GROCERS BEST JURORS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 22

GROCERS BEST JURORS

"WELL-BALANCED MINDS"

In his 40 years at the Bar and on the Bench, Judge Samuel Kalisch, of the Supreme Gourt, Newark, N.J., who is on a visit to London, has studied I psychology from the life.'.And he does not like butchers; and stonemasons as' jurors (writes an "Evening News'? correspondent). "My work consists chiefly ju charging grand juries/ 1 he to}d me as we sat in the Savoy, looking put over the Thames. '<But I take a deep psychological interest in all the people in mv court. ■ " ■■ J

ljsvas once askefl by 3 feU ow judge why I had told a butcher tq stand down out of the jwi-y,' I replied: v V.' 1 T a,^ be ">vrWg. feut I think a butcher's life is mpatly taken up with put-up meat, stnd even with killing things that are live and inflicting pain Aaturally, therefore, he becomes callous and not sympathetic and sensitive as a juror should be, So I got him out of that jury.' "Now my answer wag much the same in the case of the stonemason. I happened to know him well, but I would not have him. serving on a grand jury, Men are bound to be affected by their environment, and a man could not be handling and pounding big hard allThard' fcee°!»«g psycnblogie, "The best jurors, I havo found are the ordinary little' grocers and m er. chants of a tpwn. They have wellbalanced minds. They are the people who are. most necessary in our lives and, I havo found, they n re the bes to judge a case in a. court qf law "Beal estate men are bad on a -jury ;I woud not have them, They are naturally argumentative, and prone to dispute. Their dealings in business are all against their being fine impartial

"I am a great believer in the iurv system. You will find that juries are far more seldom wrong than are judges, Thenf deoiMppj-Wj mt merged Jn e frly so of tea as the deeisioHso t judges U-