The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-03
ENGLISHMEN
 SELDOM CALL
 ON LAND COURT

Cincinnati, Sept 3-The aaverage Engiishman, with all of his proverb- ial insistence upon his personal rights, calls less often upon his courts for relief than does his American cousin, declared John W. Davis, former am- bassa dor to England, iE an address here tonight before the American bar Association in which he gave "some random observations of the organiza- tion of the legal profession in Eng land and the administration of Eng fish justice"
 '.Who shall come forward with an explanation of this fact, if fact it be?" asked MT. Davis. ''Is it a sur viva1 of days long gone when justice was not only costly but tardy and un- certain; is it because there exists Tn business lies wholly outside the courts and in whose hands many con- troversies are settled without Judlciai aid; or is there 9 reason deeper stlli 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-warked circle?
 startling as it may seem the iti- 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 belhserency.
 The speaker, after discussing the
  profession in England is divided, de- cIared that ''in comparison With the close knit organizations sheltered py the Inns of Court and Law Soclety' we in America seem so many scat. tered grains of sand" It IS d1fflcuII to make one familiar only with the English atmosphere, he conunneo' understand that, in truth notWlth- standing this Association, there IS ho suc6 body as the American Bar. There are. instead, scattered groups consist ing of county, city and state pars' with a Federal bar here ana theIe composed in part of the same mem bers but united by no tie or common origin or discipline
 A marked spirit of progress, espec- tally in the domain or cr1mlnai iaw' MT Davis said, has been shown Tn re. cent years by the legal profession or Eneland. In addition to sweeping changes in the Judicature Acts or 1872, 1874 and 1875, he deciareo' ssiustice has been brought nearer to the masses by the enlargement or the common law JurisoAo'
 county courts"
 "When all comparisons nave pes !, made, and all differences recounteo, MT. Davis said in conclusion the ldc' gal profession in England are HI very truth our brethren over seas. The common law by which we I, mVe has it's roots in English soI; ;aas ns i1de-es who interpret it on both s1oes of the water look to their distant col Ieapes for counsel and assistance, ana the principles of liberty when It eIn. bodies are the rod ana staII ny our peoples walk o-
 'sTrained in the same schooi, pro fessine the same great ideals, snarers of like immunities and privileges, l there rests upon the legal pIoieIsio ioh ; Eogl,1d and America a duty wh1ch is joint and not several, common ana ot diyisahle. The nations whom i they serve stand today supreme Tn | pre,.T p TTnon them Destiny has laid aceordingly the largest responsibility | for The immediate future of the world. Shall not the lawyers ,ao Who e- ; fbe ways of mutual conf dence and joint endeavor in the ser ! vice of mankind 7?