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A Quaker Weekly

VOLUME 2 M A R ·c H 1 0 , 1 9 5 6 1NUMBER 10

IN THIS ISSUE d.r is well said, in rony sense} that a man's religion. is the chief fact with regard to him. . . . By religion I do The Living Word . by Luther A. Weigle not mean here the church­ creed which he professes . ... This is not what I call reli­ gion} . . . but the thing a Quaker Friend of the Prisoner man does practically believe; by Charles Crabbe Thomas the thing a man does practi­ cally lay to heart} and know for certain} concerning his vital relations to this mysteri­ ous universe} and his duty Australia General Meeting and destiny there} . . . that . . . by Eric B. Pollard is his religion. -THOMAS CARLYLE Extracts from Epistles

Program of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Books-Letters to the Editor

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FRIENDS- JOlJRNAL The Living Word When "let'' means "hinder" F YOU will turn to your Webster's New International I Dictionary) you will discover that there are two verbs spelled and pronounced exactly alike, let) which come from two distinct Anglo-Saxon roots. The one verb "let" means to hinder, impede, or prevent; the other means just the opposite, to permit or allow. Both were in cur­ rent use in 1611; both are used in the Bible and in Published weekly at 1616 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669) Shakespeare. But only the second remains a part of By Friends Publishing Corporation living English today; the first survives only as a noun in WILLIAM HUBBEN JEANNE CAYIN Editor and Manager Advertisements the legal phrase "without let or hindrance" and in the MILDRED A. PURNELL MARTHA TURNER Associate Editor Subscriptions game of tennis, where anything that interrupts or hinders CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS the game and requires a point to be played again is RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia called a "let." Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban England ...... Joan Hewitt, London In Shakespeare's Henry V, the Duke of Burgundy, Horace B. Pointing, London ...... Benjamin Polk, New Delhi suing for with England, and speaking of the ruin Japan ...... Bruce L. Pearson, Osaka Tatsunosuke Ueda, Tokyo that continued entails, says: Jordan ...... Graham Leonard, Ramallah Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway ". . . my speech entreats Switzerland ...... Robert J. Leach, Geneva Turkey ...... William L. Nute, Ankara Lake Erie Association ...... Winthrop M. Leeds, Pittsburgh That I may know the let, why gentle Peace Midwest (Five Years)...... Russell E. Rees, Richmond Should not expel these inconveniences New England ...... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford West Coast ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. And bless us with her former qualities." BOARD OF MANAGE•RS When Hamlet's friends seek to restrain him from fol­ 1955-1956: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Margaret L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr., Sarah F. Splint. lowing the beckoning ghost of his father, he cries: 1955-1957: Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. Johnson. 1965- "Unhand me, gentlemen. 1958: Carol P. Brainerd, Willis H. Satterthwaite, Lydia F. Taylor, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me." THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help This obsolete use of the verb "let" appears three times meet the over-all cost of publication. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can­ in the King James Version of the Bible. In Isaiah 43: 13 ada, and Mexico: $4.00 a year, $2.00 for six months. Foreign countries: $4.50 a year. Single copies: fifteen God speaks through the prophet: "There is none that cents. Checks should be made payable to Friends Pub­ lishing Corporation. Sample copies sent on request. can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall Re-entered as second-class matter July 7, 1955, at the post let it?" The revised versions have ". . . who can hinder office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. it?" Paul, writing to the Romans (1:13), tells that he had "oftentimes purp9sed" to come to them, but that he "was let hitherto"; the Revised Standard Version renders this, "I have often intended to come to you, but thus far have been prevented." The other occurrence is in 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7, Contents Page where the King James Version reads: "And now ye know The Living Word- Luther A. Weigle -...... 146 what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. Editorial Comments ...... 147 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the Quaker Friend of the Prisoner- Charles Crabbe way." The obscurity of these verses is increased by the Thomas ...... 148 use of the word "letteth" in verse 7 for the Greek word Australia General Meeting- Eric B. Pollard . . . 150 which was translated "withholdeth" in verse 6. The Re­ Extracts from Epistles (Continued) ...... 150 vised Standard Version reads: "And you know what is Books ...... 151 restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his Program of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting . . . . . 152 time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; Friends and Their Friends ...... 152 only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way." Letters to the Editor ...... 154 LUTHER A. WEIGLE FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)

ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 10, 1956 VoL. 2-No. 10

Editorial Comments

Juvenile Delinquency has been maintained. Military training is designed to ENJAMIN FINE, education editor of The New brutalize men and teach them callousness. Children and B York Times, has published an extensive study of adolescents will learn and anticipate its techniques as juvenile delinquency entitled J,ooopoo Delinquents "free-lancers." Our toy manufacturers produce military (The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New toys on a large scale, and our army and navy stores dis­ York). He stresses that one of the most important play switch blades and other knives in the most promi­ factors in this problem is the home of the child. A large nent places of their show windows. We must not be proportion of delinquents come from broken homes or surprised that those who give guns to their children those "marked by dissension." This applies also to will one day have to give their children to the guns, youngsters growing up in the higher economic brackets. not only in war but already in peace. Slum areas produce the largest quota. Some delinquents avoid playgrounds, although these are available, because Juvenile Delinquents in Russia they prefer delinquent activities for their "fun" and Crime, according to orthodox Marxism, is the result "excitement." Many boys and girls are under pressure of either poverty or a degenerating capitalist society. to join gangs, although not all delinquents belong to It would appear timely for Russian authorities to revise them. Frequent moving of families is one contributing this theory. Russia has a growing crime rate, and a factor. Adolescents often have no real community roots. special conference on juvenile delinquency and hooli­ A good many cases have been "shunted from state to ganism was held this winter in Moscow. Russian press state by officials anxious to get rid of them," a fact which reports often mention the social standing of the parents Mr. Fine terms a "symptom of a more general sickness of juvenile delinquents. There have been reports about of society." The aftereffects of two , the general the high earnings of the Soviet upper middle class lack of respect for authority, the prevailing weakness which allow their young to live in luxury and irrespon­ of our moral standards, and adult dishonesty are serious sibility. Such conditions drive them to crime. One news­ contributing factors. Trained psychologists and teachers paper described how two youths had terrorized a sec­ can detect early maladjustment, but social services and tion of Moscow by beating and robbing citizens. Another the school alone cannot be effective without recreation youth who inflicted mortal wounds on a man trying to centers that offer dynamic programs under trained catch him was executed. It is a bit difficult to imagine leadership. Cooperation of concerned agencies on all such a state of affairs in a police state. But apparently levels is imperative. Much of the success depends on a democracy such as ours and a dictatorship like that our willingness to provide the necessary personnel, of Russia still have problems in common. Both nations buildings, and equipment. might remember the influence of militarism on youth.

