Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 13

SECTION Delaware County THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1964 INSIDE SPORTS 88-46 CLASSIFIED 41-45 COMICS 4647 MEDIA FELLOWSHIP HOUSE wns By SARA M. GRASBERGER Daily TtoMt CwmpMdMt MEDIA-The Media Fellowship House just more. This unique; suburban institution--born as the-result of an act of racial discrimination' -is dedicated to the brotherhood of man, no matter what the color of his The inter-racial, interfaith, non-political center at 302 S. Jackson remains Jaithfu! to the for which was founded 20 years ago: HO provide a place, and opportunities for people of all groups to. meet and, coming to know, each other as people, team, to function together." "To keep its own membership and the members of the community informed concerning what iies back of inter- group tensions by presenting factual data." help prepare members who are interested in participating in direct social action to do so wisely." Fellowship House members feel no one can be made to change his attitude.

But they feel it Is possible to create an atmosphere and provide opportunities which can change attitudes and improve human relations. They realize that oaty as people change for the better can a community change for the better. TODAY, Fellowship House has more than 500 members; 40 volunteer workers; 'one full-time paid worker, Mrs. Mary Edwards of'Media, coordinator; and one part- time assistant, Mrs. Hayes Jackson of Springfield, Fellows hip which is affiliated with the fledgling Media- 'Area Fair Housing.

Council, sponsors: Community fellowship' Meet-'' ings, Friday luncheon-round-' table; discussion' groups' a dance class, a pre-sctoW story hour, a Brownie troop and a youth repertoire guild. In addition, Fellowship House is the meeting place for a wide variety of groups, from the newly established Council Delations in the'Wedia area Media Alcoholics Anonymous. it has the focal ppinj.for civiLrighU It presently serves as a receiving center for contributions--money, clothing' and food-tor the Council of Federated Organizations (COF0) MARY EDWARDS, Media Fellowship House coordinator, works on one of many comriyjmty projects, Church Must Widen telling the congregation! He said that the parish had that there was only "one person'! rendered a "signal service" in the entire diocese who'could xwsibly handle an assignment such unimaginable sensitivity," a man of "deep knowledge- Layton Zimmer. giving, up its. pastor for six months in the new post, for it put "the right man in the right place at the right time." "That is why I feel so strongly and so deeply," the bishop concluded.

By MARIAN'. LOGUE Daily Times Con- SWARTHMORE "My job was to be where trouble was and relate to the people to listen, to separate fact from fancy to communicate the reality the slums to the outside world, and to communicate political realities to the slums Rev. Layton Zimmer, rector of trinity Episcopal Church, was talking about his recent six- month special assignment as representative and consultant for thej Bishop of Pennsylvania in areas of racial tension. Mr. Zimmer says that the most profound result of his work was the change within himself, the growing conviction that the church must "get beyond parochial boundaries religiously and socially" and involve people di rectly.

"The religious community has It also avoids duplication of will "be checked as to needs by been irrelevant for a pretty long gifts, Mrs. Plater said. Donors the Health and Welfare Council Christmas Sharing Service to Be gin CHESTER The 3 p.m. Monday 'through 'Friday rn mn from Monday lo 21, Mrs prdinating Committee's Christmas sharing telephone service will begin Monday. Mrs.

Richard Plater, committee chairman, said the telephone service matches organization or ndividual donors with persons in need. time," he said. "It hasn't been or persons in need may call talking about reality or truth Attendance figures don't say anything about truth On the scene at the north Philadelphia riots, the pastor says that most of the peopte in that community do not go to church regularly, adding: "It hasn't meant much at all." He thinks the rioting was spontaneous, that "the little guy doesn't see any way the poverty-stricken Negroes don't have any leaders." He said the white man has taught the slum dwellers he cannot be trusted, and the distrust includes ''many Negroes themselves who are identified with power structure." Zimmer said he met many men who go out to look for work every day and when they pick up jobs, work lor 25 cents or 50 cents per hour, "who have never made as much as the minimum wage." Mr. Zimmer acknowledged that the social aspects of religion are hard to discuss within the church today. When he speaks of the "tremendous atmosphere of hostility and bitterness" that exists around these subjects, he speaks from personal experience, for he has ft; ceived anonymous hate letters, though "not one-hall as many as some of my other brothers, (clergymen) he adds.

