Communication: Anniversary Greetings

In our youthful, if not adolescent, culture it is probably inevitable that we should celebrate fiftieth anniversaries. We do not allow buildings to stand long enough to love them, so it is natural that a baby profession such as yours should be prideful of its half-century history of the spread of its gazette. In Iceland a recorded history goes back for a thousand years while in Africa, which we read so much about today, probably a majority of the total population has not yet reached the point of having a written language and of those who have a written language a high proportion are totally illiterate. But congratulations, particularly because of your youthful in a youthful nation.

A decade before I entered the Bar in conflict with the spirit of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, a man named Freud found it practically impossible to find a lecture platform on which he was welcome in our Republic. Probably it is the way of man that the older professions will aways be so insecure that any new theory, particularly one with the shock of the ideas uttered by Dr. Freud, should be a peril. We reacted on Dr. Freud's trip to the United States very much as the literate communicating folk must have acted in Italy at the time of Galileo or Copernicus. It is odd, however, that in our fast-moving culture we felt the need of the cowardice implicit in an unwillingness to admit error or a change of previously publicly pronounced positions. Say what you will of the legal profession, it is more fluid than the medical profession. Although with the increase of specialization of the bar, resistance to change increases. It is understandable and maybe the only solution will come from your minds and your blue pencils. But the specialist who has learned all of the details which are needed by other men is fearful of any new idea because he will have to unlearn what he acquired in the past and thus