Show 1 I Prevailing Opinions Comment of tho tha American Americ n Press How to Drive Out the Unfit Driver The republic is in the throes of a highway safety campaign Drivers are being asked to take pledges ledges luncheon clubs are arc feeding feeding feed teed ing their members gruesome statistics sro eta along with their salmon steak hanles motorists are arc being being be be- ing forced to copy out in longhand longhand long long- hand haud articles describing accident victims In a shattered condition This emotional surge gives us th the chance to do something about highway accidents accidents' before the next perl period d of at bor boredom dom sets in Obviously we ought to tackle the greatest known m menace first The greatest gr menace to highway safety is the man or woman temperamentally unfit to drive This is the person apparently sane who passes a drivers driver's test easily but who let loose Joose on the road develops a recklessness b lordliness which makes him him- think he has a franchise on the way right c inability to act quickly Cd d irritability and im im- im patience He can be bo spotted Let every state issue a license book boole a of sa say a dozen small pages to replace the present license card And let every traffic of officer of of- fleer enter in that book with data and place every traffic offense of the holder That's all Instead of the fruitless bawling out instead of the tho small fine that can be fixed instead of the summons summons summons sum sum- mons that takes a cops cop's time for fora a day in court let the officer make a notation The book would have to be handed in at the end of the year If Tf it were loaded with entries there would be a positive ground for denying a new license Desire to keep the book clean would be a positive incentive to safe driving The man Whose hose book was uncomfortably crowded would quiver at the thought of showing such a record to a traffic traffic traC- traC fic fie cop and would stay on the right side of the road Make it uniform throughout the states and any offense anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where in the country would have weight weicht back home Phila Phila Philadelphia delphia Record Tax Consciousness I Frank Knox Chicago newspaper r pu publisher and aspirant for tho the Re Re- e- e publican presidential nomination made a practical suggestion in his talk before the Ohio Editorial association as association association as- as that every business man might label latel his product and give the buyer Information as to the amount of at tax ta state and federal that entered into the cot cost Most of ot the filling stations tell the motorist how much ho is payIng paying pay pay- ing f for oil and how much for state and federal l taxes that have to be passed on to the proper collectOrs The motorist is thus tax ta conscious but only in part There are numerous numerous nu nu- other taxes paid by producer producer pro pro- ducer processor and dealer which must be considered in m the calculation of at price prieD to the cus cue tomer Colonel Knox had been given some other reminders Five dollars dollare dollars dol dol- lars lare out pf of at every 25 in the weekly weekly week week- ly earning earnings goes for tor taxes There are ale 53 different taxes involved Inthe Inthe in inthe the cost of a loaf loat of bread the price of eight out of 20 In the package goes to tax taO collectors collectors col col- col lectors there are 17 distinct taxes comprised in the tho electric light bill billand billand billand and about as many in the gas bill And so on There is objection to sales taxes but there are arc taxes on about everything we buy There wo would ld be a better bettel understanding understanding under under- standing g of the high cost of government government gov gov- if everybody were adequately adequately ade ade- informed in the matter matterand matterand matterand and became conscious of the tax levy as it actually is There would be a a. a better appreciation of ot the Impo Importance t nce o of government budgetIng budgetIng budget- budget Ing of the service rendered by men in office who determinedly t try to prevent an increase in governmental gov goV- expense to stop borrowing borrowing bor bor- rowing and the tho increase of at debt charges there wo would ld be less of at this the soak illusion and a better realization that taxes however disguised ultimately find their way down to the pockets of t poor and rich alike aUke It would be worth more to the nation if there were devised a scheme of f publicity by which the person without an income big enough to be taxable b by the federa federal fed fed- ed- ed era eral government were made conscious conscious conscious con con- of the amount of at tax his minor income actually pays than all the publicity about income taxes possibly could accomplish Philadelphia Evening Evenin Bulletin Needed Needed Needed-a a Salesman Sometimes we wo think government is the poorest of all salesmen Anyway it is a fact that the average average average aver aver- age citizen hates to pay taxes and looks upon money so ISO paid as something that just went down the The state of mind finds expreSsion expression sion sian in such words as those from as enlightened an Industrial leader lead lead- er eras as Alfred P. P Sloan president of General Motors speaking before the National Association of Manufacturers Manufacturers Manu Manu- i Government as 83 such creates nothing There must be bo brought home heme to the consciousness conscious conscious- ness of of all ail that the more government government govern govern- ment takes the less Jess each one has no no one can possibly escape Far be n it from Crom us to defend government against its inefficiencies cies or to be unmindful of the dangers of oC bureaucracy We have seen in our time our share of public public pub pub- lic lie waste through patr patronage nage and pork nepotism and graft just as we have seen waste and incompetency incompetency and water and crookedness crooked crooked- ness blue sky and failure and lost Jost savings in private business And that's where the salesmanship salesmanship salesmanship salesman salesman- ship angle comes in Certainly private business scores in that re regard regard regard re- re gard as against government For if it government were a salesman salesman sales sales- man it would constantly be bo s say saying say say- y ing jag to its Us customer the taxpayers Is the tho money we spend on de delivering delivering delivering de- de livering your mall ll a total Toss ross Or OrIs Oris Oris is your fire Ire protection worth worthwhile worthwhile worthwhile while Or police Or soil and forest conservation Or weather reporting Or garbage collection Is not riot a park or a playground wealth as as ts well weli as a factory And Andis is there nothing for the asset column column col col- col- col uma in the education that comes from our school system Does money that goes to such an endeavor endeavor en en- deavor as the C C CC C not list as capital Investment Is a forest ranger less Jess valuable than a night watchman in ina a mill And so on down the long Jong long Jong list of at services performed and goods conserved by y what we we call government And particularly with reference to Mr Sloan this question queston would be pertinent Where would the motor industry industry industry indus indus- try be today if it your cars had to torun torun torun run through the mud and the ruts of yesteryear And who built the tho roads San roads San Francisco News |