New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-20
Max Eastman, q Contrib.
tors, 2 Cartoonists Cba,,.,
With Conspiracy
Warrants Issued for
Their Arrest Tod,
Presentment Is Also Fil.d
Against Magazine 70,
Using Mails

Max Eastman, editor in chi. =,
THE Masses" monthly msga,iD. :,
avoweG anti-war policies, and Sly ~
principal editorial and contribn,'.
aids were indicted yesterday bv ).
Federal grand jury on charges Of "a,
spring to violate the espionae. A..
Bench warrants for their arrest VA,
issued by Judge Julius NJ. MAYER ?,
warrants will be served to-day. u,l.,,
those indicted surrender thems,ly., !,
the authorities this morning.
Besides Eastman, those indicted A..
Floyd Dell, managing editor; c. M,
rill Rogers, jr, business man,g,,
Henry j. Glintenkamp. cartoor;,,.
Arthur Young. cartoonist; John r.;
writer, and Josephine Bell. poete~ 4
addition to the seven indictments a..
sentiments also were filed against n,
Masses Publishing Company as en
poration and c. Merrill Rogers IL |,
an i3tiyidual, for attempting 10 a.
the mails for -mailable matter
Editors Expected Action
"This action has beer expected BY ),
for some time" said Eastman. III.
indictments seem to be a part AZ a.
organized effort OF certain suho,5
nate officials in the service Of the Unit
States government to crush the yols, 4
Socialists. We have as yet no eyid,pa
that the courts OF the United STAT,
are a party to these proceedings VI,
have complete confidence that they 81,
not. | can say nothing concerning n,
steps we shall take"
The indictments charge the accuse
with "unlawfully, wilfully. knoEirr,
and feloniously consDiring" with otk,,
persons 20 violate the espionage act (,
order to SOW dissension among con.
scripted men and to cause them 10 d,.
obey the terms of the CONSUMPTION a.
Eastman is specifically accused 4
writing and publishing an artcI. q
titled "a Question" in which 4,
country's war aims were questiona
Floyd Dell is accused OF writing an A.
ticle of an offensive nature on the ss
ject of conscientious 0bjeeton'
John Reed, VINO is now in Russia ui
correspondent Of "The Masses" nh
seribed in the indictment as hsvinfe
sisted the conspiracy with an are
c&ptioned, Knit r Straitjacket n
Your Soldier Boy" and Josephine b,
with poem called "a Tribute"
Cartoons Called Seditious
Clintenkamp, the cartoonis, offended
with drawing depicting Death tax
ing the measurements Of drafted SOL
der for his coffin. Arthur Young d,
indictment charges, helped the cor
5piracy by drawing a cartoon shovirs
"the Wall Street magnates' decitas
war policies, while diminutiye Agr
Of Congress" yainly protests.
The penalties involved are s.ysr,.
In the event Of conviction, the accuses
can receive prison terms Of tssriy
years each and fines Of $4,000.
The indictments constitute the T.
test effort of the authorities TO ssi'
press the alleged seditious uttesrec
of THE Masses" On July 5, w.
Lamar, solicitor for the Postofce D,
partment, ruled that the magazine b.
violated the Espionage law BY DEER
ing CONSUMPTION. The entire Augf
edition was held up in the mails =
Postmaster Thomas G. Pstten. O
July "a, Federal Judge Learned Hal
granted a temporary injunction NJ
training the Postmaster-Genersl frs'
barring the publication from the mas
Assistant United States Attord
Earl B. Barnes then obtained al orss
from Judge c. w. Hough in the un'%
States Circuit Court staying the .
junction until the Circuit Court Of ~
peals. could pass on the case.
A second injunction suit was bro1gf
by THE Masses" against Postns.n
Patten when he barred the Septsntd
issue from the mails on the ground ns
the magazine had forfeited its :eeoi.
class mailing privileges BY falling
appear at regular intervals. Ih. y
junction was not granted and J"
Masses" resorted to the frsttis
mails. On November the Cirtss
Court of Appeals sustained the 70"
master-Gereral in barring the puoia
ton, reversing Judge Leayned hsa1
Eastman a Socialist
Max Eastman, leading exponent .
socialism. birth control and otnef "
:orms, was born in 1883 at Csnr
daigua, n. Y. Following his grsdsaae;
from Williams College in 1905 he ~,
a postgraduate course az COLUMBIA.
which university he later became
professor of philosophy. Since VI
has written and lectured in the lrn.
est Of world peace, suffrage ~
thought and "internationsllsm ~
organized the first Mems League
Woman Suffrage in the United sas
in 1911, and in the same year ne
ganized the Masses Publishing W.