A Quaker Weekly

VOLUME 5 MAY 23, 1959 NUMBER 21

dr ;sa m;stake to assume IN THIS ISSUE that God's communications to us are limited to technical speech, whether of the written or the spoken word. Even our The Everlasting Arms friends who walk by our side have many languages other by Richard H. Tafel than words. They speak to us in gestures, in. the glow or the gloom of their faces, in a touch Quakerism Created and Re-Created of the hand, in a token secretly left where we shall find it. . by Errol T. Elliott Often their most meaningful communication is by the way of silence. So also God speaks Neigborhood Renewal and Integrated to us in the multitudinous voices of nature, the blessings Housing: The Powelton Story of His providence, the turning of an event. All our environ­ by Olcutt Sanders ment is vocal with His good­ ness, and those voiceless promptings from out the Editorial Comments silence of our soul are the fleet messengers of His will. . by J. Barnard Walton -ANONYMOUS

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Neighborhood Renewal and Integrated FRIENDS JOURNAL Housing: The Powelton Story NEW Friends Meeting near the center of a big A city is rare these days- even if the city is Phila­ delphia. But the Powelton Village Meeting is only one sign of fresh life in what five years ago seemed to be a dying neighborhood. The 15 or more persons gathered weekly for Quaker worship at St. Andrews Parish House comprise an in­ dulged Meeting under the care of Central Philadelphia Published weekly, but biweekly from June 13 to September 19 and December 19 to January 2, at 1615 Cherry Street, Monthly Meeting. They also represent some of the deter­ Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669) By Friends Publishing Corporation mined civic spirit that is remaking the Powelton area. WILLIAM HUBBEN MILDRED A. PURNELL This 25-block section of West Philadelphia has about Editor and Manager Assistant Editor MYRTLE M. WALLEN FREIDA L. SINGLETON 6,000 people living in 600 structures with 2,000 dwelling Advertisements Subscriptions units. CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS Many Philadelphians will remember Powelton as a RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia quiet, rather somber community of single and twin Vic­ Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban England ...... Horace B. Pointing, London torian houses built during the latter half of the nine­ Joan Hewitt. London Germany ...... Lottelore Roloff, Berlin teenth century. Aside from the architecture of the India ...... Benjamin Polk, Calcutta Japan ...... Hilary Conroy, Tokyo houses, its most notable features are its spacious yards Lake Erie Association ...... Kenneth lves, Detroit Lebanon ...... Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Beirut and wide, tree-lined streets, sharply setting it apart from Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway Switzerland ...... Robert J. Leach, Geneva the row houses to the north and west. Turkey ...... William L. Nute, Jr., Ankara Midwest (Five Years) ...... Russell E. Rees, Richmond As recently as 20 years ago this neighborhood re­ New England ...... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford West Coast ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. mained a stable, well-kept community of single family BOARD OF MANAGERS homes, occupied for the most part by resident owners. 1966-1969: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Ruth 0. The social life centered around several large churches Maris, Margaret L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr. 1957-1960: Mary R. Calhoun, Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara in the immediate vicinity. Among these were two Friends L. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. Johnson, Elizabeth H. Kirk. 1958-1961: J. C. Clement Meetings-one at 35th and Lancaster and the other at Alexandre, Carol P. Brainerd, Daniel D. Teat, Jr., Anne Wood, Mildred B. Young. 42nd and Powelton Avenue. THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help During the past two decades the pattern of living in meet the over-all cost of publication. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can­ Powelton underwent a gradual but steady change. The ada, and Mexico: $6.00 a year, $2.75 for six months. Foreign countries: $5.60 a year. Single copies: filteen modern houses and community facilities of the suburbs cents. Checks should be made payable to Friends J oumal. Sample copies sent on request. began to attract the middle-income families living in the Second Class Postage Paid at Philadelphia, Pa. area. As these old neighborhood families moved away, houses were bought for conversion to rooms and apart­ ments to meet the increasing demand for rental housing from lower-income groups moving into the city. The Friends Meetings were laid down, and the buildings sold. For several years the neighborhood continued to maintain its white population because of the vigorous Contents Page efforts of a civic association in discouraging sales to Neighborhood Renewal and Integrated Housing: minority groups. Many properties during this time were The Powelton Story-Olcutt Sanders ...... 326 sold at low prices to speculators or to white residential Editorial Comments--]. Barnard Walton ...... 327 buyers with insufficient capital to convert and maintain The Everlasting Arms--Richard H. Tafel ...... 328 the large obsolete buildings. Quakerism Created and Re-Created-Errol T. Elliott 330 By 1956 Powelton was a neighborhood in rapid tran­ Letter from India-Benjamin Polk ...... 331 sition. Well-maintained houses stood next to blighted Answered Prayer (poem)-Euell Gibbons ...... 332 properties. The area was not attractive to individual Books ...... - . - . - . - . - - .... - ...... 333 home buyers, white or Negro. The prospect was that Friends and Their Friends ...... 334 this would become another metropolitan slum with tene- Letters to the Editor ...... 336 (Continued on page 332) FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)

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Editorial Comments ]. Barnard Walton wrote the following "Editorial can Friends Service Committee, and other vehicles for Comments" at the invitation of William Hubben, who expressing our testimonies in the life of the world. is on vacation. As one visits among Friends Meetings, both old and new, one notices the interfiow of the ideas expressed in The Growing Edge of Quakerism the FRIENDS JouRNAL and the ideas acted upon in life. OES anyone, perchance, remember looking at the People become interested in these ideas through study, "Facts and Figures about FRIENDS JouRNAL" in the D through action in work camps or other projects of serv­ issue of April 4 (page 217)? Were they merely some more ice, through fellowship with friends and neighbors, dry numbers, or did they indicate something of the direc­ through trying to answer their children's questions and tion in which we as a body of people are moving? helping to find answers in First-day school. Somewhere Who are the readers of the FRIENDS JouRNAL? Briefly, in this seeking process the FRIENDS JouRNAL comes in. the members of Friends General Conference; members In time the seeker becomes a finder and takes respon­ of kindred Meetings, like the Conservative Friends and sibility for the future direction of the movement. The the new independent Meetings; some from the Five pioneer exploration of thought goes ahead and opens Years Meeting who read also The American Friend; the way for the main body, which follows. members of the Wider Quaker Fellowship and other We may illustrate this growth by looking at the people who find value in the point of view expressed Southeastern Conference of Friends, which was held this in this paper. spring at St. Petersburg, Florida, March 13 to 15, 1959. For a long time it has been evident that the circu­ This gathering began as a picnic of three Friends Meet­ lation of the paper increases faster than the membership ings, Orlando, St. Petersburg, and Miami, held at the of the Meetings which may be considered its constitu­ Bok Tower at Lake Wales. There were then no meeting ency. The rate of growth of the Friends General Con­ houses, no established Monthly Meetings, and nearly all ference is a little under one per cent per year (from of the people were winter visitors. Now, in less than a 28,611 to 29,337 in the three years from December 31, generation, there are twelve meetings in Florida, two 1954, to December 31, 1957, or eight-tenths of one per in Georgia, and one in South Carolina. There are three cent per year). For the period of three and a half years meeting houses and the prospect of another. There are from the creation of the FRIENDS JouRNAL by the uniting eight First-day schools. · Nine Meetings organized as of the Friends lntelligencer and The Friend in July, 1955, Monthly Meetings report to the Friends World Com­ to the report of January 1, 1959, the subscription list mittee. Half of the active Friends are resident. increased from 4,830 to 5,154. This is two per cent per How does this growth of the external compare with year, or twice as fast as the increase in the Meetings. · the development of thought as expressed in the FRIENDS Why? JouRNAL? We may for the present leave the deeper .ques­ Let us look into the relationship of the FRIENDS tion of how it compares with the growth of the hfe of JouRNAL and its readers. A paper has no existence ex­ the spirit to the time of individual silent meditation cept as it has readers and writers. You, the writers and in the presence of the One who is source of the life of readers, create the body of news and the body of thought the spirit. that rise out of the life we live. As these thoughts arc "America in Crisis: What Should Be the Role of passed back and forth among a group of people, a move­ Friends?" was the topic of Eric W. Johnson at the Sat­ ment develops. Let us look into the relationship of this movement urday afternoon session of the Southeastern Conference. with the organizations it creates through which to func­ This is evidence that the gathering has grown beyond tion, the meetings for worship, the First-day schools, the the stage of getting acquainted at a picnic. The three Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meetings, Friends Gen­ round tables dealt with international relations, commu­ eral Conference, schools, hospitals, settlements, Ameri- nity relations, and the life of the Meeting. The patti- 327 328 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 23, 1959 cipants were primarily families who live in the South, munity for steps which it is hoped they can take later, send their children to Southern public schools, and feel when it becomes possible. responsibility for community action. Moves toward de­ Friends in all of the Meetings are working for peace. segregation are live issues. The round table on this Reports showed concern for prison reform, abolition of subject opened with a panel and then broke into three the death penalty, mental health; migrant workers, the groups of twenty to thirty each. Among the experienced American Indian, housing, clothing for Friends Service, / resource people there was · one Negro in each group. and other subjects. The group is coming to function as People were seeking to know the facts, to understand does a Yearly Meeting in epistles, Queries, and plans how others feel, and to get some light on what each for activities for young Friends. one can do in his own community. Local residents are Reports from other new Meetings on the growing aware of how their own community differs from the edge of Quakerism would indicate many ways in which communities of others. Way is open for different steps new ideas are arising, being tested by discussion, both in Atlanta, in Augusta, in Miami. Friends were seeking face to face and in the FRIENDS JoURNAL, and then tried to learn what can be done now to help prepare the com- OUt in action. J. BARNARD WALTON

