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Having investigated, the citizens asked President Silas Hardy Strawn of the American Bar Association to preside over them at a discussion meeting. Last week the evening of the meeting came-rendered appropriate by the arrival that morning of three fresh corpses, the remains of some novice "hijackers," at a Chicago Heights morgue...
...citizens listened seriously to Chief Justice W. E. Brothers of the Criminal Court, to State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, to members of the Chicago Crime Commission, to Police Chief Hughes, all of whom said they were doing their duty and quoted figures to prove it. Lawyer Strawn, ever judicious, sought to mitigate the officials' embarrassment by saying heartily, "I do not believe crime here is greater than it is in any other city. In 36 years in Chicago, I have never been held up, robbed or racketeered. . . . By this testimony here we may do something to purge...
...Chicago, there was a banquet. Seymour Parker Gilbert, "Dawes plan' administrator, sat down. He was guest of honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance...
...Strawn pointed out that one section of the article in the typewritten text of his speech which stated, "At their best, lawyers are of just about as much value to society as an army of cross-word puzzle fans; at their all too frequent worst, they are a deadly drug on social progress...
Commenting on this statement, Strawn said, "There are a few lawyers still at the Bar who are wont to engage in the laborious and meticulous job of winding red tape. This type of lawyer is rapidly disappearing, for the obvious reason that that kind of exercise is not compensating, remunerative, or even interesting...