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Show Authorities Decry Burden Of Laws In the opinion of Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Uuiversity "there is no one thing in all the departments of government govern-ment or business that is carried on with less scientific or orderly method than the making of laws." Commenting Comment-ing on this, Warden Lawes of Sing Sing penintentiary, says that "I would add that this arrangement is particularly partic-ularly arue of our criminal laws. At the present time we have more laws than ever before. Our statute books sag with enactments. Yet crime has steadily increased. A good example of the type of laws arrived at by "unscientific and disorderly dis-orderly method"- are those which rc-, rc-, strict or refuse the right of the citizen citi-zen to posess a pistol. A number of ', states have such ordinances, varying ' inseverity, and Federal anti-pistol bills have been proposed but without , success. The result is that such laws, instead ' of being a protection for society, be- come boomerangs. The criminal, dis-' dis-' daining all law, has his pistol, while ', the good citizen must leave his home, office and person unarmed and open to robbery and attack. Freak legislation and multiplicity ' of laws are the bane of our fight against the criminal. Until our legal system is reorganized or at least simp- lified and clarified we must be on the defensive. |