The Everlasting Arms

HE Eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are own lives, in every detail of it. If this is our faith, a Tthe everlasting arms" (Deuteronomy 33:27). These living faith, perhaps there is no more urgent service are words which have withstood the corrosion and dust that we can seek to render the world today than to share of the centuries. Through the ages they have brought that faith with others. At this point of low visibility in courage and reassurance to untold generations. In times the world's history, if people can be given the vision of stress and uncertainty they have brought renewal of of where they are intended to go, and the knowledge faith, and have sent men back with new strength to the and experience of the power to get there, they will cer­ upward struggle of life. They are a reminder of the tainly find themselves able to stand the testing of our foundation-truth of religion: not simply the knowledge times, and to carry the burdens of the road, inspired by that there is a God, but the experience that He is near, a new hope. and that He cares. But how may one gain that faith if he doesn't possess Today, when so many are growing weary with the it? And how is one to share it? slow pace of world rehabilitation, when our dream of It is right here that our texr challenges us to think one world is shattered by the realization that it has now deeply, beyond and beneath the surface of this life. become two broken halves, when our leading intellec­ "Underneath are the everlasting arms." The call is to tuals warn us that they see nothing ahead but another seek what is enduring and eternal as the sustaining race to destruction, can we do better than to turn once power and purpose of our human existence. It urges us more to this text, to gain the unshakeable confidence to realize that this world of physical sight and hearing of a divine undergirding of our human striving? and touch is not all that there is: that within, and tran­ If these words, "underneath are the everlasting arms," scending the fluctuations of matter, and time, and space, are true, we need, more than ever before, the conviction there is a range of reality which is not affected by such and stability they can give us. We need the steadying things. There is a God who is Eternal, whose arms are thought to live by of a divine Providence over and above everlasting, and whose concern for us does not stop with the confusion in which we find ourselves. We need the our outward necessities. His kinship with us is revealed abiding trust that God is near, that He is close at hand, in the fact that He created us in His image and like­ that this is His world, that He has a stake in our strug­ ness. It is also revealed in our ability to think His gles for peace, good will, and righteousness, that He stands ready to open a way and to give us the wisdom thoughts after Him, and to respond to His love. This and strength to carry on the task further toward the kinship with God is the glory and wonder of human goal that He has in view. personality; through this kinship we can remake and Our world is not an aimless world, at the mercy of refashion our nature and character-with His help. Our blind forces. Faith assures us that God holds our world true life, therefore, is not of the body, but of the spirit in order and that He is also intimately involved in our --even while we are here. God's purpose is to make us

\ May 23, 1959 FRIENDS JOURNAL 329 spiritual men and women, fully aware of the endless "underneath are the everlasting arms." They never leave possibilities of our growing like Him. us. That is why the Church's teachings keep emphasiz­ This means that- if we will let Him-He shares our ing the fact that the divine Providence is concerned deepest life. It means that, even though He leaves us primarily with our eternal welfare, with what will be free to plan, He is continually challenging us to seek His best for us for all time. Though this may at first appear purpose and will, which is nothing but our expressing otherworldly, it really isn't, because this refashioning of His presence in our hearts and minds just as fully as ourselves is to take place, in its initial stage, amid the we know how to. It also means that in His great love­ present outward circumstances of life. Therefore, how and because of His inner abiding- He is sensitive to we use our present opportunities and experiences is our our every desire, and thought, and action, to our direct responsibility. No matter what importance and every defeat or victory as we make our way through weight we put upon the things that are now happening the complexities of our outward circumstances. It means to us, apart from a goal beyond the short span of our that when we make mistakes, or even when we deliber­ life here, human existence on this earth would make ately tum away from His ways, He helps us make very little sense. amends, and bears with us the consequences of our sins, But divine Providence is not in any way a blueprint, ever seeking to draw us back to Him. It means that He a ready-made pattern of events and actions to which is ever near, ever ready to forgive and to help and to we should conform, and which it is only our business strengthen us when we sincerely seek Him. Can we not to try to discover. God has no plan drawn in advance trust a world like that? A world in which every man, for our social order, or for our economic or political woman, and child is a living evidence that God is here order. He doesn't determine for us beforehand what -even if not acknowledged, and even if denied? our individual choices should be in any given circum­ This is not wishful thinking; nor is it an extravagant stance. If that were true, it would defeat His very pur­ daydream. It is the true and tested experience of count­ pose. Then we would not be morally free. Nor would less numbers whose lives have been committed to Him we be morally responsible human beings. God has no through the ages. As a matter of fact, the very tensions plan; but God has a purpose. It is up to us to see that and conflicts of this life and of this world indirectly tes­ in our decisions, individual and collective, that purpose tify to this. For it is goodness, and love, and truth which shall be served to the best of our ability. make evil, selfishness, hatred, and falsity stand out and And it is the same way, we are taught, with God's oppose God in the souls of men. But what has been the creation of the world. It is a progressive process. We secret of those who have learned to rely on the blessed often think of the world as if it were the ready-made assurance of His "everlasting arms"? and finished product of God's creation, just as an auto­ No person can go through life, for long, struggling mobile or a house is the product of the engineer or with its surface tensions, with all its unresolved strains, architect. And yet this is not the case. Rather than the and keep his sanity. There is need to "let down" until world's being God's finished production, we should one reaches, deep within, a steadying power and "a peace think of it as being God's expression. His governing which the world cannot give." Whatever strength we of the world is not from without but from within. He have, whatever confidence and serenity, whatever trust does not reign over men so much as He reigns in and and hope when hard beset, is grounded there. "Under­ through them; and He must take into account their neath are the everlasting arms." They are what we can lack of insight, of response, and their frailties. All that let down to. They are the luminous disclosure of the He has made and continues to make, however, does no_t Way: a growing sense of the worthiness of life. They exist apart from Himself. And that is how and why are the power to smile through pain, the secret spring

/ITUR current "return to religion" and our increasing church membership are being carefully scrutinized. No (!/~ne who proclaims that a revival of real religion is sweeping the country gets much of a hearing these days. Not since the Reformation has there been so much soul searching as to what the Church is and what the Church should be doing. There is nothing to fear in this attitude, but everything to hope for. If we were all quite self­ satisfied with ourselves, then we would have ample cause for alarm. As it is, we can stand to gain only if we take seriously the apostolic injunction that "judgment must begin at the house of God."- HucH T. KERR, What Divides Protestants Today, Reflection Books, Association Press, 1958 330 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 23, 1959 of our hope, the never-defeated possibilities of our yet with everything we do, and with everything that hap­ unperfected humanity. pens to us--and when we know from experience that Why should we be doubtful of the future then? Or "The Eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are afraid to venture, to dare, to strive, when we know that the everlasting arms"? our good God is near, that He is ultimately concerned RICHARD H. TAFEL

