WHY LAWS FAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 6

WHY LAWS FAIL.

I ■INDUSTRY'S NEW BURDENS

iP.y VT. J. CAMKHON". Vice-President, Ford .U. 1,,- Company. I'.S.A.)

I Why are so ni.iiiv laws foiim] to ),,. uuworkahle when. for forty reiuuric-. huni.iiiity. like a testing machine, in,, fried out various typ.-- of laws and methods of lawIniakin-:. and the records of these tes', arc in the lalioralory of lii-lor\ ? •I'll,' first r,M-„ii is, th.-y arc La -••.•] <~, a p'-.verted i! ry ~f jr,,\ eminent. < :«. ilisat hm | l iy u-radually nvl rid in;.' I'i,-; fold of '/ovcriiniiMit. It discovered ||~. natural Mini's within which -.'overnmenl can function hcneii- ' '-::«lb : ii discovered that heyiuid Midkh limits mixcriimenl .tiims 1,, 1„. ],c||,!'ul and liecomes j h.i inifiil: lmt. most important, it di-covered i\on can your theory of jrnvernrnent as I "inch as yon please- il ,I,,'es not affect in the least what govern meiit can and cannot do. I -\do|,|. if yon like, flu- theory that a chicken i'- ;'i ■-"•'"I thai %\ -«n"t make the chicken IsWIIll. duel lll,icnt has specific f lIIK't io||s. a lid !«'"•'! il over-tc,,s ||„..,.. (]„. .„,„.,,,. <]~,, ~„.,),,,., ''< f " function normally .•annot 1„. applied to ; a! rmal iii-er.. ! When a Government teorns experience, it "ill lend more an,l more t,, fall into inexperienced hands. Then we ~v business rcL'U-li'f'-d :i'id restrict...| !,y men who themselves •ii''' under no ),u-ine~s r.vt rid imm: orders i — luml fo men who mu-l make hoi Ii end- mee! . ihy men «ho do iol have to make hot], end* meet: we see neoi n| chief interest is {finance and industrial production cotilrolled l.y those who believe in scarcity. I Laws are orders; you mu-l pay for thorn and fake (hem and live will, them until you .or the law hreaks d,.uu. For example: One 'national nelivify hari 1 n r-injrled out. to hear .'he heavier burden ~f extra and improper j irovernmenlal functions, hut. the part thus |hea\il\ lade, has not 1 „ strengthened for ifs ui.ik. Tl is inaccurate to =a v that government as-uinv* these new burden*: jrovermnent l<-:imio( assume them- new burdens must always he loaded on some activity of the people, which in ttvii ease happens to he indiif-l ry. All the so called social panaceas lliat a -cneroiw (oivernment lias adopted have hcen laid on industry to support. There isn't a si,,._r]e evceplioii. And up 1,, now industry lias r-up-jported them; it" the new seheincs railed it has no! hen for lack of support. Ciiveriiincut cannoi function properly in matters bevond . ils natural held. If dubious experiments must he made', indu-fry uill he found perfectly \\illim_' to pull it,- wei-hf. and a little more. In ■\\>' e\cn a probably wron- l.iw a fair trial. When. concurrent lv with the new ■i.urdeii-. i 1,,.,-,. ~,,<- : , Icei-lathe weakeninl..f the ver\ iiidu-fries compelled to hear them a systematic liammeriiiu' down of initiative. j.' of ne-ans. an umlcruiinin;.' of <■~,, fideini> ami a powerful cue, ,nra cement of l iiara--in.L' and ob-lructivc forces— 1 hat. from j-l.irl to finisli. i- simplv had emrineerin-.