A Quaker Weekly
VOLUME 4 MAY 10, 1958 NUMBER 19
IN THIS ISSUE f!):;R to the soul in h Books-Poetry FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY $4.50 A YEAR 294 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 10, 1958 Letter from Turkey FRIENDS JOURNAL ARNOLD TOYNBEE has classified some cultural £l_ groups in the contemporary world as fossils; whether or not, as a historian, he is right about this, there is one respect in which they are unlike the shellfish and coral we find about our Taurus Mountain summer home, namely, in that they sometimes rise up in indignant pro test at the designation. \ A prehistoric starfish is of interest solely as a relic of ) Published weekly, except during July and August when times past, but the people who make up Toynbee's cul published biweekly, at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadel phia 2, Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669} tural fossils are still human, with human needs and rights. By Friends Publishing Corporation What's more, whether they have a future as well as a past WILLIAM HUBBEN MILDRED A. PURNELL Editor and Manager Assistant Editor is something we could be wrong about and also something JEANNE CAVIN ELEANOR F. LILLY Advertisements Subscriptions toward which we may have a responsibility. CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS These reflections have been stimulated by a fascinat RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia ing conversation with a young airman, James Wells, who Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban England ...... Horace B. Pointing, London has just returned to the States after a year of duty at a Joan Hewitt, London Germany ...... Lottel ore Roloff, Berlin base in the eastern part of Turkey. Sergeant Wells, be India ...... Benjamin Polk, Calcutta Japan ...... Jackson H. Bailey, Tokyo fore his induction, was an ordained minister of the Gen Lebanon ...... Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Beirut Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway eral Baptists, and while on duty as a motor-pool techni Switzerland ...... Robert J . Leach, Geneva cian was allowed to function as assistant chaplain at the Turkey ...... William L. Nute, Jr., Ankara Lake Erie Association ...... Winthrop M. Leeds, Pittsburgh base and also to do a good deal of traveling, observing, Midwest (Five Years} ...... Russell E . Rees, Richmond New England ...... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford and helping among the Christian communities of the West Coaat ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. region. Most of Turkey is Moslem, but in that area there BOARD OF MANAGERS 1955- 1958: Carol P. Brainerd, Willis H . Satterthwaite, Lydia are scattered villages, or perhaps a few families in ~orne F. Taylor, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood. 1956- 1959: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Ruth 0. Maris, villages, who belong to Christian groups with an old and Margaret L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, :fr. 1957- 1960: Mary R. Calhoun, Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. tangled history. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. Johnson, Elizabeth H. Kirk. The Eastern Church, known in America as Greek THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five Orthodox, was the eastern half of the great east-west split dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all cost of publication. which left Rome the religious capital of the West. But SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can ada, and Mexico: $4.50 a year, $2.60 for six months. the Eastern Church itself, starting at least as early as the Foreign countries: $5.00 a year. Single eoples: fifteen cents. Checks should be made payable to Friends Journal. fifth century, has undergone much splintering, usually Sample copies sent on request. Re-entered as second-class matter July 7, 1955, at the past over details of doctrine which would seem incredible if office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nnder the Act of March 3, 1879. one did not remember some other schisms closer home. So in southeast Turkey we now have, not Orthodox, but Jacobites. Some of the Jacobites, in turn, long ago united with Rome and are called Uniate Jacobites. Finally, in Contents Page the nineteenth century, some of these intensely sacerdotal, Letter from Turkey- William L. Nute, Jr. 294 liturgical groups were influenced by American Protestant Editorial Comments ...... 295 .missionaries, and from among them Protestant evangeli Thoughts on an Indian Easter-Benjamin Polk ..... 296 cal churches were formed. "Pavilioned in Splendor"-Ruth E. Durr ...... 297 But even this last and smallest group, I gather, is still living in the Protestantism·of seventy or eighty years ago. Clay Doves (poem)-Elizabeth Cox ...... 297 As nearly as I can discover, there are some seventy families Letter from Little Rock-Robert L. Wixom ...... 298 in an area about half the size of New Jersey- but without Relief Work for European Refugees ...... 300 New Jersey's highways. Moreover, the region is poor and Reflections of an Attender-Kenneth H . Beck ...... 300 undeveloped, and the member of a minority group who Strength (poem)-Susan Dorothea Keeney ...... 301 has much initiative will look around for ways of getting Books ...... 302 out. The potential leadership, therefore, tends to get Friends and Their Friends ...... 302 siphoned off. Letters to the Editor ...... 304 (Continued on page 301) FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRJEND (1827-1955) and FRJENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955) ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, MAY 10, 1958 VoL. 4 - No. 19 Editorial Comments Gate to Heaven consummated. Martin Buber reminds us that the Hebrew HE tenth anniversary celebration of the founding terms adama, soil, and m'dame, imagination, are more Tof Israel and her militant self-assertion are bound closely related than the sound indicates: hope, imagina to recall the tenacity of the Jews in biblical times. Al tion, and faith receive their strength from the soil of though the political, economic, and social conditions in Palestine. Such fervent enthusiasm is at the core of the two historic phases are radically different, a sense modern Israel. It motivates her politics, it is the main of religious mission is present in modern as well as in spring of her ambitions, and for the Israeli it preserves ancient Israel. The history of the Jews since the destruc a continuity from biblical times to the modern state. tion of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. is vibrant with the fervent The Jewish-Christian Contradiction longing of the generations to return to Palestine, espe cially to Jerusalem, the city of the Temple. Reinhold Niebuhr's warning to the Christian Church to come to terms with the Jews and their stubborn will Years ago Martin Buber, the most outstanding Jewish to live instead of considering them the object of Chris thinker, collected the tales of the Hasidim, the eastern tian missionary efforts reveals a spirit of tolerance and Jewish pietists. These stories are full of yearning for self-criticism rare in the tradition of the Church at large. Palestine. Blending profound biblical wisdom with The J ew cannot forget the taint which the Christians dreamlike miracles, they have a poetic texture that has have given to the symbol of Christ as the image of God become the delight of readers all over the world. When by persecuting them so consistently. The Jew, so Niebuhr fleeing from Nazi Germany, Martin Buber left his col declares, is close enough to the Christian faith to find lection behind to be published, much as Laotse when God more easily in terms of his own religious heritage. leaving China gave his book of wisdom to a border Arthur Cohen's theological reminder to Christians in guard. the February issue of World View (170 East 64th Street, One of Buber's characters is Rabbi Nachman, who New York City 21) is of equal importance. He centers also made a pilgrimage to Palestine. On arriving there, on the basic differences between the Christian belief that so the good rabbi reported later, some pilgrims were ancient Jewish hopes were fulfilled by the coming of astonished to see that Palestine really existed. They Christ, and the Jewish conviction that mankind is not thought it was "an entirely different world." And al redeemed. The Jews hold that the nations live in un though its dust appeared like the dust anywhere, the belief; the true Messiah has not yet come, and history Zionists considered the soil sacred. Rabbi Nachman is not yet marked with the transforming power of the himself had dreamlike experiences on his pilgrimage, divine. Therefore, to him, Christendom appears to have apparitions and miracles, such as nowadays the painter a pessimistic outlook on history. Marc Chagall expresses in the fantastic colors and images Naturally, Arthur Cohen is critical of Christian for which his art is famous. Having gone just a few theology because it fails to see a providential significance steps in Palestine, the rabbi sensed a magic strength in the survival of Judaism. This blindness is only one radiating from the sacred soil and running through him, facet of the unproductive character of theology. To Mr. transforming and strengthening him in a strange way. Cohen it is clear "that the reach of constructive theology He returned to his native Poland a new man and a falls short of contemporary events." Theology has abdi prophet of the glory of Israel. cated, and it is a real question whether it functions in The rabbi's experience is that of all faithful Zion the world at all. ists. Palestine to them is the home of the spirit of life These are serious criticisms which the Christian from which all renewal will come, a wellspring of joy Church might take to heart at a moment when Israel and perfection, and nothing less than the gate of heaven. is strengthening the vision of her people by stressing her Here the covenant between heaven and earth will be divine mission. 