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Bar Associations President J. L. Carney's address had

munities that by the time they reach

for its subject “John Marshall," and the annual address, delivered by Governor

middle life their thoughts have become ﬁxed in very hard and deﬁnite moulds.

John Burke of North Dakota, had for

It is evident what must happen in such

its subject "Employers' Liability and Workingmen's Compensation Acts."

circumstances. The bench must be ﬁlled from the bar, and it is growing increasingly diﬁicult to supply the bench

Other papers were: “The Lawyer as a Patriot," John C. Sherwin, Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court; “Particularist Society," F. F. Dawley, Cedar Rapids;

with disinterested, unspoiled lawyers capable of being the free instruments of society, the friends and guides of

“The Law," Judge W. R. Lewis, Monte

statesmen, the interpreters of the com

zuma; "A Practical Legal Education,"

mon life of the people, the mediators

Prof. Ralph Otto, State University of

of the great process by which justice is led from one enlightenment and liberal

Iowa. The following ofﬁcers were chosen: President, Charles G. Saunders, Council Bluffs; vice-president, Horace E. Deemer, Red Oak; secretary, Claude Horack, Iowa City; treasurer, Frank T. Nash, Oskaloosa; librarian, A. J. Small, Des Moines.

Kentucky. — Governor Woodrow Wil

ization to another." Other addresses on the program were:

“Some Great Lawyers of Kentucky," by W. H. Mackoy of Covington; “Is the Fellow Servant Law Becoming Obso lete," Hon. J. F. Gordon, Madisonville, Circuit Judge; "Lawyers’ Fees," Judge Matt ODoherty of Louisville; "The

Value of Precedents," Judge Shackelford Miller of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

son gave the annual address at the tenth annual meeting of the Kentucky Bar

Association, held at Lexington, Ky., July 12-13, taking as his subject, “The Law

American bar toward commercialism,

yer in Politics." He said in part: —

and the way in which this cause makes

"The truth is that the technical train ing of the modern American lawyer, his professional prepossessions and his busi

for delays in the administration of jus tice, was the topic of the address of William L. Marbury, president of the Maryland Bar Association,

ness involvements, impose limitations

Maryland. —The tendency of the

upon him and subject him to tempta tions which seriously stand in the way of his rendering ideal service to society. He seldom thinks of himself as the advocate of society. He moves in the

at

atmosphere of private rather than pub lic service. Moreover, he is absorbed

out of the ranks of the profession a class of men who will be willing to

now more than ever before into the great industrial organism. He becomes more and more a mere expert in the legal side of a certain class of great in dustrial or ﬁnancial undertakings. “It is apt to happen with the most successful and by that test the most eminent lawyers of our American com

the

sixteenth

annual

meeting

held at Cape May June 29-July 1. “So far as I can now see," he concluded, "what we should strive for is the estab lishment of a system which will develop

forego the great emoluments which some

times come through the successful con duct of the strictly business side of the law to devote themselves to the more

eﬁicient discharge of its duties as an aid in the advancement of justice in the courts."

Archibald H. Taylor made an address