Show legislative RUBBISH one of the crying needs of the present day is the searching out and repealing of the useless unenforceable and unnecessary legislative rubbish according to M J hickey secretary of the national industrial council at a conference held in new york the council pledged itself to labor for the simplification and codification of really useful and necessary laws which are now buried or obscured throughout our law books by a mass of obsolete or unnecessary enactments mr hickey declared that there are now about separately enacted laws and ordinances on the books of the various states more than more will be enacted during 1933 it is his belief and most citizens will concur in his view that too many of our lawmakers conceive it to be their duty to make misdemeanors out of trivial actions putting absurd restrictions on freedom burdening innocent people with undeserved punishments and otherwise loading the state books with j laws when we reflect that most of these useless laws not only harass the public but cost them handsomely in ona way and another it must be the inevitable conclusion that mr hickeys point is well taken |