Show Red Record Grows traffic fatalities within a single week T THREE TI JL bring the red record of death chargeable to automobile drivers to a total of 12 thus far this year year year-an an increase of 50 per cent over the record for lor r the same period in 1935 In the county outside of the city and for the state as asa asa asa a whole the 1936 record shows some improvement improve improve- ment over that of last year For the state April has shown up better than han the three months pre pre- ceding In the first quarter Utah was among five states showing an increase in automobile deaths over the first three months of 1935 33 compared with 30 Analysis of all available facts pertaining to this S years year's fatalities discloses speed mania as the reason for more deaths on the highway than all ill other causes lumped together In this f fact ct there should be a lesson for Judges fudges before whom traffic code violators charged with speeding are brought A reprimand reprimand reprimand mand or ora a light fine will not cure a tool fool of the craze for speed Penalties that punish and hurt are re merited by these potential potentia killers Heavy fines revocation or at least suspension of drivers' drivers licenses AND SOME T TIME E TO THINK THINGS THROUGH IN JAIL ought to be meted out to all convicted speeders whether speeders whether they are up tip fo for a first offense or as repeaters Neither the he courts nor the public owe any consideration to speed fiends who show how no consideration for others Why wait until they kill to lay the laws law's heavy hand upon them I believe a judicially sanctioned school where petty traffic violators would be assigned by court order to attend and learn fundamental rules of the r road ad safety and legal requirements remarks remarks' af after after af- af would be beneficial Mayor Irwin ter studying traffic conditions on a recent visit t to the Pacific coast Why leave this this' a simple matter of discus discus- lion ion Why not try the innovation It may be beset beset beset set down as certain that a graduate of such sucha a school could suffer no impairment of driving ability through being put through the course nor could he come through it with less knowledge knowledge knowl knowledge edge of the rules of the road and the traffic code There has been a 3 a. a lot of talk about such a 3 school for a long time Why not quit talking about it and do something about it If there are any real obstacles in the way of inaugurating i ing g a 3 drivers' drivers school why not remove them Public opinion will support the idea The pupils may inay think it a nuisance and So one pe course m may y satisfy them and make e. e the them vow VOW not ot to th be sent back to do pos postgraduate work |