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Show H Woman Writer Objects to Term "Weaker Sex" A woman columist, noted for keen Insight Into events and tliii selects this subject for comment: The papers tell of a federal Ju re in a New York courtroom who e a pelled the men to give women tl seats. A reader sends us the c her hardly take the lead In making the igs, gallant gesture of his own free will. That sweet flower of chivalry, the dge sense of self-sacrifice on hehalf of om- the WEAKER sex, will have been leir nipped in the bud. 'Up- And, anyway are we 'WEAKER? nk For my part I should feel cheap to have a man forced out of his seat ac- for my benefit. ping, wondering what we tl) i about it. Here It Is: "In a courtroom crowded to cap: lty with creditors and stockholdi n j of the Ambassador Hotel corporate Federal Judge J. M. Woolsev s: or recentlv: 'It seems to me that t jis t men sitting over there should sta " up and let the ladies sit down.' "When the men did not budge, added: 'Go over there, marshals, a roust them out.' The marshals obeyt and the women sat down while tl men grumbled quietly to themsclvc saying they thought the order u fair." ;t What do we think about It? We' It all depends on what we wome want. If what we want most Is the se; r a man occupies, then we should n w Inquire too closely into the metlu ,e of taking It away from him. In th tn case they were, we must admit, que 0 tionable. Some of those men mr have been more in need of a se; than any of the women to accoi modate whom they were ousted. Ar ? some were probably there In the lir ie of duty, while the women seated 1 '" the gallant judge were merely spe ' tators, presumably on pleasure bent ' We repeat, If It's the sent only thai 1 Interests you, you will applaud the judge whose motto Is apparently un der all circumstances, "Ladies First.' If It Is chivalry on the part oi men in this day and age that yot care more about than the seat lr 1 court or subway or street car whicl ' they may have to give up to you 1 then you will not favor forcing then out of their seats. There is no ro mantle satisfaction in taking a man's seat If he has to be thrown out of It And the compulsion Is hardlv con duclve to developing In him a greater great-er gallantry. In fact the man once forced to get up for a woman will |