Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-20
LOCAL NOTICE
Henry Seattergood, Who is to
Speak on SUNDAY EvAnipo Nav o6


Speak on Sunday Evening, May 26,
at Winthrop Center Church on the
Civilian.
Relief work which is being done by
the Society of Friends as a depart
ment OF the American Red Cross in
france, was one of the members of
the commission appointed to study
the needs of the French people and
plan the greatest relief work which
has ever been undertaken by one ma
tior in the interests of another. Mr..
Scattergood is one of the most proml-
nent business men III the Society of
Friends. he is equally active in civic
and philanthropic interests, being
Chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Central Philadelphia y. NJ. {.
A., member of the Board of Man
ayers of Haverford College, the
Pennsylvania Working Home for
Blind Men, and Christiansburg Insti-
tute. He is also one of the most ac-
tive members of the American
Friends Service Committee, which
was organized at the time the United
States entered the war, with the pur-
pose of expressing, by a practical
and sacrificial service. the ideals Of
brotherhood and good will which that
denomination has always considered
vital in business and national life as
well as in the home and social life of
individuals. Mr.. Scattergood will
show remarkable collection of
Photographic lantern slides made
from photographs taken by himself
on the former battle fields in the
north of France. The great prestige
which the English members of the
Society of Friends have with the
French people. due to their three
years of magnificent relief and recon
strnction work among the French
people. opened the opportunity to Mr..
Scattergood to obtain information of
a confidential and special nature
which possibly no other American
has had access to. This fact, coupled
with the fact that his standing as a
member of the American Red Cross
Commission gave him entire to Of
fetal circles of the Allies, will make
his opinion and observation of pc
Q
throp.
The work of the American Friends
Service Committee in organizing and
financing this enterprise of civilian
relief and reconstruction is now bear
ing fruit on dozen fronts. Al
though the Italian work is newest,
the work in Samara away off in
Southern Russia is perhaps the most
spectacular. \ group of thirty
Friends relief workers are organizing
a relief work for this whole section.
Although Samara is over q thousand
miles away from the Russo German
battle line, Yet there are thousands of
refugees in Samara who have come
all the way from the country invaded
by the German army. Other points
of particular interest are Monastir
where Serbian refugees are being
aided, and the Island of Corsica
where there is also a large colony of
Serbian refugees. Work is also being
done by the Friends among Belgian
refugees in Holland.
Mr.. Scattergood will tell how this
work came to be organized and how
! it is being carried on by the Ameri-
can and English Society of Friends
or Quakers in cooperation with the
Civil Department of the American
Red Cross. The work of the Ameri-
can Friends Service Committee has
to considerable extent been made
possible by the remarkable successes
of the English Friends who have
been active for three years in the
work of relief and reconstruction
among the civilian population Of Eu-
J rope. At the time of the reception Of
one hundred Quaker boys from
, America, who are now aiding in this
work. MIR Homer Folks, the Chief of
: the Civil Department of the Ameri-
! can Red Cross. paid English kriends
the following tribute: The Red
Cross looks on the Society Of
Friends as in a sense its expert lead
crS," he declared. There is no group
of people from whom we have
learned so much, or from whom we
expect to learn SO much. as the
Friends" Day1 Cd I w