Show EVERYDAY philosophy SUNSET magazine poses the question are you a lawbreaker of lecourse course you are how could you hope p 10 lo obey all the laws passed by your city your state andl and your national congress it you should employ the most able lawyer in the laud to guide you ho could not read fast enough to keep informed as to the pew legislation and multiplicity or of decisions 1 since we 1 cant even hope to know what all 11 the ibe laws are it follows that we must violate many of them I 1 charles alexander editor ot of the mhd albany oregon democrat poet novelist critic literary editor says the truth is quite as sunset has stat 1 ed it we have reached a state ot of mind where we must austby by the terms of 0 necessity use our own discretion and be our own judges of what is 19 proper and what is wrong the tact fact that a thing is law no longer impresses us the man anpo craves a drink ands and can get it says the magazine feels eels no moral restraint jell tell him that he is a lawbreaker and he will laugh and cite instances Instance i to prove that you too are a lawbreaker is is this is an indictment hard to escape says p philosopher bi I 1 alexander it Is a true indictment one into which enters not alone the idle pomposity ot of american laws in trivial matters but also the official lack ot of recognition ot of fundamental tendencies in the individual h make toward his decent treatment of 0 his fellow citizen hear him f further take the traffic law it if forty mil miles s an hour Is needed to make the hill right read chead on high gear gear and the way is 3 clear car and sate safe ninety five per cent ot of drivers will speed to forty ades or more it is a matter ot of their own judgement jud gement A regard lor or fundamentals is the greatest attribute ot of any fundamentally tree free people the enforcement or detailed detal leil regulations gu lations Is a sign ot of tie the serf the more laws that are passed the less effective they will become truth is the middle ground the no BO mans land where so few men ever venture law is good too little law is bad too much law is bad A sensible amount of law is jut just 0 as in america we W ataye tave altogether too much law aul anal Illus illustrations tIll cited are merely ex examples amples ol of what obtains in a dozen other departments part ments ot of dally daily endeavor |