The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-11-04

which women have suffered 80
| long. in which the culprit would
be given the limit OF the law
and then some. every time. by fem
Perhaps the woman jury will breah
up these misdemeanors Surely 4
british husband will hardly consider
that the pleasure of backing his wife,
eye is worth the stir sentence in the
worlhouse that woman jury would
hand him. Surely the man who has
the habit OF fading away from home
when new baby appears on the scene
and leaving his wife to support the
family, will think twice and then stick
to his Job. II he knows that when the
long arm OF the law hauls him back.
feminine Jury is going TO make q
warning OF him to other husbands
with wandering feet.
Surely the man who was born too
tired to work, and who let's his wife
take, In washing to support min. win
decide that It Is better TO get busy
and hand over most OF his pay en-
velop to the ''missus" than to put up
with punishment that q woman jury has
decided fits the crime OF loafing.
or course there are those who have
long ,prophesied that woman jurors
would be overlenient to men who were
on trial. but this undue clemency
would never apply to the crimes COM
mitted against the peace and happi-
ness OF the home. The man who sins
against that can count on getting his
and true pass judgment on his de-
linquencies.
In all good truth the woman Jury il
one OF the greatest blessings we are
going to get from the granting OF suf-
frage to woman. and II will make for
intelligent Justice In thousand diff
II has always been absurd that, I'M
der n system that makes the fury
system the palladium OF our liberty,
and that guarantees to every accused
individual trial by a jury of his peers,
exclusively.
For no one win contend that a man
Is wonan's peer any more than n
woman Is mans peer. No woman
understands man. nor can she trace
his mental processes. or divine what
courses Of action. Still less can any
man read the workings OF a woman's
mind, or fathom her motives, or guess
which particular way the cat would
jump on any given occasion.
Doubtless men understand men. or
surety women understand women.
They know the grips and the pass
words and the high signs of their
secret lodge, and 1t Is n practical Inn
possibility for woman to fool an
other woman. She may be an artful
dodger than can pull the wool over
but all her articles are as Transparent
as crystal to her sister women.
Therefore, when the woman criminal
of the future demands a mans Jury
or woman's Jury to try her. 1t will
ever she e faces the Ear Of justic eeiofe
she Is guilty she will want men who
viii be swayed by her youth and good
looks. who will melt down into a sod
den mush of sentimcntaIIty under the
rain OF her tears. who win not be able
to tell wehther she is speaking the
will let any female under 40. with q
good complexion and large ox-like eyes,
and willowy figure get away with
any crime from murder to arson.
But n the woman Is innocent. she
snow that she is telling the w"v truth nth,
sven when she admits to some act
hat II improbable because they know
hat under the same circumstances
they would have done the same thing,
more, she win want to be tried by
> an ass. ana that II has got a lot OF
'rimes and misdeameanors in the
wrong catalogue. anyway, and they
Win know how to show mercy Accord |
ngly TO one who has never been more |
light than when. she. was wrong
No case IN which the welfare OF a
hid is involved should DO tried with
MT women on the Jury, for the in
tinct OF the mother heart gives to :
women wisdom like unto that of Solo, :,
non In dealing with such problems
II goes without SAYING that all cases
INVOLVING romantic and sex relations
hin between men and women should
'e tried by a mixed fury In that way
niv can we get NJ the proper amount
hat should be fixed as the balm for