am not concerned about up state or Chicago, but this will do a very great injustice. One word more and I am through. Some two years ago an application was made by certain lawyers to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Now, Massachusetts certainly has as many colleges and as good ones as any state in the Union, and that petition was like this, that they should be required to have, I think, one year of college study before a student could be admitted to a law school. Chief Justice Rugg gave a somewhat elaborate answer to that. I am sorry I haven't it with me today, it is very easily to be obtained, in which he said not only that was impolitic, but that it would deprive the smaller towns and cities of men of some legal training at least as counsellors and as leaders, and he said it was wholly unwarranted and unjust. It does seem to me that is the case here. The question is here not where one has learned anything. The question is what does he know. That is the only question, and that question can be easily determined by the Board of Law Examiners. They can make more rigid examinations if they please, I shall not object to that. And they can examine, look into the penmanship, into the English language, and all that, and give proper credits or discredit to anything of that kind, which they can determine. Some of these Russians are brilliant men, the majority of them are not, and they ought to have the privilege and they cannot possibly have this two year course which, of course, is only preliminary. It will not be probably two years before it will be increased to three years or four years, and 65 per cent of the students of the Bloomington Law School work their own way through and my experience is when a student works his own way through he is bound to do good work and he is bound to be also a reputable, worthy, moral (Applause). man. MR. BUNTAIN: The meeting will stand adjourned till 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS LOCAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS Friday, June 1, 1923, 8:00 P. M. AT THE PALM ROOM, JEFFERSON HOTEL C. M. CLAY BUNTAIN, Kankakee, presiding. MR. BUNTAIN: The Board of Governors wanted these questions discussed at our meeting; first: Whether there can be any co-operation between the Local, State and American Bar Associations; second: With reference to District Meetings; third: Local Bar programs during the year,— what has been done in the different Bar Associations; fourth: The Charity proposition; co-operating with the Associated Charities in County and City work, and active investigation made by local charity bureaus as to worthy cases assigned to lawyers. I am going to call Mr. Heyl first, in regard to what can be done so far as co-operating with the State and American Bar Associations. We want this a very informal discussion. MR. CLARENCE W. HEYL: Mr. Chairman, Members of the State Bar Association: I am not sure that I am qualified to speak on this particular subject except in a general way. I have been Chairman of a committee of the State Bar Association for the past two years, known as the "Committee on Local Bar Association Meetings." During the |