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experiences have elements Of resem-
blance and of dissimilarity. Rhoads
has seven generations Of physicians,
from father to son. behind him. He
was the first In his line to leave the pro-
fession and then he left It only because
his fathers death made 1t necessary for
him while very young TO GO to work to
support his mother and sisters.
Father Was Pioneer.
HIS father was a pioneer Of a kind
that today seems quaint. He believed
in giving women a college education.
He was one of the first trustees Of Bryn
Mawr College He became its first pres
ident. When his health broke down he
went out to the Indian country when,
as they say, the buffalo was running, '
and took the boy with him. He was one
Of the first men of Eastern position to
become interested in, to think about,
our mistreatment Of the Indian. He was
one Of the founders of the Indian Rights
Association, an early president.
Charles Rhoads inherited that respon-
sibility in his thoughts along with the
physical responsibility Of supporting his
fathers family. Later he became treas
urer Of that society.
More than abstractly he knew about
Indians.
They tell the story that on one occa-
sion an Indian chief in full regalia
dropped in on Mr.. Rhoads' Germantown
house. The door was open. Feathered,
tomahawk in hand, he sat down in the
hall and waited. The Swedish maid
came innocently in, saw the vision, and
rushed screaming from the house.
Their college was Haverford, the
Quaker college Rhoads and Scatter
good both sprang from generations of
Quakers. Let us use their own express
uve word rather-generation of Friends.
Shortcut this attempt to analyze the
individual temperament into that of
cult. The Friend is typicallv indebted
tible and silent. He will go his own
road. He may not even inquire why
you are going a different way. Neither
will he be jostled out of his own nor
quite explain why he has chosen 1t.
Peace above argument.
Organized Federal Bank.
Rhoads became vice president and
treasurer of the Girard Trust in Phila-
delphia AS its first governor he organ
lied the Federal Reserve Bank there
Surely something of experience in or
ganiZation and administration. AS part
ner In Brown Brothers, whose London
bank Is Brown Shiplev, he was fire.
broadening his experiences of men and
affairs.
Scattergoods business experience was
Of a different kind. The dogwood dye
business furnished different sorts of
contacts.
They worked together in the war re-
lief Of the Friends unit Of the Ameri-
can Red Gross in France Rhoads was
chief Every one admits splendid work
g. - IL -,
shell-torn homes. Dislocation Confu-
sion. Reports to Rhoads of needs No
transportation. Scattergood beholds
freight car wheels with no cars to them
and trucks with no roads. He puts
trucks on car wheels; runs supplies
through.
Their work Of relief" eliminates in
the reconstruction of the devastated
villages Of France.
There is a saving, "A Quaker can buy
goods from Scotchman, sell them to a
Jew, and make money"
Clothed Peasants.
They bought the Army dump heaps
on spec" got enough out Of them to
clothe and help house-returning peas
ants, sold the balance to the French at
enough profit to found a maternity hos
pital at Chalons. Note-They took the
money from the French, but they gave
it back to the French
Thus, and in thousand other ways,
their old personal friendship first flow
cred into collaboration in work during
the war
Thus again today it works in Wash
ington. For this curious yet under
Standable friendship again functions in
the peculiar problems of Indian admin
Stration.
Those problems are exactly primarily
two in nature-the first human, the
second economic.
For you can't say in which respect our
rational record has been the worst Is
Il worse to have robbed the Indians
after conquering them or to have taken
their children away into schools where
we starved, imprisoned and beat them?
You think this Is an overstatement?
Consider the Merriam report, then.
This report is one of number of SINH
lar inquiries made by experts, intellec-
tuals of scholarly and dispassionate
kind, after personal survey of the field.
It was published by the Johns Hopkins
Press in 1928. It's pages reek with in
dictment. Through the careful GOODNESS
of scientific understatement there burn
the colors of cruelty, neglect, dishon-
eSty.
Clean Up Schools.
You may think it incredible that in
duential Congressman of decent pur-
pose should hesitate to appropriate
money to clean up a situation on all
sides admitted to be criminally bad. Yet
we look back upon the expenditure of
much money in the past. ineficiently
administered, wantonly wasted, even
occasionally in certain cases dishonesty
Incorporated. The one bright ray