Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-03

chairman who led his hosts to vic
tory, and in county organizations as
well as municipal, it was lawyers who
were placed in leadership and who
we're in many instances elected to
office
Chairman of Defense Council.
The chairman of the executive
committee of the state council of de-
ferse, who is also chairman of the
state highway commission, serving IN
both capacities without pay from the
state through practically giving all
OF his time to those two tasks, is Hon.
Charles Springer, a member of this
association. To his leadership the
past two years. the state owes a
ire mendous debt As he brought to
the manifold tasks that helped to win
the war, he brings to the work of re-
construction including an epoch
making program of road construction
involving the expenditure of millions
of dollars--rugged integrity, unques-
toned ability, unusual business
astuteness, unflagging energy and
public-spirited devotion together with
legal training and many years of un-
official legislative experience. Few
are the important sections of our state
constitution and of important legisla-
ton since then. which do not have
the impress of his careful study
and wide knowledge, upon them.
Associated with him on the sta;e
council of defense were other
ether members of the bench ana bar,
such as Judge C. r. Brice, who was
the disbursing officer and Hon. W.
A. Hawkins, who in their quiet, yet
forcefu way, without remuneration,
gave their time to the tasks set them.
Federal Disbursing Officer r. c. Reid,
late major. a member of this associa-
ton in his two years of public serv-
ice, made an enviable record as the
real officer in charge of such vast OPP
erations as the draft in this state. Like
Cincinnatus, he has returned to his
farm and to the plow,
Services During War.
Lawrence +. Lee served as chair
man of the speakers bureau of the
erations as the draft in this state. Like
torneys, naturally, on the legal and
other committees, as we'll as county
chairmen, county legal advisers, prac-
tically every attorney IN the state be-
ing called upon to render war service
to render such service even at this late
day, for returned soldiers and their
families and in the cause of American
ization. In the civilian activities that
contributed directly to the winning of
the war, members of the bar, of
course, were to the fore The Liberty
and Victory Loan drives of the north
ern district, for instance, We're under
the capable management of District
Judge Reed Holloman, and were so
successful that nation wide attention
was called to them. Colonel Ralph e.
Twitchell, member of this associa-
ton, headed the union war, Armen-
Ian relief, the Roosevelt memorial
and other drives in the state, while in
practically every county, it was the
lawyers who gave their time and eff
forts freely as leaders and workers in
every drive. + C. Wade, Jr., former
legal adviser to the governor, and a
nonresident member of this associa-
ton, as a representative of the Y. NJ.
c. A.. visited the war zones, sailed up
and down the Nile and the Euphrates,
the Gauges and the Yang tie king. |
and now is on his way home complet- |
ing his trip around the world.
Lawyers i'm the War.
Among the $50 New Mexicans, who
died in service during the war, was
Attorney w. A. Fleming Jones of Las
Cruces. Members of our association |
and of the New Mexico bar who have |
returned from foreign service, include |
our former secretary, John X. McFie |
of Gallup, Jr., late lieutentnt, who is !
now visiting his brother in the Phil
ippines; Guy A. Reed of Carlsbad, who !
served with the Y. NJ. c. A. in France |
and Germany; A. M. Bergere of Santa |
Fe, who served with the Knights of |
Columbus in France: Miguel A. Otero,
Jr.. who was with the air forces in
France; Mai Jay Turley. who was one
Of the first to go over and whose ex-
periences and services In France and
Spain have been varied and broad in
scope; w H.. Nehlett-of silver City.
who was commissioned captain and