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The Sun published the lonowrng siai ment from Mr. Bernard Ades, coun, sel for Yuel Lee alias Orphan Jons who is cahrged with murdering fou' person^, at their home near Berlu en the night of October I2th.
''This is only an ind.cation trat the trials heretofore held en the Eastern fcnore were not real' investigations but only formalities and amounted to legal lynonings." V hether Mr. Ades is in contemp of the Courts for the issuance of sue a statement is a question for th courts to decide but certainly no on< can claim that The Sun in giving circulation to such a statement, whin! referred not alone to the Lee case o: the lynching at Salisbury but to a] murder trials that have been held- ii all of the Eastern Shore Courts wa'
ato&ffi8' t0 furtheT t.he cause. ° ¦justice or' to increase the respect o the'.eitizeTis of the stats for -any o their eavrts.
It may tie customary for some oi
the members of the Baltimore Cit}
bar to refer thus disrespectfully tc
the 'members of the Judiciary in tha>
, ,, city and it may be the custom of the
.. Baltimore City papers to publis! such wild criticisms of their court but we think that such statement? are simply in furtherance of the pro pagan-da of the International Laboi Defense Union and may possibly account for the many instances1 of mot violence in Baltimore city in connection with the enforcement of some 61 the federal laws.
Certainly any effort to break down the respect for the Courts, whether by an organization or by individuals
,',,< is but a step toward bringing about a condition of anarchy and we cannot
.'.¦ believe that this movement has the ; sympathy of the better thinking ;peo--ple of Baltimore.
We Thank You
We note by the columns of the Baltimore papers that in a number of the Baltimore City churches the pastors discussed yesterday the unfortunate lynching of the colored man, Matthew Williams, who was taken . out of the Peninsula rlospital Friday ',%>. ightSBpA^fnched.
We' hope that all of the gentlemen
tSaltimore. With all of the murdarr
md every other kind of crime that
s in -Baltimore, thes* mui
ven occurring in the penitentialy
md with the constant conflict bet-
veen the forces of righteousness and
,hose of crime which are ever before
he christian churches of Baltimore
ve think' they have enough in tneir
dwti city to keep them busy.
We have no doubt that the m'mi-vters at Sodom and Gomorrah in their 'ay were very apprehensive about -,he moral conditions in other sections ¦>i their world. We have frequently noticed that there are many who car ee tre moats in the eyes of other? jut not the beams in their own. We ecommend to these gentlemen a care ful survey of crime conditions in thei; own city. Some of them may be in terested in the enforcement of the prohibition laws (they are not supposed to be very well enforced ir Baltimore); some of them are inter-3sted in the abolition of legalized gambling in Maryland; some of them are supposed to be opposed to Sunday moving pictures, Sunday base ball :hen if there is a lot of time left or their hgnds they might come dowr to the Eastern Shore and get acquaint ed with our people.
The Finishing Touch
Having tired a number of blasts at this paper, its editor, and- the people generally on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, The Sunpapers have now turned us over to the tender mercies of Mr. H. L. Mencken, and Mr. Mencken in Monday's issue of the The Evening Sun proceeds to tell us what he thinks of us individually and collectively and, apparently, he does not think much of us.
We feel rather complimented that to Mr. Mencken'should be given the job of putting the.final touch on this fair community. In fact we recall that several years ago he wrote something along the same line (possibly worse) about the Presidents of the. United States, beginning with George Washington, the first President and continuing down the line'to Woodrow Wilson, and- he paid no com pliments to any of them.
We suggest that the Sunpapers re-
King Johnson, lynched at Brooklyn, Anne Arundel County, December 25. 1911.
Howard Cooper, Negro, lynched June 12, 1885, at Towson( Baltimore county. Cooper was charged with attacking Miss Katie. Gray, a white woman. . '
Townsend Cook, Negro, was taken from the Westminster Jail, Carroll county, by a mob on June 2, 18 85, and handed from a tree. Cook had attacked a white woman.
