Evening star., 1950-09-21

the right to justice" Senator
FarriS said.
He declared that in the present
world conflict the rule of law and
justice would prevail, but, he
added:
THE immediate demands are
for force and more force ruth
lessly and relentlessly applied to
overpower' tyranny and oppres-
sion. Justice will not prevail
against injustice and oppression,
unless it is backed up by the
dominance Of power. It is folly
to appease the devil"
Norman c. Melvin, jr., Balti-
more attorney, was presented
with the $4,000 Erskin M. Rosse
award for an essay entitled THE
Use of Injunctions in Labor Dis
putes."
Will Speak in French.
Another speaker on this after
Moons program was to be Maitre
Andre Toulouse, of the Paris bar
who was to address the assembly
in French.
The assembly presented 16
cities with awards for its annual
trafflce court contest. conducted
under the supervision o fthe Sec
ton of Criminal Law. The COM
mittee also commended award
winners of previous years. includ-
ing Washington 'for continuing
the high standards that enabled
them to win awards in previous
years"
Named as winners in the cur
rent contest out of 900 participat-
ing cities were:
Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland,
Baltimore. Minneapolis, Denver,
Cincinnati, Evansville, Ind; Salt
Lake City, Covington, KY: Pasa-
dena, Calf; Montgomery, Ala;
Evanston, Ill; Watertown, N. Y:
Greeley. Colo; and Las Vegas,
New.
In it's session yesterday, the
House of Delegates passed a reso-
luton calling for an amendment
of the United States Constitution
which would make it illegal for
Congress to set up inferior courts
to pass on the Constitutionality of
emergency legislation and reserve
such right exclusively for the Su-
Ipreme Court.
Under the present law, Congress
has the right to bypass the high
court by setting up such an in
ferior court of appeal and did SC
for OPA during World War II
The resolution was passed by the
House of Delegates, after an ap-
peal from former Supreme Court
Justice Owen Roberts.
Oppose Preference.
The association went on record
as opposing such sweeping civil
service preference to veterans "as
to interfere with the proper work
ingS of the merit system and
cause encouragement of those
seeking to enter or hold thei1
place in a public service career"
1t also urged Constitutional
amendments that would, in ef-
feet, require ratification of inter-
national treaties by both the
House and the Senate and ap-
proval by the President, before
such treaties could have the ef-
feet of domestic laws. 1t would
also guarantee that all the pro-
tections given the people under
the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights could not be abolished by
treaty, except through the regular
procedure of Constitutional
amendment.
Section Officers Elected.
The Bar Associations sections
continued meeting today. Officers
for the coming year were an
Enounced as follows: #
Criminal law-Arthur j. Freund
ISt. Louis, chairman; Gov. Ear
Warren of California, vice chair
man; James v. Bennett. director
of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
SECRETARY, and Stanley j. Tracy
Juswce Department, assistant sec
retary.
Judicial administration-Jame:
M. Douglas. st. Louis, chairman;
Judge Harold r. Medina, New
York City. vice chairman, and LIE.
land L. Tolman. Washington, sec.
Iretary.
Patents-Jennings Bailey, jr
Washington, chairman; George H
Willis. Detroit. vice chairman
and Frank E. Foote, Pittsburgh
secretary.