Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1922, Page 4

4 RUSE T0 PREVEN LYNCHING PRAISED Virginia Official’s Action in Harris Case Follows Plea by Woman. STAIN ON STATE AVERTED Writes to Star Urging South to End Mob Rule—Asks Church to Launch Crusade. To the Editor of The Star On Saturday, July 22, the dally papers brought reports of the prob- ability of a lynching near Manassas, Va. A negro, Alvin Harris, had killed an officer of the law attempting to arrest him, and a mob, numbering 500 or morc, was hunting him, with the avowed object of lynching him. A prominent Virginia woman, now married and lving in Washington, read of this incident. As this outrage was about to be perpetrated in her native state, she felt that she per- sonally was concerned in it. Not only was the name of Virginia about to be sullied, but every Virginian would be lowered in the em of righteous men everywhere. Sesing her duty clearly, she did everything possible vent this crime and exhausted getting in touch with >rince William county | over long e telephone. Lafe Saturday even succeeded in I1th's attor- at Manassas, locating the cor ney, Thomas H. Lion. and urged him with all the arguments at her command to do everything in his power to forestall such a horrible crime. gave her his word that he the co-operation of all izens of the community safeguarding the criminal when apprehended. In this he was entirely { successful. By a clever ruse Mr. Lion evaded the mob and conveyed the prisoner to Alexandria, where he was immedia placed on a passing train and fin lodged in jail in Rich- mond. No doubt he will be electro- cuted, but it will be in accordance with the law. Praises State's Attorney. T feel that Mr. Lion Is 4 rving of the sincere thanks of Virginian and all law-abidi ns every- where, and officers of the law throughout the south should emulate his example The example we set by ives Influenca others. How our own v cen we expect the negro to observe and re- spect the laws we made for him when we break them ourselves? Often have therners, “Do vou believe laws of vour state?" that they do. but if | ‘Do vou believe in tak- | vour own hands and ob to torture. burn and - presence of a of men, women and children?" they will not answer. There are but two possible answers —either the southern people believe in lynchin king the law, or they belie ving the law and | preventing To think that the south would stand for the lvnch- | ing of a childl—a boy only fifteen vears old! _And yet this happened recently. When I hear of the inhu- man atrocities practiced at lynchings T bow my head In shame for the southern men and women. How can \f thousands the southern geople be gulity of burning and torturing a human being to death? How can they commit these savage crueltiss? Adding the whita man's crime to that of the | negro does not mend matters. Two wrongs never vet made a right | Every negro is entitled to a fair trial, no matter his crime fs. woman and a Vir- hope my state at ant it to him Lynching Soclal Disease. This letter is not written to econ- wince any one that lynching is a erime, for you know It already. Not only ddes it rob the victims of their constitutional rights and thelr lives, 1t Iynches law and justice and civill- zation and outrages all the finer hu- man sentiments and feelings. Lyvnch- ing Is a contagious social disease. and such Is ep concern to every n and to every lover . The wrong that it| does to the wretched victims Is almost as nothing compared to the injury it does to tha lvnchers themsalves, to the community and to soclety at gintan I sinc. ¢ il large. Ona of the bad features of Iynchinga is that it qnickly bacomes % habit, and, like all bad habits, despens and widens rapldly. “fFormerly lvnchings wera mainly ¥ sited by rape and murder, but t habit has spread until now such out. rages are committed for much less sorious crimes, and lynching has be- come so common in the United States that such occurrances create but lit- tla sensation and evoke but slight comment. Is there no remedy? Have we not sufficient legal intelligence and machinery to take care of every crime committed” Must we fall back on the methods of the jungle? Civili- zation rests on the obedlence to law, which means the substitution of rea- son and deliberation for Impulse, in- atinct and passion. It is easy and tempting to obey the latter, but to be governed by the former requires self- control, which comes from the Inter- position of ‘thought between impulse and actjon. Opportunity for Service. Herein lles the educated man's o portunity to serve his fellows, to | terpose deliberation between thelir im. pulsas and actlon, and in that way to