Benjamin Hance, Negro, was lynched on June 17, 1887, by a mob a' Leonardtown, St- Mary's county. He was charged with an attack.
Hoe Vermillion, Negro, was taken from the Upper Marlboro jail on December 3. 1889, by a mob and hanged. He was charged with burning several barns in Prince G-eorge's county.
James Taylor, Negro, was taken from the Chestertown jail in May, 1892, and hanged by a mob. He was believed to have been implicated in the murder of Dr. James H. Hill, near Millington-
Isaac Kemp, Negro, was taken from the Somerset county jail on June 8, 1894, and killed by a mob. He was arrested in connection with the murder of Edward Carver! a county resident.
Jacob Henson, Negro was taken from the Ellieott City Jail on March 28, 1895, by a mob and hanged. He had been convicted of the murder of Daniel F. Shea in Howard county.
James Bowens, Negro, was lynched at Frederick. Md., on November 18", 1895
William Andrews, Negro, convicted and sentenced to hang, was taken, from the Somerset county Jail on June 9, 189 7, and lynched. He had confessed attacking Mrs. Benjamin T. Kelly in Somerset ounty-
Henry Davis, Negro, was taken from the Annapolis Jail on December 20, 1906, and hanged t'o a tree in the rear of St. John's College. He had confessedv'to an attack . on a white woman of Annapolis.
Two lynchings occurred, in 1907-William Burns; a Negro, who murdered a policeman in Cumberland was taken from jail there and hanged on October G. James Reed, another Negro, who murdered" a policeman at Crisfield, was lynched on July 2 8.
now if hrJdi us all up to the contempt of ,|h( nation and the world by staging, a public obscenity worthy of cjanniba
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IN the immediate premises, unfortunately, not much can be done. The gallant Wicomiconians, having butchered ?a wounded and helpless black man, se very likely to get away with it. Governor Ritchie says that he has confidence in the Hon-Levin C- Bailey, the county State's attorney, and no doubt it is justified, but Mr. Bailey can accomplish little if anything in the face of the prevailing public oninion, which supports the lynchers almost unanimously. If anyone had really wanted to arrest them, they might have been taken on the spot. They made no effort to disguise themselves, and every child in Salisbury knows who they are, and duly admires them. After suitable delays, I suppose, the countv grand jury will in- j teachable. The trouble is that no diet, a couple of highly improbable; one bothers to teach them. They sca.pegoats, and after more delays it j are resigned to the Devil, and left in will be found that there is no evi-ltheir dismal isolation—miles from a dence against them- And that will j lemon and more miles from a book. be that. j i long ago suggested that a mis-
Governor r tchie himself is almost I sionary crusade be organized to save helpless. H an't go into the coun-1 Maryland irredenta fmni its Meth-ty and. take over the jurisdiction ot'lodist preachers, its pjreine politi-the local courts. To be sure, he can j cians, its professional patriots and offer Mr. Eai'ey the aid of Attorney ; visionaries, its whole pack of blind General Lane, or the State police ; leaders, of the blind. Its people are and of the city detectives, but the | stupid enough, God knows, but they final disposition of the business will j are probably less stupid than mere-be in the hands of the court at Sal- ly misinformed. There,/are no ag-isbriry, with a jury in the box made encies of civilized . opinion among up partly, if not wholly, of men who, them. They must depend for their witnessed the lynching without pro-, 4deas unon clowns, in the pulpit, test, and maybe gave a hearty hand j clowns on the stuhip. and clowns in to it. There is no way under thejthe. editorial chair. Certainly it constitution, of Maryland to transfer would be irrational to ask for en-the case to another county, or to lightment in communities whose
in their own barbaric way, and what is more, they wanted to prove tc the city slickers that they could. The Cambridge Daily Banner, foam iiig in bad' EriglisTi, seeks'to' nut al the blame for the sorry busines: on the Sunpaper, and hints broadly that it has turned Communist! IP own suspicion is that Judge Ulman really had more hand in it, thbugl he acted quite innocently. When he intervened in the Yuel Lee case ag ainst the Snow Hill Dogberry he se' the whole lower Shore afire. Tin lynching of poor Williams, dragged to death blind and in bandages was no more than a melodramatic demonstration that the brave fellows c-f the region were not to be intimidated. They proved it as such poltroons always do—at odds oi 1000 to 1.
