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1,800 to more than 3,650. The association now includes representatives from all the states, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico and the Philippine Islands. PREPARATION FOR THE BAR The mornings and evenings being given up to the regular sessions of the Association, the afternoon of Tuesday, the first day, was allotted to the meeting of the Section on Legal Educa tion. Whether law can be successfully taught in correspondence schools and whether four years' preparation is necessary for admission to the bar provoked a heated discussion. Dean Harry S. Richards of the University of Wisconsin College of Law and James Perker Hall of the University of Chicago Law School were strong in their denunciation of the correspondence school. Mr. Hall classed it with mining scheme advertising. Both speakers also urged a three years' law school training and one year clerkship before a student be admitted to the bar. Judge Francis M. Danaher of Albany, N. Y., speaking from the standpoint of the experi enced lawyer, replied with scathing criticism of modern law school methods and said that the incompetency of many candidates for the bar after completing the course is appalling. If law correspondence schools are bad, he asked, why do Wisconsin and Chicago Univer sities conduct them in other departments' Maintaining that at least one year's clerkship is essential to an applicant for the bar, he urged that the law school course be left at three years. A four years' course, he said, is too long for the student enthusiastic about beginning his life's work. The report of the committee on standard rules for admission to the bar, as read by Lucien Hugh Alexander of Pennsylvania, was adopted. This calls for three years in an ap proved law school and one year in an office or four years in either the office or school. FRENCH FAMILY LAW CHANGING

France a new people to whom the laws of the Code Civile, upon which the French family law is based, are not suited. The Code Civile was framed for a population of farmers and small landowners, while now an enormous fluctuating factory population is developing in France. Day by day the French Code Civile is being completed by new laws. Slowly French legislation is trying to adapt itself to the complexities of modern life." A paper was also read at the evening session by Julian W. Mack, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook county. Ill., on "Juvenile Courts.", THE ANNUAL ADDRESS On Wednesday morning Governor Augustus E. Willson of Kentucky delivered the annual address, on the subject, "The People and their Law." His text was the dictum of the United States Supreme Court in Crowley v. Christiansen, that "liberty is not unrestricted license to act according to one's own will," and he spoke of the causes which led up to the recent "night rider" troubles in Ken tucky and Tennessee. NIGHT RIDERS TO BE PUNISHED "My promise to the people that they would need no lawyers if they hurt any one in de fense of their homes was kept," said the Governor, "and there will be no pardons for the crimes of pillage, plant scraping, burning, and organized murder. But now the people are coming into their own and I look for trials and convictions, a rare thing up to this time. The politician who parleys with crime in a 'straight American state' like Kentucky will be rebuked instantly and woe will come to him. "I believe that there can be no renewal of the trouble. The night riders are still un punished, but no statute of limitations pro tects them. The murderers of Hiram Hedges are still at large, but the people's law will punish the criminals in time." APPEALS IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The guests having enjoyed an automobile ride to Belle Isle Park Tuesday afternoon, in the evening Georges Barbey, Avocat a la Cour d'Appel of Paris, made an address on "French Family Law." He said in sub stance :— "In France the authority of the husband, the authority of the father, are necessary consequences of the whole economic rigime. But modern industrialism is developing in

The Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure offered a report urging a bill regulating the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States from the courts of the District of Columbia. The contention of the Committee is that greater rights are accorded District of Columbia liti gants than are allowed elsewhere in the United States, in that any case of sufficient pecuniary