New Britain herald., 1918-02-26
IEERED
 ON WAY TO UPTON
Phillips Announces He Will Not
 Wear Army Uniform

New York. Feb. 26.-~Twenty six young men formed into military
 squads in the half sunken driveway
 at the entrance 10 the Museum of
 Natural History, at SeventA-seventh
 street and Eighth avenue. early ycs-
 terday and at command swung into
 march step on their way to the Penn
 sylvania railroad terminal Yaphank.
 L. l.. and France. That is. twenty
 five of them marched proudly.
 It is hard to say what sensations
 Charles Francis Phillips. pacihst and
 self-styled conscientious objector,
 felt. But, regardless of how he felt,
 he marched all of the way down to
 Thirty-fourth street and Seventh
 avenue. No later than last Saturday
 he had called up members of Local
 Draft Board 129 in the museum
 building and announced emphatical-
 ]E that under no circum stances
 would he report to the board to go
 to Camp Upton.
 So carly yesterday morning Phillips , was visited by detective of the First branch bureau who invited him politely but firmly to go up to the Natural History Museum. He ac- ceptcd, and, according to all con cerned, the objections offered were verbal only, if any.
 When Phillips and the detective arrived at the museum the former was wearing a brilliant rcd tie--red is tho approved color for ra cficaEs T. W. W.'s, BoIsheviki and others of like strain-and shortly after his arrival 1 the new National Army recruits l started for Camp Upton led by Julius 1 COhpo ,ho; Of and Benedict Erstcin, q member of that board. Incidentally the comfort 1 ably built detective acted an es- 1 cOrt on the march to the train. When the party boarded the train 1 it became known among them that l Phillips was a paciiSt. and while 1 there was no injurious horse play as l 9 result the erstwhile conscientious l obiector received many humiiiating 1 offers of bottles of milk and swad- ding clothes the long trip 10 Yap 1 hank Members of the local board W ho re- turned from Camp Upton late last ] night could not remember whether 1 Phillips still had his rcd tie when he 1 climbed off the train and was lined 1 np to march to barracks.
 ] Phillips was arrested with two | other Columbia College students, ! Owen Cattel son of a professor of l psychology at that university, and ! Miss Parker of Barnard College, the 1 daughter of Edwin C. Parker, an As ] bury Park hotel proprietor. on June last year Cattel and Phillips were
 convicted of conspiracy to induce I others not to register under the draft ' law and were both fined $500 and ! sentenced to serve one day in the GUS ! tody of United States Marshal 1 Thomas D. Mccarthy. Philips re- ceived a sentence of five days in jail | Ebecause of his refusal to register ! June ,. 1917. In senten cling both
 youths Federal Judge Mayer told { them what silly children he consld- 1 cred them to be.
 , Miss Parker, who lal CT became Mrs. 1 Phillips, was charged with conSpir- 1 acy. but was acquitted. She met her 1 husband in the Pennsylvania Term 1 inal yesterday and gave him a travel ling bag.
 l When Phillips notified Local Board [ 129 on Saturday that he would not l obey the order to report today he also i announced that he will not put on a
 uniform at Camp Upton and will re- i fuse to drill Those who aV general 1 makeup of the boys from Camp Cp- ton and the set of the officers Jaws