f ' V rBArTIiKEL 5X5 By K. ft The people in Utah have been given the "bird" the Seagull, that is. After being a permanent resident resi-dent for nobody knows how long; after being cussed and discussed, praised and condemned, for lo these past 100 years, the Seagull has at last come into its own. The 1955 legislature saw to that last week; when tltey proclaimed the racuous fish, angleworm, cherry, cher-ry, strawberry, and sometimes grasshopper-eater as the official "State Bird." Well friends, that's something. Folks like us, -who occasionally complain that the Legislators don't earn their per diem compensation had better back up. They have done in one fell swoop, what all the law-makers have failed to do during the past centuiy. They gave us the "bird." Not such a bad month's work at that. Some other measures introduced early in the session have not fared so well as the bird bill. Take the "drunken driving" act for instance. in-stance. This law if enacted, would require drivers, who were arrested for traffic violations and who showed evidence of drinking, to submit to an alcohol blood test. Refusal to submit to the test, would automatically revoke the driving license of the suspect. Simple, wasn't it? As serious as the drunken driving driv-ing problem has become in Utah; and as urgently as we need a tipsy-driver law that has real teeth in it, the boys on the hill dropped it like a. hot potato. Said one of them, "The driver who drinks occasionally, often needs his car to get to work. To revoke his license would be a real hardship." hard-ship." Speaking of hardships, how about the children that are left fatherless when the life of their father is snuffed out in a crash caused by a rum-befuddled driver? Speaking of tough times, don't forget for-get the honest judges and traffic officers who hopelessly try to convict con-vict a drunken driver under Utah's moth-eaten, loophole-riddled traffic traf-fic laws. Seems to us that if the people of Utah can enact and enforce a law which prohibits smoking on a public car or bus, they can do something about the drunks who drive on the public highways. Whom do we fear? Is it the drunken drivers, or the liquor interests? in-terests? Are our public institutions institu-tions so dependent on the taxes that come from the sale of liquor in Utah, that we hesitate to do anything which might curtail the consumption of alcohol? Nowadays nearly everyone operates op-erates a car the sober man, the occasional drinker, the drunkard. A law which would really crach down on the person who drinks and drives, would do more to discourage dis-courage drinking than any othei one thing. It would evidently cut down considerably on the revenut that comes from the sale of liquor and incidentally save a lot of lives Maybe the lives are not worth a: much to us as the money. Wha do you think? Concluding this piece on thi same subject with which we be gun it, we recall what Jim Bridg er reportedly said about the Sea gull, "The critter can't sing. an is too tough to eat. What in tarn ation is it good fer." So long 'til Friday.