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May the Lessons of Freedom Inherent in Passover’s Story Be Mankind’s Eternal Beacon GATE CITY TABLE COMPANY Harrv Harrison Irving Libowskv B. H. Zimmerman Sidney Pazol 970 Huff Road, N.W., Atlanta, Ga. BEST WISHES for the Holiday Season (^arla G ay Qress Co. FACTORY 150 Garnrtt St., S. W. JA. 3-6053 ATLANTA. GEORGIA by a telephone call from the chief of the detectives. £XTe might criticize a jury for condemning a person to death on doubtful evidence, at best highly circumstantial. That the 12 men were terror ized by a mob oa - carried away by the passion and hate that swept over Atlanta, while un derstandable. is not justifica tion for a miscarriage of justice. A greater blame at taches to the Georgia courts which refused a new trial demanded by the decent ele ments in the state, by people from all over the land and by the Legislatures of Texas and Tennessee. Evidently there was doubt as to the guilt of Frank in the Georgia courts which heard motions for a new trial. Yet the appellate judges, including Roan, allowed the conviction to stand. In the U. S. Supreme Court, though two great jus tices. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Evans Hughes, held that due process of law was denied when the jury was terrorized by a raging mob. Frank's writ of error was dis missed. But such is the law of the Supreme Court today and whenever the question is rais ed the justices quote with ap proval the dissenting opinions of Holmes and Hughes in the Frank case. In his readable, jouranalistic style, free from tongue in the cheek clowning, Mr. Golden writes a vivid, exciting account of the Frank affair, its pusillan imity and ochlocracy. Police subornation and prosecution shystering, newspaper sensa tionalism and vicious demago gy, lynching and blood lust presents an appalling picture of the depths to which mob rule can reduce life in a democracy. B u t fortunately there is another side to this gloomy prospectus. It is heartening to read that at this tense critical moment a man of honor, a character, or nobility, acted to prevent a blot from staining the escut cheon of his great state. The Governor of Georgia, believing in Leo Frank’s innocence, commuted the hanging to a life sentence. This fearless act almost brought on the lynch ing of popular John M. Slaton, who had received the highest vote of any Georgia governor since the Civil War. Tom Watson's monument may stand prominently in front of the State Capitol yet John M. Slaton, who for conscience- sake virtually became an' exile for several years, remains the outstanding heroic figure among the Chief Executives in the chivalrous h i s t o r y of Georgia. “Atlanta's Finest Milk” “Baby Milk a Specialty” R L. Mathis Certified Da iry Route 1 BU. 9-11 1 DECATUR, C,A. 26 The Southern Isra