The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-21
NEED OF COURTS
is MORE JUSTICE
They Can Get Along Without So
Many Legal Techni
calities. {
PROCEDURE IS roo slow
President Wilson Pleads With
Bar Association for HUI
manizing of Law.
PROCEDURE is roo SLOW

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WASHINGTON. October 2o.-Im-
provement OF the law so as to stem
the tide of recent criticism of the
courts was the keynote Of the. first
days session of the American Ear AS
ISOLATION here.
( president Wilson, in, his address of
Velc0me.5 pleadad-- forSs the ,humaniziaE.
Of fStfle law sby Incorporation OF more
Justice and less citations In, legal cases,
Former President Taft, speaking to the
Judges OF the country. gathered for
tho first time in the history OF the
country in formal meeting, emphasized.
the necessity for removing delays in
litigation. Associate Justice McRey-.
nolds. of the Supreme Court. urged the
judges to give more attention to public
opinion.
At to-night's session of the bar as
sociation proper. Senator Elihu Root,
in speaking. of The Laymen's Criti-
ciSm of the 'Laywer," ssuggested law
yers should apply the rules of evil
dence with more regard TO common
sense. and might well avail themselves
of expert assistance.
The days program was concluded to-
night with n reception In the Pan
American building, In which Chief Jus
tice White and associate Justices of
the Supreme Court were hosts Reports
VI
Mount Vernon Will feature to-morrow's
program.
INTERNENING PURGAToRf"
SINCE TAFT WAS a JUDGE
Before the judicial section, former
President Taft, In his second speech of
the day, said he, felt at home, although
there had been an Intervening pur-
gatory" since hefhimself was n judge.
He told the judges that uniformity In
III tc Hon
'dividual justice.
Mr.. Taft suggested that dependence
of stenographers had led to much delay,
in the disposition of cases. He urged
that most cases of the trial courts be
disposed OF at the end of the argu-,
ment
Justice McReynolds urges the judges
to become greater affirmative forces
In the enforcement of the law, and said
delays In courts frequently robbed the
cases of the fruits of the decision. AS
Attorney-General, the justice said, he
started out with the idea that he would
conduct the governments business as
that of a private client. He soon found
he was mistaken, he declared. and be-.
came convinced the thing to do was
to give the public fair Idea of what
he intended to do, and judicious
notion of what success was being at
tanned as he proceeded In some way,
lie added. the judges give to the people
an Idea of what they are seeking to
accomplish, and ho% they are succeed
ing.
.'In some such way we may turn
the tide. Of opposition to the judiciary
of the last ten years." he concluded,
"and find ourselves once more In
itrenched in the confidence of the peo-
pie"
The judicial section discussed the
part judges might we'll take In legls-
lation affecting the courts.
Governor Baldwin,. OF Connecticut, adj
dressed the comparative law bureau.
and Edmund -Westmore, of New York.
spoke to the patent section ON Some
Present Aspects of the Patent Law"
DIsINTEREsTBD PART
BEST FOR THIS NATION
President Wilson In his address said
tho world was now Stirred to it's
depths" but that the best course for
nation to pursue was the disin-
;terested. part lie added that the un-
settled world conditions made good
time for freeing the law from the dry
consideration of cold precedents. and in
jecting into 1t more of the viewpoint
OF Justice for the ordinary man.
We stand now in n peculiar case"
The President continued "Our first
thought, i suppose as lawyers, is Of
internationals.law. We know that we
the moral processes byswliich law and
Justice came into, existence. know
that as n lawyer, have myself at
times, felt that there is no comparison
Between the law of nation md the
law of nations, because the latter
lacked the sanction that gave the for
incr strength and validity. And yet, IL
you look into the matter more closely.
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