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A Quaker Weekly VOLUME 4 OCTOBER 18, 1958 NUMBER 37 IN· THIS ISSUE @~R world neve-r hoi The Indispensable Ingredients of known a sense of oneness, and Fearlessness there are few world citizens, those rare individuals who by Dorothy Hutchinson · think globally instead of lo· cally. Boundaries that divide are tragically tall, like the Chinese wall, suggesting to Atoms for Peace-or War? the outside that our one-tent . by Kathleen Lonsdale heaven is big enough for our selves. India isn't alone in her exclusive temples over whose doors is written, "Not allowed: Letter from Turkey Low Castes and Dogs." . by WUllam L. Nute, Jr. - Rov 0. McCLAIN, This Way, Please (Tht Fltming H. Rtvell Company) Indiana Yearly Meeting by Elizabeth W. Chandler Book Survey fiFTEEN CENTS A COPY $4.50 A YEAR . 594 FRIENDS JOURNAL October 18, 1958 FRIENDS JOURNAL Book Survey The Thought and Art of Albert Camus. By Thomas Hanna. Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1958. 204 pages. $4.50 The awarding of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature has made Albert Camus something like the official spokesman of his generation, problematic as such summarizing terms have become to us. The present study analyzes Camus as an inter preter of human life and sees him against the background of · ~ Hegel, Kierkegaard, Dostoievski, and Nietzsche, the four think Published weekly, except during July and August when ers whose thoughts echo everywhere throughout Camus' works. published biweekly, at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadel phia 2, Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669) The writer's preoccupation with the situation of the .individual By Friends Publishing Corporation is stressed in this analytical study. Thomas Hanna addresses WILLIAM HUBBEN MILDRED A. PURNELL Editor and Manager Assistant Editor himself to an audience familiar with the main currents of con MYRTLE M. WALLEN FREIDA L. SINGLETON temporary thought. His presentation, lucid and stimulating, Advertisements Subscriptions will remain essential for the understanding not only of Camus CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS but of modern man's spiritual predicament. RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia Africa ............................. Maurice Webb, Durban Ten Steps Forward. Published by the World Health Or England .. .. .............Horace B. Pointing, London Joan Hewitt, London ganization's Division of Public Information, Geneva, and dis Germany .... .. ..... ...... ...... Lottelore Roloff, Berlin tributed by Columbia University Press, New York City, 1958. India ....... .... .............. Benjamin Polk, Calcutta Japan ...... ................. .. Jackson H. Bailey, Tokyo 68 pages. 50 cents Lebanon ...... Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Beirut Scandinavia . .. ........ .. .. Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway In 1948 the World Health Organization was a cooperative Switzerland ......... ............ Robert J. Leach, Geneva Turkey ...................... William L. Nute, Jr.. Ankara effort of 56 countries. By 1958 a total of 88 countries had Lake Erie Association ...... Winthrop M. Leeds, Pittsburgh joined WHO in the universal crusade to fight disease and Midwest (Five Years) .. ... ...... Russell E. Rees, Richmond New England .. .. ..... .. ... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford establish better health. This ten-year record is literally "the West Coast ................ Ferner Nuhn. Claremont, Calif. end of the beginning" for "public health on a world scale." BOARD OF MANAGERS Each of the ten chapters features pictures and text describing 1955-1958: Carol P. Brainerd, Willis H . Satterthwaite, Lydia F. Taylor, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood. 1956-1959: one of the ten steps taken to raise health levels. Many more Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Ruth 0. Maris, Margaret L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr. 1957- steps will be taken in the decades ahead. This book answers 1960: Mary R. Calhoun, Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. the questions: What is WHO, and why should we be inter Johnson, Elizabeth H. Kirk. ested in WHO? THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help The Ancient Library of Qumram and Modern Biblical Stud meet the over-all cost of publication. ies. By Frank Moore Cross, Jr. Doubleday and Company, Inc., SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can ada, and Mexico: $4.50 a year, $2.50 for six months. Garden City, New York, 1958. 