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...Allen, of Rochester, N. Y., and Dr. J. M. Gray, of Scranton, Pa., threatened to bolt the convention. Their threat resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed to the draft of military service unless Capital and Labor were simultaneously drafted. Said Dr. Gray: "If the Government comes to my parsonage door and takes my two sons, sends them to foreign lands to fight in mud and give their lives, I am not going to stand aside and see the laymen...
...draft examinations of war times were a disappointing revelations. The average physical condition of the men was poor, and the mental alertness and energy were scarcely better. The training camps provide a month of hard, healthy, intelligent work. They are active recognition of the fact that book learning is a small part of education; that gool citizenship and high morale depend upon both mental and physical good health. They may do much to maintain a high domestic morale in a country, constantly, if not inevitably, subject to more or less peaceful invasion from Southern Europe and Russia. -Yale Daily News...
...discoveries of new defects in the American educational system, attention has centered largely on the work of secondary schools and universities. The other extreme of the system has been somewhat neglected; and the problem of illiteracy has slipped from the public mind. Yet the statistics gathered by the draft board indicated clearly that within the mass of people there were an amazing number of illiterates. Recent estimates have placed this figure as high as five millions...
...week, by a colossal revival of monarchist and nationalist propaganda. Stimulus was given by Foreign Minister Stresemann's speech to the Hanover Convention of the National People's Party. He came out flatfooted, for a monarchy, attacked the Republican Constitution of the Reich, which he helped to draft at the Weimar Constitutional Convention in February...
Other proposals sheared away the powers that the draft gave Kemal. It was proposed that the President should serve for seven years, and could be any Turk eligible for the office of Deputy. The Assembly ruled that the President must be a Deputy chosen by the Deputies, and that his term of office must equal that of the Assembly's mandate. Veto power is restricted. Normally all bills must be promulgated by the President within ten days. Organic statutes and budget laws may be returned by the President, with reasons attached. If voted a second time they must...