| Show a sound legislative advice governor george il dern otters offers some sound legislative advice to the members ot of the utah legislature in his first official message to the solons he indicates that tor for all ordinary purposes utah has a sufficient number or of laws intimating that the welfare 0 of the state may be better served by a reconsideration ot of the laws now on the books than by the ot of numerous acts which are distinctly new no well informed individual could claim that there is no important work for the legislature to do heretofore the record of the legislature has been determined largely by the number of oe now new laws enacted irrespective of the effect or scope ot of these laws As a 1 general consequence e the statute be books have been littered with restrictions and prohibitions which are ire generally ignored we believe that human conduct is letter better served by laws which are generally observed and enforced than by idle legislative commandments which are neither respected by the public nor enforced by the executive officers dorthis for this reason we have long contended that a legislative session devoted largely to reviewing the work of its could render a distinct service to the state some of the laws passed in recent years have been tried and found wanting they serve no useful purpose and should be repealed other laws have tailed failed to accomplish the desired purpose for the good of the state they should be changed to more nearly conform to the experience gleaned from their operation it if the present legislature should undertake to perfect and clarity clarify existing laws in the light of the experience of the past few years it would find plenty of work to occupy the sixty days of the legislative session the number of 0 new laws which are essential to the welfare ot of the state at this moment might be counted on your fingers As governor derri dern indicates the legislatures opportunity tor for service lies in revising and perfecting the laws which are already in effect and not in searching tor for new subjects tor for legislation gi telegram |