The remedy is not to bellow, but to educate. The majority Of people ,even in Wicomico, are .probably
displace the local law officers.
All this reveals one of the lamentable defects of local self-government. In a State with a centralized government the lynchers would be in jail by now, the very dubious
ideas are supplied by such pathetic sheets as the Cambridge Daily Banner and the Salisbury Times. Even the burning Baptists of rural Georgia are better off that that.
So I call for volunteers. The
Salisbury police would be in adjac- first should come from the. lower
ent cells, and all hands would-be Shore itself Let its small minority
sure of severe nunishnient. But the of educated and civilized young men
evils of centralized government, tak- bestir themselves, lest their people
ing one with another, are so much be lost altogether..
worse than those of the Maryland —Reprinted FromiTh't* tlvemng Sun,
system that we must-bear the occa- Baltimore of Monday,-Dec: 7.
.. were inspired solely by that christian -liharity which their calling would' publish the article for, no doubt, many
Wicomico Offered Services
Of Baltimore Detectives
Baltimore. Dec 7. (IP)—Wicomico County authorities today were offered the services of the Baltimore Detective Bureau in seeking and identifying the members of ;tiie Salisbury, Md., mob which Friday-night dragged a negro murderer from his hospital bed and burned his body after lynching him.
Police ' Commissioner Gaitherj made the offer but said he had received no request for the aid Bal-' timore detectives.
Attorney-General William P. Lane Jr., was placed in charge of an investigation of the lynching now being made at Salisbury after Governor Ritchie had ordered him to cooperate with Wicomico County authorities. .
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Survey Sh§ws Growing
Confidence In 1931
Merchandising Possib'lities
New York, Dec- 7. (IP)—The Board of Directors of the Advertising Federation of America announced today that a national survey it has conducted indicates the 1932 advertising dollar will bring- better results than at any time during the past two years.
Gilbert T. Hodges. President of the organization, said the survey shows a growing confidence in 1932 merchandising possibilities-
His report adds that greatly improved credit conditions and the beginning of commodity price recovery are reflected in an "improved general morale.''
"Check-up of 102 large companies showed that those firms which increased their advertising in 1.9 30 over 1929 made a 58 8per cent better profit comparison than those which decreased it," the report
states. "Those san* firms increased their lead still further in 19:;1." President Hodges pointed out Chat a recent analysis of seventy large cities found that, appreciable business 'recovery has been under way for some months in the cities where newspaper advertising has been the heaviest.
sey Fails To
r . Score Knodouts
Duluth, Minn., De'e 8. (JP)—Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champion, pounded three opponents here last night but failed to score any knockouts, ,
Pat McLaughlin, Chicago, and Szymka Zabuil, Milwaukee, took bad beating's, but stayed the limit. The former one round arid the latter two rounds. Dempsey also boxed a tame round with Charlie Retzlaff, Duluth.
Six thousand persons witnessed the program, one of the largest, ever to attend a fight card here-
standpoint than Bernard Ades. Its sole purpose«and objective is to sell i more papers, thereby materially fill-; ing their' coffers with the filthy lucre of which the morbid and cur-' iously hungry thrive on.
As for Mr. Ades and his organi-j zation, (who are behind the lines gleefully watching and awaiting the , outcome of the proceedings, who j only intervene long enough to sup-,ply more ammunition in this little j episode), may they reap the dis-1 content which they have sown and used the Sunpaners a^ fertilizer;
MARION C. HART.
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