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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Jews on the English Bench
Omitting minor judicial positions
filled by such worthies as the various
Jewish Lord Mayors, who has dis.
poised justice in the city, Mr. Sym-
mons, the London Police Magistrate,
and Mr. Emanuel, K. C., Recorder of
Winchester—taking no account of
these offices, the Earl of Reading is
the third great Jew to fill the post of
judge in this country, and the supreme
office which he fills marks him as the
greatest of the three. How long he
will continue to exercise judicial
functions it is difficult to say, for it
is rumored that he is designated to be
Viscount Grey's successor at Wash-
ington. Exalted as the position is
which Lord Reading fills, if he could
have had his wish he would have pre-
fcrred to he Lord Chancellor. Form-
erly Jews were expressly inhibited
front holding such office by the terms
of the Jewish Relief Act of 1858. But
the I'romissory Oaths Act of 1871,
by repealing the former act, entitled
any Jew to become Keeper of the
King's conscience. The only disabil-
ity attaching to a Jewish holder of the
office would relate to the exercise of
the Chancellor's ecclesiastical patron-
age.
The Women Have Started
to Work for a Subway
A committee from this organization has had prepared an ordinance
providing that the City of Detroit build a Subway.
We have submitted that ordinance to the Corporation Counsel for
his approval as to form.
We will soon circulate petitions for signatures demanamg that the
City Government submit the questions to the voters.
The question will be submitted at a special election to be held in
about a month IF THE PIECE - MEAL SCHEME is defeated.
The Tayler plan for city supervision and immediate extension of
surface lines will be submitted to the people at the same time.
These two plans will get RESULTS at once.
Materials are ordered. No Court delays. Only ONE fare. Free
transfers. These plans will solve our problems.
The Citizens have the pledge of this Committee, the pledge of the
former railway commission, the pledge of reliable business men and
the pledge of transportation students that the Subway and Tayler plans
will give us immediate relief.
On the other hand, they have only the promises of ambitious poli-
ticians that the ramshackle piece - meal will give help.
We cannot have the Subway and the Tayler plan, nor can we even
complete municipal ownership or complete private ownership if piece-
meal is approved.
Therefore, the first step towards immediate relief is to VOTE NO
on the $15,000,000 Bond Issue on April 5.
MRS. MARK JACOBSON
Jewish Woman's Club
MRS. JOHN TRIX
Pres. Woman's lndpendent Voters'
Club
MRS. GEO. B. JOHNSTON
Pres. Emeritus Twentieth Century
Club
MRS. GEO. H. SNOW
Society Editor Detroit Free Press
MRS. CHAS. H. METCALF
Pres. Daughters of Founders and
Patriots of America
MRS. STANDISH BACKUS
New England Society
CAROLINE A. WAKEMAN
N. Y. Mutual Life Ins. Co.
MRS. THEO. JAGMIN
I'res. l'olish Aid Society
MRS. JOHN BAGLEY
MRS. W. E. HINMAN
Pres. Ladies; Aux. Sam. Hospital
MRS. FRANK BIGELOW
Ingleside Club
MRS. JOHN McKERCHEY
Federation Chairman
ARCHANGE BRODHEAD
Junior League
MRS. E. W. STODDARD
Mgr. Women's Committee, Leonard
Wood Club
MRS. HOWARD BONBRIGHT
Tau Beta
MRS. CHAS. W. BURTON
Detroit Community Club
MRS. CHAS. BUCKINGHAM
President Eastern Star
DR. MARGARETE W .COLEMAN
Physician
MRS RALPH COLLINS
Dames of the Loyal Legion
FLORENCE E. COX
Cox-Eckert-Campbell Advertising
Agency
THERESA B. DOLAND
Attorney
ISABELLA HULL
History Teacher Central High School
MRS. BETHUNE DUFFIELD
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The other great predecessor of Lord
Reading on the English bench was
Arthur Collett, K. C., whose life has
O recently been compiled by his dough-
cr. The judicial post which he held
was that of Judge of the Cinque
Ports. After studying in Germany,
he proceeded to Cambridge. But it
was no easy matter in those days to
gain admission into the colleges. lie
O Tried one after another and was re-
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Editor The Social Register
DR. A. VICTORY SEYMOUR
Physician
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MRS. ALLAN SHELDEN
Detroit Symphony Society
GAIL SMITH
Mount Vernon Society
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Return the Republican Party to Power Under
Capable Leadership
Popular campaign subscriptions solicited. Help solicited. Join the
club. Our books open for public Inspection. State correspondence in.
sited.
WOMEN ARE URGED TO JOIN
ELBERT II. FOWLER, Temporary Chairman.
801 Vinton Bldg, Detroit. Cherry 6333.
ANTHONY MENKE, Chairman Finance.
709 Lincoln Bldg., Detroit. Main 5200.
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Pres. Detroit RepAblican Club.
MRS. WILLIAM H. MURPHY
Woman's City Club
MRS. WALTER BUHL
Colonial Dames
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My experience as el
a member of the j
House of Repre-
sentatives and as el
a member of the q
Stat eSenate, and 17.1
being President W,
of the Detroit •
Republican Club
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for the last six :
years gives me, I
believe, the neces-
s a r y experience
to act on the Na-
tional Committee * *1
for the good of
a I 1 independent • I
Republicans
throughout the
State o f Michi-
gan who are ac-
tually
interested 1,
in good govern-
ment and the Re-
publican Party.
