i IW JANUARY 19, 194 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ITARY JUSTICE: Lrmy Court Martial Reform Supported by_'U' Veteran Insuring that the officers as- signed to court-martial work are. ualified lawyers is equally as im- ortant as enlarging the Army's udge Advocate General's Depart- ent in eliminating the defects in e present military judiciary sys- em, according to Leonard Men- elson, pre-law student at the Uni- ersity. Mendelson, who served with the A Section of the 8th Army in Ja- an as a Trial Judge Advocate, fense Counsel, and law member of a General Court-Martial, de- lared that "an adequate trial rocedure demands that these po- itions be filled by graduate law- ers, not used as proving grounds for would-be lawyers as in my own ease.'' Influencing Court Commenting on other phases of a House bill to overhaul the Army's court-martial system, Mendelson strongly favored the proposal which would make it illegal for a commander or other person to at- tempt to influence a court or the eviewing authority or to repri- mand a court or its members for their decisions. "A number of times in my own experience," Men- delson declared, "a commanding fficer has officially reprimanded court for its actions. I believe hat the courts should be able to unction free from coercion by the .ommand authority," he said. "Officers most always get lighter' sentences than enlisted men," Mendelson asserted, adding that in cases in which he participated very few officers received what he con- sidered adequate sentences. Lichfield Case Mendelson pointed to the Lich- Forein Students Will Be Honored Graduating foreign students will be honored at this week's tea at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Inter- national Center. Although the exact number of students from other countries who are graduating is not known, about 25 Chinese students are included in the group who are leaving. field case as the most prominent example of biased courts. In this case Col. Killian, commanding of- ficer of Lichfield barracks where American military prisoners were maltreated as a result of his or- ders, received a small fine and a reprimand whereas a number of his enlisted men received prison terms even though the prosecu- tion admitted that the subordi- nates were following the Colonel's orders. Permitting enlisted men to sit on courts-martial of enlisted men, another of the Congressional pro- posals, is not favored by Mendel- son. He maintains that this would do nothing to change the trials of officers and would still leave a two-thirds majority of officers on the EM's courts. Death Sentence Contrary to popular belief; the death sentence is mandatory only in the case of spying, he said, ex- plaining that a court-martial can give a sentence of life imprison- ment for rape or murder. All Gen- eral Courts Martial decisions are reviewed by not only the local commander, but by the JAG's of- fice in Washington as well. Church News The CONGREGATIONAL-DIS- CIPLES GUILD will meet at 6 p.m. today for supper at the Memorial Christian Church. Reports of the Chicago, Merom and Urbana conferences will be given by George Shepard, Melvin Marcus, Barbara Stauffer, Russell Fuller, Margaret Long, Don Ervin and Bill Rich. * * * Dr. Richard T. Baker, lecturer and writer, will speak at WES- LEYAN GUILD, at 5:30 p.m. in the First Methodist Church. "The Place of Apologetics in the Christian Faith," will be discussed at the meeting of the MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Jan. 26. DR. RICHARD T. BAKER... DR' WALTER M. HO'ON... Pastors o Attend Conference; Baker To Discuss Paradoxes Journalist Will Speak At Methodist Church Dr. Richard T. Baker, who re- cently spent six months as a jour- nalist and photographer in the Far East, will discuss "Paradoxes of our Time" at 5:30 p.m. today at the First Methodist Church. In the summer of 1945, Dr. Bak- er returned from two years spent as a teacher and acting dean of the Post Graduate School of Journal- ism in Chungking, China. A few months after his return to Amer- ica he received the journalistic assignment that sent him abroad again. Dr. Baker has traveled twice' around the world and twice to Eu- rope. In 1927 and 1938, he visited' thirty-two foreign countries on the terms of a Pulitzer fellowship awarded by Columbia University. In 1939 he was a member of the American delegation to the World Conference of Christian Youth in Amsterdam, Holland. Dr. Baker will also speak at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Methodist Church. Hold Those Bonds! 