A Quaker Weekly VOLUMI! 6 JUNE 11, 1960 NUMBER 24 IN THIS ISSUE ~wMte man ean eon­ ceive of the indignities heaped On Becoming upon Negroes in the South un­ til he makes the attempt to dis­ . .. by Josephine M. Benton cover them for himself. Segre­ gation within and without the church is a denial of the Christian doctrine that all Internationally Speaking men are of equal value in . ., by Richard R. Wood God's sight, and a denial that Christ died for all men. -JOHN H. TEETER Letter from Scandinavia . by Ole F. Olden The War Against Man FlnEEN CENTS A COPY From the Integration Front in the South $5.00 A YEAR 374 FRIENDS JOURNAL June 11, 1960 FRIENDS JOURNAL The Southern Appalachian Association GATHERING of the Southern Appalachian Association A of Friends held in May, 1959, at the Evans' homes in Crossville, Tenn., brought together Friends from Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Celo, Pine Mountain, and Atlanta. This informal group, composed of Quakers and visitors in the habit of meeting in small groups not large enough for Monthly Meeting status, decided to bind their rather scattered members of the Society of Friends closer together by forming the Southern Appalachian Association Published weekly, but biweekly from June 11 to September 17 and December 17 to December 31, at 1616 Cherry Street, of Friends. Members of this Association were already united Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania (LO 3-7669) By Friends Publishing Corporation by a Newsletter, financed principally and published once a WILLIAM HUBBEN MILDRED A. PURNELL month by Knoxville Friends. Editor and Manager Assistant Editor MYRTLE M. WALLEN SADIE TEIR Don Newton of Knoxville and Lucretia Evans of Cross­ Advertisements Subscriptions ville agreed to serve as Clerk and Corresponding Clerk along CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS with a Continuing Committee composed of one representative RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia from each Meeting group of the Association. In December Africa ... .. ...................... Maurice _Webb, Durban Enll'land . ..... .. .... .. ..... Horace B. Pomt1?g, LLonddon of 1959 this Continuing Committee, along with the Clerks, Joan Hew1tt, on on France . .... ....... , ........ .......... Wolf Mend!, Par_is did meet to report on the activities of each Meeting group Germany . .. .... ...... .. .. Brigitte Schleusener, yerhn India .... ..... .. ...... .... .. Benjamin Polk, CS ck~ta and to discuss possible activities and plans for the SAAF. Japan ... ..... .. .. ............. ...... Paul M. e _1ya Lebanon . ...... Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Be1rut Throughout the year the Southern Appalachian Friend re­ Scandinavia .. .. ....... ... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway Switzerland ........... .... ..... Robert J. Leach, Geneva flected concerns of various Friends and Meeting groups and Turkey . .. .......... .... ... William. L. Nut~. Jr., ~nkara Midwest (Five Years) ... Errol T. Ell1ott, lnd1anapohs, Ind. reported on their activities. New England .... ... .. ... .. .. Thomas R. Bodine, Hartfo:d West Coast . ...... ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Cahf. This spring, accepting once again the warm hospitality of BOARD OF MANAGERS Jack and Bill Evans, about forty to fifty adults and their chil­ 1957-1960: Mary R. Calhoun, Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. dren met for meeting for worship on May 15, followed by a Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. Johnson, Elizabeth H. Kirk, Elizabeth B. Wells. · 1968-1961: covered-dish luncheon on the lawn and a period of fellow­ Carol P. Brainerd, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Mildred B. Young. 1969-1962: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Bliss ship. At the meeting for business Friends expressed their Forbush, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr., Philip Stoughton, desire to strengthen the SAAF by establishing a budget in Carl F. Wise. THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five order that they might send representatives to Friends con­ dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all cost of publication. Make checks pay­ ferences and invite other Friends to visit them. It was also able to Friends Publishing Corporation. Contributions are tax-exempt. decided that the expense of the Southern Appalachian Friend SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can­ would be shared by the area as a whole. ada, and Mexico: $6.00 a year, $2.76 for six months. Foreign countries: $6.60 a year. Single copies: fifteen Russell Branson of the American Friends Service Com­ cents. Checks should be made payable to Friends Journal. Sample copies sent on request. mittee joined SAAF Friends to tell them of the Service Com­ Second Class Postage Paid at Philadelphia, Pa. mittee's activities in the past year. Francis G. Brown, Asso­ ciate Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, was present in response to letters from Nashville Friends concerning their race relations work in their community. Clerks or those acting as such (Knoxville during the year Contents acquired Monthly Meeting status, affiliating with the Friends Page World Committee) reported on the state of their respective The Southern Appalachian Association-Joan Z. Meetings or groups. Don Newton of Knoxville said it was Brinton ............. .... .. .. .. .......... 