295 296 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 10, 1958 Thoughts on an Indian Easter By BENJAMIN POLK ATTENDING a traditional Easter service in India have always found when immediately faced with their .£1.. and afterwards going to our small Friends meeting finest reality. called up old thoughts on our Quaker way of worship. "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy The church service was a beautiful and significant one. name." The eighth chapter of the Gospel of John is The chaplain emphasized in the explanation of his text explicit about Jesus' meaning of "Father" as the source (Romans 10:9) that every man through free will is re of power and grace, but we may turn to Job 38 for the sponsible for his faith. Yet the dr;u:na of the crucifixion most moving expression of the awe and mystery conveyed and the resurrection tended to be objectified, and wor by the word "hallow": "Where wast thou when I laid ship tended to become a resting on the knowledge of the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast under deeds already performed by Christ, requiring only standing." The first line of the Lord's Prayer is, like acknowledgment and faith. the others, written for all men everywhere, whether If I rightly interpret the promise of our silent meet Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, or Muslim. ings, it is this, that as the historic Christian drama is "Thy kingdom come." Jesus gave us the gospel of played out in our hearts and lives, we shall worship to the Kingdom of God to be received by men as little gether in immediacy and urgency, seeking the presence children, and he took the children up in his arms and of Christ for each other and for ourselves. And it is blessed them and made it clear that this is what we could only as we within ourselves comprehend a little here understand by that Kingdom- the sweetness, meekness, and a little there something of the glorious meaning and delight in being led by the Father's hand. He began of the resurrection, that Easter-and Christianity-are his ministry with the statement, "The kingdom of God realized. The avoidance of formalizing our faith can in is at hand: repent ye and believe the gospel." Later· he deed remove a barrier between ourselves and God; but, explained, "The kingdom of God is within you," which · as we know to our discomfort, a negative emphasis can is a hard saying and is the other side of the coin. also mean- nothing. "Thy will be done." The question "What is Thy Perhaps the Lord's Prayer is a form; it is, however, will?" is answered in Matthew 22:3640 as a reiteration a form of worship that we must keep. Like all the of the Old Testament commandments, and more em prayers that men learn, the old, familiar words often phatically answered again in John 13:34, " . .. as I have fail to move us; and yet their value is inestimable. Since loved you: that ye also love one another." It is the love the power and grace of those prayers lie in our personal, of Christ for us that asks us in return to give to our living relation with God, they call us to this confronta fellow men the sacrifice required and the salvation of tio,n. fered, the Easter promise for each day as we turn towards In the Lord's Prayer we can see why Thomas F. Green the light within. in his Swarthmore Lecture set down five special features Notwithstanding this universality of the Lord's of worship: adoration, confession, dedication, thanks Prayer, one is in India especially aware that the claim giving, and intercession. Jesus' knowledge of God was of Christianity to be an exclusive religion is a stumbling the new testament of God as Father, seemingly wrong block. I think this must be seen historically. Even as to the Jews of his day for its excessive optimism. Today, the drama of the crucifixion gains immeasurable mean likewise, we shrink from this optimism and fear to use ing by being understood and placed in its historical the words of prayer because we ourselves have discarded context, so this question of exclusiveness must also be or dimmed the living relation between man and God. met in the context of today's one world- a world which But if we wish and will it, we can start at the bottom, is not largely Christian. Gandhi, instead of saying, "God work backwards, so to speak (for we are bidden to love is Truth," liked to say, "Truth is God," thereby show the Lord with all our minds, also), studying the words ing each individual's small or great revelation to be a of faith to glimpse the fragrance or the pain that men milestone in his life, a meeting with the Divine. Surely Christians must embrace this, also, and join the other Benjamin Polk is our regular correspondent from India, a religions of the world in brotherhood, giving and re Friend living in Calcutta, where he is a partner in a firm of ceiving of the continuing revelation of God; seeing their architects, engineers, and town planners, Stein, Chatterjee, and Polk. religion as one of the spokes of the wheel, all leading May 10, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 297 to the Center; viewing our Christianity-by choice and ruin and plunder, and a tyrant wrath-but the Lord is by chance our own special, beloved, and chosen way good. as but one among others whose value is attested by lives The Lord was king of the earthquake, but the Lord lived and worship realized. was not in the earthquake. While we explore our Christian faith with all our "And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was minds and hearts, let us neither look for eclectic solu not in the fire. . . .'' tions nor imagine that our Quakerly good intentions For the fire was a terror to the creatures and a desola constitute religion, or that a seldom or never realized tion on the land, corrupting God's green loveliness with mysticism is the best or only sign of the light within us. the hideous tongues of hell. Its breath was agony and We must study our scriptures with care so that we realize dissolution, and the death of hope. The fire was ashes the difference between the Word of God and our own and emptiness-but the Lord was fair. moralizing. If we drift too far toward mysticism, with The Lord was the master of the fire, but the Lord out a very special talent the separate, active entities, was not in the fire. God and man, are not to be realized any more than "And after the fire a still small voice.'' without a very special gift of love and grace we can meet The voice spoke in the silence, and the silence was with God by repeating the theology of the Nicene Creed. fuller than sound. The stillness was more than the wind's We are all of us admonished by James: "Show me thy shriek, the thunder of the earthquake, or the singing fire. faith without thy works and I will show thee my faith The voice spoke, and creation was. The dust heard by my works." the voice and quivered with being. The voice called; In Hinduism there is the way of devotion, the way the soul answered; and man stood upon the earth. of knowledge, and the way of action, all leading to God. The wind, the earthquake, and the fire bowed down This is part of our common ground; and while we to the quickened dust. The wind was hushed to the meditate on our Christian Easter, we rejoice that it is so. spirit's breathing; the earthquake harnessed to the hills; and the fire was comfort and light. The voice spoke, and there was law. Man saw the "Pavilioned in Splendor" way he was to go, and the purposes of God. He saw also LIJAH arose in the wilderness and journeyed forty that his feet were frail, and sorrow fell upon man. And E days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God, the voice cried. where he lodged in a cave. The word of the Lord came The voice came down, and there was love. The holy to him and said, " 'Go forth, and stand upon the mount place within the heart throbbed with the music of heaven. before the Lord.' The law was easy, and the will made clean. Healing came "And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and to the nations, and the kingdoms were of God. And the strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the souls were bonded each to each, forever in power and joy. rocks before the Lord: but the Lord was not in the "When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his wind.... " mantle and went out"-for the Lord was there. For the wind was a thing of mood and whim, of fail RuTH E. D uRR ings and inconstancy, a wild, petulant, sportive thing, eluding the paths of order. It taunted the oceans and Clay Doves vexed the trees, and toyed with the murmurings of the By ELIZABETH Cox earth. It drove the storm with an angry lash, and with The Christ child, so the story goes, veering fancy kissed the blossoms, and rested in the val And his companions set in rows leys. The wind was fickleness and change-but the Lord The doves that they had made of clay is true. To dry along the dusty way. The Lord was the keeper of the wind, but the Lord was not in the wind. And then the dove that Christ had formed Rose "And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord up and flew, with live blood warmed; was not in the earthquake. . . .'' The air with its soft voice was bright, For the earthquake wounded the world, and up The sky was lovely with its flight. rooted the waters. It shook the pillars of the firmament, We laugh, because of course we know and with a cruel and mindless might devoured the place Such things can never be; and so of the living. It tore the fields and opened the hills, and The stony doves we make must wait the works of the people vanished. The earthquake was In careful rows, inanimate. 