Contributing Influences In Brief Mr. Fine, of course, does not want to reduce the According to the New York Herald T ribune, John problem to the dollar-and-cents level. The crisis in Allegro, a member of the team of scholars deciphering family life and general adult moral indifference need the Dead Sea Scrolls, has declared that more parallels a regenerative change to which all of us in our com­ between the "Teacher of Righteousness" living a hun­ munities and religious groups must contribute. dred years before Jesus are being discovered with the It would be, however, a mistake to turn only to the life, teachings, and death of Jesus. He considers these home, the school, to welfare agencies and the churches discoveries so important that future translators of the for reproach or help. Our country finds itself in the Bible would have to take into account "this fabulous longest period of its history in which a standing army library," called the Dead Sea Scrolls. 147 148 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 10, 1956

The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that Roman Engebert 0. Midbroe, a Lutheran minister, criticizes Catholic sisters can teach in Kentucky public schools so Protestant ministers sharply for their "systematic avoid­ long as they do not inject religious views into their ance of military service." There are 800 vacancies in the classwork. The ruling affects 84 sisters who are teaching Chaplaincy Corps, and Rev. Midbroe believes that this while wearing denominational habits. The Executive Committee of the World Council of failure to supply spiritual care for service men will Churches is protesting the closing of the Protestant eventually affect the relationship between ministers and Seminary in Madrid, Spain. The seminary is 73 years old. parishioners at home.

Quaker Friend of the Prisoner By CHARLES CRABBE THOMAS

HE visitation of prisons has been a Christian and Religion or the prisoner's crime are not to be dis­ T a Friendly concern from the time that many Chris­ cussed with him unless the prisoner should bring up tians and Quakers spent portions of their own time in either subject first. Our mission is not religious, and jail. With the passing of the years the viewpoint has we do not desire to usurp the functions of the prison changed until it now considers more the rehabilitation chaplain. Nor do we wish to embarrass the prisoner in of the prisoner than the improvement of his surround­ our selection of topics of conversation. ings. Nevertheless, neither the holding of services for Finally, there ar:e to be no gifts, no errands, and no prisoners nor working for better living conditions for offers of legal assistance. The prisoner is to receive them interested me. I did not fancy myself a modern nothing from these visits except the contact with the Elizabeth Fry. outside world. The exception is at Christmas. The I was surprised, therefore, to find myself attracted relationship with the prisoner is to be a personal one, by the prison visitation program which the authorities with no material benefits to him. Gifts from the prisoner of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton asked Dorn are also discouraged. Mitchell of the Plainfield,· N. J., Meeting to organize. Quaker Friendships This is a visitation of prisoners rather than of prisons In arranging such a program, the prison authorities and provides for the forming of friendships between first had in mind the filling of a void in the lives of prisoners and Quakers from the outside. The Quakers some prisoners deserted by their relatives. My first of this program, each of whom is termed officially friend had served eleven years of a 16- to 25-year term, :'Quaker friend of the prisoner," are the only persons during which time he had received only one visit and not relatives who are allowed to visit prisoners. two letters. Reports to the prison psychiatrist of the Restrictions in the Program man's attitude and moods have also been helpful in Such a program of friendship could not be set up treating the prisoner. without some restrictions reflecting the circumstances At the time I first joined the program, both of Dorn and the situation. Mitchell's prisoners had recently been released, one on Friends are allowed one visit of a half-hour duration parole, one on expiration of his maximum. The one who and five letters per month to a prisoner. This is the was out on parole lasted two weeks. Coming from an ex­ same restriction that governs the prisoner's relationship clusively masculine society, he was caught leaving indecent with his own family. notes in the ladies' washroom of the factory where he Visits take place in the usual visiting room during was employed, an act which was a violation of his parole. the usual visiting hours. This means that we sit in a For the other, Dorn Mitchell had arranged for a job line of visitors, separated from others by short wooden interview after his release, but he did not appear at the partitions. We see our prisoner through thick glass, appointment. Later, when Dorn got in touch with his and we talk to him over a telephone on which can also sister he found that the exprisoner had disappeared, be heard the conversations of the couples in adjoining leaving a note that he did not wish to be a burden to booths. anyone. In talking to us the prison psychiatrist, then Richard Charles Crabbe Thomas, counsellor at law, with offices in Cam­ den, N. J., is a member of Woodbury Monthly Meeting, N. J. Korn, talked apologetically of our work in those cases March 10, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 149 as a "failure." Dorn Mitchell spoke for all of us in say· which we are forming are intensely interesting. They ing that our interest in visiting these prisoners was not call for giving rather than getting. They bring us in to make them better men but simply to bring a little contact with a side of life we should not otherwise see, light to a life that was drab enough already. Lloyd and they let us help. They are much more satisfying McCorkle, warden, or as he is called in New Jersey, than friendships from which we should stand to receive principal keeper, expressed disappointment, however, something. that we were spending our time to a large extent in deal­ Speaking for the prisoners, the first letter that I ing with long-term prisoners who were probably well received from John Smith just after our first visit is set in their ways and would not respond readily to the eloquent in its simple expression of gratitude. This therapy of Quaker friendship. prisoner when I first visited him wanted to give me a Accordingly, we were each given a short-termer, due present. When I told him that I could not accept a to be released during the following year, with the hope present under the rules of our visitation program, he that our friendship with him would continue after his wanted to give my children a present. He simply could release and be of some assistance in helping him to go not conceive that I should do something for him, look­ straight. Thus in January I was introduced to a man ing for nothing material in return. who was due to be released in June. I shall call him I am writing this letter to you to thank you for here John Smith. taking an interest in my behalf. Words do not cover Smith was very concerned about his coming release how I feel about it. Believe me when I say that you and the possibilities of getting a job when he came out. are the first person who has gone out of there way I tried to help him in that. Perhaps you noticed my to be of some help to me. want ad in the JouRNAL, which, incidentally, brought As you know that I have no one outside to help more answers (one) than a similar ad in the Evening me. So I appreciate anything you can do for me. As Bulletin (none). I said you just coming and talking to me was just I was unsuccessful in my efforts, but when Smith was swell. So again I say thanks the best way I know how. finally released in September, he got his old job back Speaking for the prison authorities, Warden McCorkle as an orderly in a hospital. He held it, however, for only said that he would not feel that the program had reached two months. He had borrowed his cousin's social security its fullest extent until every one of the 600 prisoners in card to get the job and was recognized by one of the Trenton had a Quaker friend. nurses as a previous employee who had been sent to jail, The Need for Service and he was discharged. Again I tried to help him. Again without success. There is little point in relating all of Last Monday I received a visit from Superintendent his adventures here. Let me simply say that I believe Eddy of Leesburg, the New Jersey State Prison Farm, that but for our friendship he would today be in a to consult concerning setting up a similar program prison in Pennsylvania, whereas he is working on a boat for that institution in the southern part of our at Port Norris, N.J., at a job that will last until March. state. The rules for the program there would be the same as those we have in Trenton except that visiting My new prisoner, who takes the place of Smith, is hours there are restricted to Saturdays from 1 to 4 and a boy from New York who has a two- to three-year term Sundays from 10 to 4; but the visits themselves are open for the possession of narcotics. His mother is sick, and visits, with no glass, and would not be restricted. Nor his brothers would not bother to visit him. I shall see is the number of letters restricted. In addition during him for the second time Saturday. the summer lawn-picnic visits are permitted, in which Evaluation whole families bring their lunches and eat with the Speaking for ourselves, I can say that these friendships prisoner on the lawn. Friends might participate in this

IY:E weat caum of God and humanity Me not defea"d by the hot ru.

