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J . - N ssXssSss s. 'sssss, "sS Mr v. i r r 3- I it -f A 3 Venerable, " Traditions v .... ' ' , 4re Being Smashed Marion Weston Cottle, Boston University. By Ada Patterson THE woman lawyer is finding a practical place in the law. In a phrase her function is that of guide post She shows her sisters who know the law but dimly, the way. By reason of her greater knowledge of the law she is becoming literally the guide, counselor and friend of woman kind. A brilliant example of what the woman lawyer may do for women is Miss Helen P. McCormick. An erudite and resourceful young woman, she was one of many probabilities considered by the dis trict attorney of Brooklyn, as an assistant. He considered her past, brief though it is, for she is but 30, and learned that it held a scholarship derived college education. Miss McCormick took a course in genetic psy chology, which means that she is prepared to teach mentally defective children, as she did for two years. She had been admitted to the bar and pending the building of a law practice had acted as federal factory inspector. She was an active member of the Women Lawyers Association. Disguised as Miss Binghamton she represented the up-state New York town and persuaded women of seven neighboring cities to shop in Binghamton rather than in larger and more remote cities. - She induced the Erie railroad to put on an extra train for the benefit of the shoppers. She organized clubs and classes of working girls and gave her time to them in the evening instead of going to dances, dinners and theatres, which by right of her youth and beauty she might incessantly have done. When the district attorney learned all this he said something significant. "She talks and acts to the point," said her su perior, Dist.-Atty. Harry Lewis. "Have you no ticed that when she comes into a room she shuts the door, quickly says what she has to say, goes out, shuts the door behind her and it is over. She Is no lingerer." So Helen P. McCormick received her appoint ment She began her work with the advent of the New Year. The district attorney's office and ' ail of complaining Brooklyn admits that she has "made good." Complaining Brooklyn knows, for Miss McCormick's special duty is to hear all com plaints. Originally she heard only complaints in volving women and children. Now she hears all kinds of complaints. Self-conscious men directed Mrs. Prances Marion Brandon of New York. .... . .'nss.SxC iiiti yS-Nv. I ...... by Brilliant Achievements in the Interest of the Long Submerged Sex and of the Revolutionized World: Mrs. Olive, Stott Gabriel of New York, j to her find themselves face to face with a brisk, gray-eyed, black-haired American girl with the flavor of" Irish in her, and awkwardly tell their story of evil done or evil suffered. She iaf stern if with evildoers, gentle with victims, just always Z A and now and then there's a dimpling of her cheeks f, and a laugh in her eyes that bespeaks a legacy of humor. ; . Miss McCormick has heard 8000 complaints in cases involving women. She has sifted the cases, prepared them and advised the complainants. She has counselled lost girls, abandoned wives, destK tute widowed mothers, child drudges and victims of society's complexities and ' carelessnesses. Out of this experience as professional trouble-hearer and trouble-eradicator she has built some well defined ideas of what women need for their great er usefulness and happiness and has aided ener getically in legislation toward that end. .. ;. Miss McCormick's influence and eloquence . were manifest in the work for legislation to pre vent child labor- Her voice and pen were enlisted for a bill providing for women jurors. Her sup port of the widowed mothers' pension bill was energetic. Miss McCormick, as an' official of the largest city In the world, is an example of legal 'acumen -developed in womankind. The greatest city fui nishes a score of others, among whom is I Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel, a kinswoman and namesake' of Oliver H. Perry, . the American naval' com mander and the victor in the battle of Lake Erie in the war of 1812, whose ringing words, -."We ... have mef the enemy and they are ours," today are so prophetic of victory for American arms. Mrs. Clarisse Margoles Baright has a law office V on lower Broadway in New York '. City.- She was the first woman lawyer to defend a prisoner at a general court-martial. She won. They say itis her habit to win. w Rosa Falls Bres, Counselor at Law, is the le gend painted onthe frosted glass of a Broadway office. But it does not indicate the scope of Mrs. Bres's work as a woman lawyer for women. She is one of the many Southrons who come to the me tropolis and make an abiding impression. Mrs. Bres is one of the most prolific writers among women lawyers. She wrote "JThe Law and the Woman," a book which is a bird's eye view of the laws of the United States in matters relat ing to womankind. Her second, book, "Maids, Wives and Widows," concerns marriage laws and ; their effect upon the property, rights of women.,, A third book deals with the conditions of children in this country. It is a compilation of the laws affecting their personal and property rights. Frances Marion Brandon's name went on the office door when her husband enlisted and-started v V-" y V f of if A " x' 'Ate . . - ' ' "J-y ', V 7 . :-Xw:v:v:v ? -'- '' wmmmmmmmmmmmmm - - s s mmmMmmmm 4 - V s s - Ik?' ?lplli!ililpiiil iiiiiiiliiipiiilp ft i : r, -,-5' f; ' . v - r i" - W''f mf&m -'IsWfeM I WsAmt&m? S Mrs 1 1 1 i I 1 Mrs. "" ' ' ' l" . I ss ''s. 1 v:'..v.