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Show I JUDGE FINDS JOY IN HEART COURT I Judge William N. Gemmill, sitting in the Chicago court of domestic relations rela-tions as the successor to Judge Charles N. Goodnow, re-assigned, the other day declared his work a study of hearts. Judge Goodnow left the court of domestic relations because he found it filled with heartaches. Judge Gemmill took up the labors of the court as the most interesting labor of the law. "I enjoy the work," said the new judge of the court of hearts. "I have just come from a civil court, largely dry as dust sort of work. Here my work is. full of 'heart interest.' It is a study of people and motives. The problems here presented are as intricate intri-cate and interesting as life itself. "An unending procession of lives and loves are passed through the court for observation and study. "The work is far from as full of heartaches and sorrows as the work of a criminal court. There one has to impose long, hard sentences, sometimes some-times death. There are weeping relatives, downcast, bitter men. They get a message of the hard side of justice, cells and the gallows. Here the labor of the court is to produce happiness and peace where infelicities have arisen. There is something hopefully constructive about the work" |