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Show ARE WE A LAWLESS OR OVER-LAWED PEOPLE? "We are a lawless people," said a committee report to the last annual mooting of the American Bar Association. Asso-ciation. "Crime exists among us to an extent unknown in Great Britain, Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, Germany Ger-many and France. And our lawless-nous lawless-nous is not an acute, but a chronic disease. It is and old ulcer of which no doctor can say how or when, if ever, it will be healed." The question .this gives rise to may not be so obtuse as it seems. It is certainly cer-tainly within the realm of possibility that lawless America has been the direct di-rect result of too much law. In the other countries mentioned, there is not the continuous stream of new li.ws that flows in the United States. Some time ago a bill was introduced intro-duced in our congress to make the interstate shipment of revolvers and jvstnls illegal. It was finally defeated but such proposals and laws infringing infring-ing individual rights are a good example ex-ample of the trend toward making ilU'Kul, acts which in themselves are not illegal, thereby laying the groundwork ground-work for more law-breaking by otherwise other-wise law-abiding American citizens. |