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( -35- ) And further, again from the 1955 Annual Report --- "The Committee is perhans above all an organization exneri the ticid of human relations, the field takes ia such samiliar as race tensions, insecurity, intolerance, superiority, ignoran sonal frustrations and even spiritual pride," "To adjust persons in segregated industri help schools achieve the democratic, ense and re-affirmed American sta from their homes to fit into life in new comm new neighbors to reccive them; to educate sophisti through experience with the problems of job getting, of and culture, of handicapped persons in institutions; to rchoabdili victims in Korea; to emancipate the illiterate in Katy; to ident with the pressured minorities, the dispossessed, the unfortunate ir places -- all these are but similar forms of a wider problem," ( Docs the first sentence in this statement present the policy of the AL F.S.C. ? Bo the sentences that follow clearly express the action to be taken by the A.P.S.C. to implement its policy? If so, then the A.F.S.C. is surely the keeper of other's consciences, the judge of other's actions, by Lewis Ma. Hoskins, Executive Secretary, announcing certai Service Cornmittee work, One of them is: "\...greater emphasis on work with high school-age young people wh . are increasingly confronted with perplexing probleins requiring personal decisions, For many the answer becomes an easy acquiescence in what is becoming normal and traditional -- military service and a career look~ ing toward conventional 'success'," QUESTION: What high school pupils docs A, F.S.C, intend to help come to a decision? Are they members of various crecés and churches or just Quakers? What is meant by the words "conventional success?! Who are we to judge? : The A.F.S.C. BULLETIN, March-April, 1955, states; i 1 i "The gradual change in the activities of Quaker workers in Europe from | relicf distribution to a wide variety of educational undertakings, reflects | the challenge today before the A,F.S.C, on the continent -- the challenge | to &pply the convictions of Friends to the multitudinous problems a inter- ; national understanding. | QUESTION: What arc the convictions of Friends? Are they to be d by the A,&.S,C, management? Just where will such policy statements i : o ; ‘*%. supposed that the A, F.S.C, pecple who select the issues it is tod ; with have powers of spiritual perception beyond others? Are these A, : people qualified through superior spiritual insight to express themselv ro the whole membership of the Society of Friends?