The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-06
FRIENDS NAME
OFFICERS FOR
FIVE YEARS
John R. Carey Elected Presid-
ing Clerk-Reports of Fin
ance Committee and Treas
urer Read.
7. E. HARVEY SPEAKS

Organization work of the quinquen- |
NAL period of the Five Years Meetings |
of the Society of Friends in America |
was completed at the Wednesday ses-
sion when the report of the nominating |
committee was read and accepted. !
Clerks for the ensuing five years are
as follows. presiding clerk, John R |
Carey. of the Baltimore Yearly Meet !
! ing; recording clerk, Clara l. Cox, of |
North Carolina Yearly Meeting; read |
ing clerk, Ella NJ. Barrett of Western |
Yearly Meeting. Ebert Russell was /
appointed by members of the Balti- !
more delegation to take the place of
John R. Carey who was to serve on
the business committee.
Pages appointed for the present |
meeting are as follows: Mary NJ
Coate, Morris Tomlinson, Helen Haw-
kins and Milton Hadley.
During the business session which
followed the organization work of the
meeting, the reports of the treasurer
and that of the finance committee
were read. The treasurer's report hav-
ing been audited and certified by Fran
els A. Wright, certified public account
ant, IT was accepted by the meeting
On account of the report of the exc
cutive committee in printed form not
having reached the hands of the dele
gates in time this report was delayed
until after the address of T. Edmund
Harvey, after which it was read and
passed on to the business committee
See Great Changes.
NO period of five years in all hui
man history has ever been marked by
such profound changes as have oc-
CURED during the period since We met
here in our last Five Years Meeting.
said Rufus NJ. Jones, of New England
Yearly Meeting in his address before
the Five Years Meeting Wednesday.
The greatest empires of modern
times which seemed as solid as Gil
braltar have crumbled and fallen to
pieces. Mighty states foundered like
a ship in a gale, and Europe has been
brought to the very verge of financial
collapse"
Ihe bases of modern civilization
have been shaken as by a world-en.
circling earthquake. It is not settled
even yet what is to survive the vast
upheayal or what are to be the forces
OF the new era and the new order
Old Civilization Dead
one thing we know. The old type
of civilization is bankrupt; the old,
selfish, materialistic way of life cam
not restore or rebuild our shattered
world Meme, meme, as plainly as be.
fore the eyes of Belshazzer is written
on methods and systems of greed and
force, whether they be between states
or between economic groups of soci-
ETY..
The type means the ruthless starv-
alton and death of innocent children
1t means recurring chaos and moral
havoc. 1t means the formulation of
frontiers of hate between people who
ought to be brothers. 1t means the
breeding of new wars out of the racial
or social grudges of the old one
There is but one solution, there is
only one way out of the vicious circle,
and that is the experiment and prac-
uce OF new way of life; the creation
of new faith and a new spirit which
was tried once in Galilee This is to-
day the very heart and marrow Of the
Quaker mission in the world"
Three Essentials Necessary
Mr.. Jones, in his address, stated
that there are three things which are
absolutely essential to the reorganiza-
tion of the world. They are, first. a
sound economical policy, political
ideals and systems fitted to the inter
national needs of the world, and a re-
ligion which speaks to the fundamen-
tai condition Of mans soul
we must be done forever with fair
weather pacifism, said Mr.. Jones,
"but we must remember further that
the ground on which we refuse to
fight in wartime demands that we
maintain the mind and spirit of Christ
in peacetime."
That the conference is facing big is
sues and will be forced to attempt the
solution of great problems was the
statement of T. Edmond Harvey of
the London Yearly Meeting of Friends,
in his address on The World Outlook
and the Open Door for Friends" be-
fore the Five Years meeting Wednes-
day. He stated that man-made bar
riers of unfriendly relations must van
ish and cannot exist when the heart.
felt friendly feeling advances.
Search for Truth.
From the day of the founders VIC
have had faith in the truth, and al
though our view may be blurred and
our idea only partially complete, the
truth is that for which we are seeking
today" said the speaker
In summarizing the differences OF
opinion and ideals of various people
of the world, and the feeling of hat
red ond distrust broadcast everywhere
the speaker stated that these differ
ences can be given a new meaning
and that our great problems can be
given a new solution through a new
faith in our fellowman.
The world needs new vision" de
clared Mr.. Harvey. Civilization il
Europe has broken down completely
We are not only bankrupt financial!
but morally as well. Daily there il
tragedy in all the homes of Europ'
and truly | cannot see the remedy.
Spiritual Needs Necessary
We have worshipped material pow
er: we have put the means before tn
end until we have forgotten the END
II looks as though our civilization is
big piece of machinery and that it ha
gone wrong, but, thank God, men ar
not machinery Society is llvin
organism and this fact will enabl le u
to bring about a new birth for ciVilizS
ton. With hope and faith there ca
be a new society rise out of the WRECK
age Of the old -
Tn outlining the work of Friends j