January 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL Quaker Thought and Life Today
"For the body is not one member, but many. " January 15, 1979 Contents Volume 25, No. 2 FRIENDS
I Hope You're Feeling Plucky! ...... 2 JOURNAL -Ruth Kilpack On Speaking Truth to Power With Planning ...... 4 Friends Journal (USPS 21<>-620) was established in 1955 as the successor to The Friend (1827-19SS) and Friends Jntelligencer (1844-195S). It is associated with the Religious -Larry Spears Society of Friends. Is Love an Indulgence? ...... 8 STAFF Ruth Kilpack, Editor -Betty-Jean Seeger Susan Corson, Associate Editor Nina Sullivan, Advertising and Circulation The Risks of Letting Go ...... 10 Barbara Benton and Dorothy Jackson, Graphics Vinton Deming and Marty Zinn, Ty~lling -Raymond Paavo Arvio Elizabeth Cunningham and Lois Oneal, Office St As way opens . .. [ I HOPE YOU'RE FEELING PLUCKY! 2 January 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL ate January is a lugubrious time of year, when our sightings of the Loch Ness monster. New Year's resolutions have already "gang aft But can you imagine what a microwave oven would do La-glay," we are enveloped in sleet and storm if confronted by such a gastronomic delicacy as Haggis? warnings, and the latest news bounced off the satellite To my mind, both the oven and the housewife whose seems to bring us nothing but dire reports of vulgarities well-manicured finger pushes the oven's buttons, might and bloody, inhuman machinations on the part of the be in mortal danger of nervous collapse. That is, if there human race. We, too, are embroiled, and there is no is a housewife anymore-since many are fleeing the over escape, since there is not even a desert island left to which simplification of housewifely duties engendered by micro one could retire. wave ovens and such like. Besides, what woman would be In the face of such overwhelming circumstances, some around anymore for the long hours required to scrape the of us feel the need for a touch of frivolity now and then to stomach and dip the pluck boilings out of the pan? To say produce at least a feeble bounce in us. Food is one of the nothing of doing all that pricking of the stuffed stomach, condolences we seek, with new cookbooks in the ranks of and the taking care to see that the windpipe is hanging out the leading bestsellers, and recipe-swapping strongly in at the proper time? Above all, where on earth would she vogue. Let me share my own favorite recipe with you. It find a sheep's stomach-let alone a sheep-these days? is the most organic, earthy one I have encountered, and Well, friends, ifyou'renot cheered up now, at this low for that reason, perhaps, it tickles my fancy. point of the year, at least I am. My elation at having "Haggis and Neeps" it is called, and it is always served escaped the yearly preparation of Haggis and Neeps (and (so they say) on Robbie Burns' birthday on January 25 I don't care how great the poet it celebrates!) is (that time of year!). The dish is piped in by a kilted piper, tremendous. But perhaps I'm merely provincial. The after which someone recites Burns' poem, "Address to Scots love Haggis, I hear-or at least they did, when their the Haggis," before everyone falls to. Here are the ladies were around to prepare it. And I do like Burns' ingredients: poems and the ruddy cheer they generate. I have nothing against him, in spite of the Haggis. the stomach bag of a sheep And if the dissemination of this recipe causes nausea the pluck (heart, liver, lights) on the part of my vegetarian friends and the alienation of one-half pound minced beef suet my Scottish ones, I am all contrition itself. Let them take one cup toasted oatmeal refuge in the Quakerly volume reviewed in this issue: four onions (parboiled) Quaker Flavors, published by an All-American Quaker one pint pluck boilings meeting in these parts. salt and pepper I can't close this dissertation on the joys and perils of And here's how you do it: Wash the stomach bag well. Haggis and Neeps without appending a scientific Put into hot water and scrape it, leaving it to soak in assessment, carried by the New York Times (no less) on salted cold water all night. Put the pluck into a pan, November 1961 in a brief article entitled, "Haggis letting the windpipe hang over the side, and boil for two Analyzed at Last-Canadians Do the Job." In referring hours. When cold, cut away the windpipe, grate a quarter to "that most mysterious and sanctified of Scottish of the liver, mince the heart, the lights, the suet, and the dishes,'' the Times reports that some Canadian Scots parboiled onions. Mix with the oatmeal and a pint of the tried to send a shipment of Haggis to a group of Scots in pluck liquid. Fill the bag half full, sew up with a needle Brazil, only to have its entry barred by customs officials, and thread, and put the Haggis in a pan of hot water to saying it fit into no permissible import classification. boil for three hours. Be sure to prick the stomach Whereupon, recounts the New York Times, "Canada's bag every so often to prevent its bursting. Serve on trade department stepped in, had the Haggis chemically a hot plate. analyzed, and convinced Brazil to permit its entry-as The Neeps? Simply boiled, mashed turnips. " Whip up fertilizer.'' RK and serve'' says the recipe, which, by the way, appeared in a collection of international recipes put out by a field hockey group. (It would appear field hockey gives one a strong stomach.) In a time of finicky palates, doesn't this strike you as being as sturdy and thick as a good Scotch brogue? None of your wheedling appetites with sanitized frozen dinners from the supermarket, or epicurean enticements for pampered taste buds. Simply the robust Burnsian blandishments of a hardy race brought up on heather, ancient traditions of feuding clans, and the near- FRIENDS JOURNAL January 15, 1979 3 On S~akingTruth To Power With Planning Photos, clockwise: (Upper) Conference on human sur vival opens at UN head quarters on May25, I970, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation; (Lower right) Joe Volk gives a presentation in Evans ville, November, I974, dur ing the campaign to stop the B-I bomber; (Lower left) In I 97 I, a woman addresses the American Friends Serv ice Committee West African Seminar. by Larry Spears processes are tools of power which thwart change. Fourth, participation in planning gives legitimacy to the n the September issue, Friends Journal published current power structures and to their actions. In Ursula Franklin's talk at Friends General Con conclusion, she offers the hope of discovering a I ference, Ithaca, New York, entitled "On Speaking nonviolent form of planning which could permit Friends Truth to Planning." We are grateful to her for raising to embrace participation in the world's planning this important concern of the Quaker role in planning. processes. A most serious criticism of Friends today, as of other The danger in the counsel which these criticisms imply religious people, is our failure to participate sufficiently is the beguiling justification of the refusal of Friends to in planning processes at each level of our lives. As participate in the world's planning processes. Let us look families, we should plan to live within our financial at each criticism in turn in light of our responsibilities and means, and to provide continuing care for our children leadings as Friends. and social concerns through the preparation of a will. We The first objection is that past and present planning should participate in long-range planning for the struc processes have not foreseen, sufficiently reduced, or tural, legal, and financial health of our meetings and eliminated the detrimental effects of modern change. The the deliberate religious education of our members. We incorrect assumption of this objection is that planning, if should plan for the organization and use of our yearly properly performed, would foresee or eliminate the meetings as vehicles for the continuing expression of our detrimental effects. Human planning processes and the Quaker concerns. We should assist Friendly organiza participants in planning processes are not omniscient or tions in long range planning for their present and future omnipotent, despite the pretentions of enthusiasts. The good works. Each of these areas calls for our planning recognition of the finitude of the planning processes and participation. the finitude and sinfulness of its participants is not a new Participation by Friends in planning activities of discovery applicable only to planning. It is a truth equally government, business, and voluntary organizations is as shared with all important human processes and people in essential as it is in personal and Quaker organizations. It government, business, family life, religion, and the arts. is the religious role to call these organizations to the need Fallibility is the human condition, but a fallible planning for envisioning the future, and to participate in these process and sinful participants are better than no planning processes. planning processes at all. This fallibility is a reason for Underlying Ursula Franklin's article, however, is a renewing our determination as Friends to contribute with tone of fear and reservation about the role of planning in humility our finite wisdom to these planning efforts. the future of the world and about the role of Friends in The participation of Friends will not guarantee secular planning processes. She warns Friends to take a beneficial results in these secular planning processes. more searching look at these secular planning activities, Participation and success are not the same. Faithful particularly their underlying moral and ethical assump participation cannot even guarantee better, but less than tions. This is a difficult, frustrating, and thankless task, perfect, results, due to the complexity and uncertainty of but one not rejected historically by Friends due to its any human enterprise. However, our participation is weight and complexity. Reflection and caution are essential as an expression of that faith. appropriate if they are united with energy and The contrary perfectionist position would exclude determination arising from the spiritual understanding Friendly participation in any planning process in which that Friendly participation is essential in the planning there is risk that the result will fall short of Quaker processes of this world. Each reservation should be expectations. "It is clear to me that the planners of the considered within a commitment to Quaker participation American Friends Service Committee should not have in these planning processes. terminated their efforts because of the anticipated rise of Four objections have been raised by Ursula Franklin military arsenals in a reconstructed Europe. Nor should against planning. First, past and present planning the risk of easier future wars in the implementation of an processes have not foreseen, sufficiently reduced, or all-volunteer army have deterred Friends from participa eliminated the detrimental effects of modern change. tion in that legislative process. Second, past and present planning processes have failed As to the second objection, that past and present to consider, improperly rejected, and thereby precluded planning processes have failed to consider, and desirable futures from developing. Third, planning improperly rejected desirable future options, this reality is its own reason for the addition of Friendly leaven to the Lawrence D. Spears is an attorney. Chairman of the National Council planning dough. for Judicial Planning, he is a member of the board of directors for both Prairie Public Television, Fargo, ND, and the Mental Health Associa Planning processes analyze available data, consider tion of North Dakota. He is a member of Bismarck (ND) Meeting. needs, define problems, assess available solutions, and FRIENDS JOURNAL January 15, 1979 5 propose action. By sifting, sorting, and choosing, some On the negative side, the planning for treatment values and options are discarded or restricted by services for the mentally ill in separate hospitals failed to subsequent actions based on planned decisions. If the foresee and did foreclose community treatment and process is open and careful, such sorting and restricting normalization options for the mentally ill for many years. of options is the success of planning. The planning of the penitentiary movement thwarted This choosing process is not an usurpation of God's local correctional alternatives and produced crime role in choosing among alternative futures. It is the schools while destroying the worst aspects of previous process of playing the human role fully, in accepting norms of corporal punishment. responsibility for the future and exercising our choice. Planning and action to carry out planning decisions With difficult choices goes the awareness of the does foreclose future options. But this is not a strong elimination of destructive, ambiguous, and desirable objection to the planning process itself, but is rather an options. However, in the Gospel we are reminded that we individual evaluation of the impact of particular are called not to be successful in our choices, but only to historical planning processes. Historical hindsight gives be faithful to the Light which is available to us. us changing assessments and judgments on these The results of our human planning and action are processes. Over time, our assessments of the results of always uncertain, and the choices in public policy are earlier planning processes which produced multi-lateral seldom comfortably clear. With less than complete vision foreign aid programs, rural electrification, wildlife and wisdom, our forebears were unable to eliminate the protection, nuclear electricity generation, and birth need for the Civil War, world wars, and the Vietnam control programs may change. War. In current affairs there is a possibility that Friends' We must guard against rigidity in planning processes efforts to plan for a basis for a just peace in the Middle which do not remain open to new possibilities and East or for rethinking sexual ethics may be counterpro improvements in present plans. No human plan can stand ductive. This ambiguity does not give us a reason to refuse up completely to the test of future reality. To the extent of to enter these planning processes. Nor does our failure to our Light, it may be a special Friendly role to encourage attain the objects of our plans lessen the mandate of faith and sustain this openness and flexibility within planning to participate in these planning processes. processes as the future unfolds. One quality of the modern combination of inter As Friends we are both satisfied and pained by some dependence, complexity, and technology is the enhanced results of our participation in the world's planning power of planning decisions to limit the efforts of others processes. But we cannot renounce the participation in to later present or to implement conflicting decisions. the world's planning forums because our participation in Modern anti-hijacking and