Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28

Joint Session of 7 Groups to
Hear Senator Robinson
and G. c. Butte.

Addresses by Senator Arthur r. Rob-
inson of Indiana and George G. Butte,
Assistant Solicitor General of the
United States, will feature the seasons
first joint meeting tonight of seven
legal fraternit!es having chapters in the
District of Columbia and af1liated with
the National Conference of Law Fra
ternities.
This meeting, to be held at the Uni
versity Club, will be participated in by
members of the alumni chapters of legal
fraternities of Sigma. MI Phi, Gamma
Eta Gamma, Delta Theta Phi, Phi
Beta Gamma, Phi Alpha Delta, Sigma
legal sorority, Kappa Beti Pi.
Chapters of these legal fraternities
and sororities are established at the
leading universities and law schools Of
the country. including those in the Dis
trict of Columbia at Georgetown Uni
versity. George Washington University,
Washington College of Law and the
National University Law School. Hun
dreds of alumni members residing in
the National Capital and engaged in
the legal profession, either in private
practice or with the Federal Govern
ment, are affiliated with the local chap
tiers.
Cooperation is Purpose.
Inc purpose OI Tie NdIlOIldL SOllIcl@
ence of Law FraternitieS, OF which the
local chapters are a part, is to provide
a medium for the consideration OF queS-
tions of mutual interest and bring to-
gether the different national legal fra
ternities and sororities periodically for
the purpose of collective and cooper
alive action on problems affecting the
legal profession. The conference was
organized in Chicago, ILL.,, in 1923, its
rcf hnin0
secretary of the Army and Navy Joint
Board and a member of Sigma MI Phi.
local attorney again heads the ma
tional organization this year in Jonas
M. Smith, member OF Gamma Eta
Gamma.
The next national convention of the
Conference of Law FraternitieS, which
will be held at Chicago on November
90 and 80, will consider several i'm
portant reports of standing committees.
One of the important standing commit
tees is that of the committee on the
bar, headed this year by Aubrey S. Car
ter past chancellor of Washington
Alumni Chapter of Sigma Nu Chi, and
supervisor of the trust functions sec
ton of the Federal Reserve Board.
The oldest legal sorority in existence
is represented on this committee by the
vice chairman in Miss Beatrice Gle
plane of Kappa Beta Pr likewise a
local resident. The committee on the
bar, which is permanent section of
the National Conference of Law Fra
ternities, was created to consider and
recommend measures looking to the OBJ
servance of the ethics of the legal pro-
fession, the maintenance of the high
standards of the bar and cooperation
with the American Bar Association.
Study Graduates Questions.
The activities of this committee are
devoted to questions affecting students
and those just graduating from their
legal studies, those questions affecting
practicing lawyers being left to the
more appropriate agencies, such as the
bar associations.
Other local residents who have been
assigned offices by the National Confer
ence of Law Fraternities are: Elwood
H. SwaI, Sigma MI Phi, former assist
ant corporation counsel and j. Moyle
Gray, Delta Theta Phi, vice president
and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of
the conference.
The following local attorneys who are
members of the fraternities represented
at tonights meeting. hold chairman
ships on several standing committees of
the national conference: Edmund
Yardly, Delta Theta Phi; Howard F.
Ralph. Gamma Eta Gamma; Ellis N.
Slack, Sigma Delta Kappa; Francis w.