OF THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAR HELD AT HARBOR ISLAND AUDITORIUM EDITED BY THOMAS W. DAVIS, SECRETARY ASSISTANTS WILLIAM L. SMITH :: LEONORA MILLS RALEIGH EDWARDS & BROUGHTON PRINTING Co. 1918 STANFORD LIBRAR PROGRAM NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION TUESDAY, JUNE 25TH 8:15 p. m.-Association convenes-The President, Mr. A. W. McLean, of the Lumberton Bar, presiding. Address of Welcome By Mr. G. V. Cowper, of the Kinston Bar. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26TH MORNING SESSION 10:00 A. M. Historical Address-By Major John W. Graham, of the Hillsboro Bar, on "Some Events in My Life; Some Lawyers I Have Known." Reports of Committees. AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 P. M. Address-By Hon. R. H. Welch, General Counsel of the Federal Land Bank, Columbia, South Carolina, on "The Relation of the Bar to the Success of the Federal Farm Loan System in the Third Federal Land District." EVENING SESSION 8:30 P. M. Address-By Monsieur Frederic Allain, of Paris, Counsellor to the French High Commission. THURSDAY, JUNE 27TH Address By Hon. W. J. Adams, of the Carthage Bar. 341705 PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL SESSION STANFRARY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION HELD AT HARBOR ISLAND AUDITORIUM The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION convened at Harbor Island Auditorium, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, at 8:15 p. m. on Tuesday, June 25, 1918. The meeting was called to order by the President, Mr. A. W. McLean. The President: The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association will now come to order. The address of welcome will be delivered by Mr. G. V. Cowper, of the Kinston Bar. (Applause.) ADDRESS OF WELCOME Mr. Cowper said: We meet amid perilous times. The world trembles in the balance tested by war, destruction, and death. We have but to strain our ears to seem to hear the tramp of soldiers, the roar of cannon, and the cry of anguish from the battle-fields of France. We have but to stretch our eyes to see, though through a glass darkly, ruined temples and decrepit women and children. In the past few days the havoc has been brought to our very door, as we have read in bold headlines of the destruction of American lives and American property by submarines along our own Atlantic coast. Never before, as today, in the recollection of any living man, has there been enacted |