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mri mand Memorandum for Mi. Tolson -3- ‘June 24, 1936. he must be emotional, and will want to help you; give hin a chance. “If a Presbyterian enters the jury box and carefully rolls up his umbrella, and calmly and critically sits down, let him go. He believes in John Calvin and eternal pumishment. Get rid of him with the fewest possible words before he contaminates the others. Unless you and your clients are Presbyterians you probably are a bad lot, and even though you may be a Presbyterian, your client most. likely is guilty. "If possible, the Baptists are more hopeless than the Presbyterians. They, too, are apt to think that the real home of all outsiders is Sheol and you do not want then on the jury, and the sooner they leave the better. "The Methodists are worth considering; they are nearer the soil. Their religious emotions can be transmuted into love and charity. They are not half bad, even though they will not take a drink, they really do not need it so much as some of their competitors for the seat next to the throne. If chance sets you down between a Methodist and a Baptist, you will move toward the Methodist to keep warn. "Beware of the Lutherans, especially the Scandinavians; they are almost always sure to convict. Either a Lutheran or Scaniina- vian is unsafe, but if both-in-one, plead your client guilty and go down the docket. He learns about sinning and punishing from the preacher, and dares not doubt. "As to Unitarians, Universalists, Congregationalists, Jews and other agnostics, don't ask them too many questions; keep them anyhow; especially Jews and agnostics. It is best to inspect a Uniterian, or a Universalist, or a Congregationalist, with some care, for they may be prohibitionists; but never the Jews and the real agnostics! And, do not, please, accept a prohibitionist: he is too solemn and holy and dyspeptic. "I have never experimented much with Christian Scientists; they are too serious for pe. "You may defy all the rest of the rules if you can get a man who laughs. Few things in this world are of enough importance to war- rant considering them seriously. So, by all means, choose a man who laughs. A juror who laughs hates to find anyone guilty.