The Washington herald., 1921-02-19
JUDGE DEFENDS
WIVES LOYALTY
Says There Is No Effort to
Encroach on Mans
Domain.
BY wINIFRED VAN DUZER-

Basing his theory upon the 10y
atty to her husband Of Mrs. W. r.
McGannon. wife OF the chief justice
OF CIeveIand's city court charged
with second degree murder. Judge
Maurice Bernon challenges the
statement of Professor James Q.
DcaIey, of Brown University, that
women in their new status are
crowding men out OF the future.
Judge Bernon. who has been trial
! iurist in some of the most speCtaCu-
lar cases ever to go through the
Cleveland courts, declared that the
supreme emotion OF all those which
sway womens temperamental soul
is loyalty. He continued:
Women will not crowd men out
OF business, professions, politics
anything-principa because they
have no wish to do so.
"One Of them will climb to the
top. even to the position OF Presi-
dent of the United States, perhaps.
But il will be because she is fitted
for the joh. not because she is
woman. and it will not be at the
expense of some man
What Professor Dealey told MEM
bers of the American Sociological
Society, of which he is president, at
a conference the other day here in
Washington, was this.
Sex Reversal.
woman suffrage has ended male
supremacy. Presumably with the end
Of the twentieth century women
will be the predominant sex in ma
tionaI councils. Then there may be
necessary an organization to pro-
tect mems rights against the en-
croachment Of women.
Male sentinels with banners may
rarsde sidewalks OF the White
House seeking to influence the pol
lev Of the naughty madame presi-
women also will assert their
right to form standards of sex ethics
and men will not resist the new or
der Of things"
Judge Bcrnon said that when once
the country becomes adjusted to
universal suffrage women will stand
on their merits just as men are ex-
pected to do without question of sex
antagonism-
women will continue to be 10y
al" he said, because the law OF
nature will not change.
over and over again; women stand
ing by their men just as the wife
~ Judge McGannon stood by him,
With no thought of herOism."
Wife stcadfnst.
During the fourteen days Of the
famous MCGannOn trial tho wife or
the accused jurist remained devoted
through testimony setting forth the
storv OF a 1O-year friendship be-
+waen her husband and various
young women
Miss May Neely who figured dramat-
icaIIv in the case, in offering to take
tSa blame for the shooting with
1,bich Judge McGannOn was Charg-
I'd was pointed out by Judge Ber-
ror "a another example of feminine
.rWhether it is in the family rela-
tion and a matter OF loyalty of af-
T.rtions. or in business and loyalty
- interests of her employer, the
,ro1oan will average 100 per cent"
ne said. In politics her enthusiasm
md her devotion to party is greater
han mans Her war work was
more enthusiastic.
"Husbands are not particularly
laval to their wives. l cannot say
tSs+ think such a circumstance as
listed in the family of the man
Who has just gone through trial
here unusual
Prof. Dealey's prophecy of male
',sntineIs demanding their rights OF
4 madame president, quite as men,
5ers of the National Woman's party
picketed the White House in pur-
suit of the ballot. Judge Bernon
branded as absurd" He concluded:
The women were demanding only
what was their right. and what they
ala not have There can be no queS-
ion OF mems rights withheld, so
tbc learned professor has estab- |
'isbed no analogous situation"