PAGE SEVEN 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 U 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- .• 0 0 • MRS. NEIL O'BRIEN Editor The Social Register DR. A. VICTORY SEYMOUR Physician O MRS. ALLAN SHELDEN Detroit Symphony Society GAIL SMITH Mount Vernon Society vt Cherry 1195 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. ■ 0 O Pres. Central State Financ al Corporation 94 Griswold St. Pres. A. E. Wood a Co., 16 Gratiot Ave. Pres. Detroit RepAblican Club. MRS. WILLIAM H. MURPHY Woman's City Club MRS. WALTER BUHL Colonial Dames a 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 ■ 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 ■ 1 am a Candidate for Republican National Committeeman at the Primaries April 5 4 i•-4 ARTHUR E. WOOD O U Who Pays for His Own Advertisements timmsomommomm.,..,..mgmommaiimemenvait MRS. WILLIAM H. WELLS Detroit Symphony A.C.KRENZ Tailor s..,--to.01==10=101==101201==0=0====O=10T-10=0 MRS. HENRY I. ARMSTRONG Free Press Building a 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 VENGITAMMEitarTEMIN4:41MEIMPEMMIONNEAMEMZEIVA 0 MRS. W. A. C. MILLER Theater Arts Club MRS. M. A. McGOWAN Pres. Aux. Ancient Order of Iliber- nlans — SEE — 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 His Hat Is in Ring O 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 — FOR — 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. 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