Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-04-29
This World
JUDGE LOWELL.
HITLER.
JAPAN DEFIES WORLD.
Cecil E. Newman

Federal Judge James A. Lowell OF
Massachusetts made judicial and con-
stitutional history Monday when he
granted a writ of habeas corpus to
one George Crawford, Negro, whom
the state of Virginia sought to extra.
dite for murder. The words in which
Judge Lowell challenged the South's
procedure in excluding Negro citi-
zens from jury service resounded from
Maine to California and from the
Canadian border to the gulf Of Mex
leo.
1t was the first time in many day
that a Judge on a federal bench had
criticised the South's notification of
constitutional amendments. The fact
that qualified Negro citizens have for
years been systematically excluded
from jury service in the south has
long been an eyesore in American ju-
risprudence. Recent trials in that
section where Negro defendants de-
Tended by white Communists retained
attorneys to represent them have
brought this unfair condition to larger
public attention. Judge LowelPs out
spoken condemnation brought of
course considerable censure from
southern congressman and the daily
press of that section but 1t brought
home to the fair-minded American
public a condition that makes the
southern courts the laughing stock of
the civilized world.
w. E. B. Du Bots, editor of THE
CRISIS, remains the dean of Amer
lean Negro letters. His comment on
the Hitler persecution of the Jews
strikes us as the most clear express
sion on that subject we have read.
We quote it:
at seems impossible that In the
middle Of the 10th Century country
like Germany could turn to race hate
as a political expedient. Surely, the
example of America Is enough to
warn the world. And yet so long as
children are taught to believe In hier-
archy of races, and In the innate SUI
periority of certain racial groups,
just so long It will be possible to APP
peal to racial animosity for political
effect. The absurdity of 1t in the case
of Germany is too patent to recall.
One has only to think of hundred
names like Mendeissohn, Heine, and
Einstein, to remember but partially
what the Jew has done for German
civilization. 1t all reminds the Amer
lean Negro that after all race pre-
judice has nothing to do with accom-
pIishment or desert, with genius or
ability. It is an ugly dirty thing. It
feeds on envy and hate"
Those who wonder at the defiant at
titude of Japan towards world powers
In the Manchurian dispute may learn
something of the basis for Nippon's
attitude by reading the most recent
number of McCalls Magazine in
which Morris Marley retails the fol-
lowing:
al talked to a Japanese military of 4
ficer-a powerful figure because all
military officers are powerful In the
present Japanese regime. He said:
you shall not deprive US Of our rights
this time. We have been too polite
with you and you have insulted US
time without end. We know that we
must have Manchuria or collapse, and
we have not the least intention Of
eoIlapsina. We do not fear the Chi
nese. Millions of them, and all
towards. If you send your battleshlps
against us-weIl, we shall see. It i
would be a better thing to crawl into
our holes and die Of shame and star
walton. We know that we cannot Join
your councils for you trick US out Of
our just deserts. 1t is Japan aaaInst
the world, and We are not afraid
"Amone these Japanese, whatever
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