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Show Fighting Organized Crime in Chicago r tA r ' r rA if , ' Kf f ' 111 4 Here Is a man who will have responsibilities respon-sibilities Roger Sherman, presidentelect president-elect of the Chicago Bar association. Chicago, with a thousand new policemen police-men and extra prosecutors, is fighting an organized crime machine. President Presi-dent Sherman is a graduate of the University of Michigan, class of D4, and of Northwestern University law school. . ' "With crime in the saddle and honest men taking to the woods, there is more need than ever for upright, fearless lawyers and for honestly conducted con-ducted bar associations," he said. "The true function of the bar association associa-tion is to see that honest and able men are elected to the bench and that crooked lawyers are kept from preying on the public. The Chicago Bar association each year spends a large part of Its Income In conducting ' bar primaries to determine who are the best candidates for judicial office, in promoting the election of such candidates and In conducting disbarment proceedings against unscrupulous lawyers. Under the association's direction a committee of Chicago's foremost lawyers, called the 'grievance committee,' sits nearly every week In the year to hear complaints against members of the bar. A lawyer employed by the association gives all of his time to conducting con-ducting disbarment suits before this committee and before the Supreme court of the state. This is not required because lawyers as a class are more dishonest dis-honest than any other class of men. The contrary Is true. But lawyers must be above suspicion." , |