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16 News Bull. 1 (1956)

handle is hein.barjournals/ialaw0016 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NEWS OF BULLETIN The Iowa State Bar Association Vol. XVI, No. 1 1101 Fleming Building, Des Moines, Iowa january 1956 LAW BOOKS FOR THE ORIENT America today Is engaged in a worldwide struggle for men's minds, and the legal pro- fession of our country has been given a great opportunity to strike a blow for our way of life through a program under which surplus law books are shipped, without any transpor- tation cost, to the courts, law colleges, and bar associations in the Orient. Many of the nations in the Far East are living for the first time under written consti- tutions, modeled to varying extents after ours, and law books about our system of justice, our constitution, and our general laws and rules, are very much needed, even though such books may be in old or superseded edi- tions. What finer project for a bar association--or any lawyer-to undertake than to send the needed law books to the Orient? A simple plan-involving not one penny of transportation cost to the bar association and lawyers-has been worked out. The bar of Iowa has been given-an unusual opportunity to participate in this program by Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons of the Ne- braska Supreme Court, who, hs an avocation, has been devoting himself to the task of set- ting up and arranging for shipments of law books to the Far East. He has toured nine countries in the Orient-Burma, Ceylon, For- mosa, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, the Phillipines, and Thailand-making con- tacts with judges and officials of law schools and bar associations in order to ascertain their libraries' needs. Under this program, Ameri- can law books are being sent not only to these countries but also to other Oriental lands from which have come appeals for the books. Judge Simmons recently wrote to an official of the Iowa Bar that he Is convinced that there are on the shelves of the law offices of America, gathering dust and costing rent, suf- ficient surplus law books to furnish every law school, every appellate court and every large bar association in the Orient with a basic American law library. The United States Government has ap- proved the program Informally to this extent: It pays the transportation cost, and in several instances our ambassadors have made the presentations. What kinds of law books are needed In this program? Judge Simmons recommends that the following books be sent to the Orient: (1) Any of the several thousands of stand- ard textbooks (such as Pomeroy on equity Jurisprudence and Wigmore on Evidence), In- cluding old books (such as Kent's Commen- taries and Cooley's Constitutional Limita- tions); (2) Encyclopedias like Ruling Case Law, American Jurisprudence, Corpus Juris, and Corpus Jurls Secondum; (3) Treatises on constitutional questions are particularly desired because as mentioned above, many of these Oriental nations' consti- tutions are modeled after ours, and our books set forth the judicial construction of written constitutions; (Continued on page 8) ABA BEGINS DRIVE TO DOUBLE ITS MEMBERSHIP A far-reaching decision was announced No- vember 8 when the American Bar Association declared that it Is placing in motion a plan to increase its membership by at least 50,000 within the next four months. This will be the largest organizing cam- paign ever conducted by a national profes- sional group. E. Smythe Gambrell, of Atlanta, Georgia, President of the Association, said, Our prob- lem is to keep the legal profession abreast of changing conditions in today's economic and social order. The American Bar Association has accepted that challenge. We want every American lawyer to be an active member of the American Bar Associa- tion. David Butler, Mason City; 13th District, John W. D. Hofmeyer, Fayette; 14th District, John R. Carroll, Algona; 15th District, William E. Falk, Shenandoah; 16th District, R. Keith Richardson, Jefferson; 17th District, Leonard L. Grimes, Marshalltown; 18th District, Thomas M. Collins, Cedar Rapids; 19th Dis- trict, Dorothy C. Sauer, Dubuque; 20th Dis- trict, Russell R. Newell, Columbus Junction; 21st District, Earl V. Slife, Hawarden. Ed H. Jones, Des Moines, Is Chairman of the campaign for the Eighth United States Judicial Circuit, which includes the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne- braeka, North Dakota and South Dakota. The American Bar Association now has about 24 per cent of the potential membership We must immediately double the mem- among Lae *UUWi B wyero, Judges and law bership of the national organization If the teachers, while other professional organiza- legal profession Is to carry out its great tions have much larger percentages of mem- objectives. These include Improving the admin- bership from their groups. Eighty-six per cent Istration of justice, maintaining high stand- of the dentists belong to the American Dental ards of legal education and ethics, and ex- Association, the American Medical Asia- tending legal services to all who need them. tion has enrolled 88 per cent of the doctors, The organization of the campaign will be and 50 Per cent of the accountants belong to climaxed in February when hundreds of Asso- the American Institute of Accountants. ciation recruiting teams will make a simul- Cecil . of Corpus Christi Texa, taneous canvss of prospective members Cara fteNtoa ofrneo a thrhout the country. Presidents and former president of the State throghou thecounry.Bar of Texas, fis chalrman of the executive William W. Crisaman of Cedar Rapids is committee which will direct the campaign. Chairman of the drive in Iowa for the Senior There is no room for snobbishness In the Bar and Ned Willis of Perry is Chairman in national organization of the legal profession, Iowa for the Junior Bar. Judicial district said Mr. Gambrell. Our profession exists for chairmen, both Junior and Senior Bar, have the benefit of the public and must justify its been appointed in each district and are as fol- existence by its service to the public. lows: Senior Bar-1st District, R. L. Fehseke, He added in a statement: Fort Madison; 2nd District, Charles F. Wen- The American Bar Association Is embark- nerstrum, Chariton; 3rd District, Marshall F. ing on a long-overdue campaign to double its Camp, Creston; 5th District, Blake Willis, membership and resources-to bring the rank Perry; 6th District, P. J. Siegers, Newton; and file of the country's lawyers Into its va- 7th District, John E. Nagle, Davenport; 8th rious enterprises for the benefit of the public District, Emil Trott, Iowa City; 10th District, and the profession. Craig R. Kennedy, Waterloo; 11th District, R. The legal Profession cannot afford to be E. Bateson, Eldora; 12th District, C. Frederick longer stigmatized by the fact that the per- Beck, Mason City; 13th District, Frank R. (Continued on page 5) Miller, Decorah; 14th District, John J. Greer, Spencer; 15th District, Harold T. Beckman, Council Bluffs; 16th District, G. A. Minnich, Jr., Carroll; 17th District, J. H. Milroy, Vin- ton; 18th District, Richard Nazette, Cedar Rapids; 19th District, E. Marshall Thomas, IOWA LAW REVIEW Dubuque; 20th District, Blythe C. Conn, Bur- Is preparing an lington; 21st District, Lou L. Corcoran, Sibley. Junior Bar-lst District, Robert B. Dickey, Keokuk; 2nd District, Walter F. Johnson, Ot- covering the 41 Volumes of the RE- tumwa; 3rd District, W. Ward Reynoldson, VIEW. The INDEX will Include approxi- Osceola; 4th District, Don Johnson, Sioux mately 400 pages, will be paper bound, City; 5th District, Gordon K. Darling, Winter- and will cost 4.00. An advance number set; 6th District, Roy K. Stoddard, Jr., Oska- of orders is needed to assure the publica- loosa; 7th District, Don Wine, Davenport; 8th tion of the INDEX District, Roger H. Ivie, Iowa City; 9th Dis- Orders may be made by writing to the trict, S. David Peshkin, Des Moines; 10th Dis- Iowa Law Review, Law School, Iowa trict, Charles F. Swisher, Waterloo; 11th Dis- city, Iowa. trict, Robert E. Mahoney Boone; 12th District;

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