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 The Green Bag August 25 and continue in session till the Association meets. The principal address before the Association will be made by Presi dent Woodrow Wilson of Princeton. The Tennessee Bar Association will hold its annual meeting in Chattanooga on August 29, and for the following days will observe the program of the national association meeting. The twelfth annual meeting of the North Carolina. Bar Association was held at Wrights ville Beach June 28-30. The president's address, delivered by ohn W. Hinsdale of Raleigh, dealt with “ rial by Jury in Civil Actions." Col. N. A. McLean of Lamberton deprecated the repudiation of its bonds by North Carolina, and addresses were made by

Hon. James B e of New York and W. H. Pace of Raleig. The following oﬂicers were elected: president, Hon. C. W. Tillett, Charlotte; secretary and treasurer, Thomas

W. Davis, Wilmington. At the annual meetin Association, held at Des

of the Iowa Bar oines June 23-24,

much time was devoted to the divorce prob lem. A resolution presented by Justice Horace E. Deemer of the Iowa Supreme THE YOUNG ATTORNEY'S FIRST CASE.

{Bar A sedation: The state bar associations of Virginia and Maryland held a 'oint annual meeting during the last week in July at Virginia Hot Springs. The annual meeting of the Arkansas State Bar Association

was

held

at

Pine

Bluff,

une 1 and 2. The subject of President orton's address was “The Initiative and Referendum." Ofﬁcers for the ensuin term were elected as follows: President, . V. Tomkins, of Prescott; vice-president, Ashley Cockrill, of Little Rock; secretary, Roscoe

Lfynn, of Little Rock; treasurer, P. C. Dooley, 0 Little Rock. The notable feature of the annual meetin

bench, on behalf of the Law Reform Com

mittee was unanimously adopted, suggesting that the legislature pass an act requiring that a full report of the evidence in all divorce cases be placed on record and that the state be represented by an attorney who shall cross-examine witnesses in every case where a decree ma be taken by default. As a majority of t e divorces in Iowa are secured by default, this resolution is of interest. The annual address was given by Ex-Governor C. S. Thomas of Denver, Col., on the subject, “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied." The following ofﬁcers were elected: president, J. L. Carney, Marshalltown; vice-president, C. G. Saunders, Council Bluffs; secretary, Charles M.

Dutcher, Iowa City;

treasurer,

Charles S. Wilcox, Des Moines. Reforms in procedure enlisted more atten tion than an other topic at the annual meet ing of the orgia Bar Association, held at

of the Wisconsin State Bar Association, hel Athens

at Milwaukee June 28-30, was the striking address by Federal District gudge George C. Holt of New York, on “The xtent of Unpun ished Crime in this Country and the Remedy forit." The subject of the resident's address, delivered by James G. Fanders, was "The Lawyer in Public Life." Hon. James G. Jenkins, formerly United States Circuit Judge, delivered an address on the late Judge R an, and Justice William H. Timlin of the is consin Supreme Court presented a paper on “Delegation of Legislative Power." The American Bar Association will hold its annual meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn., August 30-31 and September l-2. The Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, pre sided over by Judge William H. Staake of Philadelphia, will meet in the same place

June

9-10.

The

annual

address,

delivered b Hon. William M. Ivins of New York, on ‘The Life of the Law," aroused much interest. Mr. Ivins propounded the uestion, "What is the economic mind of the

upreme Court of the United States," and anal zed the decisions of late years bearin on t e freedom of contract and restraint o trade with much acuteness. The conclusions of this address were courageousl applied, the speaker vigorously defending reedom of contract, and declaring that the efforts of lawmakers or of the courts to limit or repress this fundamental ri ht were bound to prove futile. Judge T. . Cunningham, Jr., of Savannah, delivered the president's address on "Problems of the Times," and a s cial address on "The Lawlessness of Law Re cm" was given by Hon. Alexander C. King of Atlanta. An outline of proposed reforms