type of visitation, too. Mr. Eddy says that he has in Lucy Burtt is concluding her year's visit to Australia and mind five or six prisoners who have no one to visit them New Zealand. Her talks to Friends and Student Christian and have to stand and watch while other prisoners enjoy Movement groups have been a source of great inspiration and themselves. Should any lunch be left after the picnic, it encouragement and have led to a reassessment of our Christian may be shared with them, the crumbs from the table. faith and a renewed interest in Bible study. The need, therefore, is for Friends who are willing ERIC B. PoLLARD to undertake this service. Should you be interested to visit either Trenton or Leesburg, get in touch with Extracts from Epistles Charles Crabbe Thomas, Fifth and Penn Streets, Camden, (Continued) New Jersey, WOodlawn 4-6800. My home telephone is N ebraska Yearly Meeting Tilden 5-1900. I and other "Quaker friends of the Friends have come together with a deepening concern for prisoner" should be glad to bring our concern to groups the extension of Christ's Kingdom, and the spiritual building personally, should you wish to know more about the and nurture of human lives everywhere. We humbly confess project. We can arrange speakers. our weakness, and our shortcomings, and our need of guid­ ance of Him, who is the Way, and the Truth and the Life, Australia General Meeting who is abundantly able not only to reveal the way, but give strength and grace to walk in the way. AUSTRALIA General Meeting was held this year rather Illater than usual, from January 23 to 27 at St. Andrew's Netherlands Yearly Meeting College, Sydney. Attendance ranged from 70 (at the opening We felt ourselves in close union with Friends in other session) to 40, with an average of about 50. Five Young lands, like branches on one tree, as we listened to the words Friends made the 2,000-mile journey from Western Australia. of their delegates. We were touched by the friendship of our The three subjects most concerning Friends were the German Friends and by their desire for peace, and rejoiced to question of whether Australia should become a Yearly Meet­ find that sensibilities caused by the war had gone. ing, Australian restricted immigration policy (white Australia), We also felt firmly united with our fellow Christians when and work for the aborigines. we decided to send an observer to the Ecumenical Council of On the subject of becoming a Yearly Meeting, Friends Churches in order that we might cooperate, as closely as was were deeply divided; and it was agreed that the time was not consistent with our undogmatic foundation, with the World yet ripe for this move, which, however, is still to be kept very Council for the alleviation of the world's need, by which both much in Friends' minds. On the immigration policy the of us should be the richer spiritually. Meeting issued a statement to the government containing the New England Yearly Meeting following: "We believe that harmful results are coming from the enforcement of this policy, and that no matter what diffi­ Individual responsibility has been stressed for work in culties appear to be in the way, it should be changed. We strengthening the fellowship in our own religious society would therefore urge our government publicly to renounce around the world as well as becoming part of the great move­ the present policy and to make some provision for limited ment in Christendom to unite Christians everywhere on deeper immigration from all countries, for example, by a quota sys­ levels of spirituality. We have been made aware of the part tem." On work for aborigines, progress in Western Australia each of us can play in creating a better climate for peaceful and N.S.W. and greater government interest in Victoria settlement of international affairs and for developing a sense were noted with satisfaction. of racial brotherhood, a climate in which the refugee may feel Canberra was approved as a Particular and Preparative at home, rescued from his lonely and stateless condition. Meeting. Over the whole of Australia an increase in member­ New York Yearly Meeting ship of 2.4 per cent was recorded. We shall continue to share our differences, which serve a Friends were pleased to receive an original drawing as a useful purpose. God does not ask us for conformity, but calls gift from the German people through the Federal President us to unity, in obedience to the leadings of the spirit. of West Germany as a token of gratitude for help after World We seek to recapture the radiance of simple, uncompli­ War II. It was decided to hang this gift in Friends House, cated love ... such love as will resist evil without violence, Melbourne, for the time being. without hatred of the wrongdoer, and without compromise. A short summer school was held just before General Meet­ To the false standards of our time we would offer the great­ ing on the subject "Australia and her Neighbors, in the Light est opposition, combined with the greatest love. To the lonely of Christ's Teaching." Relations with Asia were surveyed by seekers in this hurried and soul-hiding world, we would say, Lord Lindsay, who called the "white Australia" policy "a "Dear friends, we are walking beside you, ... seekers, too." piece of unnecessary rudeness." Dorothy Gregory spoke on the biological aspects of race, and the final lecture was given by New Zealand General Meeting Lucy Burtt, who urged a deepening of our own spiritual life, Our thoughts have turned to the vicious circle of fear in individually and collectively. which men have become involved. The conflicts we see in the March 10, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 151 world are a reflection of the fears and mistrust in the hearts are many extracts from the Mahatma's autobiography. All of individual men and women. Only the invading love of God of this material is skillfully woven together in a logical se­ can drown that fear and set men free, and only as we deepen quence that carries the reader forward with keen interest from our personal experience of the love and power of God shall episode to episode. It is like being caught up in a rushing we acquire the sympathy and understanding that are needed. torrent of life, or soul force. Part of the material is from "Christ, the Hope of the World" has this meaning for us: Indian publications, and is now available for the first time that over and above the storms and clouds which overshadow in America. mankind, His voice can still be heard saying, "Peace, be still." Some 37 principal characters appear in the book, and in "My peace I give unto you. . . . Let not your heart be the alphabetical list Horace G. Alexander, the English Friend, troubled, neither let it be afraid." leads all the rest. Agatha Harrison contributes a touching North Carolina Yearly Meeting, Conservative description of the life of Gandhi in London during the Round Table Conference (1931), and tells how hard it is to During these days together we have been told to take a fresh look at ourselves and see if we measure up to a true interpret a personality of transparent simplicity. "For when Friend. To a true Christian. Are we selflike or Christlike? you meet absolute honesty and directness of purpose in a Dear Friends, we must look within and finding the hidden tangled world you are in the presence of something that Christ there, keep our spiritual eye on Him. "If thine eye be silences criticism." ("Gandhi could never disentangle his single, thy whole body shall be full of light." Only in finding religious from his political interests.") the Christ in ourselves and the Christ in others can God's The Western world desperately needs the message of this eternal love flow, thereby bringing the kingdom of God into great life today. No Christian leader of modern times has so the hearts of all men. triumphantly demonstrated the power of good to overcome evil, and the power of love to vanquish hatred. Hard-pressed North Carolina Yearly M eeting, Five Years and distraught as we are, bedevilled by war and the threat of We were greatly encouraged by the fine attendance of war, we need to listen to this calm, courageous voice. Young Friends and Junior and Intermediate Yearly Meetings. K. ASHBRIDGE CHEYNEY We were heartened by the outspoken contributions of our Young Friends as they expressed their concerns . ... Meeting ten years after Hiroshima, we appreciate the DYNAMITE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. By KHALIL TOTAH. friendly spirit in which leaders of East and West met at Foreword by Millar Burrows. The Philosophical Library, Geneva. Hugh Moore, just returned from Russia, Warren New York, 1955. 240 pages. $3.75 Griffiths and Jeanette Hadley from the Friends Committee on Khalil Totah, member of an Arab family of Quaker faith, National Legislation in Washington inspired us with the op· long principal of the Friends School at Ram Allah, Palestine portunities open to Friends in building friendship and peace. (now Jordan), became a United States citizen and spent his last years in this country, active in spreading information Norway Yearly Meeting about Arab problems and hopes. This book, published post· Is it possible that personal experience in silent worship, humously in 1955, records impressions received on a visit to with its wordless prayers, can break down the wall which has five of the seven Arab States in 1952. It is therefore out of arisen between the conscious and unconscious parts of man's date in many details. But Dr. Totah's enthusiasm, like light· mind, and so help to create the integration of personality for ning, gives glimpses into the darkness and menace of the which people are longing, and also to release the latent crea­ Middle East. tive forces in the souls of men and women? Probably we shall Israel is the chief present evil. The bitterness with which be able to do this better if we think more of listening to the Dr. Totah WTote, and the lack of any sign of accepting any experiences of others than of laying our problems before them. solution of the Arab refugee problem except through return (To be Continued) to Israel are useful evidence of the extreme difficulty of this problem, in which emotion has been accepted as a virtue. Next to Israel, Great Britain and the United States are the Books chief villains. Their crime is to have replaced the Turkish THE GANDHI READER. Edited by HoMER A. JACK. In­ tyranny, which had the merit of keeping the several sections diana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1956. 532 of the Arab world in a single empire, by national freedom, pages. $7.50 which is not appropriate and which makes easy the exercise This large and impressive book provides a rich mine of of foreign influence on behalf of strategy or oil. material about the great Indian leader and saint whose entire Foreign influence, separatism, and political ineptitude life was a demonstration of the power of the spirit. It is not block progress in many directions. Yet Dr. Totah found in a biography, but it gives a vivid reflection of the life of every country eager efforts at education and at medical, agri· Gandhi from its earliest beginning to its tragic end. Each cultural, and technical advance. He had great hopes of the chapter is made up of from six to twelve brief, readable ex· people, but he also had great fear of the consequences of the tracts from a great variety of sources: essays, newspapers, dangerous forces at work in the Middle East. magazine articles, public speeches, proclamations, etc. There RICHARD R. Wooo 152 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 10, 1956

