Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-04-06 | Page 4 | $100 Fine for Unlicensed Driving

Fine for Unlicensed Driving t FROM time time to time e The Th Telegram has editorially emphasized the importance of strict enforcement of the states state's driver r k- k license law especially as applied to failure of motorists to comply with orders revoking or suspending their licenses You cant can't have traffic safety unless you can deny proven reckless dangerous drivers the drivers right to drive You cant can't deny I 3 such such drivers he the right to to drive as a matter of theory only only youve youve you've a rc got got to see to it that in practice they stay off the hig highways ways And to make the system work in in practice the courts must crack crackdown crackdown e down severely on any person who continues to drive when he has hasteen teen been denied the privilege N The other day Judge Joseph G. G Jeppson in city police court fined a Salt Lake City man tor for driving while his operators operator's license was suspended That's more like it It compares very e. e favorably with some of the light fines ranging down to a slap- slap wrist the wrist the injunction not to do it again which have been meted out ut in the past for such an offense in many Utah courts It is to be hoped that Judge Jeppson will keep up the good work even going a step farther and adding jail sentences to the stiff lUff fines ines and that his ex example mple will be followed by other j judges handling such cases easel In Ut Utah h r a i M- M r