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FoirR iTTn DAn.T DEMOCRAT, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA' Monday Afternoon May 10, 1937 GHOSTS victim and later hanged in the Marian na court house yard. But in what county in Alabama, Georgia or Florida was the lynching held! The prisoner was taken from an Alabama jail. Should the sheriff of that county be imprisoned! n- -K --X -v'r-- aifc rm The zeppLtM Pulitzer Prize Drama Fun at Men Who Pick CoRtiiditltn.RU Poked ure. The headwaiter is in of the scoreboard. Double Value Joe Cook, it seems, has Winner ble who has been dodging footsteps and impersonating the zany comedian.

Cook's "dead ringer" has come into good stead. Last week, Joe consented to appear at a benefit show and at the last minute, couldn't make it. The next day, the fellow who arranged the program called him up. "Thanks, Joe." he said, "for How New England Came Into Being Historical Novel is Climaxed By Gory War With Indians By BRUCE CATTON This reviewer was late in get ting around to Esther Forbes' new novel, "Paradise." A spate of what looked like more interesting books crowded it to the back of the desk; but if you have not already read it, let him report that it is a remarkable historical novel, very well worth your attention, "Paradise" depicts a frontier settlement in early Massachusetts; a village only a score of miles west of Boston, which is nevertheless on the very edge of the great wilderness. In the lift of this village Miss "Forbes traces the conflicting human currents that went to make New England.

Sh3 gives us. chiefly, the family of old Judge Parre, tended gen- telmin who sought to reproduce in New England the country estate of old England and failed because the New World was not like the old. The Parres are no Puritans, yet the narrow New England theocracy finally controls and shapes them; they are no democrats yet the raw frontier democracy overwhelms them; they are no foes of the Indians, yet they finally lead in the fight that dispossesses the red men of their lands. For the book comes to its cli max with the gory retord of King Philip's War that deoperute fight in which civilized greed met savage cruelty and triumphed; and a stirring, heart-in-the-throat narrative it is, too. And when you finish it you have not merely read an interesting story; you have learned something, and been in duced to think a bit, about the way in which New England was won, settled, and built.

WPA Worker Faces Charge of Murder charge BENTON. Ark, OP Newt Jones', 34, WPA worker, faced a first degree murder charge here today for the axe-slaying of his wife a dou in his near their home at Traskwood yesterday. A coroner's jury ordered Jones held on the capital charge late last night, a few hours after he had been overpowered and brought to the county jail here by six deputies sheriff. Coroner Sims said Jones killed his wife and seriously injured his mother, Mrs Laura Covington, following a quarrel at the lattcr's home, across the road from his own residence. Deputy Sheriff Jason Couch of Traskwood, an uncle of Jones, said the man apparently had been drinking.

15-Year-Old Mother's Suicide Attempt Fails SAN FRANCISCO. A Mother's day suicide attempt by Mrs Shirley Moquin, a 15-year-old mother of less than a year who is estranged from her husband. 20, was unsuccessful, Policeman William Minahan said today. in Eastern Asia and the Pacific constitutes just as critical a situation for Japan as that before the opening of the Russo-Japanese war." WORLD WILLIAM FEKGLSON IS THE CLOSEST PLANET blT WE KNOW iMORC ABOUT DUC TO THE FACT THAT VENUS HAS AM OPAQUE ATMOSPHERE, AND ALSO THAT, WHEN NEAREST US, THE SOE OP THE PLANET IS TOWARD US. OP i3T liar.

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Lynchings are not confined to the south but we lead, perhaps, in the number of extra-legal executions. The lynching technique is a relic, of reconstruct ion days; it is diminishing; it is frowned upon by millions of southerners; it will die out provided nothing is done to revive it. "We could hae gotten along all right had we been let alone with our problems. And we can solve this problem now if we are unmolested. There was a time when lynching was necessary.

It is never necessary when the law operates with the customary degree of fairness, when the courts are open 'and when law enforcement officers attempt to preserve order. It was necessary when the south was under iron military rule, when justice was denied to respectable white persons and when negroes were incited to violence. Such conditions were intolerable. Justice being denied through the courts, it had to be sought outside their jurisdiction. The harm that was done to interracial relations in those dark, days has extended to this hour.

The mutual respect, and confidence, the close relations of negroes and their white folks before the war suffered reversals under the carpetbaggers. Lynching is against the law. There can be no doubt of that. A new law and a federal one will make lynching no more illegal. How then can it help? Advocates of the proposed anti-lytiching bills who know nothing of our conditions or problems seek to solve them for us in two ways.

