Show I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Telegram welcomes letters for this department Owing to space limitations limitation they must be confined to words and must be on subjects of general interest Communications unaccompanied by writers writer's name and nd address will not be considered This is to show good faith The name will not be published if the writer so 50 requests The Telegram does not assume responsibility for any opinion expressed in m in this department nor for the I accuracy of any statement nor for the return of manuscripts submitted Address all communications to The Editor Letters must be written only on one side aide of the paper I He Defends Use Of Narrow Tires d I t I Editor Telegram Telegram- With your editorial of January Jal 2 25 o oi on narrow tired wagons I beg to take talie exception tion with regard to the damage done clone on public roads lo by narrow tired wagons in comparison with wide tired wagons All that any person that Is not biased needs to do Is to gO KO out on the roads in the spring of the year ear or any time when th tha roads o a are wet or r water r running on lm thorn thon and note the tho a actions of narrow tired wagons and the wide tired wagons The narrow tired wagons keep on top or crown of ot the road and do not slue around If It there ther Is a rut In the road It goes rIghton right righton on on through Then watch the wide tired wagon It slues around and when It H comes comes to a rut It churns churn It put and andI works th the r road ad down from the crest and every wide tired wagon keeps doing the I same thing I live on the road that most all of the coal coat is hauled on to Vernal and see the tUe action of ot all kinds of wagons and autos on the road and I have seen I and anyone anone who Is not prejudiced cani can see what damage e an auto truck can dowhen do dowhen I when i the road is slippery P tf They can do more damage to a a. road in a few seconds Iy ly spinning their wheels and churning a a. ahole hole kote ole In the road than forty wagons could do In going over the same same place These big auto trucks that bring in our mall mail when the roads get ct soft sort will and andI do klo churn chum up the roads roada s 's ta so that it Is I pretty hard to get over th them m. m I own two cars and have traveled from Colorado to southern Florida and from there back here hero to Utah and my mv experience with them at times has been that they have I helped to damage the roads a good deal more bore than the same asame weight would would have done on a narrow tired wagon Perhaps 1 If all our roads were made of ot concrete ete thick enough th that no ruts could be bo made In them it might be different But just let leta a rut get et started so that water can cant cans run into It t and every car that goes inand in and splash s goes out Jt Water a a and tm mud ds a and and d so on with every car and you OU soon have havea a deep rut or chuckhole Then you say there Is no license on the wagon I II I I think you will find Ind the way people are I I kicking that we pay all the taxes the taxing authorities dare II put Jt on them as aswell aswell well ell as our other properties these days I There is also another point of view with regard to narrow tired Vehicles The Tho I law carried to its ultimate issue we would not be allowed to run light spring wagons or bu buggies over the roads Also a a. person buying a new wagon a short time before this unjust law was passed could not get the Use of ot It In the time before the law was to be enforced as a anew anew anew new wa wagon taken care of should last fifteen en or or twenty years ats at least In 1913 9 you could buy hero 1 a a- lJ a 3 w wagon 0 for r from m i to 1125 and d for for the same size wa wagon on today the dealers are asking The only difference Is the tires and felloes are wider at an extra cost to manufacture perhaps of not to exceed 5 Ia Yours Tours respectfully I TOED FRED AKHURST- AKHURST Personal I Choice In n V Vaccination ac n Editor Telegram following the scare of a smallpox epidemic for the last few weeks one reads statements by the tile city health commIssIoner com com- mIssIoner r to the effect that the tho city Is Ismore I Imore more free of of this thi disease than It has been during the corresponding period of or any last live five years f C Isn't It reasonable to conclude that certain persons persons who wish the compulsory compulsory compulsory sory vaccination law to pass In the legis legle- legislature lature use the thc criminal method of r spreading terrifying news of ot an epidemic In order to sway eway the theote vote ote their way If there was an epidemic at t the e hOlidAY holi holiday boll hOli- day season few tew people realized it and ana andS S Salt lt Lake generally enjoyed a. a happy and healthy Christmas perhaps Urns due time due fo the r-the the fact that the secretary of ot tM state stale board of health was vas unsuccessful In having the papers take up the subject of at epidemic at that time Epidemic or no eJ epidemic may the gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen gen gen- gen gen- of or the legislature prove to o be wholly American and grant us at lea least one personal liberty to liberty to be or not to b DC be vaccinated AGNES LAWSON M Street I Woman Disagrees With Statements Editor Telegram Last night I attended at attended attended at- at tended a a. m meeting etIng of ot the tho Getters Go club held In Sugarhouse The subject under tinder discussion was the removal q the Utah state prison ln In which I heX heart heartily by ily agree and believe as a wife of a ai aprisOn aprison i prison guard In that statement I voice the he thoughts of nil all guards and their wives But we would like to see th the prison moved for the sake of the In ln Inmates In mates not mates not the residents for for they do need more room and better opportunity for tor employment One of the sneakers of the evening made some statements which were a direct reflection on the guards and their families as well as as the In Inmates In- In mates nH and all connected with the In In- In She did nOt confine contine herself herself her her- self to facts for while on the night of the prison break breal of ot a year ago the shooting did rouse the entire neIghborhood neighborhood neigh neIgh- In two twp hours all aU was quiet and not In turmoil for tor three days aa a stated Correcting another statement The children