Show ARE WE A LA LAWLESS ESS OR OVER- OVER I A VED PEOPLE We W ar are a lawless people said a committee report to the last annual meeting meting of the American Bar Association tion Crime exists among us to an ex es extent ex tent unknown in Great Britain Scandinavia Scandinavia Scan Scan- Holland Itel Belgium ium France anti and Germany And our lawlessness Is not an acute but a chronic disease It is an old ulcer of which no doctor can cnn say how or when if ever it will willbe willbe be healed The question this gives i es rise to ma may not be he so obtuse ns fIS it it seems It is certainly certainly cere within the realm of possibility that l lawless less America has been the direct direct direct di di- result of too much law la laIn In other countries mentioned there is not the continuous stream am of or new laws that flows in the United States Some time ago aJo a bill was introduced in our con congress ress to make the interstate shipment of revolvers and pistols il n. n If legal l. l It was finally defeated but such pr proposals and laws infringing n individual indi rights are arc a good example of the trend toward making illegal gal acts which in themselves res are arc not illegal al thereby la laying ing the work ground-work for more e law breaking by otherwise law abiding American citizens |