• May 1991 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today Selective nonviolence is not our testimony. Quakers have chosen to struggle with an ideal of absolute, radical nonviolence. • ...., .. .., Among Friends Vinton Deming_ AMoolete ldltor Melissa Kay Elliott Art DINotor ...._.......Barbara Benton .......... No Strain, No Gain Catherine Frost t's the sort of thing I try not to think about. Never. It's simply too scary ClrcM.IItlon ..... Promotion Nagendran Gulendran and upsetting, every bit as bad as driving to pick up the kids at their ................... I friend's house and suddenly realizing you don't know the right James Rice and Susan Jordhamo hoNtertal ..,._. address or even the kid's last name, only that he's in your son's class at Jeanne G. Beisel school and his name is Shawn (or Shaun) and his dad's name is Bill. So you ~ stop and find a pay phone and you call home to ask your wife for the James Neveil correct street address and all you get after four rings is your own voice on Yolunteera Jane Burgess, Anders Hansen, the answering machine telling you that your message is "very important to Emily Conlon, Catherine McCulley, Becky Young us" and "please speak clearly right after the beep"-and you hang up the .......... __.,. phone in disgust and realize you don't have another quarter and it wouldn't 1988-1991: Nancy Cocks Culleton, Barbara Dinhofer, Sam Legg (Clerk), Parry Jones, solve the problem even if you did. The situation is every bit that bad. Richard Moses (Treosurer), Harry Scott, Larry It's even as mind boggling as having to get to work early one morning, Spears, Judith Randall, Alan Walker, Ellie White and your wife (or husband) does too, and you hurry the kids to get them 1989-1992: Jennie Allen (Secretary), Richard ready in time to catch the school bus because they have to make it because Eldridge (Assistant Clerk), Bernard Haviland, Eric Larsen, Marcia Mason, Janet Norton, the car is in the shop for repairs and there's no other way to get to school, David Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer and who wants to take them to work with you for the day? And when Tjossem, Elizabeth S. Williams, Alice Wiser 1990-1993: Clement Alexandre, Marguerite everyone's ready with lunches packed and hair combed and jackets zipped, Clark, Peter Eccles, Leonard Kenworthy, Lee wouldn't you know it-the school bus doesn't come. No bus! Zip. The Neff, Mary Ellen Singsen dispatcher explains on the phone that Mona didn't come to work this llonotwy .....__ Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young morning and the substitute driver started out late and probably got lost. FluBNDs JOUllNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was Look for Mona tomorrow. established in 1955 as the successor to The It wakes me up at night sometimes in terror. My palms are sweaty even Friend (1827-1955) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious now as I think about it. It's called, "What happens when there's a Society of Friends, and is a member of the magazine deadline and the issue is ready to go to the printer and the editor Associated Church Press. hasn't written his (or her) column yet?" • FluBNDs JOURNAL is published monthly by Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry The actual situation is even worse than that. The editor doesn't even St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone know what he wants to write about. 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Or, put differently, and maybe this was Microfilms International. the actual quote, "Things do actually have a way of working themselves PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER out." I did actually find Shaun's house, thanks to a kid who recognized my description of him and pointed out the right apartment building. And when the school bus didn't come, a neighbor spotted me looking frustrated in my Moving? bathrobe on the porch and offered to drive the kids to school. Cy Young did get the last out. Let us update And this column is finished. William Penn said it well: "Patience and diligence, like faith, remove your subscription mountains." and address. Write or call: F'RmNDs JoURNAL, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 (215) 241-7277; FAX (215) 568-1377 2 May 1991 FluENDs JoURNAL May 1991 FRIENDS Volume :n, No. 5 JOURNAL Features Departments 7 This Is Not Your Father's War 2 Among Friends Mary Rose O'Reilley Forum For this generation ofyoung people, whether to go to war is 4 a fresh question. 30 Reports 9 Campus VIews 32 FCNLNotes Jude O'Reilley Geisheker, Rebecca A. Grunko, 34 News of Friends David Ludwig, Evan Manvel Four college students face the dilemmas of war and pacifism. 36 Bulletin Board/ Calendar 13 There's No Way I'd Go Vinton Deming 38 Notes Between A Colorado man seeks sanctuary from the military with Measures Boulder (Colo.) Meeting. 40 Books 15 The Dilemma of Teaching about War 42 Resources William C. Kashatus This teacher finds that the students are the ones who ask the 42 Milestones tough questions. 46 ClassHied 16 Children at War Dorothea E. Woods Poetry Throughout the world, wars are being fought by children. 23 Where Clouds and 18 A Time to Heal . Eagles Soar Lerma Mae Gara Alice Mackenzie Swaim The "Hinshaw years" of William Penn College call back memories of idealism and hope. Pause 24 Elisa the EH Star Code Daniel Nign III Richard Eldridge When an elf breaks a wing, the spirit breaks along with it. 26 Incomplete Moon 27 Worship as Adventure to Full William D. Turner Emily Sargent Councilman Acceptance ofthe invitation is thefirst step into spiritual growth. A Meadow Cover art: "Christ Breaks the Gun, , by Otto Pankok Terence Y. Mullins FluENDs JoURNAL May 1991 3 Worth considering The process we at RFM are now embarking on is that some of us who Friends with concerns about pacifism have editing skills are offering to sit with and the peace witness should read would-be opinion makers (that's all of Guenter Lewy's Peace & Revolution: The us, from time to time) every First Day Moral Crisis of American Pacifism after meeting for worship. We discuss (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1988). and edit and type letters that will be sent While Lewy deals with groups besides the that week to the local paper. We hope Society of Friends, and has an agenda of that a steady stream of letters signed by his own, thoughtful members of the different people will emerge from this Society need to consider his arguments process, and that this will illuminate and test them against their own public discussion from the standpoint of experiences and perceptions. Friends testimonies. Might other Friends meetings see this Vinton M. Prince, Jr. as a fitting activity and do the same? Wilmington, Ohio Robert Schutz Santa Rosa, Calif. No heirs apparent I agree with Lorraine Cleveland in her Native Greens article "How Much Is Enough?" (FJ January): The institution of inheritance Thank you for Elizabeth Bronson's ·does perpetuate inequalities; inheritance is article on the Green movement (FJ Willing to share a mote in our own eye. In addition, the March). One issue that has drawn Friends Perhaps Friends will be interested to institution is a power of elders over and Greens together here in Northern see the sign (above) on the door of others not always exercised with wisdom Yearly Meeting country is the struggle of Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Meetinghouse. The or kindness. our Chippewa neighbors to re-establish meeting approved its placement there at In my own case, I am past 65 and their treaty-guaranteed right to traditional its meeting for business January 6. blessed with three children and five hunting and fishing activities. There have grandchildren. These heirs are not the been ugly confrontations with crowds of Joe Osborn least disturbed by the knowledge that white sportsmen and local resort owners. Bethlehem, Pa. they may not receive an inheritance.