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...objectors. But the most practical of all pacifist sects had beat him to the plowshare. Four days previously the American Friends Service Committee had already opened its second work camp for C. O.s in Patapsco State Forest near Baltimore. Soon the Quakers, the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren will have ten camps set up for the 6,700 C. O.s so far turned up by the draft...
...presidency of Fisk University. Besides Patapsco, he will supervise the Friends' camp for C. O.s already operating at Cooperstown, N. Y., others soon to open in California, Indiana, Ohio. Mennonites will also establish their camps at Colorado Springs, Grottoes, Va. and Bluffton, Ind., and the Church of the Brethren will start camps at Onekama, Wis. and Lagro, Ind. The three sects plan to open joint camps later in the Pacific Northwest, New England, Florida, Texas...
...community he so long and ably served . . . does not come to his rescue in this grave crisis of his life, then its people are utterly devoid of any sense of human gratitude. And if they don't do it, Joe, here's telling you the brethren of the Mississippi press will certainly do so, even if there are no men of worldly wealth among them...
Your editorial "Nieman Nemesis" naturally interests me. Its indictment of the Nieman Fellowships is that the chief result has been a movement of Fellows from small papers to the New York papers, which, by this process, "sucked the life-blood from their journalistic brethren." You, therefore, question the value of the Nieman Fellowships to the American press...
...suppose that the metropolitan newspapers are constantly "sucking the life-blood from their journalistic brethren." All education, I am afraid, tends to concentrate talented people in the larger centers where the rewards are greatest. And this is bound to apply in some degree to education of journalists, even those who have become somewhat established in non-metropolitan areas before receiving Nieman Fellowships. It may be pointed out that Nieman Fellows are generally of an age when abler and more ambitions men have chances to move. It is inevitable that some men are going to take those chances; they would whether...