anti-terrorist planning is past planning efforts was mixed in its results. We cannot limiting the opportunities and options available to because we know that we are called not to be successful or hijackers and terrorists who view themselves as oppressed omniscient, but to be faithful to that partial Light which nationalists and freedom fighters. The planning efforts of we are given at each moment. We can celebrate the acts of the United Nations, the World Bank, and the European faithfulness to the Light in our past participation in the Economic Community limit the options of members as world's planning, just as we can harness with humility economic and political free agents. Urban and land use our determination to participate in the future planning by planning have the same effect. the partial Light we will be given. The message of grace The opportunities for random, spontaneous, unplan releases us from guilt for the evident failings of our ned change are reduced by planning. Some of the sense of planning, and the message of judgment releases us from mystery, pioneering, surprise, and freshness of life is lim the burden of pride in its good results. ited by this development, which is mourned in part of In regard to the third objection, it is partially true that each of us. But on balance I rejoice. present planning processes are frequently tools of power. The positive side of this development is a movement However, it is not true that the significant planning toward a long-term political stability which limits the processes of this world are constructing a changeless most disruptive and destructive tendencies in local and status quo. This is why there is such a need for speaking global society. This stability does not mean the absence of truth to power through worldly planning processes. change but does limit and channel its developmental There is a widespread belief that there are businesses, explosiveness. The abolitionist movement planning governments, and private groups which encourage the foreclosed the continuation of the tradition of legal development of planning in the belief that the stability slavery. The suffrage planning and action foreclosed the which is enhanced by planning stops the process of tradition of limited male suffrage. The American Friends change. In this ill-motivated belief they are self-deceived. Service Committee planning foreclosed much starvation We must clearly distinguish the motives of some from the and disillusionment in many areas of the world. planning process itself. 6 January 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL Planning as a process will neither solidify nor and yet Quakers cannot avoid choosing and participating. undermine the present distribution of power in our Any process which enjoys widespread participation is society and our world. Planning is a neutral tool, thereby given stature and legitimacy. If Quaker available in the vacuums of life to those who choose to participation is unthoughtful and lazy, detrimental use it. The planning of petroleum-exporting countries, results may not be offset by the effect of Quaker after decades of disorganized impotence and the de influence in improving these results. There is no veloping cooperation of the other national producers guarantee that the effect of Quaker participation will of raw materials, indicates that planning can produce offset any legitimacy conferred by our participation. But unexpected results. The effective use of planning in the can we risk the consequences of planning without Quaker civil rights and anti-war movements has brought involvement? substantial changes in the balance and distribution of The search for a nonviolent approach to planning as a power in this country. pure means, is a mirage which diverts and deters Friends Change will continue and its speed will increase, but from bringing their resources, now, to participation in the range of changes will be narrowed due to planning. the planning processes of this world. There is always a This narrowing of the range of change and the scope of temptation to search for the pure means to participate in change options is the price we pay for greater stability. the choices of the future. But there is no Methodist, For example, planning to establish long-term stability in Catholic, Moslem, or Quaker approach to planning, the Middle East has the effect of limiting the spontaneous apart from the concerns and thoughtfulness which arise and unplanned changes which could otherwise be out of the faith which each individual person brings to the produced by the parties to this conflict, to the benefit of planning process. the entire interconnected world. The solution to the problem posed by planning is In response to the fourth objection we may ask: does neither disengagement from the planning processes of participation by Quakers in the planning processes of this this world, nor the development of a special nonviolent world give legitimacy to the sponsors and the detrimental approach to planning. Planning is itself morally neutral. results of those processes? The choice before each of us is It can be used by many powers, small and large, for good between a perfectionism of non-involvement, and or evil, violent or nonviolent ends. What the world needs participation with the risk of failure. Quaker lobbying, is wise, prayerful, and tenacious participation in its planning, and cooperation in the all-volunteer army planning processes. Friends are called to participate, as concept and in the establishment of legal categories of are all people. Friends can bring their special questions, conscientious objection can be seen as a legitimization of perspectives, and reminders of the constant movement of compulsory military service or as steps toward the the Spirit to these planning processes. With this protection of conscience and support for peacemaking participation, we can speak truth to planning for our work. With our dim sight we cannot say with certainty, future and that of our children. 0 American Friends Service Committee Tripartite Conference in August 1973. racing and running about and shouting of youngsters present-with nary a restraining hand or word being of Is Love fered them, for such seems to be considered taboo and a horrible restriction of spontaneous youthful exuberance. To transmit to children an awareness and sense of An Indulgence? place, no matter how young the age, is a valuable piece of knowledge that will enhance their perceptions and sensi by Betty-]ean Seeger bilities in later life and expand their sensitivities and re spect for others. It will also help inculcate that precious am plunging in where angels fear to tread-to the attribute-self-discipline. subject of child-rearing or, rather, to the misapplica Because pre-schoolers and young schoolers cannot sud I tion of theories of child-rearing. But I am greatly denly become mature when they are taken from environ troubled by the lack of moderation, balance, and just ments of play and child-care (where they most likely plain common sense among many in the Quaker constitu would prefer to remain) and brought into meetings for ency in their responses to children-and my concern is for worship or other adult programs and meetings, restraint the children as well as the adults. and control of unruly or disruptive behavior is obliga None of us wants to return to the Victorian days of tory. I've often felt that this forced collectivity merely children quaking at the sight and sound of parents, and gives vent to adult misconceptions that such participation the small, repressive brutalities, both psychic and physi represents some kind of sharing and togetherness. I've cal, that accompanied them. Nor do we want to imitate a lso often observed that the very children who are most the early theories of our century which emphasized phys difficult to control (or where discipline is most Jacking) ical separateness and distance from infants and children seem to be the ones most often brought " everywhere." It and curtailed fondling and touching. is almost as if others are asked to endure what the parents We are, however-and this is important to recognize are enduring. Or perhaps willful, unruly behavior is mis merely being enslaved by our past if we instill behavior takenly viewed as precocity-this being again an over patterns in our children that arise out of a virtual aban compensation and reversal of the kind of over-subdued, donment of a parental role and a cultivation of promis inhibited child the Victorian age often produced. cuous permissiveness-all done under the guise of Most of the time, indulgence of children is merely an beatific love. Both these opposite poles of child-rearing expression of helplessness and an abdication of a parental the too repressive and the too permissive-are ineffective role and its responsibilities, o r a misguided attempt to and destructive methods. The latter one, in addition, is correct past rigors- real or imagined-through such the more dishonest, for we are not showing love for chil overcompensation. dren when we abandon them to their impulses without Sometimes, however, more complicated forces are at direction, firmness, and guidance; when we are afraid to play. Children can often be used as vehicles for a kind of show we are angry, to say and mean "no," when we are self-expression parents cannot obtain or even admit to. It afraid of losing their love as a result. All we are showing is here that power and manipulation are involved, two is confusion in knowing how to act, insecurity in knowing unfortunate human qualities that are learned at so young how to cope. And while we wrestle with all the conflicting an age and hardly ever put to rest. Does the child manipu emotions their behavior arouses in us-and the guilt this late adults? Do the adults manipulate children? Do adults generates- we become paralyzed, and can only indulge manipulate other adults through their children? These and placate children. One can almost measure the degree are, I believe, important questions we cannot turn away of ambiguous and conflicting feelings between parent and from. Does parental abdication and indulgence contri child by the degree of beatific facade and indulgence bute towards any kind of power play, manipulation, and poor substitutes for a caring love, as any child will exploitation-this is the central issue. My observations confirm. and readings have shown it does, and, if so, how can we A meeting for worship is not a playground for children learn to become strong enough to really love our children, nor a coliseum for adults. Important programs that have and not merely indulge them? taken much care and energy to plan and to which resource Having had the opportunity to share in family events persons and audience have traveled long distances to at with Asian people, where American youngsters were also tend have, at times, become a shambles simply due to the present, I have been struck by the stark difference in behaviors-and many people are aware of the attitudes Belly·Jean Seeger is a research assisranr or rhe Permanenr Mission of Asians have towards their children, of the extreme Japan ro rhe Unired Narions. A former hisrory reacher, she is a member of rhe Religious Educarion Commiuee and clerk of Momclair (NY) doting, love, and even reverence they reveal towards Meering. them. Yet, no matter how young, Asian children display 8 January 15, 1979 F RIENDS jOURNAL an untroublesome behavior that I know must heighten and intensify the pleasure of any event they share with adults, and vice-versa. This is not subdued behavior; it is The what I call aware behavior, and it does not prevent these children from being smart, cheerful, quick, and curious. A common text in the education field, Childhood and Risks of Adolescence (L. Joseph Stone and Joseph Church, Ran dom House, 1968), mentions the importance of setting firm and definite limits for toddlers and showing concern Letting Go not only towards their well-being but also towards the rights and conveniences of others. 1t finds no room for "reasoning with" the toddler, "which indeed may be less by Raymond Paavo Aroio satisfactory for the toddler than an abrupt command." ~ Piaget, in his investigative studies on children's concept of rules and morals, points out that rules are quite natur (r~~ ~~;.--·, i\ ally conceived differently at different ages. The younger ~~ ~\~~% I the age the more they are "accepted as given-timeless, .ib'l· '~ ," !.- immutable." The middle years bring a wondering of who sets rules and why, and it is only in the later school years that children begin to realize that "rules are arrived at by consensus merely to define the conduct and purpose of the game in an orderly way." Educators point out that \~ "children in the school years are not usually ready for full democratic self-determination" and that "sound author ity, even when it hurts them the most, is on their side and is aimed at producing sane, rational, sensitive, humane adults." (Op. cit., page 395.) Donald Barr, former head of the Dalton School, writes in his book, Who Pushed Humpty-Dumpty? of the need to "perceive the creative side of authority," its impor tance as reassurance for children, and to realize the frus tration children feel when there seem to be no limits and no one says "no" to them. He further elucidates the mat ter by saying that over the past fifty years "freedom" has become celebrated as a moral goal with a built-in assump tion that the human personality which develops "freely," "according to its own inclinations," will be a loving, cre ative, and happy one. He reveals that there is no evidence sat patiently. It was not easy (I have a tendency to that this is so. The civilizing process is cumulative; trans want to pop up and say something at meetings for mitted, not unchanged, from an older generation to a I business). The carefully-worded and discreet mes- younger one. It consists not only of transmitting informa sages of concern were counterpoised by enthusiastic, tion and intellectual skills, but "includes a complicated rapidly-spoken expressions of concern by others. scheme of restraints and imperatives." · The subject was ... the subject was ... I find it difficult I suspect there is a wider "silent minority" than is to finish the sentence because, somehow, "I had been probably recognized in the Quaker constituency, who are there before." It was a discussion of anything that had under constraint to speak up on this issue. Certainly there ever been discussed in meeting. At one point it was the are enough family gatherings and events where real "to discussion of drapes in the library, at another it was getherness" can be shared with children-in comfort, about the distant whoops of kids in First-day school, joy, and real love-to make unwarranted their presence at yet another it was whether or not the meeting should at inappropriate times. conduct, or at least be identified with, a peace Some meetings have begun to deal intelligently and cre atively with this matter. I hope that others will feel moved Raymond Paavo Arvio is executive director of the Co·op Education to continue to shed light on this important aspect of Guild, Inc., and a writer, editor, and teacher. Interested in alternative ~owili. 