical processes in Dr. Luther H. Evans, director general, started his address language learning, and we are gener~lly wasting our imitative by discarding his prepared speech on the past nine years and resources. in a compliment to his audience talked about the main plans Consideration was given during this conference to the for the future work of UNESCO. He stated that the UNESCO question of what kind of ambassadors are the one million Charter contained a statement of the ideals of all peoples for Americans who now are traveling abroad each year; and to all time. the question of what kind of hosts we are to the 450,000 per The four principal programs ahead, if governments ap sons who visit our country each year. prove, will be: At the last session Sir Zafrulla Khan, a distinguished Mus (1) The training of teachers for Latin American lim, former Prime Minister of Paki~tan and a member of the schools so that all children may have a basic education. International Court of Justice, stated that the future history (2) Research on arid lands from Turkey to Ceylon and of man is to be a joint adventure in all the spheres of life. the utilization of sun and wind power, which is much All main cultures derive from religion. All religious leaders more economical than atomic energy. have come from the East, including Jesus. He stayed in the (3) Increase of understanding between the East and East; Peter and Paul went to the West. The different cultures the West. (This includes the real meaning of East and need each other. The East desires things the West enjoys, West-teaching the philosophy of one to the other.) while retaining the essential values of its own culture. It can (4) The preparation of reading material for illiterates- make a large contribution to the balance of spirit and mind. literature related to life. This is a large project for Asia It expects the United States to live up to the principles of and South America. its Declaration of Independence. These are matters of high UNESCO represents high ideals and common sense based resolve. The personality of every individual is his most on experience. The program is making ideas concrete, pick· precious possession. It is the background of the "dignity and ing up people where they are and pushing them forward. It worth of the human being." promotes rather than executes: it acts as a catalyst. Preliminary The summary remarks at this conference truly stated that research is necessary, though human knowledge is available the "floodlights of our distinguished speakers had illuminated to a larger degree than we are willing to use it. One of the examples of ways in which UNESCO acts as the dark places in our minds." ESTHER HoLMES JoNES December 31, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 429
whose representatives not only have legally recognized status Ecumenical at the United Nations but influence the decision-making process in its halls." World News The organization of the World Council of Churches which concern itself particularly with representation of the churches' OHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., recently presented the point of view in the U.N. is called The Commission of the J World Council of Churches with a gift of $260,000 with Churches on International Affairs. The director of the Com which to study Christian responsibility in Asia and AfriCa mission is 0 . Frederick Nolde, who is also dean of the Gradu where rapid social and economic changes are causing such ate School of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadel troubles. The study will require three years to complete. This phia. Under his leadership Dr. Nolde's organization has pro procedure is a characteristic technique of the W.C.C.; it is ceeded cautiously and constructively. He believes that the hoped that clear analysis of the nature of the .diffi culties in W.C.C. should limit its official pronouncements to broad state the economic and social life of these countries may suggest to ments of principle and should not urge action of a specific people who are best qualified, solutions to problems, or at political character upon any government or group of govern least means of relieving the most