Program of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Committee on Elderly Friends, Committee on Family Rela­ tionships, Committee on Joseph Jeanes Fund. March 22 to 28, inclusive 7:00 Peace and Freedom: Peace Committee, Committee A LL meetings will be held in Arch Street Meeting House, on Civil Liberties. £l. Philadelphia, unless otherwise indicated. TUESDAY, MARCH 27 THURSDAY, MARCH 22 10:00 Quarterly Meeting reports. 10:00 Meeting for worship; organization of Yearly Meet­ 2:00 Ecumenical Relationships: Friends World Commit­ ing and welcome of visitors; Yearly Meeting on Worship and tee, Friends General Conference, Five Years Meeting, Com­ Ministry. mittee on Church Unity-World Council of Churches, Na­ 2:00 Worship and Ministry concerns continued. tional Council of Churches, Pennsylvania Council of Churches. 6:00 Supper conference for clerks, husbands and wives, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 arranged by Field Committee of Representative Meeting: 10:00 Meeting for worship. Judge Albert B. Maris, clerk of Lansdowne Monthly Meeting, 2:00 World-wide Kinship: Committee on Race Relations, Pa., will open the discussion on "New Procedures and Their Background in the New Faith and Practice." Japan Committee. 7:00 Unfinished business; General Epistle; closing minute. FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Exhibits by Yearly Meeting Committees and other Friends 2:00 Epistles; report of Representative Meeting; Nomi­ organizations will be arranged in the East Room, Arch Street nating Committee. Meeting House. 7:00 Report of Representative Meeting continued; Midday lunches and suppers will be served in the Arch Treasurers' reports; Committee on Audit and Budget; Trus­ Street Meeting House as shown on the program. Children are tees; Friends Fiduciary Corporation; special concerns; FRIENDS served at half price. Meals may also be had in the dining JOURNAL. room of Arch Street Centre, 12 to 1:30 p.m., and 5:30 to SATURDAY, MARCH 24 6:45p.m. 10:00 Education and Young People: Committee on Edu­ Parking will be available at Arch Street Meeting House at cation, Friends Education Fund, Committee on Religious all times (enter from Fourth Street) and on Sunday morning, Education. March 25, at 1529-1537 Race Street. 2:00 Education and Young People continued: Young The Friends Book Store will be open until 7 p.m. on days Friends Movement, Westtown, George School. when there are evening meetings. 7:00 Meeting under auspices of the American Friends Service Committee and Friends Committee on National Legis­ lation: "Disarmament Developments," E. Raymond Wilson, Friends and Their Friends executive director of the F.C.N.L., and Sam Marble, president E. Raymond Wilson, executive secretary of the Friends of Wilmington College, now spending three months with the Committee on National Legislation, Washington, D. C., is Quaker Program at the U.N.; "Refugees and Immigration Pol­ planning to leave for Japan this summer with his wife Miriam icy," Kathleen Hanstein, A.F.S.C. Refugee and Migration Serv­ and son Lee for a sabbatical year there, serving as Quaker ices, and Edward F. Snyder, of the F.C.N.L. staff in Washington. International Affairs Representative for the American Friends SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Service Committee. Among other things he expects to visit 10:30 Meeting for worship, Race Street Meeting House schools, lecture, hold conferences, and generally study Far and Arch Street Meeting House. Eastern views of world problems. 10:45 Meeting for worship, Cherry Street Room, Race A member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, he was born Street Meeting House. at Morning Sun, , studied at Iowa State University and 10:30 Young Friends meeting for worship, East Room, Columbia University, starting to work with 'the American Arch Street Meeting House. Friends Service Committee in 1931 as field secretary of the 9:45 to 12:15 Worship for Junior High School (grades 7, Peace Section. Since 1943 he has been with the Friends Com- . 8, 9), 12th Street Meeting House. mittee on National Legislation. 10:00 to 12:00 Worship for Boys and Girls (kindergarten, grades I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Friends Select School. 3:00 William Penn Lecture, Arch Street Meeting House: Preparations are under way for the Fourth Conference of Elise Boulding, "The Joy That Is Set before Us." Elise Bould­ Evangelical Friends, to be held July I I to 15 inclusive at the ing is the wife of Kenneth Boulding, professor of economics Friends Church, Denver, Colorado, according to an announce­ at the University of Michigan; she has written My Part in the ment made by Gerald W. Dillon, pastor of the First Friends Quaker Adventure, a study leaflet for Junior High classes in Church, Portland, Oregon, who is chairman of the Continua­ First-day school, and other pamphlets. tion Committee for the conference. The purpose of the gather­ ing is to promote fellowship of the Gospel among all Friends. MONDAY, MARCH 26 It is hoped that the intra-Quaker conclave will emerge with 2:00 Social Responsibilities: Social Service Committee, a permanent organization. March 10, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 153

