| Show FREAK LA LAWS VS OF AMERICA mm CITED Declares Personal Freedom Is Endangered It It shall be unlawful for the owner or of o horses mules cattle sheep or goats to run at large With this quotation from n a freak law enacted by the tho Tennessee Tennesee see ee legislature of or 1913 Charles n Il Hollingsworth state senator elect senator In his address before the Ogden Rotary club this noon stressed tho need of less less rather than tha more legislation It SIt would take a man a third of ohis his life to read the laws enacted in this country In a single year the Iho senator elect declared ing our national existence we have written more laws into our statute books than were made It by hall alt all the nations of o the earth In the past years From this it imay may be seen that we are a law law- that arc are so ridden that e people we swamped with laws which con con- contradict contradict each other than our per per- freedom granted to us by bythe b the constitution is endangered Hollingsworth suggested at the he conclusion of ot his t talk lk that all new members of or the state legis legislature lature be invited to the O Ogden Livestock show In January whIch begins shortly before the convenIng lug ing ol or the state legislature CAN PRODUCTION John Jolla Leonard manager ot or the Ogden plant of ot the Iho American Can company of ot Utah who preceded the solon gave a vocational tal before the seven guests and more mort than 50 members of or the club As there are but tons toil lin tin of ot tin mined yearly early in this com coca y ti-y it is necessary for tor us to 10 go g abroad to get that commodity The Un United lIed States spends more money for tor or tin than for any other metal Imported Leonard stated The American Can company con pan alone buys more tin plate from the United State Tin Plate corn com pany than any other purchaser purchase In Inthe inthe the world Leonard Jeonard then their went on to give Ive statistics ot or the tho local factory Dm lug Ing 1925 cans were turned out of or the Ogden factory which If It placed end ead to end would reach third one ot or the distance around the world The annual 1 payroll amounts to it iwas was stated while the plant Is Isable Isable 1 i able to produce 27 cans a minute Introduced by President Charle harles Empey Miss June Ernley Emley played a piano solo in the interiM follow follow- following tag the luncheon and preceding tilo tho speakers Hollingsworth's speech follows WEEDING NEEDED i By legislative need Is meant not more legislation but less loss leg leg- I am firmly convinced that there ll Ii altogether too loo much legislation and that that Is true tru In Utah There Thele Is one exception which will be discussed presently It n has hD been sal said 1 that tho the coun- coun country country country try Is not hot merely going law crazy but that It Is law craz crazy Somebody has figured It out national existence that during our as the United States we have pass pass- passed passed ed more moro laws than were passed by byall bYall b all peoples for the entire years preceding We Ve are arc a ridden law-ridden nation The remedy lies only In weeding out conflicting statutes and deci- deci decisions codifying them and condensing ing them them so as merely to digest the th principles It would take a It man one thino or of his lifetime to read all all the ex- ex exIsting existing existing statutes United States that are arc applicable strictly to him him- himself himself him himself self It would taK J lia hu three years year to not rend read not to digest or r analyze but just to read alt hurriedly all 1 all tile the decisions handed down br b by the courts In one years year's ears time Between the sixty-second sixty sixty seventh congresses a total of bills were Introduced It ItIs ItI Is I a conservative e estimate that the th bills Introduced during the same Rame sam time In all al the state legislatures would number clos to half a A million million lion Of Ot the Introduced In congress s only passed for for- fortunately fortunately U n SWELLING One hundred years ears ago said Justice Marshall the lawyer with witha witha It a library of volumes had about tile tho most complete law library pos sible But today he ho would ha base hac hato c to have over volumes For example the Now York Law LI- LI LIbrary Li Lt Library association lies has law books upon the Ule shelves of Its li II library and amId Is adding at the tho rate ralo of between and a year Belief in statutory law as II a a cure-all cure Is belief In patent medi- medi l I C i ine ne and the American have havel I l he habit Their medicine closet close I Is- Is full ull of t oUtes and they are arc con con coil dosing them olves They take lake and ani painkillers and be- be believe be believe lieve lIe what they read rend on the tho labels It Is the means menns by which active minorities unrepresentative ot or any serious sellous opinion In the state obtain effect for tor Ideas The rhe Tennessee legislature of 1913 enacted that It shall be unlawful for tho the owner or keeper of horses mules cattle sheep goats goat and hogs to run at nt large lare The rhe city of ot LON Los Angeles boasts said Bald Mr Train an nance nance prohibiting street car con con con- conductors from shooting live game gamo- game notably jackrabbits fro fro mine plat piat- piat forms lorms It also until recent dat forbade by law more than one per son lion bathing In or occupying a bath bath- tub t at the same time Ord No series new In In 1915 the legislature of ot Tn- Tn Indiana diana passed a sheet law provid provid- In ln that hotel owners must furnish illi beds with sheets not less than thai 93 99 inches long and nd 81 si inches wide and 11 1 that they must be changed for to each tach guest If It the guests guest's stay Is prolonged there Is no legal corn com rl to change the sheets Somebody said when the leSis legis- legis legislature lature of Illinois was last In les see see- lon Ion that It would be he a n good tiling thing things thin Is s the session devoted all nil its lis time lo all the tite laws of Illinois and tim the state went b back to the tho Ten fen Commandments Many hale difficulty in under under- understanding standing the laws that are arc passed rIte rile follow following In story is not ilot amiss A farmer received a tax lax notice for or 2 2 for keeping a goat lIe Hi called at the assessors assessor's office and an said See here you ou have taxed pie Die ne 2 for tor keeping 0 goat a-goat a goat goal there Is 1 no no ilO authority in law for that Oh yams yea there Is young oung sor SOl lIere Here read The the section yourself yourself your- your self and and be convinced con 1 Whereupon the astonished farmer read this till from froni the statute books Every abutter on the tho- highway snail shall be bo assessed 50 00 cents pet ler foot During the tile 23 9 years since Utah became a a It state slate wo we have havo had Iad 10 11 sessions of the legislature and in inthe intile tile the neighborhood of or laws en- en enacted en acted SOME SOlE VERY VEin OLD We We must keep In tn mind that thai these laws are in addition to the th territorial laws that ero ero in ex- ex exIstence at nt statehood It It takes time for tor that biennial body of citizens the tho legislature to get set acquainted with each other to to Individual motives motive and abilities to ordinate co their theli different views and local interests Interest Inter and to Interpret the tho various pro PIO pro pro- proposed proposed posed enactments In the light of ol laws already existing A lawmaker should be a de de- de devoted voted voted student ot or government he h should be a It student of political social and antI economic conditions It ItIs Itis II Is because of ot the lack of these qualities that so many ble and unintelligent laws have hav been passed It has been said that we have havo more to fear groin our lawmakers than from our lawbreakers Nine tenths Nine tenths ine-tenths tenths of ot the tile new les-Isla- les lion Ion Is to interfere with Individual liberty In business or In some other way We We do not need more legisla- legisla thin but less legislation |