control both. Soclety has a right to expect educated people molding and shaping conduct in mat- ters of this sort. It is their privilege and duty to co-operate with others in leading crusades against crime and mob rule and for law and civilizatio: The educated person belongs in tI front rank of those fighting for moral and social progress. Speak out boldly | when speech is needed and let your influence be felt against it in decided, | unmistakable measures and manners. | It is a source of deep regret and | sorrow to many good Christians in this country that the church puts forth so few and such feeble protest: against lynching. Thousands of d lars are raised by our churches every year to send missionaries to chris- tianize the heathen in forelgn lands.; Would it not be well, in addition to this, for our churches to inaugura a crusade against barbarism at home, here in the United States? Surely it is time for the min in their pulpits and the Chris in their pews to fall upon their knees and pray for deliverance from this rising tide of Dbarbarism which threatens to deluge the whole land. to help in |l T & WORRYIMG A FRIENMD ON SHORE BY TURMNMING THE CANOE OVER IN Ti:E WATER AnMD HIDING UNDER IT ‘Horrors of Hollywood’ Nothing But Talk, Declares Will Hay: Movie Czar Deplores False Reports on Film Industry. Lasky Says Location Of Colony Finest In World. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 29.—Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Assocla- tion of America, has failed, after a close study of motlon picture studlos here, to find “the horrors of Holly- wood,” he told the Hollywood Cham- ber of Commerce at a dinner last night. “The one bad influence in Holly- wood is talk,” said Mr. Hays. “For the life of me, I cannot see the hor- rors_o§ Hollywood." He sald the people must have en- tertainment, that if they are deprived of it they will “go red” and that the right kind of motion pictures are needed. ‘We must remove the reason for about the industry,” he continued, ‘Ours is a duty to youth. We are not so much interested in the millions of dollars invested in the Industry as. we are in the milllons of children whose morals and education are in- vested in it Je: L. Lasky told of a visit he NEED OF LAWS STRESSED BY FATAL PLANE FALL Rear Admiral Moffett Declares Ac- cident to Fahy's Craft Pro- vides Proof. Rear Admiral Moftett, chief of the naval bureau of aeronautics, and other officers of the bureau, cite the recent fatal accident to the land plane, pilot- ed by Herbert J. Fahy, near the Vir- ginia end of the Highway bridge, as additional evidence of the need for ation to control the operation of craft and to provide for the in- s engaged in commercial aviation. ending legislation will go far toward the elimination of such un- fortunate dccurrence: said Admiral Moffett. “At the present time there s practically no check on the operations of civil alrcraft and the consequen! dangers to the public which attend the uncontrolled flying of civillan planes can only be done away with by providing for means to insure safety and reliability in such pianes and the pilots who fly them.” In commenting on the need for prop- er control and direction of civil aero- nauti aval officers pointed out that such federal supervision was i interest of progress as well ty. There are, they "said, bills ding in Congress providing ablishment of a bureau of under the Department of Commerc: According to Admiral Moffett and other naval officers the of airplane carriers fs operation of steam Vigorous Protest Urged. Ralse your volces in immediate pro- test when Iynchings or mob violence |and the is_threatened. . Encourage ry effort to detect and punish the leaders and partici- pants in mobs and riots. Encourage the white pulpit and ress In creating a sentiment among' w-abiding citizens and urge out- ken condemnation of these forms lawlessness. JULIETTE V. HARRING. BOYCOTT U. S. GOODS. Mexican Labor Plan Protest Against Magon’s Imprisonment. Wy the”Assoclated Press. 3 MEXICO CITY, July 29.—All groupa of organized:Mexican labor are said to have u-nodn w"lurt“sfiz«n&u I.'Ill all goo m e ited tes. The boycott is to nd safety requirements, th: qualifications of personnel operating them must meet the required standards. ——— WRIT DENIED AGAINST PORTO RICO GQVERNOR N JAUN, Porto Rico, July 29.