The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-10
American Friend Will Be
Published Here, Beginning
on January Is. E. Mich
olson, Editor.
BOARD MET HERE
ALL DAY MONDAY
Paper Will Avoid Controver-
sial Discussions and Will
Advance the Interests Of
the Whole Church.

The initial issue of the first official
organ of the Society of Friends in
America will leave the Nicholson press
in this city on January 2. Pursuant to
q resolution of the Five Year meeting
the publication board of the church,
in session in this city, yesterday for
mally took over the American Friend
weekly, from the American Friends
Publishing company of Philadelphia
which had issued the sheet for the last
nineteen years.
The publication board adopted arti
cles of Incorporation and will be Off.
cially known as the Friends Publica
ton Board The articles We're sent to
the secretary of state yesterday by
John H. Johnson, Of this city, secre.
tary y-treasurer of the board.
The organization of the board placed
Alvin T. Coate, of Indianapolis, in the
chair The following members of the
board attended the meeting: Alvin T
Coate, Indianapolis; c. E. Cosand
Wichita, Kan; Ellis r. Purdy, Will
mington, O.; S. H. Hadley. Oskaloosa,
Ia; Isaac T. johnson, Urbana, Ohio
J. H. Johnson, Richmond.
S. Edgar Nicholson, of Washington
general secretary of the Anti-Saloon
league, and author of the Nicholson
liquor law of this state, was elected
editor and manager of the paper. He
attended the meeting yesterday and
will make his residence in this city
late this month.
Plans of Paper.
The new editor today made the fol.
lowing announcement anent the policy
of the paper: "The policy of the paper
will be positive and constructive in
endeavoring to promote the high inter.
ests of the denomination. Controver-
sial utterances of a destructive tenden.
cy will be discouraged and avoided as
as far as possible, and it will be the
steady aim to promote unity and har.
mony of Quakerism along construc.
tive lines"
Special attention will be given to
the work of the boards created by the
last Five Year meeting, to news hap.
penings of interest to the church at
large, and to a discussion Of world
wide questions of moral, social, econo.
mic and civic character.
The sheet will contain sixteen pa
ges of reading matter, which may be
increased to twenty. The circulation OF
the paper is between 5000 and 5000.
This will be Augmented by subscrip.
tions from any Friends who have not
read the paper because it was not an
official organ of the church
Other Papers Retire.
Coincident with the publication OF
retirement of the Evangelical Friend,
of Cleveland, O.: the Western Work.
er, published by the Iowa Yearly meet.
ing; the Interchange, published at
Baltimore; the Friends Messenger
published by the North Carolina meet.
ing. These papers will suspend their
weekly issues and leave the field clear
for the American Friend. Two papers
published by Friends in Kansas and
California are also expected TO cease
publication.
Permanent headquarters for the edi-
torial rooms Of the paper have not
been selected, but it is expected that
they Will be located in the South
Eighth Street Friends church.
The owners of the American Friend
transferred the paper to the publca.
ton board without a consideration.
Herman Newman, editor, and Rufus NJ
Jones, contributing editor, will sever
their connection with the plant this
month. Both live in Philadelphia.
History of Paper.
The American Friend is a consoli-
dation of the Friends Review of Phila-
delphia, and the Christian Worker, of
merged into the present paper, which,
by the action of the Five Year meet
ing, becomes the irst official organ of
the Friends church in America.
The location of the paper in Rich
mond, it is believed, means that this
city will be the permanent headquar-
ters of the publication house that viii
ultimately grow out Of the present
plan. The secretary of the foreign
mission board of the church lives here
and it is believed that as soon as the
secretaries for the other church boards
are elected. they will take up their res
idence here making this CITY the head