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American Friends Service Committee — Part 18
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Canp No. hy loceted ab loro, Indiana, and operated by the AFcC,
wort naid bo conaiat of JU6 conscientious objsctora to war from seventoon
different states and £4ftaen denoulnatlonae
It wos avid $n April, WAL, tint the American Iriends cervico
Comittee operated the Hacodonia “ork Cap at Clarkesville, Georyia, for
tao sontha ecch sumer, "eich abudent prying $100 for tin keop unl he
recoived a fellowship." The stulents are Ad lo engare An aanual Jator for
a pructicol education in eonstruebion and modarn farn metinods. In lil
they are said to have complated an earthen dua 200 fcet Long. end 32 foat
high at the Macedonia Comzunity Center, to furnish power and irrigation for”
the eurroming territory. Tha boys and pirla who comprise the canp were
reported to live separately, rice carly and j;rojare thelr own oreakfasta.
h itt tran minute period of mditstion was said to follow and after cevan
hours of labor, there wis tims for study and reé¢roation, fouetine curing
the cicht ka, according to tho informant, an extendcd trip nas naio to
study other expertuental communities,
The Uacedonia Community Canter, of which the we sri 5
dntcoral prt, is scid to have been formed by
a some menbers of the 3
Coorgia, tidch de about elght miles from the Conmunity.
Thu Genter 12 usid to be a cooperative experinant composed of five
fantlioe wach pool their resources and preduca, and are paid in sertp which
do rceognized ty each of the others, The vork canp and tho cosmunity ere
gaid to werk togellor on nny projects and it is reported thit neither are
connected 1ith uny “ten” bub are licnest exporinonts to better working condi
tions dn tho vicinity.
It hau baon alleped, hoover, that sons of the frcuwlty manhers of
who are intoreeted in this projact have manifected radical
tendoneses. The 4 do reportod Lo have supplied apeakers for the collesa
al accordiin, to an informant, "they have ajperently been pacdfists, bat not
UreAmericarn,"
In necomier, 1Wh2, a wenber of the WSC, doseribead ar a conselentious
objector thea working da a Fréends Vverk Canp in indlanapolls in a etre lun
Uetriat, stubed thats
"Tf wo utop to quibble akout whether a auvaa soells of
Comaunisia er {6 not pacificlte, no whll never cet anythiyy dono,
to we tra trying to work with any eaune that ds Sighting the
cause of better canditions for Lhe underprivilepod aud the ead
of racial hate and Face sina In Anericdesecesedl thts keeps or at
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