The New York herald., 1922-02-12

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to Berlin recently was the desire to ex-
anime a bit into the work or Quaker
friends were there doing. About the
work I had heard little, i had read
little. aud what i had heard and what
1 had read only stimulated my desire
to learn more. Here were people who were
putting the New Testament precept to
the test IF thine enemy hunger, feed
him." What was the scope OF the work!
Above ALL what the result?
1 arrived in Berlin without any spe-
cial letters of introduction and in day
or two TAXED out TO the Quaker head
quarters The woman at the head OF
the work received me cordially and'
having heard my request, replied that
IL / would be on hand the next morning
at o'clock could have seat In their
automobile as 1t made the rounds to
several of the feeding places.
The next morning just before was
seated waiting in the great general
office room in the quarters supplied by
the German Government. There were
thirty or forty small desks rapidly be-
ing filed up as the clerks-Wpmen,
mostly young women--came tropping In.
AS the later arrivals entered 1 began
to notice that each one before seating
herself at her own particular desk
shook hands with all in her immediate
neighborhood There was an atmos-
phere of subdued cheerfulness on every
side that was quite noticeable.
Up came my friend OF the day before,
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loud whisper, I'VE are going in for our
word Of prayer: wouldn't you like to
come too?" She led the way into
small side room, where ] sat down in
the last vacant chair, being one OF
twenty or twenty-five closely crowded
together. The leader took her seat at
small table in front, saying 1--WE will
have our usual season of prayer.
Heads were dropped just bit and eyes
closed, at least so / fancled
Silence followed; it may have lasted
three, four. FIVE, know not how many
minutes. when a voice. low but clear,
not in prayer. not in praise, without
pause and without hurry, said:
Love means self-sacrifice.
Love means self-denial.
Love is unselfishness.
Love sees only the good.
Love never tires.
Love never grows faint hearted.
Love never hits back.
Love never Is impatient.
Love never falls
The voice stopped as suddenly as ie
began and we were plunged into another
period of silence which ended with the
scraping of a chair upon the floor. the
signal for breaking up.
Directly we were in the automobile,
two visitors besides myself, all in charge
of a young Quakeress-she said she was
Pennsylvania Dutch-rather short and,
to be honest, at this stage I thought
rather plain. AS we rolled along we
Piled her with questions and here I sum-
marize details gathered then and
throughout the day.
The basis of the work Is fundamen-
tally religious; it is an attempt to put
into practice the belief Of the Quakers
that lasting good can be accomplished
not by war and violence but only by
love and service. and to apply to the
present world situation the essential
principles of Christianity.
A large part of their funds comes
from. Herbert Hoover and his American
Relief Administration other parts come
from Americans of all kinds. The
American Quakers pay all the overhead
expenses. The children and mothers to
be fed are selected by physicians solely
on the ground of undernourishment. The
meals consist OF cocoa, rice soup, pea
soup, bean soup, milk. rice, accompanied
by white bread or rolls four times
week. The average cost of meal is
about three cents. In addition to the
Quaker office assistants more than $4,000
Germans help In the cooking and the
distribution of the food, large part of
these being volunteer workers. Some
weeks before 1 was in Berlin the relief
work reached its peak. for every day
of the week, Sunday excepted, 1t fed
100000 children and mothers. 1t oper-
ated in 1000 cities and cooked its food
in 2,200 kitchens. which supplied $500
feeding centres wherein were fed, as
said more than one million persons.
by this time we had arrived at our
first stop, a school for boys. We passed
through the main doors anu out iHlo
an open court behind. All German
schools are built around quadrangle
wherein are trees and open spaces for
play. In the far corner the Quaker
children were Just finishing their meal.
They had come from various rooms, and,
each one stopping in the coatroom at
his own hook and taking therefrom
sort of cloth -knapsack which he hung
over his shoulder, had fallen into line
and had marched down to this particu-
lar corner. There, stlll in line. each
opened his knapsack and took out big
mug, which was filed as they filed by
with a nourishing soup from enormous
thermos bottles. and white rolls were
distributed. Standing around in groups
the children ate.
At this juncture we appeared and with
our appearance my ears heard a great
cheer OF welcome. But the cheer was
not for mo nor for the Epglishmen
with me 4; it was for the little Qualseress