Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1924-08-02
Eastern Shore Lawyers
Attend London Conference
Elaborate Ceremonies Mark Open
ing Of Meeting.
Hughes Speaks

Quite number of lawyers from the
Eastern Shore of Virginia and Mary
land, are attending the big congress
of the legal fraternity in London.
Notably from Virginia are Roy White,
Esq, and Judge Wescott.
The following is an account of the
reception ceremonies accorded the A.
merican and Canadian lawyers:
London, July 21.-With ceremonies
elaborated by many centuries of u
sage nearly 5000 American and Ca
madam lawyers today were welcomed
t. England in ancient Westminster
Hall, whose walls have stood 80 kings
and queens have come and gone.
Striking the keynote of the visit
ing delegates pleasure over the cor
diality of the welcome, Secretary of
State Hughes pointed out that he and
his fellow lawyers of the United
States came with no political ends to
serve, no differences to compose and
no policies to advance, except that Of
understanding and good will.
The ceremony was both dignifed
and colorful. The visiting lawyers
and their families crowded the main
auditorium, while on the platform
stood wigged and robed rows of
Kings counsels and delegations of
Canadian and American lawyers the
latter including Mr.. Hughes and AS
sociate Justices of the United States
Supreme Court George Sutherland
and Edward T. Sanford.
Along the red carpet stretching
from the entrance of the historic
building trod a picturesque procession
of legal dignitaries in their colorful
robes of office. The Lord High Chan
cellor, preceded by the tipstaff and
mace bearer and followed by high
judges and law lords in their scarlet
robes and white fur collars, took seats
in the center of the platform.
The English Attorney General ad-
dressed the Chancellor and presented
the guests, the members of the A.
merican Bar Association. R. w. Dib-
bin, president of the Law Society and
Sir James Aikens of Canada, added
short welcoming addresses. The
Chancellor then delivered his official
address Of welcome, whereupon Mr..
Hughes responded. >
"Of all international contests" he
said, "none could be happier than
this. We have no political ends to
serve, no differences to compose, no
policies to advance, except the high
est of all-the policy of understand
ing and good will. The fact that we
are here is more eloquent than any
thing we can say here. We come to
tighten the bonds of friendship"
The Secretary devoted large por-
ton of his address to the birth and
progress of the common laws. He
gave an outline of it's part in the
American theory of government and
talked at length Of the working out in
practice of the parts the courts were
assigned in protecting the rights of
the individual as set forth in the Con-
stitution.
"Many, probably most of u.s." he
said, "are bound to you by ties of
blood, but even stronger is the sense
of the spiritual kinship that we are
all privileged to have with those who
in this island developed the institu-
tions of liberty which were brought
to the New World and were so fondly
cherished that they were safeguarded
in an unprecedented manner.
eve come in the spirit of frater-
nifty which has triumphed over the di-
versities of the az Commonwealths in
our Union because it is, in truth, the
spirit of the larger fellowship repre-
sented here today, in which differ
ences of particular interest and envir-
onment cannot avail to obscure the
community of tradition of those who
have been trained according to the
standard and the method of the COM
mon law.
1--WE come with even a larger aim
than the enjoyment of fraternal asso-
citation in order that by these agree
able interchanges and more intimate
knowledge of each other we may pro-
mote a clearer appreciation of our
privilege, opportunity and response
bility as ministers of justice in
world which needs justice and the rea-
sonableness which makes justice pos
sible.
"The common law was treasured
as part of our birthright and in
heritance. The 10 talents that we