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Show Watches and Laws "Watches used to be made by skilled skill-ed mechanics," said President Lowell of Harvard University, "until some-one some-one discovered that something almost as good could be made by machinery. The same thing was discovered about law and that process of machine-made law we call legislation. We have 49 factories of it, going full speed." . The results , of this vast volume of "manufactured" laws are felt by every ev-ery citizen. Economically, they have caused higher taxes and a vast increase in-crease In the number of persons on the public payroll. Socially, they have been o great barrier to crime prevention. preven-tion. . ! Every American is, in one way or another, 'a law breaker. If we drive an automobile more than 40 miles an hour, smoke a cigarette or possess a revolver in s certain states, or play cards or go to the movies on Sunday in others, or do any number of things that are part of our daily lives, we are infringing on the law. Even our enforcement officers are law-breakers for failing to enforce many absurb laws and ordinances. That this has had an influence or major crimes goes without saying. Laws in the United States, have become be-come a joke. .The very volume of ill-considered, ill-considered, unscientific "reform" legislation leg-islation practically makes it Impossible for anyone to keep from breaking ordinances. or-dinances. Our lawmakers, whether they realize it or not, are the allies of the criminal class because, by passing pass-ing a multitude of laws, they increase the number of law-breakers, clog the courts with petty cases and create disrespect dis-respect for all law. Perhaps the country's greatest present pres-ent dayjieed is. for a weeding out of absurd, unenforceable and needless restrictive re-strictive laws, and a movement to place law-making in the hands of experts. |