Show 3 2 1 TEACHER I MAY HO HOt HOLD r A JOB AlTHOUGH j S t MARRIED r i I. I Oregon Judge Orders R instatement of f Edu cator PORTLAND Ore are Jul July 10 When lo n n. man marries wo we think It li t. a great thing and a cause of ot general cel cele celo celebration bration bratton BO ao why should a woman be discriminated against when s she ale e e eaters ea en ten tors wedlock This was the comment tonight t of Jf Judge Robert Robort O. O Morrow i in discus discus- sing ling his decision today in which he held that the marriage of a a woman school teacher is not grounds for dismissal For moro than thirty years th the public policy polley has boon been toward the equal rights in all things and this tendency has ha resulted in the amendments conferring equal political rights being adopted adopts in many states No 0 woman should be he dismissed from her ber position as a in do the public schools unless s it be s pe specifically e proved that she is morally moraU or temperamentally unfit The decision was in the case of or Mrs M Maude ude L L. Marsh Richards wh who was dismissed as an nn instructor In the public trades school January 6 1915 the day following her marriage to Attorney Orin R R. Richards Mrs Richards sued the school board for tor reinstatement Judge Morrows Morrow's decision not oni only granted her hor reinstatement bot a allowed al al- al lowed her the s salary lary she wo woold ld have have earned had sho Rho not been sum sum sam man marily y relieved of duty When Mrs lilts Richards became a school teacher she signed a con can tract containing a clause cLUse specifying that she should be dismissed sed should she marry during the school year Her dismissal was based baaed on this clause In his decision Judge Morrow stated stat stat- ed that the school board went beyond beyond beyond be be- yond the statutes In inserting such a clause In Iii teachers teacher's contracts |