'Meeting Will Include Lectures, Discussions The three-cay Pastors' Confer- ence to be held tomorrow through Wednesday at the University will be attended by more than 500 Michigan ministers. Principal speakers at the con- ference will be Dr. Walter M. Hor- ton, professor of theology at Ober- lin College, who will deliver four lectures; Rev. O. Walter Wagner of Jackson, who will speak on "Eu- rope's Children" and Erwin L. Shaver, of the International Coun- cil of Religious Education, and Conrad H. Moehlman, professor emeritus of Colgate-Rochester Theological Seminary, wh- will lead a discussion of religic- 8edu- cation in the public schools. A series of small group confer- ences and forums have also been arranged for ministers attending the Conference. Dr. Richard T. Baker, who has recently returned from the Orient where he represented the Religious News Service, will speak to the spe- cial youth section meeting Tues- day and Wednesday. All sessions will be held in the Rackham Building, with the ex- ception of the dinner meeting Tuesday at the First Methodist Church and the dinner meeting Wednesday in the First Presby- terian Church. Read and Use The Daily Classifieds! Old Episcopal ean Bursley I Prayer Books At End of Pres On Exhibition (Co ed from Page 1) Disp y Prepared coming back. He commented that Dislay 'ie~lredf o. 'he has met many students this Pastors' Conference past semester who are the sons of students he knew when he first A display of Anglican and Prot- took office. estant Episcopal prayer books at Students the Same the Clements Library will com- Commenting on his acquaint- memorate the 340th annversary ance with students during the past of the first Anglican Communon quarter of a century, Dean Bursley service in America. I said that students of today are no The exhibit ranges from a copy different than before. He said they of an Anglican prayer book of the are no more serious, or wild, now reign of Queen Elizabeth to a copy than in the past. "Still students," of the Book of Common Prayer au- was his way of summing it up. authorized in 1928 which now Recounting a story about a fa- is used by the Protestant Episcopal vorite student trick of calling up Church in America. a dean at an unkind hour, Dean Prepared especially for the Bursley related that once he was Michigan Pastors' Conference called at 2 a.m. by a student who here, the display will run until blurted out "s'at you s'Joe?" When Feb. 8. Dean Bursley admitted his iden- Most valuable book in the ex- tity, the student said "Well s'Joe, hibit, according to Clements' Li- you old scoundrel, Whatch you brary officials. is a copy of Thomas doing up at this time o'night?" Hariot's "Virginia," which tells of Dean Bursley said he told the the religious services in 1585 at anonymous caller he was talking Roanoke Island, N.C., the first to him' and suggested they both go English colony in America. The back to sleep. book was printed in London in Aided Union Plans 1588 and is the only perfect copy The men on campus who treas- known in America. Temno apswotes Also on exhibit is the prayer ure their center, the Union, owe a book proposed by Archbishop Laud vote of thanks to Dean Bursley. He in 1637 at St. Giles, Edinburgh, was chairman of the first jhousing Scotland. The use of the book committee for getting it built, and prompted a lady member of the he worked on the campaign for congregation to throw her stool Whnag money for its construction. at the clergyman and led many When the plans for the Union went Scotsmen to emigrate to America through, Dean Bursley became in a Presbyterian protest against chairman of the building commit- Anglican liturgy. tee. He also served as financial The first picture of an Episco- secretary of the Union fora num- pal church in America ever to be ber'of years. printed in this country, engraved During World War I Dean Burs- in 1787 at Philadelphia, may be ley organized a course in Army viewed by visitors to the exhibition. stores to train men in ordnance. The earliest record of the first He was called to Washington by communion service held in the the War Department to take British colonies in North America charge of training courses in oth- in 1607 at Jamestown is recorded in er colleges for the Ordnance John Smith's "General Historie of Corps. The course Dean Bursley Virginia," printed in 1624 in Lon- set up here was copied by other don. This book and another by colleges throughout the country. John Smith, "Advertisements," are Bursleys Gave 'Teas included in the display. One of Dean Bursley's jobs is Our Specialty .. . Iue To Retire ant Semester Membership on the Committee of Orientation Week. Dean Bursley said that for a number of years he and the late Mrs. Bursley used to give teas for the freshmen at their home. They would hold two teas in two days, he said, so that they could meet all the freshmen. The teas featured ice cream and cake for refreshments, and usually 1,000 to 1,200 dishes of ice cream were consumed. Dean Bursley re- marked with a smile that he has an idea there were repeaters- at the ice cream tables. 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