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5 Or. St. B. Bull. 1 (1944-1945)

handle is hein.barjournals/osbb0005 and id is 1 raw text is: OREGON STATE BAR BUL LETIN 11,1. V. OCTOBER, 1944 No. 1 FRANCIS E. MARSH HEADS OREGON BAR Francis E. Marsh, member of the Mc- Minnville firm of Vinton, Marsh & Marsh, was elected president of Oregon State Bar at the meeting of the board of governors at Hotel Gearhart and introduced to the con- vention at its final session in the same place. He was presented to the convention by President John F. Kilkenny after he had been escorted to the stage by Judge James W. Crawford and J. B. Bedingfield, also members of the board. The announcement provoked a storm of applause from the members of the bar present. John L. Foote, who has practiced at St. Helens for 25 years, was elected vice-presi- dent while Frederick M. Sercombe, Port- land, was re-elected secretary and Arthur H. Lewis, also Portland, was re-elected treasurer. Marsh was born at Decorah, Ia. June 17, 1900, obtaining his early education there and coming to Oregon in 1918. He at- tended the University of Washington from whiich he graduated in 1923 and the same year was admitted to the Oregon bar. He has been active for many years in Ameri- can Legion, Masonic and civic affairs. For two years he served as district at- torney of Jefferson county and was as- sistant United States attorney in Portland from 1927 to 1930. For a time he practiced law in Portland and in 1935 went to Mc- Minnville where he has been since that time. lie is married and has two sons, one now in the navy. Foote was district attorney at St. Helens for 12 years and is past president of the district attorneys' association of Oregon. He served for several years on the griev- ance committee before the formation of Oregon State Bar. He was boin in Kansas, came to Oregon in 1905 and was admitted to the bar in 1918. He is lieutenant gover- nor of the Pacific Northwest district of Ki- wanis and holds office in the Knights of Pythias. He has a wife and two children. Tribute to*the service of President Kil- kenny was paid by the members of the bar following the completion of his term of office. On behalf of the board and other members of the bar, the new president pre- sented a beautiful pocket watch to Kil- kenny as an expression of the appreciation for his service. Work of the board of governors in rais- ing the standards of the profession was praised by Judge James Alger Fee and the service of Charles R. Spackman, Jr., Bruce Spaulding and Otto J. Frohnmayer, who with Kilkenny, completed their terms and. (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE By JOHN F. KILKENNY Address on Intolerance Before Oregon State Bar at Annual Meeting at Gearhart. My remarks shall be brief. Th;s brief- ness, however, does not at all detract from the importance of the subject. I shall ad- dress you on the duty of the American law- yer in the battle against the intolerance of today. During the past decade, we have noticed a growing tendency on the part of our peo- ple to pit class against class, creed against creed, race against race. Unfortunately this tendency has not only been condoned, but actually fostered and encouraged by certain individuals holding high and honored of- fices in the governments of our states and nation. We have observed those high in the executive branch of our national govern- ment preach the un-American doctrine of class hatred, labor against capital, capital against labor. We have observed the chief executives of some of our states preach a doctrine of race against race, white against colored. We have heard, on literally hun- dreds of occasions, the otherwise honored and highly respected pe,:son remark, when discussing his dislike for certain of our citizens, It seems that Hitler was right after all. As a result of the utterance of these wholly un-American principles and the spread of these doctrines across the na- tion, we have witnessed during the past 10 years actual bloodshed in the conflict be- tween capital and labor, hundreds of per- sons killed, maimed and wounded in the racial conflict between colored and white, and I would venture to say that if the tide continues we shall witness bloodshed in a wholly unnecessary conflict between those of different creeds. There are thousands of men and women in America today who are so conscious of class, racial or religious differences that they refuse to read or listen to what the other class, race or religion may have to print or say in its defense. It has been said: This is the germ on whch epidemics of intolerance are bred. As intolerance in- creases, government by law decreases. When the intolerant trend reaches its crest, government by law ceases to exist, and gov- ernment by men or by the rabble takes its place. I say to you that this rising tide of in- tolerance must be stopped, or its ebb and increasing flow will destroy the foundations on which our American system of consti- tutional government is built. We, as law- (Continued on Page 9, Column 1) MILITARY AWARDS GIVEN AT GEARHART Oregon State Bar's conspicuous service to the men and women of the armed forces won certificates of appreciation from the army and navy, awards signed by the sec- retaries of war and navy and by the judge advocate general of e a c h department, and presented to the bar at formal cere- monies at its annual meeting at Hotel Gear- hart. This ceremony, at which the army was represented by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. White, judge advocate of the ninth serv- ice command at Fort Douglas, Utah, in charge of the eight western states, and the navy by Lieutenant Commander Howard D. Pack, legal assistance officer of the 13th naval district, Seattle, was one of the no- table phases of a convention which had three busy days and at which action taken on many committee reports and one of the best programs of the bar carried out. Also outstanding on the program were the appeal of President John F. Kilkenny for members of the bar to awake to the growing tendency in this country toward intolerance and to take a lead in the bat- tle to protect the rights of all citizens of whatever' race or creed, and that of Frank Branch Riley, the speaker at the annual banquet, for the members of the bar to become attorneys for the defense, against governmental encroachments u p o n t h e rights of citizens and of local government. Both of these speeches are carried In full in this issue of The Bulletin. The army certificate of appreciation awarded to the bar pointed out that the contribution of time and professional serv- ices made by patriotic lawyers under this plan has materially enhanced the morale of the army and the success of the war ef- fort. It was signed by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and by Major General Myron C. Cramer, judge advocate general of the army. A similar statement was made in the navy's certificate which was signed by Navy Secretary James Forestal and by Rear Admiral Thomas M. Gatch, judge advocate general of the navy. It was pointed out that the state bar has been co-operating for more than a year with the legal assistance officers of the army and navy whose function is to advise military personnel and their dependents with regard to their personal legal prob- lems. Legal assistance officers are now functioning in some 1100 army posts and camps, in the United States and overseas, and at a large number of naval establish- ments. But civilian attorneys have been called on to assist in the program because of Its

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