Evening star., 1942-08-28
Bar Association Ends
Meeting by Installing
DC. Man as President
Resolutions Disagree
With Some Proposals
To Amend Potent Lows
bs the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Aug. 28.-The Ameri-
tan Bar Association closed its 65th
annual meeting here last night with
the induction Of officers and the an
uouncement Of awards Of merit.
George M. Morris of Washington
became president. Guy Richards
Crump OF Los Angeles was reelected
chairman of the association House
Of Delegates; Harry D. Knight. Sum
bury. Pa. secretary, and John H.
Voorhees,, Sioux Falls, S. Dak treas
urer.
s(Mr. Morris has been practic-
ing in Washington since 1919,
and is member of the law firm
of Morris, Xix Miller e. Baer. He
Is recognized as an authority on
administrative law, particularly
In the field of Federal taxation.
Mr.. Morris lives at 2401 Kalo-
rama road NV. He is the sec
ond Washington attorney to
head the bar association. Frank
J. Hogan served for two terms
In 1888 and 1939)
New members OF the Board of
Governors are Clement F. Robinson,
Portland, Me; Joseph F. Berry,
Hartford, Conn; Charles W. Racine,
Toledo, Ohio, and w. E. Stanley,
Wichita, Kans. Carl v. Essery of
Detroit, Philip H. Lewis Of Topeka,
Kans.; Douglas Arant OF Birming-
ham, Ala, and Ronald J. FOULS OF
st. Louis were named to the House
Of Delegates.
Merit awards went to the Detroit
Bar Association, to the State bar Of
California and to the Lake County
bar OF Illinois.
Resolutions Adopted.
The House of Delegates OF the as
sociation adopted a series OF resolu-
tions concerning the patent laws. in
cluding one opposing ANY use OF
patents that impedes the prosecu-
ton Of the war" but disagreeing
with proposals in some pending
legislation that would amend these
laws.
Several of the proposals were de-
scribed by members of the patent
section of the association as having
been sponsored by Assistant Attor-
ney General Thurman Arnold.
Roy C. Hackley, jr.. chairman of
the patent section, pointed out that
the association, Immediately after
Pearl Harbor, had sponsored war
patent legislation that has yet to be
acted upon.
'It is unfortunate that the Senate
Patents Committee and the anti
trust division of the Department of
Justice have been so busy with SEN
sationaism," he said, that the as
sociation's proposals have remained
dormant"
The association program approved
legislation seeking to transfer quickly
to the Federal Courts contests be-
tween rival inventors; granting the
Government additional wartime
power over patents; the seizure Of
patent rights, rather than patents,
for war purposes; the use of anti
trust provisions to check abuse OF
patent rights.
1943 Meeting Doubted.
The new president of the associa-
ton, Mr.. Morris, told the delegates
that I'VE may not fairly fool our
selves about the immediate future
of this association. Conditions may
not permit us to hold an annual
meeting a year hence"
Already, he said. "it has been
reported that more than 1900 of
our members have entered the
armed services, and have taken their
dues with them. The disturbing
economic impact of the war upon
the practice of many men may
force them to resign. The Juniors,
our normal recruiting ground, are,
more than any division of the bar
'flocking to the colors' and are no
longer open to recruitment by us.
The attendance at law schools, the
sources of our members, is by way
of being decimated.
There are many areas in human
relations, the particular concern of
the bar, which need cauterizing. 1t
Is just possible that we are in the
midst of such an operation