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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...
...Episcopal) on the Old York Road candles burned in the windows and on the altar. As people fresh from their radios and the great news of the Japanese surrender began to gather, the organ swelled out A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. There were Episcopalians, Presbyterians, two modestly dressed Quaker women, and many who had never been seen at church before...
...Cecil Hinshaw, president of William Penn (Quaker) College at Oskaloosa, Iowa, described atomic bombing as a "barbaric, inhuman type of warfare. . . . Its use is unjustified...
...Minneapolis, 35 C.O.s (conscientious objectors) have been voluntarily starving for six months. Under the watchful eyes of four religious service committees (Brethren, Quaker, Mennonite and Unitarian), these "human guinea pigs" of some ten denominations have lived in the South Tower of the University of Minnesota stadium, undergoing scientific experiments in semistarvation. This week they were starting a three-month buildup, the final stage in a year's program. Purpose: to determine the physical and mental effects of starvation on normally healthy men from 19 to 33, and to find ways of best utilizing food from the limited resources available...
Administration of C.P.S. activity is directed and largely supported by the three traditional pacifist sects (Quaker, Mennonite, Brethren), but it is under the military supervision of the Selective Service System. Some sectarians wonder: should men obeying a religious authority which to them is superior to that of the state place themselves under such Government control? Others ask: should the Government accept the labor of these men without paying them...