Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08

National comment on the removal Of
Magistrate lean Norris of New York by
the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court Of that State reveals general re-
greet that one who was chosen as a
representative of her sex for an i'm
portant Office should have failed to
maintain the traditions of justice.
Mrs. Norris is one of the very few
Of her sex who would create cause for
removal" says the Scranton Times,
while the Richmond News Leader con-
tends that there are scores of women
holding important positions in New
York and other States who have met
responsibility with good sense and
have borne with modesty the bewlder-
ing light of publicity" The st. Joseph
Gazette points to the success of another
woman. rather prominent in the gov
eminent of New York-Miss Henrietta
Additon-who has been appointed a
deputy police commissioner" and to
the fact that she has been at the head
Of New York's crime prevention bureau.
There are plenty of women who
would bring sympathy, understanding
and discriminating intelligence to
bear on the problems presented in
womans court" in the opinion Of the
Danbury Evening News, and the Little
Rock Arkansas Democrat offers the
comment: I'VE suspect that she was
corrupted by her association with male
politicians. Maybe she wasn't. But one
thing Is certain-to have expected her
to deal out justice more carefully to the
women who appeared in her court. and
then to find that in reality she believed
the men and net the women. Is exactly
what was to have been looked for"
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The Baltimore Evening Sun holds
that "aS between women and men
politicians. there Is nothing to choose"
The Omaha World-Herald concludes:
| Women have pretty largely won their
, fight to compel the men to grant them
/ equal privileges and acknowledge that
must engage upon the task which has
SO bitterly disappointed the men for
many generations, and that is the tasl.
| Of making their own sex worthy OF the
! responsibilities and duties that life as
well as citizenship involves"
Woman has taken her place in pub
| lie life," according to the San Francisco
Chronicle, mot because she is superior
to man. nor, on the other hand, because
man makes a concession to an inferior
Women are persons under much the
same influences and motives as other
persons. The sooner women and mer
grasp that fact, the more quickly VIII
women be freed from unjust criticism
because Of dereliction in Office by some
person who happens to be woman.
| The Louisville Courier journal empha-
sizes the fact that Magistrate Norri.
turned out to be hard, cruel woman
| to girls so unfortunate as to be halec
into her court" The Jersey City Jour
nal declares that "she seems to have
been out for record Of convictions
forgetting that courts can survive only
as long as they make basic rights o.
individuals their greatest concern"
"She was plainly intoxicated by he
power" says the South Bend Tribune
while the Rutland Herald views her a!
one who thought herself bigger thar
the Office and bigger than the law.
The Buffalo Evening News conclude
that Gin removing her from Office, thu
appellate division has assisted material
ly to redeem the Magistrates Courts.
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1.-THE Magistrates Courts" states the
New York Sun, ARE tribunals in which
the rights of the citizen deserve par.
ticular safeguarding In them TIT
most helpless and least resourceful art
arraigred; their judiciary is bound II
conscience to scrupulous protection o.
those who, because of ignorance, mex
perience, weakness or folly, are oper
to exploitation by the parasitic vermir
to account. Mr.. Seabury proved tina
Mrs. Norris failed in justice, and il
justice the appellate division made it!
decision to remove her from ONCE"
Unfortunately it has been the ex'
perience of the country that womer
are subject to faults as we'll as viz
tues in politics and public Office" de-