The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-29
KINSHIP OF FRIENDS
TO TRUE DEMOCRACY
SHOWN BY SPEAKER

Similarity between true democracy |
and Quakerism, each opposed to the
rule of a small group, and both rec
ognizing the need for the participation
OF the entire government in its. func-
tioning, were pointed out by Frank
Aydelotte, of Swarthmore, Pa, presi-
dent of Swarthmore college, in ad-
dressing the Hicksite general confer
ence Tuesday morning.
There is a fundamental similarity
between the problems of Quakerism
and those of democracy" President
Aydelotte declared "The members of
the Society of Friends set up as a re-
ligious ideal the ministry of all be-
levers as opposed to the ministry of
small group especially trained for
priestly office. The Quaker ideal i'm
plies whole group sharing one with
another religious insight and inspira-
ton in a manner that implies a high
degree of individual independence and
responsibility
Both Quakerism and democracy
have set for themselves high ideals,
and it is only fair to say, ideals which
have as yet been only partially real
lied 1t is evident that the key to the
ideals and the other lies in education.
Both depend upon very high level of
character, ability and training.
Underestimate Difficulty.
Il think there is no possibility OF
any one disputing the statement that
both the Society of Friends and all de-
mocracies, great as has been their
feeling of the importance of education,
have nevertheless underestimated the
difficulty of the problem. Neither
group has provide enough educational
facilities. Neither group has carried
its educational training far enough, or
made it fine enough.
Indeed, it is a common idea that
universal education is incompatible
with the highest educational stand
ards, that nations and religious bodies
must choose whether they will have
education for all of a low quality, or a
high quality of education for the few
The fact is that they must have both"
President Aydelotte's address was
followed by round table discussion.
Other round table discussions SEIZED
uled for Tuesday morning were post
poned until afternoon.
Haynes Sounds Warning.
Sounding a note of warning against
ject of law enforcement, Prohibition
Commissioner Roy A Haynes address
ed a capacity crowd at Grace church
Monday night. The speech followed
conference with prohibition officials
held Monday afternoon.
at is only the man who knows the
far-reaching moral influence of the
former liquor traffic, localized and
protected, who knows of the debauch-
ing and prostituting effects of the
former brewery and distilling interests
in politics, who knows the foreign un-
American element that champions the
liquor business, who can today inter
pref the significance of the struggle
that wages about the Volstead act, -
he said
THE man who understands the tenn
perance reform, who visualizes it's far
reaching influences upon the life of
our nation, who contemplates the ben
efits it must confer upon the rising
and unborn generations, must be
thrilled with the events that are daily
staged. If he is not blind to the de
termined opposition that this reform
daily meets, the importance of this
hour must give him pause. With this
insight into the contest he must surely
be led to feel with Kathleen Norris
who recently said: The Eighteenth
Amendment has given US one Of the
greatest opportunities of our lives
Wars will come and wars will go, ad
ministrations will rise and fall, bu
the work we may do now to builC
UP this cleansing and Strengthening
and constructive law into our life
will never be undone.
what we need to do is to see no
only the hosts of Syria that arr
against US, but also the characters o
fire who are for us-to get vision o
the struggle as it is, and to find tina
there is an urgent need for our effort.