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PRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936,
BUILDING SOCIETY
PROGRESS
LYNCH LAW
HERIFF SIMMONS walked into the El Campo Cafe, Wharton, Texas, one night re- cently to stop a row that had started at the end of a Bonus Bond celebration. A negro pulled a razor. The sheriff was killed,
Five men and four women -all negroes--were arrest- jed, and the lynch mob rallied to get them before the law could declare who was inno- cent, who was guilty. The county gaol was stormed; the prisoners escaped to an- other.
Another pool was captured, but again the prisoners escapeil. All night they were smuggled from prison to prison until at last they reached safety.
It was a typdeal exhibition of lynch law.
IN 1882 the first news of
IN
am
a negra being lynched Came to a horrified world. He was suspected of having rom- mitted
outrage. HIG WAS given no trial, no opportunity Jof proving himself innocent. The prison where he was rape tive was stormed, the ñegro torn from its shelter. and, before a murder-nnd crowd, was hanged until he died,
over
Since then there have been 5,000 recorded cases of Recent statistics of the relynching; of that total, fi were markable growth of the Building women. Most common in the Society movement in Britain are southern States of Americų, this not without interest to Hong-form of punishment by a self- kong, where so few people ac-appointed tribunal is generally tually own the houses in which in expiation of crimes allegeil to they live. At Home, these have been committed by coloured
people against the white. societies have not only greatly Rape and murder rank first
±t}
A Special Correspondent gives the
facts behind the terror that has claimed 5,000 human lives, a terror
brilliantly portrayed in the current film, Fury".
CG
Great Exodus Of Negroes Begins
FLIGHT FROM LYNCH TERROR
memorable spectacle.
The
The
ong-roomed school-house. They holsted him to the roof, chained him and set fire to the building.
It didn't take long. The fire burned quickly; the gruesome mob poked among the debris for pieces of bone and souvenirs to commemorate the day and, satis. fied, went back to their Christian homies,
LYNCHING is no longer the sudden, impulsive- mol reaction to a heinous crime. It is premeditated, publicised by radio, telephone and the Press,
It is a fact that invitations have been issued, "Lynching Specials" organised by railways to carry spectators to the scene. charabane tours arranged to take select socialites to see "The burn- ing of Henry Lowery,"
A train was once stopped on its ordinary journey to allow the
passengers to see a lynching.
The Costigan-Wagner Anti- Lynching Bill has been drawn up, "but not yet made law. It suggests fining or imprisoning oflieves of the law who fail to prevent lynebers from carrying out their plan or for failing to arrest, within 30 days, those who A fine. have been successful. varying from £100 to £2,000 is to be levied and paid as indem- nity to the victim's family,
SINCE 1900 only one
it
every 100 of those tak- in part in lynching has been convicted. The rest go undetect - ed. In 1928 an anti-lynching campaign was launched, and the total dropped in a year from 63 to 28.
*
Georgia, in 1926, caught 16 of a result the lynchers, and as lynching disappeared from the State until it became evident again that the Anti-Lynching Law was not being so rigorously enforced. In 1934 there were two cases of lynching in Janu- ary, followed by a further 15 be I except the sheriff. fore the end of the year. sheriff was warned, strength-
Confidently he saw his
In 1892 the highest total in ned his armed forces and rest, negro prisoner along with a de- any one year was reached when contributed towards
satisfied. a general
Missouri puty into a ear. Confidently he 255 negroes were hung and burn- on the list, but authentic cases
Adjutant-General offereti to help ordered his soldiers to remain at ed by frenzied mobs. In 1935 and steady improvement in
methods were the barracks, some distance there was the comparatively social conditions, but the facili-re known of negroes being hung if
con- necessary. His services, were away from the courthouse. small number of 15 cases bring- and burned for breaking ties which they offer have en-
The car rolled forward. The ins the total in 53 years up to tracts, taking too active a part in politely, but firmly, refused. buy his own home instead of members of their own race,
But the Anti-Lynching Bill the impending lynching. All thousand, a quarter of whom continuing to rent it, Within a
were prepared for what was go were women-rushed at it, drag- will have to be enforced before ing to happen on Monday at ged Gunn from his guard, and this vicious, lawless practice dis- comparatively short space" "of
marched triumphantly to the appears. time the Societies have develop-15
8 o'clock at the courthouse.”
ed from modest beginnings to their present important position [16, 1930, a school-mistress was in the national social structure.attacked and murdered in her
emergency
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.couraged the average citizen to politics, or even for colonising All Maryville was excited at mob-between three and four 5,084 recorded cases.