0 life styles and economics, he is not currently affiliated with a meeting. 10 january 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL First Corinthians: A Model for Friends? by Chuck Fager ation of that one infant congregation, 1t 1s sometimes hard to see the relevance or value of much of Paul's t is obvious, almost from the beginning, that First advice. And most modern readers can find in it some pro nouncements that are positively offensive to their reason Corint~i~ns is primar~ly a practical letter; as soon as I Paul fm1shes the obligatory opening flourishes he or sensibility. Why, then, in the face of these difficulties, gets right down to business: (I: 11) "it has been repo~ted which must have become apparent to some degree very to me," he writes ponderously, "that there is quarreling early, was the letter included in the New Testament? And among you, my brethren.' ' And not just personal quarrel more important, how could a modern reader regard First ing; in the young Corinthian congregation there were a Corinthians as, in some sense, an inspired religious work? multitude of problems: sexual libertinism, factional Part of the answer lies in the fact that the letter is not maneuvering, arguments over the role of women, near a ll irrelevant or offensive; indeed, it contains some of the drunken brawls at the common meals, and a fascination most memorable passages in the Canon, among them sev with the gift of speaking in tongues (often many people at eral of particular interest to Friends. But more important, once) which, as Paul describes it, must have made the at least for me, is the idea that in this letter we are offered Corinthian worship meetings sound like a pen full of a model of Christian life; not some abstract, idealized frightened turkeys. image, but the example of one great preacher's struggle to Yes, from all that Paul has heard, this community is a make his religious experience real in the day-to-day life of mess, and he immediately sat down to write a stern epistle the community he had gathered. t? the m~mbership which would, he hoped, set things Struggle is the key word here, although the actual biblical term I am thinking of refers to wrestling. The nght agam. Actually, rather than sitting down he more likely summoned a secretary, since only the' last few origin of this model goes way back into the early, verses are declared to be by his own hand. Reading the legendary chapters of Genesis, to the story of Jacob at the text, it is easy to imagine him striding up and down as the J abbok River (Gen. 32:24-30), where he wrestled with scribe scribbled rapidly, gesturing for emphasis as he God all through the night, and refused to let go until God spoke, his emotions shifting rapidly from one passage to blessed him. In response, God changed his name to the next. Israel, which means "God-wrestler"; to this day the Jews It is not surprising, then, that little formal presentation are known as "the children of Israel," and they have of doctrine is to be found in this text. It is there, of been wrestling with God ever since. course; Paul's Gospel permeated everything he wrote. But Paul, I think, would have been a bit reluctant to admit these Corinthians knew the Gospel; he had preached it to that his faith rested on, and continued this tradition of them himself. The problem there was in living it. There God-wrestling. T o be sure, that was how things used to were a number of specific abuses which demanded be, when people had separated themselves from God by specific replies. sin, and had only the law to show them how to work to Just because it is so specific, so conditioned by the situ- ward regaining divine favor. But people couldn't, by their own efforts, even with the law, reestablish harmony with their Creator. Only God could do that; and Paul was cer Chuck Fager is a f reelance wrifer who has pursued graduafe sfudy in tain that God had, through the life and death of Jesus. rellgton a1 Harvard Divinify School. AU!hor of White Renections on Black Power, Uncertain Resurrection, and Selma, 1965, he is curremly Moreover, since only the small, isolated, and often SOJOurnmg of Langley Hill (VA) Meefing. scorned bands of Christians now understood this, Jesus For now we see in a mirror darkly, but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall/ know even as also I am known. (I Cor.13:12) was going to come back very soon, in glory, to show the inaccurately, and in one instance (2:9), citing as Scripture rest of the world what he had done. Paul believed this a verse that is nowhere in the Old Testament at all! firmly, as did most of his converts. Thus, also, it is not surprising that the text is marked This new harmony with God was a state which was by highs and lows, by Paul at his best and Paul at con already accessible to Christians, Paul also believed. siderably Jess than that level. Among the lows is his tirade Moreover, it was a "New Age," a whole new level of against women speaking in church, which he concludes reality, in which the problems and temptations of the old by shouting, at those uppity women in the back rows, "If world were not so much solved as transcended: Christians anyone thinks that he [sic] is a prophet, or spiritual, he were beyond them; the old distinctions among people, the should acknowledge that what I am saying is a command old temptations-even the old Jaw no longer applied, of the Lord." (14:37) Or, after gushing eloquently in because it wasn't necessary. chapter thirteen about the gentleness and long-suffering At least, that was how it was supposed to be. But every nature of true Christian love, he wraps up his letter by in day that went by without Christ's triumphal return as its sisting, "If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be climax was a day in which the problems of the old unre accursed." (16:22) Nor does he need any more evidence deemed world persisted, if only in the way a snake's tail than secondhand reports, or authority beyond that which persists in twisting after its head is crushed. As these he assumes, to pass a chilling verdict on a reported case of problems persisted, they generated new ones, and all possible incest (5:3-5): "For though absent in body, I am demanded responses. present in spirit, and as if present, I have already The new Christians beset by these problems looked pronounced judgment in the name of the Lord naturally to Paul, their spiritual father, for help; and Jesus ... you are to deliver this man to Satan for the de when they didn't look to him, he as often took it upon struction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the himself to deal with them anyway. Yet his vision of Christ day of the Lord Jesus." and experience of the Holy Spirit, transforming as they This last is a pretty scary version of justice, one the In were, had not resulted in the delivery of a new set of stone quisition could not improve upon. Commentators have tablets, on which was written the definitive Christian explained that Paul's statement constituted not just a cry answer to all these mundane difficulties. for the death penalty, but also a formal curse, in a time Consequently, Paul had to struggle with his faith; he when people believed that curses were like invisible Jiving had to apply it, using the vehicle of his human faculties; things which created a poisoned atmosphere around the and along with these came his prejudices, outbursts of victim. Paul's anger, we can see, was a dangerous thing. emotion, and the other frailties he was subject to. The lows in First Corinthians sink pretty low; Paul's So what else could we expect then, but a letter marked wrestling was not always successful, nor even edifying. on every page with the limited humanity of the writer? If Fortunately, the highs in the letter are pretty high. For any proof of this is needed, we need mention only that in instance, the classic discourse on love in chapter thirteen this Jetter Paul frequently cites verses from the Old Testa rather starkly illuminates the pettiness of some of his ment (e.g., 3:20, 10:8, 2:9, etc.), yet he almost always gets judgments; and it comes on the heels of a discussion these quotes wrong, leaving out (or adding) key words, (12:4-31) that is both a model of practical good sense and hopelessly skewing the context, remembering a number an important doctrinal aside on its own terms. In this 14 F RIENDS JOURNAL January 15, 1979 But covet earnestly the best gifts; and yet show I unto you a more excellent Way. (1Cor.12:31) earlier passage he describes the community as the body of me,' but I will not be enslaved by anything.'' Christ, in which various individuals and gifts are like dif In other words, if there are not authoritative rules for ferent organs, all equally important and interdependent. Christians, they are not without guidance. This notion This passage is so meaty that the Catholic Church has should sound familiar to Friends, because that is just the made the metaphor into a doctrine, that of the Mystical nature of our testimonies on peace, simplicity, and so Body: that the community of believers in a special way forth: no Quaker (or group of Quakers) can say defini actually constitutes the presence, the body of Christ in the tively what they require of us; but all of us are called world, pending his return in glory. This interpretation is upon to bear these testimonies as faithfully as we can. fully consistent with the text. Paul's injunctions to avoid anything that would deprive Later, in a passing advice in chapter sixteen, Paul us of the capacity to hear and respond to God, or would shows that this metaphor too was meant to be applied similarly undermine the integrity of our fellowship, are practically, through the gathering of a large collection for counsels that are clear and constantly challenging. They relief of the Christians in Jerusalem, to which other of his are useful, however much we may doubt the wisdom of missionary congregations were also contributing. The some of the apostle's efforts to apply them. purpose of the collection was not simply relief for a Nor is this the only concept in the letter which is community that was poor and subject to frequent perse familiar to Friends. After reproving the Corinthians for cution; the Jerusalem church was the center of Jewish the excesses in their worship, Paul goes on to describe the Christianity, whose leaders were still suspicious about the form of worship he prefers (14:26ff): "What then, breth horde of pagans and Gentiles the self-appointed apostle ren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a Paul was bringing into their faith. The collection was lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all meant to help overcome these cultural divisions by a con things be done for edification. If any speak in a tongue, crete act of reconciliation. Paul's program was thus not let there be only two or at most three ... and let one inter only faithful; it was wise, even shrewd, and the more at pret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them tractive for being so. keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God." Here we begin to see more positive aspects of Paul's Biblical scholar Clarence Craig, analyzing this passage humanity at work, especially the pragmatic sophistication in The Interpreter's Bible, sees the implication: of a cosmopolitan preacher who is able to say frankly The Corinthians' order of worship does not strike us that, like a good salesman, " I have become all things to as very formal . ... The service resembled the Quaker all men, that I might by all means save some." (9:22) The form more nearly than any in existence today, not passage this summarizes (chapters eight through ten) dis because of any stress on silence, but because every cusses in a very provocative and illuminating way the member was free to speak as he was moved by the dimensions and tensions that come with being freed from spirit. There was only one restriction: everything the dictates of a formal ethical code like the Jewish Law. should be done for mutual edification and nothing " 'All things are lawful' " for Christians, Paul admits as private exhibitionism. candidly (10:23), "but not all things are helpful. 'All things are lawful,' but not all things build up." Elsewhere That is advice well worth remembering. (6: 12) he expands on this: " 'All things are lawful for Much of Paul's advice in this letter is similarly sober january 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL 15 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. {I Cor. 13: :Z) and sensible. For that matter, despite all the mischief pecially among the pagans, stressed the acquisition of some of his texts have been used to excuse, there is some secret knowledge, or the perfection of elaborate physical thing encouraging even about his failures of judgment, if and mental disciplines, or performance of complicated only because they have an unmistakably contemporary sacred rituals: one or more of these would bring the pil ring. It sounds paradoxical, but the same goes for the grim into unity with the divinity. problems in Corinth that he is grappling with. I have been A common element in these models, as I see them, is in meetings which were faced with practically all of them, that they are all centered elsewhere than in the universal with the possible exceptions of everybody speaking in experience of life: work, play, family, community, joy, tongues simultaneously and drunken brawls at potlucks. pain, sickness, death. But in Christianity, it is precisely And in business meetings I have seen most of Paul's er these everyday elements to which we are directed: God rors of judgment, loss of temper, and arrogance; indeed, reached out to people by becoming human, by becoming I have displayed many myself. a man who, while certainly unique, was subject to the These characteristics are encouraging because they are common elements of life, and ultimately the final human, and because their familiarity gives us a point of equalizer of death. It was through this living of a life that contact with the early churches. They establish contin we were to be "saved." And it is to the living of our own uity, connect us with what the Apostle's Creed calls "the lives, in both their unique and universal elements, which communion of saints." If we suffer from much the same Christianity calls us as the primary act of faith. "For failings as Paul and his Corinthians, maybe we also have Jews demand signs," Paul says (1 :22ft) "and Greeks seek available as many spiritual resources, even if it often wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified , a stumbling doesn't feel that way. And if a person as vain, inaccurate, block to Jews and folly to Gentiles." overbearing, and even silly as Paul often is can still pro As Paul not only preached but struggled to live this vide genuine, enduring religious leadership, then perhaps faith himself, both his uniqueness and his universality, in there is hope