The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-09-06
DUTY Of FRIENDS
! IN WAR OR PEACE
WILL AID THE GOVERNMENT IN
ALL POSSIBLE WAYS.
KELSEY GOES TO FRANCE
Popular Member of Penn College Fac
ulty to Become Army Y. M. GA.
secretary.-church to Work
4 For Prohibition.

m6GlluBf VI lONd hOAN 40 -
cent years Several new steps have
been taken and many boards and com
mittees appointed
The subject of War and Peace
and what the attitude of Friends shall
be in the present crisis held an import
ant part in the meeting. 1t was not
till Sunday, however, when important
documents arrived from the Philadel-
phia Yearly Meeting stating the posi-.
ton taken by them that anything ap-
preaching definiteness of action could
be accomplished here.
The keynote, sounded throughout
the week. was again brought out in the
splendid sermon Sunday morning by
Rev. Charles Hiatt, of Marion. Ind,
in which he said that AS long as the
world demands and desires the mes
sage of. Friends, Quarkerism still has
her great mission, and must stand by
her fundamental conviction" THE
meeting decided that only concerted
action on the part of Friends could up
hold the convictions for which they.
stand. The message from Philadel-
phia read in part as follows:,"We have
cry reason to believe that Friends
will be granted exemption from COM
Blatant service and allowed to do SER
vice under the Friends Service COM.
NJ ittee in reconstruction work, IL they
30 request"
Emergency War Committee.
In order to handle the situation
N,s1 I1 ,aNy
War committee, which shall seek legal
advice and give direction to drafted
] riends was appointed, composed of
J. w. Cook, chairman, e. II. Strana-+
han, secretary, w. S. Kitch, Charles
O. Whitley, Ora w. Carroll, DR.. S. NJ.
Hadley and Elwood Johnson.
The Friends feel that their conscien-
lions on religious objection to mill
tary service is often misconstrued.
The great service the English and
American Friends are now rendering
through the reconstruction units, tinan-
cially supported by the Friends church,
shows their great desire to be of army
service under the government which
does not conflict with religious con-.
victions. They furthermore feel that
since their exemption was granted
without any solicitation on their part
whatever, that the law should be car
Tied out.
1t is the present advice of the COM
mittee of advisors that all drafted
Friends shall go to mobilization camps
as directed and their present their eX-
emption, which they may secure in
the form card ia, for religious OBJ
lection and then be detailed to what
is indicated as non-military service.
Prof. Kelsey Goes to France.
One of the greatest surprises COM
ing to the Yearly Meeting and to all
Friends of Penn College was the
resignation on Saturday afternoon,
from both church and college obliga-
lions, of Professor and Mrs. w. l. Kel-
sey, who will sail for France, Sept.
20, where Mr.. Kelsey will be war
Y. M. c. A. secretary,
The Kelseys were called to meet
with the International Committee of
the Y. M. c. A. at Chicago on Wednes
day and Thursday of last week, where
arrangements were made for their
coming duties.
The call which Professor Kelsey
bedcd is one of tremendous appor-
t1nity and service. The call comes
through General Pershing himself that
five hundred men of mature years
are urgently. asked for by the French
government to become Y. M. c. A.
secretaries among the French soldiers
alone. The work is under the direct
ion of the Y. M. C. A. War Work COM
mittee OF which John r. Mott is the
head 1t will require ten million dol
lars to carry on the work. and seven
million of this is yet to be raised.
The call for men of Professor Kel-
sey's type also called for fifty women
of mature years to do social and re-
ligious work among American sol
diers and for this work Mrs. Kelsey
is to accompany her husband.
Professor and Mrs. Kelsey were both
released from their contracts with
Penn College. Professor Kelsey's de-
partment of Religious Education and
the Spanish department under Mrs.
Kelsey have not yet been filled, as the
resignation has been so recent but
the Indications are that the work will
be well taken care of. Similar con-
ditions exist in every other college
faculty at present Thus far five mem
bers of PENIS Faculty have entered
service directly concerned with the
war.
Work For Prohibition.
At 1880 on Saturday Senator Clark
son, of Abba. delivered an address on
the coming issue for constitutional
prohibition, to be voted on October
Is. His address was strong and force
full, and in 1t he exposed the old stock
tricks and inconsistent games of the
liquor interests, He made plea not
only for national but for International
prohibition. The campaign slogan is
Get out and Vote and the duty OF
the churches OF Iowa is to carry the
campaign to successful issue, and