Show YI Y COURT HELPS GIRLS TO GET GETT NEW S1 ART ART- FAA Given Every Eve Aid id in Leading a Bet Bet- BetO O Oter ter Life By Lorry A A. A Jacobs N N. N N E. E E A. A A Staff Correspondent Ww W YORK TORK May B 6 lly every ve fee ee e known as an an- anaId aid to Justice mercy mercy kerey Law 1 law is being used In the women's crate parate day court of New Y York rk City ded ed over by Judge Jean Norris Korris a A. 1 The latest Innovation of Qi the court Is IsI I establishment of ot a a. psychiatrist who sees es on the m mental status of ot women 0 r come before the court when the thee rd e Is In doubt as to their mental menta ca- ca cac c city The procedure of ot the court courtis Js Is different nt Dom om m that of ot the municipal court t it women of the streets streets' ate are led tied L GIVEN CHOICE When a girl rl Is brought ht Into the semen s court before tier her er plea lea o of my or not guilty Is taken taken she is is iven en an opportunity iY t to o secure counsel tahe fahe I she wishes to get ball bail to tr a ej free tree of oC charge by telephone or with her friends or r she i Is s given e option of oc an Immediate trial or in an IJ suiting hep convenience After a girls girl's case 1 is heard and d if she shei i convicted Judge Norris has one of ot sev- sev If It the girl is a a. first o or r a a. second offender she Is peed laced aced on probation for six she months and iwed to go home If It she Is suffering em venereal disease she is sent sent- to the x for treatment before being sent ent MOe ne If It she ahe Is la not what Is termed a a. I Probation case then she Is sent to the theus theS base us S of ot Good Shepherd or Inwood uie More hardened offenders offenders' are pt t to the prison on Blackwells wells island IM be he drug addicts are are also sent to the for tor eight weeks' weeks treatment I DT T ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE 13 do not not believe that any lany woman woman who Darrel d for prostitution and who Is s drug addict Is entirely ly responsible for react says Judge Norris Alt It would would- be Inhumane to try them tin ken ten they are re arraigned and it Is the CT of ot the court to adjourn the case ease foght to for fo- I weeks and In the meantime give the very best possible care at before she ehe goes to trial It Iti I astonishing the difference In t the e a ap ap- arance tarance of the girls girts when they om Dm the hospital after treatment They mentally and physically fit to b I I FOLLOW FOLLOW UPS Abroad broad system of probation and fol Yol rup uP work Is being Instituted Girls are ara being sent back to their homes all aU allover allover over the United States and reunited with their families In other cases where the environment Is wrong efforts efforts' are made to have parents move change the girls girl's employment or get her away from bad companionship Probation officers go out and check up the statements the girls make mak to them CHARGES DENIED Judge Jude Norris said salci that notwithstanding ing the outrageous statement made r r. rec re- re c n ly in the publio public press by a a. woman Mrs Hortense Lersner that I Iwas was rail rail- women to Bedford reformatory I have never committed one single girl to Bedford since I 1 went on on the bench in October of last year and the court records records records rec rec- will show that I 1 place the largest perc percentage of girls on probation I 1 am amnot amnot amnot not at all In im sympathy with reformatory tory methods In the past two months a a. number ot of o omen otmen men arrested with women charged with prostitution have received prison sen- sen s sen sentences n- n The time lime has come when women will not do all the legal paying for commercialized commercialized commercialized com com- vice |