196 pages. $4.50 (illustrated) Foreign countries: $5.00 a year. Single copies: fifteen cents. Checks should be made payable to Friends Journal. The author deals with the entire material of the Dead Sea Sample copies sent on request. Second Class Postage Paid at Philadelphia, Pa. Scroll texts now available. The story of the Essenes and the relationship of the Old Testament to this material are part of the study by this leading American scholar. Why I Am a Jew. By David de Sola Pool. Nelson and Sons, New York, 1958. 208 pages. $2.75 Contents Page Judaism and Modern Man. By Ben Zion Bokser. Philo sophical Library, New York, 1958. 154 pages. $3.75 Book Survey • . 594 Your Neighbor Celebrates. By Arthur Gilbert and Oscar Tar Editorial Comments . ....... .......... ..... :. 595 cov. Friendly House Publishers, New York, 1957. 120 pages. $2.50 The Indispensable Ingredients of Fearlessness-Doro- "A good picture is worth a thousand words." Here the epi thy Hutchinson . ............. ........... ... 596 gram can be seen taking on compelling life. Here are three Atoms for Peace-or War?-Kathleen Lonsdale .. .. 598 books on the Jews. One is an autobiography, strident with American Quakerism Explained- Lawrence McK. passion and touched with radiant philosophy. One is a careful Miller, Jr. .................................... 599 study of a people, patient, courageous, and influential. One is Letter from Turkey-William L. Nute, Jr. ......... 600 a picture book full of big photographs showing our Jewish neighbors on their sacred holy days. These wonder-filled faces, Indiana Yearly Meeting-Elizabeth W. Chandler .... 601 old and young, these bent shoulders, these haggard hands com Germany Yearly Meeting-Lotte/ore Roloff ........ 602 pel the reader to say with a sigh, 'These are magnificent peo Friends and Their Friends . 603 ple, these Jews!" The third book has done it. The good Letter to the Editor . 605 pictures are worth a hundred thousand words. FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955) ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, ocrOBER 18, 1958 VOL. 4-No. 37 Editorial Comments Pope Pius the revolution in 1789 it took the French a hundred years HE death of the late Pope Pius comes at a moment to secularize their schools, fighting all the while a guerilla Twhen the exponent of any creed inevitably finds war against the forces of the Vatican. The unwillingness himself faced with major problems that touch upon the of certain leaders in the South to recognize the mandate core of his message. It was Pope Pius' burden to have of our Constitution and thus imbue the term "deliberate to carry all his life the weight of grave international speed" with a sense of imperative and honest urgency tensions and actual conflicts. How to work for recon demonstrates a taste for anarchy which may yet cost them ciliation, how to assist in avoiding clashes, and how to dear. Fellowship with the irresponsible can only beget exhort the nations toward developing a long-range view more trouble. He who lies down with the dogs rises of peace-these were some of his concerns. Wars between with fleas. nations with large Catholic groups were family rifts to Anarchy also rules in the actual teaching situation. him. Now his church has displayed a proud pageant in Will students really benefit from hastily organized TV honoring him and preparing to choose a successor. It programs which assemble young whites and Negroes to also lists impressive statistics. It is an ecclesia triumphans, an invisible presence and, paradoxically, integrate them although by its own teachings it is meant to be primarily in a listening fellowship? How long will students, par an ecclesia militans, a fighting church. ents, and the churches tolerate an academic vacuum? Pope Pius' personal integrity and ascetic way of life There is also an invisible but nonetheless real world are beyond reproach. We cannot approve of the most community of keenly attentive spectators, not to speak spectacular features of his church and the pontiff's own of the Communists. The white man operating at home position because we consider them contrary to the spirit with all "deliberate speed" by abusing his democratic of the gospel. As Friends we deplore that Pope Pius freedoms is, indeed, a pathetic figure. Yet he will not be never rose above the traditional exhortations for peace, able to bar progress, although he can delay it seriously. sincere as they were meant to be. Like the leaders in In the present struggle he inevitably nourishes among Protestantism at large, he missed his chance for historic young and old a spirit of determination that is the father greatness by not giving the atomic age an uncompromis of victory. · ing Christian morality. The tragic perversion has oc In Brief curred that a good deal of the testimony for peace now reaches millions of people through Communist propa The 0.9 per cent increase in United States church ganda, a tool knowingly wielded for its own double membership during the first half of this year was for purpose. the first time lower after World War II than the popula We still hope that the Church