The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-01-12
D;shpan or Jury Box.

Many sta4es have tried women On 1uFies
with uniformly good results The mixed
jury has como In for less criticism, after the
verdict, than has the average altman Jury.
Apparently the woman juror. II making good
But i jury service - bensncial to womani
Her effect upon turies has bsea fns; but how
about the jury effect upon women?
1T = my thought that women should be
free from Jury SERVICE" said Judge Alfred J..
Talley Of New York. ordering the sheriff a
Americas most populous county to omit wom-
sn from jury panels.
Tut! Tut! Be not % hasty in the formA-
ton II your rejoinder! 1t isn't that Judge TAI
ley 10 opposed to woman suffrage that he 90
ruleth. for the Judge lives in . suffrage city. .
suffrage county. a suffrage state. and . suf-
frage nation. He has another reason. Trust .
Judge to dig up good reason.
Women should be exempted" said judge
Talley. because the work which the laws Of
nature have designed for performance by wom-
en- Is Of paramount importance to any service
which they might be called upon to perform
on jury. 1t is part Of divine plan that
woman il destined and qualified for the bear
ing Of The children Of the race, and for the Gre
alton and guardianship Of the homes of the
world and Of their maintenance in love and
honor"
Thus Judge TaIley, with one motion Of his
judicial jaw wipes the woman Juror out Of ex-
isteuce-in his court room.
In her earlier married days woman must
teach baby to walk. talk and keep odt Of the
pantry cookie jar. Other judges, tboo, have
ruled that women may be excused from jury
duty when there. are little children in the
home needing . mothers care. There is no
doubling the wisdom OF such decision, and
least Of al, would any woman find fault with it.
But there are days, and many OF them. later
! on In q woman's married life when children
are not tied to her apronstrings Usually at
| this period woman is as free as man for jury
! service; she has her business, Homework, and
he has his business, counting money or laying
bricks, or some other equally necessary voca-
| ton.
Judge Talley. however. rules that maintain
ing home is Of such vital importance to the
human race that women must be excluded from
juries SO that no dish may go unwashed and
no door unswept
The dishpan is Of tremendously greater i'm
portance than the jury box, according to Judge
| Talley.
It were better, he intimates, that man be
yanked from his work of producing food and
getting 1t into the home than that woman
should be taken from her frying-pan.
The father who provides the heat, light
food. clothing and house may be spared from
his job, any day. to sit on jury, but the moth
or who darns the socks, polishes the cutglass
and oranges daughters social campaign, mus
be protected against herself" So says Judge
Talley.
He does admit. though, that some womer
would make better Jurors than some men.
Everybody else admits that it would do mothe,
. lot OF good to swap the duty Of guarding ant
maintaining" the home "in love and honor" a.
Judge Talley suggests. for q few days chang,
on jury.
No home would be wholly wrecked II fafhe,
had to wrestle with the dishpan the few eve
n1ngs mother was enjoying Q jury vacatio,
from household work