Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-04 | Page 9 | Bowman Raps Courts' Laxity toward Grime

B COURTS COURTS' LAXITY I TOWARD WAR CRIME Also Aiso Stresses Development Develop Develop- ment of Water Supply in C. C of C. C Talk Law enforcement and development develop develop- 1 ment of ment-of of Salt Lake city's water supply sup sup sup- ply were stressed by Mayor John 1 F. F Bowman in an address Wednesday noon at the chamber of ot commerce weekly membership luncheon Before an unusually large blage bIage tho the mayor launched into a discussion of the increase in criminals criminals crimi crimi- nals and robbers that infest tho the na na- nals and robbers that infest the nation Ho He contrasted Salt alt Lake conditions with naU national nal conditions and included it In Inthe tho the statement that There are arc murderers walking American streets today unafraid because or of political protection and the bre breakdown break break- breakdown down the In-the courts This Is a great grent reflection on the tho country countr as a whole Prohibition hay have brought this about and then again there may maybe maybe maybe be other other- reasons possibly tho the war but it has come most forcibly to my attention that the criminal clement are reaching down and down until they are engulfing our young youn folk As a solution to those these general conditions Mayor Bowman offered the removal of ot technicalities In thc law Jaw elimination of ot delays and preservation of ot testimony at trials trials' so o the repeater can be confronted confront confront- ed with it in succeeding trials It Js is no accomplishment to sentence sen sea tence a man mail to six months and then k suspend the thc sentence the tho speaker declared adding nor noris Is It justice H to Inflict a a. fine and then remit ft Enforcement of Ot the tho law without fear tear favor tavor or deviation is the only means of putting fear of the tho he law into the heart of ot a criminal Weare Wo We are gon going to serve notice in Salt Lake on all criminals that this I Is not safe a abode for tor them Mayor Bowman indicated that the city commission as a whole is co cognizant cognizant cog cog- of ot Its law Jaw enforcement problems lems and to a man is engaged in de dc devising ways of ot them v vWe We Va can clean up his city as faras far tal faras as the people want it cleaned up up- the speaker Mayor l Bowman opined that the tho progress of ot the city should be m. m ro rapid now than heretofore because It Is on the threshold of an unheard of ot period of ot prosperity He linked Utah with southern California Inthe in inthe inthe the latter's tr tremendous gains gains' gains in population and emphasized the need need- of at all available water The s speaker aker of ot th thA occasion was introduced by John W. W Wallace chairman of the civic Improvement and municipal affairs committee of the chamber