The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-10
WORK AMONG ENEMY
PEOPLES BY FRIENDS
REPORTEDP PROFITABLE

Friends work with the enemy pop
ulation confined in England during the
World war, did more even then the
war itself in reaching the real aim of
the war-that of ending all wars" de-
clared Mrs. Anna B. Thomas, of Balti-
more, before the session of the Indiana
Yearly meeting OF Friends Thursday
afternoon.
Mrs. Thomas, who was English
born, was in England during the war,
and was intimately connected with the
work OF the Friends in the prison
camps. THE amount Of money that
was spent was actually small, she
said, but that small amount was the
basis upon which the present work in
the foreign countries are now carried
on
By the actual demonstration of good
will and a love of all peoples in the
relief work that is now being done,
Mrs. Thompson said, the way of in
ternational peace is now being opened.
Says War Failed
THE World war failed of its object
that of providing world peace she
said. I'VE must try the other means"
Never before in the history of the
Peace Association of Friends in Amer
lea has the organization labored so
diligently and SC effectively as in the
past year, according to the fifty-third
annual report, read Thursday.
Change in public opinion from that
of promoting armed preparedness to
that of seeking peaceful settlement of
world difficulties was favorably com
mented upon in the report, which was
signed by Allen D. Hole, president of
the association.
Opposition to War
The report of the peace committee
of Indiana Yearly Meeting, submitted
Immediately following the association
report, spoke of the universal oppo-
sition to further war" which had made
its work particularly of advantage.
a report of the Meeting on Ministry
and Oversight, recommending that the
Five Years Meeting be asked to send
a message of Christian good will to the
governments of the world, declaring
that the solution of the troubles OF
the world lay in the practice of the
religion of Christ, was adopted.
Warning the meeting that the So
ciety Of Friends should wake TO its
true situation, Charles Tebbetts. OF
Whittier. California, gave TO the meet
ing some statistics on its membership
as shown yer a period of five or II
years.
Meetings Increase Membership
Meetings of the west and of the
east have increased, he declared, but
the meetings of the middle west had
lost in mmbership. He also pointed
out that It was the memberships in the
city meetings that had increased,
while the membership of the country
meetings had fallen off.
Several members Of the meeting de-
clared that the statistics were not TO
be taken seriously because they had
not been properly compiled by the
original meetings when reporting.
The report of the statistical secre-
tary showed from the figures reported
that the membership of the society
was 1891, that there had been added
1,178 members during the year, and
that 966 had been lost in various
ways. The net gain, after the inclus.
ion of figures not found in the report
was IS, he announced.
Miss Ethel Baldwin, of the Column
bus monthly meeting was introduced
to the meeting.
James NJ. Moon led the devotional
exercises in the early morning meet.
ing. Rev. Moon is visiting from Phila-
delphia.