OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION HELD AT DES MOINES, IOWA JUNE 27 AND 28, 1918 EDITED BY H. C. HORACK, SECRETARY IOWA CITY, IOWA PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION 1918 [Announcement] THE QUARTER-CENTURY MEETING OF THE IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION WILL BE HELD AT DAVENPORT, IOWA JUNE 26 AND 27, 1919 340833 THE IOWA CLIO CITY PRESS LOWA CONTENTS PAGE ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL MEETING FOR 1919..... ADDRESS OF WELCOME, FRED W. SARGENT.. REPORT OF DELEGATES TO THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION... 33 PAPER: CIVIL AND MILITARY COURTS, PERCY BORDWELL...... 79 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LAW REFORM..... ANNUAL BANQUET, CHARLES W. MULLAN, TOASTMASTER....101 THE SOUL OF THE WORLD, JAMES B. WEAVER... THE PRESIDENT: The Association will be in order. The members will rise while the Rev. W. A. Shullenberger will pronounce the Divine Invocation. DIVINE INVOCATION Our Father who art in Heaven, we thank Thee that in Thine administration of law in this universe and world, Thy people witness all of the symmetry and beauty that has come to pass, and we not only acknowledge Thee as the great Law-giver, but the great Judge as well. We thank Thee that there are traced out in the workings of humanity and the relations of man to man, individual to individual, the very great principles Thou hast had in the making and keeping in this world. And so, Father, this morning, as these men come together who represent a profession that dates back to the days when Moses in the sight of God wrote the Ten Commandments, upon which all the modern law is based and the relationship of man to man and nation to nation was established, let all of us feel that we are Thy servants for the glory of God and the human race. Let Your blessings rest upon this Convention, upon these men as they adjudi |