for some of us; maybe even for me. strength and weakness, became apparent, especially so in This sense of verisimilitude is at the heart of what this letter. Many churches, still bound to doctrines of makes this letter a religious statement to be taken seri Revelation which make Paul some latter-day Moses ously. For that matter, the same sense is central to my Lawgiver, miss much of the value of his powerful exam own understanding of the Christian message. For Paul, ple by having to labor over the questions of whether all the life and work of Jesus was important because it was his off-the-cuff pronouncements about hair length and both the means by which harmony was reestablished be men wearing veils in worship are now part of God's Eter tween people and God, and the model of life for God's nal Law, or something less, and how to tell the difference. people to emulate, a model he is trying to put flesh on in Friends should consider themselves fortunate; the image this letter. of Israel, the God-wrestler, is one that closely approxi But this Christian model is very different from others mates our mode of religious experience; and it makes the available in Paul's day, or for that matter, in 1978. For resources of First Corinthians, not easier to handle, but instance, in Paul's day one other model was the law: the much more accessible, as a model which we don't have to more completely one could carry out its numerous dic duplicate, but from which we can, and ought to learn tates, the closer one could get to God. Other models, es- much. D 16 January 15, 1979 F RIENDS JOURN AL the White House. Still, it is evident that, justly or not, Nixon values his Quaker heritage. And who is to say that The Tragedy it played no part in his deepest dreams and hopes? Yet as one reads the Memoirs, it appears that Quak;rism in its more searching demands, such as the Of peace testimony, figured less as a conviction of his own than as an admired family inheritance. It also appears that other influences than Quakerism were strongly at friend work in Nixon's background. Quakerism came to Nixon through his mother's family, the Milhouses: Irish Quakers who came to Richard Chester County, Pennsylvania, before the Revolution. Later, they moved south to North Carolina, then came by Ferner Nuhn north again to Ohio and Indiana with the coming of the Civil War. Some took part in the Underground Railway, Lo, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; aiding fleeing slaves to reach Canada. The Milhous so be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves. relationship was impressed on Richard by a succession of -Matthew 10:16 matriarchal figures, beginning wi th his great grand mother, Elizabeth Price Milhous, and including his ow can one explain the extraordinary career of the grandmother, Almira Burdg Milhous, and his mother, Quaker boy from Yorba Linda, California, who Hannah Milhous Nixon. All were pacifists. When he was H rose to national and world fame and became one in college, his grandmother gave him a biography of of the most controversial figures in U.S. history: the Gandhi which, he tells us, he read from cover to cover. nation's only president forced to resign under threat of Hannah Milhous Nixon clearly belonged to that strain impeachment? What part, if any, did his Quaker of Quakers who deeply li ve their faith but are not de background play in the story? What is its real tragedy? monstrative or even very ve rbal about it. She was known The counsel of Jesus, quoted above, makes a good text in her own time as a " Quaker saint." The novelist, for exploring these questions. To explore them-to try to Jessamyn West-Richard's cousin-wrote of her that understand Richard Nixon- is a task which ought not to "she did what she did and was what she was through a be shirked. strength and lovingness which welled up out of her own RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (Grosset & good heart and because of her own indomitable Dunlap, $19. 95) is a huge book of over a thousand large character." But she was "intensely private," as Nixon pages. It illustrates more than answers the questions says, in her religious feelings. Grace at meals was silent raised. Yet, as such, it should be read. Robert Kirsch of and Hannah made her own prayers behind closed doors. the Los Angeles Times has characterized the book very In sharp contrast, Nixon's father, Francis Anthony well as "a marbled book by a marbled man, a strange (Frank) Nixon was "a scrappy, belligerent fighter with a mixture of selective candor and unconscious revelation, quick wide-ranging raw intellect." He was a great arguer of high drama and seedy scenes, of romantic, even heroic "on almost any subject." One can see where some of son ideals of loyalty, courage, zeal and dedication and actions Richard's qualities came from. which sacrificed friends and staff, of intense sentiment Frank Nixon's life had been one of hardship and and cold calculation." struggle. His mother died when he was eight and he quit I say "Friend Richard" because, to this day, Richard school early to go to work. A series of jobs as ox-driver, Nixon remains a Friend, a member of the East Whittier carpenter, potato farmer, sheep-shearer, telephone Meeting of California Yearly Meeting of Friends Church. installer and street-car motorman brought little success. I realize many Friends have questioned his right to call He tended toward populism in his political views. himself a Quaker; some yearly meetings have officially Frank met Hannah Milhous at a valentine party and, done so. I realize, too, that Nixon himself has preferred despite her family's reservations because Frank was not a to attend other churches; has leaned toward the religious Quaker, they were married four months later. Upon his stance of his friend, Billy Graham; and, as president, marriage, Frank adopted Quakerism. The Nixon family undertook to set up his own religious services in a wing of became moderately successful when they left the lemon Ferner Nuhn is a writer "much interested in the ecumenical move grove in Yorba Linda and established a gasoline station ment." Author ofThe Wind Blew from the East: A Study in the Orien and grocery store on Whittier Boulevard in East Whittier. tation of American Culture, he is a member of the Christian and Inter faith Relations Commiuee of FCC and a member of Claremont (CA) It was a family of boys. Richard was the second of five, Me~ting. all but one of whom (Francis) were named by Hannah for FRIENDS jOURNAL january 15, 1979 17 the early kings of England. The temper of the father was said, the ending of it) is not peculiarly Nixon's tragedy. a feature of the family life. "He had tempestuous Both in its heights and depths his career must be judged arguments with my brothers, Harold and Don," Nixon on other grounds. The difficult words of Jesus, quoted relates, "and their shouting could be heard all through above, suggest these grounds. the neighborhood." Taking his cue from his mother, Now Jesus was no softy as to the nature of the world. It Richard was careful not to cross his father. Frank would is a rough scene; to enter it is as to go amidst wolves. argue vehemently with the customers in the grocery store, Many "good" people shrink from entering it at all! In and it was a standing family joke that Hannah or one of girding for it, to be "as wise as serpents" is as necessary the boys "would rush to wait on some of our more as to be "as innocent as doves." It takes both qualities sensitive customers before he could get to them." truly to overcome the world. In summary, Nixon writes of his parents that he loved Nixon's career took him into the thick of the world's them "equally, but in different ways." His father, he struggles: a remarkable fact in itself. The tragedy of it is said, "left me a respect for learning and hard work, and that, while it showed much of the hard wisdom, daring the will to keep fighting no matter what the odds. My and nerve of the first part of Jesus' counsel-and mother loved me completely and selflessly, and her spe achieved no little success because of these qualities- it cial legacy was a quiet, inner peace, and the determina was deficient in the second part, blamelessness in motive tion never to despair." and means. It was this lack that led to his downfall. Great, if not invariable, self-control Nixon had, which Somehow, quite early, it had been impressed on Nixon he may well have derived from his mother. "A quiet inner that life is a power struggle in which he had to prove peace" one has to question. What is clear from the above himself. The family make-up and situation may help is the strongly contrasting influences of the two parents. explain where this sense came from: the need to make a The Memoirs contain no reference to great Quaker livelihood, a combative father, the rivalry of several figures such as Fox, Penn, or Woolman, or any brothers, a selfless and devoted mother. The death of two indication that Nixon had absorbed and been influenced of Richard's brothers may have added to Richard's by their philosophies. Other than those of his relatives, compulsion to succeed in the world. "Richard was trying the only Quaker name I noticed in the book is that of the to be three sons in one," his mother said (in an interview distinguished Whittier College professor, Dr. J. Herschel in Good Housekeeping, June 1960). Jessamyn West has Coffin, whose influence upon him he describes as that of suggested that the death of Harold, the first son (of ''Christian humanism.'' tuberculosis, at twenty-four) may have fallen particularly Nixon shows little real comprehension of the Quaker hard on Richard. Bright and attractive, Harold was the peace testimony. He admired his uncle, Oscar Marsh most favored of the children. He was a "Viking," in burn, as a practicing pacifist who chose to do Jessamyn West's word. "As a result of his death Richard humanitarian service rather than take part in war. But his may have had to grit his teeth and dig in in a way he own brief hesitation in applying for a commission in the wouldn't otherwise have, I just don't know ... " (as told navy during World War II seems to have been more to Sandra Robison, Quaker Life, September 1976). because he knew it would trouble his Quaker mother and Wherever it came from, this compulsion to prove grandmother than that it would violate a conviction of his himself in a tough world carried Nixon into widening own. Of Quaker pacifism he concludes: arenas: the debate platform in school and college, law school and practice, with its adversary system, a part in I felt I could not sit back while my country was World War II (where he learned to swear and play attacked. The problem with Quaker pacifism, it poker), and then his life passion, the great world of seemed to me, was that it could only work if one politics. were fighting a civilized compassionate enemy. In What emerges from the Memoirs is that Nixon's sense the face of a Hitler and Tojo, pacifism not only of the world as a power struggle served him-and the jailed to stop violence-it actually played into the world- best in the widest arena of all, that of hands of a barbarous joe and weakened home-front geo-politics. For here, respecting, as he did, other morale. wielders of power, seeking, as he did, improved relations among the great powers, his own role seems most genuine On the basis of this reasoning, there would be little and creative. Here, if I may put it that way, he comes justification ever for the Quaker peace position. closest to meeting the dual demands of Jesus. But Nixon's not being a pacifist, regrettable as it may In lesser arenas, the latitude he allowed himself in the be from a Quaker point of view, is not the tragedy of means of his personal struggle was his undoing. The Richard Nixon. Even his part in the terrible evils and saddest fact exposed in the Memoirs is the extent to disaster of the Vietnam War (which included, it must be which, in the interests of his own career, he was willing to 18 january 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL see not only his opponents injured but his associates ment and achievement? What does its ideological stance sacrificed. (religious, political) imply about a certain strain of Watergate is the climax of this fatal weakness. In this acculturation in American Quakerism? 1100-page book, the shadow of Watergate begins to fall But there are other ironies. How many of the hopes on page 625. Thereafter it spreads and deepens, and endeavors of Friends, unrealized before, were encroaching on other, more admirable aspects of Nixon's actually carried forward by Richard Nixon? For years, career, until at last it envelops all and ends the story. And Friends had urged the opening of relations between the the crux of the whole question of Watergate is that Nixon United States and communist China. Friend Richard deals with it as he does with his other political problems, with the help of his astute appointee, Henry Kissinger not as a moral question, but simply as a power struggle. brought that about. For years Friends had urged more Almost to the last, he is tempted to "go down fighting." open dialogue, increased relations, and specific negotia When finally he does resign, it is only because he has tions concerning armaments with Soviet Russia. Friend become convinced that his political base in the Congress Richard made significant progress in this matter. For has eroded to the point that he could not win a vote years Friends have striven for peace in the Middle East. against impeachment. Nixon and Kissinger made a remarkable break-through in For Quakers, Nixon's career holds many ironies. How this very difficult and complex situation. is it that, with its Quaker background, it reveals so little In the light of such accomplishments, which are of that most central of Quaker principles: an inner (as bound to be duly appreciated over the years, the tragedy distinguished from outer) touchstone of value, fulfill- of Richard Nixon is all the more cause for sorrow. D Following Richard M. Nixon's nomination as vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket in 1952, he was honored with a homecoming celebration at Hadley Field on the Whittier College campus. ~--~------~ From the book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, by Ronald Sider, come the following statistics: •900 million persons in the world subsist FRIENDS on less than $75 per year. •At least 460 million are actually AROUND starving. •210 million children in the world are THE WORLD malnourished. •We in the U.S. spend seventeen percent of our budgets on food; Indians spend 3. The inability of the all-volunteer sixty-seven percent. army to recruit enough "qualified" •The U.S. spends one-quarter of one personnel. percent of its GNP on economic aid to 4. The present big push to get developing countries. This puts us JROTC into high schools. thirteenth on the list of percentage 5. The general low morale among contributions among Western nations. educators, "caused by many obvious •Livestock in the rich countries eat as and not so obvious reasons." much grain as do all the