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6 J. B. Ass'n St. Kan. 1 (1937-1938)

handle is hein.barjournals/jkabr0006 and id is 1 raw text is: The Journal of the Bar Associa- tion of the State of Kansas VOL. 6 AUGUST, 1937 NO. 1 Published Quarterly, August, November, February and May, by the Bar Association of the State of Kansas. $3.00 Per Annum Members $1.50 Single Copy $1.00 Address communications to W. E. Stanley, 830 First National Bank Building, or Tlhe Journal Publication Office, 319 South Market, Wichita, Kansas. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 20, 1932, at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright 932, by Yournal of the Bsr Association of the State of Kans& Current Tendencies in Law and Government* HoN. JoHN S. DAWSON There -has always been agreement among lawyers, with little demur from other learned men, that the administration of justice is the chief concern of mankind on this planet. Edmund Burke is credited with the statement that the goal of all free governments is to get twelve good men into the jury box to settle disputes of fact between quarrelling men. In Justinian's Institutes, which has been a primary text book for law stu - dents for fourteen centuries, the Liber Primus commences thus: Justice is the constant and perpetual endeavor to render to every man his due. Those Institutes were a reduction to simple terms of the accumulated wisdom of a thousand years of Roman history. And wherever we delve into the records of the earliest times, the same appreciation of the importance of concrete justice in the affairs of men is revealed-in the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the inscriptions of Mesopotamia. This constant endeavor to render to every man his due is as important in our time as it was in the time of Edmund Burke a century and a half ago, or ,of Justinian fourteen hundred years ago, or of Hammurabi four thousand years ago. Nor is it conceivable that this perpetual striving for the attainment of justice will ever be of less consequence in mundane affairs than it has been in the past or present. . Our time has seen the rise of some strange doctrines of government. Men there are who are reconciled to the curtailment of liberty for what they think will achieve more desirable-ends. They say such curtailment is inevitable; and indeed the excuse is offered that whatever curtailment of liberty is occurring in our time is-for the ultimate good of everybody-for justice to the masses 'of people. The soundness of Thomas' Jefferson's aphorism that it is better to *Deilvered at the Plfti-fifth Annua Meetint of tle Kanss State Bsr Associstlon, lay 28, 29, 1937.

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