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DFATH BY ROPE
j By Butt's Huncy
(Assfrlatud Prss Staff Wi-Iut.)
LONDON (A) A Imtfe wi'tlun ot
Hrltiuli public opinion, supported
by Dr. Cosmo Cordon Lang, the
Archbishop of Canterbury Ik dot'i
tiiined.lo do away with .capital
punishment in. Knglumi, where u
contury ago ther were 20n crimes
puninhablc by death, men might be
hanged for nheep Kteuling and
you UK children could bo executed.
A powerfully tuipported petition
asking parliament to nholish the
death penalty has been issued to
the public for hIk nature. It Is be
ing followed by a vlrgorous educa
tional campaign. The petition will
be presented to the huuso of com
mon next spring.
The movement against capital
punishment, which has been stead
ily gaining in force the lust few
" years, wim precipitated into sudden
net ion by the recent case of Oscar
. Slater, who whs condemned to
t death eighteen years ago for mur-
dor, his sentence commuted to life
! imprisonment, and who, r few
J weeks ago. was declared innocent
of the erlmo with which he was
charged, and set free.
It is pointed out by churchmen
that the practice of an eye for an
eye and a tooth for a tooth re- i
mained In vogue long after the;
nominal Introduction of .Christian- '
Ity. but that this doctrine has been
gradually -modified since until
i there remains only capital punish-
ment as a relic of the old, barbaric
times. They are asking whether
the supreme penalty exacted by
the state and curried out in cold
blood by its agents can he sharply
distinguished from brutal . murder.
Kminent legal men, however, aro
widely divided on the subject.
Lord Kuckmaster, a former lord
chancellor of England, is an ener
getic worker In favor of doing
away with the death penalty. lie
points ouL that eight Kuropean
states no longer execute criminals
and that eighteen states of the
United States of America have
taken the same course. Ho insists
thai there has been no increase in
. murder since. J le argues that
penal servitude for life, will amply
protect society and tint the object
of legal punishment should be pro
tection, not revenge.
Sir Herbert Samuel, former
home secretary and high commis
sioner for Palestine, has entered
the discussion. He advocates that
parliament appoint a select com
mittee to examine the whole ques
tion and that tmch a committee be
charged with the duty of inquiring
into the experience of the states
where capital punishmenthas has
already been abolished, and partlc
ynrthrfy of testing tlnf validttyVf the
statistics that have been published
and of the conclusions drawn from
them.
Sir Herbert Stephen, an eminent
legal authortty' who was clerk of
the assize for the northern circuit
from 18S9 to IH27. differs very em
phatically from both Lord Huck
mastcr and Sir Herbert Samuel.
"I apprehend," ho says, "that
something like eighty persons aro
annually condemned to death in
Kngland. Of these about half are
hanged and I think the probability
is they richly deserve it. If the law
could be niado a more exact meas
ure of the different degrees of vil
lainy I think it would be desirable
slightly to extend It and make a
few other crimes punishable with
deat'i."
It is with such conflicting opin
ions as these that the new parlia
ment will have to deal with next
spring, for the movement against
capital punishment has reached
such proportions that tt must he
disposed of one way or the other.
F
MID-WEST STATES
TAKE TO PULPIT
i.M KANSAS CITV-WV-Two boys
with a combined ago of only 21 j
yearn already have taken up their
life work of preaching the Cospel ;
In the neighboring states of Mis- j
sotirl and Oklahoma. '
The oldest is Jack Yancey. 11.'
who Is assistant pastor of the Cen- 1
tral Methodist church in l'icher,
mining town of the Oklahoma lead
and zinc field. The other Is Del
bert Chostner, 13 years old. of
Dielstadt, Mo., an ordained preach
or of the Missionary fJaptfst
ehurch.
: Oratorical abilities displayed by
Jack Yancey., caused, tire regular
minister, Hcv. W. O. Hucy, to aik
him to fill the pulpit occasionally
and to help with the other church
w-ork. .lack gladly consented, and
Mince then he has spoken before
large congregations.
Jack, who l a Hoy Scout, with
five merit badges, plans to go to a
theological seminary after he fin
ishes high achool. When he was
graduated from the grade school
he delivered the- commencement
address to his own clas) lie lives
with his grandparents, his mother
having died five years ago.
Delhcrt Chostner has preached
from a number of pulpits In Mis
nourl and Illinois. He became in
terested In religion a year ago
when Hev. C. W. Holmes, an evan
gelist, was conducting a meeting at
IHelstadt. where Ilhert lived with
Ills grandfather. Delbert was or
dained in October and ha received
tovitaltlons to preach In churches
New York and other distant
cities.
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t accentuation of the n onomte side
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lor the presidency. There, though
i re-affirming his party's I'uad.um-n-1
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, gone.
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jiu consideration with other lilies of
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