Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant Prior, commanding officer, wrote that his flight was using North American "Harvard" planes--whence the nickname--, but it was by the kindness of some Quaker postman that the letter ever reached Cambridge. It was addressed to "Harvard University, Pennsylvania...
...soil erosion, other jobs of the C. C. C. type. The C. O.'s day, like the Army's, will begin about 5:30 a.m. But unlike the draftee he will have a few minutes after 6 a.m. breakfast for a group meditation based on the Quaker meeting. Evenings he will hear lectures on nonviolent methods of meeting problems and sociological issues...
...charge of the Friends' camps, as their director of Civilian Public Service, is grey-haired, robust Quaker Thomas Elsa Jones, who in December took a year's leave from his presidency of Fisk University. Besides Patapsco, he will supervise the Friends' camp for C. O.s already operating at Cooperstown, N. Y., others soon to open in California, Indiana, Ohio. Mennonites will also establish their camps at Colorado Springs, Grottoes, Va. and Bluffton, Ind., and the Church of the Brethren will start camps at Onekama, Wis. and Lagro, Ind. The three sects plan to open joint camps later...
...practical pacifists, Quakers seek to overcome evil with good, not in isolated cases but in every way they can. They believe in tackling troubles at their root. In World War I this philosophy led them to start rebuilding ruined French villages even before the Armistice. Afterwards they fed starving children, stopped epidemics, restocked whole provinces with farm tools, seeds and livestock, left permanent centres for "international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe...
Nearest thing the Friends have to an international spokesman is 78-year-old Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford, Pa. He helped organize the American Friends Service Committee in April 1917 to give U. S. Quakers something specific to do in World War I. He is still its chairman. Said he last week of the Quaker work camps...