Word: objectore
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...pacifists were opposed to the draft, only a few refused to register. A week before registration day John Swomley, of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, talked to the group on what was involved in not registering and advised that they all should sign up. A mock trial of a conscientious objector was also held in order to acquaint members of the League with the answers they should make...
...your issue of Sept. 30 on p. 17, you credit me with having been in jail as a conscientious objector in the first World War. I hope I should be willing, though, of course, not anxious, to go to jail in support of my deepest convictions, but I have been so fortunate that such has never been my fate, either in the World War or at any other time. I have been arrested on occasion but not during the World War, in connection with free speech and similar fights, in all of which I have been able...
...strongly urge every conscientious objector to register. Unless he does so, it will be practically impossible to ask the government to use the man's abilities and conscientious service in any way that will be helpful to his fellow countrymen...
...problem of the objector on humanitarian or other non-religious grounds is not covered by the law, but it would seem proper for a citizen to set forth such non-religious objections when he files his questionnaire. There is much important hard work to be done for the public welfare in other fields besides military training; and I hope that the government will find it possible to use conscientious objectors of all sorts in such badly needed tasks, although the law itself does not give this privilege to non-religious objectors...
Professor Hall writes in part as follows: "You conclude that the conscientious objector who has informed himself 'as to the type of work involved in various jobs that will be thrust at him . . . is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system!' . . . Perhaps your conclusion means that it is the function of a conscientious objector to do all that he can to hinder and defeat war preparations by others. If so, I suggest that this is beyond the legitimate scope of the activities of a conscientious objector...