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JUDER ERNA SCHEFFLER
"I love housework.”
HIE judge was in quite a fluster. "I have just heard that I am
| grandmother,” she explain-
ed.
It was Frau Doktor Erna Scheffler speaking--at 58 one of the 24 judges of Ger many's new Federal Con- stitutional court at Karls ruhe, in the Upper Rhine valley.
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THE FRAU DOKTOR
A judge, a grandmother
and a good hand at making apfelstrudel she thinks
our courts are fascinating
With her men colleagues, Dr Scheffler has been
speaking from her experience as a divorce court judge ("And I have had many sad cases of broken marriages before me"), she says: "Divorce is the only solution in cases of complete in- compatibility. Even where there are children, I would say that a clean break is best in these tragle marriages."
As here,
there has been an increase in divorces in Germany
"Isn't it wonderful luck that following the war: "Hasty'mar--
cause of most I um hele for the birth of my riage is the to
daughter's baby in Paddington divorces," says the judge. "My Hospital?" she exclaimed.
view is that marriage should be The daughter, Dr Lore Froh- inde, and her son-in-law are made more difficult-not divorce both doctors in Muswell Hill."
the Old Bailey, the High Court, the Court of Appeal; she has been present at the hearing of a Canadian case before the Privy Council; and she has visited the As- sizes at Winchester, "Fascinating - I learned a great deal," told me
at her hotel In Westminster.
have she
Small, plumpish Doktor" Scheffler, with no grey in her short, auburn hair and
blue
eyes, bright, busy looks more like a cheerful housewife than ¿ legal dignitary,
My daughter studied nt Edinburgh University," said the judge. "She came. to this country at 19 because she found R limposable for a young person who was violently anti-Nazi to ive in Germany under Hitler.
-By- EVELYN
IRONS
nore casy."
Although women can be judges. in the new German courts, Frau Doktor Scheffer says that more women lawyer's are needed in Germany.
that It appears chances of promotion are good, for there ly room at the top. Two of West Germany's 50 uppeal court judges are women. "It is a great advantage for a woman Member of Parliament
Before Hitter sacked the to be a lawyer, too," she said. In her court at Karlsruhe, women judges in his drive to "I imagine that is true of Britain Frau Doktor Scheffler was a Her father, a mill-owner in She is the only woman where she is the only send women back to the kitchen, also." among six German judges woman judge, she wears divorce court judge, and she has Breslau, died when she was 11. Ideas about murriege My mother was untrained for the traditional dark red decided who have just spent
any career and was helpless to fortnight in London As robes and judge's cup (no successes and failures.
It is an excellent arrangement, cope with the business. I deter- guests of the Foreign Oflce, wigs in German courts). In (There is no law to stop a her neat black suit, small she says, for man and wife to mined to become a lawyer from woman becoming a judge in black hat and smart tweed belong to the same profession. that moment."
Her husband is a judge,
She was the only woman al- Britain, but it so happens coat she might be just an-
Judge Scheffer is not basically University and qualified in 1914. that there are no women other woman tourist seeing
ir favour uf divorce. London.
But "Acting as legal adviser poor judges yet),
persons
ald under the legal scheme was the only possibility for a woman lawyer in Germany then." But by 1927 she was a High Court Judge in Berlin.
Chemical war
London
LATEST news in the lon
battle against influenza
is that the scientists have
recruited another disease
cholera-to help.
J. By Dr. Gordon Cook
tou:
we talk a lot of shop at home." tending law classes at Breslau
on 'flu
In 1933 she went into retire- ment. "The Nazis used women as factory workers and soldiers: but not as lawyers."
the scientists, It this chemical can destroy the "doorway" sub- stance used by the 'flu virus to Now as a Constitutional Court: enter the cell, then an injection judge Dr Schemer in astonished of cholera-chemical should pre-when it is suggested that her vent the virus multiplying inside work might be "rather dry." the body;
"It is enthralling," she says. "I
The cell doorways would be am helping to lay the. legal Since the 1918-19
multiply inside the cell. There State." epidemic, with its 15 mil. Ocbber when the second wave destroyed, and the virus can only foundations of our new youngs
wag di #s hälght.
top-no 'flu.
She has to adjudicate in dis- lion deaths, we have de- veloped drugs like penicillin, u virus Infects us by attack- the experiment was tried out on and the Lander (provinces) and At a laboratory In Melbourne,putes between the Federation streptomycin and the sul- ing the surface cells of our mice. And, as predicted, the interpret the basic low of the phonamides. These can con- respiratory
To add to the dimculties, the
system. The con-
trol many of the complica centration of antibody here tends cholera-chemical made the mice, Republic,
in the blood immune to 'du. tions that 'flu brings. But to be lower than they don't control the flu itself, so that the virus can settle down and start to multiply out virus itself.
of reach of its enemies,
1
Since the
for it. Lower paid workers and people on pensions and annuities fare badly."
How to life in Karlsruhe now? As usual, there is 'n very blg "but." The immunity doesn't When I saw the place just after In spite of these depressing lost long. Within a day or two the French Army had swept facts, inoculation with the ap- the cells are able to regenerate through in 1945 it was laid waste Our main protection to propriate vaccine is now, refresh cell material that the virus by bombing artd, shelling: the day is based on vaccines. garded as giving a high degree can use to find its way in. So people were neur starvation, long as it is that although we've made some "Now," says the judge, 'nothing We can grow influenza of protection, so
done a short time before there is progress towards chemical con is rationed. There is plenty
of virus in hens' eggs, then danger of infection,
the first meat and butter-if you can pay trol of 'fu, it's only Inactivate the virus and
Away on the other side of step. inject it into our bodies as the world Australian scientists
''
work was vaccine. The effect in to have been studying 'u from
experiments have stimulate the natural de- another angle. They are tackling carried out,
There la still an acute housing fences of the body.. The it as a blochemical problem. been done with other viruses re~
lated to the ono that causes shortage in spite of busy rebuild- they have made some blood becomes charged with And
And again, mice ing. The Scheffera came to live poliomyelitis.
six months have been given some protection there from Berlin special chemicals called astonishing discoveries.
ngairist the disease by injections ago; till now have stayed "antibodies" which aro
with cholera-chemical.
paying
convent where guests in nuing take in lodgers (Protestants only. Without any doubt, these ex- not barred) to relieve the con- Invasions by a "live fu multiply inside a living cell and vírus.
It has to break through, a sub- periments are amongst the most gestion in private homes.
Now they have found a two- Unfortunately, the flu virus stance in the cell wall to get in exciting blochemical researches exists in different strains, And Strangest of all the new dis going on today. They are open-roomed flat. "I shall look after a vaccine made from one strain coveries is that the term of big up a chemical attack on the it myself," says the frau judge, from her of virus doesn't necessarily, cholera manufactures a chemical virus, which has so far resisted For although she did not caro protect us from another, Also, that can also destroy this cell- the modern drugs like penicillin for Hier's ordering
and the sulphonamides, the judicial bench into the the effect appears to be transient, wall substance.
The development, of chemical kitchen, shyo admits, "I love. de ilu can attack us again at The cholera-chemical can be drugs effective prainst the virus housework, and cooking.. 1 may the greatest bon Judge, but I can also March 1918, Du wave, for concentrated and purified like would be one of example were alreked again in any other chemical. And, argued scientifle, discoveries of our time take a pretty good upfelstrudel."
ready to tackle. subsequent
a short time, Victims of
TheBu virus can
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