Show HOW ABOUT TAKING THIS CHICKEN HOME TO ROOST even in the liberal atmosphere of our present day fret democracies democracies legislation is far from free laws cost an in inconceivable amount of money to make enforcement is is s a 3 matter of high finance the expense is startling even 1011 a dignified body of statesmen merely goes through the motions of makin making 9 laws without the questionable consolati oi n of results on the statute book with a possible return n on the dinv inv investment estment in the ma matter ater of fill fines es witness duns dims senthi sent by the league of nations to delinquent members 5 says ays tnt the times of paris france six nations according to the bills sent from gene benevi owe the league more than OW gold francs overdie payments of the pro rata expenses the six ria nations tion china bolivia honduras nicaragua panama and P ceru not countries which contribute a very great s share hare to the pi bu keep of the organization of more than fifty ers u which are supposed to have derived OW gold francs of good from the debates on the shores of lake leman lema if the expenses in geneva of the international a I 1 ri m lakers of laws that are not laws are s surprising ur the fi figures v bounto dented by aggregate cost of national p lal be 2 and the world nit musi st municipal legislation throughout 0 trono mical in the united st states ates the sum is is greatly drw coir dented by the activity of amateur legislators ahot not tent with bills passed and run up tip by prof professionals essi donals and h 1 0 re ferer and the initiative an quent expensive recourse to dum ills bills a aal the state of oregon for instance e has a adew few ton 6 ea ec amendments to come before its voters in in the e I 1 november they make a booklet containing aw pages V in or de print and distribute half a million of these booklets collot tot of that the voter may regard the bulk if not the ovi ballot before going to the polls has cost ta the ile state stare districts of dollars the actual cost of the election in in so sonic le end iture has been estimated at one dollar a vote dutile futile eap enof on 1 largely as many voters have come to vote cir the every measure merely as a protest aga against dinst of wholesale legislation discard disc 10 if legislators would devote a few years to t lie si the thousands of obsolete laws lawn which n now fill nu j books of most lost countries of the world instead of adding more dead wood to the useless complex mass the regulation burdened citizen might lose his discouraged frown the combination of fewer and cheaper laws would also mean better laws |