To be suspected is equivalent to be
ing proven guilty, in the south, where
the two principals are a black man
and a white woman. This week Thom
as Miles of Shrevesport, La., was
arfor
rested charged with having written
letters to a white woman, he
was dismissed because positive proof
was lacking. Yet the same night a
mob took him to the city limits, hung
him on a tree and riddled his body
witn bullets. We very often wonder
how these murderous eolorpbobists
hope to escape the penalty of break
ing one of the Ten Commandments,
which reads: "Thou shalt not kill."
The board of education of Yonkers,
N. Y., has decided to discontinue the
singing of Christian hymns in the pub
lic schools of that city, because of the
protest of a Jewish parent. It is an
invasion of the rights of non-Chris
tian taxpayers to compel them to take
part in such exercises and the action
of the board was just.
A mob of infuriated Georgians has
lynched an Afro-American named Hen
ry Etheridge, near Jackson, Ga., be
cruits for a proposed African colony,
cause he was active in securing re
This is Georgia's answer to the Heflin
Tillman-Vardaman proposal to expa
triate the Afro-American people.
The young man who in a burst of
enthusiasm over some girl's sweet
voice, tells her that he could listen
to her voice all the rest of his days,
takes desparate chances. This is leap
year, doncherno!
der, had been a model prisoner, and
his long service entitled him to a rest,
and it's dollars to doughnuts that Hud
deson will report for duty at the end
of the month.
