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Show DODGING JURY SERVICE Active, Industrious, successful men nro apt to dislike Jury service. Others Oth-ers of a moro Indolent typo enjoy hnnglng around court rooms, thoy llko. the llnttory from eloquent attorneys at-torneys nnd tho position of biief 1111-thorlty. 1111-thorlty. It is difficult to, get reprenen-tntlvo reprenen-tntlvo Juries. In many Btntcs tho dodging of Jury duty bus become a scandal. It v. us so called during the debate In tho Now York constitutional convuill.ni tho other day. Yet n section that would have checked tho ovjislou of Jury duty was quickly put to Bleep h that convention. In some courts nnd stntos tlu'ro ' a tacit understanding by which inc-tlcally inc-tlcally nil tho leading business and professional men oscnpo this function. func-tion. Through friendship with .some olllolnl their namo Is always kept cut of tlio panel. Jury sorvlco should bo rather pleasant, pleas-ant, if r-no looked nt It nrlgnt. The Juror sees 'many interesting sides of human natuio. Tho batt o of wits and of legal principles hns its dramatic dra-matic olemonts. Tho dobnto arising over quosttotiB of human conduct must Interest nnyono with an alort mind nnd human sympathies. Tlio excuso is that it takes time away from business. This shows how poorly most business men .propnro themselves for the exigencies of life. ISvery mnn should have Ills under-1 study who could do ids work in caso ' of his illness, and who could carry It along while ho is taking needed a cations. This would enable n man to perform tills duty to ills stnto. If every man well qualified ror Jury scrvlco would stop efforts nt this ova. slon, tho turn nt this necessary function func-tion of goe.d citizenship would coino around but rarely, would bo short when It did come nnd ought to bur-don bur-don uo ono. . ' |