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Ginger Rogers clinched her stardom (and won a well-deserved Oscar) by the finest female acting of the year in her role of a spirited Irish girl from the far side of the tracks in Philadelphia. Madly in love with a Quaker aristocrat, Kitty finds that they can be happy anywhere except in the City of Brotherly Love--but the ties of birth and position hold her husband home and create a barrier between them. So Kitty goes out on her own, has a divorce and a baby, meets young doctor James Craig who offers her marriage and security. Then...
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...
...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...