PRAISE AND BLAME

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 November 1933, Page 5

PRAISE AND BLAME

A PARSON'S SENTIMENTS (Rec. 7.20 p.m.) New York, Nov. 28. The press is divided over Mr. Rolph's statement. Some of the more sensational journals approve it by implication, while the more conservative and representative ones denounce it heartily. The Evening Post in a leader praises the decisive action of Governor •Ritchie, "in sharp contrast to Mr. Rolph's bl'atant alignment of himself with men who have brought dis- • grace on their State." ; The Heral'd Tribune terms Mr. Rolph's statement- as the "foolish remark of a cheap politician." It contends that the example set by the

fine poliee worlc of the Californian authorities in solving the Hart crime has been completely nullified. Clerical bodies throughout the nation are making strong representations against Mr. Rolph with a few exceptions, notably Dr. Henry Darlington, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Heavenly Rest, New York, who telegraphed Mr. Rolph congratulations. He explained that he had to commend the ehange of public indifference to a visible expression that kidnapping must be stopped. Clarence Darrow, who brilliantly defended the young murderers Loeb and Theopold a decade ago for a similar offence to the Hart murder, and saved them from the death penalty, commented: "I do not approve of capital punishment, which is merely legal lynching, so can only condemn illegal lynching."