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A Quaker Weekly VOLUME 6 JANUARY 23, 1960 NUMBER 4 IN THIS ISSUE f!l:m wo,ld ho,dly know> any longer how to center Toward the Nurture of Our Spiritual down; how, in the midst of noise and confusion, to hush Resources all voices except the still small by Helen Griflith voice; how, ir: the whirl ana turmoil of ever-shifting scenes and sights, to cultivate "the single eye, the eye that sees The Left Hand and the Right Hand the invisible." The world • by needs, I say, those who prac Finn Friis tice this rare and supreme art of communion, those who "have ears to hear what the The Duologue Spirit saith." by Winifred Rawlins -RUFUS JONES, Tht Faith and Practice of the QualtttJ Germany~ s Youth . Editorial Comments FlnEEN CENTS A COPY The Harrington Demonstrations $5.00 A YEAR 50 FRIENDS JOURNAL January 23, 1960 FRIENDS JOURNAL The Left Hand and the Right Hand AS a comparatively new worker in the service of £l.. Friends, I have been struck by the fact that we so often do benefit by the work and activities of the people before us. Many doors are opened for us. Friends are chiefly known for the relief work done in many countries around the world. The international contact work, carried out through the centers, the team at the United Nations, and the Quaker International Published weekly, but biweekly from June 11 to September 17 and December 17 to December 81, at 1616 Cherry Street, Affairs Representatives, of whom I am one, is of more Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania (LO 8-7669) recent origin and not known so widely. By Friends Publishing Corporation WILLIAM HUBBEN MILDRED A. PURNELL Many of those who work for or with Friends in Editor and Manager Assistant Editor Europe and elsewhere meet people who are grateful for HELEN P. JANKE SADIE TEIR Advertisements Subscriptions something Quakers have done for them in the past. Here CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS in Vienna I have heard this gratitude expressed by uni RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia versity professors and others, who as children or young Africa ............................. Maurice Webb, Durban England . .....................Horace B. Pointing, London students received food (Quiikerpeisung), and also by Joan Hewitt, London France... ...... ....................... Wolf Mend!, Paris those who in the late thirties were helped to get out of Germany ...... ............... Brigitte Schleusener, Berlin India ............................ Benjamin Polk, Calcutta Austria before it was too late. Japan ............................ ....... Paul M. Sekl:ya Lebanon ........ Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Beirut Not long ago, in April, 1959, I rather unexpectedly Scandinavia ................ Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway Switzerland ... .. ................. Robert J. Leach, Geneva found another example in one of the East-European Turkey ........ .............William L. Nute, Jr., Ankara Midwest (Five Years} .... Errol T. Elliott, Indianapolia, Ind. Communist countries. When I called on a man holding New England ........... ..... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford West Coast ................ Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. a high position in the cultural life of that country, he BOARD OF MANAGERS told me that he would never forget what happened to 1967-1960: Mary R. Calhoun, Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. him in 1942, when he was in France, locked up in the Johnson, Elizabeth H. Kirk. ~958-1961: Carol P. Brainerd, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Mildred H . Young, 1969-1962: Howard Fresne Prison in a section usually reserved for those H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Blias Forbush, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr., Philip Stoughton, Carl F. Wise. who expected a death sentence. There he received a THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five parcel from Friends. "How did they find me?" he asked. dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all eost of publication. Make cheeks pay "And how did they have the courage?" able to Friends Publishing Corporation. Contributions are tax-exempt. But it also happens that we meet people who do not SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can ada, and Mexico: $6.00 a year, $2.76 for six months. approve of certain aspects of Quaker relief work. I was Foreign countries: $6.60 a year. Single eopies: fifteen cents. Checks should be made payable to Friends Journal. once asked by a representative of an Eastern country: Sample copies sent on request. Second Class Postage Paid at Philadelphia, Pa. "Why do Quakers, known as people working for peace, help people who work against peace?" (To him, "the people who work against peace" were the refugees who were against the regime in his country.) When such a question is put to us, we might perhaps Contents Page be led to consider whether our relief work sometimes The Left Hand and the Right Hand-Finn Friis. 