Magistrate Benjamin Greenspan was the principal speaker last night at a dinner of the Men’s League in Aid of Crippled Children, held at the Fur Club, 333 Seventh avenue. He spoke on the “Human Side of the Magistrate’s Court, or the Forgotten Man,” illustrating his remarks with humorous and tragic incidents he has had to cope with in his long experience as both probation officer and magistrate at the Fourth District Court.
His experiences, he declared, have confirmed his belief, long held, that “criminals are made, not born.”
Greenspan also discussed briefly the tragic aspects of religious persecution in Germany, declaring that “only at a time like this, when they are in trouble, do Jews realize their God and their religion.”
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