The older proposal consists of a $10,000 fine against the eounty in which a lynching occurs. The new plnn is to imprison any sheriff who permits a prisoner to be taken away from him. They are equally bad. It is impossible to penalize the county responsible for a lynching. A part of the reconstruction days teehni--que which has descended to us'is the employment of persons who live in other counties.

This was necessary when the troops watched the homes of local citizens ready to arrest them if they went abroad when a notorious crime had been committed. It was a simple to assemble a lynching party, from other counties and that was done. It is still done. If a sheriff is to be, imprisoned for permitting a prisoner to be taken away from him he will be reluctant to make an arrest. The result will be more lynchings, not fewer.

What. holds' 'lynching down to a minimum is prompt arrest, trial and execution. Discourage the law enforcement officers from making arrests and lynching again will be made necessary. The most recent lynching in our own section was that which is generally located at Marianna. The ease illustrates all of these points.

It is not known with any certainty to this day where the lynching took place. The prisoner was taken from en Alabama jail. Hi body was taken to Ik Jackson county home vt the OTHERS' OPINIONS From Florida Newspapers Half A Loaf Word from Tallahassee is that the only measure to curb the evil of cattle on the road that has a chance of passage is the Lee county bill permitting the erection of fences by private individuals on state road right-of-way. This bill was introduced by Representative Wood at the request of leading cattlemen in this region and has pased committee scrutiny to win a place on the house calendar. Mr Wood undoubtedly will succeed in bringing it up for a vote and as no opposition has manifested itself the bill will probably pass.

In the senate it is understood that a favorable reception Awaits and if Senator Gomez can steer; it through a last minute jam its enactment will stand as this session's contribution to abating the nuisance of cows on the road. It won't be quite as thorough as some had hoped but it will be much more effective than is generally realized. Cattlemen say that in Lee county it will solve the problem completely since they will be glad to protect their stock by fencing it off of state roads. The reason they cannot do that now is because they do not own the land on which their cattle range and they have been unable to get authority from the road department to put a fence on the right-of-way. Mr Wood's bill, which was first suggested by Mark Bateman and publicized by the News-Press several weeks "ago, authorizes the road board to grant that permission.

As it does not make fencing mandatory there are no valid grounds for objection and many cattlemen in addition to the group here have favored it as the only feasible way of keeping their stock from being killed. Those who have opposed measures for keeping cows off the road object that the effect of other proposals would be so drastic as to ruin many owners of small herds. Even among those who insist that cows must be barred from the highways there is a disposition to approach the matter gradually. What is objected to is no approach at all, which has heretofore been the result of every appeal to the legislature. The Lee county bill is at least a step in the right direction and deserves more vigorous support than it has yet attracted.

One reason to doubt its efficacy is perhaps the common feeling that livestock owners are totally indifferent to the damage they cause. That is hardly true. They are the ordinary run of people, by no means so hardened as to have no regret when a motorist meets death by running into one of their cows. But be that as it may they certainly regret the loss of the cow and would prevent it if, they could do so at an expenditure not exceeding its value. The point.

is also made that sinee fencing under the Lee county bill will not be continuous cattle will drift to the end of the strand and then come through in search of better pasturage on the shoulders. No doubt there will be some of that but to raise the point is to say that because enough cannot be done, nothing should be done. It should be clear by this time that if there is to be any improvement it will have to be achieved piecemeal and here is a chance to get a rather substantial piece of it. Fort Myers News-Press. BARBS A native of India wears a 64-inch mustache.

It must be a strain, at least, during the soup course. A Chinese is said to be the proud father of quintuplet boys. Wait until he has to keep their ears ffee of the good earth. In an auto accident, Stepin Fctchit was rendered unconscious, witnesses believed. "A group of Detroit messenger boys went on a sitdown strike." How does one tellT "Women outlive men," doctor says.

After all, the attention of women pedestrains is not distracted by men' hU- coming over. It was great that you showed up." Cook, however, has never met his image. The loosely described "Marianna" lynching illustrates another point which is generally overlooked by the successors of the radicals who once made life intolerable in these states and whose ill-considered activities spawned lynchings. While the streets of Marianna swarmed with excited men drawn there from the corners of three states, the citizens of the community protected the negroes from violence. One took refuge in.

the court house and the crowd that followed him there was stopped by a leading attorney of the community and by a judge of the supreme court, both of whom are natives of the section. The merchants of the town kept a close watch on their negro employes, did send them, out on the streets alone, but took them into their own automobiles and accompanied them to their homes or places of safety. Marianna was, in every sense of the word, invaded. The swarm of men assembled there for violence were strangers. Where they came from the citizens of Marianna did not know.

Should Marianna or Jackson county be penalized for the acts of such a throng" Lynch law is diminishing. In time, it will be a thing of the past. Violence, cruelty, torture are repugnant to civilized ideals. Some day there will be no lynchings either in the south or elsewhere. And some day police stations will be free of third-degree murder, a form of barbarity not so prevalent in the south as elsewhere.

