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Commitee printed and distributed, It doesn't scem to be anybody's job to go over what is released in the name of the Committee. Each area office seems to have a free lance op- portunity to co anything they please, just as long as they raise the money locclly, Security Risks Probably the Service Committee is more interested in Civil Liber- ties than aay other activity at the present time. It seems casicr to get moncy for such activities and it F must always be xemembered that thi © Service Com can xaise funds. Pere rescarch is hard to finance. In its employment policy the first requirement is that the applicant y with the ideals of the Service Committtee. What chance. be 2 capitalist- xded personto get a job under these circumstances? is there th someone with new ideas will get a job? In other words, the patte ms is definitely set, Secondly of more significance is the "security" rating which pre- vails in the selection of applicants. 1, Those jobs for which Friends only are acceptable, 2. Those jobs for which friends of Friends are acceptable. 3. Those jobs for which non-Friends are acceptable, Perpetuity The perpetuity set-up is probably the worst thing about the Service Committee Board. It reports to noone and it takes orders from noone. Vihat right has it to continue to call itself Friends? Just choosing Friends to be Board members is ro protection to the Society as a whole. In fact, it is subter- fuge of the worst calibre, RECOMMENDATIONS We wonder how Friends feel about having their best known and most heavily financed organization carrying on such socialistic and communist proso- ganda as hereinbefore cited and what will they do aboct it? The Service Committee is a self-perpetuating body. It is a law un- to itself, entircly outside the control of our Yearly Meetings, Nevertheless, inthe mind of the public, it is the voice of the Society of Friends, Friends