Eftkin' Oil |
By a Bystander j
NORTH CAROLINA: KILLER!
T’ve read so much lately of elec
trocutions that they’ve just haturally
made me nauseated." Three in one day
and one another day on successive
Fridays—well, course you don’t have
to read about ’em if you don’t want
to, but because some folks do. some
others have to.
Did you ever try to live through
the last hours and last minutes of
life with one of those poor devils?
There they sit on lonely Death Row,
waiting- for the warden to come down
the walkway to tell them their rime
has come. Then begins the march of
the "last mile.” Down in that fateful
chair he sits—Waiting those few- short
seconds until the fire strikes hint
dead.
Ray. did you ever see a fellow die
m the chair? Well, I saw one. Course, i
if it came in line of duty, I could I
land it again—and again—and again,
maybe. But I have no hankering of
curiosity for it as I once did. It’s a
quick death, but, my God, it’s death
just (he same. A youth in the blustt
of young manhood! In the finest or !
health! There he sits! In a few' sec- j
onds he is no more! He’s gone, you ,
don’t know w'here—certainly to that
botirne from which no traveler ever
returns.
The State of North Carolina says j
you can’t kill a human being. Yet. i
this all-powerful State steps in and !
does the very thing it says you can’t
do. I say it has no more right to take !
a life than I have, and I know' I
haven’t, and don’t want any such
right. The State of North Carolina !
has no right to take from a man what !
it cannot give back again to him. The
Slate of North Carolina: Killer—and
shall it he said. Murderer? Is it anv
less than that?
In my own mind 1 fought for many
years to make up my opinion what
I really thought about capital pun
ishment. Several years ago at last I
reached my conclusion—against cap
ital punishment. No. sir. T just simply i
don't believe, in it. Oh. crime ought •
to he punished: don’t get me wrong, j
I'm in favor of punishment. But there I
are prisons for that. The old idea of
an eye for an eye is archaic. If you
believe in the new' dispensation Jesus
taught, you w'on’t believe in capital [
punishment. God gave life, and only j
* io<i gave it. I say let God alone take 1
it away if it must be taken.
Rome folks argue capital punish- ■
tiient ought to be retained as a crime
deterrent. Well, there have been more
electrocutions In North Carolina in I
the last, twelve months than ever be- I
fore in the 25 years there has been j
an electric chair. Talk about capital j
punishment to check crime? Well,
it aint checking it, not a bit of it. !
If there weren’t more crime, there !
wouldn’t be more electrocutions. The !
very argument defeats itself. If you i
ask me, I think it’s time to try' some- j
thing else. Certainly it won’t be any
worse than the methods we’re using
now.
OC R JUDGE PARKER
I’m going to give some space here
for a tribute the Greensboro Daily
News paid a few days ago to Judge
R. Hunt Parker. He's better known
in Vance county than any other man
on the bench, in this or any other
Rtate. And it’s no exaggeration to say
he’s mote highly thought of. Hunt
Parker impressed a whole lot of folks
the first time he came here as so- !
iicitor. And he's grown bigger and (
bigger ever since with every visit.
They've tried to beat him. hut they
aim made no headway at all. Every
time his majority is bigger than be
fore. So this time when he was up
for judge, why they huci all give up
.11 hope of ever beating htm. and no
body dared try it. Just keep your ey»
on Hunt Parker. He’s just begun to
climb. He’s a young man and lies
got plenty of head sense. Talk about
know-in’ law, but he knows his'n. And
the folks over North Carolina are
finding it out. Yes. sir, you are going
to hear a whole lot more about Jude
Packer. Just mark that down some
where.
• But here's what the Greensboro |
paper said about him while he was ■
running that big case down at Gold -
boro the other day:
1820 —Mary A Livermore, noted
P.oston editor, reformer, lecturer, suf
fragist and author, born in Boston
Died there. May 23. 1905.
Soldier of Fortune
Peter Ivanoff is officially dead in
Soviet records. He flew a Soviet
ulaoe to Persia and didn’t go back.
3o U. S. S. R. sentenced him to
leath and executed him “in ab
«entfa.” Now he’s in U. S., prepar
ing for nonstop flight from New
York to Costa Rica, where he con
duct* the Latin country’s only
flying school.
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HE WORKS AT JUDGING.
If we were after just as much jus
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.Judge R. Hunt Parker, now 7 presid
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Goldsboro, as any man living.
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certainly less meticulous members of
our judiciary, here is a jurist who
works at. the job of judging as if he
were going ot Be held to strict ac
countability for his output.
Learning after a jury had been se
lected lrom a special venire of 350
Wayne county citizens that two of
the jurors had answered falsely ques
tiohs, concerning an expressed op
inion on the case and relationship by
blood or matriage to a principal
therein, he jailed the offending tales
men. threw out the jury and ordered
a venire drawn from Johnston county.
It was just a short time ago that
farther down east Judge Parker was
charging a grand jury to go into the
accounts of guardians with minor j
heirs, and while urging necessity for !
doing something other than report- j
ing the offices and records of the j
county officials and the county home
in good order he stateo as his be
lief that 40 —we believe that was his
figure, anyhow it was unconscionable
enough if it were less—per cent of
J the estates of minors was (being stolen !
j from them. ,j
j Judge Parker speaks plainly, acts 1
j abruptly. We seriously doubt if he is j
popular among lawyers who love to I
dawdle and postpone. We suspect that !
many a shyster with a questionable j
client would rather have the itch !
than try a ease before him.
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