serious tensions. ments since such definite advice can be made only on a day-to These two paragraphs taken from a speech delivered last day basis and with particular political developments in view. spring at a conference at Buck Hill Falls by Dr. Richard M. On the other hand, he insists that Christian responsibility Fagley suggest the nature of the problems this study will should not stop with general pronouncements. Unofficially, grapple with: and in private conversation, he believes that particular meas "The main reason that it is so difficult for the underdevel ures can be proposed and discussed with representatives of oped countries to lift themselves by their own bootstraps is national governments in the U.N., thus encouraging in a per that their income is so close to the level of subsistence that sonal and friendly way frank and unhesitating discussion. little is available for capital formation. Colin Clark has cal Unobtrusively, and with a considerable degree of anonymity, culated the purchasing power of a rupee in 1948-49, which he the C.C.I.A. has helped to form certain important political _calls an 'oriental unit.' On this basis, the national income per events, such as the cease-fire in Korea and the present discus person in the U.S. and Canada would amount to some 7,000 sion of disarmament. I have learned that Dr. Nolde is puzzled oriental units. The corresponding figures for most of Asia by the attitude of Friends toward the C.C.I.A. He wonders and Africa range from 400 to under 100 units. Indi~ is in the why Friends have set up an organization at the U.N. which 150-200 unit category. Thus when India proposes to devote as seems to be parallel to and in many respects duplicating the much as 12 per cent of her national product in 1961 to expan· work of the C.C.I.A. sion and development, Chester Bowles rightly asks whether 'the It is instructive for Friends to realize that the W.C.C. high taxes necessary for this savage belt-tightening [can] be through its Division of Interchurch Aid and Service to Refu voted by a democratic Parliament without a political explosion.' gees has performed an immense task. Thirty-one and a half "The slow accumulation of capital which took place in the millions of dollars in 1954 was spent for Interchurch Aid all West is not a viable alternative for a number of the under over the world; three and a half million of this went to Korea, developed countries of today, because of another type of explo churches in Canada, England, Australia, India, Germany, Nor sion-the explosion of population. The main initial impact way, Sweden, and Denmark participating, along with 20 dif of Western techniques has been felt in the field of public ferent churches in the U.S. This money was not actually health. Rapid declines in death rates have occurred. A dra administered by the W.C.C., but the W.C.C. advised in its matic example is Ceylon, where vital statistics are relatively distribution. ln 1954, $723,000 was distributed for the Divi accurate. Here the application of comparatively inexpensive sion's own projects. Over half of this was spent on service to public health measures, such as DDT to control malaria, has refugees themselves. In 1954, 9,525 people were moved from helped to cut the death rate from 20.3 per thousand in 1946 where they had no home to another country, where a home to a provisional figure of 10.9 in 1953. Since there has been was provided for them. In addition to this figure, 5,967 were no corresponding decrease in birth rates in the less developed moved by the Lutheran World Federation, and about 1,000 countries, those with a dense population face an extremely were moved by other Protestant agencies, including Friends. critical situation. The success of India's strenuous Five Year Those of you who have been connected with this work through Plan, for example, is imperative if the standard of living is to your local Meeting or in other ways will realize the com be maintained, let alone improved." plexity and difficulty of the task, and will appreciate the scope Joseph E. Johnson, president of the Carnegie Endowment of the accomplishment. for International Peace, speaking before a Harvard audience, This