The log cabin Democrat., 1921-09-01
.ENCLAND'S COURTS LESS
 ACTIVE THAN AMERICAN
But English and American Lawyers are Brethren, Davis Tells Bar
 Association.
tBy the Associated Pressl

Cincinnati, Sept. 1.-The average Englishman, with all of his proverbial insistence upon his personal rights, calls less often upon his courts for relief than does his American cousin. declared John w. Davis, former am bassador to England, in an address here last night before the American Bar Association in which he gave ''some random observations on the or ganization of the legal profession in England and the administration of English justice"
 Who shall come forward with an explanation of this fact, if fact it be?' asked Mr. Davis. ''Is it a survival of days long gone when justice was not only costly but tardy and uncertain; is 1t because there exists in England a class of lawyers whose business lies wholly outside the courts and in whose hands many controversies are settled without judicial aid; or is there req son deeper still in the age-long habit of this island people to respect the law they have made and live their daily lives within it's well-marked cir- cle?
 Startling as it may seem, the liti- gation of England and Wales is rela- lively little more than the litigation in our federal courts alone; and the vast tide of controversy that flows through our state tribunals may be credited to us as surplus belligerancy ?
 The speaker, after discussing the ranks and orders into which the legal profession in England is divided, ae- clared that 'in comparison with the close knit organization sheltered Dy the inns of court and law society, we Tn America seem so many scattered grains of sand" It is difficult 10 make one familiar only with the Eng hsh atmosphere, he continued, under stand that, in truth notwithstanding this association, there is no such body as the American bar. There are, in- stead, scattered groups consisting of county, city and state bars, with a federal bar here and there composed Tn part of the same members but united by no tie of common origin or dispiine."
 A marked spirit of progress, es- pecially in the domain of criminal laws and procedure, MT. Davis said, has been shown in recent years by the legal profession of England. In addition to sweeping changes in the Judicature acts of 1872, 1874 and 1875. he declared, justice has been brought nearer to the masses by the enlarge ment of the common law jurisdiction of the county courts"
 When all comparisons have been made, and all differences recounted," Mr. Davis said in conclusion, "the fact remains that the members of the legal profession in England are in very truth our brethren over seas. The common law by which we live has it's roots in English soil. The judges who interpret 1t on both sides of the water look to their distant colleages for coun- sel and assistance, and the principles of liberty which it embodes are the rod and staff by which our peoples walk.
 "Trained in the same school, pro- fesslng the same great ideals, sharers Of like immunities and privileges, there rests upon the legal profession Tn England and America a duty which IS joint and not several, common and not divisable. The nations whom they serve stand today supreme in present strength and in potential energy. Upon them destiny has laid according ly the largest responsibility for the immediate future of the world. Shall not the lawyers, who lead as well as serve them, guide them in the ways of mutual confidence and joint endeav- or in the service of mankind?"
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