Quakerism, Created and Re-Created

N the fall of 1958 we held a representative confer­ bodies of Friends which only look, though ever so hope­ I ence under the auspices of the Friends World Com­ fully, toward each other. mittee, American Section, on the relationship of new The rise of united Meetings is therefore a great factor Meetings to the outreach of Friends in America. This in our period of re-creation. These Meetings are not the meeting served to point to the fact that we now live and only answer, for our conferences, service, and mission work in a generation of Friends that is disturbed by activities are other factors in an evolving unity, but the the emergence of new problems within our larger body new united Meetings are of great significance in this of Friends in the world, and particularly in America. second main stage of our history as a Society of Friends. We know rather well the story of 300 years ago, when There are two possibilities that follow the emergence the movement that came to be the Society of Friends of new Meetings. One danger is that they shall be too in the world began. It was a time of new, fresh begin­ well satisfied with the feeling of independence and there­ nings, a kind of Quaker genesis. Certainly it was marked by fail to be the re-creative force they might be in our by a creative spirit as the spiritual movement flowed into larger body of Friends. The opposite danger is that of and through the history of the following three centuries. so merging the new movement of the new Meetings with We know also how a free-flowing movement came to be the existing, organized bodies of Friends that they cease more or less crystallized into organization and, in many to move-to grow and to be creative-becoming lost in cases, took on the marks of an institution. It is doubtful settled functions of our larger bodies. These are the two whether identifiable movements of any kind can wholly questions posed on either side of our future, and between escape that tendency. Indeed, there is much to be said these questions we shall continue to live, think, and pray for the conservation of spiritual values by way of an our way to a more vital future in an era of re-formation. identifying organization. We should not approach our future with only a Whatever features we may see as distinguishing the lateral view. Our problems are not simply organiza­ movement from the sect, we can surely discern the sec­ tional. If the Quaker movement became what it was in ond great fact of the re-creation into which we have its first decades as an upthrust of inward life, then it can now come 300 years later. We are beginning to see that be re-created only from the same source. The testi­ we do not resolve our differences, which are often of monies were not written like a constitution and by-laws more significance than the word "diversities" would in­ of an ordinary budding organization. They grew, and dicate, simply by labeling bodies of Friends other than they grew out of an inward spiritual life as a logical one's own as non-Quaker. flowering of experience. That is the only way in which Of one thing we can be sure, that though discussion Friends of 1959 can hold them. Otherwise our testi­ of our differences can be of value, they do not neces­ monies become for us only other men's words, to be in­ sarily lead to unity. It seems equally evident that unity terpreted, qualified, accepted or denied, but hardly a comes by fellowship, by thinking, worshiping, and work­ living reality. ing together until the subsoil of our spirits is found, The United Meetings can be a creative contribution and our common roots find the unity that depth can to the Society of Friends at this point in our history, bring. a contribution that independence alone could never This means, therefore, that whatever realness we achieve. The longer established bodies of Friends must achieve in our search for unity within the will of God find a way to receive that contribution so that it will not will be by a totalness of fellowship. Such a totalness is be lost within our established bodies. We cannot resolve most readily achieved in a Meeting of Friends where the problem by simply merging the new and the old. thought, worship, and work are brought together in a The old must welcome the stir of new life, and the new continuum of experience. In other words, a united Meet­ must have the wider context of the Society of Friends. ing can achieve this far more realistically than diverse ERROL T. ELLIOTT May 23, 1959 FRIENDS JOURNAL 331

Letter from India may or may not be a part of our blessed community, but at any rate it is not a necessary part, and this awareness HE blessed community of fellow wo~shipers has been can give the courage to take a stand or to speak the realized in the world in many times and places T truth in love. among groups of one religious persuasion or another. It seems to me that such thoughts as these must lie But must we not now find blessed community and fel­ close to the question of what Friends can best do in lowship in the worship of God, transcending geography, India today. Expediency and a still unspoken fear are church, politics, race, and nation? Must we not, as in the wind, and it may be that Friends can help to Quakers, actively set about preparing ourselves for this give courage and guidance to young people as a ti~e next step? The question of loyalties arises, and the ques­ of stress in India emerges. But it should be done With tion of an antiquated nationalism arises; and the mo­ the full courage of our convictions and without apology. ment seems to have come when, in the face of the new We should perform the deeds of brothers-and take the tyrannies and the new imperialisms, a clear-cut stand consequences, for it is puzzling that those who are called should be made. to do evangelical work in foreign lands should some­ Surely when language is so debased that it is possible times complain bitterly to, of all things, national govern­ for anyone to say "the People's Democratic Republic of ments, when they meet with opposition. Hungary," there is need for clear speaking; and while It is perhaps a distinctively Christian revelation, this this need is particularly great in India, it seems that reality that we call the brotherhood of man, but it i~ everywhere the very roots of liberal civilization are be­ a revelation that non-Christians like Mahatma Gandhi ing eroded. It will bode no good to remain silent in have enriched with their life's devotion. The question the name of a false tolera·nce or a fearful courtesy; nor of particular creeds or religions, therefore, does ~ot ar~se. will it incidentally impress the adversary with our in­ Quakers who can live in such a wa~ that. then be~Iefs telligence or forcefulness. It can be assumed that Friends are self-evident will not wish to restram therr expresswns will attempt always to speak the truth as they see it, of loyalty to Christ Jesus; neither will they have to con­ whether to fellow countrymen or to others. vert and proselytize. But they will wish to help their But what is probably not so clear to us is how we brothers gain a fuller unders tanding of God's gifts, and can avoid the quick and narrow condemnation of per­ they will eagerly receive a similar boon in retur~ . . sons rather than of untruths- how we can avoid na­ This, above all, will, I think, be the best directiOn tionalism, and how we can grow into a larger and better for Friends to take in India. It is a direction that prob­ community of knowledge, love, and action under God's ably depends less on organizational work and more on guidance. How wonderfully apt are Jesus' expressions: dedicated persons who can find their own way. It is a God the Father; our fellow men, our brothers. Mr. direction that might point to the establishment of an Khrushchev, for example, is my brother; and if I am Indian Pendle Hill. truly a Christian, I will love him as a brother, really as If such a thing were to be accomplished, a program a brother. And then, before I presume to admonish him, of physical work should be linked closely t_o it. City I will try to set right my own faults. But I will never­ people here sometimes know or care very little about theless admonish him, and I will nevertheless speak the the countryside, and if the Calcutta work camps are an undiluted truth to him, as my mind and knowledge indication, the young people from the universities would best can frame it. In the tension between love and welcome a chance at productive work outside. Vital knowledge will be born a way of action. It is by faith questions of agricultural economics and pressing prob­ in that "light that lighteth every man that cometh into lems of urban decentralization and population control the world" that we can cope with an adversary who does are very much in the forefront of Indian affairs, and not speak the truth, and in so doing also perhaps in­ practical work projects, even if small, could take an crease the blessed community. inventive and creative part in fin?ing workable answers. It was spoken to Jehoshaphat before the invaders, A sound intellectual approach to current affairs "Be not afraid nor dismayed . . . for the battle is not should be the background of the Quaker message. There yours but God's." Yet how many fields of battle have are many Indians who can supply it, and there is, of been lost by those who may have had these words on course, already a modest work camp movement. In the their lips. It is not a field of battle we are called upon integration of all these strands the usefulness of such to win, but rather to play our part in the final victory, an endeavor will lie. which is, in truth, the Lord's. Optimism in time or place BENJAMIN POLK 332 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 23, 1959

Answered Prayer Powelton Village Development Associates was set up By EUELL GIBBONS to work on the improvement of properties in the area. Essentially this company offers the same service as any To do God's work, I prayed He'd make me strong, real estate business with one additional factor-a social I asked for wealth to end the pauper's shame, concern for the people in the community in which it I pled for wisdom to combat all wrong operates. The company is financed by private investment And eloquence to glorify His name, from people throughout the Philadelphia area who are I prayed to be His bright and shining light, concerned with the problems of neighborhood renewal Illuminating paths the saints have trod, and minority housing. I longed to lead all sinners from the night, Inspiring multitudes to turn to God. A significant amount of the securities of this company Attending then, I heard a still small voice: is held by Friends. This participation is in keeping with "My son, the mighty men I need are few; Friends' past ties in the neighborhood and Quaker social It's not in greatness only I rejoice. testimonies. Some Friends see it also as an appealing I'll change you not! My need is you as you; investment opportunity with no military implications. I made such men as you to serve me when PVDA, during its three years of operation, has pur­ I need the humble work of little men." chased and improved 14 properties, which it operates on an open-occupancy basis. Besides the 70 apartments in its own houses, the company manages 100 units for neigh­ Neighborhood Renewal and Integrated Housing: borhood landlords who are co-operating with the re­ The Powelton Story newal effort. (Continued from page 326) Another important aspect of the renewal program ments, overcrowding, and the resultant human problems. handled by PVDA is the sale of single-family homes to At this crucial point a comprehensive renewal pro­ families interested in moving into the community. The gram was initiated in Powelton for the improvement of company has arranged 22 such sales, 18 to white buyers real estate and the development of civic action. The and three to Negro buyers. These sales have had marked impetus for this new program came from Friendship influence in stabilizing the white population in the Co-operative Houses, a housing co-operative organized neighborhood. ten years earlier by individual staff members of the The picture in Powelton at this point is most en­ American Friends Service Committee. The co-op owned couraging. Over half of the properties in the area are ten properties in Powelton Village. The shabbiness of full owner-occupied, and this number is increasing. Since the neighborhood was beginning to have an adverse the beginning of the renewal effort, 40 properties have effect on the co-op's housing market. So the group been bought and improved, representing an investment brought together a committee of neighborhood and city­ of over $700,000. As a result of Powelton Neighbors wide people interested in housing to evaluate the situa­ activity the Board of Education has purchased land in tion and make recommendations. the center of Powelton for the erection of a new ten­ Two new groups were organized as a result of this room elementary school. This solves one of the biggest effort- the Powelton Neighbors, a civic organization, problems facing the community. Other signs of improve­ and Powelton Village Development Associates, a real ment include the organization of a co-operative nursery estate company. school, the painting of 50 properties in the past two Powelton Neighbors promptly tackled the job of years, and the announcement that Drexel Institute plans organizing residents to work on the many problems re­ to purchase a small section in the community for a resi­ sponsible for the condition of the neighborhood. Com­ dential campus. mittees were begun on housing code enforcement, zoning, Most important of all, the people in the community schools, recreation, traffic lighting. At the same time are sharing daily in many ways to make this an especially the Neighbors sponsored community activities such as rewarding kind of living experience. There is every in­ singing and folk dancing, a baby-sitting co-operative, dis­ dication that the Powelton approach will have signifi­ cussion groups, a little theater, and a neighborhood fair. cance for other communities in the city threatened with This effort was so successful that during its second year blight and will make a solid contribution to the work Powelton Neighbors won a $1,000 prize in a state-wide being done in neighborhood restoration and human rela- contest on community development sponsored by the tions. Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce. OLCUTI' SANDERS May 23, 1959 FRIENDS JOURNAL 333

