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13 Fed. Juror 1 (1942)

handle is hein.journals/fjbfgj13 and id is 1 raw text is: j7~fr: i~ ~ 0 N, ( Janary. 942 P,,l~aonof te ed-IGad ury Aoiatio for th S-lk Districtof Nu,-,York REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE ANNUAL MEETING Presidet Gardiner Revirws Activities for the Year Ending October 31. 1941 Your Association was unfortunate in. that, during the two years that Mr. William S. Langford weas your Presi- ient. he tos unable t attend either Annual Meeting -with, the result that your present President presided over them as Seuior \ice President and also over last year s tleetmng as Presi- dent. So this present Annual Meeting is the fourth at wohich yo hare hl to hear his remarks. But the siloer liuing to that passing cloud is that this pres- ent sleeting is the last octr huich be twill preside; tor your -Association's no-third-term polic5 calls for the elec- tion of his successor by your Exect- tive Committee before the close of this calendar year. tonsquently, your President is avaihing himseli of this final opportunity to submit to you not merely a report of happenings but also some personal Iews thich he hopes that you will find appropriate. fll'NO.ot ltxx\ SIt As many of you who attended it will recall, the biennial dinner which 'our Association gave to the Judges and to the Attorner for the Southern District of New York on the 1oth of January last twas a very enjttable and ilnformal event. - Ttt F11111A ItR1 oa It is also a pleasure to report that The Federal Juror, publishel from tune to time by your .\ssociation un- der the supervision of your lionorary President. Mo. Euge- 1. Lanti. Chairman of your l tommittee on Imb- lication, and tir. Robert Daro, Coun- PROPOSED UNIVERSAL FINGERPRINTING LAW NOW BEING ACTIVELY SPONSORED IN CONGRESS NEW PRESIDENT OF ASSOCIATION - CHARLES SCOTT LANDERS On December 2nd, the Executive Committee elected Charles Scott I totlers peesilent of the Association frtihe termt of tile er 142. li r. Landers, a Consulting Engi- nee, has been a meuier of the As- sociation for six years. He wras bornt is iotaryland, and graduated from the Ilotchkiss School and the Sheffielid Scientifie School of Yale Uniersity. is earl engineerintg exerience was ino railrtoatd toork in the Unitted States and IEcuador, South America. Later, e wts eoogaged 1 tile constru tion tot the East River tunnes s rt he Pentnl sylvania Railroad; the Catskill aque- uct for the Cite of New ork ant on the foundations for a number ot buildings in lower Manhattan built b the pneumatic process. Durhng the past twenty-live years AIr. I anders has been a Consulting longser priocipally engaged on difhi- cult foundations for buihldngs and bridges in New Fork and oicinit - THE SANCTITY OF THE OATH The takiig of an oath is generly associated 01ito Iegal proceedings and statements of witnessis. 11 ,not nly plays an important role in the admin- istration of the lat buit i os an o-o tegral part of our judicial machinery. Although an oath is a solem under- taking, in the hustle and bustle of modern overcrowded and impatient tribunals. its sanctity is frequently dis- regarded and sometimes even mini- mizedi. -A bill for universal fingerprinting is now being actively sponsored in Congress, requiring every American to be fingerprinted and to carry an of- ficial identifhcation card. Tbhe Feiral Graod Jtr Associa- tioto loas lng beeo an adoc(Iate af such a measure. For about tell years the Association has taken an active part in promotmg the passage of such a law. A proposed bill toas drafted by tine Association and submitted to Sena- tor James M. Mead in July, 1940. Copies of the proposed bill were also sent to a number of senators and a number of members of Congress of both houses. The Association's bill was more comprehensive than the bill now being consilered i Ctongress, lo that it pro- vided that every resilent of the Uttited Statcs >e itientif e, , registered and lingerprinted, Aluch time al effort has been de- voted by the Association in adocating such legislation. The sentiment of the Federal lurors in the Southern Dis- (l-s oft No rk wtas tested by sub- mittng a iallot to the two thousand responsible citizens who compose the Federal Grand Jury panel. Over 98% were in favor of such legislation. Questionnaires wecre also sent to all the U nited States attorne-s in every district in the country. The responses were almost unamimous in favor of such a law. There is little question that now there is an 00erlelming trend of public opinion in favor of universal ingerprinting. one indication of this trend is the recent surver conducted lo Los Angeles by the Los A rfcles ( o tinue I ou ta, ' ) Vol. XIIl. No.

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