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Unlike the Draft Act of 1917, the present Selective Training and Service Act provides for those who conscientiously object without regard to any religious sect or organization. According to a memorandum by President Roosevelt sent to Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, national director of selective service, the basis of deferment from combatant military and service is to be not only "religious training" but also "belief...
Bill Miller is a Nieman Fellow who for the last twelve years has been a reporter on the "Cleveland Press." Last year he got wind of a rather strange religious sect known as I Am, which had a large following in Cleveland. It did not take him long to discover that I Am was founded in 1930 by a Mr. and Mrs. Ballard in Los Angeles, and that the Ballards had previously fled from Chicago under indictment on a charge of conducting a phony gold mine racket. After attending their meetings for a few months, Miller wrote a series...
...rather distinctive name of the sect is taken from the words of Christ, "I am the resurrection," and the whole creed of I Am is based on a belief in reincarnation. Ballard, for instance, claimed that he was the reincarnation of George Washington, Mrs. Ballard is Martha Washington, and their son is Lafayette. The basic pattern behind all this is a conviction that the human mind, in order to reach Heaven, must achieve a state of absolute purity, and that one lifetime is not sufficient to attain this. Therefore it is being constantly reincarnation until it arrives at the pure...
Perhaps the greatest achievement in the history of I Am was the recent Hawaiian incident. Two summers ago members of the sect on the islands became convinced that Hawaii was soon to sink into the sea. But I Am, by a magnificent exertion of will, resolved that Hawaii should not disappear under the waves. And today Hawaii stands strong and unsubmerged, a bulwark of national defense and a heroic monument to the Great...
...arms of his beautiful Wellesley finance to promote a hotel in Salt Lake City. Here he is robbed of his money by a lovable old embezzler and an enticing woman of-the-world. The climax of the performance comes when a Harvard class reunion tangles with a polygamous religious sect, and finally absorbs...