298 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 10, 1958 Letter from Little Rock Inside Little Rock N Little Rock, Arkansas, there are, by and large, only their belief that race mixing must be prevented at all I two groups which have definite goals and specific costs, they have advocated ending public education. means to attain these goals. The vocal segregationists Many of their actions are probably geared to the hope are organized in the White Citizens Council and the that a special session of the State Legislature will be Mothers' League. Prior to September these groups were called. Uppermost in the minds of many is the bitter quite small and more or less ignored by the community campaign pending for nomination of the Democratic at large. Most Little Rock citizens certainly did not per candidate for governor this summer, in which Governor sonally want desegregation. At the same time the pre Faubus will try for a third term. vailing mood was that desegregation was coming to stay, The other group with a clear objective and specific it was the law, and there was little they might do to means to achieve it is the National Association for the change the course of events. Advancement of Colored People, which is under the The calling out of the Arkansas National Guard by capable leadership of Mrs. L. C. Bates. The Negro the Governor on September 3 gave the segregationists community is generally united in its support of the the impetus to move, time to organize, and the basis on nine teen-agers in Central High School, Little Rock, and which to draw in many new sympathizers. The leader has centered its leadership in the NAACP, with its em ship supplied by the state government aroused the phasis on legal approach through court action. The dormant belief in segregation, strengthened the hope Negro community has been very patient with what is that desegregation could be thwarted, and paralyzed actually a token desegregation plan, has tried to make any preparatory steps within the community for dese it work, and has done an excellent task of encouraging gregation. As evidence of the power of the Governor's both the nine Negro students and their parents. At the action, one might compare the marked difference in Bates' home several crosses have been burned, some the crowd on September 3 of several hundred jeering rocks have been thrown through the large picture win people with the crowd on September 23 of about a dow, and two crude bombs, which did no damage, have thousand people with an emotional temper for the been exploded. Indeed, the Negroes have in this in committing of violence. stance provided an inspiring example of both personal When federal troops arrived and showed they "meant courage and continuing faith in democracy. business," the crowd outside the school dispersed. In There are a very few courageous individuals who retrospect it is now evident that the segregationists could be truly described by the epithet "integrationist," shifted their locus of operations and initiated a cam a term now used recklessly by the segregationists to dis paign of coercion to achieve their specific, negative goal credit the opposition. These individuals are effectively - to get the Negroes out of school. In the community carrying on both a prophetic and sensitive spiritual min at large the segregationists have had more frequent and istry for the cause of human brotherhood. Not many better attended public meetings (about 1,000 at a recent southern church members and leaders, however, can be mass meeting). The meetings have the aura of a revival included in this valiant group, who are and will continue crusade, with ministerial leadership and several high to be active in this area of Christian witness. school girls acting as enthusiastic cheerleaders. Along A far larger group of white citizens are the so-called with expressions of antipathy for the outsider, there are "moderates." These people would personally prefer to feelings of martyrdom. For example, a frequent sign retain segregation, but, believing in obedience to law displayed on automobile bumpers is "Refugee from and orderly behavior, they have accepted the Supreme Occupied Arkansas." Court decision. They realize the inequity of the segre While the organized group is still relatively small, gated school system and can see the inevitability of dese its objective is ardently pursued by the use of intimida gregation. Although their general approach is to stress tion, rumors, and economic boycott. In keeping with conformity to the law, they believe that emphasis on the moral principle of human dignity would lead to This is the second of three letters in which Robert L. Wixom defeat on the issue of law and thus play into the hands sums up conditions in Little Rock. Robert L. Wixom is a member of Little Rock Meeting for Worship (unorganized) and teaches at of the opposition. the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. Though this argument of strategy is understandable FRIEN DS JOURNAL 299 merits, it has had some side effects. groups entered the race, and four independents were legal reasoning did not lead to advance endorsed by the segregationists. While the segregation dtpth for the desegregation process. The ists campaigned vigorously on the issue of segregation preparati ons were consequently alone, the businessmen's candidates ignored the race a new formula for keeping the schools issue and campaigned on the good government theme. all white appeared in the form of One of the independents endorsed by the segregationists Guard. This viewpoint, more- won a seat, while the Good Government group won the segregationists to champion their course other six positions by very narrow margins. Since com and thereby to gain the initiative. ing to offtce in J anuary, the city manager and the Board recent months, the emphasis on legal have carefully avoided the Central High School turmoil. to allow indecision in the handling During the annual Community Chest fund-raising recalcitrant students. As a result the drive last October, the segregationists organized a highly students tend to control the h igh effective campaign to withhold contributions to the Chest This continuing confusion in view on the basis that the Urban League was among the re as the combined integrationist and cipient agencies. The Urban League, a Chest member would definitely constitute a majority. since 1940, works through discussion, persuasion, and 12, Columbus Day, an Hour of Prayer example to meet areas of community need. In view of Little Rock Protestant, Catholic, and the many wild rumors, the threatened Chest boycott, between 6,000 and 7,000 attended the and the current tension, the Urban League Board, as a for " ... forgiveness for having left gesture of community good will, voluntarily withdrew we ought to have done, the support from the Chest. of law and order .. the casting out I n November, a small interracial prayer-fellowship prejudice in favor of u nderstanding and group was started. At first it was primarily a meeting • •" A counter prayer meeting was organ of ministers and NAACP leaders, but now a number of prior to the above service by a group laymen have been drawn in. It has been meeting regu About 600 people attended this service larly at weekly intervals, and provides an excellent chan " . . . that our national leaders might nel for the sharing of concerns, communication between law and remove the federal troops groups, and understanding of motives. political expedience.. .." Thus the above and other late fall events condense contributing to the lack of leadership to a seesaw of opinion and actions. Shortly after Christ leaders last September was the schism mas, however, there was a marked rise in school and who supported Governor Faubus community of the sort of incidents described earlier. In who supported the School Board. Because January a series of anonymous telephone calls saying inadequacies of the mayor-co uncil that dynamite had been placed in the school heightened lal'UlU!nt, the city, under the leadership of fear and tension. On February 16 the School Board Good Government Committee, had issued a statement of policy, saying that disciplinary to adopt the city manager form of gov action would be taken "to insure the preservation of an to the election for the city manager educational program for those who desire to learn and llftlrnbl~ r 5, three officers of segregationist are willing to conduct themselves properly." Several . We do not hnow, and shall never hnow. But it seems to involve a certain focussing and FRilratl~nn of the attention that brings all the life within us into harmony. When this happens to us, tru_th is the only thing we have ever really cared about in the world. The thing seems to be the wh1ch avenue we reach it by. At whatever point we are touched, we 1·espond. A qum·tet, a cathe an ~xh ibi t ion of juggling, anything well done- we are at the me1·cy of it. But as the whole of us 10 at takes a whole man to do it. Whatever cracks men up and obliterates parts of them, makes to gzve out this vibration. :~out all we /mow of individualism and the integrity of the individual. The sum of all the philos asto;y_ of the world can be packed back into it. All the tyrannies and abuses in the world m·e only InJUre this integrity. W e desir·e truth. It is the only thing we desire.