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American Friends Service Committee — Part 3
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If the Service Comnuittee is not infiltyated with teltewing thinking ond pes-
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heve mentioned to proclaim their message to the public. . '
Why snould the Service Commitice use speakers who have novelizion, nut
to mention Fyiendly motivation?
zs. Morris Mitchell who was a cpcaker at Avon Institute, organized ty the
Sezvice Committee a few years ago, took a strong position against cayiclism
at the Verraont Forum in Burlington, Cetober 3, 1951, anda very dofinsive ov
rrotective attitude toward communism. More recently, writing in Pains
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JOGRNAL, April 14, 1956, Mitchell said: ‘For I must say to you that vvofits
ane mo part of morality and may be the unqucstioned essence of ervor ina cicn
society ane 2 divided world,"
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in our opinion, this shows a compicte lack of undesstanding of the nature P
uuc Tunction of profit. Generally speaking, to carn a protit ina frce marxet,
‘one must serve his fellows better than others are serving them. Profit might
D2 said to Le &@ commission on the benefits one has conferred upon nis fellows.
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in a ivee market, one must serve if he would profit and usually profits arice
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proportion to services rendered. For cxample, a few men made great
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fovtunes from the invention and development of harvesting machinery bur how
much vould bread cost and how much of it would be nave if wheat had ta be vown,
reaped, transported and milied by hand? The profit carned by these fow mena
Wac pYobabiy only a tiny fraction of one per cent of the benefit accvuin
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Stewart Morris, a Service Committee sneaker at the Institute held as Corncls
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