the adoption of this method of sending a respresentative over the State to interview personally the members of the Bar in reference to the formation of local Bar Associations, but it was found impracticable at the time. It is hoped that this proposed plan will not be abandoned. Desiring to enlarge the number of local associations, and to extend the influence of this Association, your Committee, through its Chairman, wrote to members of the Bar in each county of the State. This letter requested information in regard to the existence or non-existence of a local Bar Association in the county, and, where none existed, the organization of one was solicited, and in every instance the appointment of delegates to this meeting was requested. Replies were received in many instances, and on the whole it was pleasing to note the interest manifested in the matters referred to in this letter. The information received through this source showed the existence of twenty local Bar Associations, the majority of which had been organized on a substantial basis. While this number may afford some encouragement for future efforts, at the same time it is provocative of some disappointment, as it discloses, so far as this Committee is advised, the non-existence of a local bar association in at least forty-five counties of the State. From the reports received, it is observed that several of these twenty local associatons should have their organization perfected and their activities expanded. In one case it is observed that the extent of its work had been the adoption of a fee bill, and its business had been limited, so far, to sending flowers to the dead and presents to the newly-wed. As it may afford some assistance to this Association, a roster of the local Bar Associations, with the names of the officers, when given, reported to this Committee, as a result of its investigation and inquiries, will be included in this report. It will be observed that two of these local associations embrace the counties of a Judicial Circuit, and are designated as Judicial Bar Associations: These local Bar Associations are as follows: Calhoun County Bar Association W. C. Tunstall, President, Anniston. Thomas E. Knight, President, Greensboro. Jackson County Bar Association John B. Talley, President, Scottsboro. D. P. Wimberly, Secretary, Scottsboro. Birmingham Bar Association Vassar L. Allen, President, Birmingham. W. M. Woodall, Vice-President, Birmingham. Mrs. R. H. Thach, Secretary, Birmingham. DeKalb County Bar Association C. C. Appleton, President, Ft. Payne. C. J. Scott, Vice-President, Ft. Payne. Marshall County Bar Association— Mark Kilcrease, Vice-President, Albertville. Macon County Bar Association A. B. Paine, President, Tuskegee. William Varner, Secretary, Tuskegee. Mobile Bar Association William McLeod, President, Mobile. Cecil Bates, Secretary, Mobile. Florence Bar Association C. E. Jordan, President, Florence. C. A. Williams, Secretary, Florence. Tuscaloosa Bar Association— Edward deGraffenreid, President, Tuscaloosa. E. L. Clarkson, Secretary, Tuscaloosa. Etowah County Bar Association (Officers not given.) Talladega Bar Association J. K. Dixon, President, Talladega. Files Crenshaw, President, Montgomery. James N. Granade, President, Chatom. Wallace P. Pruitt, Secretary, Chatom. Third Judicial Bar Association (Embracing counties of Barbour, Dale, Bullock and Rus sell.) A. H. Merrill, President, Eufaula. Ernest L. Blue, Vice-President, Union Springs. J. D. Comer, Secretary-Treasurer, Eufaula. Eleventh Judicial Bar Association— (Embracing counties of Lauderdale, Colbert and Frank lin.) (Officers not given) Autauga County Bar Association C. E. O. Timmerman, President, Prattville. Guy Rice, Secretary, Prattville. Morgan County Bar Association Wm. E. Skeggs, President, Decatur. Tennis Tidwell, Secretary, Albany. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEGAL EDUCATION AND W. B. HARRISON, Chairman Owing to the inability of the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar to have a meeting and the practical impossibility of ascertaining by correspondence the views of each member, the following report will be understood as expressing the views of the Chairman only: From time to time this Committee has advocated raising the requirements for admission to the Bar by limiting admission to such persons as have had the following training: 1913, A high school education. 1914, A high school education and 24 months legal study. 1915, The equivalent of a two year college course, and three years legal study. 1916, A high school education and three years legal study. 1917, A high school education and three years legal study. This Association will have another meeting before the 1923 Legislature meets, and it is recommended that the Committee on Legislation be requested to prepare and submit for this Association's approval at its 1922 meeting a bill designed to raise the requirements for admission to the Bar of Alabama in harmony with the repeated recommendations of this Committee. SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL SKETCHES WALTER S. SMITH, Chairman OF LINEVILLE Your Committee begs leave to report that the following members of the Alabama Bar made the supreme sacrifice on the Battle Fields of France, or in the service of their country, in the World War, to-wit: Gardner Greene, of the Pell City Bar. Julian Strassburger, of the Montgomery Bar. Jack Allison, of the Birmingham Bar. Farley Moody, of the Tuscaloosa Bar. W. H. Levie, of the Birmingham Bar. Without exception, these soldier-lawyers of our Bar upheld the highest and best traditions of the Alabama Bar, and reflected great credit and shed luster upon the profession of which they were worthy members, upon their state, and upon their nation. While their voices are no longer heard in the forum and in the court room, and while we no longer meet them in their familiar haunts, they are not dead. They are merely asleep and they sleep the blessed sleep of the soldier and the patriot. "On fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, While glory guards with solemn round. |