. The uplift [serial] . -you-pleaseare given as reasons for the breakingdown of barriers and for makingcourt dockets thick, fat books. But the judge sees one indicationof improvement, and, strangelyenough, he is at variance with thepeople who rail at what they call thegreater license afforded girls. He findsthat there are fewer women, propor-tionately in his court, than women are not as bad, he finds,as they have been pictured. All Kinds, Many of Them. Judge Collins ought to know. Thesinners come to his court in flocks,not willingly but brought in by thepolice. Black and white, ri
. The uplift [serial] . -you-pleaseare given as reasons for the breakingdown of barriers and for makingcourt dockets thick, fat books. But the judge sees one indicationof improvement, and, strangelyenough, he is at variance with thepeople who rail at what they call thegreater license afforded girls. He findsthat there are fewer women, propor-tionately in his court, than women are not as bad, he finds,as they have been pictured. All Kinds, Many of Them. Judge Collins ought to know. Thesinners come to his court in flocks,not willingly but brought in by thepolice. Black and white, rich andpoor, the highly placed and the verydregs of humanity—they are broughtbefore him for decision. Day afterday, with Monday a day of doublework because of the Sabbath recessof courts, they crowd the courtroom,popping up to tell their stories anddown again to make room for an-other offender. The judge is a work-ing man and he sees the seamy side,the sordid; hears tales of violence,greed, degredation, infringement by. JUDGE D. H. COLLINS The average age of lawbreakers hasdecreased by at least five years, inthe opinion of Judge D. H. Collins,of the Greensboro municipal court. A decadence of home life, with less some on the rights of others; bootlegrestraint imposed by parents; th tales, all the undercurrent of viceureal demand Eor freedom and and hatred that swirls under the ap- THE UPLIFT 9 parently placid streams of life in abig city. For more than four years now,Judge Collins has held sway in themunicipal court, being elected to thatoffice by the city council in 1921. Foryears before that he was—and stillis—a magistrate, and if there is anytype of offender who hasnt beenbrought before him it would behard to find it. The common sense justice, he iscalled. He is not a lawyer, and tech-nicalities mean little or nothing tohim. Ha brushes those asi|de andlooks at the matter from a commonsense viewpoint, with the idea of re-formation where possible. He is nota hard boiled ty
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