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Dormant Bank Accounts
Banks of this country hold $250,-
000,000 in dormant accounts whose
owners have died or forgotten.
them. In two-thirds of the states,’
no provision has yet been made
for the disposal of this money;
while in most of the others it goes
to a state fund after the accounts
have been inactive for periods
ranging £rom five to thirty years.
Indiana banks, however, are per
mitted to acquire such accounts,
after a year of dormancy, through
a service charge on the inactive
accounts.—Collier’s.
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By Frank Parker Stockbridge
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
C E an army with banners
marching to war, a com
pany of men and women
from every part of the nation
and of the world has lately
been moving across the length
and breadth of the United
States. Their banner bears a
strange device, four straight
lines tapering upward to
ward infinity, crossed with
the letters “MRA.” That
striking symbol stands for
“Moral Re-Armament.“
I first encountered the new ban
ner last spring in Washington,
and later at a great meeting in
Constitution hall. Senators, rep
resentatives and high officials of
the federal government sat on
the platform and in the audience
and listened while Americans,
Englishmen, Irish, Scots, Finns,
Danes, Swedes, Norwegians,
Netherlanders, French, Australi
an, Canadian, Japanese, Chinese,
Burmese, Swiss, Indian, Egyp
tian and South African men and
women told what MRA meant to
them personally and to their
countries.
I met this army in action in
Madison Square Garden in New
York under the same banner. I
saw the flags of every nation pa
raded by the youth of those na
tions, young men and women
dressed in their national cos
tumes, singing their stirring call
to human brotherhood, “Bridge
Builders.” Two special trains had
brought Canadians to New York
to take part.
After the Canadians had
marched out of the hall and the
audience had begun to disperse I
tried to get up to the platform,
seeking more information about
MRA. A thousand others, it
seemed, had the same idea at the
same time. All around me men
and women were asking eager
questions of the hundred or more
who had taken a leading part in
the evening’s ceremonies.
What Is MRA?
“You’ve got something that I
haven’t got,” I heard on every
side. “What is it? I want to
know more about it. Where can
I get more information about
MRA?”
All they had heard from the
platform had been a very simple
message indeed. Only that if
everybody lived honestly, decent
ly, unselfishly and lovingly there
would be an end to the world’s
troubles. Most of them had heard
that simple program of living
from their youth up. It had been
preached at them from pulpits,
taught them in Sunday school and
at home. But here they had
heard it in a way that made it
sound not only true but possible.
They had not been preached at,
but had heard a score and more
of men and women, upstanding,
clear - eyed folk, some young,
some with graying hair, tell sim
ply, briefly and convincingly how
they, each individual, had learned
to live by the ancient, accepted
code in which everybody believes
for the other fellow but an appall
ing few adhere to for themselves.
But here were people of every
land, intelligent people, many of
them leaders in their respective
spheres, giving tangible evidence
of the fact that their lives had
been changed by acceptance of
the principles of MRA. There
was nothing sanctimonious in
their manner, no cant, no rant
ing; just straightforward recitals
of personal relationships re
adjusted, of quarrels and dis
trust between employers and
workers changed to mutual con
fidence and respect, of racial in
tolerances and hatreds laid to
rest, of class antipathies vanish
ing, when the speakers had
learned to be absolutely honest
in all their human relations, to
discover and admit their own
failings before blaming their
troubles on someone else, to ac
cept all other human beings as
brothers under the All-Father,
and to strive as far as was hu
manly possible to lead personal
lives under the direction of God.
And they were happy. It was
that note of happiness, unmistak
able and sincere, which impressed
everybody who heard them, more
than what they said. While the
rest of us were vainly striving
in the pursuit of happiness, these
folk had found it. I wanted to
know more about MRA. How did
they do it? How did these people
learn this new way of life? Could
anybody do it? Did you have to
join anything? How much did it
cost? It occurred to me, as I
approached the platform, that
nobody had “passed the hat.” I
thought of a thousand questions,
the sort of questions which nat
urally occur to a newspaper man,
trained by temperament and ex-
A Call to the Nations for Moral Re-Armament, Hollywood Bowl, Calif., July 19, 1939. The four beams of light
behind the platform signify the four standards of MRA—Honesty, Unselfishness, Purity, Love.
perience to be suspicious of any
thing new which he does not un
derstand, especially in a racket-
minded age, to look for the con
cealed motives behind all human
actions.