Ah'unsigned letter purporting to be from a parishoner circulated among church members this month, calling for opposi- lion.tp the philosophy. Bishop Robert DeWitl was, perhaps, answering these persons' when he spoke to the 70th anniversary dinner ol Trinity TRemont 4-0727 from 10 a.m. to Plater said. Mrs. 'Peggy, Favinge'r of YWCA staff, who'is in charge of the program, said volunteers will man the telephones.

Persons requesting 1 assistance trict, Delaware County Mrs. Plater said. continuing project which started last summer in Mississippi. THE MEDIA Fellowship. House was founded in the spring of 1944 following an incident in a Media restaurant.

Two Negro women one with a six-weeks-old baby in her arms were refused service. This incident moved a few to action. They decided to try to alleviate racial discrimination and problems of all minority groups. A room over a two-car garage served as the headquarters of the group for nine years until it acquired its present building in 1953. In 1955, the construction of a new wing to enlarge the centra! meeting room was made possible through a memorial fund established for Ellen Starr Brinton, an original member of Fellowship House.

THE INSTITUTION is operated by an executive committee, headed by William L. Bedford of Media and an advisory council of 38 members from various parts of the county. The council includes prominent educators, doctors and executives. The general membership is composed mainly of average citizens together with some community leaders from various fields, Mrs. Edwards said.

There are fellowship houses cities all over the nation, each operating, independently, she said. The Media Fellowship' House, she explained, is the only one in a suburban area. "We are increasingly aware of the urgent need for a positive stand for fair play, understanding and good will in all American communities," she said. "Segregation and discrimination are not confined to a particular area." CHESTER The Delaware County Chamber of commerce's TWO OF MEDIA'S key offi- directors have approved a plan ials. a cials, perhaps'summed up the value pi Fellowship House to the community.

Borough Council President G. D. Houtman said: "I believe Media Fellowship House is performing a good service to the community and the county by bringing under one roof various elements of the population of the county is composed and making an attempt to breed charity and understanding between all these elements." And Media Police Chief Gunnar H. Jorgensen added: such as Media Fellowship House hardly ever get enough credit for the harmony, balance and general information it has furnished our community in the 20 years the organization has been active, "I feel my'department owes Fellowship House a particularly well-earned vote of appreciation and thanks. "Its assistance and good will, in all cases applied without excessive fanfare or publicity, has greatly helped us keep Media a better place to live." introduce a new federal loan program here.

The program, nicknamed' "'6- 6," provides loans up to 56,000 for six years to small businessmen. MEDIA FEUXWSHIP HOUSE at 320 S. Jackson Media, continues to promote brotherhood. Chamber to Introduce New 4 6x6V U. S.

Loan Program Chamber General Manager Robert F. Cayman said 'trie (Joard agreed 10 set up an office where applicants can be screen- Screening Is expected to'be the Greater Chester Movement (GCM) community action cen i i i i i i i i i(ji done two afternoons a week at up in other parts of the county-perhaps Media or Upper Darby --if the response to the program 'Dear Santa: Hope You Will Bring Me Army Gun, Hat' Dear Santa Claus, 1 am almost 6 yeast old and in forst grade. I try to be a good boy but sometimes 1 forget. hope you will bring me an Army set, a gun and hat. Also I want flintstone projector, a sump truck, a wagon, a sled, and some new school clothes.

I will leave you cookies and mild Christmas Eve. Love, your, friend, TIMMY HAWKINS P. S. Please bring something for my three sislers and mother. Dar Santa Please bring me a "Big Bruiser, a play Monkey plus a Dan- gerous Dan Seen rney a Aulo Factory, a battle jacket, a Big job and the game of Mouse Bring my dog King a play mouse.

