New-York tribune., 1918-10-31
RogerBaldwiin,
Pacifist, Gets
Year in Jail
Associate of Scott Near;nu
Sentenced for OPPOSING
Draft
Radicals Cheer His
Defiance of Army
Rose Pastor Stokes and
Others Praise His De.
fence Of Ideals

Surrounded by intellectuals Of II.
radical group, who have opposed con.
scription, Roger Nash Baldwin, directo,
and leading spirit in the Civil Liber.v
Bureau and other pacilist organiza.
tions, was sentenced Yesterday ~
serve one year in the Federal peni
tertiary BY Judge Mayer for refusin
to submit to a physical exaninat,o
after he had registered for the draf
when Judge Mayer pronounced sor
tence, Rose Pastor Stokes. Scott Near.
ing, the Rev. Dr. Judah L. Maenes A.
bert De Silver. the Rev. Norma
Thomas, l.. Hollingsworth Wood. Wa
ter Nellis, William Simpson and otbc-
associated with them, congratulate
Baldwin on his stand. He Will prob.
ably be sent to the MARYLAND STAT
cnitcntiary.
Baldwin is Harvard sradua.e az
vas prominent in the Middle Wose
civic affairs. He is thirty-fou- wears
OF age, and gave his address as No. !
West Eighty-third Street. He is un
married and said he had no one de.
pendent on him.
About three weeks ago Ba,djn an.
peared in Assistant United States At.
torney Mathews office and declared
ne would not submit to physical ex.
animation for the draft. He main
tanned he was not TRYING 10 evade SER
wee IN the army. but stood for prin.
clple ne could not abandon.
Opposes Buying Bonds
When arraigned for sentence YES.
tcrday he delivered a long speech. ir
which he admitted he was onnosod tc,
the purchase of Liberty bonds and wa
savings stamps, and did not favoii
donations to organizations aiding til
war or any other patriotic enterprise.
II am an out and out hereto. :
want no compromise and I'll take whe
punishment is due he told judg
Mayer. Il seek no martyrdom or pub
llclty. I merely meet as squarely az
can the moral issue before nc, &c.
gardlcss Of consequences.
Il realize that your honor may Sc >
me at once TO the military authoritt
and that | may have merely taken '.
quicker and more inconvenlent method
of arriving a a training camp. az
prepared Tor that, | ann prepared fo
court marital and sentence TO .mi
tary prison, to follow the 200 ot 80 +
obJectors already sentenced 10 term :
Of 20 and 80 years each for LOYALTY fe,
their ideals.
Scorns Evasion, He Saws
81 am not seeking to evade the draft.
! scorn evasion, compromise and gamb-
ling with moral issues. | am opposed
to any service under conscription. re.
gardless of whether that service in it.
self is morally Objectionable.
Il realize to some this refusal may
seem wilful defiance. Il might b.
argued that any one holding my views
might have avoided the issue bv obev
ing the law on the chance either 0
being rejected on physical grounds. o ,
on chance the war might stop be
fore the call to service. | am Standin, :
Tor principle and would not do this
Baldwin was graduated al Harva
with the class OF 1905, receiving
gress of A. B. and N. A. Next yeas
he became interested in scttlemen
work in the middle wcst and was az
pointed director of the division
sociology of Washington Universit
st. Louis. Later he was chief proha
tion officer Of the Juvenile Court al,
parole officer Of the Criminal Cours
and the Missouri State Training
School. At one time he was secretary
of the National Probation Association