Milford chronicle., 1926-06-18

we read that on May 1S, 1917, there
was issued a proclamation calling to
arms in the service of our country
all male citizens between the ages
of 21 and 80 years; this was follow
ed on May 80, 1918, by a call to
arms of all male citizens over the
age of 21 years; and on August 81,
1918, another call was issued address
sed to all male citizens between the
ages of 21 and As years.
Frederick ]. Libby clearly then
realized that, being eligible for SER
vice under those calls to arms ad-
dressed to loyal citizens, and know
ing that his status and profession of
religious heretofore would not ex-
emBt him from service, and from be-
ing drafted, he became suddenly an
applicant for admission to the Soci-
ETY. of Friends and quickly secured
from them employment with the
Quaker Relief Committee which took
him into places of personal safety.
Through his education and prior
occupations in life he had become
used to, and craved, publicity and
notoriety, so he secured a special ap-
pointment as their European Com
missioner for Reconstruction" He
evidently had large experience,
through his associations in Germany
in Russia and Poland, with classes
of men who were not believers in
governments under constitutional
control of laws.
Upon his return to the United
States, after the Armistice, his love
for publicity found its outlet in an
organization known as 1.-THE Nation
al Council for Prevention of War,
of which he was made the "execu-
tive secretary" and the principal
mouthpiece for its activities.
Those activities brought about Gun
der his personal active management
affiliation and cooperation with
large number of societies and indi-
viduals, list of which he published,
the openly acknowledged purposes
and aims of some of which are TO un-
dermine the loyalty of American
citizens; through efforts to create
discomfort in the ranks of labor or
ganizations, and through methods OF
misleading teachings of the youth OF
our country by alterations of the
textbooks histories of the Revolu-
tionary period, wherein our forefa-
theirs suffered and fought and died
to win their glorious successes on
the battlefields which Wsre follow
ed by the Declaration of Independ-
ence, the adoption Of the Constitu-
ton and the enactment Of laws, fra
med to assure the present and future
liberties under which the prosperity
and happiness of our fellow citizens
was made safe.
We find from records, a mass OF
which has been submitted to us, that
Frederick ]. Libby has been one OF
the most persistent leaders in pa
cifist propaganda.
In a recent attempt by him to ex-
plain to one of our patriotic soc1e-
ties his attitude in respect to the les
sons of our textbook histories (com-
piled for the purpose of increasing
in the students of our public schools
their love of country, respect for It's
laws and devotion to its tiag), he
stated that when a student reads ref
erences in the textbook histories to
"Redcoats," to Bunker HILL" to
and to Concord" ere
ated in him only hatred" of Eng
land!
His many activities had led him to
recklessness and disregard for truth
and honesty in his seeking for pub
licity and notoriety, which have be-
come so marked as to bring upon
him Recently the well deserved re-
buke from the President of the Uni
ted States Ito whom he had, with
great effrontery, addressed demand
in the name of his Iibby's) Society
for the Prevention of War, that the
President should recall his plans
for the Defense Day celebration),
and thus brought upon him the stig-
ma that his communication was but
ga device of Misrepresentation"
It is almost incredible that a man
who claims to be an honest Quaker
citizen of the United States, and who
declares that when in France he
united with the Quakers in distri-
buting on the war stricken fields Of
France the fruits of American gener-
osity, can be engaged in the dis
creditable and treacherous work of
aiding the efforts Of propagandists,