The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-11
TO RECONSTRUCT
NORTHERN FRANCE
10 YOUNG MEMBERS Or SOCIETY
oP FRIENDS IN TRAINING
FOR WORK. +" srr

Washington star: One hundred YOUNG
members Of the American Society OF
Friends have been In training at HaNer-
ford. Pa. for the purpose Of creating
skilled unit 10 go 10 France. They go
20 that war-riddep. hcart'weary land 10
follow the example Of their fellows OF
Great Britain. who have been quie'iy
Iaboring across the channel, In the
wake Of the Huns, for two years and
"A half.
A number OF them. wei equipped ana
hardened 10 systematic outdoor WORK.
sailed few weeks ago for France
mot 10 destroy. but TO build, not to
wound but to heal" is their slogan.
and their work. in the language of the
layman. will be 10 reconstruct commun.
tiles DESTROYED by the invading Ger
mans. These young Quakers. many OF
them students at Haverford college,
and others from as far away as Maine
and California, call themselves the Am
erican Friends Reconstruction Unit, No.
1. which suggests that this will not be
the end OF Quaker endeayor in matters
military. ....i s-.r- 80 ....-'
II the advice of the Red Cross. cabled
them from France. de followed the
formation of a second unit will begin
at once.,,, This cable was source OF
grebt enthusiasm to Haverford. indicat-
ingf that their summers training camp
had not been In vain, and that there
waA warm welcome awaiting consci-
entous workers. The cable came from
Morris Leeds. Philadelphia Quaker.
who has been in France for some little
tinfe. looking over the splendid results
Of the English Quakers' efforts in this
direction. p and making suggestions To
Prof. Rufus Jones. head of the Hayer-
ford unit. In one Of Mr.. Leeds letters
he said that one Of the principal good
works which the American organization
might follow to good advantage was ag-
ricpltural. There are $50 men in the
British unit-fifty of them not Quak-
era but opposed to war-and in the
farm work they have been utilizing as
many as $50 moving machines. Most
OF these have been given TO various
villages where they are intended to be
used by the entire community. while
thirty Of them are still retained and
loaned directly. These are all followed
up to see that they are kept In repair
and are really being used. Besides
these. they have forty-five reapers and
binders. which are used in a similar
manner. and several very modern
threshing machines.
The Quakers go out with the families
for whom they are working somewhere
in France" living with them. as well
For all Of this work they charge only
forSgasoline used. Throughout this. re-
gioh. which was devastated during the
German retreat after the battle of the
Marine. whole towns were wrecked. but
the people Of France love the very soil
Of their long established homes, and
they came back. and the Friends who
live beyond the chalk cliffs understand.
They do not say the saddened. impov-
eriShed peasants should do something
else. but they bring them the things
with which they were familiar, only
very often in more modern guise, and
they toll with them. reconstructing.
Demonstrating is the watchword. and
what Americans. training for il this
past summer and sailing for sunny
France. go forth to do. They, like the