Buchman the Dynamo.
When I finally caught the eye
of the alert, vigorous-appearing
man who had acted as master of
ceremonies, though he let others
do most of the talking, he greet
ed me as an old acquaintance. He
was Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman,
founder of the Oxford Group, the
dynamo of Moral Re-Armament.
“I want to learn more about
MRA and try to write the ‘in
side story’ of it,” I told him.
“Our next jump is to the Pa
cific coast,” he replied. “Come
out and join us there.”
So, as soon as I could arrange
it, I hopped a ’plane at New
York one evening and landed in
San Francisco the next morning.
I traveled up and down the Pa
cific coast for a month with the
MRA International Team of
workers, sat in their inner coun
cils, learned their inmost secrets,
which turned out to be no secrets
at all, and mingled with the thou
sands of Westerners who flocked
to the dozens of public meetings,
large and small, and came
around afterwards to seek more
light, to find guidance to enable
them to live the happy, unwor
ried lives which those who flew
the MRA banner enjoyed. t
The Hollywood Bowl holds 30,-
000 people. Forty thousand clam
ored for admission at the first
MRA meeting in California. The
San Francisco World’s fair on
Treasure Island set apart two
days in August for special MRA
gatherings. Monterey, Pasadena,
DR. FRANK N. D. BUCHMAN
a do?en smaller cities in the Gold
en State turned out thousands to
hear the message. MRA was
front-page news in the daily pa
pers all up and down the coast
from Seattle to southern Califor
nia. Newspaper reporters who
came to scoff returned to their of
fices to write sincerely enthusias
tic articles about the movement
and its people. The movie colony
in Hollywood developed an amaz
ing interest. The radio carried
the story of MRA literally to the
four corners of the earth; on one
day from the World’s fair grounds
there was continuous broadcast
ing by short waves, with men
speaking in their own languages
to their compatriots across the
seven seas.
Change Your Own Life.
The public meetings of MRA,
with their crowds and their pag
eantry, are all for the purpose
of stimulating individual inquir
ies. The answer every inquirer
receives is, in effect, precisely
the answer which Peter and the
other Apostles gave. Each one
must first change his own life, by
the grace of God; and there is a
trained, willing worker ready to
teach him or her how to seek and
obtain the Divine guidance to
bring about the change. There is
nothing new about this. It is
merely a return to the fundamen
tal principles of Christianity and
the ways of the first apostles.
And that, I learned, is the foun
dation of MRA.
It is not a new creed or a new
religion. No one “joins” any
thing. It is not an organization
but a fellowship of like-minded
people. It is not an effort to
take people away from ^heir
church relations, but rather to
put more people into the churches
and to help those now in the
churches to live in their daily
lives the teachings of the church.
I met Catholics, Protestants of
every denomination, Jews, even
some Buddhists and Mohamme
dans as well as many with no
church affiliation, among the
hundreds of active workers and
the thousands associated in the
fellowship.
“How many people are there
who have accepted the MRA way
of life?” I asked Dr. Buchman.
“We have no record,” he re
plied, “but the number is in the
millions. We work in 60 nations,
and in each country they know
that the number is growing.”
“Are there many backsliders?
Do they all stick?”
One of the other workers an
swered. “There were twelve dis
ciples and one went wrong. That’s
8 Vs per cent. We have not heard
of a higher percentage than
that.”
No Racial Distinctions.
I flew from San Francisco to
Hollywood with Takasumi Mitsui,
brother of the head of Japan’s
leading industrial family. He told
me that not only himself but
many other influential Japanese
were living the new life of MRA.
I met a considerable number of
Chinese, men and women, who
are giving their whole time to
the promulgation of the teach
ings of MRA among their peo
ple. Titled men and women from
a dozen European nations were
working side by side in the In
ternational Team, on level terms
with dockyard laborers, slum
dwellers from East London, manu
al workers from Scandinavia,
school teachers from Burma, and
people from all walks of life in
America. In MRA there are no
racial, class, social or national
distinctions. Its foundation stone
is belief in the Brotherhood of
Man under the Fatherhood of
God.
