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know and respect their mothers - ninety-nine per cent of them do. It's a primitive and primary attitude. I said to myself, “That's the way to get things done, I'm sure. So behave, so dress and so comport yourself that you remind them subconsciously of their mothers.”

It made a great difference in my whole approach. It was not long afterwards that I adopted the black dress with the bow of white at the throat as a kind of official uniform. It has always worked. I've had so many demonstrations. I've got a big red envelope full of episodes of that sort which have indicated to me that that's how they took women. When I became a judge in workmen's compensation, which was a new idea, I realized that some of the old lawyers and insurance company representatives, as well as the injured men, took it pretty hard. I tried to remind them of their mothers and it worked. They could take justice at the hands of a woman who reminded them of their mothers. They couldn't take justice from the hands of a fly-by-night. I sort of sympathized with them. Many good and intelligent women do dress themselves up in ways that are very attractive and pretty, but don't particularly invite confidence in their common sense, integrity and kindly justice.

In this Sulzer thing they were all having a nervous