people in India and China. Summer Community Service • In Latin America, malnutrition is in Latin America Commenting on a "Christ is AUve" sign either the primary cause of- or a The American Friends Service he saw painted on a rock, the editor of major contributing factor in- fifty to Committee and Mexican Friends the Scottish Friends Newsletter asks a seventy-five percent of the deaths of Service Committee will have volun few pertinent questions about the use of one to four-year-olds. teer community service projects this slogans and creeds. "Are negative summber in Mexico for young slogans any more helpful? Do Quakers people between the ages of eighteen reject creeds but accept non-creeds? Writing In tbe Southem Appalachian and twenty-six. Dates are July l to Have we too much of 'I don't believe in' Friend, Larry Ingle expresses his dis mid-August. Conversational ability or 'I just cannot agree with?' No war, quietude at our Friends' tendency to in Spanish is essential, as the units no oaths, no racism, no creeds, no class, "Put our views down on paper and will be located in small villages or no titles, no ministers, no ritual, no dispatch them to some authority rather with Mexican rural development sacraments: must we go on to no Bible, than taking action ourselves." teams. Applications should be sub no Christ, no God, no morality? For instance, he believes it to be mitted by March 15 to AFSC, 1501 ... Creeds to which assent is enforced "wishful and fuzzy thinking ... to Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102. are anathema, but we do believe expect that a letter to Jimmy Carter will something. What do you believe? Write lead him to adopt our position ....After it down; change it next week; rewrite it all," he reasons, "armaments are not next year; but come to terms with it." the cause of war." Rather, he feels, we should be dealing with the root causes, The Reporter, for Conscience' Sake, to which our own lives add. monthly newsletter of the National For instance, he finds Friends not Interreligious Service Board for Con Volunteer teachers for Friends exempt "from that most American scientious Objectors, carries a warning assumption that growth is good, that by a concerned Mennonite parent in Schools In Ramallah, West Bank, will again be appointed in the our high living standards today will soar Lancaster, Pennsylvania, that there is spring. The greatest need is usually higher tomorrow, that more is better grave danger that the U.S. military, for teachers of English, ethics, the than less. He concludes that each of our through its Junior Reserve Officer physical sciences, and mathematics everyday actions, "the food we decide Training Corps (JROTC) programs in to eat, the places we go to recreate, even our schools, may be attempting to play at high school level. There may be a need for an elementary teacher. the toilet tissue we use,'' is related to the the role of savior of their faltering world's problems and the fact of war. discipline. He predicts that the schools, Appointments are for two years. Selection will be on the basis of He admits that this approach will be out of desperation, may all too readily more difficult than sending letters to accept this offer to inculcate in our Christian motivation, staffing needs of the schools, and profes presidents but maintains that it will have impressionable young people a certain a better chance of lasting success. sense of discipline and a "clarification" sional qualifications. Teaching cre dentials, teaching experience, and of values, oblivious of the danger of an membership in the Society of organization of youth and society Friends are highly desirable. PLEASE NOTE: The " Meeting reminiscent of Hitler. Application forms may be ob Directory" In wblcb tbe locations The concerned parent bases his pre tained from the Wider Ministries and times of worship of many diction on the following observations: Commission at 101 Quaker Hill local meetings are listed will 1. The deterioration of family life Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Appli appear once a month only, on the and parental apathy and frustration. cations must be returned by January first of the month. Look for it 2. Failure of current school policies 31, 1979, to be considered. then In our back pages. to control or discipline pupils. 20 January 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL "Lecturing in America, before India consideration of those who oppose on would serve as a place to air grievances, received its independence, a British humanitarian, as well as on religious, to provide mutual encouragement, to diplomat was asked by an elderly grounds; for increased choice of alterna support Friends teaching in non-Quaker matron: 'What are you going to do tive service possibilities. institutions, and to help institutions find about the Indians?' To which he replied: Quaker teachers. The committee also 'Whose Indians, madam, ours or plans to develop a brochure describing yours?' " In connection with the fortieth anniver all sixteen Quaker institutions of higher The anecdote is used by Philip L. sary of the Kristallnacht (Night of learning. Co-clerks of the new commit Martin to illustrate the "stultifying ef Broken Glass), November 9 and 10, tee are Canby Jones, professor ot reli fect of self-righteousness" as displayed when a nationwide public attack on the gion and philosophy at Wilmington Col in the August, 1978, World Conference Jews in Germany destroyed human lege, and Charles Browning, professor to Combat Racism and Racial Discrim lives, synagogues, homes, and property, of sociology at Whittier College, Whit ination held in Geneva, Switzerland: participants in the International Theolo tier, California. Syria wishing to expel Israel from the gical Symposium on the Holocaust, United Nations; Israel and the United meeting in Philadelphia on October States staying away from the conference 15-17, 1978, gave unanimous approval Between 2000 and 5000 people are esti altogether; Egypt and other Arab states to a pledge of support for the Jewish mated to be living on the streets of the condemning Zionism as a form of rac people. nation's capital. In the District of ism; Hungary accusing the NATO Fifteen of these participants repre Columbia, eight people froze to death powers of supporting racist regimes in ~ented churches and universities in Ger last year. Twelve died the year before. Southern Africa; Somalia accusing Cuba many. In all, eighty-five Christian theo In order to focus public attention on of supplying a new type of mercenary; logians from North America and West these facts and "because the two institu Cuba, along with Albania and the Germany discussed the subject "What tions, church and state, most capable of, Ukraine, directing attention to racial Should the Church Teach Now?" be and with the traditional responsibility discrimination in the United States fore issuing their declaration and the for, sheltering the homeless, refuse to against Indians, blacks, Chicanos, and pledge to "join our Jewish brothers and acknowledge their role or meet that Puerto Ricans; China regarding South sisters in saying: Never Again!" need," two members of the Community ern Africa as an arena for the struggle In West Germany, the Religious Soci for Creative Non-Violence, 1345 Euclid between the super-powers: the U.S. ety of Friends was one of the twenty-two St. N.W., Washington, DC 20009, seeking to keep its vested interests; the religious, academic, and political organ Mitch Snyder and Ann Splaine, moved USSR "flaunting the banner of social izations sponsoring the various confer onto the streets of that city on Novem ism" to control and enslave the African ences, demonstrations, and symposia ber 16, 1978, "to live and sleep with the peoples; etc., etc. which took place in Berlin between ... homeless.'' They share dinner nightly Reporting from the Quaker Interna November 1-12, 1978, under the general at Lafayette Park with all who come. tional Center in Geneva, Philip Martin chairmanship of acting mayor Dietrich They have invited many of Washing did, however, recognize in the confer Stobbe, on the announcements for ton's religious and government leaders ence some signs of hope and change: which the work "pogrom" has replaced to join them in personally experiencing Ghana stating that constituent nations the word "broken glass." homelessness by living on the streets. had a moral obligation to set good ex In Philadelphia, the Theological Sym In addition, they, together with others, amples of non-discrimination in their posium, which was chaired by Dr. Rufus planned to move into the National own legislation and practices; Canada Cornelson, Director of the Metropolitan Visitor Center on November 30, "con noting that discrimination affects all so Christian Council, prefaced its declara verting it to use as an emergency shelter cieties and hence must be fought by gov tion by four pertinent questions as to for all the District's homeless men, ernments, businesses, individuals, and continuing anti-Jewish prejudice which women, and children." The CCNY is groups; Senegal stressing respect for all were then followed by a four-point developing and organizing the necessary citizens, whatever their skin color, eth pledge to oppose anti-Semitism and to food, pick-up and staffing supplies and nic or religious origin, language, or cul build a new and positive relationship services. ture; the U.K. wanting negotiation, not with the Jewish people. bloodshed, in Southern Africa. Grace and Tom Nelson will be the new In October, 1978, a paper entitled "The A "Friends Committee on Higher Edu resident couple at Honolulu Friends European Parliament and the Right to cation" was formed between November Meeting, taking over the responsibilities Conscientious Objection" was submit 3 and 5 at Fellowship Farm, Pottstown, of this position from Stewart and Char ted to the Round Table on the Special PA by thirteen representatives of ten lotte Meacham in January, 1979. Both Rights of Community Citizens meeting Quaker institutions of higher learning. are experienced social workers, having in Florence, Italy. The paper was a joint One function of this new committee opened half-way houses for men and expression of the London Yearly Meet will be to sponsor a conference to be women released from prison in southern ing Peace and International Relations held in June, 1980, either at Wilmington California under AFSC auspices. They Committee and the European and Near College, Wilmington, Ohio, or at Earl have received awards from the Los East section of the Friends World Com ham College, Richmond, Indiana, to Angeles City Human Relations Com mittee for Consultation. Specifically, deal with the subject "What Future for mission for outstanding volunteer serv the paper asks for acceptance in prin Friends Higher Education?" Another ice. Tom Nelson has been the Southern ciple of conscientious objection to mili concern of the committee is to establish California administrator of the National tary service in EEC legislation; for a Friends Guild of Teachers. This body Association for Social Workers, with FRIENDS JOURNAL january 15, 1979 21 office in Los Angeles. Grace Nelson is Province, received some fifteen books Pacific Yearly Meeting has appointed a executive secretary to the president of from the Mennonite Central Committee planning committee to explore the Assistance League of Southern Cali in the U.S., enabling him to build up "a possibility of holding a reunion of fornia and has been active in working peace and war collection of about fifty Pacific Coast Friends within the next for handgun control and against the books-by far the best in the country." two to five years which would include death penalty. A member of Orange But it seems that Quaker books are Pacific Yearly Meeting, North Pacific Grove Monthly Meeting, she is clerk of lacking. Philip Radley does not ask for Yearly Meeting, Intermountain Yearly Ministry and Oversight for Southern books or money but would welcome Meeting, and Western Canada Half California Quarterly Meeting. " information about possible book Yearly Meeting. titles" since, as his South African friend has written him, "all white Anglican, Congregational, Methodist, and Presby In writing in the Southern Africa A recent precedent-breaking "first" in terian ministers are trained at Rhodes, Quaker Newsletter on how her (Salis New York was the recognition of Barrett and so it is not only my philosophy bury) monthly meeting has been affected and Katherine Hollister, retiring direc students who will benefit." by the Rhodesian situation, Edith tors of the Quaker UN Program, by a Archer quotes several significant state letter of appreciation from the Secretary ments by meeting members showing the General of the United Nations, Kurt Under the heading "No Nuclear Growth, disparity of the views they hold. She Waldheim. Quakers Here Urge," the Cleveland comments, " ... We are all dedicated to The letter was read at a party given by Plain Dealer recently published the fol the concept of human rights, freedom, other Non-Governmental Organizations lowing minute of Cleveland Friends justice, and the dignity of man. All of at the Church Center near the UN build Meeting: "Cleveland Meeting of the us, without exception, past and present ing to honor Barry and Kay's nine years Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) members, have no racial prejudice. We of service as Quaker representatives at join in the commemoration of the have (in the meeting) a treasure house of the United Nations. About 200 people tragedies caused by the atomic bombing personal philosophy, experience, and attended. of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 conditions of men, all with different in In addition to providing innumerable and 9, 1945. terpretations of how to conduct our meals, beds, and stimulating and infor "We urge continuing efforts to pre selves in this conflict. If we were not mative seminars at Quaker House for vent war and to help develop conditions Quakers, we would not have this indivi delegates to the UN and others, the and institutions of peace so that war and duality in thought, we would not have Hollisters, together with Duncan and the accompanying risk of further nuclear developed beyond the laid down creed Katharine Wood in Geneva, have coor bombing will never again occur. . . . . [The meeting) is feeling the strain dinated the Quaker UN Program in both "We recognize also that the peaceful now because we all feel strongly on what cities. They have traveled extensively in use of nuclear energy, which was once is the right way to achieve a just situa its interests and have earned love and re hailed as a great boon to humankind, tion and we also love one another-so spect in UN circles on account of their appears by current experience to involve we avoid discussion on the subject. .. " integrity and their positive and know unsolved problems and dangers related Her own contribution to the corporate ledgeable approach to the greatest var to disposal of nuclear waste and expo thinking is beautifully expressed in ex iety of problems. sure to