I Wll WHAT 'W ls ■ TAKING ■ PLACE BY UNITED STATES SENATOR The situation with regard to lynch ing in the United States hardly justi fies the time the Senate is giving to the anti-lynching bill. However, as it was brought forth primarily for vote-gathering purposes in Northern | and Eastern states, Southern Sena- j tors have been forced to come to the 1 defense of law enforcement officers; in their respective states. Nowhere | in the country is there to be found i more able and ' efficient men than j those who enforce state, county andi municipal laws in the South. A Fed-j eral anti-lynch law would be a reflec-| tion on these officers—and all possi-; ble effort is being made to prevent it. j Fortunately, the debate on the anti- j lynching bill comes at a time when j the Senate is awaiting a conference 1 report on the farm bill and action on j other measures pending in the House. | Thus, Southern Senators are carrying I on their fight without, up to the pres ent time, serious delay to much-need ed and important legislation. Perhaps never before has the Sen ate given such time to the control of a non-existent problem. Lynching is no longer a real problem. Greater progress has been made in control of lynchings than in perhaps any other form of crime. In 1901, there were 130 people lynched in the United States. In 1936, there were nine. North Carolina had none. What oth er crime has been reduced so rapidly ? Who reduced it? Not the Federal Government, but vigilant law en forcement officers in the Southern states. One feature of the proposed anti lynch law would provide an indem nity for the families of unfortunate lynch victims. What abont funds for the families of Federal officers f: killed by gangsters? The govern- L ment provides none. Yet, the legis- I lative controsity known as the anti | lynch law is being given attention as if it were designed to control a na tional problem, instead of to get r votes for the sponsors. This is being done at a time when the South is the safest part of the United States for law-abiding people and in a section where law-abiding N “Negroes have their greatest number I of friends. What is really proposed I is to “lynch” the Constitution and V its guarantees of states’ rights solely [ for vote-gathering purposes. Any such idea is, of course, extremely I distasteful to Southern members of L Congress schooled in the traditions | of the South. During 1936 there were forty-four I instances in which officers of the law | prevented lynchings. Thirty-nine of [ these were in Southern states. Here is evidence of what officers in the South are doing to prevent lynchings at the risk of their lives. The Feder al Government could not do the job w better. r Since the year 1862, there have been 4,673 people lynched in the Surprise (fiofcinf^ensafionh^ Frigidaire Electric Range ' BRINGS you more advanced cooking and baking I FEATURES THAN ANY OTHER 2 RANGES COMBINED I I I 105 |i|ggS3£tß-~ff I I I: aggssgSgssskz. ■ I J I! C, “ 8 *1 I I S ,T " ,BUTOR :| I d>4AA rl| \ □ HYD RAUUC i OVHN O Mf?^ VKNT ■ I I \\m ill 1 PLUS AUTI^SJ?^ 11, CONTROL ■ I L J)|Uw.uU ■«• «itbw .tezXd nffPe “ tore *“wMcl,s f ft 5 ’ M fflost modeli; •*3 or optional col j SL V EASY 8 R S°o*®R t| H aire’a Oven □ S?^ NQ TOP LAMP • V and* baking uncartaintieo... j Q WARMING Oraj| ■ Un/U cook better—*to~ | 51 ■ coot• V"TwT- 2 B stf Bn Bp| Bnlß BP B jg| IB 111 11V BBB H United States, according to available records. While nine people were lynched in 1936, nearly 40,000 were killed in careless and negligent high way accidents. This is a national problem. Does the Federal Govern ment propose to do something about that? Certainly it is of more na tional concern than the unfortunate lynchings of nine persons for crimes for which they would have, in most instances, been executed by the state. Congress in the anti-lynching bill is endeavoring to make a legislative mountain out of a local mole hill. \ CENTER HILL I N > Mrs. S. W. Glover and two chil dren, of Mackeys, spent the week-end with Mrs. J. S. Turner. Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Parker, of Nor folk, Va., spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Bunch. , Mrs. Otis Ellis is confined to her j home with flu. i Mrs. T. H. Byrum spent Monday I night in North Edenton with her sib j ter, Mrs. H. T. Layton, and aceor.i panied her to Norfolk, Va., Tuesda,. jto see their brother, Steve Leary, - who is very ill at the General Hosp, j tal. I Peggy, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Turner, is improving. ! She has been very sick. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Lloya j Bunch is very ill. ! Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Jones,