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7 “%- » Ii the Service Committee is not infiltrated with leftewing t sumicl, way Coes it employ speakers who cre notovious for promo Suvely, the great majority of Friends would not approve of usi ve mentioned to proclaim their message to the public. . : Why shoule the Service Committee use spewkers who have no ve to mantion Fsiendiy motivation? Dz, Morvis Mitchell who was a speaker at Avon Institute, o7; protective attitude toward communism. More receatly, writing in FAiny JOURNAL, Aprill+, 1956, Mitchell said: ‘For i must say to you that profits ane mo pert of morality and may be the unqucstioned essence of erro society and 2 divided world," In our opinion, this shows a compicte lack of undesstanding of the nature uuc function of profit. Generally speaking, to carn a protit ina free marxet, one must serve his fellows better than others are serving them. Proiit might ‘2 suid to Le 2 commission on the benefits one has conferred upon hi oy me wa izvee market, one must serve if he would profit and usually profits arise m proportion to services rendered, For cxample, a few men made great fovtunes from the invention and development of harvesting machinery but much would bread cost and how much of it would be have if wheat hac to be “own, reaped, transported and milied by hand? The profit carned by these few rn wae pYobabiy only a tiny fraction of one per cent of the benefit aceve Stewart Morris, a Service Committee speaker at the Institute