A reasonable view of this matter cannot be claimed by any person who is less exercised by the torture of a prisoner in the hands of the law as by the death of a prisoner who has been taken from the custody of the law. We vjould be as unreasonable as they if we 'should attempt to solve the third-degree problem for other states. BRUCE CATTON SAYS How Can Help The quaint notion that the best way America can help the people of Europe is by tending strictly to her own business and devoting all her best thought to her domestic problems got some confirmation the other evening from Count Jerzy Potocki, Polish ambassador to the United Slates. Speaking at a banquet in Boston, Count Fotocki remarked that the world's, most pressing task today is to find some way of reconciling economic security and individual rights. European nations have tried to do this in divers ways, and have erected some odd-looking governments as a result.

And Europe, says Count Potocki, is hoping desperately that the United States will be able to find the solution. Europeans, he continues, "believe that in the desperate search for economic and political security, the United States may achieve without invading its own traditions of the rights of others that which some of us in Europe have attempted regard; less of any consequences." This country could make no greater contribution to the world's well-being than to do just that. And it can best do that by staying at home and tending to its knitting. The trio injured in a brawl with Father Divine's followers are convalescing. They think the Father has something in "Peace, it's wonderful." A Michigan girl was forced to drive 130 miles by an armed, cross-eyed man.

Still, her experience might have been worse; he might have taken the wheel. The Duke of Windsor is very wroth because an author described him as being "muddling, fuddling, meddling." There was, however, no men-Uuu of cuddling. By GEORGE! ROSS NEW YORK Broadwayites with, good memories are having their own, quiet haw-haw over the fact that the Pulitzer prize wertt to. You Can't Take It With You. the only play on Broadway that takes a few hilarious "pot-shots at Columbia university where the prizes are handed out.

One of the lines In, You Can't Take It With You, suggests that Father Divine might be called in to hand out diplomas at the next Columbia commencement exercises. No Hits, Two Errors Joseph Hergesheimer (relates Variety) was stopping at the same hotel where the New York Giants were putting up for the night. On his way through the lobby, the famous literary figure was introduced to the equally famous pitcher, Carl Hubbell. Innocently, Hergesheimer asked what Hub-bell did for a living. "I pitch," said the ace hurler.

"Pardon me fpr not apologizing," the author said, s.but perhaps you don't know what my racket is, either." Hubbell didn't Way of the Great When you read that this or that night club opening was. attended by a slew of celebrities whose names take up two paragraphs, sprinkle some salt over the announcement. Technically, those personages arrived for the event. But. they don't stay long enough to really count.

They stay long enough to have their pictures snapped from all angles and for a round of applause. Then before the floor-show can get going, they noiselessly slip out, walking out on the actors, which is the rudest thing in the show business. Extemporaneous A conceited film star met Irving Hoffman at the Stork Club the other night and began a brag about his latest picture. "Don't you think my performance is the last word?" asked the bighead. "Yes, indeed," Hoffman replied, "positively the last word you'll speak." Cracking Down Breakage is the bane of any restaurant proprietor who must deduct much of his profits from his loss of crockery.

The Terrace Room of the New Yorker hotel admonishes its waiters with a big, blue sign which says, That dinner plate costs 90 cents There were broKen last week $157 worth." Every time a waiter misses balances and drops a tray, the blue sign records another fig- Japs Are Warned Of Badituation TOKYO, Declaring that a situation similar to that preceding the Russo-Japanese war existed, the Japanese navy today urged all Japan to rise again to the defense of the empire if challenged. Hundreds of thousands of copies were printed of a new navy pamphlet which will be distributed May 27 in commemoration of the Japanese naval victory in the Battle the Japan Sea. "With a treatyless era Inaugurated," the pamphlet said, "the uneasiness at present prevailing SIDE GLANCES By GEORGE CLARE THIS CURIOUS 5 GOAT'S MUX ALWAYS IS 3 FREE OF 7U3E2CUUD6S GERMS. Sk A BARREL. i4'.

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PETROLJEOM VtELXiS ABOUT rwee: as aiamy gallons OFGASOLME TODAY AS IT DID FIFTEEN VEARS AGO. tOr. 1M7 IV tCAVKC, mC f.M.M&. 1 IV No matter what year to iL" -VENUS TRAVELS an orbit that lies inside of the earth. There, tore, when she is nearest us, she is directly in line with the sun, and we can see only her dark side.

Mars travels an orbit that lies outsidl our own, and we look away from the sun to see it at itf nearest approach, and we see its full lighted face. NEXT Are there ang Amc in Australia.