St Johns College - Ozanam Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Mary, My Mother By NICHOLAS j. KELLY O Mary, Mother fair, To whose most holy care We are entrusted. Guide Us sinners to thy side That we may dwell with thee 0 Mary, Mother pure, Let us not seek the lure Of empty joyg but plead That we may always heed Thy voice, and Hy to thee. 0 Mary, Mother dear, Dispel our every fear, And heav'n1y comforts send, That, when our life shall end, We may go straight to thee.

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24 THE OZANAM terity by having it embodied in some law or other. The result of all this has been any- thing but beneficial. The passing of numerous useless laws that cannot and will not be enforced has, probably more than anything else, helped to de- stroy the respect of the American peo- ple for law and order. Instead of curbing lawlessness it seems as though it has really fostered it. Persons see that they can break certain laws with impunity, and acting on this same sup- position they soon learn to commit the more grievous offenses. Today, with more laws than ever before, we find our jails overcrowded and the Standing Room Only sign hanging from the warden's office-window. Moreover this orgy of lawmaking has resulted in cluttering up our statute books with hundreds of obsolete laws. The state legislatures think their only duty is to pass laws regardless of how they are to be enforced. No wonder then that in some of our states fifty per cent of the laws are obsolete. Many indeed have been the reme- dies offered to improve this situation. Some suggest the more frequent use of the veto power by the executive and judicial departments. Others ad- vocate that our legislatures should de- vote one or more sessions to the re- pealing of all but the most necessary laws. These remedies are of course good as far as they go, but sad to say they are not far-reaching enough. In less than no time we would find our friends in the state capitals grinding out from twenty-five to thirty laws a day as in California. A better rem- edy, and one that would undoubtedly solve the difficulty, lies in electing more intelligent men to be our repre- sentatives. What we really need is men who will not be swayed by every passing whim and cry, but who will use their head in enacting legisla- tion. Until we secure such men we are bound to be burdened with much useless legislation in the form of'ob- solete, unnecessary, and foolish laws. Our present position was aptly stated by ex-Senator Beveridge in a recent article, in which he said, Americans are by law forbidden to do more things, and by law forced to do more things, than were the Russian people under the Czar, or the German people under the Kaiser.

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Regina JVIarty1-um By MARVIN SAUPPE 0 Virgin Queen, above all virgins blest, Of whom, on bleak and cold December morn, The Son of God, the Lord of all, was born! O Virgin fair, upon whose lily-breast The King of kings in ecstasy could restg Mother, whose heart at last was racked and torn And made co-sufferer with Christ to mourn Our sin, and all but mount the gibbet's crest! When sin would lure, O Mother, haste to me And save a soul redeemed so pricelessly. Let no one say that thy all-saving aid Was e'er denied when I to thee have prayedg So that, when life's long iitful dream is o'er, I may with thee praise God forever more.