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 The Green Bag PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT £4.00 PER ANNUM. SINGLE NUMBERS 50 CENTS. Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, S. R. WRIGHTINGTON, 31 State Street, Boston, Mass. The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of interest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities, facetiae, and anecdotes.

THE twenty-ninth annual meeting of the ever, we think it must be conceded that in the American Bar Association will be held this main this association in the past has stood for year at St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 29, the highest ideals of the profession in America, 30, and 31. Immediately preceding these and we believe that it is the duty of every meetings will be held the Sixteenth Conference lawyer who cherishes any ideals for his profes of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and sion superior to the ethics of business to give the meetings of the Association of American his active support and encouragement to those Law Schools. All meetings will be held at the who keep alive the sacred fires. state capitol. The headquarters of the asso Since the custom was established of holding ciation will be at the Hotel Ryan. Requests the meetings of this association beyond the for assignments of rooms should be addressed Mississippi the interest of the lawyers in that to Charles W. Farnum, 518 German-American part of our country has been attracted to Bank Building, St. Paul, Minnesota. this organization, and the men who in the next The annual address of the president, George generation are most likely to determine the R. Peck, on the most noteworthy changes in course and the progress of our economic destatute law during the year will be delivered. velopment which must necessarily be settled on Wednesday morning, August 29. The in the litigation of the middle west, are becom annual address will be delivered by Alton B. ing the most interested as well as the most Parker, of Xew York, on Thursday morning. interesting members of this association. At At the evening sessions papers will be read by this latest meeting in the northwest it is Roscoe Pound, of Lincoln, Nebraska, John J. expected that many more recruits from this Jenkins, chairman of the Judiciary Committee region will be enlisted, and it is hoped that of the National House of Representatives, eastern lawyers as well as those from beyond Thomas J. Kernan, of Baton Rouge, La., and the Rockies will appreciate the opportunities Gen. George B. Davis, Judge Advocate of the to meet and know these professional brethren and will make whatever sacrifice of time may United States Army. The names of these men is sufficient guaran be needed to show their loyalty to the profes tee that the high standards of the past will be sion by attending these meetings. A recent maintained at this meeting. The American example in Boston of professional devotion Bar Association is the only national organiza was shown in the attendance at the meetings tion of our profession and the only means by of the American Medical Association, which which its opinions can be expressed with may well shame us for our own neglect of our authority. It should be needless to impress similar opportunities. The doctors came to upon our readers the importance of making Boston, not to see the sights of that historic these opinions truly representative of the best place, but to hear and take part in the discus intellect of the Bar. It is inevitable that some sions of their specialties with an absorption of of the energy of these meetings should be wasted, interest which commanded the admiration of since discussions such as those held at its all observers. We trust that the lawyers will meetings afford an opportunity for some more exhibit an equal interest in the meetings of their enthusiastic than able to deliver themselves of national association. their ideas upon topics of public importance, We desire to take this opportunity to call but this is inevitable and, indeed, only one to the attention of the Bar an opportunity for evidence of vigor. Despite all criticism, how an exhibition of professional courtesy which we