Show Y fo So the People May Know I If typhoid fever fe recorded an increase of 30 per cent in deaths in an any one year car you ou would be alarm alarmed cd If Ii your our public health figures showed that deaths from smallpox smallpox smallpox small small- pox were 33 per cent higher in 1934 than they were were in 1933 you oU u would comprehend malignancy in in epidemic form Jf Ji deaths from scarlet fever feyer increased 33 per cent over the thc year car you Oll would would demand demand that something be done Jone about it I m But a as ag long as these figures O relate only to traffic deaths you OU accept then them as matters of course take course take them 5 li as fate from which there is no escape These comparisons are pertinent because the thc they arc f synonymous s with traffic I fatality increases in Utah Salt Lake Cit City an and Salt Lake LakeI count county last year car Here are the figures i 1933 1934 I Utah Salt Lake City 31 31 41 Salt Lake County outside city 21 28 These increases app approximately 30 per cent in the state 33 per cent in Salt Lake City and 33 per pcr cent in Salt Lake Lakee e count county are arc cause for alarm alarID If projected indefinitely into the future the they present a terrifying picture to all who must use the streets and the highways It is time to turn this tide of death and destruction back baek It is time to turn indifference into resistance inaction inaction inac inac- nac- nac tion into action AVe Ye can cau must remove this disgrace from the state t. t The legislature soon l will wiH r be in nt session If more laws I 3 are needed you Jou can have them If laxity in ill enforcement is is responsible that too may mar be remedied The public does docs r not have to go o on year car after year car with executive or jl judi judicial dt- dt cial officers who cannot see a public menace ce cc and who y cannot conceive their own responsibilities in in the matter ft What What to is b bf done about it r w.- w. In a l legislative i la ve wa way we have done lone much without avail We Ye have vehemently declared ourselves a against nearl nearly every v w careless cureless and yi vicious ious practice that contributes to the traffic evil Nevertheless there still is something more to be done Drunken driving is a tragic joke yoke in Utah It is forbidden and that's about all the law amounts to If Ifa r a a. driver kills a a. man woman or child he heI I cannot possibly be given more than a year r inThe in jail I The legislature can and should make it a felony for fora fori i a drunken driver to kill or maim an individual upon Y the public highways Hit and run driving is another despicable offense for which the thc law should hold no quarter The rhe penitentiary should be the lo logical expectation of every driver who flees from an accident after injuring or killing an all individual This is another job for the legislature The Utah legislature likewise might very well correct the monumental mistake made in the revision of the code which afforded a very definite security to drivers who fail I. I t to report accidents Under the code a first offender under this section ma may not be he fined more than titan or imprisoned for more titan than ten days as against a n. maximum fine of and a maximum jail sentence of or six months in in nominal misdemeanors Members of the legislature also may ponder the ret reI remay results re re- suIts of licensing drivers in Utah and correct the deficiencies i t I which now exist By BJ all means it should establish that degree degree de dc- de- de t is gree grec of cooperation between the courts and the executive f branch of the government necessary to make this departure f a successful factor in safety The refusal of some of the k trial courts to report tra traffic fi convictions' convictions as required b by law f is is calculated to de defeat eat the foremost objective of the thc licensing b law v and should be corrected immediately The legislature too should consider the part pert that the tIle license fee and the state traffic patrol may play in traffic enforcement 1 Public safety on the hj highways hwa s is s to be at at- tamed cd at an any cost and these agencies cs offer a n potential security se security se- se L not be be had in iu traffic enforcement regiment which is left too much to local authority x C 4 Careful motorists as well as pedestrians want se security se on the highways in all parts of the state against I carel careless ss reckless and incompetent drivers driver s and defective eq equipment We believe th that at most of them would gladly gladY pay for this pro protection if they knew that it m meant ant just that The legislature might very well ponder at this session the advisability of an aU augmented sta state to patrol predicated upon p on an increased an and d recurrent license fee A g dollar a year for a driving license would b be e a small price to pay for traffic c insurance against speeding and reckless drivers who n now w escape official notice be because cause 0 of limited facilities S t These are arc things that tit th the e legislature e might b do nor in ad- ad to what has as alre already peen heen done in a lc legislative e a way vav These hese things alone will u not of solve sole the tine public problem of of ofa a mounting Counting and disgraceful death rate Th They ey 1 however win will i gc go jo a long way toward reviving g our self r. r respect e spec t Thc They The will willi I i h help lp to spur enforcement cut officers into action and gel help P to I discourage hazards which now lurk on ever r road street j and nd nd highway In m Utah The le Ic legislature can and should lead lead g- g t the way YaY to re reawakened w d traffic consciousness in Ut Utah h. h J f 1 s. s 7 lt f 4 k t ti S' S r J L I d |