Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-01 | Page 17 | Nampa Patriots Make Short Shift of Pacifist Bunch

Nampa Patriots Make Short Shift of Pacifist Bunch Visitor to Salt Lake Tells of Action of Indignant Idaho Citizens. j THAT the citizens of Nampa, Idaho, are tighting mad and will set an example for other communities to emulate in patriotic fervor is the word brought to Salt Lake yesterday yester-day by Hamilton G. Park of that town. Park is the son of A. H. Park of 1-109 Fourth East, and is in Salt Lake to secure se-cure assistance in having his questionnaire question-naire properly made out and to visit his parents. He declares that with three other Nampa Nam-pa young men, who recently helped him drive a band of pacifists out of Nam pa he intends to enlist. He is married and in class No. 4, but his wife is willing he should go. Nam pa. because it over-enlisted its quota, voluntarily, was not asked for any men in the draft. Park is modest, but determined, in his attitude concerning1 the incident which j resulted in the banishment of the paei- ' fists from Nampa. It was during a . patriotic demonstration Friday night that some man raised aloft in the crowd a ! banner with a picture of the Christ, j bearing the admonition, "Thou shalt not kill." , I Park promptly smashed the banner from the hand of the bearer and told the disturber of the meeting to "beat it," which he did "in nothing for the first ten yards," according to Park. The result of the incident has been to arouse the citizens of Nampa as never before. In fact they are fighting mad, and mothers and fathers, according to Park, want their sons to "do their bit." To date the man given free passage has not returned to his family, it is stated by Mr. Park. Nampa citizens connect the pari fist's performance with the circulation of the petition to the federal government not to send troops abroad.