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John Gaeddert leads the cast and chorus in singing, to chaff, when the Mennonite farming community Then we shall thresh the mountains, reduce the hills gathers together for the harvest day meal. Dudley Dodgion attempts to blackmail John Gaeddert into buying war bonds, but Gaeddert refuses to compromise. The climax of the play occurs when a group of right-wing mobbers comes to the Unruh farm, humiliating J. Friesen by smearing his back with yellow paint. The entire community comes together to bid farewell to J. as they sing reprises of God Made Man to Go Forth and Friesen before he leavesfor Camp Funston in the final scene Thresh the Mountains.
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' The Blowing And The Bending ' ' By James Juhnke And J. Harold Moyer Enthusiastic crowds filled Krehbiel Audi- torium to capacity six times for the premiere performances of The Blowing and the Bend- ing, a musical drama by Bethel ' s own James Juhnke and J. Harold Moyer. The drama recreated the conflict engend- ered by Mennonite pacifism during the WWI era by focusing on ayoung man who was drafted (J. Friesen), his stalwart father (John Gaeddert), and a Mennonite bond solicitor (Dudley Dodgion). The young man ' s intense personal struggle o v e r the draft issue led him to seek counsel with his aging uncle (H . A. Fast). In the end, both family and conscience were affirmed. Interwoven with the serious theme were many lighter subtopics ranging from women ' s liberation to Alpenkraeuter, a German-American panacea. Although the people in the drama were fic- titional, many of the incidents are substan- tiated by tapes from the Schowalter Oral His- tory Project. WWI Mennonites ' attempts not to bend too much as the world tried to blow them over formulated an influential chapter in the chapterinthe history of Mennonites in America. J. Friesen grimly informs his disbelieving sister and mother, Carol J. Schmidt and Carol V. Schmidt, that he has just re- received his draft notice from Uncle Sam. A flag-waving Dudley Dodgion encourages his fellow American patroits to rally to the aid of their country by buying war bonds. Brad Jantz, J. Friesen, Wynn Goering, and Paul Crabb sing It is Too Bad that young men must fight the older generation ' s wars. 5 K LIBERTY .1 8
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