Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — Religion Brings Up Problem At Camp Taylor, Kentucky. [ARTICLE]

Religion Brings Up Problem At Camp Taylor, Kentucky.

Camp Taylor, home of the Kentuck and Indiana conscripted men, became a hotbed of war interest Friday when the Mennonites and Quakers among the selected men declared they would submit to imprisonment and even death before they will fight. When orders were issued Friday for the daily drill work, members of these two Religious sects refused to appear and declared their intention to resist afty effort to compel them to fight. Pending settlement of the trouble, officers immediately assigned the men to the wprk of handling coal and service in v the kitchen camps. • Leaders of the protesting soldiers announced their intention of appealing to Secretary of War Baker and a report of the trouble, has also been forwarded to the war department by the camp officials. How many of the protesting soldiers are from Indiana is unknown, but it is known some of them were sent to Camp Taylor from cities in this state. • . The “religious” problem is only one of the questions confronting the officers in charge of the camp. A great number of aliens are in camp and it is doubtful whether some can be compelled to serve.