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...first days in court Mrs. McCollum's lawyer called in a Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Lutheran, a Jehovah's Witness, a Quaker, a Fundamentalist, a Christian Scientist, to prove that Champaign's religious teaching discriminated against their faiths; but several of the witnesses said just the opposite. The school-board lawyers then tried to show that the issue was not between sects, but between religion v. atheism. They succeeded with Mrs. McCollum's father, Arthur G. Cromwell, who is president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished...
...time the new court had demonstrated a capacity to defy precedent and also to reverse itself (as in the Jehovah's Witnesses case), Justice Roberts had plunked down a few tart phrases of his own. Said he: the Court had now set forth on an "uncharted sea of doubt and difficulty"; some of its decisions were like a "restricted railroad ticket, good for this day and train only...
...well that since this had to be, it happened in the week of Passover. As Jehovah said, 'When I see the blood, I will pass over you.' He spoke not only to the Jews but to all peoples, to the Gentiles, to Americans, to Germans, to all peoples. . . . And so, may Jehovah accept this sacrifice, and see the blood and pass over all peoples for their sins, at this Passover time, for my son's sake...
Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 that children of Jehovah's Witnesses cannot be compelled to salute their country's flag. Last week, in an almost identical case, the High Court of Ontario ruled the other...
Robert Donald, Hamilton, Ont., is one of Canada's 6,900 Jehovah's Witnesses.* He had sued the Hamilton school board for $2,600 after his two sons had been expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag, sing God Save the King or repeat an oath of allegiance. Justice John Andrew Hope dismissed the suit. Said he: "I can conceive of no more certain way of creating . . . friction amongst the pupils of a class as to their love of country, and their duty to their country, than by permitting haphazard compliance with the singing...