Show VOICE OF THE PEOPLE By Salt Lake Lako Telegram Readers Ski Resort Road Clearing Criticized by Disgusted Editor Telegram The letter from Mrs V W. L. L R. R to the Voice of the People prompts me to add my comments In my opinion she has come closer to the truth than Mr Valentine regarding traffic hazards The shoddy way the streets have been cleaned is ridiculous due to the fact that a great share of the equipment that should be used to keep the road safe for necessary driving that thatis is transportation to and from work obtaining food etc is concentrated on keeping the roads leading to Alta and Brighton Brighton Brighton ton open for the pleasure of a few This amounts to roughly 30 miles of canyon roads which takes a lot of doing Anyone doubting this charge need only travel these roads and see the wide plowed almost dry lane four highways leading to these canyons and compare them with streets leading off from them If some of the people responsible responsible responsible sible for such a condition were indicted for manslaughter instead instead in instead in- in stead of the poor fellow battling these dangerous valley roads it might make a difference Yesterday some children n in rural areas arrived at school between 10 o'clock and noon because because because be be- cause buses could not get through Some of them stood inthe inthe In Inthe the cold for an hour waiting for forthe forthe forthe the bus But your radio announcer announcer announcer an an- told us the roads to Alta and Brighton were open Does Docs this make sense Or am I wrong Disgusted 1 Salt Lake City Reader Would Have U. U S. S Cancel National Debt Editor Telegram A few comments comments com corn ments on the national war debt Why is this debt never never made clear Some people say that the debt has to be paid Just to whom is this national debt owed To what private company company com corn pany is the tho bulk of the money owed Is it right that the giant monopolies should fatten on the debt This debt seems to be bemore bemore bemore more important than human lives Men who died on the battlefields battlefields battlefields battle battle- fields didn't ask for billions Why not cancel the war debt and discourage discourage dis dis- courage the 1 Everyone Every Every- one who has a slice of the taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' tax tax- payers' payers money owed to them because because because be be- cause of the war ought to be known by name and business so when anyone starts to spread war propaganda the people will know whether or not the last slaughter was profitable to him Fifty-eight Fifty million human beings beings beings be be- ings have died in the last 25 years in wars Should this slaughter be encouraged I say think not of profit but of the thep p people ople Earl M. M Carrier S. S West Everyone Must Act to Cut Down Traffic Death Toll Editor Telegram I have been following the recent articles in inthe inthe inthe the paper concerning our tragic death toll on the highways I think they are very good However However However How How- ever I dont don't agree with them entirely The people who should be most concerned are the people that are in dang danger r of being killed and that means all of us Take the case of the young mother who was killed just before before before be be- fore Thanksgiving Nobody excuses excuses excuses ex ex- ex- ex the driver of the car that killed her but if her husband had looked both ways before crossing that intersection she might be alive today If anybody thinks that a green light is a sure sign of a safe crossing they had better take another another an an- another other look at the death toll for last year Our record of death on our highways last year is a disgrace to this state and the only ones who can change that record are people who drive fly walk or crawl All others are exempt Here is an epitaph that explains explains explains ex ex- ex- ex plains what I mean Here lies the bones of Robert Gray He died maintaining his right- right of He was right dead right as he sped along But hes he's just as dead as if hed he'd been wrong Ralph Oakle Oakley St S1 |