I rode back from Hollywood to
San Francisco with Bill Rowell
and Tod Sloan, some of the work
ingmen who had been sent over
by the sacrificial giving of their
labor friends. Bill told me how
the Hon. Miles Phillimore, young
son of a British peer, had come
to his house, because Bill was
the most notorious revolutionary
trouble-maker in the crowded
slums of East London, and lived
with him for three weeks, sleep
ing on chairs because there were
not enough beds, until Bill had
discovered the basic principle of
MRA, that the troubles of the
world begin with ourselves. When
one changes his own life he be
gins to change the world. Bill
changed, his neighbors were
changed, and now the London po
lice do not have to double their
night patrol in West Ham. The
city council found a new spirit,
hundreds of families found a new
unity, and the power to change
others.
In Hollywood I met and got to
know well such devoted workers
for Moral Re-Armament as
George Eastman, former presi
dent of the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce, one of those whose
staff of employees are demon
strating the vital relation of MRA
to the world of industry; John
Jukes, president of the Vancou
ver Stock exchange; Gen. C. R.
P. Winser of Great Britain, whose
record in the Boer and World
wars is well known; Ruth St.
Denis, the celebrated dancer;
Mildred Powell, city councillor of
Seattle; Rev. Samuel M. Shoe
maker, rector of Calvary church,
New York; Wilber B. Huston,
whom many will remember as
having won the first Edison prize
scholarship; H. W. (“Bunny”)
Austin, well-known British Davis
cup player; and Marion Clay*
ton, motion picture actress.
How It Began.
It has all come about because
Frank Buchman, a Pennsylvani
an, met some men in Oxford uni
versity in 1921, and was able to
show them the way to put their
lives under God’s guidance. Some
of them went out from Oxford to
carry the message of this new
way of life to young men in
South Africa. They, in turn, sent
.some of their number to other
countries. The movement snow
balled. Leaders of many nations
saw in it the solution of national
problems, joined and encouraged
it. I have seen thousands of let
ters, telegrams and cables from
national leaders and heads of
governments acclaiming MRA as
the greatest force for good their
nations had ever known.
President Roosevelt, Herbert
Hoover, almost every governor,
scores of senators, hundreds of
representatives in congress, thou
sands of other Americans in pub
lic life have joined in endorse
ment of the efforts of MRA to
bring back into American life
the spiritual values and outlook
upon which our nation was
founded. On Frank Buchman’s
sixtieth birthday 45 members of
the British parliament gave him
a testimonial dinner, in appreci
ation of what MRA under his
leadership had done for the na
tion.
Frank Buchman is still the ac
knowledged leader of the move
ment which he started, though
he has dozens of able lieutenants
ready to take over. He has no
title. He draws no salary, nor
does anybody else working with
him; a bachelor, he has not had
a home, an office or even a desk
of his own for 15 years. He lives
in suitcases, mobilized like hun
dreds of others in the MRA
“teams,” ready to jump to the
ends of the earth at a moment’s
notice.
Source of Income.
Where does the money come
from? Many have asked if there
is not an “angel” somewhere in
the background, putting up funds.
I was convinced before I came
back from California that there
is no such angel, no pool of funds
to be dipped into at will. When
the call to service comes, those
who have share with those who
have not. Nobody active in the
work of MRA is allowed to suf
fer for lack of immediate materi
al necessities, but there is far
more giving than receiving. Most
of the International Team crossed
the oceans in third-class and
tourist and traveled across the
continent in tourist trains or
busses. Others, as occasion de
manded, used airplanes and
stopped at hotels according to
their means.
I have been a newspaper man
for 50 years, and have “covered”
all the great social and revolu
tionary movements of my time.
Take it from a veteran reporter
who knows his way about, there
has not been a movement which
held so much hope for the future
of the world and its peoples as
MRA does, not since the Great
Teacher laid down its fundamen
tal precepts 2,000 years ago. It
is leading more people than ever
before to apply those precepts in
their daily lives and to find happi
ness in their practice.
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