The Representative Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meet­ Arab refugees not far from Jerusalem started schools in ing has given serious consideration to the crisis in our South· the camps with almost no equipment. Then UNRWA helped ern states. Friends are anxious to remain in close contact with the buildings, a minimum of equipment, and paid the with the National Council of Churches for possible action voluntary teachers, who were almost all quite untrained. Now and may submit this concern to the forthcoming Yearly two pilot project training colleges to train refugees as teachers Meeting. for the camps have been established. Three internationals are The Race Relations Committee has informed the Repre­ acting as advisers in these projects, one of whom is Mary sentative Meeting that the National Council of Churches Sime of Tollesbury, England. urges its member denominations "to make deposits in the Arab children have a reputation of being mentally alert and cooperative in spite of the extreme privations imposed Tri-State Bank of Memphis, Tenn.," with the intention of by the minimum standard of living obtaining in the camps. granting loans to those in Mississippi and other states who Within the limits of a very small budget UNRWA is doing have been caused to suffer from economic reprisals. The wonderful things for them. Meeting encourages such deposits. Each account should be limited to $10,000, covered by federal insurance. An intriguing new definition turned up in the FPC Bul­ letin, the newsletter of the Friends Peace Committee, Phila­ The Spectator, London, for January 20, 1956, carries a delphia. "The is really very simple: Don't be review by Max Beloff of The Far East, 1942-1946, by F. C. nice to other people because they're nice. Be nice to them Jones, Hugh Borton, and B. R. Pearn (60s.). It is the latest because you're nice." volume of the Chatham House Survey of the war years. "By far the most interesting and important part of the volume," writes the reviewer, "is therefore that on Japan in the first two Major Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches in years of General MacArthur's rule, where the author, Mr. America are seeking $10,900,000 in the 1956 United Appeal Hugh Borton, then a high official of the State Department, is for overseas programs of relief and reconstruction. This goal writing a story of which he was a firsthand witness throughout." of the churches, the highest ever set, is nearly $1,500,000 Hugh Borton, professor of Japanese at Columbia Univer­ greater than that of 1955. A major portion of the increase sity, is the son of C. Walter Borton and is a member of Moor((_S· in funds sought will be utilized in taking advantage of the town Monthly Meeting, N. J . doubled "share our surplus" opportunity made possible by the recent release of wheat, corn, beans, and rice from U.S. surplus stocks for free distribution to the needy abroad by "Four Dialogues for Quartet for Pianos and Voices" by Ned religious and other voluntary overseas relief organizations. Rorem was one of three modern works presented on February Highlight of the appeal will be the "One Great Hour of 13 by the Philadelphia Composers' Forum at the Philadelphia Sharing" observances on Sunday, March 11, when special relief Art Alliance. On the preceding Sunday, February 12, an opera offerings will be made in many thousands of churches through­ by Ned Rorem, "A Childhood Miracle," was telecast in the out the United States. Philadelphia area.

John Thomas Kirk of WiJJistown Monthly Meeting, Pa., Reprints of the article by Willard Tomlinson, "A Stum­ bling Block to the Weak," which appeared in the FRIENDS was released by his draft board last fall to do alternative service with the A.F.S.C. There was a need for someone to JouRNAL for J anuary 14 and 21, 1956, have been made by the Temperance Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. They teach furniture making at the rural cooperative community are available free, on request, from Friends Central Bureau, in El Salvador, of which Wanneta Chance is director, and John left on October 7 for El Salvador, to be gone for at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. least one year. John Kirk studied furniture construction at George School, C. Canby Balderston of Lansdowne Meeting, Pa., has be­ and design and construction of wood products at the School come a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, Reserve System in Washington, D. C. Rochester, New York. He spent two years at the Royal Acad­ emy of Fine Arts Furniture School in Copenhagen, Denmark, studying theory of design, and traveled in Europe during the Central Africa Monthly Meeting is pressing forward in its summer months. With students of this school he worked for proposal to build a meeting house and Quaker Center in two months in Pompeii and Rome, making working drawings Salisbury. A suitable site of about half an acre has been of furniture. offered to the Meeting by the City of Salisbury. It is planned John is teaching not only the construction of necessary to build a larger and smaller room, together with kitchen furniture for the families of newly organized communities in and cloakrooms connected by an open verandah and courtyard. El Salvador but a fine craft by which the people may add to Local Friends intend to do as much of the manual work as their income and the dignity of their lives. possible and will also lay out the grounds. 154 FRIENDS JOURNAL March I 0, 1956

