The regrets expressed at “Tracy” Bangs’ inability to enjoy this rather exceptional meeting were genuine and spontaneous.
The ladies were royally entertained, and it is feared by some that every attorney will now have more than one “jealous mistress."
Aubrey Lawrence can still “do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.” Some day, however, the Association will catch him unawares.
If lawyers could capitalize their articulation as well as Mr. Hardy appears to have capitalized his inarticulation they wouldn’t need a fee schedule.
KEEPING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
During the latter part of August the Associated Press carried an item from the American Civil Liberties Union expressing the view that participation of the American Legion in National Education Week was “an offense against broad educational principles,” and the Union therefore felt called upon to broadcast its protest “against an unmerited compliment to the American Legion.”
For the benefit of those engaged in carrying forward the Americanization program of the Bar Association attention is directed to the following: The American Civil Liberties Union has been and is closely identified with the organization known as the I. W. W.; it issued a pamphlet in which it said: “To furnish interested citizens with a fair statement about the I. W. W. by unprejudiced observers. This is necessary in view of the flood of unfounded and partisan ‘information’ constantly given to the public.”
In 1917, Roger Baldwin, President of the Union, wrote: “Do steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise. . . We want to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to get a lot of good flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country.” Convicted and sentenced for violation of the Selective Service Act, Baldwin said, “I feel myself just one protest in a great revolt surging up from the masses of the people. . . It is a struggle against the political state itself. . . It is a struggle to break in full force only after the war.”