Books the existence of life after death-no such proof is possible at present-but it offers a very sure belief that the participants WAGING PEACE. THE SWISS EXPERIENCE. By WIL· in this series of contacts, lasting over several years, were com­ LIAM BRoss LLOYD, JR. Foreword by Quincy Wright. Pre­ municating and receiving material which could not be ac­ face by W. E. Rappard. Public Affairs Press, Washington, ~o unted for in any other way than originating in a life beyond D. C., 1958. 101 pages. $2.50 the physical senses but deeply sensitive to the life of the spirit. This book is based on the results of prolonged research In a closing paragraph Dr. Robinson writes: 'Regardless in the original documents in Swiss archives; it is concerned of the attitude anyone may take toward the origin of the less with the relation of Switzerland with its neighbors than ideas and concepts in the messages we received, unprejudiced with the relations of the cantons with each other in their consideration must lead to the conclusion that the communi­ efforts to preserve peace among themselves from the end of cations do present a philosophy for good living. They give the 13th to the 18th century. The Swiss federation of 22 can­ directions for joyous travel through life and may serve as a tons, from the political angle very loosely held together, has guide to the happy entrance into the future life of which always been inhabited by peoples of sharply differing race, we believe we have had a glimpse." language, religion, and tradition; yet neutrality was always The complete absence in the book of any sensational treat­ an important phenomenon of the country's internal as well ment of the recorded material should recommend it to sober as external relations. The Swiss are a bellicose people when and inquiring readers. A credible and creditable addition to it comes to fighting the battles of others; each individual is parapsychological literature, it may well take its place among intensely jealous of the sovereignty of his own canton. What the better personal accounts which are being studied and is it, then, that explains why, in spite of these quarrelsome recorded by those engaged in research in this wide field. instincts, the Swiss have been able to retain and to con­ RACHEL R. CADBURY solidate their national unity and, in the midst of European anarchy and strife, to become a haven of peace and refuge? THE PEOPLE OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS. By JoHN This book lists and explains the definite, established practices MARCO ALLEGRO. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, and institutions which the Swiss have evolved and have used N. Y., 1958. 192 pages; 189 photographs; two maps. $5.00 so successfully for centuries. It is a book which all who are working for peace ought to study carefully. Most of those who have become interested in the Dead Sea scrolls have wished they could see some of these wonders for FRANCES RICHARDSON themselves. Now in this most attractive compilation the armchair traveler can make his wish a reality. Thirty-six pages A GLIMPSE OF LIFE IN THE WORLD TO COME. By of text give him a picture of the conditions that led to the G. CANBY RoBINSON, M.D. Vantage Press, Inc., 120 West establishment of the Essenes, of the community they developed 31st Street, New York, N. Y., 1959. 85 pages. $2.75 on the desert plateau overlooking the Dead Sea, their habits The title is in some ways misleading as this short book and ways; of the library they assembled, its hiding, its dis­ is a well-written, sober account of the experiences of a medical covery, and something of the character of the scrolls, together doctor who is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with a hint of the archaeological and philological problems and recipient of many honors and degrees in the scientific involved in their recovery. world. Dr. Robinson belongs to the Society of Friends and The pictures are splendid, large, clear, and accompanied by was an active member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore a storytelling text. Through them the arid, rocky country un­ before he moved to Long Island. He is Lecturer Emeritus rolls before the reader's eyes. He sees the caves, the scroll in Medicine and Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins jars, some of the scrolls, the Bedouin who made the first dis­ University. covery, and others involved in the transmission of the scrolls; An introduction to the scientific status of the author is and he gets a glimpse of the infinite care and skill that have important inasmuch as the material in the book is outside gone into the reconstruction of the Essene monastery and the the usual experience or endorsement of scientific students. recovery of the matter on the scrolls. Those especially inter­ Dr. Robinson has related the communications that a pecu­ ested in the history of first-century Christianity will find the book full of intriguing conjectures. liarly devoted and united family had with four members who M.A. P. had experienced bodily death, communications that seemed to be a continuation of contact on the spiritual level. The simple description of these contacts by means of the Ouija About Our Authors board and of the direct transcriptions in written words by J. Barnard Walton is Field Secretary of the Friends Gen­ a participant is readable and convincing to those open to eral Conference. the possibility of the existence of uncharted areas of spiritual Richard H. Tafel is Pastor of the First New Jerusalem knowledge. All messages are on a mature plane of spiritual Society of Philadelphia (Swedenborgian), 22nd and Chestnut growth and contain helpful suggestions and wise advice. Streets, Philadelphia. "The Everlasting Arms," given as a The final chapter on "The Significance of Our Experi­ sermon by Rev. Tafel on April 26, 1959, is printed with his ence" is especially valuable. It claims no scientific proof of permission. 334 FRIENDS JOURNA L May 23, 1959

Errol T. Elliott is Minister of the First Friends Church, In addition to the regular programed meeting for worship, Indianapolis, Indiana, Editorial Contributor of The Ameri­ an unprogramed meeting on the basis of silence has been can Friend, and a Vice Chairrnan of the Friends World Com­ started by Indianapolis, Indiana, Monthly Meeting. The new mittee for Consultation. meeting was set up by the Meeting on Ministry and Counsel Benjamin Polk, our regular correspondent for India, is with the approval of the Monthly Meeting. Minister of the a Friend living in Calcutta. An architect, he has been en­ First Friends Church is Errol T. Elliott. gaged in projects for the governments of India, Burrna, and The two meetings are held at different hours on Sunday Pakistan. Some of his work has been accorded national recog­ morning with the hope that the values of each may be shared nition. as members may attend both meetings. Friends and visitors Olcutt Sanders, Director of Inforrnation Service, American are encouraged to attend each. The unprogramed meeting Friends Service Committee, is a member of the Board of is held at 9 a.m., and the programed meeting is held at 10:45 Powelton Village Development Associates. His Meeting mem­ a.m., with the church school held during the time between. bership is at Lansdowne, Pa. Both meetings are held in the large meeting room. The new meeting was started with the feeling that a new creative period in the history of Friends is bringing our Friends and Their Friends diverse traditions together and that the values in these diver­ sities can be found and shared only as we have a direct J. Hall Cushman, of Upper Darby, Pa., will become Prin­ experience in them. cipal of the Lower School at Gerrnantown Friends School in Philadelphia, Pa., starting next September. Cushman replaces The programed meeting also includes a period of silence, Clara G. Dewsnap, who has been Principal since 1945 and though short, and attenders are invited to share in message as well as in silent communion. Though Bible reading and who goes now to Vassar College as Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Child Study. music as well as hymn singing are planned, these are subject J. Hall Cushman, who taught 5th grade at Germantown to change as the meeting proceeds. Friends School from 1952-1955, is presently a teacher at the Primos School in the Upper Darby District. He graduated Leon T. Stern, a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly from Harvard College in 1949 as an English major. In 1950 Meeting, has received a citation from the Pennsylvania School he earned h is M. A. at Harvard and then taught two years of Social Work of the University of Pennsylvania, on the at the N. Y. Institute for the Education of the Blind, before occasion of the School's 50th anniversary. The citation was coming to Gerrnantown Friends School in 1952. in recognition of Leon Stern's service as a social worker, especially in the field of juvenile delinquency. Douglas and Dorothy Steere will leave in June for another of their American Friends Service Committee travels, which "The Business of Our Lives" will be the theme of a will take them to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. They Seminar for Quaker Businessmen and Economists, to be held will be in Vienna for the Youth Festival (see the note on the at the Dodge Hotel in Washington, D. C., Friday to Monday, Young Friends Committee of North America on page 251 of June 12 to 15. Sponsored by the Washington Friends Seminar the FRIENDS JouRNAL for April 18, 1959); will lecture on Program, the seminar will deal with such problems as the Quakerism at Bossey, Switzerland; attend Gerrnany Yearly following: What is the effect of government fiscal policies Meeting; visit Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt; and return by upon business? How does military spending affect our na­ way of India and Japan. tional economy? What should be the role of government in the power struggle between business and organized labor? One out of every four bales of material aids shipped Is inflation a curse or a blessing? overseas by the American Friends Service Committee is new Leadership for the seminar includes economists Wright clothing or bedding made and contributed by sewing groups. Bakke of Yale University, Kenneth Boulding of the Univer­ sity of Michigan, Jack Powelson of Johns Hopkins Univer­ Pendle Hill's latest pamphlet is From One to Another by sity, and Emile Benoit of Columbia University. Other leaders Norrna Jacob. Writing from firsthand experience, the author are Sam Jacobs, Legislative Representative of the United describes the problems of the mentally ill, both in the hos­ Automobile Workers; Gerhard Colm of the National Plan­ pital and afterwards. A plea is made for more understanding ning Association; Emerson' Schmidt of the U.S. Chamber of and help on the part of everyone concerned. The early Commerce; John Seybold, labor arbitrator; E. Raymond Wil­ pioneering work of Friends in the mental health field is also son of the Friends Committee on National Legislation; and reviewed. Norrna Jacob lived for several years at Pendle Hill David Scull and Edward Behre of the Friends Meeting of and is currently administrative assistant for Pennsylvania Washington. Mental Health, Inc. The pamphlet costs 35 cents and is For inforrnation, write Dorothy Steffens, 104 C Street, available from Friends Bookstores or Pendle Hill, Walling­ N.E., Washington 2, D. C. Non-Friends who share a sense of ford, Pa. concern in this area are welcome. The registration fee is $10. May 23, 1959 FRIENDS JOURNAL 335