radiation of those working in or cerpts from a letter she had written to a In 1979, Barry Hollister will become living near the nuclear installations. Quaker friend in England. Here is some the new chairman of the Friends World ''These dangers seem so great, and of that letter: Committee for Consultation, Section of their solutions so remote, that further "I remember sitting in the dirt and the Americas. The Hollisters will be suc expansion of the nuclear industry should looking at my friend's black feet and my ceeded in New York by Stephen and be suspended and the resources that supposedly white feet together in the Mildred Thiermann. would have gone into such expansion dusty road and feeling a strong emotion used in the development of other sources of how all three-black, white, and dust of energy." - belonged to each other . .. '' · The New England Friend reports that a She then went on to describe her small group of Quaker women from growing feeling of frustration upon real New England is planning to spend sev Friends School, Baltimore, Maryland, izing that others did not share her love eral weeks living, working, and sharing founded by Quakers in 1784, is going to towards African people; the estrange with women involved in the peace move have its history written. In fact, the ment from friends and family which ment in Northern Ireland. This will take three chapters that trace its founding resulted. place in the spring or fall of 1979. and history prior to the Civil War are " ... If man is stupid enough to re virtually complete. Dr. Dean R. Ess place one evil, domination by white, linger, professor of history at Towson with another evil, domination by black, In The Friend (London) Philip Radley State University, has been selected as re then he must put himself back another of 53 Sherlock Close, Huntingdon searcher and author. But additional ma fifty years and learn all over again." Road, Cambridge, CB3 OHP England, terial from attics or archives will be wel The answer from England came back: makes an appeal for "material repre comed. Any Friends who have informa Salisbury Meeting was a microcosm of senting the Quaker point of view" on tion, photographs, or memorabilia re the dichotomy between one's personal conscientious objection to war. A South lated to the history of Friends School of relationship with God and the demands African friend of his who is teaching a Baltimore are urged to contact Will of politics. Since the purpose of politics, course on the subject to Philosophy III Melton, Friends School, 5114 North in theory at least, was to enable people students at Rhodes University, Cape Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210. to live together in harmony, the two 22 January 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL could interact as well as conflict. "[The Court in support of their war tax refusal plied that in its opinion, the problem is meeting's) great strength is that within it case. one for individual decision, to be made one can see the painful working out by For years they have claimed a "war on moral, not financial, grounds. The its members of the needful reconcilia tax credit" on their federal income tax meeting would oppose any attempt to tion between Christian piety and fellow returns. Both Tax Court and Court of make abortion entirely illegal again. It ship on the one hand, and the reordering Appeals have summarily rejected their would stress the importance of making of the wider social relationships on the plea. Although apprehensive of any suc alternatives to abortion practical and other. This experience is infinitely pre cess for their 1973 tax year case in the attractive-especially to teenagers. In cious and vital and more than anything I Supreme Court, they feel they should this context increased support for birth wish you all the strength to sustain it." pursue the appeal via the newly formed control counseling and sex education, Edith Archer concludes that the prob Center on Law and Pacifism in order Medicaid coverage for sterilization, lem is not exclusively one of nonviolence "to bring its fresh and creative energies liberalization of adoption laws, and (Quakers do use violence in the form of to bear upon the judiciary and to the at additional support, financial and other words) but that "we are not sure just tention of the legal system and the wise, for women who accept the respon where God is placed in the present Rho public." sibility of raising children should not be desian situation.'' The couple asks that support letters overlooked. addressed to the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (as soon as "I reenter the active world with a new possible after December 19, 1978) "in appreciation for the bonds of friendship the matter of a Writ of Certiorari to the that were communicated in letters ... " U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Cir wrote Peter Klotz-Chamberlin on being cuit entitled Bruce and Ruth Graves, CONFERENCE released from San Luis Obispo County Petitioners v. Commissioner of Internal (CA) Jail, after serving sixty-two days of Revenue, Respondent, October Term a six-month sentence for "trespassing" 1978, stress the following points: 1) peti Pendle Hill on the site of the Diablo Canyon nuclear tioners right to First Amendment free power plant and for refusing to accept a exercise of religion and freedom of ex Jubilee two-year probation "which required pression, 2) paramount interests of that we promise to break no laws in that government not endangered by refusal time." He added, "I was grateful to of petitioners to pay tax, 3) petitioners "How can we make the classroom a meet new friends and to meet old friends should be able to re-channel war taxes space in which to nourish obedience to in new ways . .. Relationships are all into peace taxes (via World Peace Tax Truth?" This unsettling query was somewhat changed by the graphic ex Fund Act, etc.), 4) IRS regulations posed by Parker Palmer, dean of studies perience of separation at the hands of should not take precedence over Consti at Pendle Hill, in a workshop on "Liv the forces which protect nuclear power." tutional rights of individuals, 5) threat ing Out Quaker Values in Secular Teach The release of Peter Klotz-Chamberlin of nuclear war must be stopped by exer ing and Learning" at Mt. Toby Meeting and Sam Tyson on the same day by cise of Constitutional rights, 6) other house in Leverett, Massachusetts, on Judge Harold Johnson was ascribed pertinent points at the option of corre November 11. This was the first of a ser partly to the latter's receipt of over 100 spondent. They further suggest that ies of regional Jubilees celebrating letters on their behalf from all around letters should be signed as "friends of Pendle Hill's upcoming fiftieth birthday the world, although the judge would not Bruce and Ruth Graves and of the in 1980. Nearly fifty participants con admit this as the cause of his commuting Supreme Court." verged from Connecticut, New Hamp the six-month sentence to' 'time served.'' shire, Vermont, New York State, and Fred Moore, also sentenced to six In encouraging Friends to write their Massachusetts. months by Judge Johnson, is still senators in support of SR405 which Envisioned as both outreach and incarcerated. He had served thirty days would extend the life of the U.S. Senate reunion, the workshop began with at the time of Peter Klotz-Chamberlin's Select Committee on Indian Affairs, the Parker Palmer leading us in a ''macro letter which indicated that Fred, too, Montclair (NJ) Friends Meeting News analysis'' of the purposes which actually would appreciate letters (postcards not letter also makes mention of the Ameri inform the academic establishment, permitted) from the " outside." They can Indian National Bank at 1701 Penn such as credentialing a select group for may be addressed to San Luis Obispo sylvania Avenue N. W., Suite 310, upward mobility in the marketplace. In County Jail, P.O. Box 32, San Luis Washington, DC 20006. This bank this competitive context, cooperative Obispo, CA 93401. Peter's letter con accepts both time and demand deposits learning is discouraged. Friends' experi cludes: "May you be whole, like the un as well as savings accounts and certifi ence of reality as "communal, personal, split atom, in the coming winter season." cates of deposit, and accounts can be and inter-personal" gives us a base for If anyone wishes to write Judge opened by mail. With respect to loans, exploring more cooperative modes of Harold Johnson on Fred Moore's be the AINB deals primarily with Native knowing Truth-Truth conceived in a half, the address is: County Municipal Americans and its capital stock is Indian dynamic way as "truthfulness," being Court, 16th Street, Grover City, CA. owned. It is the first national institution true; not so much " pursuing Truth" as of its kind in the U.S. obeying when Truth discovers us! This Bruce and Ruth Graves, of 1209 Roose language felt both intensely Quaker and velt Boulevard, Ypsilanti, Michigan potentially universal as a way to com 48197, have published in the Ann Arbor In answer to FCNL's request for an ex municate with colleagues in secular edu Friends Meeting newsletter an appeal pression of views on abortion, Hartford cation. for letters to the United States Supreme (CT) Monthly Meeting, for one, has re- In small groups we shared our endeav- FRIENDS JOURNAL January 15, 1979 23 ors and frustrations in trying to imple children and dogs well together. Put ... Yes, we saw the boat people. We ment what Elise Boulding urged us to them in the grassy field, stirring con were on a sort of big barge. We got call forthrightly Quaker testimonies in stantly. Pour the brook over the peb smiles from some of the children, but stead of merely values. Each group bles; sprinkle the field with flowers,· the adults wouldn't smile ... . " gathered around one of the five pro spread over all a deep blue sky, and The bus monologue recurred to me posals for action, which included find bake in the warm sunshine. When when I read on page eighteen of Sider's ing ways to release the creative potential brown, set away to cool in a bath tub. book: " Air-conditioners alone in the of people dislocated by the breakdown Makes one-half dozen very happy United States use as much energy each of the credentialing system. children. year as does the entire country of China Dusk highlighted rem1mscence This easy-to-read spiral-bound book annually with its 830 million people." through slides of Pendle Hill in the for contains an excellent collection of tested But this book is not beamed solely at the ties and a candlelit potluck banquet. recipes donated by young and old, eighteen-day-air-tourist types. It is writ Burns Chalmers, who had taught at Friends and friends. We found twenty ten primarily for Christians who have Pendle Hill's first summer session in five different soups, twenty-eight not yet "designed and instituted" in a 1931, told some of us about Henry breads, twelve chicken dishes, and spirit of "justice, not mere charity ... Hodgkin, the first director-medical eighty-six pages of sweets, so appetizing new structures that can effectively missionary in China, world citizen, co that even a strict dieter would be eliminate indigence among believers, founder of the International Fellowship tempted. and drastically reduce the scandalous ex of Reconciliation. Pendle Hill was born Quaker Flavors is in its fourth tremes of wealth and poverty between in a global context. It was chiefly fi printing and dedicated to all Quakers, rich and poor members of the one body nanced, however, by Philadelphia past and present, who have for genera of the risen Jesus." Friends. tions been aware that people perform Yes, the book is definitely Bible The Jubilee was nurtured by Pendle according to their physical and spiritual oriented. In fact, its subtitle is "A Hill board members Teresina Havens nourishment. Biblical Study." Nothing, then, for ag and Diedrick Snoek with the help of Joe The proceeds from this book go to the nostics or humanists? Perhaps, and Havens and Barbara Snoek, Barbara AFSC to help feed the hungry. Already yet ... Though the author disclaims pro Parsons of the Pendle Hill staff, Peter $6,000 has been donated, with the hope ficiency as an economist, he is able to Bien of Hanover Meeting in New Hamp of reaching the $10,000 mark this cite, in addition to some 274 biblical ref shire, Howard and Mary Reed of Storrs, coming year. erences throughout the book, an amaz Connecticut, and many others. A second Quaker Flavors is a wonderful gift to ing amount of pertinent statistical and Jubilee was held the next day in Cam give or receive for birthdays, anniver economic data in support of his central bridge Friends Meeting. saries, weddings, and holidays. It can be thesis. To sum this up, he quotes from purchased at Arch Street Meetinghouse, economist Robert L. Heilbroner to the Friends Book Store, local Philadelphia effect that if the affluent world is not and suburban bookstores, at the Smith going to be willing to simplify its life sonian Bookstore in Washington, D.C., style in order to share with underdevel BOOK or directly from Willistown Friends oped, poverty-stricken nations, then Meeting. nuclear terrorism and "wars of redistri Faith Hide// bution" are inevitable. Item (from the REVIEWS introduction): "One popular funda mentalist newsletter (with a circulation of over 60,000) is calling on Christians Quaker Flavors, A Cookbook, Pub to stockpile new dried foods. In a most lished by Willistown Friends Meeting, ingenious combination of apocalyptic Goshen Road, Newtown Square, PA piety and slick salesmanship, a recent 19073, 1976. Fourth Printing, April edition quoted several ' Bible scholars' to 1978. 250 pages. $5.00 plus 50t postage. prove that some Christians will live through the tribulation. And the conclu Quaker Flavors will not only lift your spirit, but will spark your appetite as sion? Since one cannot be absolutely cer tain where one will be during the tribula well. A unique cookbook, it was pub tion, one ought to purchase a seven-year lished by Willistown Friends Meet supply of reserve foods for a couple ing as a bicentennial project and contains many Philadelphia and Chester thousand dollars!" County favorite dishes, a brief history Abundantly documented, this book of Quakerism, a biography of William seems to have listed every possible bibli Rich Christians In an Age of Hunger by Penn, local history, Quaker anecdotes, cal injunction relative to poverty and Ronald J . Sider. Intervarsity Press, wealth. To each one cited, the author and Quaker humor. Whenever the Downers Grove, Illinois, 1978. 