Show ST STATE A IE BAR ELECTS ITS NEW OFFICERS L Annual Meeting Is Largely At Attended Attended tended and Great Interest Aroused JURY SYSTEM IS ATTACKED ADVOCATE MODERN SYSTEM OF DEALING WITH QUESTIONS There I a large attendance at the annual meeting of the State Bar As ocla flon of In the United States dis district t court room Ix Ir the 1 Federal building Monday afternoon The meeting was wa called to order by br Le Grande Young pres Id nt of the Business was opened b by the rending reading or of the annual ad address address dress of the president whIch tailed at to the of thir th association tion In the community and th the ne need d or of sup the organization Mr lr Young also rend a paper with the pro proposal proposal to amend the federal In order to provide for the passing of a law to provide a federal tax cn n Incomes rIIs law was declared recently by the court of the States Stephen L I Richards read an interesting paper dealing with reminiscences of famous lawyers lawers now dead E A Wal Walton al alton ton presented a scholarly address the loose expressions or of opinion often made by judges and the small hed often paid to logic He also attacked the present jury system and suggested that the time had now come for using some more nore modern sst system m of d with legal I Code of Ethics Important from the stand standpOint standpoint pOint or of the was WIlS the tha adoption 01 II a code of ethics for the tha government or of law lawyers ers belonging to the organization The ode Is the same as that adopted by bythe bythe the Amerlean Bar In 1908 Th Thod cod od contains sections and deals deiJs with a large number and variety of matters matteIs relating to tile the duty or of law lawers ers to their clients and the attitude of lawyers and judges In court It was rec recommended recommended by a that the date datt dattor or of th annual meeting of the association b be changed and that there be two semi semiannual annual meetings hereafter to bt be held in I April and October of each year This matter will vill be voted upon by mail maH b all members or of the tue The t t committee was directed to arrange for the next annual banquet of the asso cation to be held on the first Saturday In Apr l of this year New officers for tho association to ser serve during the ensuing were elected as follows Charles Baldwin president to tou u tl Lc La Grande Grands Young Stphen L Richards secretary to D Biter Riter T I B Swanner treasurer to Wiiliam M McCrea Tk TIL former chosen from Nh or of the seven seen judicial districts district or of the state and who were continued In office for tor another year ear are as follows First judicial district WIllIam W V Maughn sec sea end nd judicial district James Albert eli II third judicial district Morris L Ritchie fourth judicial district John E B Booth fifth ith judicial district Joshua Greenwood sixth judicial district John JohnF F Chidester and 8 seventh judicial dis district A II H Christensen Waldemar aldemar Van r itt tt chairman Richard W V Youn George GorK Halverson Fraik K II 11 J 1 constitute the executive council whIch will have charge of the next banquet |