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Show SEEK LAW TO BAN 'JOY RIDING' FIENDS Aroused by Activities of This Element, Commercial Commer-cial Club Gets Busy. It is to be hoped that the recent declaration of the Commercial club to go rough-shod after the auto thief and the detestable "joy-riding element' will bear fruit, and that quickly. It would seem that, when a body of representative repre-sentative men, like the membership of tho Commercial club, starts out on a project as moritorious as this one, they should meet with success, and that all citizens who respect law and order .would rally to their support. It has been said that the lack of any adequate state law has hampered the police and county officials of the state from enforcing "strict accountability" accountabil-ity" from those who steal automobiles for joy riding and sometimes for a more ardent desire to get hold of the other man's property, and to keep it. if possible possi-ble or convenient. The voice of every citizen of the stato should be recorded in behalf of a law to thwart the man who habitually floats around with the "joy-riding" bug in his bonnet, looking look-ing for some likely car to steal for a few hours or, perhaps, for a few days. Disregard of what happens to cars thus appropriated, an utter lack of any appreciation ap-preciation of the other fellow 's "property, "prop-erty, an evident desire to use to the uttermost and then destroy what has for the moment sufficed to give pleasure pleas-ure and excitement, is shown in nearly every instance where a car is stolon for the purpose of getting a few motor thrills at first hand. It is reported that several systems now in vogue in different sections of the country and Canada are under consideration con-sideration as a means to fasten the odium of contempt on the "joy-riding" fraternity. Any system that will effectually ef-fectually place a check on their pernicious per-nicious practice and habits is the right system, even if an entirely new and roost drastic measure has to be devised to successfully squelch them. A jail sentence a good long one without fine or other recourse, is about the best svstem and the ono likely to produce the best results- |