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Show Too Many Laws The American congress is once more in session. And it is probably safe to predict that each and everyone of the 500-odd 500-odd legislators gathered in Washington will introduce some score or more of bills which he would like to see enacted into laws. Many of these proposed laws, no doubt, are excellent things and should be passed. (Whether these are the ones that will pass, of course, is a different matter). But a growing number of Americans are coming to feel that congress, con-gress, and all other legislative bodies, would do well to wipe out a few thousand of the laws that are already on the statute books instead of adding more. It ought to be fairly obvious to any observer that at this moment the general public is not exactly clamoring for i . any new laws. In fact, most of the demand seems to be to have some ' 1 of our existing laws removed. In order words, the laws not in force are adequate to express America's customs and desires ; and some of them, indeed, no longer can be said to be I truthful representations of genuine current's of popular feeling. The present congress has a fine chance to make itself popular. All it needs to do is ignore most of the new law's that will be offered it, and set about a thorough revision, with a good, fat, blue pencil, of the laws that are now on I the statutes. |