| Show Utah's Anti Anti- AntiTrust Trust Trust Scarecrow Utah's trust anti t statute scarecrow x- x merely as ns a V C since since t this his is t the be only service it has even cven been becu called upon to perform Senator Kellys Kelly's effort to len lend it a more moro stern stem and forbidding aspect must be hc considered a laudable attempt nb at improve improve- ment The bill he lie has introduced amending the trust la law provides I for more more- drastic c penalties and find endows it with a ferocity of demeanor I well calculated to frighten even cn the tho most bold hold of offending corporations corpor into h hysterics But just as the wise wise bird that approaches the ancient scarecrow that hint malevolent i is its in in the wheat heat field and 1111 discovers disco a appearance is solo weapon so o the trusts that operate in iii Utah have learned that the trust statute ute ute- is fixed and immovable able that lint it doe docs not pursue them and has hns not even e struck out at nt those that offer offered el it indignities Nor is the wise crow the only ac sagacious visitor to the thc exploited field The agriculturist who is either too indolent or too careless careless careless care care- less to attack the tile spoilers despoilers or who fears personal reprisal reprisals from the crows has learned that n a frequent renewal of the scarecrow is at nt least temporarily beneficial When the thieving thie birds have haye solved the thc threatening figures figure's s impotency impotency im- im potency and offer the insult of or ignoring it it the farmer robes the lay figure in a change of vestments he sets the thc battered straw hat that surmounts its empty head at a more rakish angle and installs a broomstick in the oro crook ok of its nerveless arm to seem a n. rifle the swinging leg if is postured though as-though to strike the ground round in hot pursuit suit of the offending crows And while whilo this his t suffices for a time the operation is endless endle s for the tho crow is 15 still hungry daring and ann grows more difficult to deceive Not being in Senator s 's confidence we cannot a announce definitely whether he lie considers Utah Utah's s 's scarecrow to need renewal It should however er be as ns obvious to h him as to others that it frightened frightened fright fright- ened cued the lie pilla pillaging ring tru trusts ts hut but little at ul the outset and for years they have c calmly ignored it The rhe trusts trust have hn learned that its seemingly stiff spine p ne is a a. fence rail that lint the lie ostensible weapon in iu its hands is only onry a broomstick that its limbs are only for appearance and not for speed that its supposedly prehensile fin fingers er have no tie grasp in iu them and that no directing brain reposes under tinder the lie straw hat of last years year's vintage In short hort the trust anti scarecrow is no longer oven o ovena a n good scarecrow and one om may doubt the figure of the thc approaching approaching- owner 0 of the wheat field with a n new and more ferocious mask for it and a t painted newly wooden gun gnu will have ha any salutary effect The penalties ics in the existing law are sufficiently severe the fault does not lie there The provisions prO are so comprehensively cly broad broadas as to include any of the thc agencies that arc are c exploiting the people of Utah including the Pacific Board of Fire U Underwriters the weakness weak weak- ness of or the statute is not found even in that regard To add ada either cither to penalty or 01 the class of or operations which the thc statute shall include will render it only the more threatening it w will ll become come a more alarming scarecrow but lint it will vill still be inanimate stan standing in the field without power of locomotion If it Senator Kelly can find any way to breathe into this scarecrow scarecrow scare scare- crow the tho breath of life to endow it with arms and mel legs and eyes and brain we wc wish him hint joy The scarecrow c needs a man behind it and statutes cannot furnish thorn thum I Ra RH I K a |