223 then adds his own comment or interpre drawing of a little bonnet appears, it pages. $4.95. tation. For example, after quoting announces a recipe for the spirit. Matthew 25:45, he asks: "What does Particularly enjoyed is the one on "How Overheard on the bus: " ... Oh no, that mean in a world where millions die to Preserve Children": my dear, not tiring at all. Why, we had each year while rich Christians live in af Take one-half dozen children, two or comfortable, air-conditioned rooms fluence?" Methodically he anticipates three small dogs, a pinch of bubbling everywhere . .. Seoul ... Taipei ... Hong common misconceptions with a well brook, a jew pebbles. Mix the Kong ... wonderful meals ... Kowloon placed but: ''The rich neglect or oppose 24 january 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL justice because justice demands that concrete plans are essential. ''An Age of ahead for parents who are committed to they end their oppression and share with Hunger," he says, "summons affluent helping their children grow to be free to the poor. But that does not in any way people to a lower standard of living. But be themselves. She offers no simple mean that he loves the rich less than the a general assent to this statement will solutions, just sound advice. poor ... He desires fulfillment, joy and not be enough to escape the daily seduc Some of that advice includes: restruc happiness for all his creatures. But that tions o f Madison Avenue." turing parent roles to eliminate sex does not contradict the fact that he is on Perhaps it might have made for stereotyping; communal living where the side of the poor ... " smoother reading if the author had been children can be influenced by a variety Biblical solutions such as tithing, more consistent in his use of italics of adult models and where child care is gleaning, the Jubilee principle, the which at times are used for emphasis, at shared by more than the natural parents sabbatical year, koinonia, communitar other times to denote quoted passages. (especially beneficial for the single ianism, are evaluated and their relevance In general, however, this is a readable parent); how to select a babysitter; how to modern conditions discussed. Al and certainly a very timely book. To be men, even as single parents, can be though for the author the Church sure, extra ecclesiam, nulla sa/us may feminist fathers; how to select toys, remains the responsible " body of not appeal to the agnostic or humanistic dot hing, television program\ and books Christ," he is well aware of the weak readers. If it is read in context, however, which foster healthy, non-sexist atti nesses of institutionalized Christianity even they will, I think, have to admit tudes. and does not hesitate to poke fun at that Ronald Sider has, along with Many of the ideas are the author's some of his theological colleagues. "I " Bread for the World" and other and the rest are those of parents inter read some time ago," he writes, "that organizations mentioned in the final viewed. There are examples of successes Upton Sinclair. .. read [James 5: 1-5] to chapter, added one more significant as well as failures. a group of ministers. Then he attributed milestone on the road to (life and health) Non-sexist Childraising is an excellent the passage to Emma Goldman, ... anar salvation for all. overview of the sexist conditioning our chist agitator. The ministers were indig society imposes on children and adults. nant and their response was: 'This M.G. Morris At the same time it provides the tools woman ought to be deported at once!' '• and sympathetic encouragement for And he illustrates "one of the most parents who want to be empowered to deadly omissions of evangelicalism to guide their children and themselves, day" by citing a study of over 1500 proudly and sanely, through the ves ministers in which "researchers discov tigial barbs of male supremacy. ered that the theologically conservative Non-sexist Childraising by Carrie Car pastors speak out on sins such as drug michael. Beacon Press, Boston, 1977. Jerry Kinchy abuse and sexual misconduct, but ... fail 162 pages. $9.95. to preach about the sins of institution alized racism, unjust economic struc Parents trying to raise their children tures, and militaristic institutions which in a non-sexist fashion will admit, The Acorn People by Ron Jones. destroy people just as much as do alco despite their conscientious efforts, the Published privately by Ron Jones, 1201 hol and drugs." task is colossal and almost futile in a Stanyan St., San Francisco, CA 94117, Twenty-one statistical tables together society where sexism operates malicious 1976. $2.50. with many citations from authoritative ly and pervasively on the minds of works on hunger help to define the prob child ren. Adult models, schools, litera You are a handicapped child. Your lem and also to point to possible modern ture, television, advertisements, clothing family pampers, protects, and ignores solutions. Here the author devotes the and toys a ll carry the message clearly you. You live amid wheelchairs, special last three chapters to making practical that boys and girls have separate and ramps, urine bags, and often hospital suggestions and delineating some "New unequal destinies. like settings. On the street and else Patterns of Christian Community." He Carrie Carmichael, a feminist parent where, you are often invisible. does not shrink from using his own and activist, isn't providing us with a Then one summer you are sent to family life style and that of other fami fashionable " how-to-do-it" book Camp Wiggin. It's a Boy Scout camp, lies as examples for emulation. But he which, if followed meticulously , will with recorded military-style announce does not underestimate the enormity of guarantee success. Better yet she pre ments, bugles, and schedule arrange the task ahead. He realizes that specific sents a realistic appraisal of the struggles ments. The director likes it that way, but the counselors at first don't know what to do. They can't follow the schedule. It's intended for fast-running, sure-footed, sighted, normal children. And you're handicapped. They can't follow the schedule, so-so a little magic happens, and the Acorn People are born. Al though the camp's director tries to reinforce the schedule with everything neat and neatly labeled: arts and crafts, tree, handicapped child, the magic is alive and afoot including in the heart of a crusty ex-Army nurse named Ms. FRIENDS JOURNAL january 15, 1979 25 Nelson, who rips off the labels and plans the final people's extravaganza. A moving story-told as Ron Jones ···---·-- may have told it around a campfire; and attractively illustrated and printed. Stephen M. Gulick Far Madder, The Further Chronicles of a Quaker Meeting by Basil Donne Smith. Countryside Libraries, Ltd., England, 1977. 112 pages. Available at the Friends Book Store, $2.50. Basil Donne-Smith has taken us back to the delightful and slightly daft Quaker community of Much Madder which he first introduced to his public through the pages of the London Friend. Many of the same persons appear in this volume as in the first, but he has in troduced some new ones to add further spice. If Far Madder is not quite as hil arious as Much Madder, it is because once a clever idea has been exposed to the world, it is often difficult to create something even better in the sequel. It also seemed to this reviewer that more non-Quakers wander into this volume than in the earlier one, and some of the stories have only a slender tie to our be loved Society. Having expressed some qualifying Basil Donne-Smith makes some seri book in which all the photographs, ex words about Far Madder, I must go on ous points about Quaker prodecures and cept a very few clearly indicated ones, to say that it is a very enjoyable book. the way in which Friends do their busi have been taken between March 1977 The splendid names for places and per ness. In "Corporate Commitment" he and March 1978. sons which have been created by the discusses the muddle which Friends get The term " meetinghouse" has been author add greatly to its entertainment. into when they try to agree on just what used broadly to include buildings de We begin with Lady Bultitude of Great they believe. In "The Hassocks" he signed primarily for worship, business, Broody Towers who organized quiz con looks at other aspects of a Quaker meet weddings, and funerals; Friends' tests between villages. We move on to a ing and the way in which it responds to schools, and retirement homes. The lo romance between Joe Goate-Crossley the various elements which make up a cation of all buildings is given in present and Patsy Bonniface which revolves meeting. day street names and highway route around horse racing, as improbable as Every meeting library should have a numbers, to encourage Friends and non that may sound in a Quaker setting. In copy of Far Madder for it will help the Friends to visit the meetinghouses to dis the next story, Quaker testimonies are members to laugh at themselves as well cover their serene simplicity and charm. threatened even further when a member as at the odd collection of persons Seldom has so much interesting leaves nearly 300,000 pounds to the brought to life in these pages. information been presented in such an Great Broody Monthly Meeting which attractive picture-book of Jess than 100 she won in the pools. The money was Edwin B. Bronner pages. The 314 photographs (including eventually turned over to the Friends exteriors and some interiors of 174 meet Social Responsibility Council to be used inghouses for worship) while small, are to deal with the social evils of gambling. Quaker Ways: Pictures of Meeting remarkably clear, and are well-spaced. The author takes up the political ca Houses in Current Middle-Atlantic What might have been a monotomous reer of a gentleman named marmaduke America by Ruth E. Bonner. Printed by parade of buildings, with many architec Giddleigh, known as Barmy Marmy be the Kutztown Publishing Co., Inc., tural similarities, has been redeemed by cause of his personal idiosyncrasies. The Kutztown, PA 19530; © 1978 by Ruth Ruth Bonner's perceptive captions picture of Barmy Marmy trying to ride a E. Bonner. 95 pages. $9.95, hard bound. pointing out the unique features of vari bicycle, to which he had attached a huge ous buildings, although perhaps typical sign board announcing his candidacy for A ware of the Jack of a book contain of their historical period or geographical parliament, on the boardwalk by the sea ing photographs of Friends' meeting location. These captions vary in length in a heavy wind, is hilarious. That story houses in the eastern United States, es from one line to more than a dozen, and ends up with a slightly naughty descrip- · pecially up-to-date pictures, Ruth Bon often outline some historical events or tion of "Peter's finger." ner has provided an attractive picture list names of families connected with the 26 specific building. The book's end-papers for the effect on future wars. One War to today. are large photographs of typical cottages percent did not register, one percent What device should we select now? It at Crosslands, Foulkeways, Kendal, and refused induction, and that was enough should not suggest war or victory and it Medford Leas retirement communities. to end the draft, they say. What if, they should not require purchase, as a button Quaker Ways is given additional sig shudder, five percent should refuse in or pin. nificance by several longer sections of the next war? When Colonel Juan Peron became historical commentary interspersed They classify avoiders, evaders, and dictator of Argentina and was recog throughout the book. Friends are re deserters. We would call the second nized as a fascist, openly admiring minded, and non-Friends informed, al group refusers. Their chart of "Accused Hitler and Mussolini, the Argentine though briefly, of the historical begin Draft Offenders" numbers 209,517, public suddenly started wearing mourn nings of Quakerism in England, the shows only 4000 received any prison ing-wisps of black gauze and snips of migration of Friends to the United sentence, including suspended. The black ribbon on every garment, black States, the kinds of activities for which Resistance clogged the prosecutors' neckties and armbands and shoes. meetinghouses were built, etc. One ex offices to such an extent that enforce Within a month about a quarter of the ample is the discussion of Quaker wed ment of the draft law dwindled. Their people on the streets of Buenos Aires dings, with facsimile illustrations of estimate of 250,000 non-registrants is were in mourning, and not long after wedding invitations and announce clearly a guess. In the later years, they wards Peron was out. True, he later ments. There is even a 1937 photograph say, nobody had to be drafted if they returned, but that's another story-one of a bride. Another section, on Quaker had a good lawyer or good advice. which strengthens rather than weakens dress, is enhanced throughout the book Poignant accounts are given of the one's estimate of the efficacy of the by the hat and bonnet drawings by worst losers, as they say: the 563,000 symbol. George Barker Davis from illustrations with bad discharges. These have no Mourning symbols do not attract in Gummere's The Quaker: A Study in veterans' benefits, and have difficulty many people today. It is too sobering Costume. The Gummere volume is one finding jobs because of the markings on and even depressing. A bright color, of the books included in Ruth Bonner's their discharge papers. Characteristic indicating hope and truth and peace forty-five-item bibliography. ally, they had done their Vietnam time, would be more appealing. But black With photographs sometimes grouped and near the end of their service they does turn one's thoughts to sympathy chronologically, sometimes geographi went AWOL for personal reasons. The and compassion, to Hiroshima and cally, and sometimes topically, the index authors were surprised to find that the Nagasaki, and to the innocent victims of by name of the meetinghouse is inval many deserters they interviewed were war as well as the soldiers. uable. not left-wing radicals, but ordinary Let's think it over. Quaker Ways should be of interest to people trying to get along. Richard Post Friends' meetings, Friends' schools, Fascinating statistical charts! Quoque, NY Friends' retirement homes, Friends' libraries, and historical libraries, and to Louise T. Robinson To Monthly Meetings general public libraries. A slight volume, its attractive beige The Wilton Monthly Meeting is cover, sepia paper and photographs, considering building an apartment onto and brown ink throughout should also the meetinghouse for the use of a care make this a desirable gift book or an in LETTERS taker and resident Friend. teresting addition to a Friend's coffee We would like very much to hear table. from members of other meetings which TO THE have or have had apartments on their Helen A . Ridgway meetinghouse grounds about the good EDITOR and bad aspects of such an arrangement. Change and Circumstance: The Draft, A Symbol for Disarmament Morrie Ross the War, and tbe Vietnam Generation Wilton Monthly Meeting by Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. The worldwide movement for com 317 Canaan Rd. Strauss. Foreword by Father Theodore prehensive disarmament needs a symbol, Wilton, CT 06897 M. Hesburgh. A/fred A . Knopf, New one which every one of us could wear at York, 1978. 