— By unanimous decision the supreme court has denled for the p r:mon for & writ of certiol y Attorney General Mestre District Judge Foote had denied a re- quest of the attorney general for an Gov> B, Mont Reily and Joha R. Pull before the grand jury on August 1. Judge Foote held that the attorney general was not mthorl.l,d to present 1=° gm new grand jury 00 e case against Gov. KEVSTONE VIEY ‘WILL HAYS, made to Europe to view sites from which to choose a possible successor to Hollywood a world center for motion picture production.” “‘When I reported to Mr. Hays," said Mr. Lasky, “I told him that, no mat- ter what was said about Hollywood, it was the only place in the worl for a motion picture production cen- i ter. HUMANE SOCIETIES PLAN WELCOME FOR HADWEN Vivisection Debate Here Planned if Opponent Can Be Found to Meet Britisher. Plans for the visit to Washing- ton_on November 13 of Dr. Walter R. Hadwen, president of the British Unifon for the Abolition of Vivisec- were made by representatives of the Washington Humane Soclet: National Society for Humane Regu Vivisection, Nation: League to Conserve Food Animi and Humane Education Soclety yes. terday. The representatives of the humane organizations met at the residence of Mra George Tod Ford, 1802 18th street northwest If an opponent can be found for Dr. Hadwen the public meeting to be held in November will take the form of a_debate on viviseotion. During Dr. Hadwen's visit to America last year all the leading defenders of vivisection in this country were chal- lenged to debate with him, but they declined. B Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, 1458 Massachusetts avenue northwest, is chairman of the committee of "ar- rangements, and Mra Ma rington Vitale, 2121 Flo: nortAwest, is secretary. FOUR, TRAPPED IN MINE _ BY FIRE, ARE RESCUED Blaze Said to Be Outburst of Smoldering Flames Sealed Up Last February. By the Assoclated Press, Car- avenue SBORO, 1L, July 39.—¥ire Wesa, "ton on yesterday MURPHY: discovered C’: a mine of Coal n T gl noon, imprisoning four :hnt: for tx.wdvo hou urning early today, . :hflurltlll ‘were preparing to Bt foreman, were Tescu ‘while Laughlin, an inspector of the mine, ‘was taken unconscious from the shaft , said the fire was an sealed :‘rla’:um. Frank e inspector, outburst of smoldering fiames up last February. ' ' —By WEBSTER. RESERVE HEAD DOUBTFUL Decision on Harding and Naming of “Dirt Farmer” Due Soon. Two vacancies on the Federal Re- serve Board are understood at the White House to be under considera- jtion by President Harding, with | prospects of early action by the executive to name a successor to Gov. W. P. G. Harding, and also a “dirt” farmer. There was some speculation as to { whether Gov. Harding might be re- | appointed, but republican members of the agricuitural bloc were known ! to be opposed. For the “dirt” farmer | position, recently created by Con- gress, three names most prominently mentioned were Milo Campbell of | Michigan, President Howard of the American farm bureau and W. P. Houston, a Missouri farmer. ROAD CONTRACT AWARDED. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, July 29.—The state roads commission has awarded a contract for paving 1.37 miles of road in Montgomery | county to the firm of G. B. Mullin & Co.. jof Washington. at its -bid of $38,206. The road, which s from Campbell's corner to Leland’s corner, will be paved with concrete and work will start within the next ten days. YOUR PAINT 20k i nd increase its ! ‘We o good painting, at reasonabls charges. R. K. Ferguson, s Palnting Dept. 1114 9th 8t. Phones Main 2490-2481. Vt. Ave. at Thomas Cir. Main 8980 380 Rooms Single Rooms, $2.00 Up Double Rooms, $3.00 Up | A 2-Hour Auto —in_full 7-passenger car around Rock Oreek Park and Speedway, only 36, Phone Columbia 10000 Ten Thousand Wardman Park Hotel Taxi_Service PERPETUAL BUILDING Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- Assets More Than $8,000,000 Surplus More Than - $800,000 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1922~ , Closed Saturdays Toohward & Lothrop New York—WASHINGTON—Paris We Begin Monday Morning, July 31st Season-end Clearance Summer Stocks of Women'’s and Misses’ Coats, Suits, Dresses, Skirts, Blouses and Sweaters This is in accordance with our long-established policy of disposing of all merchandise in the season for which it is made. We aré not going into detail, but we want to impress upon you the worth- while savings that this event will present. Linen Suits, Silk Suits, Knit Sports Suils, Riding Habits, Tailored Suits Sports Coats, Street Coats, Silk Capes, Wraps Wash Dresses, Silk Dresses, Wool Dresses, Dinner Gowns Flannel Skirts, Silk Skirts, Sports Skirts Wool Sweaters, Silk Sweaters Silk: Blouses, Tailored Blouses, Lingerie Blouses s frequently occurs in the clearance of end-of-season merchan- be incomplete in some lots—in others there will be | Naturally, a dise, the size range may found broader assortments. 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