[Peace-discuss] Friday film @ Quaker.......

[E. W. Johnson]

The Quaker Oats company did at one time thing that it owned the
exclusive right to the use of the word "Oats", such that
when a competitor produced a new cereal product and
wanted to call it "Cheery Oats", they
got their "guns" and attorneys and money and
saidin an unfriendly way that the cheer would
hit the fan  unless they desisted from abusing the word
Oatsin said manner.  Apparently the threat seemed credible
and the lawsuit impending, a real and present danger, so
the competitor changed the name to Cheerios in a fit of anguish
and it has worked fairly well for them.

The inventor of Purina Dog Chow, whose family name Corbin was identical 
to the
name of the place where Kentucky Fried Chicken was invented left his 
hometown
of Corbin, KY, and after a stint with Quaker Oats, departed there for 
St. Louis,
where he eventually applied extrusion molding technologies to the production
of pet foods.

In the classic case of Jury Nullification, a young follower of archtypal 
Quaker George Fox, one William Penn, Jr.,
who had been imprisoned previously for failing among other things to 
take oats of allegiance
to the king and propriety, was freed from the charge of preaching in the 
street by a renegade jury
that judged the law to be unjust.  But Penn went to prison for Contempt 
of Court, an dthe jury, too, without so much as
a bowl of cereal to eat.

On 03/11/2015 05:25 AM, Szoke, Ronald Duane via Peace-discuss wrote:
>
> *WORLD WAR 1 ANTI-WAR FILM SERIES*
> Urbana-Champaign Religious Society of Friends
> Dalton Trumbo’s
> *JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN*
> Friday March 13
> 6:30 p.m.
> Friends Meeting House
> 1904 East Main Street, Urbana
> Please join us at the U-C Friends Meeting House for the second film of 
> the World War 1 anti-war film series. The series is sponsored by the 
> Friends’ Adult Education Committee. Chuck Cowger, who has a long time 
> interest in anti-war films, and a collection of such films, will 
> introduce the film and encourage discussion at its end.
>
> The remaining schedule for this film series includes the following 
> dates and films. Each film will begin at 6:30 p.m. and take place at 
> the Meeting house.  The series will continue with four more films in 
> the fall.
>
> *              March 13* – Dalton Trumbo’s *“Johnny Got His Gun.”*
>
> *April 10*     -  Stanley Kubrick’s *“Paths of Glory.”*
>
> *May 15*     -  Philippe De Broca’s *“King of Hearts.”*
>
>
>> On Mar 10, 2015, at 4:17 PM, bay2 at illinois.edu 
>> <mailto:bay2 at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Karen for building the contact.
>>
>> Ron, I remember you mentioning Johnny Gets a Gun would be screened in 
>> some place in Gregore Ave. I would appreciate if you let me know 
>> where exactly and when.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
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>> 星期二, 10 3月 2015, 03:33下午 -05:00 寄件人 Karen Aram 
>> <karenaram at hotmail.com <mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>>:
>>
>>     Ron,
>>     Michael was asking about the film "Johnny Gets A Gun", could you
>>     please provide us the details, time and address, again?
>>     Thanking you in advance.
>>
>
>
>
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