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10 J. B. Ass'n St. Kan. 1 (1941-1942)

handle is hein.barjournals/jkabr0010 and id is 1 raw text is: The Journal of the Bar Associa- tion of the State of Kansas VOL 10 AUGUST, 1941 NO. I 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 J. B. Patterson, 1301 Union National Bank Building, or The 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. Oopyriat 1932, by .rournsl of the Bar Associstion of the State of Kans. * The Defense of Democracy in ,America By W. E. STANLEY President's Address, Delivered st the Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Bar Association of Kansas in Topeka Thinking men and women today are disturbed as their thoughts turn to what lies behind the curtain of the future. The past forty years have brought many innovations in the relationship of citizens to their Govern- ment. The effect of these changes in our affairs had not yet been analyzed before a depression left our people staggering under its impact. Recurring emergencies demanded quick action. Sound thought and planning were forced to give way to haste and speed. Change succeeded change in an ef- fort to stabilize economic conditions. Before the problem of security in our national economy could be solved, it was overshadowed by the problem of security in international affairs. With governments of laws disappearing under the assaults of governments of men in Europe, our western hemisphere has been feverishly attempting to quarantine itself against the spread of war's infection, hoping in the meantime to find some method by which the forces of law and order throughout the world can be offered a helping hand. As we are now being called upon to defend the American democracy, many feel that we are being dragged from the sound moorings of our past and swept out upon uncharted seas where self government of free men. is in danger of breaking upon the rocks of autocratic power from which as a na- tion we are attempting to protect ourselves. At such a time, what I am about to say must be political, since it deals with principles of government, but I hope no one will feel that it is partisan in its aspects. Both major parties have contributed to the problems for which we must find a solution and each individual citizen must bear his share of re- sponsibility because of his failure in the past to give intelligent attention to the affairs of government. It is not my purpose to speak on the defense of the so-called American

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