times feel that it is probably not due to my association with both the "ring" and the "roughnecks", but that my election is due to the company I have always brought with me to this Association. With the exception of one year, when illness in my family prevented, I have always brought with me all of my wives and some of my daughters. In fact I see now a gentleman in this body, who has brought with him three very charming daughters, and I predict that he is certainly in line for election to the Presidency of this body. I understand he has five more at home. His daughters evidently take after the mother, and she must be a beautiful woman. So I don't believe my election is due to my connection with either the "ring" or the "roughnecks", but due to the fact that I have been trying to bring charming company with me to the Association.

Now, it is cutomary for the incoming President to express his gratitude at being elected President. To be truthful about it, I really do enjoy being elected President of this body. At different times I have had honors of a greater or less degree thrust upon me, some of which I deserved and most of which I did not, but I have always wanted to be President of the Georgia Bar Association, and you have elected a man who really deeply, in his heart, appreciates it, and I am sure my family appreciate it. We have been very closely attached to the Association, not only officially but personally. It has always been my pleasure to be of any service I could at any time, and at the present and in the future this is and will still be my attitude. I want to thank each and everyone of you for having elected me to this position. I only hope that I can in some small way measure up the honor you have thrust upon me. I can promise every member of this Association, whether he belongs to the "roughnecks" or the "ring", whether he is a member of the "old guard" or the "new guard", be he young or old, that I want to treat him absolutely fairly as my friend, and as having equal rights with every other

member, not only on the floor, but in all of the activities of the Association.

I hope that next year we will all be back here, and that we will have many new ones with us, and I trust that we will have a meeting which at least in a measure will approach the very excellent meeting that is now adjourning. (Applause.)

The President: We have at the Savannah Bar a very splendid young lawyer; and when I say that I mean that he is a very fine man and that he is very much beloved and liked by all. He had a friend who came down from his old home in the country a short while ago. This friend was looking for him, and went out to the golf links to wait for him. The friend was standing there, watching them come in on the eighteenth hole, and, as he looked up and saw our lawyer, he said: "Who is that I see coming here? Why, that's John Kennedy. What! With those stockings on, and those short trousers? My God, there's another Cracker gone wrong." (Laughter).

It is now my pleasure to yield to "another Cracker gone wrong." I declare the thirty-eighth annual session of this Association now adjourned.

APPENDIX

JUDICIAL CONTROVERSIES ON

FEDERAL APPELLATE

JURISDICTION.

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT,
ALEXANDER R. LAWTON,
OF SAVANNAH.*

Seven years ago at the beginning of the World War; in greater degree four years ago when we wearied of having others fight our battles for us and began to save ourselves; and in still greater degree since the Armistice came, adding the problems of peace and readjustment to those of war; we were and are fond of saying that these are troublous times and that the problems of today are the most serious that have yet confronted us. When we do so we forget the hardships and the struggles and the uncertainties confronting our ancestors from the days of the settlement of Jamestown and Plymouth, and steadily getting more easy of solution as the years rolled on. In this paper we con sider no period earlier than the close of the Revolution, being concerned only with the great problems of the creation of this Republic and its establishment and maintenance on a foundation which should endure for all time as a model for all the earth. Our forbears did not shrink from the task, and it is accomplished.

We of today have a Government which has successfully weathered four years of a bloody Civil War, and you will agree that the conflicts which I shall today bring to your at*Greatly abbreviated for oral delivery. For authorities cited vid. post p. 137.

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