Show ARE WE LAWLESS we hear a lot about lawlessness in america and it is true that we are lawless in one sense of the word that is there is more disregard of law in this country perhaps than in any other on the globe however if we define lawless fo mean being without laws we are certainly anything else but we live under many thousands of laws and ord mancs most of which the average citizen never heard of A statement by T R preston former president of the american bankers association will illustrate this he said it would take a man working eight hours a day seven years to read all the laws enacted last year yet ignorance of the law is no excuse courts are so congested that the district attorney of new york estimates that if every defendant should demand a jury trial the calendars would be years behind in four years americans will go to war and give their lifes blood for liberty and then turn around and enact laws depriving themselves of all liberty burglars who broke into an empty chicago vault may profit by the practice they got out of the job an important qualification for a fight referee Is to be able to count ten to the satisfaction of all concerned 9 the proverb says a man diligent in his business shall stand before kings but he is more likely to stand before the federal fiade commission we can readily believe the report that a georgia gentleman who is about to be confronted by five alleged wives is in a highly nervous condition president hoover could settle the war debt problem ake nothing at all if he would only let mr lippmann tell him how astronomers think mars is trying to signal the earth they probably have a war on and want uncle sam to finance it mr roosevelt is strong for reforestation but the newspaper boys seem to be finding plenty of cabinet timber for him |