- JoHN JAY CHAPMAN, (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1898). 300 FRIENDS J O U R NAL May 10, 1958 white students were subsequently suspended, and Minni Hungarian school director who suffered a stroke and has a lriit jean Brown was expelled. The group of 25 prominent with arteriosclerosis; a frightened grandchild of eight, who~ businessmen who had issued last October a strong state £erred to stay with her grandmother in Burgenland rather ~ ment of dedication to government by law and order and to return with her mother to Hungary-bring human intel'!lt to problems faced by Friends social workers. of condemnation of violence made on February 19 its The Poles applying to Quii.kerhilfe did not fit into any otbtr second recommendation that the School Board ask the refugee services. The wife, who had joined her sister in anotbtr court for a stay of compliance with the desegregation town, had been shocked two hours after arriving by the ~ plan. Thus the next afternoon the School Board re of the sister in an automobile accident. When she returned to turned to the federal court, concluding after a long, her husband, she was in such a nervous state he could not)~ detailed petition that ". . . the district, in its respect her to go to work. A solution was found through London co. for the law of the land, is left standing alone, the victim tacts, and the couple actually were included under a scbtat of extraordinary opposition on the part of the state intended for people with little chance of entering England • government and apathy on the part of the federal gov normal immigrants. ernment." The Board asks that " .. . integration be The school director and his wife were settled in the home a( her sister, who lives on a small pension but who can ful'llii postponed until such time as the concept of 'all delib housing. A grant was secured from the United States Esapee erate speed' can be clearly defined and effective legal Program, and if this money is exhausted, Caritas, the Carbt procedures can be obtained which will enable the dis lic welfare organization, will give assistance as long as die trict to integrate without impairment of the education couple lives. Clothing, bedding, and 700 schillings wert U. it is capable of providing under normal conditions." At given by Quii.kerhilfe. An appreciative letter was received&. the first hearing of this petition in federal court on the husband by the Friends worker who helped obtain lilt April 28, the legal procedures were established. grant. Thus the Little Rock situation at present comes down In the case of the frightened grandchild in Burgenland, lilt Quaker role again included tapping available resources. Saw to a virtual stalemate. It is unknown which group has the Children Fund helped through arranging a Belgian adop the leadership, the creativity, the strategy, and the en tion plan for the child, whereby the grandmother, on a penial durance to win out in the long run. herself, is now getting 500 schillings a month for her gn-' Viewing this area as the Solid South hides the exist daughter. ence of the moderates and fails to recognize the more Among the applicants for help in Vienna, Julia Bra• significant role--something more than tacit acceptance says, there are a considerable number on the waiting lilt -they could assume. While the moderates may be some appointments. Urgent cases are seen at once. One peal day what eclipsed at present by the noise and intransigence winter brought 75 refugees to Quii.kerhilfe, where actual .. pointments are handled. The counselors are all in on Tutlilf of the segregationists, in the long run they are at the and Thursday afternoons, so those times are considered fulcrum point and can tip the balance either way. Thus house." the coming critical years will be both a severe testing time and a challenge for southern Christian and demo cratic leadership. Reflections of an Attender RoBERT L. WIXOM HERE are people who, although choosing to remain Tfrom the membership lists of all religious groups, 1'1:mdlf!• Relief Work for European Refugees real awareness of God and a desire for closer spiritual tellectual contact with the primary forces of such a HE American Friends Service Committee still needs good Many of these people feel furthest from such attaJOm· ent T used or new clothing for men and children, large-sized gar they become involved in, or merely must witness, tile ments for women, new hand-knitted articles, and bedding, cedures and formulas of organized religion. especially sheets. Gifts will be sent to Austria, Italy, Germany, Traditionally the Society of Friends is attractive to the Middle East, and other places where there is need. Ship· of this type-at least in theory-and a number ~f them t ments may be addressed to AFSC warehouses as follows: 23rd from time to time Quaker meetings for worsh•P: Wbauid and Arch Streets, Philadelphia 3, Pa.; 1830 Sutter Street, San one of this group find at a typical meeting? Is It a q Francisco 15, Calif.; 110 North Hudson Avenue, Pasadena, dynamic ascent from physical to spiritual Calif. through silence and freedom from formalism? Or does Julia Branson, AFSC Commissioner for Europe, in an April himself among good and sincere people comfortabl~ ... summary of assistance given to refugees in Austria, gives an yet another form of religion- ,..tened by sameness of expression and perhaps intonation Moslem village. Tension and suspicion are certainly pres certain "holy" words? ent in the area, but it is not easy for me to say, for ex rl Of course the visitor must realize that any group is bound to ample, whether it is more, or less, than in Little Rock or - )ish certain p att~rns and customs as a. matter of c?nve_n South Philadelphia. JeDc:e or necessity. Trme and place of meeung and poss1bly 1ts Are we looking at a collection of fossils? Groups to cllratioD are in this category. Regularly repeated occurrences which recruitment is entirely by birth (or marriage) and tDCb the reading of queries or "family meetings" may be less 81 hardly ever by convincement and in which the ritual eu11y accepted and understood as reminders or experiments. (leiCain other habitual forms may require some straining to be implications of membership seem to outweigh the ethical ~ted as other than evidences of fixed habits. The facing in importance, must appear to an American Protestant to 1leaCbea with their regular occupants, the "official" terminating be little more than dry bones from which life has well Jlaadthake, the speakers who rise in an almost predictable nigh departed. Yet life does keep surprising you. Can any - or at predictable times, and the frequent use of favorite good thing come out of Nazareth? For that matter, are p11111es are some of these. Friends who have adjusted to these we Friends always as limber in the joints as we might be? ,..aces or who have grown up with them undoubtedly do not The crux seems to be the problem...of leadership, as all lad them serious deterrents to spiritual reward. The new observers agree. Does each generation raise up individ -'• however, may be in a sensitive or even unstable spiritual uals who, while commanding the respect and cooperation - 11 a result of past unhappy church experiences or hours of their comrades, can think new thoughts or even arrive filoaely introspection. He may therefore be repelled by the ... of a meeting and miss the content which inspires his more at the same old ideas on their own initiative and not ...utioned neighbor. solely by inheritance? Or do such individuals, when they Certainly the ease and comfort of custom are not worth appear, inevitably remove themselves from the area? _. tban the extension of spiritual benefit to others. The Opinions seem to differ, and the region is too remote for llifda1 inconvenience, especially to older members, of relin most of us to be able to say at firsthand. But these are ...... certain cherished traditions should be more than questions which have to be answered, whether by the ...... by the increased vigor and meaning of truly informal h istorian, the sociologist, or the missionary...... These would attract, and benefit from the participa T he writing of this Letter was interrupted by the un - ti, growing numbers of earnest inquirers. expected visit of Beatrice Goff, of the New Haven, Conn., KENNETH H. BECK Meeting. She h as been traveling in the Middle East in connection with her forthcoming work on symbols in Letter from Turkey prehistoric Mesopotamia, and we were fascinated with her (Continued from page 294) discussion of the religious ideas of early times. t Wells described one village in which a Prot Herbert Hadley of the Friends World Committee for urch had existed a generation ago but in which Consultation is