Evening star., 1939-07-11
WASHINGTON, C., TUESDAY, JULY H. 1885,
Bar Gets Proposal
To Protect Civilians
From Air Raids
Worldwide Agreement
Against Bombordment
Is Fovored
By the Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO, July 11.-A
proposal to protect -combatants
and civilian populations from the
horrors of aerial warfare was
brought to the American Bar Asso-
citation today.
national and comparative law asked
the parent group to approve a
world wide agreement to cease for
all time" the aerial bombardment
of other than strictly military OBJ
jectives."
The 5000 delegates at the 62nd
annual meeting of the barristers
held sectional meetings today prior
to tomorrows sessions of the gen.
eral convention assembly and its
house of delegates.
All manner of resolutions were
prepared for consideration by the
200-member house of delegates
constituting, in effect, the lawyers
senate.
Widely Diffused Ownership.
Edward c. Eicher, member of the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion, in an address prepared for the
section on commercial law today,
said public interest persuaded Con-
gress to enact the legislation Gre
ating the commission, and COM
mented that:
The ownership of corporate Sc
curities has become so widely diff
fused among our people. that when
rough financial weather overlook
the corporate bark, no one but the
management, with it's monopoly of
the bondholders' lists and the proxy
machinery. enjoyed the opportunity
to practice the slogan OF rugged
individualism."
Delegates today discussed the di-
vergent views on the Supreme Court.
as expressed by Frank J. Hogan of
Washington, D. c., and Robert H.
Jackson, United States Solicitor
General.
Mr.. Hogan. president of the Bar
Association. said Recent judicial
construction tby the Supreme
Court has brought within the ambit
OF Federal control most if not all
activities of the Nation. '''
Changes in Law.
What were frankly termed i'm
portant shifts in constitutional doc
trlnes' were in fact the most devas-
tating destruction of constitutional
limitations in the existence of
the United States. No LAWYER
can safely advise his client what
the law is What was consti-
tutional principle yesterday may be
a discarded doctrine tomorrow"
The recent far-reaching deci-
sions' of the Supreme Court, Mr..
Hogan added, compel the conclusion
that the American people must look
to the legislature rather than the jul
dietary for the preservation " of
liberties"
Mr.. Jackson contended there is
nothing in the Constitution which
provides that there shall be no
power to regulate prices or wages.
-" When we let ourselves be guided
by tolerant and far-seeing view
of the art of government, we are
not departing from the Constitu-
ton; we are returning to it ..
We are having something of a con-
stitutional renaissance
Thurman w. Arnold, Assistant
United States Attorney General,
warned there was startling paral-
lei' between developments in the
United States and Germany, and
said 'on the success or failure of the
principles which antitrust
laws = represent depend the form
OF our Government in the future"
Restraint of Trade.
He commented that open agree
ments in restraint of trade are
everywhere apparent. We are get
ting into situation where every one
must belong to an organization of
some kind and take orders from
some one in order to stay in busi-
ness"
In regard to the proposed resolu-
ton on international law to cover
aerial warfare, Attorney Howard S.
lie Roy said uncertainties and con-
fusion in defining the rights of
belligerents or neutrals play
into the hands of any aggressive and
well-prepared world power ."
Charles A. Beardsley, Oakland,
Calf, yesterday won the unopposed
nomination for the presidency of the
association. Formal election is
scheduled Thursday night.
Three incumbents won unopposed
nominations previously-Thomas B.
Gay of Richmond, Va, chairman
OF the house of delegates; Harry S.
Knight of Sunbury, Pa, secretary of
the Bar Association. and John H.
voorhees, of Sioux Falls, S. Oak,
treasurer of the Bar Association.