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Died. Carolyn Harding Votaw, 71, sister of President Warren G. Harding; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, B.C. During her brother's term in office, she worked in the Public Health Service, and her husband, a Seventh Day Adventist minister, was superintendent of federal prisons...
...abandoned CCC camp near Beulah, Colo, last week, 150 young Seventh Day Adventists were winding up an intensive two-weeks' course of training for duty with the armed services. Because of the Adventist injunction against taking human life, none of them would shoulder a rifle or man a gun. But they hoped to serve their country as "conscientious cooperators" in the Medical Corps or some other noncombatant branch...
...response from Adventist youth was immediate and enthusiastic. The first 150 left their work at home, paid their own transportation, bought their own uniforms ($8), paid for their beds (50? a night) and their cafeteria-style meals (30?to 60?). "Colonel" Dick (who served in the Marines during World War I) worked and drilled them from 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. each day. The course was heavy with subjects like first aid, military sanitation, treatment of chemical warfare casualties. But it also included large doses of combat intelligence, map reading and military courtesy. In addition, there was "character guidance...
Approximately 50 of "Colonel" Dick's first group are ministers, teachers and youth workers who will go home to set up other branches of the noncombatant training program. The rest will stand by for military service. Explained Adventist Executive Carlyle B. Haynes...
...despise the term 'conscientious objector' and we despise the philosophy back of it ... We are not pacifists, and we believe in force for justice's sake, but a Seventh Day Adventist cannot take human life...