Thoroughly inde-
pendent of all
cliques, factions,
or other string
pulling combina-
tions who endorse
a man and pay
for his advertise-
ment so they can
use him as an in-
strument to carry
out their wishes,
I solicit the votes
of those who are
not taking advice
and instructions
f r o m self-consti-
tuted dictators of
the people of
Michigan.
MRS. S .W. UTLEY
Real Estate
MRS. FRED SCHRAM
Federated Woman's Clubs
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Detroit Symphony
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Free Press Building
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MRS. WM. HILLGER
MRS. WILFRED CHESTER LELAND
Arts and Crafts Society
Realty Co.
▪ To the Voters Who Think
for Themselves
MRS. VERNON C. FRY
Ingleside and Tuesday :Musical
MRS. J. BURGESS BOOK, JR.
Alliance Francaise
Maloney-Campbell
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Theater Arts Club
MRS. M. A. McGOWAN
Pres. Aux. Ancient Order of Iliber-
nlans
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Michigan Hoover Republican Club
MRS. FRANK KELLY
Daughters British Empire
MRS. W. E. BROWNLEE
President Outlook Club
Insurance
"America Needs Herbert Hoover!"
MRS. MARY WOODHOUSE
Daughters British Empire
MRS. JAS. B. KENNEDY
Pres. Dames of the Loyal Legion
and
Republican Men and
Women:
MRS. JAS. E. WILSON
Wilson Millinery Shop
MRS. RAYMOND MERCIER
Ex-President Catholic Study Club
Real Estate
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MRS. JARED W. FINNEY
Regent Daughters of the American
Revolution
High-Grade
Make
Herbert Hoover
President
MRS. HARRY M. NIMMO
Daughters British Empire and Fine
Arts
MRS. C. M. BURTON
Ingleside Club and Social Arts and
Crafts
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No more brilliant judge has ever
sat on the English bench than Sir
George Jessel, who, by a curious
irony of circumstances for a Jew, be-
came Master of the Rolls in succes-
sion to Lord Romilly. His legal pro-
motion was nothing like so rapid as
that of Rufus Isaacs. Having been
ailed to the bar in 1847, he did not be- eral States.
come a Queen's Counsel till eighteen
years later, Lord \Vestbury having
refused him silk when first he applied
for it. He always regarded this re-
fusal as a blessing in disguise, because
the postponement of the honor en.
abled hint to acquire a more minute
knowledge of chancery practice than
he would otherwise have attained to.
Jessel brought to the practice of the
bar the aptitude of a man of business,
a logical faculty sharpened by severe
discipline, and a knowledge of Eng-
lish law which was as wide as it was
profound. His mind was a veritable
magazine of case-law. Ills knowledge
of affairs was extraordinarily wide
and accurate; his apprehension was
so quick that it seemed like intuition.
Ile had made up his mind on a case
almost as soon as it opened, and be-
ing impatient of unnecessary argu-
ment he showed it in a manner that
was somewhat brusque. lie never re-
served judgment, and his judgments
were scarcely ever reversed. He had
The Country needs a man of prac-
great self-confidence. As he once
tical knowledge and broad business
said, "I may be wrong, and sometimes
experience
as its chief executive.
am, but I never have any doubts."
lie described Lord Eldon as "the du-
All over the country we hear the
bitative Chancellor." It was Jessel's
cry:
distinction that he was at the same
t ime one of the most erudite of case
lawyers and one of the most cour-
A business diplomat known throughout the world.
ageous of judges in handling author-
A National Hoover Republican Club has been formed.
i ties. He was a "law-making judge"
A committee of Michigan business men now announce the forma-
whose decisions soon grew to be
tion of the
O taken as legal precedents—precedents
which arc constantly being quoted
even to this (lay. lie was a math-
We have no personal desires or ambitions other than as loyal
ematical gold-medalist of the Univer-
citizens. We desire to
sity of London.
MRS. WM. G. GILMORE
MRS. ALBERTA V. DROELLE
State Commander W. B. A. Maccabees
fused admission. Only through the
influence of Prince Albert was he mi.
mately admitted to Magdalen, where
he had a brilliant career, cooling out
fifth wrangler in the mathematical
tripos, besides being president of the
Cambridge Union. The mathematical
successes of Cohen and Jessel at the
University, and the experielIC e in fig-
ures which the present Lord Chief
Justice acquired on tie Stock Ex-
change, suggest the very interesting
question whether the mathematical
mind is the kind of ability that best
makes for success in the law. Cohen
himself thought not, and he pointed
to the fact that such eminent lawyers
as Lord Davey and Lord Bowen
were distinguished, not for their mat.
ematical, but for their classical, schol-
arship. Jacob Waley, it will be re-
membered, was a political economist.
Jesse! considered—he was a good
Hebrew scholar—that centuries of
Jewish devotion to the study of jut .-
isprudence, as set forth in the books
of the Talmud, had given a legal turn
to the Jewish mind. But if this be so,
we might have expected that the .1 ew-
ish race in modern times would have
produced a larger proportion of really
eminent lawyers than it has done.
Colien's high standing as a shipping
lawyer caused him to he selected to
represent the interests of England in
the famous arbitration case which
arose out of the American civil war,
When the "Alabama" inflicted much
damage on the shipping of the Fed.
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