Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-10-02

More Training for Lawyers AoNiseos
Kansas City.-As n can OF al
l~eviating "the widespread dissatisfac-
ton with the administration Of justice
in courts of law" and ''clamorous agi
tation for reform" DR.. Hanley o. Hud-
son OF the law department of the uni
versity of Missouri, addressing the an
nual meeting of the Missouri Bar as
ISOLATION, made a plea for broader ed
ucation of young lawyers and a rails
ing of standards required for admis-
sion to the bar.
Lawyers, he said, are admitted to
practice with far less preparation than
must be offered by medical students
before they are allowed to practice
medicine. Why, he asked, should not
the client who engages an attorney be
assured of as full protection as the pa
tient who calls a doctor? Most states
require that a young doctor shall have
completed a high school course and
covered a four-year' course in medi-
cine, while a young attorney may be
admitted to the bar in Missouri with
merely g grammar school education,
the speaker said. In its requirements
for admission to the bar, Missouri, he
said, is behind most of her sister
states.
1.-THE present clamorous agitation
for reform" said DR.. Hudson, calls
not simply for reform of judicial pro-
ccdure, but of the judicial attitude and
j~uristic thinking as well. In every
profession today, capacity for social
service is coming to be the criterion
of mems rights. From the professions
the notion has spread to other o C
tions-the pure food restrictions put
about the merchant in the interest Of
society are not without analogy.
High standards of legal training
for the bar are of paramount impor-
lance because they determine the
character of the judges who serve the
public, and of the legislation upon
which the public must depend for re-
lief from abuses in the administration
Of Justice"
The report of the committee on
Jurisprudence and law reform, upon
its investigation of the question of a
workingmen's compensation law for
Missouri, said the committee was not
prepared to urge the adoption of any
particular form of compensation law.
only by the elimination of selfish
prejudice on the part of both the la
boring element and the corporation
interests can a satisfactory bill be
framed in this state" the report said.
"All European compensation laws are
compulsory. The federal commission
has recommended a compulsory act in
preference to an elective vote or an
insurance system.
Address by President.
"The trend of legislation in this
state ought to be in the direction of
a compulsory and exclusive remedy,
which shall apply to all employments,
all accidents, excepting those
caused by the willful act of the in
jured, do away absolutely with the
present system of employers liability,
tend to the prevention of accidents
and confine the financial burden of
compensation to the particular en-
ployer Of the injured workman"
A middle course between that laid
by persons who "ridicule the law as
chanseless and a~ntiquated," and the
paths pursued by another faction that
asserts that Jul law SIS the perfection
of reason and its administration fault
less" was advocated in the address Of
the president, Ralph F. Lozier of Car
rollton. The laws delay, unreason-
able adherence to t~echnicalities and
presidents and the annulling of stat
utes by judicial construction and en-
Joining their enforcement, we're the
points emphasized by Mr.. Lozier in
his plea for reform of court proceed
ure.
"Tardy justice" he said, sis the de-
NAL of justice. The machinery of the
law is u~nreasonably cumbersome. BY
reason of the laws delay a just cause
may be denied judicial enforcement
for years, and often defeated.