| Show EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY Sunset magazines passes the question Are you a lawbreaker lawbreaker lawbreaker law law- breaker Of course you are How could you hope to obey all all' the laws passed by your city your state and your national con congress congress congress con gress If you should employ the most able in the land to guide you he could not read fast enough to keep informed as asto asto asto to the new legislation and multiplicity of court ourt decisions Since we cant can't even hope to know what all the laws are it follows that we must violate many of them s says ys the magazine Charles Alexander editor of the Albany Oregon Democrat joet novelist critic literary editor says the truth is quite as ash V V Sunset has stated it we have reached a state of mind where we must by the terms of necessity use our and be our own judges of what is proper and what is wrong The fact that thata a thing is law no longer impresses us The man craves a drink and can get it says the magazine feels no moral moral moral mor mor- al restraint Tell him that he is a lawbreaker and he will laugh and cite instances to prove that you too are a lawbreaker I This is an indictment hard to escape says philosopher Alexaner Alexan- Alexan er er It is a true indictment one into which enters not alone the idle pomposity of American laws in matters but also the thc official lack of recognition of fundamental tendencies in the individual in in- which make toward his decent treatment of his fellow citizen Hear him further Take Tak the traffic f id law If forty miles an hour is needed to make the hill right ahead on high gear and the way is clear and safe ninety-five ninety P per r er cent of drivers will speed to forty miles or more It is a matter of their own judgment A regard for fundamentals is the greatest attribute of any fundamentally free people the enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- I ment of detailed regulations is a sign of the serf o The more laws that are passed the less less' effective they will wil become Truth is is the middle ground the mans land whet when so few ever venture Law is good Too little law is bad To Toe much law is bad A sensible amount of law is just right In America we have altogether to too much law lavi and nd ill illustrations aliens cited are merely examples of what obtains ins in iri a a dozen dozen dzen of other her d. d departments of daily endeavor |
