Law: Jury Women

Women are no longer considered outsiders in business, in Congress, at the bar.

Florence Ellinwood Allen, onetime Cleveland Plain Dealer musicritic, sits as judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati. Mrs. Frances Perkins Wilson is Secretary of Labor. The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920. Still forbidden women in 26 States, however, is another prime privilege of a citizen—the right to serve as jurors.

In New York—one of the 26—the Judicial Council last week renewed its recommendation that the State...