Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-08-03 | Page 6 | Invoke Blessing of Simplification

Invoke BI Blessing of Simplification to law is losing a cow for the sake of ofa GOING 3 a cat according to toan an ancient Chinese pray pray- erb It just goes to show that impatience with lawyers judges and courts has been manifest for almost countless ages ge bringing the ordinary man manto manto manto to agree with Ben Bert Franklin that II A 4 countryman country country- man between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats The American Bar association and the bureau of labor statistics seem to sense that thata a beginning should be made to remodel l the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration of justice and ameliorate the great hardship and injustice that results from overlapping overlapping overlapping over over- lapping administrative a agencies T The There h e r e are s three seventy governmental agencies with judicial functions The Tile American Bar association in a report made public in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Monday finds that this situation is dec decidedly decidedly de de- de- de c bad Entirely too many citizens find in actual experience the report states that at ac access access ac- ac cess to the courts is is' difficult that the procedural machinery is beyond any hope of or their understanding and utilizing it and that the thc legal system moves so slowly in their behalf that no prompt and summary relief can be ob ob- ob- ob tamed The bureau Dureau of labor statistics finds the legal aid situation as bad and prays for reform Any individual or corporation which has found it necessary to resort to any of these quasi-judicial quasi government agencies will bear out the statements 5 of the bar bare association Though polite words of condemnation may be difficult to find they can and do voice their sentiments with far stronger feeling than do the decorous gentlemen of the bar who urge consolidation of these many agencies into a federal administrative administrative administrative admin admin- court Such action would go far to speed up the untangling of disputed matters matter and save litigants monstrous monstrous' and needless expense Ordinary citizens have clamored for this simplification simplification simplification sim sim- for many years Now that the august American Bar association puts its shoulders to the wheel something may come of it One cogent explanation of why it has not been done before may be that of Macklin who vho observed that The law is a sort of hocus science that smiles in yo your r face fac while it picks your pocket and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the thc justiC justice 1 of it