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5 J. B. Ass'n St. Kan. 1 (1936-1937)

handle is hein.barjournals/jkabr0005 and id is 1 raw text is: The Journal of the Bar Associa- tion of the State of Kansas VOL. 5 AUGUST, 1936 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 The Journal Publication Office, 319 South Market, Wichita, Kansas. Entered a Second-Class Matter, August 20, 1932, at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Cop right 1932. by Iournal of the Bar Association of the Stats of asas President's L/ddress* ALBERT FAULCONER Gentlemen of the Bar Association of Kansas: We have now arrived at the place on our program where, conforming to the by-laws and a custom of long standing, the President of the Association must deliver an address. This is a time, so it seems to me, for us to review matters of mutual interest. I use the word review because you already have knowledge of my subject material; and I speak of mutual interest, because I am intensely interested in our profession, its abilities, opportunities, and responsibilities, and, knowing that the profession is the very center of your own concern, I shall speak of these, and some of the objectives of the organized bar. I am fully aware that in times past lawyers have been ridiculed, and in some periods in history the profession has been held -in low esteem by lay leaders; and I know of more recent and even current criticisms by some of the press and a few public men. I appreciate the fact that there are a marginal few in the Bar whose moral nature or methods of practice justify -criticism. At the same time, there never has been a group of professional or lay people that has or is contributing more to government, business and society than lawyers. Attacks on the honor and integrity of the legal profession are not new. As far back as I45O, Jack Cade began the rebellion bearing his name, with a proclamation in which he paid his respects to the legal profession in the follow- mg manner: The law serveth as naught else in these days but for to do wrong.* * And Shakespeare perpetuates this character in his play King Henry VI, when Dick cries out: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Delivered at the Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Kansas State Bar Association, May 22, 23, 19386.

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