ABSTRACT
When, in January 1959, Mother Earth was published as a special ‘Jubilee’ number, to mark its fiftieth edition since 1946, Jenks stepped aside to allow Easterbrook to write the introduction. He wrote of how Mother Earth had ‘stood like a rock in the ebb and flow of the Association’s fortunes’. For those in doubt it was balm: ‘what a fortifying of faith it has been when the next Mother Earth has come along and its calm, clear tones, appealing so much to common sense, have given reassurance that truth, in the end, must prevail.’ It had maintained continuity but grown with the movement, it was the ‘cement’ which held together the Association’s international network. ‘The Journal’, Easterbrook wrote, ‘is irreplaceable in the work of our movement and without it we could not have achieved what we have done.’