work, of meeting human need in the name of Christ, called attention to "a tremendous growth in a 'peoples-to is in serious danger o'fo.baving to be severely curtailed through peoples' relationship in matters directly involving, or border lack of funds. Although U.S. churches have supported the ing on, public policy. Such nongovernmental organizations as program generously, and although non-American churches in the World Council of Churches and the International Con creased their contributions by 19 per cent last year, the need federation of Free Trade Unions are today transnational far outstrips the funds available. powers, whose voices are heeded in national capitals, and In all the practical work of the W.C.C. one question is 430 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 31, 1955
asked whenever a project is mentioned: Will this project truly Friends and Their Friends minister to human need in the name of Christ, and if so, how will it happen? Winifred Courtney's interesting article was in our hands I shall be glad to hear from any of you who have ques before the U. N. decided on December 6 to discontinue now tions you would like to ask about the work of the W.C.C. If and in 1956 the discussion of the issue in question. We are I do not know the answer, I shall try to find out. The answers publishing her article, nevertheless, as one illustrating the to your questions may constitute the substance of other articles significance of the problem as well as the moral courage of a similar to this. valiant individual. J. BERNARD HAVILAND, Representative of Friends General Conference on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Con "An increasing number of tourists, including many Quakers, ference of the World Council of Churches now travel around the world," observes the Honolulu Friends Bulletin. "There is a Friends Meeting in Hong Kong, clas sified as 'Particular and Preparatory.' There are nine full members and about 16 active, including some Chinese. In One World Two Centuries Ago April last year the Hong Kong Friends organized an interna (Continued from page 422) tional work camp which was held on Chan Kung (Sunshine the earthquake on November I and the following simple Island). Those attending were of different nationalities, in notice: cluding a party of students from Japan. Traveling Friends Boston, Dec. 29- Friday a large Snow arrived here can give great inspiration and encouragement to this new from Annapolis-Royal in Nova Scotia with 300 project for crowded destitutes, in which the Quakers are French people on Board. carrying on rehabilitation work by resettling homeless families Next week was reported the arrival of two similar ship on Sunshine Island.'' loads, but the human problem behind such impersonal notes was, of course, not indicated. A midwestern university campus has been chosen as the Such events were not, however, as they tend to be site of the first nation-wide interdenominational conference on n?w, matters of mere distant news. Each of them af theological issues in the realm of Faith and Order to be held fected Philadelphia Friends directly. The military de in the United States. It will take place at Oberlin, Ohio, bacle in the West led, as we know, in a few months to September 3 to 10, 1957, under the sponorship of the United States Conference for the World Council of Churches, with the complete withdrawal of Friends from the Pennsyl the cooperation of the National Council of the Churches of vania Assembly. One can follow the resignations and Christ in the U. S. A. and the Canadian Council of Churches. the new elections in subsequent issues of the press. The theme of the conference will be "The Nature of the Unity While in New England the Lisbon earthquake led to We Seek." Alexander Purdy has been appointed to member a great output of speculative pamphlets on the theologi ship on the committee on arrangements for the conference. cal problems raised by such a disaster, Hannah Pember ton of Philadelphia, with the rationalism of a good Quaker lay woman, saw nothing in the event "repugnant "Dane G. and Anne D. Prugh and family," notes the News letter of Haverford Meeting, Pa., "have moved to Rochester, to the nature of things, or what we call the attributes N.Y. Dane Prugh is to develop a department of child psychia of the Divine Being." Her husband, to whom she was try at Rochester University Medical School." writing, and his associates probably reflected much more on its dislocation and damage to their accounts with the Portuguese city, with which the Quaker merchants car Lincoln School, Providence, R. I., at the beginning of its ried on a considerable trade. 