Eight Charged
With Writing
Wills Illegally
The Lancaster County Bar
Association has started civil
court action against eight men
who are magistrates or notaries
public, asking tnat they be re
strained from “illegally” prac
ticing law-
The eight are: Paul F Diehm,
Lititz, justice of the peace;
Wayne S- Martin, Goodville,
notary public; Raymond E-
Scheckard, Columbia, notary,
Alger H Shirk, Schoeneck,
justice; H- .B- Slack, Inter
course, justice; Henry P. Stager,
New Providence justice; Lester
Weidman, Elizabethtown, jus
tice; Arthur M Yeager, justice
The coihplamt against each
man charges him with illegally
practicing law and says he
"wrongfully and unlawfully
practices law in Lancaster
County by rendering legal ser
vices and advice to various per
sons and by drafting wills and
other documents having legal
effects.”
All Cited for Wills
Each man is charged speci
fically with drawing up wills. In
each case, according to the pa
pers filed, the justice or notary
drew up a will for a fee, and a
copy of the will in question is
attached to the papers in the
suit against each individually
‘ The papers were filed in the
office of the Prcthonotary Friday
afternoon.
20 Days To File Reply
Under the law, the persons
named in the suits have 20 days
to file a reply.
Sheckard, who is in the insur
ance business x «t Columbia, said
that if a client requests infor
mation on a law, he will give it,
but does not ask a fee- He said
no one from the bar association
had talked to him about the
matter, and that if he violated
the law, he did so “unwittingly.”
Sheckard also raised the
question as to whether he could
hire an attorney to fight an ac
tion brought by the bar associa
tion, which represents all at
torneys.
Others of the eight declined
comment or were' deer hunting
or out-of-town for other reasons,
and could not be reached for
comment
H Clay Burkholder, president
of the bar association, explained
at the press conference that the
Pennsylvania Bar Association,
which joined in the action taken
by the county bar, seeks to end
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the unlicensed or unauthorized
practice of law
Stating that the regulations
for admission to the bar are
very strict, he listed the re
quirements for becoming an at
torney. Admission to the bar
makes the attorney an officer of
the court, he said, and" he is
answerable to the court for any
misconduct or ethical breach of
his duties as a lawyer '
Burkholder’s Statement
Burkholder* as president of the
bar, issued the following state
ment -
“ The Jaws of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania have
established ve>y strict regula
tions for admission to the Bar
Every prospective lawyer is first
investigated by a preliminary
examining committee which
carefully inquires into his fit
ness from the standpoint of in
tegrity, temperament, proper
motivations and character.
“After the prospective law
student has been approved by
this committee he will not be
permitted to begin the study of
law unless he has an appropriate
college degree or its equivalent
He then must engage in the
study of law for a period of
not less than three years In
addition, he must serve a clerk
ship in the office of a practicing
lawyer for a period of six
months and tmally he must have
passed a ngoious examination
given by the State Board of
Law Examineis Four of the six
months’ clerkship must be served
after this examination has been
taken.
Is Officer of Court
“When the law student has
passed the -examination and
served the clerkship, he is eli
gible for admission to practice
law before the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, the Superior
Court of Pennsylvania, and the
courts of the county in which he
is registered His admission
automatically makes him an
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officer of the court in which he
is practicing and makes him
answerable to that couit for any
misconduct 01 ethical breach of
his duties as a lawyer
“Each Bar Association main
tains a Board of Censors before
whom complaints about the
conduct of a lawyer are hea'id
The lawyer, therefore, in Penn
sylvania is a well trained and
well disciplined citizen who is
subject to sanctions which are
not applied to nonmembers of
the Bar Because of the high
standards maintained in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
of the objectives of the
the “*Pennsylvania Bar Associa
tion, as well as of all the local
Bar Associations is to eliminate
unlicensed or unauthorized piac
tice of law
Cites Increasing Activity
“In recent yerrs there has been
an increasing activity on the
iart of unlicensed peisons to
nve legal advise and to draw
egal documents The reqmre
nent of a license to practice law
s dictated oy considerations of
public interest, and no one
should be permitted to disregard
this requirement merely because
he believes himself qualified
to do what the law says he shall
not do
“The public readily accepts the
fact that if unlicensed persons
are allowed to practice medicine,
the public’s health would be
gravely menaced It should be
equally clear to everyone that a
man’s property, has reputation*
Ms liberty, and, in fact, his very
life is similarly placed in jeop
ardy by the advice and. counsel
of a person untrained in the law
and accountable to no higher au
thority for his conduct
Not Singled Out
'“Our Bar Association has in
stituted proceedings against cer
tain laymen for the unauthorized
practice of the law. It is, of
course, impossible to proceed at
one time against all of the per
sons believed to be engaged in
the unlicensed practice of the laiw
in this country.
