Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-09-10 | Page 17 | King Lauds Constitution in Bar Meeting Address

King Lauds Constitution In Bar Meeting Address Highest Ideals for Peace, Liberty Pointed Out by Utah Senator . "If our constitution is swrpt aside it will be by lack of patriotism patriot-ism and knowledge of government,' Senator William H. King said in addressing the Junior Bar association Friday at the Hotel Utah. "I regret the American people are not mora familiar with the fundamentals funda-mentals of government. If we want to amend tha constitution and destroy de-stroy an Independent Judiciary, we will not have the government our fathers gave us. "A democratic government la the most fragile of all governments. I can't understand why there ahould be such a vicious assault on the constitution." With his address coming just before be-fore national observance of the 150th anniversary of the constitution. constitu-tion. Senator. King called the document docu-ment "a great American archltec-' tural design, with the highest idesls for jjeace, liberty and freedom of people." "We may have socialists and communists com-munists who want to destroy the constitution, but I have faith that the American people will not allow it to be marred," he said. More than 100 junior bar members mem-bers attended the meeting, held at the Hotel Utah. Pratt Kesler, association as-sociation president, was in charge.