Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1918, by CENTRAL LAW JOURNAL COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PRINTED BY CENTRAL LAW JOURNAL COMPANY. Central Law Journal. ST. LOUIS, MO., JULY 5, 1918. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. One of Pershing's men, returned from France, was speaking: "When I left for home," he said, "the boys over there were feeling pretty blue, because they thought that you here in America were not backing them up as you ought. We had a pretty bitter winter over there. The weather was the coldest France has known in years. Many of us were without proper food and clothing. Some were even without shoes. None of us were complaining, though, but the feeling that when we were doing so much for you, you were not doing everything in your power to back us up sometimes bit in pretty hard. "We felt like the little Irishman felt in a Y. M. C. A. hut one evening. A bunch of us had gathered there to listen to a speaker from America. During the course of his lecture he said: THE NEED OF A NATIONAL LAW PERI ODICAL. In beginning a new volume of the Central Law Journal, we take opportunity to thank our many subscribers and friends throughout the country for the high compliment implied by their continued patron age. We are constrained thus to express our gratitude by the fact that these are unusual and trying times and the demands of econcmy, enjoined by the necessities of the hour, and the expressed wishes of our National Government, have led not a few practitioners to cut off all legal periodicals but those most essential to them in their practice. That the Central Law Journal, of all national law publications, should have suffered the least justifies the presumption that this Journal is regarded by many lawnecessity. yers, in some degree at least, as an office But while this fact may offer some ground for self-congratulation, we, nevertheless, are conscious of a deep feeling of concern over the gradual disappearance of so many "We in America are behind you boys national law periodicals. Last month our to a man.' "Then my little Irish friend got up. 'Yes,' he said, 'you're all behind us, all right, a h of a ways behind-4,000 miles.'" Are we that far behind "the boys?" If we are, let us move up closer. Let us put all our energy into this War Savings Campaign. Let us save to the utmost of our ability and put our savings into W. S. S., and get everyone else to do the same. We ought to make "the boys" in France realize that while the mileage may be great, it is easily spanned by our willingness to help. Some one has said: "If one of our boys hesitated as long in going over the top as some people do in buying Liberty Bonds or War Savings Stamps, he would be courtmartialed and shot for cowardice. And if the same punishment were meted out to noncombatants for financial cowardice an awful lot of people would be shot at dawn." 7660 (RECAP) worthy contemporary, Case and Comment, of Rochester, suspended publication. Only a few years before, we purchased, on request, the entire subscription list and good. will of the Green Bag of Boston. many years before that event the Albany Law Journal went out of existence. Not The gradual disappearance of a national legal press should concern every lawyer in the United States. A bar of any great country without a strong national press is in danger of being regarded as provincial in habit of thought. It has not and cannot have wide range of vision, and while it may succeed commercially it is bound to deteriorate in respect of all those attributes and elements which go to make the profession of the law an intellectual profession rather than a commercial pursuit. There are, we admit, some very good reasons for present conditions in this country. |