NATION ASKED TO STOP SLAYING OF INNOCENT MEN Lynch Law Takes Lives of . Thousands, Association Tells Attorney General Now York, May 16.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through its secre tary, John R. Shiliady, of New York, issued the following statement Ito-day in the form of an open let ter to Attorney General Gregory commenting on the latter's recent address to the executive committee of the American Bar Association in which the Attorney General urged a.n educational campaign against lynch law and mob violence. "In the press of May 6 and May 7 thefc is reported an address said to have been delivered by you to the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association in which you urged an educational campaign against lynch law. Such a campaign is sorely needed. In the press reports of your address to ttye Bar Asso ciation reference to individual cases is wholly to mob violence occasioned by public resentment of alleged Ger man propaganda. In one part of j our address you say, very truly, that tlnless the hysteria which re sults in the lynching of men is checked it will create a condition of lawlessness from which we will suf fer for a hundred years. "We would most respectfully 'call to your attention the fact that this condition of lawlessness which you apprehend and from which you be lieve we will suffer for a hundred years unless steps are taken imme diately to check it, is now and has been in existence for many years past. Its victims have been largely negroes. Since 1885 between 3,000 and 4,000 cases of lynching have been reported. Recently this asso ciation caused one of its staff to make a careful investigation of the tiles of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Tribune and other daily papers, magazines and books, for the purpose of compiling informa tion in detail concerning lynchings. The compiler has found only three instances in which lynchers have been punished. In two of these cases the victim of the mob was white. In the third case, that of a particu larly atrocious murder of a Ten nessee farmer and his two daugh ters, the lynchers were two young and friendless white boys. Many Unjustly Murdered "Since the United States entered the war on April 2, 1917, our infor mation is that 219 negro men. wom en and children have been killed and lynched by mobs in addition to two white men, one of these being Rob ert Prager. Four negroes were lynched in Alabama, two in Arkan sas, one in Florida, seven in Georgia, one in Kentucky, eleven in Louisi ana, three in Mississippi, ore in North Carolina, two in Oklahoma, two in South Carolina, five in Ten nessee, nine in Texas, two in Vir ginia, one in West Virginia and one in Wyoming. In addition to these cases of lynching per se. 175 men, women and children were tortured, burned and killed at East St. Louis in July, 1917, and three negroes ,Tere killed by a mob at Chester, Pa., pin September, 1917. In some of these cases the lynchings were particularly atrocious. In Tennessee, for ex ample, three men were burned at the stake, the burnings being accom panied by savage torturing. In one case, which occurred two weeks ago, the body of the victim was burned at the stake after having been lynched by hanging. "In the case of the negroes who have been lynched no question of loyalty to their country has been raised in any case. The crimes of which they were accused were ordi nary crimes for which courts do now and have always provided ade quate remedies and certain punish ment. Furthermore, these negroes were not men and women (for cow ardly mobs lynch women as well as men) of wealth and position with opportunities through the engage ment of' learned counsel to secur< delays in trial or mitigation of pun ishment, but they have been the poor, the friendless:, and we regret to say, the despised. Ask For Action "The association regards as signifi cant the pronouncement which you have made as Attorney General. We would most respectfully suggest to > ou tins expediency of making a sec- , ond pronouncement in the name of ' jour high office, or better still, it would be desirable that this pro nouncement be made in the name of the President of the United States, calling not alone upon the lawyers of the country but upon the Gov ernors of states, sheriffs of counties and the citizens of local communi ties to assert their regard for the laws of the nation which is now calling upon these citizens to fight to make the world safe for demo cratic government. One hundred thousand of the best colored youth of the land have responded to the call of the country and are prepar ing to give their lives in its defense and in support of the cause upon which it is embarked. They, in com mon with their many millions of white fellow citizens, have the right to believe that while t(jej' are risk ing, and if need be, sacrificing their lives for their country, that their country through its highest spokes men should call upon officers sworn to obey the law to make an honest effort to prevent the disgraceful practice of lynching negroes when ever it suits a mob to engage in this exercise. "We would further call your at tention to the fact that not even the contention can be maintained that these lynchings are the result of un controllable anger at the perpetra tion of unmentionable crimes .i gainst women. The facts show that at least three-fourths of all lynchings in recent years have had nothing to do with attacks upon the person of white women, but on the contrary, the lynched negroes have been accused of all kinds of crimes from serious ones to the most trivial offenses. the best information avail- Kile to this association. It can assert Without equivocation that the color ed people of the nation are loyal to its purposes in this as in every other crisis of the nation's history. They have been deeply stirred and in spired by the nobility of the Presi dent's utterances and by the fact that he has placed America's par ticipation in the war upon so high a plane. Their response to the na-, tion's appeal for service In the trenches, in the factory and on the farm has been without conditions. "Despite these facts, discrimina tion against them because of race and the lynching of their people un der circumstances which would not •THURSDAY EVENING. . HARIUSBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 16, 1918. occasion the lynching of white peo ple, constitute a blot upon the char acter of civil government i n Ameri can states. We suhmit that respon sibility for the correction of such gross injustices ugainst patient, de voted and loyal Americans of color has by the force of events been laid at the door of the nation as such." 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Refreshments were served to: Mrs. Elmer Feaser, Mrs. Catharine Kint er, Mrs. Jane 'Jarman, Mrs. George Shoop, Mrs. Charles Brlcker, Mrs. Charles Welker, Miss J&ne Blckel, Miss Lydia Maurey, Miss Cora Co fro'de, Miss Alice Feaser, Mr. and Mrs. George Tavlor. The next meet ing xvlll he held at the home of Mrs. Catharine Kinter, Tuesday evening, June 25. MITE SOCIETY ENTERTAINED Dauphin, Pa., May 16.—The Mite , Society of the Presbyterian Churoh ■ was entertained by Mrs. Freeman C. I Gerberlch, Tuesday, from 4 to 8 ■ o'clock, at their private park, the "Kim." Supper was served to the following: Mr. and Mrs. Harry 8.1 Gneenawalt, Mrs. Sarah Sponsler, Mrs. George W. Heck, Mrs. Alice B. Hess, Mrs. John W. Hummel, Phil adelphia; Mrs. Blanch Robinson, Mechaniciburg; Mrs. J. D. M. Reed, Mrs. Harry Reed, Mrs. Jane Sellers, Mrs. Belle Hawthorne, Miss Mar garet Brook, Miss Mary "Umberger, Miss Bertha Sellers, Miss Anne Mil ler, Miss Sarah Margaret Haw thorne, Dorothy Kline, Miss Carrie Gerberich, Dr. W. P. Clark, Russel Reed, Wellington Deibler and Mrs. Freeman C. Gerberlch. BCTTS-PHIDIPS WEDDING Waynesboro, Pa., May 16.—Miss Susan Brotherton Philips, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Philips, and Charles Stahl Butts, Gettysburg. I were married Tuesday at. the . of the bride's parents. I.ODKK OK OWI.S CHARTERED Nfwpor t. Pa., May 16.-r-Newport i l/idgr, No. 16.10. Order of Owls, has • been chartered and is now initiating: members. 5