75th Anniversary Development Program held a convocation · As for the forcible deportation of the French na in October, at which Dr. Ordway Tead and Dr. Francis Park tionals, or "neutrals," as they were called, that was the man were the speakers. The chairman was Judge Fred B. Perkins. In November a dinner for 300 friends marked the kind of event only too familiar in the modern world. opening of a fund-raising campaign to finance a new Lower When later some of the forlorn victims arrived in Phila School Building and to provide a living endowment for delphia, Anthony Benezet acted in the way familiar to faculty salaries. Friends of our time in bending all his energies to the care and relief of the real Evangelines of history. Hence, while the scale and tempo of events were not the same "Quaker Humanist James Logan as a Classical Scholar" is the title of an interesting and erudite article which Frederick then as now, we are really no different from our fathers B. Tolles of Swarthmore College has contributed to the Octo in being "bound up in the bundle of life" with human- ber 4, 1955, issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History ity's problems the world around. Now AND THEN and Biography. December 31, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 431
Josephine Duveneck, member of the Palo Alto Meeting of The Christmas book list of the Wayfarer, London Quaker Friends and the Northern California Region of the American monthly, warmly recommends Douglas V. Steere's 1955 Swarth Friends Service Committee, received a Lane Bryant Award at more Lecture entitled Where Words Come From and reports a dinner in New York City on November 17. Each year these that a second printing has already become necessary in Eng awards, established by the well-known women's clothing con land. The American edition is entitled On Listening to One cern, are bestowed on two individuals and two organizations Another (Harper and Brothers; $1.50) and will soon be re that have provided voluntary services of outstanding merit to viewed in our pages. American home and community life. Names of the two to be honored this year were chosen from Germantown Friends Adult School, Philadelphia, opens over 600 who were officially nominated. The specific project on January 17 for six consecutive Tuesday evenings. Among for which Josephine Duveneck received the second highest the courses to be offered are "Current Issues in Education," honors was the work done by her among Indians of California "Six Famous Lawsuits: The U. S. Supreme Court," "Creative in an effort to help them prepare for all the problems they Writing: The Short Story," and "Refinishing Antique Furni will face with the expected termination of Federal supervision ture." Margaret Cary is to coordinate a seminar on "Religion," of the reservations of California. She visited about hal£ of the with lectures to be given by Henry Cadbury and Frank 82 California reservations in 1953 to find out what services Loescher. Colin Bell is to give a course on "Understanding Friends could best provide. On the basis of these visits she China," and Joseph Price will discuss "Germantown in Penn proposed the program which she and the A.F.S.C. Northern sylvania History." For further information regarding the 20 California Region have been carrying on. c.ourses being offered, telephone Germantown Friends School, This work, of course, is part of the larger A.F.S.C. program GE 8-5714. of work with American Indians in various parts of the United States, which was pioneered by the A.F.S.C. regional office in Southern California. The Pasadena office of the A.F.S.C. pro Last November marked the 85th anniversary of the red vided the spark and the experience which have led to such and