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Show aMaeaeaMMMiiii iiuiasjHg.1 'COURTS WILL IMPROVE WITH WOMEN JUDGES' Bj 111 S8 81 WON CON, S i Stafl I orrcspondent, CLEVELAND. Some women re-cieve re-cieve more consideration and others, perhaps, not Quite enough In the courts of law. thinks Florence I". Allen, first woman to be elected common pleas Judge east of the Mississippi river Miss Allen, .'IK years old. a woman of thorough university training Is at present assistant prosecuting attorney. Although she has. what Is rare in women, who enter the so-culled "manly "man-ly professions." a sense of humor and has tune to laugh. Miss Allen has no time for Idle talk of "woman's place." 'I wanted to be Judge," she said, "because 1 thought I had the brains and the training to make good Judge furthermore, there should be women Officials, particular! Judges. A woman will talk to a woman, tell her trouble to a woman. "I don't iy that women do not receive re-ceive Justice In courts today I don't think men Judges aro too hard on them. But at the same time, I think In some cases a woman will render more perfect Justice. "There are women who cannot tell their stories well before a man and who can talk to ;t woman Judge. On the other hand, there are women who make their spx their defense I mean) the pretty women who demand more, than Justice and plead their beauty to. escape punishment " ,in . FLORENCE ALLEN |