Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-11
LeagueForPeace
And Freedom To
Meet In St. Paul
Many Will Appear on Two
Day Program Starting on
Friday at Lowry Hotel.


ems international League for Peace
and Freedom will hold its annual
meeting April IL and Is at the Lowry
hotel in st. Paul. Among the many
educators and speakers who will
take part in the two-day program
will be Ammon A. Hennacy, con-
scientious objector during the last
as perhaps the most singular case
on record" A public meeting for
Mr. Hennacy is being arranged in
cooperation with the Pacifist Action
Fellowship for Friday evening at 8
D. m. at the Unitarian Assembly, 10th
and Harmon Place in Minneapolis.
His subject will be rs Conscience
a Crime?" This will be the only
part of the annual meeting not held
at the Lowry hotel in st. Paul.
Mr.. Hennacy is now social worker
in the relief department in Milwau-
kee, Wis. During the World war he
was confined two years in Atlanta
Federal prison for opposition to the
war after it had been declared, eight
and one-half months of this time
being spent in solitary confinement
for leading strike against evil con-
ditions in the prison. After his re-
lease from the Federal prison and
after the Armistice was signed, he
was sentenced and spent nine months
in the Delaware, Ohio, county Jail
on the charge of refusing to register
for the draft. Entering prison as a
Socialist, Mr.. Hennacy re-read the
Bible while there, and came to the
conclusion that the Sermon on the
Mount was more important than Karl
Marx. He is now a Christian paci-
fist of the Tolstoian variety Norman
Thomas said of him in commenting
on the harsh treatment accorded him
while in prison, that "his success in
preserving his sanity, good cheer and
idealism is an amazing tribute to the
possibilities of the human spirit"
Others Will Speak Also.
Besides speaking Friday night in
Minneapolis, Mr.. Hennacy will also
participate Saturday afternoon at 4
D. m at the Lowry hotel in st. Paul,
in a panel discussion on the subject
Youth Faces World at War" Mrs.
Audrey Hanson Parrish, formerly
with the Studebaker Forums in Min
neapolis, now with the Adult Educa-
ton department, will lead this dis
cussion. Other participants will be
Charles Weidner of the Pacifst Action
Fellowship, Ruth Shields of the Min
nesota Youth Assembly, Elizabeth
Peters from the Industrial Girls Di-
vision of the Minneapolis Y. w. c..
A., John Thomas from the leisure
time activities of the N. Y. A., Bill
Matalamaki from the educational de-
partment of the CCC and Margaret
Calbeck, Y. w. c. A. secretary on
the Agricultural campus who will
discuss the aim and techniques of
the Volunteer Work camp. Mr.. Hen
macy will speak on the rights and
status of the conscientious objector
to war.
The public is cordially invited to
this Youth Panel and to all the other
Panel discussions as well as the
luncheon and dinner meetings being
arranged at the Lowry hotel by the
League. Mrs. Robert Freeman is in
charge of reservations. Professor
Joseph Warren Beach will speak at
noon on preserving Democratic
Rights and Dr. John H. Dietrich will
speak at dinner on 1.-THE Duty and
Opportunity of America Today"
Round Table Discussion.
From 1890 to IL o'clock in the
morning, Mrs. Alice Drechsler, a
teacher at Central high school, Min
neapolis, will lead round table dis
cussion on the subject can Intelli-
gent Approach to Peace Education u
DIR. John G.. Rockwell, superintendent
of the State Department of Educa-
ton. will participate and summarize
the discussion. Other members of
this round table will be Miss Lou
Ella Miles of st. Paul Central, Ralph
Ahlstrom of Minneapolis Edison,
Miss Pauline Farseth and Miss Made
line Long of North high, Minneapolis,
and Miss Sara Norris of Mankato
Teachers college. 1t is expected that
this round table will draw a large
attendance from the teaching Stats
of the Minneapolis and st. Paul
schools.
Other panel discussions of Interest
to the public, reviewed previously ir
detail, will be the one on Refugees
following the luncheon, presided ovel
by Mrs. Anna A. Berggreen of st
Paul, Minorities chairman, and the
one on Essentials for Peaceful Worlc
Organization" Friday at 3 p. m. lee
by Mrs. Jean M. Wilcox, state pres.
ident.