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10 Miss. Law. 1 (1963)

handle is hein.barjournals/misly0010 and id is 1 raw text is: The MISSISSIPPI LAWYER Official Monthly Publication of the Mississippi State Bar VOLUME 10 JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1903 Numbers 1 and 2 VOTING AT ANNUAL CONVENTION OF MISSISSIPPI STATE BAR By C. Sidney Carlton, President Of Miss. State Bar If any Mississippi lawyer were asked the question Do you carry your own load? the answer would probably be an emphatic and a partially angry Yes, of course. Yet the facts are that a small minority of our Mississippi lawyers do not carry their own load. This problem has been a vexing one for the Board of Commissioners for a number of years, but the problem does not seem to get appreciably better. A member of the Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, Civitan Club, Exchange Club, Mis- sissippi Economic Council, or any other organized group does not expect to exercise a vote in the policies of his organization unless he pays his dues. None of our Mississippi lawyers would argue in court that one who has not paid his poll taxe is entitled to cast his ballot. Despite this self-evident truth, we have a small group of Mississippi lawyers made up of members who are delinquent in their dues (and some lave been for several years) and who still attend the annual convention and cast their ballot for the officers of the Mississippi State Bar and who vote on motions presented on the floor. In addition, we have former members of the Mississippi State Bar who for one reason or another have elected inactive status, and claimed an exemption thereby from the payment of annual dues. Some of these lawyers likewise claim the privi- lege of registering at the annual convention and participating in the deliberations of the Mississippi State Bar at such meetings. It would seem that no inactive member of the Mississippi State Bar, a person who is in reality not a member because he has not paid his dues, would expect the right to register at the annual convention or to participate in the deliberations of the con- vention. The Board of Commissioners this year has determined at its December meeting that only members, whose dues are cur- rently paid, will be eligible for registration as a member of the Mississippi State Bar at the 1963 convention. Likewise, no per- son who is not registered will be permitted to participate in the deliberations of the convention. It is hoped that this announce- ment of the enforcement of the rules will avoid embarrassment to anyone at the 1963 (Continued on page 6) SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT BAR ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED The lawyers of the Seventeenth Judicial District, with their wives as guests, met at the Gulftrail Lodge at Sardis, Missis- sippi, on November 29th and organized a Seventeenth Circuit Court District Bar As- sociation. Associate Justice William N. Ethridge, Jr. was principal speaker, who was intro- duced by C. Sidney Carlton, President of the Mississippi State Bar. Elected as officers for the new organiza- tion were Roy E. Johnson, of Senatobia, as president, and J. W. Kellum, of Sumner, as secretary. JUDGES APPOINTED TO ADVISORY BOARD The State Board of Public Welfare has appointed five Chancery and County Judges to serve in an advisory capacity to the Department. The appointments are for a two year term. The board members recognize the need for and the value of close cooperation between the Courts and the Welfare Department in their efforts to provide maximum protection and care of homeless, neglect- ed, dependent and delinquent children. The following judges were appointed: Honorable R. P. Sugg Chancellor, Fourteenth District. Eupora, Mississippi Honorable William Neville Chancellor, Twelfth District Meridian, Mississippi Honorable Carl E. Gurnsey Hinds County Youth Court Judge Jackson, Mississippi Honorable Walter D. Jones Bolivar County Youth Court Judge Cleveland, Mississippi Honorable L. A. Watts Jackson County Youth Court Judge Pascagoula, Mississippi PLACEMENT SERVICE REGISTERS 1,000 LAWYERS IN FIRST YEAR The American Bar Association's Lawyer Placement Information Service placed more than 1,000 highly qualified lawyers in con- tact with potential employers during its first year of operation ending January 2. Scores of letters from both employers and employes attest to the success of the amMIk tion. LAW DAY TIP FOR BAR ASSOCIATIONS An effective way to dramatize Law Day USA for lay audiences and bar members is to use the 1963 Law Day billboard poster as a backdrop for luncheon and dinner meetings or school assemblies. The four-color poster will immediately attract the attention of the audience if hung behind the speaker either as a flat piece or semi-circular display. If the display area is a bare wall, tape the four borders to the wall surface. The poster can easily be pinned to a permanent stage curtain if one is available. The poster is 8 feet 8 inches wide by 19 feet 6 inches long, the exact size of the posters used on highway billboards. It is printed in 10 separate sheets which must be assembled and glued together. Two per- sons easily can do the job if the poster panels are first laid out on the floor for assembling. The posters are available at actual cost, $3.b, each, from ABA. The poster is keyed to this year's theme for Law Day USA: LAW, Rule of Right, Not Might. It contrasts a stack of law books, symbolizing the rile of law, with the Berlin wall, symbol of governmental tyranny. AMERICAN BAR LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR BILL OF RIGHTS MEMORIAL The American Bar Association has opened a campaign to raise $50,000 for a Bill of Rights Memorial in New York City. Volun- tary contributions are being sought from lawyers throughout the nation. The Bill of Rights Memorial will be located in the new Federal Hall Memorial now under development by the National Park Service on the historic site of Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets in down- town Manhattan. Federal Hall served as tile first seat of government of the United States and in 1789 witnessed these major events: (1) Inauguration of Ceorge Washington, (2) adoption by Congress of the Bill of Rights (first 10 amendments to the Con- stitution), (3) creation by Congress of the major executive departments, and (4) enactment of the Judiciary Act creating the U. S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts. The building in which the Memorial will be housed is not the original but an impor- (Continued on page 6)

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