-.-:o - ' "s.ss-sV S -ssVs t X-sfi-. s.' s" Ys"-Vs - s sX " t- , X V s AJ, V s xA ? v s 'X-ssS,sS.s s? s. s sTs' ' Xi'fi - s -J SsSf ? S- li;') XSisV-;-w:-.oy.'-:-vivvxo:-:-:.N,.';-;-:v:-:-:.S' ssssSSs8slas?s!sS?8 "V is- A V . , SS- s i sji ? s, s; -lisstSlii ss ' s. f1!, " si s , WW, s-4 -i. 's s ts- r s?S ,Miss Julia Grilli ? of New YorK. s' " 's, Is' SshjS.ss?' V SSS-fcf !VJ MS-' sS s III (HtTf"" bsslVsssMs ssssxXl Above, , Tiera Moats City. On the Left, Miss uiara Ruth Mozzer, Assistant Attorney-General of Colorado. to Camp Upton. She was admitted to the bar and stepped into his office and practice. "Good-by, dear. I'll 'carry on, " she said as she kissed her husband fatewell. She pledged herself to the Motor Corps and often arrives at her office and confers with, clients in the uni form of that branch of the . service. She is serv ing on the legal advisory board in the work of registering the draftees. Mrs. Brandon's work of investigating family and home conditions has been effective. She has injected the human element into what might have become, of necessity, a machine-like process. An excellent trial lawyer with a paying prac tice is Mis3 Julia V. Grilli a lovely young Ameri can girl of Italian parentage who can sing as well as she pleads a case. One evening Miss Grilli gave a concert and the next morning locked the door of her New York office and went to the do mestic relations court to secure a summons for a wife deserter. Miss Grilli spent five years in one of the largest legal offices in New York to ground herself in the ' Vnarwooef fb IMt3rnaoct -rtnni. .iljfnr mnmm 11 ii in i Marguret Ervin Ford of Tennessee. law. Thereafter she devoted a year and a hall ' to its further study in the offices of a firm thai ' are specialists in negligence actions. Another New York woman lawyer is Misa Amy Wren of. Brooklyn, who has a large and remunera. tive practice. Miss May Patterson of New Yorl exercises her executive ability and her knowledgv, of the law as business manager of the Woman Lawyers' Journal. A distinguished Portia of Boston is Marior Weston Cottle, who is a member of the bar of thi states of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshirt and New York, and can practice in the United States supreme court. Miss Cottle lectured lasi summer on such subjects as 'Th6 Human Side o! the Law "Your Lawyer Friend," "Law for Bus: Men and Wbmen," "A Woman's Place in the Law" , and "Driving Out the Kaiser." She also gives lectures on "Domestic Relations." - Miss Clara Ruth Mozzer is assistant attorney general of Colorado. This is the third year of hei tenure of that office. She was graduated from a ; law school in 1915, and is the youngest woman to pass the examination of the supreme court oi Colorado. Before entering the legal profession Miss Moz zer was a well known social worker and lecturer. She drew up many of the bills for the last session of the Colorado Legislature, among them the mini mum wage act, which is .now in force. The mini-, mum wage law is advocated by all woman lawyers. Mrs. Margaret Hamilton Ervin Ford, a fair and eloquent Tennessean, was the potent deciding force when President Wilson determined to send his famous telegram to the Tennessee Legislature, . urging it to reconsider its decision in regard to the equal suffrage amendment. Mrs. Tiera Farrow Moats is president of thi Woman's Bar Association of Kansas City, rice- V presldent of the Woman's State Bar Associiion of Missouri , and vice-president cf the Natiosl Woman's Bar Association. Mrs Moats was admitted to the Jackson coutt bar in Jackson county, Missouri, the supreme coti . and federal court of that district and engaged i, the practice of law in Kansas City. She was th first woman lawyer to defend a criminal in th 'criminal court of Missouri. She was trying a dl vorce case when the husband of her client SJIlex the wife in the court room. Mrs. Moats was appointed divorce proctor ii the circuit court of Missouri. The bill granting to American women marriec to foreigners the right to retain their cltizenshlB was prepared by Mra. Ellen Spencer Mussey, thi dean of the Washington law school. Miss Margaret Ogden of San Francisco was th chairman, of the oommittee of the Woman's Legis latlve Council of California which drafted the hill allowing women to serve on juries, which was passed by the California Legislature. sSJ. .sv.sssss.-".s. s:;.sssvst oss'.Vs.sSrsr.- sss-A- f J Miss'iHeleni McCormick: Asst;istttyrooklyn. Mifw "Arnv Wren ' STtfwapnper Feature Service, ,1918. Mrs. Clarisse'M; Baright ; of New York.1 f c. Miss Bosa P, Bres I of Louisville, Ky. Miss Felice Cohn of Lincoln, Neb. j - 4 i i
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