Buck Buchwach, a reporter new to Quaker worship, visited a Puerto Rican child newly arrived in New York City, as the Honolulu Meeting on March 8 and turned in for the well as other ways of sharing with friends at home and abroad. next day's edition of The H onolulu Advertiser a most under­ The June-September packet introduces children to their standing report of what he had seen and felt. It was part Lebanese friends and provides a chance to share in their of a regular assignment, for each week a staff writer of the games, songs, and customs, as well as to help provide bread Advertiser visits one of the more than 300 houses of worship and milk for hungry children. Celebrations of Independence in Honolulu, but the reporter's enthusiasm goes beyond Day in several countries, Brother-Sister Festival in India, mere surface politeness. First Fruits in Israel, as well as sharing games from many He describes this group of Friends as "the smallest major lands and new service projects, for u se locally, in Fairbault, religious denomination in Hawaii," comprising about 30 Minn., New York City, and Mexico provide many resources families, with another 20 coming and going. Meetings for for the summer months. The price of each packet is 25 cents. worship were first held in a private home in 1937, then in Books Are Bridges (revised, 1957; 64 pages) contains guid­ the YWCA, and for the past two years at 2426 Oahu Avenue, ance for children's reading during the summer months. purchased for use as a meeting house and Quaker Center. Human relations is the theme of this bibliography of 500 Buck Buchwach speaks of finding "as hardy a band of books which highlight ways of understanding and good will. conviction-filled, God-fearing folk as there were in the early The price is 25 cents. days of our Republic. . . . The :rvJ;eeting (church service) is a reverent waiting before God, a period of silent aspiration A biography, The H erbert Hoover Story by Eugene Lyons, and search." As the silence continues, he says, "You feel Senior Editor of the Reader's Digest and formerly an eminent . . . as if you've been carried out to where the water is foreign correspondent, has been announced for June publica­ deepest and thrown overboard, without any idea of what to tion. The prepublication price for the book (355 pages) is do." The messages given are briefly summarized, and at the $4.90; the bookstore price will be $5.90. The first part of this end the reporter notes that the meeting between God and biography was published in 1948 under the title Our Unknown man has left these Quakers "so obviously spiritually re­ Ex-President. This special edition is to commemorate the freshed." 85th birthday of "The Chief" on August 10. Orders should There are two pictures, one of the meeting house, and one be sent to the publishers, Human Events, 408 First Street, of four Friends, Ben Norris, Clerk; Dr. Gilbert Bowles, now S.E., Washington 3, D. C. 89, and for many years Friends missionary in J apan; Rebecca Timbres Clark, Secretary; and Dr. Masato Hasegawa, Chair­ man of Community Activities. Third Annual United Nations Conference On April 2, in spite of rain and fog, 75 persons gathered John P. Roche, a Friend, who was a member of the De­ for the Third Annual United Nations Conference, sponsored partment of Political Science in Haverford College, is now by the Peace and Social Order Committee of Friends General Profe ssor of Politics and Chairman of the department in Conference. For us it was a time of learning and fellowship, Brandeis University. H e has been appointed Dean of the as together for two days we gathered information about the faculty. U.N. Esther Holmes Jones, just back from her trip around the world, was warmly welcomed home. We thoroughly en­ Marjorie Edwards of Swarthmore, Pa., has been named the joyed her beautiful pictures of UNESCO and UNICEF projects new Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, to in Thailand, Indonesia, and Nepal. succeed Mary G. Cary, who will retire in July. To accept the During the two days, Friends met with representatives new position, Marjorie Edwards has resigned as Secretary of from the Missions ·of the United States, Ghana, Poland, and the Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, Pa., a position which she Ceylon, and from the U.N. Secretariat. Ralph Bunche set has held since I 953. the theme for the seminar in his opening message of hope Her husband, Earle Edwards, is presently Associate Finance and faith in the U.N. as an organization for peace and under­ Secretary with the American Friends Service Committee in standing. He stressed the need for "open agreements secretly Philadelphia. Earle and Marjorie Edwards have four children. arrived at," and the handicap to negotiations often caused by distorted news reports. Eduardo Mondlane from the U.N. Two new packets in the Friendly Things to Do series are Trusteeship Department gave a brilliant picture of the back­ now available from Educational Materials for Children, ground of the changing scene in Africa. Thomas Bartlett of American Friends Service Committee, 20 South 12th Street, the U.S. Mission told how U.S. policy in the U.N. is con­ Philadelphia 7, Pa. ducted. The February- May packet highlights activities for special We heard also from members of nongovernmental organ­ seasonal holidays (Valentine's Day, Brotherhood Month, St. izations. Elton Atwater from the Quaker U.N. Program ex­ Patrick's Day, Easter, Arbor Day, etc.). Sharing projects in­ plained the work of the Human Rights Commission, a ses­ clude "Dimes for the Dacca (Pakistan) Day Nursery," sewing sion of which we attended, concerned with the "Rights of box for a mother overseas, Katie the Crayon Kangaroo for Children." Adelaide Baker of the Women's International 336 FRIENDS JOURNAL May 23, 1959

