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Show The Amazing- Age If "law" did what it is supposed to do, the United States would be the most moral and "crimeless", country in the world. No other nation has ever had such a volume of legislation. Yet the newspapers sag with accounts ac-counts of the doings of celebrated gangsters and "racketeers." Law enforcement officers search frantic ally for ways to press charges against them, but to no avail. An arrest is the signal for swift activity activ-ity on the part of lawyers to show that supposed law-breaking is "with in" the law. The irony of such a situation is inescapable. We have thousands, upon thousands of criminal laws and there is talk of asking the federal fed-eral government to take a hand in subduing the criminal element m one of our gang-ridden cities A? a "crime remedy" it is often pro-' pro-' posea t "lake it a crime for a perfectly per-fectly honest citizen to own a revolver re-volver or pistol while it is a rare week in which gangsters fail to "bump" someone off with machine guns. And still we talk of passing more laws. Why not reverse the process and enforce some existing laws? We do live in an amazing agj |