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Show Objector's Life Is Full of Hard Work And They Must Pay Uncle Sam $35 a Month. COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. Pacifism means hard work for the six young men spending a year at the American Amer-ican Society of Friends camp as conscientious objectors to the draft. They hack at tough brush with a heavy knife eight hours a day, do kitchen police, wash their own clothes and pay the government $35 a month. They are "dog-tired" at the end of the day and go to bed soon after dinner at 6:15 in the evening. However, for one of them it is just a continuation of the work he was doing and his chores are lighter light-er than the rest Justin Reese of New York city worked at the camp as an employee of the Northeastern Forest Experiment station. Thus when he was classified as a conscientious objector, he merely continued assisting with office work, only now he pays the government, instead of the government paying him. The other five are George Kings-ley Kings-ley of Rochester, Albert Ast and Gordon Kashner of Buffalo, Warren Miller of Elmira, and Wilbur Hazard Haz-ard of Union Springs. The "camp" itself is an estate building lent to the Quakers and occupied also by members of then-society. then-society. It is a large house surrounded sur-rounded by trees, flowers and shrubs. The objectors rise at 5:45 a. m. for breakfast at 6. Then they make up their bunks and meditate on religious re-ligious subjects. At 7:30 they pack a lunch and ride 17 miles to the state conservation and reforestation projects. There they clear brush from roads. In the evening, if not too tired, they may study, listen to visiting speakers or join a "bullfest." |