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...same latrine as the soldiers with venereal disease; though no physical violence was ever done to him, many of the religious objectors were beaten, tied to bars of cells, forced to stand in the sun till they collapsed. Religious objectors were of many creeds: Mennonites. Molokans, Christa-delphians, Plymouth Brethren, Adventists, Quakers, members of the Church of God, Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Apostolic Faith, International Bible Students, House of David. Says Author Meyer: though the U. S. Government dealt more humanely with pacifists than did any other nation, 31 religious objectors at Fort Douglas, Arizona, were not released until...
...Oxford man, but worked on the land for two years after "going down." Says he: "I do not claim any further knowledge of farming than that of a rough general farm hand (i. e., neither cowman nor horseman)." His first book, best-seller Joseph and His Brethren, took five months to write. Down in the Valley was written in Italy last winter...
...City Mission of Boston. Officers were sent to the slightly more pretentious Crawford house. When the Red seamen rebelled at this class distinction, officers and men together were moved to Immigrant Home, a Methodist Mission. Experienced Episcopal Archdeacon Dennen took over the management of Immigrant Home from his Methodist brethren for the length of its Red occupancy. Just as their fathers had rushed to look at Mr. Barnum's embalmed whale and Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Boston reporters, vaguely aware of the importance of this Soviet-U. S. ship transfer, hurried down to peer at 60 genuine...
...China's 400 millions who can read chuckled last week at vernacular newspaper accounts of a coup by the wily bandit chief of Megntzu. The 40% hastened to spread the story among their less literate brethren...
City Haul. Herbert Rawlinson, one of the good looking men that girls of a decade ago used to admire at the cinema, proves to be a better legitimactor than most of his Hollywood brethren who have tried the stage. As the well-tailored and unscrupulous Mayor of an Illinois city, he performs with a constant gusto and occasional subtlety which extracts a modicum of amusement from a superficial play about municipal grafting. The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able...