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THE Maryville lynching is
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one-roomed school-house in Maryville, Missouri.. Two days
son.
"CRAZES
COME AND GO
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
Concurrent with the wrestling craze attracted was the ju-jitsu, which thousands of men-and many women -Who took lessons from the Japanese exponents who lost no time in coming over to Britain to reap a rich harvest,
ROYAL DIABOLISTS
Many people must recall the diabolo "..
the craze, which at one time swept
the the highest to country, from lowest. In countless homes, in klruets. and parks, people could be seen walk. ing solemnly along with two sticks joined by a string, throwing up a spinning top in the air and entching il again as it descended.
Building Societies in 1935 estab-later Raymond Gunn. 27-year THEN I hear or real of people con- are much more sensible and consistent postenrds of beautiful actresses seld lished a new record al £131.000.- old negro, was arrested, subject-W demning the modern re for its in this respect than in the two pre-by the million, and nearly every hom
had special albums to put them in! |000, as compared with £125,000,-ed to "religion" and confessed.raz" manin, it makes me smile. War decades.
Think, for instance, of the picture He was taken to St. Joseph Pri-During the last forty years I have
Postcards with illustrated verses of- 000 in 1934. The Societies'
His trial was fixed for watched the birth and death of many postcard manin which sweps the counpopular songs were also the rage, and crazes, and I consider that to-day we try thirty-odd years ago! Glossy thus thousands of people learned the total resources at the end of January 12, 1931.
words of "Thora," "Eileen Alannah," and other of the current bailadu. 1935 also reached a new and re-
But the mob decided that he markable record at £602,000,000. should have
Then there was the great wrestling Glants 110 trial. They !
boom round about 1908-1907. as compared with £556,000.000 advertised their intentions.
from Russia; Turkey, and Africa, were imported to match their skill against in the previous year; while the Crowds of sightseers, reporters.
our big men, and these wrestling mat ches, stimulated by fantastic tales of number of clients reached nearly photographers flocked to Mary-
immense purses and ville to see what promised to be
personal our million. By the end of last
emnities, filled halls and theatres to enpacity. year nearly three million houses had been erected since the War. ponsible body in order to eradi- A policy of co-ordination has cate the erection of ugly houses, [now been adopted. This policy Unsightly buildings, it has been was decided upon at the recent amply proved, are not always annual conference of the Nation- due to cheapness of production. al Association of Building So- | What is needed is improved taste | cieties. The aim of the new and effective control by an 'ef- code is to safeguard and jwoteel | ficient public body. To revert to both the Societies and their the local aspect of this housing clients, by eliminating undue question, it would seem that competition and preventing the there is a field in this Colony for! limit of prudent lending being the introduction of the Building exceeded. The scheme lays Society or some adaptation of it down such principles as the to suit the needs of many of the establishment of common mini-Colony's residents. Mord and mum rates of interest and a commore are people making long- mon maximum
term for thekong their home, but the great ropayment of advances. As a majority of residents go on year result of this co-ordination, said after year paying rents which, Sir Harold Bellman, the chair-in the course of years, reach a man of the conference, investors total more than suflicient either would be confirmed in the con- for purchasing their homes or fidence they afready feel in re-actually building their own gay to the security of their in-houses. ne movement' is cer- vestments. The question of thinly productive of admirablo "jerry-building" was raised at results in England. Is there any the conference, and it was stated reason why it should not work that building societies were will-with equally satisfactory resulta ing to co-operate with any res- here?
"Let's borrow $150 instead of $100. Then we can put the $50 aaide to meet the first few payments on the loan."
craze
and Even King Edward
Queen Alexandra became, devatecs of diabolo
the but very suddenly vanished and was quietly buried.
One rather strange point about no. dern life is the virtual disappearancy of the popular song. This is pity, for the to my mind quite intoler able "eronner" gives us nothing in comparison.
HARDER TO PLEASE
Music-hall ditties and musical comedies in the old days were often antional affairs, and the songs of artists like Harry Lauder, Vestn Tilley, Florrie Ford, Gertio Gitana, and other singe favourites "crazes" of their own.
woro
The vogue of the wireless and gramophone in perhaps chiefly respon Bible for the fact that a modern song lives only for a few wenks. Many people never hear it at all, or, if they do, can hardly recall Its nume a fort- Might later.
Moles Rackman.