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Judge E. E. Everett has revived interest in the Macintosh decision of the Supreme Court by granting citizenship to Professor J. P. Klassen of Bluffton, College at Lima, Ohio. Professor Klassen refused to take the oath to bear arms in defense of this country because of his religious beliefs as a Mennonite...
...Macintosh case, unpopular as it was with liberal thinkers, had good basis in law. It was formed on precedent and on accepting the Constitution as it stands. It pointed out "that citizenship is a high privilege, and when doubts exist concerning a grant of it, generally at least, they should be resolved in favor of the United States against the claimant." But it is doubtful that the act of 1906 which determined the qualifications for naturalization implied that a man should not be naturalized if, because of religious belief, he is opposed to war or unwilling to support arms...
...force from a strictly legal point of view, it carries considerable weight with a thinking public. To many people, moreover, it is not very clear why this country should stand behind a legal distinction which the unscrupulous find no difficulty in avoiding and which excludes from citizenship men like Macintosh and Klassen who are excellently qualified in every other respect...
...citizen is under a legal obligation to bear arms in war. Many a U. S. religious leader, and a large section of the Christian Press, hold on the contrary that God's will is more binding. Notable were the cases of Rosika Schwimmer, Yale Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh and Nurse Marie Averill Bland, aliens who were refused citizenship because they refused to promise unqualifiedly to bear arms (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week it looked as if they were to be joined by Rev. Thomas Frederick Rutledge Beale of St. Paul, Minn...
Kent-Stroke, Perry; 7, MacIntosh; 6, Littell; 5, Flagler; 4, Peterkin; 3, Butterworth; 2, Blair; Bow, Kennedy; Cox, Tompkins...