about to visit Turkey, but will not have E tants had given up having a church life of their time for a trip to Ankara. He has given us the names of M II distinct from the rest of the village, which be one or two Friends in Ankara whom we did not know, Jiled to one of the old traditions. R ecently an Ameri and meanwhile we are now awaiting the arrival of Flor miaaionary had led the score or so of Protestants to ence and Rolf Beier, of Wyoming. Rolf is a geologist with the abandoned church, and now there are two an oil company, and they have been active Friends for in the village where there had been one. But the some years. So far this year we have had no meetings for handful was so used to priestly authority that Friends worship, but are hoping to do so before too long. not very good at getting along with each other WILLIAM L. NUTE, JR. ,11Umamtsr their own affairs. Opinions frankly differ !P:~dle:tht!r the mission ary was right and this state of Strength eventually pay off in a deepening of spiritual Whether the villagers would have been better off By SusAN DoRoTHEA KEENEY As the strength of the root which clings to the do these little groups get along with each other deep earth unknowing, the dominant Moslems? Generalizations about As the far scattered stars are bound in a rhythm relationships seem impossible. Some individ of motion, are willing to live and let live, at least; We are bound to a God unseen with a faith that and places one hears stories, probably with is timeless-- of ~th in them, about sporadic violence and As a bird trusts the strength of the air, patched battle between a Christian and a As a gull feels the lift of the ocean. 302 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 10, 19S8 Books Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine. By Pet Viereck. Pendle Hill Pamphlet Number 95. Pendle Hill, w: REFLECTIONS ON HANGING. By ARTHUR KoESTLER. The lingford, Pa., 1957. 24 pages. 35 cents Macmillan Company, New York, 1957. 245 pages. $4.50 Viereck's plea is for individuals who root their Protesta Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian by birth but now a British lives in the eternal values common to all creative cultures. Hnt citizen, has written R eflections on Hanging as a direct out deplores the modern liberal's tendency to reject religion and~ growth of his experience during the Civil War in Spain, when overlook its value in resisting mob pressures. The dangers of for three months he awaited his hanging as a suspected spy. overadjustment are more threatening than those of maladjust. His surprise release left him "with a vested interest in ca pital ment. Our art, literature, and education are rapidly succumb. punishment. . . . I shall never achieve real peace of mind ing to the ills of mass production. Clever formulas remove the until hanging is abolished ... for the gallows is not merely pain from creative endeavor. T echnique is substituted for a machine of death but the oldest and most obscene symbol creatJvrty. But even one dedicated person can turn the tide: of that tendency in mankind which drives it towards moral "The Unadjusted Man is the final, irreducible pebble that sa~ self-destruction." tages the omnipotence of even the smoothest running machine.• Through carefully collected statistics and meticulous com Study Abroad: International Handbook; Fellowships, Schol. parative studies of countries (and states) with and without arships, Educational Exchange, Vol. IX, 1957-1958. Published capital punishment, Mr. Koestler blasts the traditional point by UNESCO at the Columbia University Press, 1957. 836 ~ of view that execution acts as a unique deterrent to murder. (trilingual edition in English, French, and Spanish). $2.50 He is able to show, likewise, that life imprisonment is no This is a most useful, in fact indispensable, compendiUIII alternative to execution; it is only an alternative form of of information covering all phases of student and teacher ex vengeance. Here, for those of us who feel the "new" penology change. It not only contains statistical surveys of the past but should be supported, is a powerful argument for abolition; also lists numerous opportunities (with addresses and fi nancial both execution and life impriso nment make a mockery out conditions) for students or teachers to avail themselves o1 of the progressive approach in prison work, where the pri positions abroad. mary aim is treatment and rehabilitation, not retribution and vengeance. A helpful addition to the work is the "Preface for Ameri Friends and Their Friends cans" by Edmond Cahn, Professor of Law at New York Uni According to newspaper reports, the United States Coli& versity, which bridges the gap between English and American Guard intercepted on May I the ketch Golden Rule and toei law and shows that the argument for abolition applies wher it in tow a short time after it had set sa il from Honolulu 10 ever capital punish ment is demanded. The "Afterword" by Eniwetok in an attempt to enter the atomic testing area Ia Sidney Silverman, M.P., brings us abreast of the present state the Pacific. The crew, consisting of Albert Smith Bigelow, of affairs in England, where this book has already influenced William Huntington, George Willoughby, and Orion SIJer. the course of English law. wood, were arrested. They had been forbidden to leave poll I should think that all local Meetings ought to have this but defied the military order. After their arrest they pleaded book in their libraries (put there perhaps by a local com not guilty, refused to furnish bail, and were held in jail. (Far mittee concerned with social action) and that these Meetings previous news about the Golden Rule, see page 219 of die should put the book in the hands of any Representative or FRIENDS JouRNAL for April 5, 1958.) Senator from their districts who might conceivably initiate In England, also on May 1, 618 British scientists jou-1 or support an abolition bill. MONA E. DARNELL in petitioning Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to ~ • immediate halt to the testing of nuclear weapons by Bncallo Book Survey Under the direction of the Shrewsbury-Plainfield lflf The Meaning of Immortality in Human Experience. By Yearly Meeting, an organizational meeting was held at William Ernest Hocking. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1957. Shrewsbury Meeting House, N. J., on April 20 to form 263 pages. $3.50 New J ersey Friends Committee on Social Orde~. The This book collects the insights, experiences, and wisdom of work of the committee will be to promote intell•gent -~ an unusually rich life. The level of its writing makes it a on the local Meeting level to support Assembly B'II1 s S' a book for the philosophically interested reader. on the abolition of capital punishment. This is b~ oae National Communism and Soviet Strategy. By D. A. To the many legislative issues that concern Friends. .:,. masic, with the assistance of Joseph Strmecki. Public Affairs mittee will forward information to the Monthly M~~ncl Press, Washington, D. C., 1957. 222 pages. $4.50 this subject so that Friends ca n more fully compre · ht of the A new look at Titoism and its relationship to the over-all problems involved and get under the we1g . hould not Soviet plan for unifying the world into a single group of at hand. It was felt that this comrruttee s but that Communist states. merely of Friends from Northern New Jersey May 10, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 303 from Southern New Jersey, members of Philadelphia Yearly A testimonial dinner in honor of Walter and Emily Long Meeting, should take part. A united action on a state-wide streth will be given by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Phila basis would give strength and raise the possibilities of success. delphia (2006 Walnut Street), on May 17, 6: 15 p.m., at the The following Friends were designated to serve as indicated: Christian Association, University of Pennsylvania, 38th and Edmund Goerke, Jr., chairman, Monmouth Hills, Highlands, Locust Streets. Walter Longstreth will deliver an address fol N. J., a member of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting; Dorothy lowing the tribute. Hutchinson, co-chairman, 14 The Cresent, Montclair, N. J., An advance announcement, speaking of "this rare oppor a member of Montclair Monthly Meeting; Louis Kopecky, tunity to express our appreciation and admiration," says: treasurer, 44C Seafoam Avenue, Winfield Park, N. J., a mem "Walter and Emily Longstreth have long been an inspiration ber of Rahway and Plainfield Month~y Meeting; and John to all of us. A list of their activities, past and present, would S. Fischer, editor of the newsletter, Box 394A, Route I, New fill a book." Brunswick, N.J., a member of New Brunswick Monthly Meet ing. Friends in Mid-India Yearly Meeting have published the first issue of Mitra Sandesh, a Quaker journal in Hindi. It is A well-known English Friend, Henry T. Gillett, has sur not a translation of the journal published in English, The veyed the state of religious thought in relation to world prob Friendly Way, but is an original publication. lems in The Spiritual Basis of Democracy. Actual belief in Christian principles is essential in solving political, economic, and social problems. The only "binding dogma" of Christianity The Friends Historical Association invites all Friends to is faith in the absolute value and power of self-sacrificing love. come to Radnor Meeting, Conestoga