The American People Want Peace, a survey of public opin­ Sixteen high school students in the Philadelphia area were ion on peace, is a timely new study by Jessica Smith (25 cents; excused from their regular classes in late February to partici­ available from the New World Review, 23 West 26th Street, pate in the week-long work camp sponsored by the Social New York 10, N. Y.). It presents the main issues on which Order Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The proj­ Americans have gone into action: the A- and H-bomb and ect, entitled "Education by Exposure," is held twice a year. disarmament; tension over Quemoy and Matsu; negotiations, Besides helping tenants in a blighted South Philadelphia area co-existence, and trade with Russia, China, and other nations; to clean, paint, plaster, paper, and repair their living quar­ and universal military training. It reviews the actions on these ters, these students get an understanding of the needs of those questions by labor, religious and women's groups, Negro or­ they help and of the causes which lead to social conditions in ganizations, and other local and national groups, including blighted areas. Friends. The group attended services on Sunday morning in a neighborhood church. During the week the students visited Keeping pace with changes in needs in different parts of a magistrate's court, Byberry State Hospital, and a county the world, clothing shipments from American Friends Service prison; made tours of slum housing, changing neighborhoods, Committee warehouses are being increased to Austria, Japan, and various industries; attended a hearing before the Zoning and Italy and decreased to Germany and this year. Board of Adjustment and observed a Board of Health meeting A request has been received for a supply of 200,000 pounds and a City Council session. of clothing to the Japanese National Council of Social Wel­ Participants included students from Germantown High fare. It came with an explanation that the A.F.S.C. was being School, Germantown Friends School, Penn Charter School, asked to meet the need because Quaker relief clothing has Springside School, Chestnut Hill, Friends Select School, won a reputation for quality which gives dignity as well as Moorestown, N. J., Friends School, and Miss Fine's School, warmth to recipients. Princeton, N. J. During the past year 60,000 pounds of specially donated baby food and more than five tons of multipurpose food for The October 1955 issue of the Haverford College Bulletin child feeding was shipped to Korea for use in the hospital at contains a brief programmatic statement by Gilbert F. White, Kunsan and in certain orphanages. in whose last and final report to the Corporation are the Final shipments of relief supplies have gone out from the following remarks: "As I look to the future of Haverford A.F.S.C. warehouse in Seattle. Now that it is being closed, College, I am inclined to feel that the issues that will be im­ shipments are being sent by contributors in the area to the mediately pressing will not be ones of physical expansion or warehouse at 1830 Sutter Street, San Francisco improvement. They are likely to turn largely on the problem 15. They are being specially welcomed there because of diver­ of how the whole quality of the lives of students while at sion of nearly four tons of clothing to emergency flood relief the College may be deepened and strengthened. We seem to in itself. lack not so much the facilities as the skill and the imagination to make use of our facilities in promoting maximum growth In 1945 the Social Service Committee of Philadelphia among the young men for whom the College exists. The Yearly Meeting published a booklet, Sixty-five and Over, atmosphere of the College is more important than anything edited by Leon T. Stern. It was so popular that it was re­ else. This, at root, is nourished by the quality of the students vised a year later. The file copy of the original edition (1945) and the faculty who are here. Having turned its attention has disappeared from Friends Central Bureau. If anyone has for a time to improving the physical plant, Haverford must a copy of the original edition and is willing to donate it, again center its activities where they always must be centered please send it to Richmond P. Miller, 1515 Cherry Street, if the College is to remain healthy in the long run-on the Philadelphia 2, Pa. faculty and students. "If I were to say in a few words what I feel to be points to emphasize in future in Haverford College they would be Rowland and Alice F. Morgan of Chestnut Hill Meeting, these: Keep it small; keep it Quaker; cultivate the inquiring Pa.. have mailed us the text of an affirmation by several mind; find good men with courage and integrity, and then Friends concerning their abhorrence of . In part back them." it says: "It is the desire of individual Friends to make public affirmation of their abhorrence of the principles and practices of communism; of their devotion to those safeguards of free­ dom and independence set forth in the Constitution and Letters to the Editor related laws of the United States of America; and of their Letters are subject to editorial revision if too long. Anonymous staunch support of the efforts of the United States authorities communications cannot be accepted. to discover and place adequate restraints upon Communistic Correction please. In the FRIENDS JoURNAL for January 7, and other efforts designed to subvert or destroy the precious 1"956, I credited the poem, "My Creed," to John Greenleaf heritage of American freedom." Whittier. My authority wasT. Franklin Currier's Bibliography March 10, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 155 of Whittier, published in 1937. Currier had found this poem periods of quiet meditation and have been copied by us. in a small Massachusetts periodical, whose editor had reprinted They definitely assert that all they are trying to do and teach the poem, adding surreptiously "By J. G. Whittier." Whittier can be accomplished only through the grace of God in the students have long considered Currier the final authority­ soul, which we would call the Inner Light. Altogether it is and I believe this is one of the very rare instances to the clear to me that they are nearer to the Society of Friends contrary. than any other church. Jane P. Rushmore read my article and assured me that Philadelphia, Pa. HoRACE M. LIPPINCOTT she was very familiar with the poem and that Alice Cary was really the author. As usual, Jane is correct. No doubt Alke It was comforting to hear that Betty Stone, of Morris­ Cary wrote the poem, but it could easily have been Whittier's. town, N. feels, also, pain at what goes on in the slaughter They were very close friends. Also see The New York Times, J., house, and believes this to be a concern for Friends. "Queries and Answers," February 26. The past history of the Religious Society of Friends is filled New York, N. Y. MARSHALL TAYLOR with great and glorious Light. Much has been accomplished, but more remains still undone. With war threatening to crush For 80 years the voteless residents of the District of Colum­ the life out of every living thing here, we are being driven to bia have been denied any direct voice in the management of explore every crevice of our personal being to find if we have their own civic affairs. Now victory is closer than it has ever truly taken away the occasion for violence. been before. The Senate has already passed a bill which would Sheboygan, Wisconsin ERNESTINE W. BREHMER give Washington an elected city council, mayor, and school board. The Congress would retain full authority to protect the interests of the government and of the whole people in Those who authorize the flight of the so-called weather Washington as the nation's capital. We know that the House balloons flying at ten to twelve miles above the surface of the of Representatives, if given an opportunity to vote, will pass earth have now proven what scientists knew for centuries. the measure, too; both party platforms as well as President Now we all know that our Creator arranged that a wind of Eisenhower support home rule for the District. But the House 300 or more miles per hour shall forever blow from Asia to· District Committee refuses to report out the bill. To discharge wards North America. We can do nothing to stop the use of the Committee from jurisdiction and bring the measure to the this wind to fly in silence enemy balloons and drop anything floor for a vote, a discharge petition was filed on February 21 they please on the cities of the United States. and now needs the signatures of 218 members of the House. Does one dare to suggest that the apostle Paul was right Six years ago such a petition came within 20 signatures of in the last verse of the 12th chapter of Romans when he said, the number needed. It is not an easy thing to accomplish; "Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good"? many members who support the bill are reluctant to override Elkins Park, Pa. SYLVESTER s. GARRETT a Committee. But the chances now are good-if Congressmen hear from the only people they really listen to, their con­ stituents. Will you write to your Congressman today? Ask him, In the FRIENDS JouRNAL, February 18, 1956, Friends Bar­ in the name of democracy, to sign Discharge Petition Number bara Hinchcliffe and R. W. Tucker refer to a previously 2 and to support home rule for the District of Columbia? written opinion by Friend Edmund Goerke concerning cele­ Washington, D. C. DAVID H . ScuLL, Chairman, bration of so-called "holy" days. Generally I agree with ]oint Social Order Committee of the them. But Barbara says that if we discard outward signs, Friends Meetings of Washington symbols, and days we are in danger of drifting into human· ism or even into spiritual indifferentism. I am led to ask: What is bad about humanism? And, as This is to commend your editorial about the Roman Cath· the late Jesse Holmes used to ask, "What does thee mean by olic Church. There is and has been for many years, an un­ 'spiritual'?" And how many definitions are there for the word fortunate misunderstanding about it. We have received our "Christianity"? wrong ideas, I think, from ignorant Irish cooks. The trouble Macungie, Pa. FILIPPUS MosEsco with the church is racial and not religious. They diagnose their patients and give them the medicine that will "speak to their condition." This is a smart and proper thing to do, I have read with some excitement your editorial en­ particularly considering the kind of people they have to deal titled "On the Threshold of Greater Service." I feel with, and their elaborate ritual, pageantry, saints, etc., which that the institutional church should employ psychological we Friends deride. These are the only things that deeply methods in its religious education enterprise. While the appeal to these people, and the only instruments they can present curriculum in most churches is made of religious use to bring them to God. material, it is not of the sort that enables the student to The most sacred part of their ritual is the elevation of the acquire the skill of living religiously himself. It is like send· Host, which is performed in complete silence. Retreats are ing a young man to college to learn all about the great medi- 156 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 10, 1956

