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Show UTAH AUTO GLUB ITEMS W Goes on Record Against ' 2-cent Levy; Favors Unrestricted Un-restricted Road Building. ! That the organizers of the Utah State Automobile association were riffht in their belief this state was ripe for a bifr organization of automobile owners is now au assured fact. Other states have for 3'ears maintained such an association of people who use the roads, and by work on the part of the combined highway traveling public, these states have forged far ahead of others. Utah baa been ripe for such an organization or-ganization for the past couplo of years, and for this reason the Utah State Automobile association "was bound to be a success from the first day it was launched. Since then members have been coming in by the dozens and the week just past saw exactly J0o new members added to the rolls, or the largest li?t in any one weelc since the first membership card was issued. The directors of the association have, however, other work at hand besides securing members and last week sent wires to the Utah congressional dcle-t dcle-t gation protesting against a 2-cent tax on gasolino and also a request that the ! capitol issues committee release all re-: re-: strictions on the issuance of highway j bonds. j The state of Utah is holding up a I million-dollar issue authorized by the last legislature and the Utah State Automobile association wants this money spent in building new roads. It believes that when the soldiers return re-turn looking for work an active campaign cam-paign of road-building at this time "will greatly relieve the surplus of labor. The directors also believe it is as much a mistake to tax gasoline as it would bo to tax coal, gas, electricity or any other fuel used in transportation. Gasoline is just as essential to passenger pas-senger cars and trucks for transportation transporta-tion as coal is to railroad trains, and if one is taxed there is no sane reason why the . oilier should not be. President Presi-dent Decker of the association yesterday yester-day received a wire from Senator Smoot stating that he was opposed to the 3-ccnt war tas on gasoline and that he did not believe this feature of the new revenue law would pass. j The following is a list of the new i members received the past week: j Gibbons & Reed Co., J. W. Patt, Br. ! M. M. Nielsou, C. A. Walker, J. Find- ling, O. D. Romnev, A. R. Bain, Edgar , II. West, A. H. Cowie, Dr. L. A. Steven- j son, Dr. A. J. Hosmer, M. T. Nord-quist, Nord-quist, Herbert Salinger, .Tames W. Brown, Alfred T. Cutler, O. H. Hewlett, J. V. Sadler, Jacob A. Kahn, Ada Hanauer, De Witt Knox, the Galigher ! Machinery Co., Fred Provol, Joseph Wirthlin, J. Walcott Thompson, Dr. M. Hart, 1. M. Hamilton, Elias Morris & Sons Co., New Grand hotel, John W. Walsh, F. E. Murrav, H. A. Mauck, Frank B. Stephens, Frank K. Nelson, Herbert E. Smyth, Synins Utah Grocer Co., Walter Green, J. Fred Daynes, William M. Parlon, M. S. Hanauer, Charles E. Hawver, B. B. Ramey, Frank W. Carpenter, John C. Gooch, O. W. Owen, Charles F. Wigqs, Earl Mc- ! Intyre, Val S. Snow, George Jay Gibson, Gib-son, Lewis A. Jeffs, Oscar Lehmann, Citizens' Cr.l Co., A. B. Irvine, E. C. Coffin, Henry A. Petersen, J. Will Gray, Leo J. Backle. |