12 APRIL 1945, Page 13

WOMEN MAGISTRATES

SIR,—I notice in your issue of April 6th that " Janus " reproves the Daily Telegraph for the flippant tone of its leader on the appointment of Miss Sybil Campbell as the first woman stipendiary magistrate. He deplores the suggestion that Miss Campbell was selected because she was a woman and not because in his view, and, he rather rashly assumes, in Mr. Morrison's too, no man could be found with equal qualifications. It must have escaped " Janus's " notice that Mr. Morrison himself stated: " Women have shown their capacity in all sorts of jobs during the war, and I felt it was time a woman was given a chance of showing what she

("Janus " writes: Mr. Morrison's remark did not escape me, but it had not been made when my note was written.]