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1 Young Law. 1 (1945)

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Published for Young Lawyers by
Junior Bar Conference                     American Bar Association
1140 North Dearborn St.                Chicago 10, Illinois
Vol. I                           January, 1945                        No. 1

May We                       ABA
Present                        Z
newspaper of the Junior
Bar Cornerence, Ameri-
eaq.Bai Association. Al-
though 1945 is only the   .
eleventh year of the
JBC, it has already
grown to man size, both
in membership and in re-
sponsi biliti es. THE
YOUNG LAWYER was con-
ceived as an aid to the
JBC and its members.
Its inauguration is testi-
mony to the fact that the
vital work of the Con-
ference can be carried
on effectively only by a    DAVI
membership informed as        Hoi
to its problems and in-
terested in their solutions. This
first issue will be followed, as the
need arises, by others.  In this
issue you will find an outline of
the Conference, its history, its ac-
complishments, i t s organization,
and its plans.
The- Junior Bar
Conference
ti6o .5 il e~i     ar
tion. It was organized by 125
.ABA- member then-under 86 years
of age. The plans of the founders,
broadly stated, were to provide for
y o u n g lawyers an organization
which could concentrate on prob-
lems unique to them and an oppor-
tunity to do constructive w o r k
within the framework of the ABA.
The idea spread to the State Bar
Associations. Soon there was a
Junior Bar Section in almost every
State, set up as branches of the
State groups, but allied in purpose
with the JBC. In a short span of
ten years, the JBC's membership
has grown to 6,000; today it is the
largest Section of the ABA.
Alongside the other Sections it has
participated in programs of na-
tion-wide significance, until it is
now recognized as a full-fledged
partner of groups working for gov-
ernment by law.

PRESIDENT

A. SIMMONS
uston, Texas
There are many ou
complishments of the
to which JBC membe
with pardonable pride
first year, the Confere
effective aid to the A

JBC CHAIRMAN          um on laws relating to
seryioemen's probletas
and in the compilation of
a manual on Domestic
Itea~ons problemi Of
Service Men. * summary
of the JBC's accomplish-
ments would not be com-
plete without mention of
the Public Information
Program through which
millions of people have
been reached by radio
and platform addresses
on subjects vital to
American democracy and
institutions.
The present status of
the JBC was aptly de-
scribed by former ABA
President Arthur Van-
CHARLES S. RIHYNE      derbilt (1937-38) when
Washington, D. C.      he s a i d : Experience
has demonstrated t h a t
tstanding ac-  when a task requires action as well
past decade,  as discrimination no mistake has
?rs may look   been made in entrusting it to the
. During its  Junior Bar Conference. 'Old men
enee rendered  for counsel; young men for ac-
ttorney Gen-  tion.'  _

eral of the United States in his
anti-crime drive. When the disas-
ters swept the Middle West, in
19386 and 1937, the JBC assipted
the American Rd Cross in rais1ng
relief funds. Tb e Conference took
Iq )*ig-psr     iII 'he impaul
presentation ofboth sides of ' the
controversy overlthe proposal to-,in-
-crease the number of justiceston
the Supreme Court. In 1938 the
Conference's report on violationh
of the Bill of Rights was a strong
stimulus to the appointment of the
ABA's Bill of Rights Committee.
A nation-wide survey conducted by
the JBC with regard to the Justice
of the Peace system was described
by Professor Edson R. Sunderland,
University of Michigan Law
School, as the most important
data regarding the practical opera-
tion of the Justice of the Peace
ever collected. It should be of the
greatest value in diagnosing the
essential weaknesses of the system
and p r o p o s i n g remedies. The
JBC's traffic court program has re-
sulted in widespread improvements
throughout the whole country. The
Conference has a s s i s t e d in the
preparation of 48 state compendi-

The President
of the American Bar
Association is
D a v i d A. Simmons, Hoistow,
Texas. Born in 1897, President
Simmons is the youngest man ever
elected to the Presidency of the
ABA. For twenty-five years he
has practiced law in Texas, where
he was reared and educated. His
Alma Mater is the University of
Texas. Among public posts which
he has held are Assistant U. S. At-
torney (1920-22), First Assistant
Attorney General of Texas (1927-
28) and Master in Chancery, U. S.
District Court (1934-36).
When the JBC was organized in
1934, President Simmons was just
above the age limit, but it is ap-
parent that he has a full knowl-
edge of its activities. In 1944 he
took occasion to express his senti-
ments on the subject: I * * *
have seen the work of this section
by remote control. The Traffic
Court and Safety Council work is
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