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236 To believe the Service Committee should confine its activities to Christian service, both at home and abroad, That is what made the Committce a power- fully constructive force for unifying Friends throughout our country. Present policies are dividing us. Let us concentrate on proclaiming the Gospel of Chizst and carrying on Christian charity in His name. Political matters shovl¢ be leit in the Levids of individual Friends and for such action as they may take in their Menthly, Guarterly and Yearly meetings. . PERSONNEL During the past 20 years, the tendency to employ more and more non-Fricnds in Service Committce work has been rapidly growing. Some of the signers of this document have heard an officer of the Service Cormmmittee defend socialism in public debate. Cthers have heard an officer of the Service Committee declare in public that we would never have peace until capitalism was abolished. Some of us have seen maladjusted persons appointed to responsible positions in foréign service and have witnessed moral breakdown of the most objectionable kind by administrators of Service Committee work. Ina large organization, lapses of this kind are, of course, inevitable but if points to the importance of more Care in the selection of personnel. Many of us think it would be better to do less work and to employ Friends to do it rather than to enlarge activities to the point of mowing proper care and supervision almost impossible, The large preponderance of funds coming to the Service Committce from non-Quaker sources is probably the reason for the enlargement of activities and for the employment of so many