312 pages. $10.00. all times, all around the world, to bind us all together. The early Christians had Quaker Outreach Strong and conflicting emotions rage the fish, then the cross; Muslims the through me as I read this book, largely a crescent; Marxists the clenched fist, and Mike Yarrow's article in FJ 10/ 15178 gathering of statistics. It describes cooly now the hammer and sickle of the deserves more attention than it is likely how successful we were in fighting Communists. Churchill's two-fingered to get in an issue with several interesting against the draft, as seen by two staff " V" for victory outlived WWII. The articles on South Africa. He discusses persons of former President Ford's two letters N and D standing for nuclear briefly some clouds on our human clemency program. They wrote this disarmament borrowed from semaphore horizon, and the need for a firm belief in book from the mountains of data wig-wag and represented by a vertical the Kingdom of God. The bulk of the generated in that program, as well as line inscribed in a circle with two article discusses conciliation and con "hundreds" of interviews. slanting lines left and right descending frontation as themes for Quaker action. They concede that the Resistance was from the circle's center has been most I sensed several ideas which call for indeed "democracy in action," but fear helpful, from the height of the Vietnam further emphasis and development. FRIENDS JOURNAL January 15, 1979 27 When the Indians with ready toma What act1v1t1es are acceptable in a have the great potential for error, hawks left the silently worshiping nonviolent confrontation? Certainly misunderstandings and unfortunate Quakers unharmed, Mike says this tells vigils and leafleting are included. What results which confrontation has. I hope more about the Indians. In general, about property destruction, such as the Journal will have further articles in when people of violence refrain from burning homes (praying, of course, that this vein. violence when faced with peaceful the family will wake in time to get out)? Paul Johnson actions, much credit goes to the people What about goading to violence? Being Los Angeles, CA of violence. There is plenty of credit to irritating, insulting, obstructive and go around. His discussion of the shift in obnoxious; making it clear the person political control in India from the opposite you will be a failure in the eyes New DiscipUoe Needed? British Raj to the Congress Party and of her or his friends unless he or she acts the Moslem League suggests the British violently? Who gets the credit if no one I wonder if other Friends see any deserve a lot of credit. While Quakers is hurt? contradiction between the following sets justly always give a lot of credit to Where lies the guilt for unfortunate of statements: Gandhi, perhaps they should say a few results? The conquistadores, I'm told, From our books of Faith and Prac kind words for people like Yeats-Brown. used to have a priest read a statement tice: "It is urged that Friends be In his Lives of a Bengal Lancer he inviting the Aztecs to surrender before watchful to keep themselves free from reports the British in India in the early every battle. Any injured Aztecs then self-indulgent habits, luxurious ways of part of the twentieth century felt they had only themselves to blame. The living, and the bondage of fashion .... were in India because India wanted them conquistodores were guiltless. It was Undue luxury often creates a false sense there. There was full agreement that as considered irrelevant that the priest of superiority, causes unnecessary soon as India wanted them to go, they stood so far from the Aztecs they could burdens upon both ourselves and others, would go. not hear his voice, and that he spoke in and leads to the neglect of the spiritual Gross injustice calls for confronta Spanish, which the Aztecs could not life. By observing and encouraging tion; minor differences call for concilia understand. simple tastes in apparel, furniture, tion. How do we tell the difference? As I Mike did not have space to discuss buildings, and manner of living, we help look over the multitude of social issues these and several other similar points. do away with unwholesome rivalry and which reach the papers I always find Yet it is just these considerations which we learn to value self-denial." that one side says the issue is one of affect the specific actions and attitudes " It is our tender and Christian advice gross injustice, the other says it is a of people involved in movements for that Friends take care to keep to truth minor difference. Just as the theologians social change in specific cases. It is not and plainness, in language, habit, have developed a theory of a just war, I enough to choose the action called for deportment and behavior; that the presume the Quaker activists are devel by gross injustice unless one can truly simplicity of truth in these things may oping a theory of a just confrontation. identify gross injustice. Nor is it enough not wear out nor be lost in our days, nor Many Quakers believe the marvelous to be personally nonviolent if one leaves in our posterity's; and to avoid pride theory of a just war. Will the same be a trail of catastrophe in one's wake. and immodesty in apparel, and all vain true for the Quaker theory of a just The methods of conciliation do not and superfluous fashions of the world." confrontation? From the October 12 advertisement in the Philadelphia Inquirer for Cadbury, a Quaker-related retirement community: "Retirement at Cadbury is a time of ease. Your needs, and your pleasures, have been anticipated to bring you a way of living that is as luxurious as it is carefree .... The apartment you select at Cadbury will bring you the luxury of wall-to-wall carpeting and accenting drapes .... The atmosphere is like nothing so much as a fine hotel .... A scenic lake and plush grounds . .. . Comfort is a way of living at Cadbury." Perhaps it's time to revise our books of discipline to catch up with our modern practice. How about something like the following: " It is urged that Friends be watchful to keep up with the latest fashions and to discover more luxurious ways of living. Lack of luxury often burdens Friends by undercutting their pleasures and carefree approach to life. Let us turn away from unwhole some self-denial and welcome the life of comfort and ease." Richard K. Taylor Philadelphia, P A 28 January 15, 1979 FRIENDS JOURNAL dence'' at other Friends schools in the East and at Pendle Hill. He is remembered as both a mediator and a "thorn in the flesh" by the ANNOUNCEMENTS many who were inspired by him. Haskins- On August 30, Sylvia Shaw Jud son Haskins, aged eighty-one, at Kendal at Dunbar-On October 18 in Ontario, Cana Longwood, Kennett Square, PA, a member Marriages da, Barrington Dunbar, aged seventy-one, a of Lake Forest (IL) Meeting. member of the Fifteenth Street (NYC) Meet She was a graduate of the School of the Art Butler-Tarves-On November 25, Merrilee ing. Born in Georgetown, British Guyana, on Institute of Chicago, 1918, and studied in February 13, 1907, Barrington Dunbar, at the Turves to Carl Robert Butler, Ill. The groom Paris 1920-21. In 1952 she received an honor is a member of Dublin Meeting, Dublin, IN. age of sixteen, came to New York City to fur ary doctorate in sculpture from Lake Forest ther his education. Working during the day, College. She is the author of The Quiet Eye Burger-Walker-On J une 25 , Gloria Lynn he attended George Washington High School Walker and James Oliver Burger, under the and For Gardens and Other Places. Her name evenings. He earned a bachelor's degree from appears in Who's Who In America. care of Concord (PA) Monthly Meeting. The City College of New York and won a scholar bride is the daughter of Marian and Charles Sylvia Haskins is probably best known for ship to Columbia University, where he was her sculpture of Mary Dyer, which faces Walker of Cheyney, PA, and the bridegroom awarded a master's degree. is the son of Elisabeth and Robert Burger of Boston Common from its site in front of the The years at Columbia were marked by Massachusetts Statehouse. A three-quarter Glen Mills, PA. Both families are members contact with an interracial student Christian of Concord Friends Meeting. length bronze, cast from the same mold, is on movement and by membership at Riverside the Earlham College campus in Richmond, Meehan-Newton-On September 23 , Alice Church, where Harry Emerson Fosdick was Indiana, and another full-length one stands Newton and Danny Meehan, after the pastor. He later became manager of a resi at the entrance of the Friends Center in manner of Friends in a home ceremony. A dential cooperative on Waverly Place, where Philadelphia. celebration/reception was held at the Pentler he met his first Quaker friend and influence, Of interest, also, is that one of Sylvia Shaw estate in Cupertina, CA. There the marriage Rachel Davis Dubois, a member of the Judson Haskins' sculptures was selected by certificate was read and lunch for ninety advisory board. Jacqueline Kennedy for the rose garden at the people prepared by Palo Alto Friends. A trio Barrington Dunbar worked at Wiltwyck White House. She made notable heads of of cello, flute, and clarinet played chamber School for delinquent boys in upstate New Anna Cox Brinton, Irene Lowy, and Florence music. York, at the South East Settlement House in E.B. Evans. The bride's family joined Friends in 1955. Washington, D.C., and, during World War Sylvia Shaw was married to Clay Judson She has been a member of Palo Alto Friends II , in camps for black migrant farmworkers. (1921-1960), and is survived by a daughter, Meeting for several years. The groom is from After the war he was appointed by the United Alice C. Ryerson, and a son, Clay Judson. In a Catholic family. Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency as 1963 she was married to Sidney G. Haskins, a welfare officer in European camps for dis who survives her. placed persons, where he considered himself Hollister-On November I I, Helen Stapler a missionary to whites and succeeded in re Deaths versing the racial hatred of a number of Hollister, aged ninety-two, a beloved resident former Nazis. of Chandler Hall Nursing Home since its Balderston-On October 26 while visiting Back in the United States, Barrington Dun opening. Helen was a lifelong Friend and in California, Walter Balderston, aged bar served as director of Newberry Avenue member of Trenton Meeting. She was one of sixty-six, of London, Ontario, Canada. He Center, a Methodist settlement house in the founders of Mercer Street Friends Center had been active in Canadian Yearly Meeting Chicago's blighted West Side, where he suc and had served on a number of yearly and the Canadian Service Committee for ceeded in developing a board that operated meeting committees. She was also active in many years. He was a member of London under community direction. He joined the civic affairs in Trenton, having served on Preparative Meeting of Coldstream Monthly Fifty-Seventh Street Meeting of the Society of several mayor's committees on housing and Meeting. Friends in Chicago, drawn by Friends' tradi civil rights . She is survived by two sons, During World War II , he served in the tional concern fo r blacks, by what he called Charles G. Hollister of Short Hills, NJ, and Japanese Relocation Center at Poston, AZ, their "experiential" religion and by experi John S. Hollister of Newtown, PA; five where he made many Friends among the ences deriving from a two-year stay at Pendle grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. internees. He taught history at the University Hill. Ries-On November I in his home in of Western Ontario from 1946 until his retire Returning to New York in the 1960s, he Revere, PA, Philip T. Ries, aged sixty-six, a ment in July 1978. He had just begun to help transferred his membership to Fifteenth member of Richland (PA) Friends Meeting. organize the Canadian Friends Historical Street Meeting, where he served on the com From 1959 until his retirement in 1975, he Society. mittees of drug rehabilitation, black affairs, was a real estate appraiser. Born in Phila He is survived by his wife, Marydel G., ministry and oversight, and overseers. He delphia, he was the son of the late Frederick four sons, R. Davis, John L., Stephen W ., continued his work in community organiza and Hazel (Christy) Ries . Peter B.; and four grandchildren. His twin tion with Mobilization for Youth in the He is survived by his wife, Mildred Smith sister, Ruth T. Cope, also survives, as well as Lower East Side and became a spokesman for Ries; a son, John E. Ries of Quakertown, sisters, Margaret B. Dupree and Elizabeth B. the growing civil rights movement. In 1967, PA; a daughter, Dr. Kristen M. Ries of South Maurer. as a representative of the American Friends Dakota; and five grandchildren. Brink-On November 16, Paul Brink, Service Committee, he attended the famous Smith-On October 22 at West Jersey Hos aged seventy-four, of Palo Alto Friends Black Power Conference in Newark (NJ) and pital, Voorhees, NJ, of cancer, Ernest C. Meeting. Palo Alto Friends Meetinghouse emerged an interpreter for the erupting mood Smith, aged seventy-two years. He was a was filled to capacity by attenders at the of black militancy and the need to " speak birthright member of Little Britain (PA) memorial service. Paul Seaver, associate truth to power." Addressing Friends World Monthly Meeting. After his marriage to clerk, stated, "Paul was not an assertive Conference at Guilford College, NC, his in Grace Heritage he transferred his member man, but I suspect we all depended, more terpretation of black violence as an inevitable ship to Mickleton (NJ) Monthly Meeting than we know, on his good-humored com response to white violence captured the atten where she is a member and he ably and de mon sense and his cheerful courage." tion of the national press. Later as a teacher votedly served on many meeting committees. A faithful Friend, Paul served the meeting at Friends World College and in various writ At the time of his death he was clerk of his at various times as clerk, treasurer, and a ings and lectures, he affirmed themes of meeting. He was a graduate of George School member of the Buildings and Grounds Com black liberation and nonviolence and chal where in 1976 he attended his fiftieth reunion. mittee. lenged the myth of white superiority. He led He is survived by his wife, his son Robert After retirement in 1966, he and his wi fe , the struggle for a black development fund Heritage, also a George School graduate and Virginia, spent much time helping develop under the auspices of New York Yearly Meet member of Mickleton Monthly Meeting, two the Ben Lomond Quaker Center. ing and became its clerk. grandchildren, and a sister, Emeline McSpar He is survived by his wife, Virginia; a son, After leaving Friends World College, ran of Oxford, PA. Austin Brink of Berkeley; a daughter, Paula Barrington Dunbar became a consultant to Contributions may be made to Friends MacKae of Santa Cruz; and three grand minority students at Friends Seminary in School, Mullica Hill, NJ . children. 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