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

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Ironies of history: the original Quakers refused to take oat's, as I recall.

On Mar 10, 2015, at 6:36 PM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> 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 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 
>>> --
>>> 寄自 myMail app for Android
>>> 星期二, 10 3月 2015, 03:33下午 -05:00 寄件人 Karen Aram <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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