black Quaker star. The star was first used as a symbol work in other regions, of which Northern California is one. by the London Daily News during the Franco-Prussian War Winner of the first-award honor was Mrs. Charles Keller, to mark its Fund for the Relief of French Peasantry. Friends Jr., of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans, whose vol at the time were sending food wagons and ambulances to unteer work on the problem of Negro housing has led to the both sides, carrying the British flag on one side and the Red recent opening of the first 200 homes in a project open to Cross on the other. In November 1870 the London Daily News both Negro and white occupancy in New Orleans. invited Friends to share its star emblem, thus helping to re The judges selecting award recipients were Dr. George duce confusion in a situation where a half dozen emblems Gallup, Senator Hubert Humphrey, J. C. Penney, Represen were in use. The original star had minor variations in color tative Frances Bolton, and Mrs. Ivy Priest. from that in current use. The present star was adopted by the American Friends Service Committee six months after its founding, in November 1917. Herbert Locksley, a member of Swarthmore Meeting, Pa., has been in London for a year of advanced medical study as a Harvard traveling fellow. While he was abroad he lectured A group of Friends and those interested in Friends have in London, Manchester, Oxford University, Oslo, Copenhagen, resumed a series of meetings in the San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Stockholm. In mid-July he began as chief neuro-surgeon area that was active for a number of months in the last year at the new veterans' hospital in Boston, Mass. or two. We are reviewing the principles of Quakerism, a project that promises interest and benefit to non-Friends and Friends alike. Information on the meetings (currently Frank Aydelotte is the director of the newly formed Lafa held the first Friday of each month) may be obtained from yette Fund, an organization which encourages Frenchmen to Scott Keyes, Puerto Rico Planning Board, or from John come to America to study. deBeers, Government Development Bank. Needless to say, we would welcome a wider participation and visits from main land Friends. Elmer B. Michelson of Cambridge Meeting, Mass., has JOHN S. DEBEERS been appointed headworker of the East End Union, 105 Spring Street, Cambridge. His social service career includes work with the Boston Children's Aid Association and the Coming Events Home for Jewish Orphans in Chicago, where he lived at Hull House. He also was director of a settlement house in Mil DECEMBER waukee, Wis., and worked with agricultural migrant workers 28 to January I, 1956--Midwinter Institute on the Ministry in California and New Jersey under the A.F.S.C. He has most at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. Subject, "Ministry to the recently taught at the Fessenden School, Massachusetts Insti Individual." Participating, Irene Pickard, Carol Murphy, John tute of Technology, and Dover High School. M. Moore, Robert Clark, Gilbert Kilpack. 432 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 31, 1955
30 to January 1, 1956-Midwinter Conference of Young Coming: Annual Midwinter Conference sponsored by the Friends in the Baltimore Yearly Meetings, at Stony Run Meet Young Friends Movement of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting at ing House, 5116 North Charles Street, Baltimore. Theme, Moorestown, N.J., Meeting House, February 4 and 5. Theme, "Barclay's Teachings and How They May Be Applied to Our '.'So Little Time," as related to the individual, the family, and Lives." Leaders, Bliss Forbush, Byron Branson, Marshall the community. Speakers, Harold Chance on "The Individ Sutton. ual"; Roy and Elizabeth Moger on "The Family"; and Ray JANUARY mond Hartsough on "Community." Age limit, 15 to 25. It is !- Meeting for worship at Huntington Meeting House, hoped that through car pools, Young Friends from New York, York Springs, R. D., Latimore Township, Adams County, Pa., Baltimore, and Washington will feel a concern to be present. 