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At the French Hospital, vn Thursday, July 24, 1926, Winfred, wife of William Sharp,

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The

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- ed, 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 gaol was captured, but again the prisoners escaped. All night they were smuggled from prison to prison until at last they reached safety..

It was a typical exhibition of Hynch law,

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1882 the first news of

a negro being lynched, came to a horrified world. He was suspected of having com mitted

outrage. He was given no trial, no opportunity of proving himself innocent.

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Hongkong Telegraph. The prison where he was cap-

FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1996,

BUILDING SOCIETY

PROGRESS

Recent statistics of the markable growth of the Building Soricly movement in Britain are

tive was stormed. The negro torn from its shelter, and, before a murder-mad crowd, was hanged until he died.

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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".

Great Exodus Of Negroes Begins

FLIGHT FROM LYNCH TERROR

a memorable spectacle. sheriff was warned, strength-

ed satisfied. The

The

one-roomed school-house. They hoisted him to the roof, chaines. hint and set fire to the building.

It didn't take long. The fire burned quickly; the gruesome nich poked among the debris for pieces of bone and souvenirs to commemorate the day and, satis- fel, went back to their Christian homes.

LYNCHING is no longer the sudden, impulsive mob 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 seene, charabane tours arranged to take. select socialites to sec "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. or imprisoning suggests fining officers of the law who fail to prevent lynchers from carrying out their plan or for failing to arrest, within 30 days, those who have been successful. A fine. varying from £400 to £2,000 is to be levied and paid as indem- nity to the victim's family.

SINCE

1900.0

only

in

every 100 of those tak- ing part in lynching has been convicted. The rest go undeteet- ed. In 1923 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 ns 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 lynchlag in Janu- ary, followed by a further 15 -

All except the sheriff. fore the end of the year.

Since then there have been over 5,000 recorded cases of lynebing: of that total, 94 were wonen. Most common in the southern Siptes of America, this not without interest to Hong-form of punishment by a self- kong, whire so few people ne-appointed Tribunal is generally tintly own the houses in which it expiation of crimes alleged to have been committed by coloured they live. At Home. these

Confidently he saw his In 1892 the highest total in societies have not only greatly ple against the white.

Rape and murder rank first ehed his armed forces and fest, negro prisoner along with a de- any one year was renched when contributed towards a general

Missouri puty into a car. Confidently he 955 negroes were hung and burn- and sterly improvement in on the list, but authentic cases Aujutant-General offered to help ordered his sokiiers to remain at ed by frenzied mobs. In 1935

distance there some were the barracks, methods

the comparatively social conditions, but the theilijare known of negroes being hung if emergency

small number of 15 cases bring- and burned for breaking con- necessary, His services were away from the courthouse.

The car rolled forward. The ing the total in 53 years up to tracts, taking too active a part in politely, but firmly, refused.

All Maryville was excited at mobbelween three and four 5,084 recorded cases. polities, or even for colonising

But the Anti-Lynching Bill members of their ownƑace,

the impending lynching. All thousand, a quarter of whom were prepared for what was go--were women rushed at it, drag- will have to be enforced before ing to happey "on Monday at ged Gunn from his guard, and this vicious, lawless practice dis- 8 o'clock at the courthouse." marched triumphantly to the appears,

ties which they offer have en-

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couraged the average citizen to buy his own home instead of continuing to rent it. Within a comparatively short space of time the Societies have develop- THE Maryville lynching is ed from modes: beginnings to

notorious. On December their present important position 16, 1930, a school-mistress was in the national social structure. Jattucked and murdered in her school-house in The amount advanced by British. One-roomed

Maryville, Missouri. Two days Building Societies in 1935 eslab- Inter Raymond Gunn, 27-year-

"CRAZES" COME AND GO

lished a new record at £131,000.- old negro, was arrested, subject-WHEN I hear or read of people con- fare much more sensible and consistent postcards of beautiful netresses sold demning the modern age for its in this respect than in the two pre-by the million, and nearly every home

hd special albums to put them in! me smile. War decades. 500, as compared with £125,000,- Jed to "religion" and confessed.roze mania, it makes

Think, for instance, of the picture

Postcards with illustrated veraes of 000 in 1984. The Societies'le was taken to St. Joseph Pri. During the last forty years I have

son. His trial was fixed for watched the birth and death of many postcard mania wirich sweat the coun- popular songs were also the rage, and crazes, and I consider that today we try thirty-odd years ago Glossy thus thousands of people learned the total resources at the end of Junuary 12, 1931.

words of "Thorn," "Eileen Alannah,' and other of the current ballads. 1935 also reached a new and re

But the mob decided that he markable record at £602,000,000,

have Should

10 trial. They as compared with £550,000,000 advertised their intentions. in the previous year; while the Crowds of sightseers, reporters, number of clients reached nearly photographers flocked to Mary- our million. By the end of instville to see what promised to be year nearly three million houses

that

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 protect | 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 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. More and mum rates of interest and com- more are people making Hong- mou maximum term for thekong their home, but the great! repayment of advances. As a majority of residents go on year result of this co-ordination, said after year paying renta which. Sir Harold Bellman, the chair-in the course of years, reach a man of the conference, investors total more than sufficient either would be confirmed in the con- for purchasing their homes or fidence they already feel in re-actually building their' pard to the security of their in-houses. ie movement is cer- vestments. The question of thinly productive of admirable "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-results ing to co-operate with any res- here?

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SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

""Let's borrow $150 instead of $100. Then we can put the $50 asido to meet the first few payments on the loan."

Then there was the great wrestling boom round about 1906-1907, Giants from Russia, Turkey, and Africa, were imported to match their skill against our big men, and these wrestling mat- ches, simulated by fantastic tales of And personal immense pursen emnities, filled hals and theatres to capacity.

WAS

Concurrent with the wrestling craze the ju-jitsu, which attracted 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 craze, which at one time swept the country, from the highest to the lowest. In countless homes, in streets and parks, people could be seen walk- ing volemnly along with two sticks joined by a string, throwing up a spinning top in the air and catching it again as it descended.

Even King Edward and Queen Alexandra became devotees of diabolo

the suddenly but Vanished and was quietly burled.

very

crazr

One rather strange point about mo- dern life is the virtual disappearance of the popular song. This is uply for the to my mind-quite intoler able "erooner gives us nothing In comparison:

HARDER TO PLEASE

and musical Bitties Music-hall comedies in the old days were often national affairs, and the songs of artists like Harry Lauder, Vesta Tilley, Florrio Ford, Gertle Gitmu, und other stage favourites were "crazea" of their own.

and

The yogue of the wireless gramophone is perhaps chiefly respon sible for the fact that a modern song lives only for a few weeks. Many people never hear it at all, or, if they do, can hardly recall its name a fort night later.

Moira Rackman,