Iowa Old Press

LeMars Sentinel
Tuesday, November 20, 1917

POSES AS A WOMAN HATER
Well Known LeMars Lawyer as Seen by Minneapolis Scribes

Minneapolis Tribune: "In six days God created all creatures and all places,
except one creature and one place. He then made woman and left it to Adam to
pass judgment on her. Adam made a bad job of it, so hell was created. And
man has been in hot water ever since."

T.M. Zink is a metallic little lawyer, of LeMars, Iowa, with a decided
opinion. The Hindus, who used to throw their girl babies to the crocodiles,
and the Chinese, who bound their daughter's feet, were slackers, according
to Mr. Zink's way of thinking. The other day he sat down at his little old
typewriter and rattled off a 40-page brief in which he says he told all he
knew about women. He filed the brief with the Minnesota supreme court
yesterday.

When they weren't hauling him out of croup, chickenpox and juvenile court,
mending his toys, bruised toes and broken heart, darning clothing, feeding
him---all of which he has doubtless forgotten since he attained the wisdom
of lordly manhood---that is what the ladies of Mr. Zink's acquaintance have
been doing all his life and are still doing, according to his brief.

Powdering, painting and paddling; posing, chattering and hunting scandal
like vultures; blocking every public place and talking out loud in the
movies; devoting their lives to falseness, folly and meanness and then
boasting that the word of one woman in court was equal to that of at least
two men.

Mr. Zink has a client, Laurie Marx, an automobile agent at Le Sueur, who is
under an indeterminate sentence at the state reformatory and out on $3,000
bail during the pendancy of the appeal to the supreme court. He was
convicted of the theft of an automobile purchased through a Minneapolis
agency by Marx, with $2,500 furnished by Linda Denzer, a woman, who was
witness for the state. Mr. Zink's claim in the appeal is that too much
credence was given the woman's testimony. To prove it, he presents his
40-page argument that femininity and falsity are synonymous.

"It required God six days to create all creatures and all places, except one
creature and one place," being one paragraph. "He then made woman and was
discreet enough not pronounce judgment on her and left Adam to learn from
experience---and that is the only way fool man has to learn anything about
women."

"Adam soon gained information. If not wisdom, on the subject. Then hell was
made, the only place not mentioned in the work of the six days, and it has
been running full blast ever since without indication of cooling off as long
as woman remains woman."

Attorney Zink asserts that woman, disobedient and lawless, escapes the
courts and prisons through the weakness and folly of men. When she learns
that she is to be a witness, he says, she does not study over the facts or
refresh her memory, if she has one. She gets out her best hat and gown and
prepares for the witness stand. He hat will be covered with flowers,
ribbons, streamers, birds, beads, fur, buckles of all colors of the rainbow,
and thus equipped, she swings into the court room with thought only of what
is on the outside of her head and no concern as tow what is on the inside
thereof.

"In this fashion, staged for the trial," Attorney Zink goes on, "this
deceitful creature perches herself in studied manner before the twelve men
on the jury and tells her artful lies. The verdict is hers."

The "bird on Nellie's hat," Mr. Zink asserts, is conclusive evidence of "the
most cruel and wanton murder and heartlessness of which the human mind can
conceive," and of "the limitless vanity of woman, which permits her to
throttle the sweetest music every made from common air."

Thus saying, he slammed the cover of his typewriter, brazenly called for his
blonde stenographer (he picked her out in preference to the dumpy one with
straw colored hair) to revise the original copy and correct his spelling,
wrathfully licked a stamp and mailed his masterpiece off to the supreme
court of Minnesota.

Attaches of the supreme court---married ones---had the grace to say of the
brief yesterday, "Ah-er, most unusual!"

Ordered stricken from the records as "scandalous," the brief filed in the
Minnesota supreme court Saturday by T.M. Zink, an attorney of LeMars, Ia.,
who devoted forty pages of argument and citations to support a contention
that women are "untruthful, deceitful, and treacherous," later was expunged
from the record. Following publicity given the bitter attack upon women, the
court delivered the following mandate:

"It is ordered that the applicant's brief in this cause be and the same is
hereby stricken from the record as scandalous, and the copies thereof
returned to counsel. Thirty days will be allowed within which appellant's
resident attorney may file a proper brief."

George T. Olsen, of St. Peter, who although associate counsel for the
appellant, had not part in the first brief, is the resident counsel who may
file the new and proper brief. The appeal is from the conviction of Laurie
Marx, a LeSueur automobile agent, under sentence to the state reformatory
for larceny in connection with an automobile deal.

Linda Denzer was a principal witness in the case, and to this fact was
ascribed the bitter attack against women as witnesses.

LeMars Sentinel, Friday, November 30, 1917, Page 1, Column 1:
MARRIED:
     Thursday, November 29, was the scene of a pretty home wedding when
Amy Lucile (sic--Lucille), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Darville, of
Fredonia township, was united in marriage to Mr. Gerben Keizer.  The
marriage ceremony was witnessed by sixty guests, relatives and old
friends of the family.
     Promptly at high noon the bridal couple descended the stairs to the
strains of the wedding march, rendered by Miss Irene Cook and Miss Lila
Darville.  Rev. Bertie Watson, pastor of the M. E. church at Seney,
officiated.  Immediately after the ceremony the guests repaired to the
dining room where a delicious dinnner was served in courses by the
Misses Lila Darville and Irene Cook.  The dining room was tastefully
decorated in pink and white, the bride's chosen colors, and a lovely
bouquet of roses adorned the center of each table.
     The bride was becomingly attired in an ivory white crepe de chine
dress with a dew drop net overdrape and carried a bouquet of bridal
roses.  The bride's travelling suit was of midnight blue with hat and
accessories to match.
     The bride and groom left on the evening train for a two weeks trip
to points in the eastern part of the state.  The bride is a graduate of
the LeMars high school, class of 1915, and has been a sucessful teacher
for the past two and one-half years.  The groom is a very prosperous
young farmer and well liked by all.  Upon their return the young couple
will be at home to their friends on the farm where the groom has resided
for the past three years.