Show PROMPT ACTION How on Ohio Town Has Discouraged I Iob Violence Now that the Kansas mob law horror Is fresh In our minds It IB Interesting to note how our sister city Akron has taught a lesson to the rioters whose attempt at lynching Is so well remembered re-membered CapU Aaron Wagoner a prominent Akron man told the Washington Wash-ington Post a good deal about It the other day The Captain was foreman of the special grand Jury which Indicted more than sixty men for participation in the riot and is very proud of the record his city has established in the discouragement of mob violence When Akron aWoke to a realization of the fact that a mob has sacrificed human life and destroyed the city hall and other public properly said Capj Wakoncr Iho blow was a onioning one We felt that an awful blot hud been cast upon the faIr name our city had enjoyed for ao many years and we knew that only prompt and decisive action would relieve us from the burden of disgrace Among the lawabiding citizens there were no two ways of thinking All agreed that the riotera must be punished The ofllcers of the law set about their task Immediately and they had the active and moral support of a vast majority of Akron people Of the sixty men and boys indicted abouj half hove been trltfd and a conviction has been secured in every case the offenders receiving sentences sen-tences of from thirty days in Jail to live years in the penitentiary Akron challenges the Nation to point to another an-other Instance whore ouch summary Justice has been meted out And It must always bo borne in mind that the law ofUcer at Akron did not qur render time negro to thq mob but convicted con-victed him regularly there In court and landed him safelv behind the walls of the ponltontlary for a long term of yearaCleveand Plain Dealer |