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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 2, 1945

importance. These men are in Civilian Public Service camps doing soil conservation, reforestation, etc., to preserve the national resources for future generations.

"Still others of this group are in so-called detached service projects working as attendants in mental and general hospitals, working on dairy farms, serving as guinea pigs in experiments of many sorts, starvation diets, diets for extreme heart and cold, sea water effects, yellow fever, atypical pneumonia, lice eradicators, etc. They do this work voluntarily, realizing that it is of value both to civilians and to military services. Some of them have been permanently handicapped by the effects of the experiments.

"ALL OF THE MEN IN CPS UNITS OR CAMPS ARE WORKING WITHOUT PAY, WITHOUT DEPENDENCY ALLOTMENTS, WITH SOCIAL OSTRACISM ((the capitals are mine -- EEE)), AND REALIZATION THAT THEY WILL BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN SECURING POSTWAR EMPLOYMENT AND WILL HAVE NO MUSTERING OUT PAY AND NO INSURANCE OR PENSION. They do this, not because of fear of suffering (because mental suffering can be worse than physical, and the known is worse than the unknown) but because they believe that there is another way of living and adjusting with our fellow men, and they can not take part in a method which they believe to be wrong.

"Then there are those who believe that war is wrong, and also, that the government, the national state, has no right to control the lives and decisions of its citizens, that it is the servant of the people, not its master. They believe that men should not be conscripted for military or labor service, but that each man should determine for himself how he can best serve humanity.

"A large percentage of these men believe that our social system is immoral in its racial discrimination, it economic inequalities, its lack of educational honesty, its emphasis on materialism, wealth, power, selfishness, hatred and fear. They are ready and willing to give their lives in trying to build a better world where men may live in love and brotherhood one with another, but they cannot participate in activity which is destructive of human personality and body in war.

"They refuse to allow the government to conscript them because they do not believe that any man should be conscripted. They do not choose to go to prison, they choose to live as they see the light and they accept prison as the punishment of a state which cannot permit men to differ from the state policy. Some men go so far as to refuse to admit that the state has the right even to imprison them and they refuse to do anything to cooperate with such punishment. They will not walk to their trial or to prison, they will not eat or work or do anything in cooperation with the force used by the government.

"They have gone father than we believe we should go.

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importance. These men are in Civilian Public Service camps doing soil conservation, reforestation, etc., to preserve the national resources for future generations. "Still others of this group are in so-called detached service projects working as attendants in mental and general hospitals, working on dairy farms, serving as guinea pigs in experiments of many sorts, starvation diets, diets for extreme heart and cold, sea water effects, yellow fever, atypical pneumonia, lice eradicators, etc. They do this work voluntarily, realizing that it is of value both to civilians and to military services. Some of them have been permanently handicapped by the effects of the experiments. "ALL OF THE MEN IN CPS UNITS OR CAMPS ARE WORKING WITHOUT PAY, WITHOUT DEPENDENCY ALLOTMENTS, WITH SOCIAL OSTRACISM ((the capitals are mine -- EEE)), AND REALIZATION THAT THEY WILL BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN SECURING POSTWAR EMPLOYMENT AND WILL HAVE NO MUSTERING OUT PAY AND NO INSURANCE OR PENSION. They do this, not because of fear of suffering (because mental suffering can be worse than physical, and the known is worse than the unknown) but because they believe that there is another way of living and adjusting with our fellow men, and they can not take part in a method which they believe to be wrong. "Then there are those who believe that war is wrong, and also, that the government, the national state, has no right to control the lives and decisions of its citizens, that it is the servant of the people, not its master. They believe that men should not be conscripted for military or labor service, but that each man should determine for himself how he can best serve humanity. "A large percentage of these men believe that our social system is immoral in its racial discrimination, it economic inequalities, its lack of educational honesty, its emphasis on materialism, wealth, power, selfishness, hatred and fear. They are ready and willing to give their lives in trying to build a better world where men may live in love and brotherhood one with another, but they cannot participate in activity which is destructive of human personality and body in war. "They refuse to allow the government to conscript them because they do not believe that any man should be conscripted. They do not choose to go to prison, they choose to live as they see the light and they accept prison as the punishment of a state which cannot permit men to differ from the state policy. Some men go so far as to refuse to admit that the state has the right even to imprison them and they refuse to do anything to cooperate with such punishment. They will not walk to their trial or to prison, they will not eat or work or do anything in cooperation with the force used by the government. "They have gone father than we believe we should go. 10