Do You Use Text-Books Encyclopedias or Annotated or Selected Cases HEN briefing a point how do you get WHEN at the cases decided since the "notes" in your set were published? Many of these "notes" are now one, three, five---even ten years old. WE CAN bring these old books down to about it. date and keep them there Ask us West Publishing Co. New York St. Paul Chicago The Bar JUNE--JULY, 1911 VOL. XVIII THE BAR Nos. 6-7 AN OPEN FORUM This journal is intended to furnish an open forum to every lawyer for the discussion of any polIcy or proposition of interest to the Profession. It invites a free interchange of views upon all such topics whether they agree with the views of THE BAR or not. THE BAR goes to every court house in the state, and is read by, probably, three-fourths of the lawyers of the state, and thus furnishes not only a ready medium of communication between members of the Profession, but of unification of the Profession on all matters of common concern, which is its prime mission. Every clerk of a circuit court is the authorized agent of THE BAR in his county, and has the subscription bills in his possession, and will receive and receipt for all money due on that account, or for new subscriptions, and his receipt will always be a good acquittance for money due THE BAR. THE BAR is furnished at the nominal rate of $1.00 . year, which is less than the cost of publication, and we would like to have the name of every lawyer in the state on our subscription list. The Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting State Bar Association The Twenty-Seventh Annual meeting of the West Virginia Bar Association will be held at White Sulphur Springs on Wednesday and Thursday, the 12th and 13th of July, proximo. While the dates for this meeting are not favorable for a large attendance, and the place is not the most acessible to a majority of the members, it is, nevertheless a very delightful resort for a summer outing, and the appointments at the Springs are exceptionally good for the convenience of such organizations, we would fain hope that these advantages might offset the disadvantages, and result in a very successful session of the Association. For every annual meeting is an important meeting for the life and prosperity of the Association. It meets but once a year, and if each assembling does not serve to infuse some new vigor and enthusiasm into the organization it is apt to operate to the contrary and the vis inertia is in the opposite direction. The life and prosperity of the Association depends upon doing things; standing for those things which make for the substantial advancement of the Profession in the State; and these annual meetings are therefore mile-posts either in the forward or backward progress of the Association according to the degree in which they stand for something or nothing. The Executive Council has prepared an exceptionally interesting program for the coming meeting, which will at least furnish adequate entertainment and inducement enough! in itself to draw a large attendance, if there were no other motive. We do not think a more attractive and promising program has been offered at any previous meeting, and we hope and believe that it will prove as profitable as it promises. We invite a careful and critical survey of this bill of fare, herewith appended: Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting PROGRAM. Wednesday, July 12. Morning Session, beginning at 10 o'clock. Address of the President The Spirit of the Times-Its Effect on Law Discussion of the Address. W. W Hughes, Welch, W. Va. Report of Committees on Admissions-C. W. Dillon, Chairman Election of New Members. Appointment of Committee on Nominations. Appointment of Auditing Committee. Report of the Secretary. Report of the Treasurer. Afternoon Session. Report of Executive Council. Paper-Is There Need of Additional Judges for the Supreme Court of Appeals Discussion of same. Judge W. N. Miller Election of Officers, Members of Executive Council and Delegates to American Bar Association. Selection of Place of Next Annual Meeting. Report of Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal B. M. Ambler, Chairman Reform .... Evening Session-First Day. Address "The Judicial Code" Judge B. F. Kellar Thursday, July 13-Morning Session. Report of Committee on Grievances, Report of Committee on Legal Education, Luther C. Anderson, Chairman. Paper The Law's Delays and Its Remedies, S. W. Walker, Martinsburg, W. Va. Discussion on same. Report of Committee on Banquet. W. G. Mathews, Chairman. Chas. S. Dice, Chairman Report of Delegates to American Bar Association. We were all interested in the decision of the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil case, but those who omitted to read the dissenting opinion of Justice Harlan failed to get one of the most interesting features of the whole matter. The decision itself is a great paper, far-reaching in its effects on the business world, but we opine that the dissent of Justice Harlan will be quoted when the real questions at issue in that case are retired and of secondary importance. That grand old Justice did not allow the great issues at stake in the business world to obscure his vision or warp his judgment or swerve him one jot from the proper exercise of his judicial functions as an interpreter of the law. He planted his feet upon the old foundations and stood alone to guard the great tribunal he has so long honored from any semblance of ob liquity from its constitutional prerogatives. Some excerpts from that dissenting opinion are worthy of repetition: "The most alarming tendency of this day, in my judgment, so far as ou institutions are concerned, is the tendency of judicial decay. When men of vast interests are concerned, and they cannot get lawmakers to enact amendments to construe the law as they desire, they spare no effort to get some case before the courts in an effort to have the courts construe the Constitution and the statute to mean what they want them to mean. The courts are full of cases which attempt to have laws reconstrued. "In the case of overshadowing combinations of vast wealth |