League spoke on the "World Refugee Year"; and Dorothy mended for being the alcohol liquor of the earth? For the Lewis of Women United for the U.N. told of community sake of the young, who have had few opportunities to form projects for support of the U.N. sound judgment on the effects of alcoholic liquor on body, The seminar ended at Quaker House. The weather was mind, emotions, and disposition, let us do all in our power warm and sunny on the second day of the conference as we to oppose the advertising of alcoholic liquor. all enjoyed tea served by Beth and Elmore Jackson. They New York, N. Y. MARY S. PoWELSON described the Quaker U.N. Program of the FWCC and the AFSC, and the part Quaker House plays as a friendly meeting place for their U.N. guests. Mr. Gushee's letter (page 303, issue of May 9) raises inter­ esting points. I believe he is right in pointing out that adver­ JEAN NoRTH tising against liquor might be the best antidote. If we were as vocal on the radio as the liquor interests are, it might do Letters to the Editor heaps of good. But we do not say that liquor is bad because misused, but we claim it is bad anyway. Therefore why not Letters are subject to editorial revision if too long. Anonymous ban its advertising? communications cannot be accepted. West Chester, Pa. BERTHA SELLERS I should like to say an amen to the article by Elinor Hoffman in the May 2 issue of the FRIENDS JoURNAL. Truly orthodoxy has made of Jesus an "unattainable ideal" to the BIRTH extent that one who thinks he can and must become like him WILKIN-On March 15, to John and Pauline Hagerty Wilkin, is considered presumptuous. a daughter, PAULA MARJE WILKIN. She is the granddaughter of Many are the symbols that indicate the stages of each man's Clarence K. and Florence H. Hagerty. All are members of Horsham Monthly Meeting, Pa. spiritual development. He is spiritually dormant until within himself is awakened an awareness of his own potential divinity DEATHS and he starts on his path toward Christhood. "Though Christ WOOD-On May 9, EDWARD S. WooD, JR., of Orono, Maine, a thousand times/ In Bethlehem be born/ And not within aged 55 years, son of the late Edward S. and Mary R. Wood of thyself,/ Thy soul shall be forlorn." "There is no religion Riverton, N. J. He is survived by his widow, Frances Williams Wood, formerly of Haverford, Pa.; two daughters, Mrs. John H. higher than truth." Flavell of Rochester, N. Y., and Mrs. Richard C. Gardiner of New I find the JouRNAL interesting, stimulating, and thought­ Britain, Conn.; and two grandchildren. He was a member of provoking. Cambridge, Mass., Monthly Meeting, of which he was Treasurer for several years. Jordan, N. Y. CoRNELIA H. VAN HoRN Brooke Wright In reference to David E. Gushee's letter (issue of May 9), Memorial Minute: The sudden death of Brooke Wright on Third Month 30th, 1959, leaves the Daytona Beach Meeting, one out of 14 people who eat salt does not become a problem Florida, with a deep sense of loss. Brooke will be greatly missed to himself, his family, and society. Salt eaters afford no paral­ for his unfailing kindness as well as his activity and deep interest lel to the five million alcoholics in our country. in the Meeting, of which he was a charter member. His love, The advice that those should advertise who sef the fright­ understanding, and ministry have given strength to the spirit of the Meeting. In his short lifetime he had attained a height of ful consequences of beverage alcohol is good, but they have spiritual development for which most of us can only strive. no profit for that purpose to match the nearly one billion FREDERICK W. BLENCOWE, Clerk dollars of profit coming annually from the beverage alcohol Testimonial: Brooke Wright's death on Third Month 30th, industry. That financial power gives the liquor people enor­ 1959, in young manhood, leaves an empty place in the lives of mous advantage in misleading the young and the uniformed. his friends and his Meeting. His ceaseless effort in the few years It is the business of government to restrain and punish he was a member of the Daytona Beach Meeting, Florida, did predation. AlcohoJ is a predator, and society must find some much to establish the Meeting as an ongoing organization. Brooke's unfailing kindness, sympathy, and courtesy, his willingness to do way of lessening its ravages. whatever needed to be done, whether it was a high or lowly task, New York, N. Y. HowARD E. KERSHNER were attributes that marked him as a Christian gentleman. FREDERICK W. BLENCOWE, Clerk

David E. Gushee, in support of liquor advertising, places the use of common table salt on a par with the use of liquor. Coming Events True, the overuse of salt may injure certain organs of the (Calendar events for the date of issue will not be included if they body. But has it ever been known that an evildoer has sought have been listed in a previous issue.) to excuse his crimes because they were committed when he MAY was under the influence of salt? It is written, "Ye are the 22 through 24-Midwest Conference on Human Relations at salt of the earth." But has anyone at any time or place or Camp Miami, Germantown, Ohio, sponsored by the Dayton, Ohio, under any circumstance read that any group has been com- Regional Office of the American Friends Service Committee. May 23, 1959 FRIENDS JOURNAL 337

24---Frankford Meeting, Unity and Wain Streets, Philadelphia, JUNE Conference Class, 10 a.m.: Dorothy Hutchinson, "The Education 4---Commencement at Lincoln School, Providence, R. I. Com­ of the Heart." mencement address by Elizabeth Gray Vining, author of Windows 24---0pen House Tea at The McCutchen, Home of New York for the Crown Prince and R ufus ]ones, Friend of Life. Yearly Meeting, 21 Rockview Avenue, North Plainfield, N. J., 3 5 to 7-Norway Yearly Meeting at Stavanger, Norway. to 5 p.m. Come and enjoy guests of the Home, the house and gardens, and the company of Friends from other Meetings. 6-Joint Meeting of Nottingham and Baltimore Quarterly 24---Spring Tea at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. At 3 p.m., Meetings at Deer Creek, Darlington, Md. Worship, 10 a.m.; Min­ Nora Wain, now in residence at Pendle Hill and well-known istry and Counsel, 10:45 a.m.; 12 noon, lunch served by Deer Creek author of The House of Exile and Reaching for the Stars, will Friends; conference, 1:30 p.m.: Albert and Helen Bailey will show speak on "China." Tea will be served following the lecture. The slides and tell of their visits with American Indians. public is welcome. Coming: Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology at 31-Frankford Meeting, Unity and Wain Streets, Philadelphia, Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., June 12 to 14. Topic, "The Conference Class, 10 a.m.: tape recording of an address by Com­ Authority of the Spirit in Quakerism"; discussions will relate to mander Sir Stephen King-Hall of Britain, "Defense in the Nuclear divine guidance. A list of readings in preparation for the con­ Age." ference is available from the Chairman, Charles Perry, 749 Polo 31-Memorial service for Esther S. Magee at Radnor Meeting, Road, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; for registration information write Susan Ithan, Pa., 2 p.m. Yarnall, 5337 Knox Street, Philadelphia 44, Pa.

ORLAlii'DO-WINTEB PABK-Meetln~, 11 West 39th Str eet, 10:30 a.m. Call HI 4-0888 MEETING ADVERTISEMENTS a.m., 316 E. Marks St., Orlando; MI 7-80211. or CL 2-6958. ARIZONA PALJI BBAOB-Friends Meeting, 10:10 S'l'. LOVIB-Meetlng, 21139 Rockford Ave., a..m., 823 North A St., Lake Worth. Rock Hill, 10:3() a.m.; phone PA 6-0429. PJI:OElii'D[-Meetlng for worship, 10 a.m., 17th Street and Glendale Avenue. Ja.mea 8"1'. PETBBSBtr:RG-First-day school a.nd Dewees, Clerk, 1928 West Mitchell. meeting, 11 a.m., 180 19th Avenue S. E. NEW JERSEY T'O'OSOlii'-Frlends Meeting, 129 North A'l'r.Alll''l'IO OIT"''-Meetlng for wor.shlp, Warren Avenue. Worship, First-days at INDIANA 11 a.m., d iscussion group, 10:8(} a.m., South 11 a.m. Clerk, Julia. S. Jenks, 2146 East Carolina and Pacltlo A venues. Fourth Street; Tucson MA 3-5301'>. BVAlii'SVILLB-Meetlng, Sundays, YMC..\. 11 a.m. For lodging or transportation call DOVEB-First-da.y school, 11 a.m., wor­ Herbert Goldhor, Clerk, HA 11--1>171 (eve­ ship, 11:111 a.m., Quaker Church Road. ARKANSAS nings and week ends, GR 6-7776). lit.AIJrASQ'O'Alii'-First-da.y school, 10 a.m., LI'I''!l'P BOOK-Meeting, ll'lrst-da.y, 9:30 POB'l' WAYNE -Meeting for worship, meeting, 11:111 a.m., route SIS at Manas­ a.m., Clerk, R. L. Wixom, MO 6-9248. First-day... 9:30 a.m., Y.W.C.A., 8211 W. quan Circle. Walter Longstreet, Clerk. Wayne. vall Beatrice Wehmeyer, E-1872. lllONTCLAIB-289 Park Street, First-day CALIFORNIA school, 10:30 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. (July, IOWA August, 10 a.m.). VIsitors welcome. CLA]U1111[0111''1'-Frlends meeting, 9:80a.m. on Scripps campus, lOth and Columbia.. DES KOIJII'JIB-South entrance, 2920 80th Edward Balls, Clerk, 439 W. 6th Street. Street; worship, 10 a.m., classes. 11 a.m. NEW MEXICO LA JOLLA-Meeting, 11 a.m., 7380 Eada ALBtrQtrEBQUE-Meeting for worship, Avenue. Visitors call GL 4-74119. 11 a .m., 515 A sh, S.E., Albuquerque. Marian LOUISIANA H og e, Cler k. Phone ALpine 5-9011. LOS .A.lii'GELEB-Unprogrammed worship, 11 a.m., Sunday, 1032 W. 86 St.; RE 2-114119. NEW ORLBAI'!II'S-Friends meeting each Sunday. For lnforma.tlon telephone UN PALO ALTO-Meeting for worship, Sun­ 1-1262 or TW 7-2179. NEW YORK day, 11 a.m., 9117 Colorado Ave.; DA 11-1369. ALBANY-Worship and First-day school, PAS.A.DElii'A-1126 E. Orange Grove (at Oak­ MARYLAND 11 a.m., YMCA, 423.State St.; Albany 3-6242. land). Meeting for worship, Sunda.y, 11 a.m. ADELPBIA-Nea.r Washington, D. C., & U. BtrPPALO-Meetlng and Flrst-da.y school, BAlli' J'BAlii'CISCO-Meetlngs for worship, 11 a.m., 1272 Delaware Ave.: phone EL 02112. First-days, 11 a.m., 1830 Sutter Street. of Md. Clerk, R. L. Broadbent, JU 9-9447. LOlii'G ISL.A.lii'D-Northern Boulevard at SAlii'DY SPBDI'G - Meeting (united), Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset. First-day First-days, 11 a.m.; 20 miles from down­ school, 9:411 a.m.; meeting, 11 a.m. COLORADO town Washington, D. C. Clerk: Robert H. Miller, Jr.; telephone WA 4-41148. NEW YOB:B: -First-day meetings for DEJIIVJIB-Mountaln VIew Meetln~r, 10:411 a.m., 2026 S. Williams. Clerk, SU ll-1790. worship: 11 a.m. 221 E. 15th St., Manhattan MASSACHUSETTS Earl Hall, Columbia University DISTRICT OF COLUMBI.4 110 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn CAliiBBIDGJI-Meetlng, Sunda.y, IS Long­ 265 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn WASKilii'GTOlii'-Meetlng, Sunday, 9 a.m. fellow Park (near Harvard Square) 9:80 137-16 Northern Blvd., Flushing a.nd 11 a.m., 2111 Florida Avenue, N.W., a.m. and 11 a.m.; telephone TR 6-6888. 3:30 p.m. Riverside Chu r ch, 15th :ftoor one block from Connecticut Avenue. Tele phone GRamercy 3-8018 (Mon.-Fri. WOBCES'l'BB- Pleasa.nt Street Friends 9-4) a bout First-day schools, monthly Meeting, 901 Pleasant Street. Meetlnlt for meetings, suppers, etc. ;f.r~~1~ &.r~ch First-day, 11 a.m. Telep one FLORIDA 8 SCABSDALB-Worship, Sundays, 11 a..m., DAYTOlii'A BEAOB-Meetlng, 8 p.m., 1st 133 Popham Rd. Clerk, Frances Compter, and 3rd First-days, 1411 First Avenue. In­ 17 Hazleton Drive, White Plains, N. Y. formation, Sa.ra. Belle George, CL 2-2888. MINNESOTA SYBA.CtrSB-Meetlng and First-day school GAXlii'BSVILLB - Meeting for worship, Mil'rlii'EAPOLIS-Meetlng, 11 a.m., First­ at 11 a.m. each First-day at University First-days, 11 a.m., 116 Florida Union. day school, 10 a.m., 44th

