Arizona republican., 1913-05-04
Reads Lesson to Young Lawyers from Roose- velt's Recent Article in "The Outlook" in Admit ting Them to Practice
ADDS KINDLY
 WORDS OF HIS OWN
Something Necessary Be sides Knowing Law and Practice to Make Good Lawyer Character and Honesty Count

When I left Harvard, I took up the study of law. If I had been sufficiently fortunate to come under Professor Thayer, of the Harvard Law School, it may well be that I would have real ized that the lawyer can do a great work for justice and against legalism.
 But, doubtless chiefly through my own fault, some of the teaching of the law books and of the classroom seemed to me to be against justice. The caVeat emptor side of the law, like the caveat emptor side of business, seemed to me repellent; it did not make for social fair dealing. The 'let the buyer beware" maxim. when translated into actual practice, whether in law or busi ness, tends to translate itself further into the seller making his profit at the expense of the buyer. instead of by q bargain which shall be to the profit of both. It did not seem to me that the law was framed to discourage as it should sharp practice. and all other kinds of bargains except those which are fair and of benefit to both sides. l was young; there was much in the judgment which I then formed on this matter which I should now revise; but, then as now, many of the big corpora ton lawyers, to whom the ordinary members of the bar then as now looked up, held certain standards which were difficult to recognize as compatible with the idealism I suppose every high minded young man is apt to feel. If 1 hppn I spent, I should have gone whole heart edly into the business of making both ends meet, and should have taken up the law or any other respectable occu- pation-for I then held, and now hold. the belief that a mans first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him; and I then believed, and now believe. that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily mar ried and that no other form of sue cess or service. for either man or wo- man, can be wisely accepted as a sub stitute or alternative"
 With those words, read from Theo- dore Roosevelt's Practical Politics, in the last issue of the Outlook, and many wise and kindly words of his own, Judge Morrow yesterday accepted a. class of seven promising young attor- neys into the roll of federal court law yers. The seven had just passed an extremely stiff bar examination the day before and had been admitted to practice before the supreme court of the state in the morning. At two o'clock yesterday, Crer Wolf called the court with just the seven new attorneys. U. S Attorney Mor- rison and his assistants Forrest a1d Hickey and few friends of the neo- phyteS present. MT. Morrison rose and moved to admit the new men. whom he commended highly for their excel lent averages in the test and for whom he vouched as to character and fit ness. The class consisted of Claude D Jamison, Marlin T. Phelps, Anselm Y. 1 Moore. Allan B. Jaynes, William T. l., Hawkins, Albert H. De Riemer and F. P. Duper
 Judge William Morrow administered the oath to Allan B. Jaynes, who then versatilely became clerk of the court and swore in the others. Then said 1 his honor T take great pleasure in ordering l you all admitted to practice before this 1 court. I congratulate you on having 1 passed the severe examination with ex- cellent averages.
 Not sufficient persons>xho are ad-
 mitted to the bar are familiar with the 1 principles of the law man may be learned in law, fair, accurate and yet
 not a good lawyer. There is something
 beside knowing the law and the prac ] tice of the courts, and that is char
 acter knowledge and honesty. Under
 standing this principle, man may be
 come lawyer and good one.
 'EX- President Taft is great and an | upright lawyer, fitted by training and by habit of mind to have been chief justice of the United States Hon. Franklin K. Lane, of California. the present secretary of the interior, is all so great lawyer. Mir. Lane has at tained his present position of honor and trust under my own observation. Cal | ifornia is proud of Mr. Lane. He pos
 sesses the lofty character and high ! upright lawyer
 T call your attention to your oath
 to practice uprightly. This principle
 of which I speak has been expressed
 often and has become in many states
 a formal code of ethics. It has been
 adopted by the American Bar associa- :
 ton for the guidance of lawyers. Ii 2 !