Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-07 | Page 8 | Criticizes Voluble lawmakers

Criticizes Voluble Lawmakers V aW "; jS Young Sam Stone, critic of eV . 1 wordy legislation, compares a a . mi ' - Bible with a law book. He be- , 'X ' f , lieves lawmakers should brush f up on Mosaic law so as to get v brevity into their enactments. Boy Refers Legislature To Brevity of Bible If members of the 1941 legislature would follow the advice of Sam Stone, 14-year-old Jordan junior high school student, they would get out their Bibles and brush up a bit on Mosaic law. The whole point In this proce-1 dure for the legislators would be to get some brevity In the numerous numer-ous bills they Introduce, young Mr. Stone explained. They ought to look in the Bible and get a few idea there, because all of those laws arc short" he said of the legislators. Suggests Decalogue ture when it convenes In January, but the time he spends there will be limited. Besides attending school, he is a Telegram carrier. He started the study of Mosaic law "because I found it very Interesting," In-teresting," he said. He has not decided what his life's work Is going to be. In prescribing a specific line of reading for' the modern lawmakers, lawmak-ers, their critic suggested the Ten Commandments. "The Commandments simply state that you shall not do so and so, and breaking one of them usually usu-ally meant death," ha pointed out. Any legislator seeking reelection would be required to answer this question, under the Stone plan: "Why did you use 2000 words in a bill that could have been covered cov-ered by 100; why did you talk on the floor 20 minutes when two minutes could have covered your subject?" I'nderstands a Little The youthful critic explained he has attended sessions of the legislature legis-lature and "I could understand a little of what they were doing." Sam plans to visit the legisla-