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1 Young Law. 1 (1945)

handle is hein.journals/ynglwr1 and id is 1 raw text is: 40UNG LA Published for Young Lawyers by Junior Bar Conference American Bar Association 1140 North Dearborn St. Chicago 10, Illinois Vol. I January, 1945 No. 1 May We ABA Present Z newspaper of the Junior Bar Cornerence, Ameri- eaq.Bai Association. Al- though 1945 is only the . eleventh year of the JBC, it has already grown to man size, both in membership and in re- sponsi biliti es. THE YOUNG LAWYER was con- ceived as an aid to the JBC and its members. Its inauguration is testi- mony to the fact that the vital work of the Con- ference can be carried on effectively only by a DAVI membership informed as Hoi to its problems and in- terested in their solutions. This first issue will be followed, as the need arises, by others. In this issue you will find an outline of the Conference, its history, its ac- complishments, i t s organization, and its plans. The- Junior Bar Conference ti6o .5 il e~i ar tion. It was organized by 125 .ABA- member then-under 86 years of age. The plans of the founders, broadly stated, were to provide for y o u n g lawyers an organization which could concentrate on prob- lems unique to them and an oppor- tunity to do constructive w o r k within the framework of the ABA. The idea spread to the State Bar Associations. Soon there was a Junior Bar Section in almost every State, set up as branches of the State groups, but allied in purpose with the JBC. In a short span of ten years, the JBC's membership has grown to 6,000; today it is the largest Section of the ABA. Alongside the other Sections it has participated in programs of na- tion-wide significance, until it is now recognized as a full-fledged partner of groups working for gov- ernment by law. PRESIDENT A. SIMMONS uston, Texas There are many ou complishments of the to which JBC membe with pardonable pride first year, the Confere effective aid to the A JBC CHAIRMAN um on laws relating to seryioemen's probletas and in the compilation of a manual on Domestic Itea~ons problemi Of Service Men. * summary of the JBC's accomplish- ments would not be com- plete without mention of the Public Information Program through which millions of people have been reached by radio and platform addresses on subjects vital to American democracy and institutions. The present status of the JBC was aptly de- scribed by former ABA President Arthur Van- CHARLES S. RIHYNE derbilt (1937-38) when Washington, D. C. he s a i d : Experience has demonstrated t h a t tstanding ac- when a task requires action as well past decade, as discrimination no mistake has ?rs may look been made in entrusting it to the . During its Junior Bar Conference. 'Old men enee rendered for counsel; young men for ac- ttorney Gen- tion.' _ eral of the United States in his anti-crime drive. When the disas- ters swept the Middle West, in 19386 and 1937, the JBC assipted the American Rd Cross in rais1ng relief funds. Tb e Conference took Iq )*ig-psr iII 'he impaul presentation ofboth sides of ' the controversy overlthe proposal to-,in- -crease the number of justiceston the Supreme Court. In 1938 the Conference's report on violationh of the Bill of Rights was a strong stimulus to the appointment of the ABA's Bill of Rights Committee. A nation-wide survey conducted by the JBC with regard to the Justice of the Peace system was described by Professor Edson R. Sunderland, University of Michigan Law School, as the most important data regarding the practical opera- tion of the Justice of the Peace ever collected. It should be of the greatest value in diagnosing the essential weaknesses of the system and p r o p o s i n g remedies. The JBC's traffic court program has re- sulted in widespread improvements throughout the whole country. The Conference has a s s i s t e d in the preparation of 48 state compendi- The President of the American Bar Association is D a v i d A. Simmons, Hoistow, Texas. Born in 1897, President Simmons is the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency of the ABA. For twenty-five years he has practiced law in Texas, where he was reared and educated. His Alma Mater is the University of Texas. Among public posts which he has held are Assistant U. S. At- torney (1920-22), First Assistant Attorney General of Texas (1927- 28) and Master in Chancery, U. S. District Court (1934-36). When the JBC was organized in 1934, President Simmons was just above the age limit, but it is ap- parent that he has a full knowl- edge of its activities. In 1944 he took occasion to express his senti- ments on the subject: I * * * have seen the work of this section by remote control. The Traffic Court and Safety Council work is (Please turn to page three)

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