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67 ‘ cee ne paratitla c J Samanta = - ners . ed f > 7 -_ ° - * C4 fy hs xa PG 2100-11477, II MISCELLANEOUS enemas aerate atest, 6 furnished the Pittsburgh Divi s 10 March, > euritten notice which had been posted on the bulletin board at State Teachers College Indiana, Pa. This notice, which was signed in ink by EDWARD APBEY, read as follows: — A Letter to all Students and Faculty Members Holding Drart Cards: Tomorrow, the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Several thousand American men are going to attempt to emancipate themselves from Pe scetime conscription by Publicly ridding themselves of their draft Credentials, either by mailing them to the President or burning tem in public bonfires, This sounds like a foolish, crackpot scheme but it's not. It is much worse than that -- It is & form of Civil disobedionce, That's something rather old-fashioned but in times like these, when Anericats government is Giverting the major Portion of its expenditures to armaments and our military leaders are trying to fasten permanent peacetime conscription on the nation, then, as Thoreau said, "It is not too soon for an honest mean to rebel," These men are certainly honest and Sincere, and they are rebelling, not Only against what they consider a Violation of Personal liberty, but against the slow and deadly drift towards orld War IIT which an international armament pace and universal Conscription make almost inevitable, Among the men taking part in this national demonstration tomorrow are: