Word: patapsco
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Dutch Reformed) to initiate a program of non-military work of "national importance" for conscientious objectors. But the most practical of all pacifist sects had beat him to the plowshare. Four days previously the American Friends Service Committee had already opened its second work camp for C. O.s in Patapsco State Forest near Baltimore. Soon the Quakers, the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren will have ten camps set up for the 6,700 C. O.s so far turned up by the draft...
...charge of the Friends' camps, as their director of Civilian Public Service, is grey-haired, robust Quaker Thomas Elsa Jones, who in December took a year's leave from his presidency of Fisk University. Besides Patapsco, he will supervise the Friends' camp for C. O.s already operating at Cooperstown, N. Y., others soon to open in California, Indiana, Ohio. Mennonites will also establish their camps at Colorado Springs, Grottoes, Va. and Bluffton, Ind., and the Church of the Brethren will start camps at Onekama, Wis. and Lagro, Ind. The three sects plan to open joint camps later...