374 expected that the new meeting house for Knoxville Friends Editorial Comments ............................. 375 would be built by fall. Marion Fuson of Nashville described On Becoming-Josephine M. Benton .............. 376 Friends activities in that town during the recent sit-in lunch­ counter demonstrations. From the Integration Front in the South ..... ...... 378 Friends present felt that as a group they had been strength­ Internationally Speaking-Richard R. Wood ....... 378 ened by the one-year-old SAAF. Hibbard Thatcher and Joan The War Against Man . 379 Brinton of Nashville agreed to serve as Clerk and Correspond­ Possession (poem)- R ebecca M. Osborn ....... ... 379 ing Clerk for the next year. It was also decided to make the Letter from Scandinavia-Ole F. Olden . .......... 380 annual gathering a two-day meeting, with a kind of Junior Friends and Their Friends . ................. ... 381 Yearly Meeting for the older children and appropriate activi­ ties for the younger ones. Letters to the Editor . 384 JOAN Z. BRINTON FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955) EsTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 11, 1960 VOL. 6-No. 24 Editorial Comments Mr. Kennedy's Catholicism Iowa). His religion and the Constitution appeared in y now every American voter must be conscious of conflict, and "it is the Constitution that ought to be B the fact that Mr. Kennedy is a Catholic; that his examined-not his religion" (St. L ouis R eview). He was candidacy may stand or fall on this no longer private accused of "groveling" before the public and confusing issue; and that it was not only Mr. Kennedy himself and religious issues with social and political matters (St. the American people who have made his faith a matter joseph's Register, Kansas City). Not only was his think­ of controversy, but also the authorities of Rome. Ken­ ing fuzzy; he "had better watch his language," which is nedy is, of course, fully aware of the prejudices still ex­ "confusing the Catholics themselves" (The Indiana isting in certain segments of our population, and he is Catholic and Record). Similar attacks came from Catho­ asking for nothing more than "fair consideration." He lic publications in Trenton, N.J., Denver, Colo., Brook· has expressed himself unequivocally on several occasions lyn, N.Y., San Francisco, Calif., and elsewhere. Nor will about many issues that seem inseparably linked with these be the last. his presidential ambitions: the allotment of federal Kennedy's undeniable campaign successes will put funds for parochial schools; the appointment of an am­ before his party's convention a difficult decision. If he bassador to the Vatican; the use of federal funds for should be nominated, the religious issue is likely to planned parenthood in underdeveloped countries; and, loom even larger in the final months and weeks before in general, the separation of church and state, with its election day. If Kennedy should fail to be nominated, numerous ramifications. Nobody doubts his sincerity. we shall probably never learn how serious a factor his Nor can his voting record speak against his suitability religious affiliation was in such a decision. The fight as a candidate. over AI Smith's Catholicism was passionate enough, but The irony of the situation is, however, that the Sena­ in Kennedy's case many of the factors that contributed tor has to contend with serious opposition from his own to AI Smith's defeat do not now exist. church. His freely expressed statements about the inde­ The echoes from Rome receive a special interest in pendence of his conscience and similar matters have view of the widely noted incident in Dijon, France. The brought forth stern reprimands from various Catholic mayor, a Catholic priest of liberal persuasion (if such quarters. Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's organ, category exists at all) was forbidden by his superiors to spoke of the conscience of any political leaders as being welcome Khrushchev during his first visit to France always dependent on God's voice and the moral law, earlier this year. The mayor-priest was simply ordered both of which are mediated to all men through the out of town by his ecclesiastical superiors. This episode, Catholic Church. This reminder puts the seal of author­ which caused widespread comments, is bound to sug­ ity