cal men of the past, who they were, when and where they and villages as well as Machupicchu, the Lost City of the lived, and what the dominant characteristics of their medical Incas. Cost, $1.00; proceeds will be used for the building pro­ philosophies were. This would be a medical education be­ gram at Westfield, which consists of a two-room addition. cause the content of his studies was medical, but he would I4- Lecture at Moorestown, N. J., Meeting House, S p.m.: not be enabled to live medically himself. True religious educa­ Henry J. Cadbury, "The Use of the Bible Today." The event tion, I suggest, consists in training the child to assume whole­ is sponsored by the Moorestown Friends First-day School some attitudes towards people, things, and events; from these Committee. attitudes to develop wholesome appreciations, which in turn I5- Annual series of noon-hour meetings at 20 South 12th emerge as constructive aspirations. These in turn eventuate Street, Philadelphia, 12:25 to I2:55 p.m.: Douglas V. Steere, in behavior that is beneficial not only to himself but also to "Come All the Way In." those around him. In short, religious education should train I5-Friends Forum at the Meeting House, 24th and the individual to cultivate wholesome mental and emotional Chestnut Streets, Chester, Pa., S p.m.: Rachel Cadbury, habits, with the result that a lot of those sufferings you men­ "Fundamentals of Quaker Belief." tion in your editorial would never come to pass. 17- Chamber Music Concert sponsored by the Haddon­ Norristown, Pa. PALMER R. HuEY field, N. J., Meeting a t the Meeting House, Friends Avenue and Lake Street, Haddonfield, N. J., 8:30 p.m. Proceeds will be used to meet 'the cost of the new annex to the meeting BIRTHS house. Tickets ($1.25; students, $.75) may be obtained at the BEST-On January IS, to James S. and Ruth Travis Best, Friends School, 47 Haddon Avenue. Works by C. E. P. Bach, a son named JoNATHAN SLUMAN BEST. He is a birthright Mozart, Schumann, and Brahms will be performed by Norma member of Rockland Monthly Meeting, N. Y. Reddert, pianist, Ynez Lynch Lightall, violist, and Robert WOODRUFF- On February 14, to Allen Marvin and Henderson, clarinetist, all professional artists. Emily Martin Hitch Woodruff of Philadelphia, a son named IS-Address by Dorothy Hutchinson at the First-day School A. ALLEN WooDRUFF. He is a birthright member of German­ Adult Class, Gwynedd, Pa., Meeting House, 9:45 a.m. town Monthly Meeting. His mother is a member of Center IS- Conference Class at Race Street First-day School, Phila­ Monthly Meeting, Hockessin, Del. delphia, ll:40 a.m.: "Writing a Discipline for a Yearly Meet­ ing: II. Faith and Thought." Leader, Elizabeth Yarnall. IS-Bliss Forbush will attend meeting for worship at Jeri­ Coming Events cho Meeting, N. Y., II a.m. From 4 to 6 p.m. a tea in honor of Bliss Forbush and his forthcoming biography, Elias Hichs, MARCH Quaher L iberal, will be given by J ericho Friends at the 10-Salem Quarterly Meeting at Woodstown, N. J., 10:30 Friends Community Center, Westbury, N. Y. Publication date a.m. of the book is the next day, March I_9, an anniversary of the 10-Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting at Moorestown, N. J., birthday of Elias Hicks. 3 p.m.; 7 p.m., Wilmina Rowland, "World-wide Aspects of 20-Address under the auspices of the American Friends Cooperative Christianity." Service Committee at Race Street Meeting House, Philadel­ 10, 11-All Florida Friends Conference at the St. Peters­ phia, 7:30p.m.: Kirby Page, "God's Answer to the Cold War." burg, Fla., Meeting House, 130 19th Avenue, S.E., Saturday, 20-Address at High Street Meeting House, West Chester, I0:30 a.m., business session; 2 p.m., business session and ad­ Pa., S p.m.: Dr. Courtney Smith, "Some Aspects of Higher dress illustrated by colored slides, William B. Edgerton, Penn­ Education." sylvania State University, "A Quaker Visit to Russia"; 7 p.m., 22 to 2S-Philadelphia Yearly Meeting at Arch Street business session and address by John Vaughan of Stetson Univer­ Meeting House, Philadelphia. sity, Deland, Fla., on his year's work in Pakistan on a Fulbright 23 to 25-High School Students' Conference at Asilomar, Fellowship. Sunday, 9:45 a.m., discussion of regional A.F.S.C. Calif., sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. work by a representative of the Greensboro, N. C., office. Theme, "Our American H eritage-Freedom for All." Speak­ ll-Conference Class of Race Street First-day School, Phila­ ers, Paul Hoffman, Ralph Bunche. delphia, II :40 a.m.: "Writing a Discipline for a Yearly Meet­ 24-Shrewsbury and Plainfield Half-Yearly Meeting at the ing: I. Practice and Procedure." Leader, James F. Walker. Plainfield, N. J., Meeting House, 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and II-Discussion led by Norma Jacob on "The Peace Testi­ S p.m. Children's program, Y.W.C.A., East Front Street, 2 to mony: Theory and Practice," about II :45 a.m. in the Meeting 5:30 p.m. House at Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. Friends are asked to bring a box lunch; beverage will be provided. 24-Meeting of the Continu ing Committee of the Lake II-First of a travelogue series at Westfield, N. J., Friends Erie Association at Yellow Springs, Ohio, l p.m. School, in the school auditorium, S p.m.: Esther Holmes Jones, Coming: Good Friday Pilgrimage and R etreat planned by "Accessible Peru and Glimpses of Bolivia." The speaker, in the Young Friends Movement of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. native Peruvian costume, will present pictures of modern cities The Good Friday Pilgrimage, March 30, will include visits to March 10, 1956 FR I E N DS JOURNAL 157

the fo llowing Pennsylvania Meetings: Swarthmore, 9 a.m.; A travel pool on the basis of six cents per mile will be shared Springfi,eld, 10 a.m.; T h ird Street, Media, 10 a.m.; Concord, with car owners. Marie S. Miller is chairman of the Pil­ 11 a.m.; Kennett, 12 noon; New Garden, 1:30 p.m.; London grimage Committee. Grove, 1:30 p.m.; West Grove, 2:30 p.m. (the group will A week-end retreat at the Kilpack's Blue Mount Retreat, divide at Springfield and Media, and at New Garden and three miles north of Monkton, Md., will follow the Pilgrimage. London Grove). T ime has been allotted at each stop for read­ Mike Yarrow of the A.F.S.C. will be present. Worship, dis­ ing a portion of the Passion story or inspirational material, cussion, and fellowship; singing, charades, and hiking. holding a meeting for worship, and visiting with local Friends. Send inquiries an d acceptances to the office of the Young Bring sandwiches; Kennett Friends will provide a beverage. Friends Movement, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa.

REGULAR MEETINGS LOUISIANA PENNSYLVANIA :NEW OBLEA:NS--Friends meeting each LA:NCASTE&--Meeting for worship and Sunday. For information t elephone WA First-day school, 10 a.m., new m eeting ARIZONA 5890 or UP 8245W. house, Tulane Terrace, off. U. S. 30, 1 'h PBOBNIX-Meeting for worship, 10 a.m., miles west of ~ ancaster. 17th Street and Glendale Avenue. James Dewees, Clerk , 1928 West Mitchell. MASSACHUSETTS JIIEBIO:N - Merion Meeting, corner of CAJIIBBIDGE-Meetlng for worship each Montgomery Avenue and Meeting House TtJCSO:N- F riends Meeting, 129 North First-day at 9:30a.m. and 11 a.m., 5 Long­ Lane. Meeting for worsh ip, First-days at Warren Avenue. Worship, First-days a t fellow Park (near Harvard Square). Tele­ 11 a.m .; First-day sch ool, 9:45 a.m. in 11 a.m . Clerk, John A. Salyer, 745 East phone TR 6-6883. Activities Building, Fifth Street; T ucson 2-3262. 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Box meeting, Unprogrammed meetings in R87. Friends Journal. homes, 6 p.m., first ·Saturday of month. SYBACtJSE-Meeting and First-day school Contact Esther L. Farquhar, HU 4207. at 11 a.m. each First-day Huntington SWITZERLAND: Furnished apartment, Neighborhood House, 512 Aimond Street. four rooms plus kitchen, etc., overlooking IOWA Montreux with magnificent views of Jake OHIO and mountains. Available April 1956 to DES liiiOI:NES--Friends Meeting, 801 For­ CI:NCI:N:NATI- Meeting for worship, 11 April 1957 during absence abroad of est Avenue, Library entrance. Worship, a.m.. Williams Y.M.C.A. T elephone JE Quaker owners. For terms apply Cardl­ 10 a.m.; classes, 1.1 a.m. 1-4984. naux, Chernex sur Montreux, Switzerland. 158 FRIENDS JOURNAL March 10, 1956

GEORGE A FRIENDS COEDUCATIONAL OAKWOOD BOARDING SCHOOL, Grades 9-12 Coeducational Quaker SCHOOL Founded 1893 BOARDING SCHOOL Enrollment has been completed for autumn of the coming school Oakwood cherishes Quaker simplic­ year. A waiting list is being established from which applicants will ity. The emphasis is on avoidance be accepted for vacancies as they occur. of educational and other frills. Children of Friends are given preference on the waiting list if application is made GRADES 9 TO 12 INCLUSIVE for the 9th grade. For additional in/orma#on write A.ddreu inquiria to: WILLIAM W. CLARK, Principal RicHAKD H. McFEELY, ADELBERT MASON, Director of Admissions OAKWOOD SCHOOL Principal Box 350, Georae School, Bucks County, Pennaylvania BOX 45 POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.

