Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-02
bar ASSOCIATION
ELECTION TODAY
g. A. Severance Leads Race for
President-Convention
Ends Tonight
GEORGIAN CONDEMNS M0BS
Ry the Associated Press

Cincinnati, Sept. 2.-Elcction Of of.
Ecers and the annual banquet of the
American Bar Association. to be pre-
sided over tonight by Chief Justice
Taft. Of the Supreme Court OF the
United States. were the principal fca e
lures Of the final days scssioLs OF the
forty fourth annual convention.
G, A. Severance. of st. Paul, was
the most prominently mentioned man
for the presidency Of the association for
the coming year James NJ. Beck, OF
New York Edmund +. Trabue. of
Louisville, Ka., and John W. Davis. Of
Clarksburg. W. Va, also have been
suggested. The general council will act
today on list of officers and submit
its Recommendation to the association
this afternoon.
Impartial annihilation of the whole
poisonous, pestilential brood of what
generally is called the mob spirit is
the only guaranty of national safety :
Luther Y. Rosscr, of Atlanta Ga, told
the Bar Association today in an address
on the illegal enforcement Of the law.
Lynching, he said, will cease only
when Negroes stop their attacks on
white women and when the white pCo-
pie reach such stage of self control
that they can restrain themselves in
favor Of the law--twO things that are
too deep seated to be met by the law
alone, but must be met by ar awHk-
ening of public conscience and the up
lift of the two races.
Two Kinds OF Mobs
But lynching, he added. was only
one phase Of the mob spirit that ''is
constantly and industriously laying The
ax at the root Of government. Labor
mobs, though different in their incCn-
tion and makeup. were declared to be
Just as inimical to the safety of the
Nation.
"The lynching mob is born in q
whirlwind of passion and survives but
a day" he said. I'm the presence of
armed forces It sinks away in the
darkness and dissolves in terror.
''The labor mob too often is born
Of deliberation and preparation. 1t
often lives long enough to exert ITS
corrupting influence upon legislation
and administration and to secure thr
universal object of all such mobs Too
often, in defiance Of arms and con-
stables, it continues its work of de-
struction and murder"
Await Report on Aviation
OF the many reports to be heard in
today's final business sessions. that on
a law governing aviation held perhaps
the greatest interest. Following n con =
ference yesterday. the special commit
tee of the association. headed by Charles
A. Boston. of New York. will present
report today in conjunction with n
report on uniform aviation law
drafted by committee of commissioners
on uniform State laws.
The commissioners report was re-
ferred back to the committee when the
commissioners association met early
this week 1t was considered probable
that the Bar Associn tion Committee
would also receive their report for
further work. with instructions to re-
turn it. in revised form. Mt the next
meeting.
Test flights and demonstrations will
be made before the committee and other
delegates tomorrow at McCook Field,
Dayton. o.. where the association will
spend the day rs guests of the Mont
gomery County Bar Association