Show j. j f j f Inviting Prohibitions Prohibition's Return pretty generally over the state earn 1 I. I J JUDGES public commendation for their awakening to 1 the gravity of drunken driving on Utah high- high JV SS- SS f prays ways and streets In the p past st e weeks t heavy fines often coupled with jail sentences J have been numerous in several courts In In police 5 A court here there has been a n noticeable increase increaseS 1 S in the number of severe penalties meted out for forS' forS v S' S ZI this offense It is only reasonable to suppose that any V iP drunken driver with the mentality to remember the cost of his past indulgence will be deterred 4 from repeating the expensive adventure By their fitl own acts however most drunken drivers brand themselves as fools fools and and it is hard to teach a aS S fool Jool anything The more promising thing is f then that the exemplary effect of such sentences j L will be more particularly registered among S others T They Tiey ey may count the cost before they if venture upon befuddled driving 5 W 1 t There is always a new crop of drunken w drivers coming up Each of the old offenders had his first time There will be a first time tim j for for the potential drunken driver too It may mayg S. S g help them to keep out of trouble themselves and to save them from killing innocent victims to toS S 4 I t pause use to reflect that the first time may also be the last S No calm individual can believe that the people peo peo- pIe of the United states intend to tolerate this is W menace indefinitely In many parts of the country there is a a. a growing sentiment favoring the the return to and it prohibition can be proved i that the principal cause of this attitude is the thet i t hi highways highway's hway's record of death and disaster chargeable chargeable charge- charge able ble to the drunken driver If the Country wants wants wants' to save itself from a aS aj S t j return to all the evils which grew out of f o our r first attempt at prohibition from the corruption J of public and private morals from the breeding of l new crops of racketeers and gangsters from jr f the thc distribution of foul and poisonous concoct t lions Hons and from the reestablishment of underworld under- under world rId speakeasies and other traps for the youth of the land it will do well to make up its collective col col- S mind that the drunken driver must go S I He is a potential killer at large whether he is a aS S low brow and roughneck or an individual of S high standing habituated to white tie tic and tails tor or other impeccable raiment S S To the judges of at the land stiff sentences that S h hurt hurt and emb embarrass imposed on offenders fenders rei re- re S. S i J of oC their station in m life political connect connections S t ns or other time honored approaches to im- im 3 hold promise of getting results As new S v and nd effective methods are developed they should S be speedily adopted I |