and Sproul Roads, !than, Published in 1954, the book is now available from the Friends Pa., on May 17 at 4 p.m., to celebrate the 275th anniversary World Committee, 20 South 12th Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa., at of the Welsh Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania. Geoffrey the reduced price of $1.00 per copy. It is excellent for use in Nuttall, Lecturer in Church History, London, now at Pendle Adult Discussion groups. Hill, will speak on "The Coming of Quakerism to Wales." Evelyn S. Whiting, of Almeley Meeting, Hereford, on the Welsh border, will speak on "Some Early Welsh Friends and A number of Monthly Meetings belonging to Friends Gen Their Homes" (color slides). Radnor Friends will serve ice eral Conference have provided scholarships to enable guests cream and coffee. Those interested in an afternoon visit to from overseas to attend the biennial conference at Cape May, the homes of T. William Roberts (1683), Morris Llewellyn N.J., from June 23 to 30. The Conference office, 1515 Cherry (1693), and John M. George, founder of George School, as Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa., would welcome suggestions for well as Old Haverford and Merion Meetings, write to Mary S. candidates for these scholarships. These scholarships are appli Patterson, 320 Maple Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa. (telephone cable to high school exchange students, undergraduate and Kingswood 3-0850), for the program. graduate students, or older guests from abroad. Men entering Pennsylvania State University may be ex Benjamin Polk, our correspondent from Calcutta, India, cused from compulsory Reserve Officers Training if they have is a distinguished architect whom U Nu, Prime Minister of religious objections to military training. To arrange this, they Burma, asked in 1953 to study the roots of Burmese architec should write the Dean of Men well before coming to the ture so that they could be fused with modern designs in the campus, including in their letters two or three recommenda International Institute of Advanced Buddhist Studies at tions from Meeting members or ministers. Rangoon. Benjamin Polk was commissioned to build the library of this Institute. An interesting article from his pen in 'the April 20 issue of the Sunday Hindusthan Standard, A group of six Earlham College students, Beth Leiby, Calcutta,' describes in detail how such a project demands a MichaelS. Ingerman, and Jack Kirk, all of Philadelphia Yearly thorough study of symbols. Symbolically, for instance, the Meeting; Barbara Wildman, Indiana Yearly Meeting; Frances entrances correspond to the Eightfold Noble Path of Bud Warren, Wilmington Yearly Meeting, and Richard Patterson, dhism,. and the three floors are the Three Baskets of Wisdom. Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), traveled in the Kansas Yearly Meeting area during their spring vacation from college. The building is equipped with modern offices and represents, Staying with Friends in Saint Louis on the way to and from indeed, a perfect blending of ancient tradition and contem Kansas, they visited Independence, Bolton, Prairie Vale in porary technology. Benjamin Polk's article makes suggestions Coldwater (at the home of Gurney Hadley, Clerk of Kansas for the broader field of town and regional planning that will Yearly Meeting), Haviland, and Wichita in Kansas, and Wyan have to take into account social, religious, and economic dotte and Gate in Oklahoma. They were also able to take problems. His partner, Binoy Kumar Chatterjee, joined him part in a retreat organized by Young Friends of Wichita and in writing another article in the April 12 issue of the Hindus spent Easter weeJ<_end at a ~-H camp near Junction City, than Standard dealing with industrial architecture in India. Kansas. 304 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 10, 1958 The headmaster of the Sidwell Friends School, Washington, article on "What Are the Quakers?" in answer to the film D. C., Robert S. Lyle, has announced the appointment of Friendly Persuasion, indicating how it fails to give an adequate PhilipP. Perkins as head of the Upper School. He will assume impression of Quakerism past and present. his new duties in August. He succeeds Frederic B. Withington, who has recently been appointed headmaster of Morgan Park Military Academy in Chicago. Letters to the Editor Letters are subject to editorial revision if too long. Anonymous communications cannot be accepted. Volunteers at the American Friends Service Committee Thank you for the brief notice about the Quaker Theolog contributed 1,524 hours from January through March, 1958, ical Discussion Group's first mailing in the April 5 issue of in the Philadelphia office alone, not including warehouse or the FRIENDS JouRNAL. Unfortunately, no mention was made committee service. Ruth Simkin, director of the volunteer that it costs $2.00, payable to me as tr~asurer, to be on the program, reports that retired businessmen and businesswomen, mailing list (to cover duplicating and mailing costs, etc.). I housewives, students, and former AFSC employees have been hope you will be kind enough to put a brief note of addi among the volunteers. Of the 29 different persons who have tional information in a forthcoming issue of the FRIENDS given their time, 15 are Friends. JOURNAL. 380 Yale Station EDWARD A. MANICE The Eighth Query in Faith and Practice, Philadelphia, New Haven, Conn. asks Friends: "What are you doing . . . to carry your share of responsibilities in the government of your community, state and nation ...?" Faith and Practice states: "Through Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., 489 Ocean Avenue, West the ballot and in other ways Friends may help to direct public Haven, Conn., will supply free to Friends groups that request policy toward the fulfillment of Christian principles.. .." it the following reprints of articles: (I) the inaugural address This is the time for primary elections in many states, and of the new President of the National Council of Churches, these are the key to good government. Primaries enable citi Dr. Dahlberg, on "Peace"; (2) Gerald Kennedy's article "How zens to have some voice in the ultimate selection of men and Foolish Can We Be?"; (3) Professor C. Wright Mills's "Program women of high ideals. Various civic organizations urge voting for Peace"; and finally (4) a card in two colors against the in primary elections as a Christian duty. H-bomb tests. When writing please specify the exact number of each desired. West Haven, Conn. The Wider Quaker Fellowship in the Netherlands J EROME DAVIS A report has just been received from Gerardina L. van To say that we Quakers, followers of George Fox, know Dalfsen, the Secretary of the Wider Quaker Fellowship in the comparatively little about him may seem an injustice to some Netherlands. She reports that they now have 150 members, Friends, but it has been my own experience that our founder and during 1957 several of the groups have been visited by has been presented to us only fragmentarily, as in First-day Friends from abroad. Among these Friends were lise Schwer School leaflets stating that "the Society of Friends was founded sensky, who spoke on life in East Germany, and Nettie Bossert, by George Fox and other earnest people." A time or two we who talked about her life in India. Other visitors were Norah ran across his portrait; infrequently, we saw his name in re Douglas, Marie Pleiszner, Elisabeth Loscher, and Paul Sturge. ligious periodicals. Nowhere in our religious instruction were Places visited were Dordrecht, Doetinchem, Haarlem, Amers we given a full, chronological account of his life. foort, Eindhoven, and Utrecht. She says that in all these towns Why not make the life, character, and religious contribution groups have .come together regularly and also groups have met of George Fox far more familiar to members of our Society, fill in Leyden and Rotterdam. At Doorn a small study group is our Meeting libraries with biographies, our halls and classrooms reading Thomas Kelly's Testament of Devotion. At Hilversum, with his portrait, name our meeting houses and fellowships for the home of Gerardina van Dalfsen, a group of about six him? Let the name of Fox become a household word. regular attenders gathers once a month. Some of the subjects Great Falls, Mont. discussed by these groups are: The Early Quakers, Inner Light, EsTHER HAYES REED Challenge of the Atomic World, New Forms of Resistance, and Simple Living. Meetings for worship are held regularly, Coming Events mostly by members of the Fellowship, at Utrecht, Rotterdam, (Calendar events for the date of issue will not be included if they Leyden, and Haarlem. Visiting has been done also by mem have been listed in a previous issue.) bers of the Wider Quaker Fellowship to groups and isolated MAY members. 9 to ll-Denmark Yearly Meeting at Danish Quakercentre, Gerardina van Dalfsen sends a copy of an illustrated article Copenhagen. on "Friends and the Ecumenical Movement" written by her, 10-Burlington Quarterly Meeting, at Stony Brook Meeting House, Quaker Road, Princeton, N. J. At 2 p.m., Meeting on Wor which appeared in the monthly periodical of the National ship and Ministry and meeting for worship; 4 p.m., business; 6 p.m., Council of Churches in the Netherlands. She also wrote an supper provided. Note revised schedule. May 10, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 305 10---Fritchley General Meeting at Fritchley, near Derbyshire, of "Report on Africa," and "The Fifth Amendment and Self England. Incrimination." 