Detroit College of Law - Forum Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

Page 134 text:

lFORUM TO A FUTURE ESTATES PROFESSOR WITH A PRAYER FOR SPECIFIC RELIEF 1'1'11 1111111 1'f1111l11.11f1L'1'j 111111 1'111'111'.v1011.v 1151 11111 x1'111'11, 'Tix 11.vx111111111 1f y1111'11 f111x.v R11111 P1'0Pl,1'f-X' 1I'. 11111111 11 .gIHIl1tI'X', 111111 111111111 l11l1VX' of f11'l1t'1', 11'11.I' .vf11'111 111 f7U11lfl'1'1'11.f! 11'1'1' 1111 1311111 1.11 S'111'111'.x .v Cl1,fL'. Off 011 111-I' 111111111 1 l'l11f1lf 11111 11151 17111' 11111.v11111 1111 711111111 1111 11x111111 7l'0I11f1 111111. 1'1111'i'1' 1'l'l1fI 1,111 f11I11' 1'111'111'1'.v of 1,111 11I,v11'111111'1I1, N11'1E1 1fIfl'.V.S' 111111111 11111 11111111 1111111 111f1f111l. 1111' .I'11111111'x of 11'111.v 111111 of 1'.I'11x 1.1 11111 1111' 11111111 111111 t'171Ilfll.H'l'.Y,' .fl 1111111 11111 11111 610111111011 L1121' 111111'.v,v 11.1 .v1111'1'.v, 13111 'Zl'1l-X' 11111 1111' L1'111.v1111111'11 11111.vx 1111 11111 71'111'11.v.' T1111111111 lllj' .vf111'11 1111'-:11 11111 l11Il'Il1'V 11711111 1'l'l1li111!f 0f7I.lII'0ll.Y 113' C1111111y, YU! 1 'Zx'01I1t1 1011111-X' ll1111l,11f IIVIIU11 1111-1111 11111111115 11111' fll..CXl7111l. 1 .Y17I11f111 .vj111'11111111.I'111' 111'z'1111111111Ix 7111 111.11 1111' 1111111 11.I'1'1'111111',v 111111111111111x. 711117111111 1 111.1111 IIIDX' 111111111111 1'I1I 11111 ll 1111111 111xx. 151211111 1'11111111'1I11111'x .v11I1111111111'.v 111'1' 1'1'11.I'x. 1 1111151111 1111 1'11x11'111111x 1I11tIl'IIA'1 lIIilj11l1,1.011. My 17111111 1111.11 .v11111'1'1111 11 F111-11-1.111 gf!'1'l1fi011 O11 111111111111 11,111 1'.v11111'.s' f1111x 111111I11111'.v, 1'11111111'.v 11111 131111' l11fl1l.11.f1 P1'1'f1111111'l1'1'.v. 1f lllj' 1111'11,f 1111 .v11'1'11k1111 1111111 111.11-V, 'T1.v f1'11111 ,Y1l1t1.X' of 11111 lif1lkf1'1.11l' of C'-I' P1'11.f. -'1II11 1111-211 1111' 1:111111'11111111' 1111111111'11f1'11111 1111 1 11111 1111 1,11',v 1111-ff11'L, 'YUI1 111 1111.v 1111111 1111011 111 111111: 011.7 f11'11f11.v.F111'. 1111511 011 11 111 11 kIAlZ111VX' 11'1f111, 111111111 A'1II7I11l1 11111'1'1'1I, 111111 III-V 111111111 1x 1111 1'I-11111. 1711111111 111111 1111.1 11111111 f'11111ll1i11.V 1111' f11'0f11'1' .v111'11'. 1 1I1'1'11 1111, f1f1111'.vl', 11111 11111111 15 l'11f111f1l1. +111-117l1I' K. 5YL'l11'.Y11.'3 III III-X' 0f I.1Z10lI, 11 1111111111111 11111111111 I-11 1'i't'1I11I1f ,v1'1111111 1x 111011 1111111 41 111x111110111111 of s1'11111111'x111'f1,' 11 1.v f11'111'111'1111-I' ll 1111111'111111'1' of 1'11111'111'1111'. -171111111 C011-v. N11111111f1 1x l't'lI11j' -1110111 111111115 you 1111111111 1'11t11l11' 111' 111111111 .f0111l 11I1IIg 111511. f-S11' 1. JI. 1?111'1'11'. Page One Hundred Thirty

Page 133 text:

