Show woman writer objects to term ter m weaker weak e r sex se X P A woman colu columnist mist noted for her keen in insight s 1 g into e events vents and things selects t this 1 kt subject for comment the papers tell of a federal judge jn da a new york courtroom who cam pell edthe edithe men to give women their seats A A reader sends us the clip ping wondering what we ue think about it here it is in a courtroom crow ded to capac ity with creditors aej an 1 stockholders of the ambassador hotel corporation federal judge J M woolsey said recently it seems to me that the men 0 eting over there should stand ul and ana Y let the ladles ladies sit down al hen lien the men did not budge he aide L go ir thele marshals and roust them out the mar marshals hals obeyed and the vi women omen sat doii down n wl ile lie the men grumbled quietly to tt themselves em selves saving they thought the order un fair what do we think about it 11 ell it all depends on what hat we women want w ant it if what we want most ts Is the seat a man occupies then we should not inquire too closely into the method ot 0 taking it aw away ay iy from him jn in this case tl ey mere w ere v w e must admit ques tio some of those men may have been more in need of a seat than any of the women to accod whom they were ousted and some inere ere probably there in the line of duta dut while ill the women seated by the gallant j idge were merely spec gators presumably on pleasure bent NN e repeat if its it s the seat only that interests sou ou aou ou will applaud the judge whose motto is apparently un der all circumstances ladies first if it is ct el rivalry on the part of men in this day and age that you care more about than the seat in court or subway or street car which they may hive to give up to ou then you will not favor forcing them out of their seats there is no ro mantic satisfaction in taking a man s seat it if he has to be thrown out of it and the compulsion Is hardly con ducloe to developing in him a great er gallan gallantry tr in fact the file man once forced to get up for a woman will I 1 1 ardly take tt it e lead in making the gallant gesture of his own free will that sr eat flower of chivalry the sense of self sacrifice sad on behalf ot of the sex will have hane been j nipped in the ba and anyway rare we VLY ikker KEn i jor my part I 1 I 1 should feel cheap to f have a man forced out of his seat i for my benefit 4 1 0 bell syndicate service 1 |