“The present suits do not rep
resent the singling out of indi
viduals for purposes of attempt
ing to make examples only of
them but are a part of a compre
hensive program intended to
stamp out all unlicensed or un
authorized practice of the law iif
our country. We shall continue to
carry out our obieotive whenever
we find laymen, whoever they
may be, guilty of unlicensed
practice of law. We respectfully
solicit the support of the public
in carrying out this duty. 1 ”
Lancaster Farming, Friday, December 9, 1955
Rambling With
The Sage of -
Ant Hill
Washington, D. C.,
Horoscope—ln the lobby of
the D- C- Unemployment Com
pensation Bcaid office there is
a penny-weighing scale. The
front panel of *he scale bears
the legend “Character Read
ings,” while the side panels have
the legend “Your Wate and
Fate ” There is no doubt that
many recipients of unemploy
ment payments are anxious to
know their fate as to futuie
employment
The Nation’s Capital does not
have a Santa Clause parade of
the Gimbel-Mrcy type, but some
of the suburban shopping areas
do stage such affairs- However,
the many department stores
have put on their holiday garb,
toy departments are entei taming
the young ser and the oldsters
gape at the gaily decorated win
dow displays The F. Street
merchants’ associations have
erected the sidewalk lights and
Christmas characters and will
formally open the display Mon
day evening The Christmas
shopping rush got off to" a. great
start the day after Thanksgiving
and merchants peidict the big
gest year yet expenenced
The National Community
Ranck Bar Attorney,
John Malton Ranck, in whose
office the conference was held, is
serving as attorney for the 'bar
association.
In each case, a copy of a will
which the justice or notary is
Said to have drawn up is attached
Seven of the wills were drawn up
for either Henry H Qlenzah or
James R Grant, both of Phila
delphia, and one for Robert P
Agnaw, Columbia. The three men
were private investigators for the
bar, Ranck said ,
The bar asks each of the'eight
men be halted from
Advertising or holding himself
out in any way as an attorney or
as one qualified to draw legal
papers.
Giving legal advice with re
spects to wills or the handling of
decedents’ estates of other mat
ters, or from drawing or prepar
ing wills or any other legal docu
ments of any kind whatsoever
Practicing law in any form, ei
ther directly or indirectly, and
from consulting with and contact
ing his customers as to their so
called legal rights, and furnish
ing them with advice as to legal
matters, or with any form of legal
service
The har also asked that if af
ter hearing, if deemed appropri
ate by the court, the entire mat
ter be referred to the Distnct At
torney for prosecution It also
asked the comt to take any
further acction “deemed neces
sary and proper for the protec
tion of the public and the main
tenance of the standards of the
legal profession in. the practice
iof la w ”
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Christmas tree will be elected
on the Ellipse south of the White
House and the second Pageant
of Peace will be officially opened
on December 18 when President
Eisenhower pi esses a button in
Gettysburg to light the tree. A
sixty-five foo* spiuce from the
Black Hills of South Dakota will
carry 8,000 lights and decbia
tions of every description imd
color The Pathway of Peace
will be lined with Christmas
liees representing the States of
the Union and many foieign
lands. Non-chnstian lands will
likewise contribute symbols of
peace and brotherhood The
pageant will contmue over a two
week period and will present
religious services, carol singing,
tableaux, folk dancing and
programs staged by many of
embassies '
Burial on Capitol Hill—The
recent Roll Call, the newspaper
of Capitol Hill, tells cf the
“burial” of Senator Henry C
Hansborough, Republican of
North Dakota The Senator,
prior to his death, had expressed
a wish to remain on the Hill
forever and left instructions for
ciemation and the scattering of
his ashes under a certain elm
tree In the >atter pait of 1933
the Senator passed away and,
after funeral services were h,eld,
the ashes weie delivered to a
friend That night a group of
the late Senatoi's closet fi lends
including a member of Congiess
assembled and, after a simple
prayer was offered by a Congres
sional aide, the ashes were scat
tered under the appropriate elm.
It was a clandestine affair but
the Senator gamed the distinc
tion of being the only one, re
gardless of type of burial, “to lie
at peace in the softly-sloping
hills of the Capdol giounds”
On a recent lunch hour trip
to Capitol Hill it was noted that
there was a dearth of visitors.
It was, no doubt, an “off-day”
for usually every day is p busy
one in the Cap tol However, the
absence of Cjnspcssional session*
does cast a certain sepulchral
effect to the corridors of the
gieat building Even the Sen
ate and House Office Buildings
lack the usual hustle and bustle.
Many members of Congress have
transplanted some of their office
staffs to the home territoi y t to
“rebuild fences” and furnish
constituents with expeditious
service The trek to Washing
ton will begin after Christmas.
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