3 p.m. Four persons attended the December 4 meeting. Cost, approximately, $4.00; overnight hospitality will be pro 1-0pen House in the Cafeteria at the Meeting House, vided by Friends of Moorestown Meeting. For further details 221 East 15th Street, New York City, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. This write the Young Friends Movement, 1515 Cherry Street, Phila will be a New Year's party and festival of the New Year, led delphia 2, Pa. by Rachel Davis DuBois. All are cordially invited. BIRTH 8- International Day Forum at Wrightstown Meeting ATKINSON-On December 2, at Greenville, Pa., to Dr. House, Pa., 1:15 p.m.: "Quaker Report and Approaches to Edward K. and Patricia Ann Yocom Atkinson, a son named World Conflict." Speakers, Hugh Moore, Mildred Loescher, DAVID ELLIOTI ATKINSON. The father is a .member of Wrights Alston Waring. Meeting for worship, II a.m.; lunch, 12 noon town, Pa., Monthly Meeting. (bring a box lunch; soup and coffee will be served). 8-Frankford Friends Forum, Unity and Wain Streets, Philadelphia, 3 p.m.: John Otto Reinemann, director of pro DEATHS l;latipn, Municipal Court of Philadelphia, "The Challenge of PEARSON-On December 16, at the Maple Manor Con Juvenile Delinquency." valescent Home, Langhorne, Pa., after a prolonged illness, 8-25th Anniversary Celebration of 57th Street Meeting, HELEN KALER PEARSON, daughter of the late Charles and Chicago, at the founding site of the Meeting, John Woolman Beulah Kaler Pearson. She was a member of Newtown Hall, 1174 East 57th Street, Chicago, afternoon. Monthly Meeting, Pa. 8-Race Street Forum at the Race Street Meeting House, Estelle Simms Hewson Philadelphia, 7 p. m.: John 0. Reinemann, director of proba tion, Municipal Court, Philadelphia, and E. Preston Sharp, Estelle Simms Hewson died on November 27, at Kansas executive director, Youth Study Center, Philadelphia, "The City, Missouri, aged 68. Third daughter of Richard and Flor Challenge of Juvenile Delinquency." ence Greist Simms, she was a lifelong Friend. With her hus band she was active for years in the First Friends Church, Des 13-Friends Forum at Reading, Pa., Meeting House, 108 Moines, Iowa, and later helped initiate the unprogrammed North 6th Street, 8 p.m.: Lyle Tatum, "Conscience versus Meeting there. At the time of her death she was correspond Law." ing clerk of the Penn Valley Meeting in Kansas City. 14-Meeting sponsored by the Committee on Social Order On September 8, 1913, she married Cornell Hewson at the of the four New York City Meetings, at 225 East 15th Street, Indiana Avenue Friends Church, Chicago, Illinois, and in New York City, l to 9 p.m. Study groups on housing, com 1921-22, they served with the American Friends Service Com munity services, youth, and the aging, with resource persons mittee doing famine relief work in Minsk, Russia. In recent cooperating. The Joint Social Order Committee is holding years she was active with the Des Moines Regional Office of the meeting in line with its desire to explore the possibility the Service Committee in establishing the Scattergood Hostel of increased service of Friends in areas in which preventive or for European Refugees and the Japanese-American Hostel in educational aspects would be prominent. Des Moines. 15-Address at Westfield Friends School, Riverton, N. J., In January 1952, when her husband took charge of a 7 p.m.: Stephen Cary, "The Quaker Mission to Russia." Service Committee project in Kansas City, they moved there, 20 to 22-Annual Meeting of the Friends World Commit and for the past two years have been in residence at Fellow tee, American Section and Fellowship Council, at Homewood ship House in that city, where Cornell is director. A memorial and Stony Run Meeting Houses, Baltimore, Md., Friday after service was held on December 3 at Fellowship House under noon until after meeting for worship Sunday morning. The the care of Penn Valley Friends, at which time many tributes work of the Committee will be reviewed in all its facets. to Estelle Hewson's longs years of service to others, warm Domingo Ricart 'will report on his visit to Cuban Friends this hospitality, gentle spirit, and wise leadership were expressed. summer, and William Lotspeich on his vi~it to Frei).ch Friends. In addition to her husband. she is survived by a daughter, , All Friends are welcome to attend. For further details contact Mrs. Peter C. Flintermann of Cleveland, Ohio; two sisters, James F. Walker, Friends World Committee, 20 Squth 12th Ruthanna M. Simms of Richmond, Indiana, and Gertrude Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa., or Ralph A. Rose, Wilmington Simms Hodgson of Kankakee, Illinois; and one grand College, Wilmington, Ohio. daughter. 