C~P LEN-A-PE ·- INDIAN LODGE HOTEL Furniture Upholstering Adults and Family Groups THOM SEREMBA, 215 felton AYenue, Collingdale, Pa. Indian, cow:o:~s m~;i:i~n . natnralist, ~ Watrrfroat botd, cabins. Ridins. ttnnis, nurae, ttc:. Riding. sailing. tennis, aqua· ~ swimming. aquaplaning. etc:.. on Poco· More thon five years of references In Swarth­ pbnina. awimming, dramatics, crafts. etc. no'• Fairview Lake ntar Camp Len·a·pe. more, Po., and vicinity • • • first-class work at 115 MILES FROM NEW YORK CITY AND PHILADELPHIA reasonable rates • •• over 25 years' experience. DAVID and MARJORIE KEISER- Box 7183F, Philadelphia 17, Po. Telephone Sharon Hill 0734

Our deadline is 9:15 a.m. Monday. THE SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL Instructions regardin&' advertlsln&' MUST be in our hands before that time. In the Nation's Capital Coeducational Day School - College Preparatory from Kindergarten Started by Friends In 1811 Thomas W. Sidwell, Principal, 1883-1936 FRIENDS BOARDING SCHOOL A non-profit corporation since 1936 with the majority of trustees Friends BARNESVILLE, OHIO • Est. 1837 Accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools Emphasu on: Member of-- • CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION NATIONAL COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS 0 INDIVIDUAL WORTH SECONDARY EDUCATION BOARD EDUCATIONAL RECORDS BUREAU • SERVICE TO OTHERS NATIONAL REGISTRATION OFFICE FOR INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS • ACADEMIC PllEPAJlATION GRADES 9-12 - ApplieaUon.s now belq ROBERT S. LYLE, Headmaster received for the fall of 1956 3901 WISCONSIN AVENUE N. W. WASHINGTON 16, D. C. MoRRIS L. Kmtt. Principal

FRIENDS ACADEMY FRIENDS' Established 1877 CENTRAL SCHOOL A coeducational Quaker school in a beautiful residential com- OVERBROOK, PHILADELPHIA 31, PA. munity 25 miles from New York. A well-balanced academic program is designed to stimulate in the student a desire to Coeducational - College Preparatory Four-year kindergarten through live a creative Christian life in today's world. 12th Grade Boarding school-Grades 7-12. Day school-Kindergarten through Grade 12. A Friendly school which offers country A reduction in tuition is available to members of The Society of Friends. day facilities and program with a col- lege preparatory curriculum and the VICTOR M. HAUGHTON, JR., Headmaster advantages of nearby urban resources. Box B, Locust Valley, Long Island, N. Y. MERRILL E. BusH, Headmaster

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DISPLAY ADVE:RTISI:NG---15¢ per a~tate line or $2.10 per column Inch; 10% discount for 6-24 Insertions within six months; 15% discount for 25 or more insertions within one year. :REGULAR llltEE'l'Ilii'G :NOTICES--15¢ per agate line; no discount for repeated Insertions. CLASSil'IED ADVE:RTISI:NG---7¢ per word, with a minimum charge of $1.00; no discount for repeated Insertions. A. box num- ber will be supplied If requested, and answers received at the FRIENDS JOURNAL office will be forwarded without charge. Advertising copy may be changed without extra chara-e. FRIENDS JOURNAL • 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Po. • Rittenhouse 6-7669 March 10, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 159

PARRISH & CO. Members ARE YOUR SAVINGS INSURED? New York Stock Exchanee They would be in the Lansdowne Federal Savings and Loan Association. Our INVESTMENT BROKERS accounts are Federally insured up to $10,000.00 and participate in liberal divi­ 1421 Chestnut Street dends. Accounts may be opened by mail, starting with as little as $1.00. Legal Philadelphia 2, Pa. Rittenhouse 8-5800 investments for trust funds. Write or telephone JOSEPH N. JANNEY LANSDOWNE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Representative 32 SOUTH LANSDOWNE AVENUE, LANSDOWNE, PA. Literature on request FaED A. WERNER, President

1956 Serving you since 1865, Provident Mutual CONFERENCE now offers protection against another SPECIAL REDUCED CONFERENCE RATES major economic hazard of life - disability resulting from accident or sickness. COL TOM COURT HOTEL Di rectly on the beachfront; surrounding lawns, garages, free parking lo t, bathing from rooms. large rooms for families, twin bedrooms, private PROVIDENT MUTUAL ba ths. AMERICAN PLAN ONLY. $7.50 to $9.00 pe r person pe r day, two in a room, inc luding 3 INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA traditionally fine meals. ELBERON HOTEL Opposite Congress Hall -one block fr om beach. Bathing from rooms. EUROPEAN PLAN ONLY. Rooms with running water-double bed $25.00 per week; CRETH & SULLIVAN, INC. twin beds $30.00 per week; two double beds $35.00 per week. Higher priced rooms with pri· vale bath. Insurance HOUSEKEEPING APARTMENTS-WEEKLY RENTALS Choice of 19- most with ocean view. Rates 324 WALNUT STREET S47 .50, $55 .00, S57 .50, $62.50, $75.00. New deluxe $11 0.00, $115.00, and $125.00 for ocean front. All apartments less 10 % Conference dis­ PHILADELPHIA 6, PA. count. WAlnut 2-7900 OPEN ANY TIME FOR INSPECTION Telephone Cape May, N. J. 4-4561 any evening and reverse the charges. LET US SOLVE YOUR INSURANCE PROBLEMS PROPRIETORS: REX AND MIRANDA THOMAS JOHN R. THOMAS, Mgr. FRIENDS JOURNAL is regularly on sale in the magazine department of the John Wanamaker store in Philadelphia. ASK OUR OPINION r.::::::==fARM and WILDERNESS CAMPS=====:-t OF YOUR SECURITIES TIMBERLAKE, boys 9-14 INDIAN BROOK, girls 9-14 HECKER & CO. TAMARACK FARM, coed 14-16 Members of New York Stock P."change 500 acres of mountain lake at Plymouth, Vermont. Friendly, informal. Extensive campcraft program, canoe and hiking trips, natural science. LIBERTY TRUST BUILDING Construction, farm animals, work projects, square dances. All land and Broad and Arch Streets water sports. Quaker leadership. Philadelphia 7, Pa. LOcust .C-3500 Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth F. Webb, Directors CHARLES J. ERICKSON Woodstock Vermont Registered Representlllive THEODORE B. HETZEL

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