11-Nine Partners Half Yearly Meeting at Oswego Meeting 23 to 29-London Yearly Meeting at Friends House, Euston House, Moore's Mills, N. Y. Business session, 11 a.m., followed by Road, London, England. covered dish lunch; worship session, 2 p.m., in parf devoted to Coming: Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology at a memorial service for J. Delancey Verplanck. Haverford College, Pa., June 13 to 15. Theme, "The Life of the 11-Fair Hill Meeting, Germantown Avenue and Cambria Spirit Today; Spiritual Growth through Group Search." Text, Street, Philadelphia, Adult Conference Class, 10 a.m.: William The Cloud of Unknowing, interpreted by Ira Progoff, who will Hubben, "Friends and Publicity." lecture on "The Spiritual Dilemma of Modern Man." Seminars, 11-Central Philadelphia Meeting, Race Street west of 15th, Con small discussion groups. Registration blanks obtainable from ference Class, 11:40 a.m.: William M. Kantor, "The Vision on Susan Yarnall, 5337 Knox Street, Philadelphia 44, Pa. Patmos." 11-The McCutchen (New York Yearly Meeting Friends Home), BIRTHS 21 Rockview Avenue, North Plainfield, N. J., Spring Open House, 3 to 5 p.m. All welcome. ABERNATHY-On April 18, to Robert Shields and Rosalind 15-Germantown Meeting House, 47 West Coulter Street, Phila- , Smith Abernathy, a son, THOMAS GLENN ABERNATHY. There are delphia, 8 p.m.: illustrated lecture by C. Reed and Margaret M. two older boys, Robert S., Jr. (6) and David Smith (4), and a girl, C.ary, "African Adventures and a Visit to a Quaker Mission." Susan Gower (2). The family are all members of Little Rock, 15-Willistown Meeting, Goshen Road, northwest of Edgemont, Ark., Meeting for Worship (unorganized). David T . and Susan Pa., 8 p.m.: panel discussion, Dr. Lovett Dewees, counselor for Gower Smith of Durham Monthly Meeting, N.C., are grandparents. Friends Counseling Service, and members of Family Relations Com· OWEN-On April 8, at Bethlehem, Pa., to Lawrence B. and mittee. Julia Parmelee Owen, a son, CRAIG THOMAS OwEN. He is a grand 15 to 19-New Zealand General Meeting at Auckland, New son of Elizabeth H. Owen, a member of Woodstown Monthly Zealand. Meeting, N. J . 17-Caln Quarterly Meeting at Coatesville, Pa., 4 p.m. 17-Celebration of 275th Anniversary of Welsh Quaker Migra WEBSTER-On March 26, to S. Conrad and Frances Young tion to Pennsylvania, by Friends Historical Association at Radnor Webster of Downingtown, Pa., a son, MARK WHITSON WEBSTER. Meeting House, Ithan, Pa., 4 p.m. Speakers, Geoffrey Nuttall and His parents and grandparents, Samuel and Jessie Webster, are mem Evelyn Southall Whiting. bers of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Christiana, Pa. IS-Potomac Quarterly Meeting at Hopewell Meeting House, Clearbrook, Va. Ministry and Counsel, 9:45 a.m., "What Can One DEATH Quaker Do?"; worship, 11; lunch, 12:30; business, 2. All meetings, ATKINSON-On April 25, suddenly, at Wrightstown, Pa., RoB EST. Marshall Sutton' and others expect to attend. ERT E. ATKINSON, at the age of 68. He is survived by his wife, IS-Southern Half Yearly Meeting at Easton, Md., 11 a.m. Beulah E. Atkinson; his children, Ellen A. Davenport of New Hope, IS-Central Philadelphia Meeting, Race Street west of 15th, Pa., Sara A. Snyder of Westport, Conn., Anna Margaret Nicholson Conference Class, 11:40 a.m.: Virginia Gunn and M. Annie Archer, of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Dr. Edward K. Atkinson of Greenville, "Summary and Forward Look." Pa.; and a brother, D. Watson Atkinson of Newtown, Pa. A memo 21-Chester, Pa., Friends Forum, educational motion pictures, rial service was held at the Wrightstown Meeting House on Sunday, in the meeting house, 24th and Chestnut Streets, 8 p.m.: Part II April 27. and 11 a.m., 2111 Florida Avenue, N.W., 11 a.m. For lodging or transpprtatlon call MEETING ADVERTISEMENTS one block from Connecticut Avenue. Herbert Goldhor, Clerk, HA 5-5171 (eve nings and week ends, GR 6-7776). ARIZONA FLORIDA PKOJIIJilD[-Meetlng for worship, 10 a.m .. MASSACHUSETTS 17th Street and Glendale Avenue. James DAYTOliA BJIIAOK-Socla.l Room, Con Dewees, Clerk, 1928 West Mitchell. gregational Church, ~01 Volusla Avenue. AKKBBS~-Meet1ng for worship, 10 a.m., Worship, 3 p.m., first and third Sundays; Old Chapel, Unlv. of Mass. ; AL 3-6902. monthly meeting, fourth Friday each OAIIBBIDGB-Meetlnc for worship each CALIFORNIA month, 7:30 p.m. Clerk, Charles T. Moon, Church address. First-day at 9:80 a.m. and 11 a.m., G Long BJIIBXJIILJIIY-Frlends meeting, First-days fellow Park (near Harvard Square). Tele at 11 a.m., northea.st corner of VIne and GAI:NJIISVXLLB - Meeting for worship, phone TR 6-6888. Walnut Streets. Monthly meetings, the First-days, 11 a.m., 218 Florida. Union. SO'UTK YABJIO'IJ'rK [Cape Ood]-Wor las t First-day of each month, after the JACXSOJfVXLLB- Meeting for worship shlp, Sundays, 10 a.m. all year. meeting for worship. Clerk, Clarence and First-day school, 11 a.m., Y.W.C.A. WOBOJIISTBB- Pleasant Street Friends Cunningham. Board Room. Telephone EVergreen 9-4345. Meeting, 901 Pleasant Street. Meeting for OLABJIIIIO!f'r-Frlend• meeting, 9:80a.m. IIIAIII-Meetlng for worship a.t Y .W.C.A., worship each First-day, 11 a.m. Telephone on Scripps campus, lOth and Columbia. 114 S.E. 4th St., 11 a.m.; First-day school, PL 4-8887. Ferner Nuhn, Clerk, 420 West 8th Street. 10 a.m. Miriam Toepel, Clerk: TU 8-6629. LA JOLLA-Meeting{ 11 a.m., 7880 Eads OBLAliDO-WiliTJIIB PABX-Meetfng, 11 Avenue. VIsitors cal GL 4-7459. a.m., 316 E. Marks St., Orlando; MI 7-3021>. MICHIGAN PALO ALTO-Meeting for worship, Sun PALII BBAOK-Frlends Meeting, 10:30 DJIITBOIT-Meetlng, Sundays, 11 a.m. In day, 11 a.m., 957 Colorado Ave.; DA 5-1869. a.m.,812 South Lakeside Drlve,LakeWorth. Highland Park YWCA, Woodward a nd Winona. VIsitors phone TOwnsend 6-4036. PASADJIINA-526 E. Orange Grove (at Oak ST. P JIITJII:RBB'UBG-Frlends Meeting, 130 land). Meeting for worship, Sunday,11 a.m. Nineteenth Avenue S. E. Meeting and BAll P:&A.liOISOO-Meet!ngs for worship, First-day school at 11 a.m. MINNESOTA First-days, 11 a.m., 1830 Sutter Street. IIIllliJIIAPOLIB-Meetlng, 11 a.m., First HAWAII day school, 10 a.m., 44th Street and York COLORADO KOJfOL'UL'U-Honolulu Friends Meeting, Avenue S. Richard P. Newby, Minister, 2426 Oahu Avenue, Honolulu; telephone 4421 Abbott Avenue S. ; phone WA 6-9675. DBNVBB-Mountaln VIew Meeting. Chil 994447. Meeting for worship, Sundays, dren's meeting, 10 a.m., meeting for wor 10:15 a..m. Children's meeting, 10:15 a..m., ship, 10:45 a.m. at 2026 South Williams. joins meeting for fifteen minutes. Clerk, MISSOURI Clerk, Mary Flower Russell, SU 9-1790. Christopher Nicholson. XAliSAS CITY-Penn Valley Meeting, un programmed, 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., each Sunday, 306 Wes t 39th Street. For DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INDIANA information call HA 1-8828. WASHINGTON- Meeting, Sunday, 9 a.m. liVAlii'SVILLJII-Meetlng, Sundays, YMCA, s~. LO'UIB-Meetlng for worship, 10:30 306 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 10, 1958 a.m., 2539 Rockford Avenue, Rock Hill. LAKCASTEB-Meetlng house, Tula.ne Ter PARTNER OR BACKERS, by former CPS For Information call TA 2-0579. race, 11,2 mllee west of Lancaster, ott U.S. man, to Invest In expansion of specialized 30. Meeting a.nd First-day school, 10 a.m. profes sional business In Washington, D. C. H. Edward Behre, 3408 Cameron Mills NEW JERSEY PJIILADBLPKIA-Meetings, 10:30 a.m., unless specified; telephone RI 6-3263 for Road, Alexandria, Va. ATLANTIC CITY-Meeting for worship, Information about First-day schools. 11 a.m., discussion group, 10:30 a.m., South Byberry, one mile east of Roosevelt Boule- HOUSEKEEPER- COMP ANION for one Carolina and Pacific Avenues. lady, July a n d August at Buck Hill Falls. vard at Southampton Road, 11 a.m. Pa. R eply to Box P43, Friends Journal. DOVEB-First-day school, 11 a.m., wor Central Philadelphia, Race St. west of 15th. ship, 11:15 a.m., Quaker Church Road. Chestnut Hill, 100 East Mermaid Lane. CHRISTIAN WOMAN TO COOK, super MANASQtJAJI'-Flrst-day school, 10 a.m.; Coulter Street and Germantown Avenue. vise kitchen and dining room of Presby meeting for worship, 11:111 a.m. Route 85 Fair Hill, Germantown & Cambria, 11 :15a.m. t er ian Conference Center, Lake Placid, at Manasquan Circle. Walter Longstreet, Fourth & Arch Sts., First- and Fifth-da ys. Fla. Year r ound position. beautiful sur Frankford, Penn and Orthodox Streets. roundings. Room and board, reasonable Clerk. Frankford, Unity and Wain Streets, 11 a.m. KONTCLAIB-289 Park Street, First-day salary. References wanted. Box 488 Lake Green St., 45 W. School House L., 11 a.m. Placid, Fla. school, 10:30 a.m.; worship, 11 a..m. (July, Powelton, 36th and Pearl Streets, 11 a.m. August, 10 a.m.). Visitors welcome. PITT&BtJBGK- Worship at 10:30 a.m., PLAINFIELD -Watchung Avenue and adult class, 11:411 a..m., 13118 Shady Avenue. AVAILABLE Third Street. First-day school, 9:ri0 a.m., worship, 11 a.m. B:BADIJI"G-108 North Sixth Street. First day school at 10 &.m., meetlnc for wor EXPERIENCED HOUSEMOTHER !rom ship at 11 a.m. children's home desires .position on West NEW YORK STATB COLLBGB- 818 South Atherton Coast. Excellent references. Write Mrs. lone Mitchell, Route 1, Box 74~. Santa Ana. BtJPl'ALo--Meetlng and First-day school, Street. First-d&y echool a.t 9:30 a.m., Road, Ventura, California, c/o R. Miller. 