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16 J. B. Ass'n St. Kan. 1 (1947-1948)

handle is hein.barjournals/jkabr0016 and id is 1 raw text is: 9 Journal of the BarAssociation of the State of Kansas VOL. XVI AUGUST, 1947 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 Franklin Corrick, Third Floor, Statehouse, Topeka, Kansas. Entered as Second Class Matter, August 20, 1932, at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright 1932, by Journal of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas. SELECTION AND TENURE OF JUDGES* By GLENN R. WINTERS** One day long ago, an elderly man went out in the country to visit his son-in-law. The son-in-law was leader of a large band of slaves that had recently made their escape from their Egyptian masters and were then encamped in the desert on their way to the more fertile regions of the north where they hoped to establish a permanent abode. The son-in-law, whose name was Moses, greeted Jethro, his father-in-law, graciously and told him all about how the venture was progressing. The next morning, however, Jethro found himself left alone and Moses surrounded by a great throng of people, busily conferring with them. After that had con- tinued all day, the guest made his way to Moses' side and asked him what was going on. Moses answered, according to the record: The people come unto me to inquire of God. When they have a matter they come unto me, and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God and his laws.' The experience of the Children of Israel and their leader Moses at that time was a parallel of the experience of every civilized social group and its rulers in all human history. Moses' first responsibility as their leader was to establish their freedom and dispose of the national enemy. In other instances this has been done by driving out an invader or oppressor, but the Israelites accomplished the equivalent by a' fairly peaceful emigration from the home- land of their oppressors to a new one of their own. Once the waters of the Red Sea had closed over their pursuers and they found themselves at last on their own, Moses found himself burdened with two new and closely related responsibilities - the maintenance of law and order among his newly-liberated *Address before the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas, Jayhawk Hotel, Topeka, May 23, 1947. **Secretary-treasurer of the American Judicature Society, editor of the Journal of the American Judicature Society, and chairman of the American Bar Association Special Committee on Judicial selection and Tenure. I Exodus 18:15-16.

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