The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-30
BY Hazel Brunnon

of Supervisors making it possible
to impanel good juries.
Members of the Board of Super
visors make out the jury rolls from
which the names of potential jurors
are drawn. The entire list should be
screened very carefully. Those citi.
zen not listed thereon many
of our leading citizens should be
It should be possible to impanel al
any time in Holmes county any num-
Der of juries composed of men Of
high integrity and character.
We are not going to be satisfied
until our courts in Holmes county
are respected by every citizen
and feared by every criminal.
One incident occurred this week
in Circuit Court that deserves spec
ial attention.
One witness, testifying in a murder
trial, said on the witness stand that
she had lied about the facts Of the
case in previous testimony given at
a habeas corpus hearing several
months ago when she testified
for the state against the defendant.
She completely reversed her testi-
mony from the previous hearing in
Circuit Court Friday and made an
excellent witness for the defense.
Judge Jordan rightly ordered her
held for perjury.
County Attorney Pat M. Barrett
is expected to prosecute the case at
the next term of court.
If our courts have degenerated to
the point where people can get on
the stand and swear to n lie and get
by with 1t then we might as well do
away with the court as a useless
expenditure of the taxpayers money.
If juries are going to sit on cases
and know witnesses are lying and
then turn defendants loose then we
should do away with both lawyers
and courts.
It doesn't take a smart lawyer to
try a law case if he can get the kind
of Jury he wants. A moran could
do Just as well. 1t doesn't take
brains just conniving.
Too long witnesses have come
and gone in our courts swearing to
alleged facts that any intelligent
group of jurors would know to be
lies.
We hope the action of Judge Jor-
dan last week bespeaks an approach
ing day in Holmes county when
people will go on the witness stand
and swear only to the truth a
day when our Court won't permit
anything else.
DR.. Louie Newton, president of the
Southern Baptist convention, who
writes the international Sunday
School lesson each week in thi:
newspaper was one of the princi'
pals on the program at the Baptis'
World Alliance held this fall in Co
penhagen, Denmark.
DR.. Newton gave the challenge tc
world evangelism and his message
was one of the highlights of thai
great meeting which drew Baptls'
leaders from all over the world. Hi:
subject was 'Tm Not Ashamed o.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ"
One Rosedale, Mississippi, pastor
who attended the meeting, the Rev
H. Christy Schjeveland, formerly O
Norway, was interviewed by Davic
Brown of the Delta Democrat-Time
at Greenville regarding his trip.
When asked about the World Ak
aiance the Rev. Schjeveland said:
sit was an outstanding experience
in which members of every race ano
color met and discussed the spiritua
and material needs of the world. lr
spite of all their differences they
came there together and were OF enc
opinion--that the peace will be II
vain unless we have sound Christian
leadership in the world"
The approximate 10000 who nae
gathered, paraded down the streets
of Copenhagen dressed in native cos
tune on August 8, the last day OF the
meeting. presenting a colorful sight
I'VE, as Baptists throughout the
world, felt the need of coming to
gether and expressing ourselves x
each other and to the rest OF tht
world, in one united effort as t.
needs of the world, and do some
thing about it.
''The general feeling was that thi
worlds welfare is our Christian re
s~ponsibility."
For general understanding, al
speeches were translated into Eng
lish and Scandinavian, one Of which
was understood by most of the con