The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-28
kAGEY HEADS LAWYERS

49, - 3oO
lcontinnsd IRON Pags onel
sas. 1t-eeemsto ma that our criminal
code could be- si1sppfied. It seems 70
m n,,, We !. need sene Form Of revision OF
Il believe the method we, have Of, re-s
porting our c4Nes Is wrong 4 have
worn carbuncleS on my brain trying to-
work out some9intricate decision"
Laws : Disappointment.
According to T. NJ. Lillard Of Topeka.
morning. theF new federal antitrust
legislation has failed to give that
deiniteness and certainty to the OBJ
jectionable practices and so-called trust
methods that President Wilson an
nounced it was his purpose to give.
These laws will undoubtedly be felt
throughout the business world" said
Lillard. "They may bring the agents
Of Uncle Sam into every factory and
mercantile establishment of any state
in the land. There is much of good in
them and not little Of evil. What Is
the meaning and scope Of certain sec
ttons. and whether the good outweighs
the evil. must remain unanswered
questions for some time to come. and
will depend very largely upon the con-
struction given the laws by the su-
preme court" Il Z;
''Ihe lawyer"
Following are extracts from the pa
per on The Lawyer" read this after
noon by Miss Nellie Cline of the firm
Of Cline & Cline,rLarned:
The most harassed. the most ma
ligned. the most abused. the most In
dustrious. the most conscientious. the
most intelligent and the most chivalrous
of all persons-the lawyer.
The legal profession. like Catholic
for ho oil - he
forms. the old terms. the old symbols
and methods Of procedure.
The lawyer speaks in a language all
his own. He thinks in a jargon all his
own. He lives in a. world all his own.
While everyone is harping' SO much
about the laws. the trouble seems to lie.
not SO much in the laws, as in too much
law. Our last legislature passed 337
new laws-the present legislature will
pass as many more. We have q great
mass Of laws, many Of which are worth
less; and many. obsolete.
MY wish would be that we would
have an adjustment Of our laws"
TOasts At Banquet.
The following toasts will be given at
the banquet tonight: Bone Heads"
H. S. Lewis, Hutchinson; Better Late
Than Never" Frank L. Martin, Hutch
inson; Conscience VS.. Law" John F.
Switzer, Topeka: eThe Recall as APP
piled to Inferior Courts" Judge Silas
Porter, Topeka. =
Robert Stone Entertained.
Robert Stone, speaker Of the house
ton. gave a luncheon at the Mills Tea
room today complimentary to Judge
Harry Olson of Chicago, TIE officers of
the association, the members of the SUI
preme court, and others. Among those
invited to attend were: Arthur Cap
AvfIn
John MacDonald=-an George T. Me-
Dermott.
Additional New Members.
Additional new members: ]. r.. Gard,
lola; Roy H. Baer, Ness City: X. NJ.
Geddes. Eldorado; G. NJ. Monroe. Tope-
Zeigler. Coffeyvillei c. E.. Classcock.
Larned: F., o. Martin. Chetopa-
| The thit.y-second annual meeting OF
1.-THE Bar .AssociatJot, Qt the State Of
Kansas win close hfs evening with a
banquet at 6:S0s o'c1btK N the Masonic
City. will be the POSTMASTER.
Judge Harry Olson, chief Justice of
the municipal court in Chicago, gave a
comprehensive address "wednesday
night in the supreme court room on
1.-The Administration Of Justice in the
Modern City, in which he urged the
unification of courts and all legal pro-
cedure. He considered the multiplicity
Of courts in Kansas and other states as
an evil. All courts should be branches
of a main court, he maintained.
Justice is the end OF government
said Judge Olson. 1T is the end of civil
society and the chief governmental in
strument to obtain it are the courts.
More than at any other time in the
| history of this country, there exists a
! feeling Of dissatisfaction with the ad-
ministration Of law by the courts. The
common complaint and the most uni
versal Is that Of undue delay. The
causes OF this undue delay in the ex-
petition Of business in the last analysis
will be found to be due to: Multiplicity
| OF courts, each with a different or over
tapping jurisdictions; lack of organ
ization of courts into a related system
defects in practice and procedure: the
personnel of the bench, and it might be
well to add. the personnel of the bar
| T.. M. Lillard, of Topeka, gave an
taddress this. morning onr'"The New
Federal Antitrust Legislation" I. NJ
Mahin. Of Smith Center. spoke on 1.-The
Voice From the Dead"
Speakers for this afternoon: C. I
Long, Of Wichita, 1.-THE Passing OF
Reaction" The lawyer" Miss Nellie
Cline, Of Larned.
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