50 makes our contact work more difficult. But I am, of Editorial Comments . 51 course, convinced that such a possibility should not affect Toward the Nurture of Our Spiritual Resources our relief activities. Helen Griffith . 52 To answer the question should not be difficult. I Hamlet on City Hall Tower (poem)-William Bacon think one can say without hesitation that the Quakers Evans .......... .... .................. ...... 54 have never been influenced by political motives in their The Harrington Demonstrations . 54 relief work. At one time or another people of every The Duologue (poem)-Winifred Rawlins ........ .. 55 shade of opinion- Socialists, National Socialists, Lib Disarmament . 55 erals, and Communists-have been helped if they were Books .. ........................................ 56 in real need. In several civil wars we have tried to help Friends and Their Friends . 58 on both sides, and it was not our fault if in actual fact we were not allowed to do so. Letters to the Editor . 60 FINN FRIIS FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955) ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 23, 1960 VOL. 6-No. 4 Editorial Comments Germany's Youth The press gave thorough and detailed reports about the OMETIME before the beginning of the present anti concentration-camp trials that caused widespread indig SSemitic demonstrations in Germany and other coun nation and a sense of national shame. Last but not least, tries, the Bavarian Broadcasting. Station devoted two of the painful division of the country into two parts and its programs to questions that will appear particularly world opinion about Germany's recent past are now revealing at the present moment. Since the regret had clearly associated in the minds of most Germans with been voiced all over Germany that modern youth has no Hitler's fateful regime. great heroes to revere and emulate, the first Youth It is regrettable that the links to the cultural past Program posed the question, "Are there people of the of Germany in the minds of the young are either weak past or the present whom you admire and value posi or nonexistent. Only 60 of the 550 young people admired tively? Who are they?" The second program requested a spiritual, scientific, or artistic leader. Bismarck, Schil an answer to the question, "Are there people from the ler, and St. Exupery were hailed for their moral leader past or the present of whom you are critical and whom ship rather than their genius in other fields. Inciden you reject? Who are they?" Replies came from about tally, the replies proved that only the very young (those 550 young people, ranging in age from 15 to 24 years ll to 13 years of age) are fans of movie stars. Many and representing a wide social and educational strati girls admired their mothers or someone else in their fication. The answers refuted the commonly held opinion environment, whereas the boys or young men were pre that young people nowadays worship exclusively fashion dominantly critical of their fathers, especially the young models, movie stars, sport heroes, or, in general, success laborers and apprentices. ful men and women. Albert Schweitzer ranked first as German school authorities are devoting some atten an ideal. The reasons which the young people quoted tion to such polls. They are aware of the enor1illous for this choice proved that they were not merely listing gaps in historical continuity which the recent history of an often heard n ~me but had done some serious thinking their country has left in the hearts and minds of the about Schweitzer's moral stature as a religious leader. entire nation. It is a moot question whether the anti The person most frequently rejected as unworthy was Semitic excesses are symptoms of resurgent nazism or Adolf Hitler. Every fifth person blacklisted him. For result from the mesmerizing effect which pseudomysteri most participants Schweitzer and Hitler represented the ous symbols and secret acts are apt to have on immature two extremes of humanity and inhumanity. minds. We are inclined to the latter view. At any rate, the German economic miracle alone cannot repair the Tentative Answers? historic damage which the Hitler period has inflicted These results are as surprising as they are encourag upon the world and the unfortunate German people ing. As late as 1953, 1954, and 1955 German opinion themselves. Their dynamic energies have produced ad polls disclosed that Hitler ranked second as the most mirable as well as frightening results. Their firmness in admired person among adults. This later broadcasting dealing with the present problem will be the best assur program admittedly called forth only a relatively small ance that a new phase in the political maturing of Ger number of answers from young people. Nevertheless, many has begun. these answers are likely to reflect a trend toward modera In Brief tion and a less fevered climate of opinion. During the A Danish newspaper reported that a television pro years from 1953 to 1959 a good many events have had gram on bullfighting was taken off the air in Copenhagen moderating influences.