Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-24
IRA |. GRIMSHAW
To JOIN ARMY At
NO DISTANT DATE
Law Clerk Of State Supreme
Court Receives Orders to
Report for Examination;
Has Served in Navy.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Fe, Oct. 23.-Ira. L. Grim
shaw, law clerk of the State supreme
Court, and member of the state board
of bar examiners, received orders to-
day to report for physical eXamina-
ton preliminary to be commissioned
major advocate general in the United
States army. Mr.. Grimshaw served
four years in the navy before COM
plotting his education and was admit
ted to the New Mexico bar only
few years ago. He was one of a
number of New Mexico attorneys who
had been invited to Albuuerque TO
meet a member of the national per-
sonnet board which reports on can
didates for commissions from civilian
life.
The war department makes the fol-
lowing announcement in this connec-
tom applications have proved UNI
dependable for the purpose of select
ing officers for this special service.
They do not, and naturally can not,
reveal in the applicant the special
qualifications essential to a judge adj
vocate, not the least important of
which are personality, adaptabilisy
to special legal service, and adjusta-
biHty to the military environment.
Moreover, the number of applications,
compared to the number of judge adj
vocates to be selected, has been so
d.sproportionate as to lead to con-
fusion in an effort to give them dis
eliminating consideration. Besides,
each application sets up train of
correspondence, investigation and 9TH
er administrative labor, and the work
entailed by thousands of applications
aggregate a volume exceeding all
practical limits and out of all rea-
sonable and helpful proportion to the
number of officers needed, and i'm
poses on the small personnel of this
office a burden that it is impossible
to carry. To avoid the Cnsatisfac-
tory results of such an i'll adapted
system, this office has been compelled
to make its own Independent investi-
cations entirely Accordingly it has
undertaken, through its own repre-
sentatives, who know the special re-
quirement= of the service in this de-
partment to make an investigation
which will enable it to assemble a
list of lawyers from the country at
large, who, as a result of such inves-
tigation, are deemed most available
for the service. and from which the
list the limited number of appoint
ments hereafter needed may be made
without continuing to undergo the
present administrative labor and diff
ficulty. These representatives will
seek such professional sources of in
formation as the judges of the courts
of last resort and the federal judges
of no or will ~
by such sources of information, make
inquiry not only into the qualifica-
tions of all who applied under the
former system and who are not clear
ly disqualified, but also into the
names of others who may be thought
to be especially available for serv-
ice.
1T should be understood, in fair
ness to the profession. that even if
lawyer should find that his name
had been submitted TO this office by
its representative to be placed on the
available list the chances of his ap-
pointment are rather small. mas
much as the list itself will be re-
vised and final ymade up within the
department, and besides will contain
many times as many names as there
Will be vacancies. Any such lawyer
should not assume that he will be, or
IS very likely to be, appointed. nor
that it will be helpful to the depart
ment for him. unless requested so to
do, to make any effort toward secur-
ing an appointment by means of cor
respondence with or personal visits to
this office or otherwise.
This is "a very small department
having at the present an authorized
commissioned strength of less than
300; the number of officers Of all
grades to be appointed to it average
only about Is per month, and that
average is likely to grow less. The
number of applications has already
reached into the many thousands and
is rapidly increasing daily"