Evening star., 1941-10-03
U. 5. Future Depends
On SeIf-DiscipIine,
Bar President Says
Walter P. Armstrong
Of Memphis Elected
BY Association
By Association
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 3-Walter
P. Armstrong. new president of the
American Bar Association. said to-
day the future of the United States
depends in large part upon whether
the people can achieve severe self
discipline in self-defenSe.
Taking Office near the close OF the
associations Gath annual conven-
ton. the Memphis, Tenn, lawyer
said. THE American people must be
told not only boldly, but bluntly, the
need for self discipline" "
The success OF the forces OF evil
which are personifed in Hitler
would be grave and imminent
threat, not only to the ideals OF
liberty which we have always cher
ished, to the freedom Of liberty
which we have always held sacred,
but to our national security itself, y
MI. Armstrong said.
Enemies Disciplined.
"The forces against which we are
arrayed are. for the present, at
least. disciplined forces moving with
insensate and almost insane fury at
the will Of one man.
ITO me it seems a selt-evldent
fact that a democracy such as ours
cannot combat these forces unless 1t
imposes upon itself severe self dis
cipine."
He said this discipline must 10y
ally and unanimously support the
decisions of our Government after
they are made without Carplng
criticism or partisan pickering; de-
mand that those engaged III pro-
duction begin to forget themselves
and think of their country; create
an aWareness that the problem OF
beating Hitlerism.is one OF strategy
to be left for those best informed
and in authority" and make us
realize that we are Chartlng course
not only for ourselves. but for our
children and our children's chill
dren.'
Upon whether or not they can
achieve it (discipline)-shOrt of a
great ground swell OF emotional pa
triotism engendered by the actual
armed conflict" he added, de
pends in large part the future OF
our country"
jackson Addresses Convention.
Justice Robert H. Jackson of the
United States Supreme Court urges
practical measures" after the war
to insure peace and tighten "the
crushing burden of ornaments"
He told the American Bar Assocla-
ton last night President RooSe-
velts and Prime Minister Winston
Churchills Atlantic charter prom
ised aid to all such measures.
"At the end of this war" he de-
clared. I'VE must either throw the
full weight Of American influence to
the support of an international order
based on law, or we must outstrlp
the world in naval and air, and per-
haps in military force"
Secretary Harry S Knight of Sun
bury Pa, and Treasurer John H.
voorhees, of Sioux Falls, S. Oak,
reelected and Guy R. Crump of Los
Angeles, chairman of the House OF
Delegates. were unoppose0.
Practiced Since 1908.
Mr.. Armstrong has practiced law
In Memphis since 1903 and has been
city attorney. He has been a member
of the A. B. A. House Of Delegates
two years. He was born in Pittsboro
Miss. is married and his son and
namesake practices in his fathers
firm.
Justice Jackson said the present
competition in armaments "if con-
tinued, threatens the financial and
social stability of free governments
"Vast standing military establish