Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-27
UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS ADVOCATED
 BY BARRISyERS
Lawyers Discuss Plans for Obtaining Same Laws
 in All States.

Cleveland, Ohio. Aug. 22--A uni form divorce law to be effected thru revision of the various state laws will be one of the chief topics for consid- eration at the annual convention of the American Bar Association which will open here tomorrow and continue through Friday Two thousand dele gates are expected to attend the open- ing session.
 Only two states, delegates declared today, now have identical divorce laws.
 Besides taking action on the divorce laws problem, the convention is ex- pected to take up the question of ob- taining legislation deemed necessary for solving problems of reconstruction industrial and social conditions after the war.
 Subsidiary organizations held meet ings today with discussions relative to closer cooperation for public ser vice and the elimination of unneces- sary technicalties. How to prevent unnecessary litigation and stamp out the evils of continent fees also re- ceived attention.
 The address of welcome at the con- vention proper tomorrow will be de- livered by Andrew Squire of Cleve- land and will be folloed with the an- nual address of President Walter George Smith of Pennsylvania. Re- ports of the secretary treasurer and executive committee then i'll be sub mitted, State delegations will meet to nominate members of the General Council, and to select Vice-President and Local Council for each state.
 George Sutherland of Utah, former president of the Association, will preside at the evening session which will be addressed by John H. Clarke, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Election of the Gen eral Council will follow:
 Reports of standing committees and communication from the Con- ference of Delegates from Bad Asso- citations will hold the attention of delegates Thursday and the evening session to be presided over by Elihu Root of New York, former president of the association, will be addressed by T. Miyaoka, of Tokyo, Japan, "The safeguard of civil liberties in Japan" will be his subject
 Jacob M. Dickinson of Illnois, for mer president of the association, will preside at the Friday morning session and Hampton L. Carson, of Pennsyl- vania, vii lspeak on "Heralds of World Democracy-the English and American Revolution"
 Election of officers will follow.
 These committee reports will be submitted:
 Comparative Law Bureau: Conn., merce, Trade and Commercial Law; Insurance Laws; International Laws; Jurisprudence and Law Reforms: Opposition Judicial Recall; Council on Legal Education and Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar; Special Legislative Drafting Changes in Statute Law in 1918; Pat ent, Trade Mark and Copyright Law; Professional Ethics: Reports and Di- gests; Uniform Judicial Procedure; Uniform State Law; Special Com mittee for War Service,
 The Section of Legal Education held two sessions today at which to- pics dealing with the preliminary training of the law sturent were dis cussed.
 The National Conference of Com- missioners on Uniform State Laws ended it's meeting today. The annual meeting of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology was held yesterday and the American Sc- ciety of Military concluded it's delib- erations today.