The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-31
ON HAND IF YOU
WISHAL|CENSETO
MARRY IN KANSAS
This Is Form of Legislation
Recommended by State Bar.
Closing Sessions of Annual
Convention in Topeka Today.
LAWYERS PART IN THE WAR
Two Generals and 105 Officers
Out of 1913 i'm Active Service.
Legal Mediation Between Labor
and Capital, Says Hamilton.

and Capital, Says Hamilton.
At the annual election Of officers
late this afternoon the Kansas State
Bar association in Topeka elected the
following officers to serve for 1919:
President-John c. Hogin, Belle
vile.
Vice PRESIDENT. D. Houston,
Wichita
Secretary-D. A. Valentine, Clay
Center.
Treasurer. G. Slonecker, Topeka.
New members executive committee
B. S. Gaitskill, Girard, chairman; H.
A. Russell. Scott City, and o. O.
Osborne, Stockton.
Delegates to American Bar associa-
ton meeting-D. A. Banta, Great
Bend; w. p Dillard, Fort Scott, and
c. A. Smart, Ottawa.
The next convention will be held in
Topeka.
Numerous changes in laws regulat-
ing probate court procedure were rec
commended today before the Kansas
State Bar association by Judge z. T.
HaZen. prominent Topeka attorney. in
his annual report as chairman of the
committee on legislation. Among
other things, Hazen urged that the
!
permit either father or mother to give
consent in the marriage of minors,
and also urged that an alteration be
made to compel both parties to a mar
riage to be present at the time the
probate court issues a license.
HaZen also recommended that the
law governing estates be amended to
permit closing estates under bond at
the end of six months, and a final
closing at the end of a year. Under
f11A l.,rr- 0I,i, H. IL
against estates within two years after
they are opened. He would also COM
pei persons bringing insanity COM
plants to pay the juror fees in such
cases.
Another recommended ton urges that
the probate court be given entire jur-
| isdiction in insanity and feeble mind
ed cases, thing which is now in ques-
! ton under the present law.
Hazen urged, too, that the statute
| be amended to provide for more pay
for probation officers, thereby Great
ing more efficiency in the handling of
/ juvenile cases, which, he pointed out,
comprise the most important work of
a probate and juvenile court.
| Efforts will be made to bring the
recommendations before the present
session of the legislature, it was as-
serted.
/ Closing Session.
| About 125 members were present to-
! day at the closing sessions of the as
sociation's convention in the supreme
court rooms at the state house. This
afternoons session closed the annual
meeting with an election of new Off
| GERS for the coming year. The annual
/ banquet of the association will be held
lat o'clock tonight at the Masonic
/ temple.
Being neither capitalists nor mem
/ bers of labor unions. the lawyers might
| play an important after-thewar role
| in the readjustment of economic and
/ industrial affairs, by acting as media
! tors between these two classes. In an
address today before the convention
J Clay Hamilton of Topeka, an attorney,
made the foregoing suggestion. His
/ subject was THE Lawyer After the
! War"
! Hamilton on Industries.
| Mr. Hamilton referred to the spirit
! of unrest in the industrial world. He
said:
/ 1--WE are without doubt facing a ser
| ious situation and how can we. as
lawyers after the war help to solve
! the problem? We have in this great
country of ours, according to latest re-
! ports, about one hundred and twenty
/ thousand laWyerS-eQuiValen numer-
ically to a United States army corps,
| one of the largest fighting units of the
present day. Now I'm not advocating g
a fight-far from it. But organized.
we, too. are a powerful force. Law
yers generally are men of education
and thought. Capital wants only to
make a fair return on the money in
vested and must do so to live. The
! vast majority of the employed men are
: conscientious and fair and want only
what they are justly entitled to. 1t is
| only when misled by the wild sayings
of some bearer of the Red Flag that
! they so astray.
Kansas Bar in War.
In an address this afternoon, Senator
! a. NJ. keene, Fort Scott, called atten-
/ ton to the large part the members of
! the Kansas Bar association took in the
war. Members in military service, he
said, totaled 1913, and of this mum Der
IO5 were commissioned officers. Two
were brigadier generals, two were
colonies. two were lieutenant colonies,
six were ma jors. twelve were captains
7 twenty-nine were first ieutenants and
fifty-two were second Eeutenants. The
remainder were non-commissioned
officers and privates, this number in
cluding. however, fifty-seven with
grade of service unknown.
Keene touched upon the numerous
changes in laws and the constitutional
convention plan now before the legis-
/ lature. He said:
Congress and state legislatures are
continually enacting new laws and new
ideas of government, and it is requir-
ing the best talents of the courts and
attorneys to construe and interpret
them. and this legislature now in ses-
sion in Kansas will proba bly, pass. and
I believe it should be in proper form
a resolution submitting to the electors
as to whether We shall have constitu-
tional convention. but If carried out
will take years again for the courts
to construe the same. and so it goes
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