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I!ONTCLAIB, NEW .TEBSEY-Worship REGULAR MEETINGS and First-day school, 11 a.m., Park Street WANTED and Gordonhurst Avenue, 1.7 miles west ALBANY, N. Y.-Meeting for worship and of Exit 151 from Garden State Parkway. CAREFUL DRIVER to take car to Florida First-day school, 11 a.m. at Y.l\il.C.A., 423 in January. Elizabeth Abbott Christ, 115 State Street; telephone Albany 3-6242. NEW OBLEANS, LOUISIANA- Friends Pinehurst Lane, Moorestown, New Jersey. meeting each Sunday. For Information telephone W A 5890 or UP 8241\W. SECRETARY, preferably Friend; short AUGUSTA, GEORGIA-First-day school hand desirable. Telephone Friends Central and meeting, 11:15 a.m. every First-daY, NEW YOBlt, :N. Y,...:_Meetings for worship Bureau. Ph!ladelphia, Pa., Rittenhouse Old Government House, 432 Telfair. Faith each Sunday, 11 a.m. Telep·hone GRamercy 6-3263. Bertsche, Clerk, 2230 Edgewood Drive, 3-8018 for First-day school and meeting Augusta. information. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION SECRETARY Manhattan-Un1te,d Meeting for worship beginning July 1. 1956. Editing of F irst BUFE'ALO, Jr, Y.-Meetlng for worship October-April: 221 E. 15th St. day school materials; field work. Write and First-day school, 11 a.m. at 1272 May-September: 144 E. 20th St. Friends General Conference, 1515 Cherry Delaware Avenue; telephone EL 0252. Brooklyn-110 Schermerhorn Street Street. Ph!ladelphia. Pa. Flushlng-137-16 Northern Boulevard CAKBBIDGE, KASSACHUSETTS- Riverside Church, 16th Floor-Riverside OLD PAINTINGS AND OLD GOLD 5 Longfellow Park (near Harvard Square). Drive ani! 122d Stree~. 3:'30 p.m. FRAMES. Write Box C72, Friends Jour Meeting for worship each First-day at nal. 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Telephone TR 6-6883. OBLANDO, FLOBIDA-Meetlng for wor Ship at Sorosl3 Home, 108 Liberty Street, RESIDENT WORKING HOUSEKEEPER, First-days at 11 a.m. middle-aged, for mother and working CHICAGO, ILLINOIS-The 57th Street daughter, centrally located In Lansdowne, Meeting of all l<'riends. Sunday worship PASA,DE:NA, CAL.-Qrange Grove Month Pa. Telephone, evenings, MAdison 3-0431, hour, 11 a.m. at Quaker House, 5615 Wood ly Meeting. Meeting for worship, East or write Box M73, Friends Journal. lawn Avenue. Monthly meeting (following Orange Grove at Oakland Avenue, First 6 p.m. supper there) every first Friday. days at 11 a.m. Monthly meetings, 8 p.m., DIRECTOR, with executive ability and Telephone BUtterfield 8-3066. the second Fourth-day of each month. sympathetic understanding, for small Florence Crittenton Home; preferably CLABEKONT, CAL. - Friends meeting, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA with some case work experience. Resident 9:30 a.m. on Scripps. campus, 9th and Meetings for worship are held at 10:30 position, with full maintenance and so Columbia. Ferner Nuhn, Clerk, 420 W. a.m. unless otherwise noted. cial security. Miss Mary Leeds, Haddon 8th. Byberry, one mile east of Roosevelt Boule- Hall, Atlantic City, N. J.; or telephone vard at Southampton Road, 11 a.m. Atlantic City 5-4669. CLEA:aBBOOlt, VIBGillriJI.-Meetlng for Chestnut Hill, 100 East Mermaid Lane. worship at He>pewell Meeting House, First Coulter Street and Germantown Avenue. days at 10:15 a.m.; First-day school at Fair Hill, Germantown Avenue and Cam- SMALL APARTMENT WANTED 11 a.m. bria ·Street, 11:15 a.m. Fourth and Arch Streets. MOORESTOWN, N. J., ONLY DES MOINES, IOWA-Friend& Meeting, Frankford, Penn and Orthodox Streets. 801 Forest Avenue, Library entrance. Frankford, Unity and Wain Streets, 11 a.m. Must be in modern home and in at· Worship, 10 a.m.; classes, 11 a.m. Green Street; 45 West School House Lane, 11 a.m. tractive neighborhood. Refined couple, DOVEB, N. J.