Evening star., 1932-10-14
West Virginian's Service for
National Group Is Given
Recognition.
WIGMORE GETS MEDAL
FOR OUTSTANDING WORK
Representative Sumner Assails
Government as Colossal Failure
in Crisis.

The General Council of the American
Bar Association today nominated Clar-
ence E. Martin of Martinsburg, w. Va,
for PRESIDENT of the association. Nom
ination is tantamount to election.
He will succeed Guy A. Thompson
Of St. Louis. The election will be late
today at the last business session of
the f1fty-fifth annual meeting.
Martin has taken an active part in
the associations affairs for q number
Of years, conducting some Of its most
important legal studies.
John Henry Wigmore, dean emeritus
of the Northwestern University Law
School, was awarded the Bar Associa-
tons 1892 medal for the most out
standing contribution to American jur-
isprudence."
Allen to Present Medal.
The medal will be presented to Wig
more by J. Weston Allen Of Boston,
former attorney general Of Massachu-
sets. Last year former Supreme Court
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was SO
honored
Born in San Francisco in 1863 and a
graduate of Harvard, Wigmore prac-
ticed law in Boston and became a pro-
fessor of Anglo-American law at Keio
University in Toxic in 1889. He be-
came professor of law at Northwestern
University at Chicago in 1893. He
makes his home in Evanston, Ill.
Ten wire nrpSidpntS nna from aaph IF
the judicial circuits, were also NOM
mated by the General Council. They
are First district, Leslie P. Snow, Roch-
ester, N. H: second. Herbert NJ Bierce
Winona, Mimi; third, J. Henry LaBrun,
Philadelphia; fourth, Morris A. Soper.
Baltimore; fifth. James A. Baker, Hous-
ton, Tex; sixth. Oscar Hull, Detroit;
seventh, Louis A. Lecher Milwaukee;
eighth, Jesse A. Miller, Des Moines;
ninth, Charles A. Beardsley, Oakland,
Calf; tenth. Orie L. Phillips, Denver.
The council also nominated four
members Of the Executive Committee,
as follows: George H. Smith, Salt Lake
City; William Ransom, New York; j. F.
O'Connell. Boston, and A. L. Scott.
Phoebe, New. This committee chooses
its own chairman. Mr.. Smith was
named chairman Of the General Council.
Summers Hits U. s. Failure"
Americans. as people, are making a
terrible mess" and a colossal failure
in the operation of economic and politi-
cal Government, Representative Hatton
W. Summers of Texas. chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, told the
Association this afternoon.
Summers spoke at a session at the
Cha mber of Commerce of the United
States, where the association was gath
cred for the election and to bestow the
medal on Mr.. Wigmore. Last year,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, former As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court,
was the recipient. At the session also,
Paul Reynaud, former minister of
justice on France, spoke on the judicial
system of his country.
Addressing himself to the subject:
"Are We observing the natural laws
which govern governments" Mr.. Sum-
ners said there is no mystery about
why we are in the condition in which
We find ourselves" adding that I'VE
have jaZzed off into the jungles; we
have lost our way"
VoodoO Practice Witnessed.
In efforts to work out of the difficult
ties facing the country" he said, I'VE
have recently even witnessed some voo-
doc practice, medicine men running
around jangling their bels in an effort
to drive away the bad spirits of fear
which were supposed to have bewitched
the people. when our trouble was clearly
fundamental. not psychological"
Summers said that "all about us Is
success and progress" except in eco
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