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3 Women Law. J. 1 (1913-1914)

handle is hein.journals/wolj3 and id is 1 raw text is: WOMEN LAWYERS' JOURNAL Entered as Second Class Matter Feb. 1, 1912, at the Post Office at Jamaica, N. Y.,under the Act of March 3, 1879. Vol. 3. No. 1. Published Quarterly IAMAICA, N. Y. City, OCTOBER, 1913. 15 Cents a Copy; $1.00 a Year. Published by the WOMAN LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION. At 519 Garfield Ave., Richmond Hill, N. Y. NEWS ITEMS. The Mother-Teacher's Case. The lawyers for Mrs. Peixotto, the New York teacher-mother, have presented a memorandum making the following points: The conditions of the by-laws relative to absence were complied with. Precedents established by the Board of Education run counter to recommenda- tion of the elementary school committee. Maternity increases efficiency as a teacher. Each teacher has an inalienable right to formulate her own philosophy of life in regard to her relations to her home and offspring. Mrs. Edgell, the teacher who recently asked for leave of absence in order to bear a child, has returned to her duties as teacher in a Brooklyn High School. The New York Board of Education is asking for funds to carry out admirable plans for industrial work in pre-vocational and continuation schools--the former for children in elementary schools, the latter for employees (arranged In co-operation with employers). New York University, with funds pro- vided therefor by the will of the late The- odore Greeley White, has entered upon the work of establishing and maintaining a city club for boys who are to be taught therein the theory and practice of govern- ment, as well as to be there afforded a general club and meeting place. Clarence D. Ashley, J. D., LL. D., Dean of the New York University Law School, In his report to Chancellor Brown, PhD., LL. D., deplores the admission to the legal profession of so many poorly educated men, and at the same time suggests reform in criminal law and in the law of evidence. Our rules of evidence, the Dean says, should be greatly modified, if not done away with entirely. For instance, the rule against hearsay is subject to thirteen ex- ceptions of a confusing nature and based upon no underlying principle. Why not leave the entire question to the sound dis- cretion of the trial Judge, just as we do that of materiality? In criminal law, modernization, he thinks, is still more imperative, but is not a matter for politicians nor for commis- sions drawing large salaries, and very few lawyers have the necessary intellectual equipment. He suggests that university law schools can do no greater good than in preparing men to carry out this idea of modernizing legal practice. On September 1st the equal rights statute went into effect in New York State. This law forbids discrimination against any one in any place of public accommo- dation because of race, creed or color. In the recent election in San Francisco the women were the moving force for mu- nicipal ownership of trolleys. The vote stood 15,649 to 13,720. The executive and standing commit- tees of the International Council of Women met at The Hague, Holland, May 20th- 27th and presented valuable reports men- tioned elsewhere in this issue. The first Turkish women's paper has been started in Constantinople. It is called Kadinlar Dunyasi, i. e., The Ladies' World. At the Conference of Governors which met this August at Colorado Springs Go,- ernor Hodge of Kansas and Governoi Hunt of Arizona both advocated abolition of the two-house system of legislative gov- ernment and substitution of a single-cham- bered legislature, subject to the Initiative, Referendum and Recall. The American Bar Association, which met this year in Montreal on September 1, 2 and 3, listened to the English Chancellor Haldane and ex-President Taft. The lat- ter was elected President of the Associa- tion. Many interesting reports of com- mittees were made, among others that on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, which strongly urges the creation of a single court of last resort in patent cases, so as to secure unity and harmony In the law, which it seems is impossible while it is administered as at present by nine inde- pendent tribunals. The Committee on Uniform Judicial Procedure is conducting a campaign to bring about a uniform sys- tem of pleading and procedure on the com- mon law side of the Federal courts. Investigation into the charges against Judge Lindsay of Colorado make it clear that the attacks upon him were not only groundless but malicious. If we are not to have repetitions of dis- aster on the sea as we have In the case of factory fires on land, we must hasten the passage of the Seamen's Bill, which, among other things, will force vessels to carr) the proper complement of skilled seamen. California women are seeing to it that in every case in court concerning a woman or child there shall be some woman pres- ent. The Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene took up the subject, sex hygiene, on August 27th. President Eliot advocated strongly sex study in the schools, and Rev. Richard J. Tierney injected the idea of religious or ethical teaching. The latter element speaks in the title given the school subject as it is to be introduced in Chicago, Personal Purity. If the sub- ject is handled from the positive side, deal- ing with health Ideals, the results are cal- culated to be more sane than if the nega- tive or disease side be emphasized. The first step of Chicago women in poli- tics was to help take education out of poli- tics, when they secured appropriate board action for the retention of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young as City Superintendent of Public Schools. Suit has been brought in the Rhode Isl- and courts by an ex-prisoner to recover from prison labor contractors wages for his labor during Imprisonment. The basis of the claim is unconstitutionality of the contract system, which meas convicts into slavery-that s w0rk without pay. Tbt. sutt i- li) kell by the National Coniimitted on Prison Labor. Success w0rld mean a b.arY' bl.ow 1.o the contract system. A woman has rid Cleveland of flies. She is Jean Dawson, Ph. D., of the department of biology of the Normal School. Women took a prominent part in the recent meeting of the British Association at Birmingham, England. For the first time a woman, Miss Ethel Sargent, the well-known botanist, is President of a sec- tion, and as many as twenty papers were presented by women. Mine. Curie, hon- ored guest, was given an honorary doc- torate by the University of Birmingham. On August 29th the International Congress on School Hygiene adopted reso- lutions to petition Congress for the right to use Uncle Sam's discarded battleships as open air schools for tubercular children. Dayton and Springfield, Ohio, have de- cided for commission government, with a trained business manager, for the adminis- tration of the city's business. it has fortunately been decided by the attorney general in New York State that the Industrial Board may direct the in- stallation of fireproof stairways in all fac- tories of less than five stories, under the general rule. We are not obliged to await the occurrance of another Binghamton horror. The recent New Haven wreck has given an imeptus to the movement for govern- ment ownership. CONTENTS Page. News Items ....................... Women Inventors .................. Book Reviews ..................... Women in Legal Profession .......... Editorials ........................ Women Lawyers' Luncheon .......... Changes in New York Law ............ Marriage and Divorce Laws of the Dis- trict of Columbia ................ Ringing in the New ................ Women Lawyers' Association ........ Minimum Wage in Oregon ........... Bureau of Legislation ............... Wit and Humor of the Law .......... The Lustre of Womanhood ........... Equal Suffrage .................... With the Magazines ................

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