Thank you. LOUIS BENEDICT HALTER 226 10th St. Marcus Hoo Pa Dear Santa, I want crazy clock, Jimmy Jet, Tiger Joe, Crusader 101, Con- sentration, Monkey Gun, Defen- Love, AL FORTUNA der Dan. A GERMAN FAMILY IS THANKFUL 'Here You Have So Much Freedom' We who are free and whose fathers were free before us and, if they were here, their fathers before them, have gotten so used to being free in this country that we cannot imagine people not being free. We tend to think that we are normal and we are free'because we are, as a nation, such a bunch of hotshots that nobody could ever make us any other way.

We tend to think that if we got shipped into Russia, 10 or 20 of us, in two or three years we'd have them straightened out and set up a nice election for them where one bunch could say the other's man is a crook and the other bunch could say their opponent is a lunatic and everybody could have a fine time. THIS IS NOT what would happen, but it's the way we tend to feel because we ire Americans and that is how our minds work. It is this way until you meet somebody who has known life the other way and listen to them talk look at them and think here are people just tike us, who are born the same way and die of the same diseases and the only distinction is that they, look at something and they sec it entirely different than These were the people whose store blew six ways frdm Sunday in Folsom a few weeks ago, blowing up what they had been working for since they came to this country 10 years ago. THEIR NAME is Heurltlass, and they are used to things blowing up. Europe blew up when they were in Germany 20 years ago.

Hellmut Heudtlass was in the German Army and he wns a Russian prisoner. He and his wife escaped from behind the Iron Curtain and they came to America, knowing hardly anybody. Almost all their relatives are behind the Curtain, where life is different. They worked hard and they liked it here and their little cold cuts store was doing a good business and all of a sudden one Sunday morning for no reason at all it blew up. They sat in their house-in Ridley Park the other night and talked about it and laughed.

Dp not get the impression they liked to see their store blow up. You can have insurance but you never come out ahead in something like this. THEY HAD GERMAN friends with them who also came over in the last 15 years, and they all Balked about the store and about the country where they came from and they laughed. They laughed because life still seems pretty wonderful and no matter how the breaks go against them, and the breaks have been going against them all their lives, they still see this country like nobody here sees it. "You cannot imagine what it is like here," Mrs, Heudtlass said, her words still carrying the accent of her native "Here you have so much freedom.

You can say anything you want." She laughed. Everybody, was talking and sometimes the conversation would be serious, like when they talked about their relatives in East Germany anil life as Mr. Heudtlass saw it in Russia, but then they would start laughing about some little thing aiid you could not envision that these were people whose store had blown up. WE WERE TALKING about the railroads and the featherbedding issue, which puzzles them. "The amazing thing is that America can afford all this," Mrs.

Heudtlass said. "There is so much money. This country is so rich." This is true and we Americans know this, but we do not know it the way people know it who have relatives living in a place where toilet paper is considered a great luxury. The tiny things that hardly anybody born in this country thinks about seemed so important to these people. In one way it mattered that their store was destroyed, but it is being built again, and in another way it did not matter.

What seemed to matter is that they were living in America in 1964 and they are thankful for it. It must be something like the way the Pilgrims felt on this day three and a half centuries ago. in Chester is favorable, Cayman ter and E'dward and one night a week in city counci chambers in the municipal building; 51h Welsh Sis. uuiiit tuiu imul UL a cum- Similar facilities'wilr be set mittee studying the loan pro? said. Jofin G.

Kelly, vice president of Philadelphia National Bank and chairman si corn- gram, said all banks in the city and some in other county communities have agreed to staff the screening office on a temporary basis. A preliminary staff schedula has been worked out, he said. Applicants will be screened by appointment. Keily said if the experiment is successful, other organizations will be asked to help in the staffing. A location must be found for classes in maiiiigeir.ont (raining for borrowers, he said.

Instructors for the classes would provided by the U. S. Small Business Adminislralion, The chamber was asked to sot up screening facilities by SBA Regional Director Edward Rose. The "6x6" program was set up in Philadelphia as a pilot irogram last January. It differs from other SBA programs in that businessmen can submit credit ratings or other evidence of good character in ieu of collateral.

The interest rate in Delaware County would be four per cent, Rose said. Carniichacl fe C.TTIS THAT TIME--.