| Show TOO MUCH LAW an organization of eminent lawyers formed to promote the clarification and simplification of the law lama and its better adaptation to special needs and to secure the better administration ot of justice and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal w work ork has been formed at a meeting held in washington D C which was attended by four hundred of the leading jurists of the country f former director ot of the budget dawes says the country is tired of rule by organized minorities which h thwart the will of the unorganized majority the right reverend thomas F gallor bishop of tennessee lays at the door of the reformer much of the disrespect of law of which the country complains and says that laws which restrict personal freedom and m make a ke crimes of natural acts r cause ause contempt of courts gl evidently something is wrong when v the law lawyer yer the layman and the churchman all agree that something Is awry in our legal structure something probably Is one mans guess is as good as an others as to what but there is a decided undercurrent of belief in many quarters that one of our troubles il if not the cause of all our legal tangles is too much law too much adding statute to statute regulation to regula tion practice to practice without any clearing out of the dead wood ot of old and worn out ideas there lre re even those who say that much legal trouble Is caused by lawyers there Is too much reverence for tradition and precedent and not enough common sense and therefore not enough expedition in law p processes ro I 1 that the lawyers themselves are I 1 forming an association to investigate and initiate reforms is comfort comforting ng that t I 1 they may have the vision to call to their aid some common sense blew i j points from laymen and chur churchmen chmel I 1 for whom the laws are made Is de to be hoped |