CLBVl!IL.&.JrD- Meetlnc for worship and First-day school, 11 a.m., 10916 Magnolia HOME WANTED Drive. Telephone TU 4-26915. STRAWBRIDGE YOUNG PROFESSIONAL MOTHER a nd five-year-old son wish to live with family PENNSYLYANIA with children. Vicinity of Philadelphia, & CLOTHIER Pa. Will share housekeeping chores, child KABJUSBVBCI- Meeting and First-day care, cooking, sewing, and baby-sit 5 school, 11 &.m., YWCA, 4th and Walnut Sts. nights a week. Cultured, educated, best references. Call GErmantown 8-6498, early lEA.VBBPOBD-Buck Lane, between Lan­ morning. caster Pike and Haverford Ro&d. Ftnt-day school, 10:80 &.m. Meetln&' for Worahlp at 11 a.m. WANTED :L.&.l!fO.&.S'!rBa--Meetln&" house, Tulane Ter­ EDUCATElD COUPLE, do light house­ race, 1 >,: mllea west of Lancaster, oft U.S. k eeping, two older boys, while Mother 80. Meeting and Flrat-day school, 10 a.m. away. Beautiful horne. Blairstown, New Jersey. No housecleaning or laundry. Ap­ PKILADBLPJUA- Meetlna-a, 10:80 &.m., proximately f r om J uly 13 to August 26. unless specified; telephone LO 8-4111 for Freedom, swim nearby Susquehanna R iver. Information about First-day schools. Modest honorarium. Call Foxcroft 2-2023. Byberry, one mile ea.st of Roosevelt Boule- vard at Southampton Road, 11 a.m. Central Philadelphia, Race St. west of 15th. AVAILABLE Chestnut Htll, 100 East Mermaid Lane. Coulter Street and Germantown Avenue. ROOM FOR GENTLEMAN in German­ Builders of Confidence Fair Hill, Germantown& Cambria, 11:111 a.m. town, Philadelphia, Pa. T hree windows, Fourth &: Arch Sta., Firat- and Fifth-days. quiet street, parking, convenient to trans­ Frankford. Penn & Orthodox Sta., 11 a.m. Since 1868 Frankford, Unity and Waln Streets, 11 a.m. portation. Maid service. Call GErman­ Green St., 411 W. School House L., 11 a.m. town 8-9838. Powelton, 86th and Pearl Streets, 11 a.m. POCONO MOUNTAINS, PA.--C.ottages on PI'J."l''!!BVBCIE- "VV"orshlp at 10:80 a.m., private estate; r efined, quiet community; adult class, 11:411 &.m., 18118 Shady Avenue. 1900-foot elevation; beautiful views, pond, Elnwood Convalescent Home trout stream. One cottage, 3 bedrooms; PBOVIDBl!I"CB-Provldence Road, Media., the other, 4 bedrooms; each having com­ Baltimore Pike & Lincoln Avenue 15 miles west of Phlla.. First-day school, fortable living room, dining room, kitchen, 9:45 &.m., meeting for worshl.p, 11 &.m. bath; $325 a nd $350 monthly, respectively. Swarthmore, Pa. Box D102, Friends Journal. J&BADI•CJ - First-day school, 10 a.m., Telephone K.Ingawood 3·027% meetlna-, 11 a.m., 108 North Sixth Street. 8'!r.&.'!rB OOLLBCIB- 318 South Atherton Assistant to President Private and semiprivate rooms Street. First-day school at 9:30 &.m.. meetlnc for wouhlp at 10:411 a.m. COMPETENT SALES AND PROMOTION EXECU­ Quiet 10-acre estate TIVE, age 41, will maintain and expand a business in accordance with founders' principles. 24-hour understanding nursing care PUERTO RICO Birthright member and Friends School graduate. Will relocate. Wish salary with stock option or S.&lf .TlJ.&.lf - Meeting, second and last incentive plan. Write Box N106, Friends Journal. Under per&onal supervilion of Sunday, 11 a.m., Evangelical Seminary in Rio Piedras. VIsitors may call 6..()560. MRs. ELLEN M. Wooo FRIENDS ARCH STREET CENTRE. TENNESSEE 304 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. MBBPJUS- Meeting, Sunday, 9:80 &.m. ROOMS AVAILABLE Clerk, Waddy Oursler, MU 3-3818. Single with running water, also rooms with private or semiprivate bath. Enjoy home TEXAS cooking. Free parking. Telephone MArket 7-2025 D.&.L:LAII-Sunday, 10:80 a.m., Adventist Church, 4009 N. Central Expressway. Clerk, Kenneth Carroll, Relf&'ion Dept., ...... A S.M.U.; EM 8-0295. E01J'B'!r0lf - Live Oa.Jt Friends Meetlna-, A comprebenslYe, IP·fo·dlft merage of the Sunday, 11 a.m., Councll of Churches Building, 9 Ch6lsea Place. Clerk, Walter MANUFACTURING EXEMPTION Whitson; JAckson 8-6418. for manufactnrlng companies subject to All of us are, now and again! If it's your the capital stock or franchise tax Is job that doesn't suit you, why not look UTAH Included In the seventh edition of into the advantages of a life insurance career? B.&.L'!r LAEB OITY-Meeting for worship, STATE TAXATION OF CORPORATIONS Sundays, 11 a.m., 232 University Street. IN PENNSYLVANIA Provident Mut ual, founded over 93 years ago by members of the Society by James J. Mahon, C.P.A., of Lybrand, Ross of Friends, continues to offer reward­ ADVERTISE IN THE /OURNA.L Bros. & Montgomery ing careers in a "service" business­ This publ!catlon outl!nee In detail the both in the Home Office and in selling. salient features of the domestic and for­ Selling for Provident Mutual means ela-n excise taxes, the capital stock tax, adequate training, a business of your EASTMAN DILLON, UNION franchise tax, keynoting every Important own and no limit on earnings. For change made therein, lncludinll' pertinent further information, write Lewis C. SECURITIES & CO. court decisions up to January 1, 1968. Sprague, Vice President and Manager Members New York Stock Jlxchanp Published and for sale b:v of Agencies, Box 7378, Philadelphia 1, Pennsylvania. Investments ~ LBGAL Ilf'!rBLLIGBlrOB:a WILLIAM EDWARD CADBURY 10 South &7th Street R•prtamtatiue BVerQ'1'een 6-USU PROVIDENT MUTUAL PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL BANK BUILDING Cloth bound Price $3.00 (plue 9c tax) Life Insurance Company Broad and Cheatnut Streett, Philadelphia 7, Pa...... of Philadelphia May 23, 1959 FRIENDS JOURNAL 339