11 a.m., 1272 Delaware Ave.; phone EL 0252. meeting for worship &t 10:411 &.m. LONG ISLAKD - Manhasset Meeting, CHARNEY MANOR. Charney Bassett, Northern Boulevard at Shelter Rock TENNESSEE Wantage, England: Friends conference and Road. First-day school, 9:45 a .m.: meet KBIIPKIS- Meeting !or worship ea.cb guest house, fine old 13th century "manor Ing for worship, 11 a.m. Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Clerk, Esther Mc f u lly modernized; warmly recommended; NBW YO:aE-Meetlngs for worship, First Candless, JAckson 11-5705. Oxrord 13 miles. Telephone West Hanney days, 11 a.m. (Riverside, 3:30 p.m.). Tele 206. phone GRamercy 3-8018 about First-day schools, monthly meetings, suppers, etc. TEXAS ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN: .Tune 15 to Manhattan: at 221 East 15th Street; and at AtJSTIJr-Worship, Sundays, 11 a.m., 407 S eptember 1, 3-bedroom house, fenced Riverside Church, 15th Floor, Riverside W. 27th St. Clerk, John Barrow, GR 2-5522. yard, children welcome. Box H41, Friends Drive and 122d Street, 3:30 p.m. Journal. Brooklyn: at 110 Schermerhorn Street: DALLAS--W"orship, Sunday, 10:30 a.m., 7th Day Adventist Church, 4009 North Cen and at the corner of Lafayette and tral Expressway. Clerk, Kenneth Carroll, QUOGUE, LONG ISLAND: Furnished Washington Avenues. Department o! Religion, S.M.U.; FL 2-1846. three-room apartment, sleeps three. Quiet l'lu•hing: at 137-16 Northern Boulevard. shady location, near ocean and bay STBACtJSB-Meetlng and First-day school KOtJSTOJr - Live Oak Friends Meeting, beach es; $700 for season, $300 monthly. at 11 a.m. each First-day at University Sunday, 11 a.m., Council of Churches Box 273, Quogu e, New York. College, 601 East Genesee Street. Building, 9 Chelsea Place. Clerk, WaHer W'hltson; JAckson 8-6413. AT THE ONLY HOTEL In Philadelphia OHIO belonging to Friends: a three-acre garden; UTA.H comfortable rooms and tempting meals !or CI:NCilOJATI- Meetln&' for worship, 11 SALT LAEJI CITY-Meeting for worship, transient or permanent guests. Call Arch a.m., 3601 Victory Parkway. Telephone Street Centre, MArket 7-2025. Edwin Moon, Clerk, at JE 1-4984. Sundays, 9:30 a.m., 232 University Street. CLBVJ:LAKD-Meetlng for worship and POCONO MOUNTAINS, PA.-cottages on First-day school, 11 a.m., 1091G Maa-nolia WANTED private estate; refined, quiet community; Drive. Telephone TU o!-2695. 1900-foot elevation; beautiful views, pond, TO RENT PITTSBURGH AREA, Sep trout stream. One cottage, 3 bedrooms; tember 1: Partially or unfurnished house t h e other, 4 bedrooms: each having com PENNSYL"Y A.NIA. for Quaker physician and family of four fortable living room, dining room, kitchen, KA.ltBISBtJBG -Meeting and First-day children. Space, not style, a prerequisite. bath; $325 and $350 monthly, respectively. school, 11 a.m., YWCA, 4th and Walnut Sts. Box B45, Friends Journal. Box D36, Friends Journal. SUMMER GUESTS PLEASE NOTIFY US THREE WEEKS IN BOOK MANUSCRIPTS ADVANCE OF ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS CONSIDERED Vacation at ELKMONT, north central by coopuative: publisher who offers authors early Pennsylvania. Restful, pictnre~~qne, se publication. higher royalty. national distribution, cluded; particularly adaptable to older and beautifully designed books. All subjects wt l· people. Near Elklands Meetlna- Honse. OUR TENTH YEAR corned. Wriu. or send your MS directly. Reasonable raws. Wriw for information. GREENWICH BOOK PUBLISHERS, INC. Irene Bown Forksville, Pa. Atten. MR. VAN BUREN 489 FIFTH AVE. Special NEW YORK 17, N. Y. Reconditioned KIRKRIDGE RETREAT Positions Available TYPEWRITERS Building Mental Health in the Family at DR. JoHN CHARLES WYNN, Leader ALL MAKES ALL MODELS EARLHAM COLLEGE June 6-8 They type like new ones Richmond, Indiana Write to Bangor, Pennsylvania ASSISTANT DIETITIAN to be in chorge Price $27.50 up of Snock Bor ond student workers in PASTORAL SECRETARY kitchen. Eorlhom College hos o new ATTENTION WOMEN food service, ond this would be o fine WANTED opportunity for the right person. If you ore looking for typing work for unprogrammed Meeting in Chicago suburb. to be done in your home write to us Includes young people's work, religious educa· HOUSEKEEPER to supervise the moids for informotion. lion, and spiritual leadership. full time, or ond jonitors of four residentiol holls Apply TYPEWRITERS part time with opportunity for seminary study. totoling oround 600 students; middle Begin September 1. oged womon preferred. Solory open. 5139 North Clark Street EVANSTON FRIENDS MEETING Inquiries should be made to Harold C. Cope Chicago 40, Illinois 1010 Greenleof Evonston, Illinois May 10, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL 307 THE PENINGTON CAMP C ELO COUNSELING SERVICE 215 EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 3 of the Ages 6 to 10 Next door to the Meeting House FAMILY RELATIONS COMMITTEE A Friends Hostel in New York for Friends A farm-home camp in the Black Mountains For appointment. In Philadelphia telephone and friends of Friends. Comfortable rooms of North Carolina for 20 boys and girls. Full J ohn Charles Wynn, MAdison 8-8069, in and wholesome meals for permanent guests. camp program of worship, work, and play the eveninJr. Accommodations for transients limited. Ad under Quaker leadership. vance reservations r eQuested. For appointmenu with Dr. Lovett Dewees Ernest Morgan, Yellow Springs, Ohio write loim at Glen Mills, Pa., or telephone Telephone GRamercy 5-9193 Globe 9-2474. For appointmenu with Dr. Genevra Driscoll telephone WElsh Valley 4-7118 after 8 p.m. FRIENDS BOOK STORE 302 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. D-ARROW CAMP EASTMAN DILLON, UNION MArket 7-3576 FOR BOYS AGES: 12-16 Quaker books, British and American, blolr!"a On Grand Lake in ECI$tern Maine SECURITIES & CO. pbies, new books, large selection of ehlldren'a Members New York Stock Exchange books. An:r book In print will be ordered. 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Kindergarten through Grade 12 pllconta whose familiea need it. friends LOcust 4-3500 A reduction In toltlon It available to are partieulorly encouraged to apply. -ben al The Society of Frlaads. CHARLES J. ERICKSON John F. Gummere, Headmaster Victor M. Haughton, Jr., Headmalter SCHOOL LANE AND FOX STREET Registered Representative Box B, locust Volley, long Island, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA 44, PA. FRIENDS' SELECT SCHOOL Our deadline for advertising is Friday of the week preceding THE PARKWAY AT SEVENTEENTH STREET date of issue. Copy received by 9:15 on the following Monday PHILADElPHIA 3, PENNSYLVANIA morning will be included only if space permits. Established 1689 Coeducational Day School Oakwood is committed to the encouragement of "that of God in every Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade man," and it seeks to be a community where each member grows in the ability While college preparation Is a pri to express the best in himself and to appreciate and encourage the best in mary aim, personal guidance helps each student to develop as an Individual. others. It desires to help the individual grow mentally, physically, emotionally, Spiritual values and Quaker principles and spiritually and to derive his happiness from a sense of this growth. are emphasized. Central location pro It believes that the individual should share responsibility in and for the vides many educational resources and easy access from the suburbs. Friends group and should tty by democratic means to promote the welfare of larger Interested in a sound academic program social units both within and beyond the school. are encouraged to apply. -FROM The Philosophy of Oakwood School G. Laurence Blauvelt, Headmaster Coeducational S C H 0 0 L 0 A K W 0 0 D Quaker Boarding , GRADES 9 TO 12 INCLUSIVE FRIENDS' POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK CENTRAL SCHOOL For further information write CHARLES W. HUTTON, Principal OVERBROOK, PHILADELPHIA 31, PA. A Coeducational Country Day School A FRIENDS COEDUCATIONAIJ BOARDING SCHOOL Four-year kindergarten through 12th Grade CoUege Preparatory Curriculum GRADES Founded 9-12 1893 Founded in 1845 b,- the Soelet,- of Friends, GEORGE SCHOOl our aehool continues to emphasize lntel'rit,-, freedom, &Implicit,- In education RICHAIID H. McFEELY, Principal throuch eoneem for the Individual atudent. MERRILL E. BUSH, Headmaster Enrollment has been completed for autumn of the coming school year. A limited waiting list is being established from which applicants will be accepted as vacancies may occur. STRAWBRIDGE Address inquiries to: ADELBERT MASON, Director of Admiuioru & CI.OTHIER Box 350, George School, Bucks County, Pennsylvania CAREERS FOR THE TAKING! Founded over 92 years ago by members of the Society of Friends, Provident Mutual continues to offer rewarding careers in a "service" business·both in the Home Office and in selling. Selling for Provident Mutual means ade· quate training, a business of your own and no limit on earnings. For further information write Lewis C. Sprague, Vice President & Manager of Agencies, Box 7378, Phila· delphia 1, Pa. PROVIDENT MUTUAL LIFIE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA Builders of Confidence Ufe Insurance • Annuities • Hospital and Sura:lcal Insurance Non·cancellable Accident and Sickness Insurance Since 1868 Group Ufe • Group Accident and Health • Group Annultlet THK LKGAI. INTIII.I.IGKNCIUI~ 88