The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-04
DOUBTS OWN SANITY,
BUT RESISTS DRAFT
Prof. Marquette to Be Taken
Before Local Board
and Enrolled.

Admitting that he is probably wrong
and confessing a doubt OF his own SAM
ity. Prof. william G. Marquette OF Co
iumbfa University stu refused yester-
day in the United States District Court
to register voluntarily for military SER
vice.
Judge Henry d. Clayton. who thought
the circumstances were 70 extraordinary
that he acted only after twice giving
the educator his free3om on parole TO
reconsider his stand. committed him to
the Tombs Prison to be held until to-day.
when he is to be taken before Local
Board No. 100 in Hudson street and reg
istered. He faces immediate induction
| into the army.
When arraigned, charged with violat-
ing the selective service law, Marquette
| said
Your Honor. I arm placed IN the
wretched position here OF having the
| alternative OF acting contrary to my bet
| ter Judgment or violating the law. In
view OF the universal condemnation OF
my stand can't but conclude that in
all probability j am wrong. but have
used my mind as honestly as can from
the light / have, and It tells me am
right.
Not Blocking the War.
| by standing here against the Judg'
| nent of my fellow citizens II is much
easier for me through the realization
OF tho fact by doing so 7 won't hamper
| the prosecution OF the course We have
deaded upon. And. on the other hand
| II the unbelievable ever should come
to pass, IL I should have truer con
ception of the situation confronting thf
| United States. and Il I an given endur'
ance TO stand By the conviction WITT
which I am faced, / should he guilty be
yond measure IL for any consideration
I should be a traitor to the light which
SHINES in my mind
Judge Clayton, who lives in Alabama
land as Congressman sponsored thu
Clayton antitrust law, indicated tina
Ibis patience had been exhausted. Tit
Judge wears upon his coat sleeve
black band with gold star Tor relatiV'
killed in the service.
Aren't you laboring under forr:
of brainstormg' he asked. Have YOU
mot an exaggerated ego that gives yo'
A belief in your own individual impor
itance? Are you suffering. from nenta
aberr atom
There is a grave possibility that
lam suffering from mental alteration.
Marquette replied. 81 have thought @
that ana applied tests. but have not re
teeted any such condition.
Judge Clayton explained that th
registration was simply national cen
sus and the law does not require that n
who are recorded shah become soldiers
ExaIts Hts own Wisdom.
re the enumeration were made !!
time of peace you would comply wit
the law" said the court. but you nov
nut yourself up as possessing wisdor
isuperior to that OF President Wilson
your commander in chief. and TO TIL
enlightened opinion OF the united Amer'
can people"
After telling Marquette that II hi
physical or mental condition were foun
TO DO below normal he would not be IN
Quoted into the army Judge Clayto
said:
~ am not an alienist, but have nc
, the slightest doubt of your sincerity.
do not think you have yellow strea!
are a coward or an enemy OF your coun
try. I think you have a mental pecufla.
/, ity that may amount to menta
, malady. Yours is peculiar case, Yo
; are a man evidently OF good Origin
: You are well educated. yet you fail
, grasp the idea that you should yield
the law"
When Marquette expressed his thank
. the court said: You don't need
thank me for doing my duty. Sometime
think the court should have the service
OF a doctor and an alenist all the time.
2 Marquette Is IS years old. lie has
y wife and three children. and lives q
: Pleasantville, Westchester county.