ASK OUR OPINION FRIENDS BOOK STORE OF YOUR SECURITIES 302 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. LAKE PAUPAC MArket 7-3576 Spring is here, and it is at last Quaker books. British and American, biogra­ advancing in the Poconos. Come HECKER & CO. phies. new books. large selection of children's to Paupac, either for a brief va­ Mnnbers of N#W York Slock E"chtmgl books. Any book in print will be ordered. cation, or to find a permanent Mail and telephone orders filled promptly. summer home. This year there LIBERTY TRUST BUILDING Branch, 1SIS Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. are several cottages for rental or Broad and Arch Streets purchase, and a few building sites Philadelphia 7, Pa. are still available. At PAUPAC LOcust 4-3500 LODGE, the daily rate, American CAMP C ELO plan, is $10.50, Sunday through CH'ARLES J. ERICKSON Ages 6 to 10 Thursday, or for any four or more A farm-home camp In the Black Mountains consecutive days, with reductions Regisler1tl Ref/rllmllllifll of North Carolina for 20 boys and girls. Full camp program of worship, work, and for children. For the week-end play under Quaker leadership. only, the charge is slightly hi ~;her. Ernest Morgan, Yellow Springs, Ohio F or reservations, call LEhig h PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS 1 2-7508. LAKE PAUPAC CLUB Invest in RICHARD P. BELL, Manager 422 EAST RIDLEY AVENUE, RIDLEY PARK, PA. POWELTON VILLAGE PLEASE NOTIFY US THREE WEEKS IN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC. ADVANCE OF ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS a real estate investment in urban renewal and integrated housing COUNSELING SERVICE of the FAMILY RELATIONS COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION: For appointments with Dr. Lo-rett Dewees write: PVDA, 3601 Powelton Ave., Phila. 4, Pa. write him at Glen Mills, Pa., or telephone Globe 9-2474. For appointments with Dr. Genevra Driocoll call: EVergreen 2-2880 telephone MOhawk 4-7118 after 8 p.m. For appointments with Karoline Solmitz, M.S.S., telephone LAwrence 6-0752 In the evenings, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. CRETH & SULLIVAN, INC. Insurance FRIENDS' CENTRAL SCHOOL 324 WALNUT STREET OVERBROOK, PHILADELPHIA 31, PA. PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. A Coeducationlll Countr1 D111 School WAlnut 2-7900 Four-year kndergarten through 12th Grade College Preparatory Curriculum Founded In 1845 b1 the Soclet1 of Frlend1, our ochool continue• to empha.slze LET US SOLVE YOUR INSURANCE PROBLEMS Integrity, freedom, oimpUelt1 In education throu~rh concern for the lndiTidual otudent. MERRILL E. BusH, Headmaster POCONO the International Camp for Boys Ages 7 to 17 in four separate groups A friendly camp where boys of varied and interesting backgrounds THE WILLIAM PENN gather to learn and share a wide range of worthwhile experiences. Sail and canoe on 14-mile Jake high in t he Poconos. All sports and crafts. CHARTER sc:HOOL CANOE TRIP in CANADA for QUALIFIED OLDER CAMPERS. 40th season. Inclusive fee. Quaker leadership. Founded: 1689 CHAUNCEY F. PAXSON, PENNS PARK, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNA. Chartered by William Penn: 1701 (Room for a few qualified counselors on this year' s staff) BOYS AND GIRLS: KINDERGARTEN, GRADES 1 AND 2. BOYS: GRADES 3-12 Children of Friends ore given preference. CAMP LEN-A-PE (Boys 4-16) qp INDIAN LODGE HOTEL Financial aid is available for qualified ap­ Indian, magician, nurse, etc. Riding, :· Lakefront hotel. Cabins. Riding, tennis, plicants whose families need it. Friends fennis, water-skiing, etc. Overnight swimming, water-skiing. On the most are particularly encouraged to apply. canoe ond horseback trips. beautiful lake in rhe Poconos. IN THE POCONOS 115 MILES FROM NEW YORK CITY AND PHILADELPHIA John F. Gummere, Headmaster DAVIDS. and MARJORIE HliDLEY KEISER-Box 7183F, Philadelphia 17, Pa.; MElrose 5-1682 SCHOOL LANE AND FOX STREET Employ 50 counselon, maintenance men, cooks, hostesses, nurse, etc. Why not apply? PHILADELPHIA 44, PA. t.u • CHA.-Lc. 3 B r.t~ . -l A R D r BOX 20 3 BERW YN, PA.

ARPER FRIENDS' SELECT SCHOOL FRIENDS ACADEMY THE PARKWAY AT SEVENTEENTH ST. ESTABLISHED 1B77 PHILADELPHIA 3, PENNSYLVANIA This coeducattona.l day school with· Established 1689 1n 2~ miles of New York provides A book to challenge Coeducational Day School a well balanced college preparatory progra.m designed to stress In the the American conscience Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade student a desire to live a creative While eolle~~:e preparation is a primary Christian life In toda.y•s world. aim, personal ~~:uidance helps eaeh student to develop aa an Individual. Spiritual Kindergarten through Grade 12 values and Quaker principles are empha· sized. Central location provides man:v edu­ A reduction In tvltlon 11 available ta cational resources and eas:v aecesa from mombere of The Society of frlencle. Indians the suburbs. Friends Interested In a sound academic pr011:ram are encouraged to apply. Victor M. Haughton, Jr., Headmalkr and G. Laurence Blauvelt, Headmaater Box B, locust Valley, long Island, N. Y. FRIENDS JOURNAL is regularly on sale in the magazine Other department of the John Wanamaker store in Philadelphia.

Oakwood is committed to the encouragement of "that of God in every Am.ericans man," and it seeks to be a community where each member grows in the ability to express the best in himself and to appreciate and encourage the best in others. It desires to help the individual grow mentally, physically, emotionally, Two WAYS oF LIFE MEET and spiritually and to derive his happiness from a sense of this growth. It believes that the individual should share responsibility in and for the group and should try by democratic means to promote the welfare of larger social units both within and beyond the school. By HAROLD E. FEY -FROM The Philosophy of 011kwootl School Coeducationa_l SCHOOL and OAKWOOD Quaker Boardmg D'ARCY McNICKLE GRADES 9 TO 12 INCLUSIVE POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK For further informtttion write CHARLES W. HUTI'ON, Principlll A challenging, first-hand report on the American Indian - who he is, where he stands and what shonld be done for his future. GEORGE A FRIENDS COEDUCATIONAL "A splendid combination of his­ BOARDING SCHOOL, Grade. 9-12 tory, analysis, and evaluation of poli· SCHOOL Founded 1893 cies that have been followed in relations with American Indians. It Enrollment has been completed for autumn of the coming school is fair in its judgment and accurate year. A limited waiting list is being established from which appli­ in its history. In a field as difficnlt cants will be accepted as vacancies may occur. as this one, a book seldom appears that covers so much material in so Address inquiries to: concise a fashion without sacrificing RicHARD H. McFEELY, ADELBERT MASON, Director of Adm~siom depth and understanding. Anyone Principal Box 350, George School, Bucks County, Pennsylvania interested in finding solutions to the problems involved in our Indian pro· grams and policies will profit greatly from a carefnl study of the book and 1799 - WESTTOWN will find the study enjoyable and SCHOOL- 1959 stimnlating."- CEciL E. HINSHAW, W ould you prefer to have your adolescent in an atmosphere where Director of Peace Education, Ameri­ the u se of liquor and tobacco is not the "smart" thing to do? can Friends Service Committee Do you want your children to hear the Bible read frequently and "To read this hook will not make anyone feel better, but if enough of appreciatively, and to study under skilled guidance? us read it we may act better."­ K.ARL MENNINGER $3.75 DANIEL D. TEST, JR., Headmaster At your bookseller For information and catalog please write: J. KIRK RUSSELL, BOX 109, WESnOWN SCHOOL, WESTTOWN, PA. _HARPER & BROTHERS, N.Y. 16

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