FORUM Facts: Goose Creek Flying School tVVill teach you to fly in two hours-I'ilot's license in six-55100.00 per hour. Perfect flyer in less than a week. Approved by Someone. See ad in Brief Casenl is situated in a stubbly held located at the junction of two busy highways. B, a student, has completed ground work and dual instruction and is ready for a solo flight. He has the aeroplane in the middle of the field facing up-wind. XYith a last safe, prolonged, and wistful look at the ground he gives it the gun tvery technical expression meaning open the throttleg all lawyers should know these scientific, aeronautical termsl. The plane starts off across the ground. He manages to get the tail up enough so that the plane will run. It takes off, the power of the engine in this case making the take-oil, not the pilot. After rising about twenty feet in the air, said pilot, his nlind frozen in the icy grip of fear and his muscles bound in an enthralling dismay. gets the machine in a steep bank turn and proceeds to do a Ruggles, reversing his held. NYithout knowledge of where the goal is, and with less knowledge and total disregard for the sidelines, he plunges in the reverse direction, imperiling the life of one of Goose Creek's intrepid, heroic, war veteran instructors tsee advertisementsl tsaid instructor received ground school training during the war at Army's Primary Ground School and learned to Hy, after being canned as unfit from said Army School, in a second hand, barn-storming plane owned by an old time saloon keeper of progressive mind who saw the possibilities of aeroplanes at the inception of the 18th .-Xmendmentl. As I said, the said student, imperiled this worthy hero's life and the life of his latest pupil as they were coming down and about to land. They didn't crash. why is unexplainable, but it was so close that said pupil lost all desire to continue in the instruction and said instructor was so annoyed that he said things worthy of record in the annals of aeronautics. FZ proceeded across the field, or rather we should say the aeroplane containing B proceeded across the field, as it was flying B - Il not tlying it. In crossing the road. busy with Sunday traffic, the tailskid of the plane caught on the telephone wire. He ditln't crash! The Guardian Angel that watches over babes, drunken men, fools, and married women, together with the power of the engine still pulled the crate along. Ry some fortuitous circumstance the plane turned and proceeded back to the air-drome, and whether aided by said student or not, it lost its gliding grace and plankcd down on the ground with a wham. As the age of miracles is not past, neither nor the plane was damaged. He had taken off by the power of the engine, and had flown by the power of the principalities of the air, and had landed by the grace of God. XYhen he was able to hear, for the noise of the engine had deafened him, and was able to shut his mouth, for fear had opened it and kept it open during the whole procedure, he was soundly clapped on the back by the owner and optimistic proprietor of the said Goose Creek Flying School. He was told and enthusiasticaly assured that from henceforth and forevermore he was to be known as one of .-Xmerica's great flying men, and after one more flight like that he would be entitled to a license to fly any kind of a machine, in any kind of weather. anywhere, with any load. passengers, freight, or both, and that he was sure to get his name in the headlines of the paper when he crashed and killed himself lthe 111Ore passengers he should be carrying at the time of such crash, the greater his newspaper column spacel. The possibilities were all to be available on the payment of his final 3100.00 and the cost of the repair to the tailskid. Now the Telephone Company wants its money for the repair of the telephone wires This is where the attorney comes in, that is, on the side of the telephone company. Question: How can you collect any money from the Goose Creek Flying School: Answer: Get a big bag of salt and a butterfly net-crawl stealthily toward the tlock ot planes and pilots in front of the hangar and-well anyhow it is commonly believed that a law student innnediately upon graduation is of inestimable value to any business so you may start a flying school for yourself. No doubt there are many law students and possibly a few attorneys who would feel perfectly at home in aeronautical law. Their minds have been for a long time in as great a whirl with as much rattle and whir as any propeller. In thought of them- selves they have soared to greater heights than any aeroplane will ever attain. Figure it out for yourself. XVarm air goes up. An aeroplane flies because its hurried forward motion through the air forms a vacuum on top of the wings which lifts it up. How many young attorneys we see rush from law school expecting to boost themselves by hot air and who too are so firmly and securely held in a vacuum while slithering about at great speed trying to impress their public by their great though misapplied industry and self-inflation! XVell, as I said in the beginning-XVhat goes up nmst come down, therefore. control yourself! V Page One Hundred Twenty nzne

Page 135 text:

FORUM INDICTMENT lRCL'BlSCRIl3IilJ by .Xncient Laws. regulated by a myriad of uncertain legislative acts. and re- luctant ever to cast aside the death grip of doubtful precedent and un- substantial technicalities, the legal profession has been unable to speed up the administration of justice to keep pace yvith modern business. As a result of this conspicuous failure to secure expedition and thoroughness in the enforcement of public and private rights, business has in some cases been forced to establish arbitration boards and bu- reaus to secure that vvhich the con- stitution says the courts shall give. The demand for simplicity in pro- cedure does not spring only from ignorant and radical reformers or iconoclasts but is a step in the ad- vance of progressive jurisprudence. for it is historically proven that ex- treme teclmicality is the sign of an undeveloped system of lavv. in vvhich legal rights are subordinate to the procedure to enforce them, wherein the substance is secondary to the form. ls our legal system too slovv for this machine age? Cl,.XRliNCli R. MARTIN. FROM THE WILL OF STEPHEN GIRARD ICCOXDLY. l enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, missionary or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty vvhat- soever in the said college: nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor, vvithin the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said college. In making this restriction, l do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person yvhatsover: but as there is such a multitude of sects. and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, l desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest. free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce: my desire is, that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains In instill into the minds of the scholars. the purest principles of morality. so that. on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit. evince benevolence toward their fellow creatures. and a love of truth. sobriety and industry. adopting at the same time, such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer. .Y0tc: The heirs tried to break this vvill vvitli llaniel XYebster's assistance. Their con- tention vvas founclecl largely upon this paragraph, Nevertheless, the vvill prevailed before the Supreme Court of the United States. A Page One Hundred Thzrty one