-Randolph Meeting House, Race and Twelfth Streets held jointly at aged 60; husband commutes daily. 15th a nd Race Streets. . Write Box R74, Friends Journal. Quaker Church Road. First-day school, For Information about First-day schools 11 a.m.; meeting for worship, 11:15 a.m. telephone Friends Central Bureau, RI 6- 3263. GAINESVILLE, FLA.-Meetlng for wor ship, First-days, 11 a.m., 218 Florida Union. PHOE:NIX, ABIZONA-Meetlng for wor Our deadline is 9:15 a.m. Monday. ship, 10 ll..m., 17th Street and Glendale When Monday is a holiday, the HABBISBUBG, PA.-Meeting tor wor Avenue. James Dewees, Clerk, 1928 W. deadline is 9:15 a.m. the preceding ship and First-day school, 11 a.m., Mitchell. Friday. Instructions regarding ad Y.W.C.A., 4th and Walnut Streets. vertising MUST be in our hands ST. PETEBSBUBG, E'LA.-Friends Meet before that time. HABTE'OBD, CONJr.- Meeting tor wor ing, 130 Nineteenth AvenueS. E. Meeting ship, 11 a.m. at the Meeting House, 144 and First-day school at 11 a.m. South Quaker Lane, West Hartford. SCABSDALil, NBW YOBlt-Unlted meet Ing for worshl.p, First-days at 11 a.m., Furniture Upholstering ltANSAS CITY, KISSOUBI-Penn Valley Scarsdale Friends Meeting, 133 Popham Meeting each Sunday at 306 West 39th Road. Clerk, Frances B. Compter, 17 THOM SEREMBA, 215 Felton Avenue, Collingdale, Pa. Avenue. Unprogrammed worship at 9:45 Hazleton Drive, White Plains, N. Y. a.m. Visiting Friends always welcome. More than five years of references In Swarth· For Information call JA 1556. SHBEWSBUBY, :NEW JEBSEY-Meeting more, Pa., and vicinity ••• first·class work at House at Broad Street and Sycamore Ave reasonable rates •• • over 25 years' experience. JACltSONVILLE, FLOBIDA- First-day nue, 11 a.m. For Information call S. Fus school, 10:30 a.m.; meeting for worship, sell, Clerk: Red Bank 6-2040W. Telephone Sharon Hill 0734 11 a.m.; Y.W.C.A. Board Room; telephone EVergreen 9-5086 and 9-4345. STATE COLLEGE, PA~318 South Ather ton Street. First-day school at 9:30 a.m., LANCASTEB, PA.-Meeting for worship meeting for worship at 10:46 a.m. Is Your and First-day school, 10 a.m., n ew meet Ing house. Tulane Terrace, off U. S. 30, SYBACUSE, NEW YOBlt-Meeting and "GOLDEN RULE" 1% miles west of Lancaster. First-day school at 11 a.m. each First- 4ay, Huntington Neighborhood House, 512 Almond Street. LONG ISLAND, :N. Y.-Manhasset Meet IN HO.USING Ing, Northern Boulevard at Shelter Rock TUCSON, ABIZONA- Friends Meeting, Minus a Few Inches? Road. First-day school. 9 :45 a.m.: meeting 129 North Warren Avenue. Worship, First for worshlu. 11 a.m. days at 11 a.m. Clerk, John A. Salyer, 745 Live your beliefs in unsegregated housing in East 5th Street; Tucson 2-3262. JIEBIOJr, PA.-Merlon Meeting, corner beautiful Bucks Co unty. A spacious 3·bedroom ot Montgomery A venue and Meeting WASHINGTON, D. C.--'The Friends Meet ranch home ••• radianf.heated .•• large House Lane. Meeting tor worship, First ing of Washington, 2111 Florida Avenue, finished garage on a fully landscaped 1fHcre days at 11 a.m.; First-day school, 9:45 N. W., one block from Connecticut Av& nue, First-days at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. lot, $11,990 and up. Also 4·bedroom houses, a.m. In Activities Building. $13,600. 100% mortgages ava ilable. On I!IAKI, FLA.-Frlends meeting held on WINCHESTEB, VIBGINIA-centre Meet bus line to El, near Philadelphia Interchange top floor of Tuttle Hotel, 11 a.m.; First Ing House, corner of Washington and Pic Pennsylvania Tur npike. day school, 10 a.m. Telephone 88-6629. cadilly Streets. Meeting for worship, First days at 10:15 a.m.; First-day School, Call Elmwood 7-4356 or write IIIN:NEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA- Friends 10:45 a.m. Meeting, 44th Street and York Avenue CONCORD PARK HOMES South. First-day school, 10 a.m.; meeting WOBCESTEB, MASSACHUSETTS-Pleas for worship, 11 a .m. Richard P. Newby, ant Street Friends Meeting, 901 Pleasant OLD LIHCOLH HIGHWAY AHD STREET ROAD Minister, 4421 Abbott Avenue South. Street. Meeting for worship each First TREVOSE, PA. Telephone W A 6-9675. day, 11 a.m. Tele phone PL 4-3887. 434 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 31, 1955
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