of ot the neighborhood are not permitted to attend the Saturday afternoon afternoon afternoon aft aft- ball games Even the children of ot the guards are barred and certainly all aU others There Is considerably noise made at the tho games which last for about two hours but what red-blooded red American isn't able to stand a a. little baseball noise noire And who on earth would deny the Inmates that Inmates that two hours' hours recreation for the Eja sake anke e of ot protecting their Jaded nerves Also contrary t to Infer inferences n es ma made Ie the tho mothers who live and have lived Inthe Inthe in inthe the Prison Row the of the guards are raising families to be proud of and would woula welcome any cItiZen citizen citi zen or committee to investigate them We have REASON to be proud of ot them hem and dont don't feel that anyone has I reason to fear tear they may contaminate I their companions elther either at at play or at school We Ve haVe as proof of ot this statement statement statement state state- ment families that have lived on Prison Pris Pris- on Row for tor twenty years raising sons eons and daughters to manhood and wo wo- wo- wo manhood And even these families lammes have haYe never had h-ac one out of ot the way wor word said to them by an inmate Inmate Inmate-In In fact tact nothing but the most courteous and respectful treatment at all times And for any woman to say that the he In Inmates Inmates inmates In- In mates fling lIng unseemly ch challenge lenge and ana In Insults In- In suits from the to the girls of the neighborhood d. d as ns they board their cars is too utterly ridiculous ridiculous' for tor consideration here I am a a. a l bit old fashioned but bub It doesn't seem to mo me that fairness ever go quite out of ot date Yours Tours for tor publication MRS CLAUDE Y RUSSELt 1496 East South I House Houge Bill 48 I IOn On the Grill Editor Telegram House bill I 48 proposes proposes pro pro- poses to repeal our present vaccination law Jaw As the law now Is Is each can decide for tor himself whether to be vaccinated or not but should H. H B. B 48 become law the state board of ot health will decide that for each of us Can any anyone one doubt how they will decide It If any anyone One hesitates s. s let him hark back to 1900 a when the the- the same same man A as I now DOW was in control of ot the state board of health and recall how he and his assistants went out over the state and vaccinated little helpless children children or or excluded them from the public schools which you and I paid taxes to maIn maIn- tain to educate those WM VJ children J so o ex excluded ex- ex Yes wo we even paid taxes to pay him and his assistants for tor doin dOing that very thing regardless of ot our pro protests pro pro- tests until it was reported that there thee were over eight thousand he healthy school children excluded from the pub- pub schools because 10 io their parents re refused re- re fused to permit them to be Inoculated with this poison polson virus Then what happened A test was brought State vs Board of Edua case casa lion tIon of 0 Salt Lake City 60 o Pacific Reporter Reporter fit Re- Re porter 1013 decided April il S 26 Tsoo 1900 with Judge Baskin dissenting that th 7 the tho state board of health had the power to to- thus exclude healthy from the public pub pub- lic Hc schools Wo then and now have a school la law making It t a Criminal compulsory offence ottense ot- ot for tor tense fence parents not to send children to school Thus their I did not wish their parents who children vac vaccInated I of whom most most had heard of or n many hAd bad personal knowledge knowledg of cases w where had vaccination injured people for tor life 1 Were sere to be prevented from 1 I their little HUle children ana and tW protecting I well Should II H. B. B No 48 become c law as p It is a a. very serious question Whether or not the courts would protect and I from the the- Invasion of ot protect our hom homes homeR you f fand and compulsory vaccination in homes should tho the state stale board Our of hea health h declare an epidemic threatened hL or t that we had bren exposed to smallpox Thus the s state te board of health be given riven n by No o. o 48 as aa great pj will Power pow as athe a- a czar of ot Russia the ever un limited power to Impose its will niT and J I. I with no law to restrain on y You X it It lt It t was attempting to ao Just that legislature in Wh when the 1901 in to I I the tile insistent statewide cry of oppression oppression oppression sion passed our present ory orv vaccination law Why does any anyone one want It repealed Has any evidence been produced produce that during the two twenty two years It has lies been In force torce the rate from smallpox has been excessive The doctors doctors doc doc- I I tors themselves do not agree on vaccination dOC j nation a nation a. a very vry large and growing per percent percent I cent of doctors are now opposing vaccination vac vac- Then who Is 19 it that wants our present protective law repealed and why Certainly it Is Js not the people people peo peo- pie a large majority of ot whom were shown clearly over twenty years ago to oppose compulsory vaccination But even conceding the majority did want that la lat laV repealed l. l would not the minority minority minority mi mi- mi- mi who ho oppose vaccination have the right to te protection Certainly they should a a aleast least until such time as ItCan it itcan itcan can be shown that vaccination is safe sate and that It does docs prevent smallpox Has there there been been an any change of heart hearton on the tho part of oZ the tate state board of ot health during the past two twenty-two years If It eo so I have seen no evidence of It and It and the action during the so-called so flu scare earo indicate any change If It given the Hie power would not the state board 0 of of- health the doings of twenty odd years ears ago I t I C. C W. W COLLINS Thinks Building Of Zoo Can Wait Editor Telegram Relative to the new oo building which Commissioner Stewart cont plat s giving to Salt Lake City the t following followingS is a true story A A. group of ot were discussing discussing discussing dis dis- dis- dis cussing it one day last week and one of ot them voiced her commendation of Dr Stewart for for presenting Salt Lake City with this magnificent structure proposed She was greatly surprised to learn that Dr Stewart was doing everything In this tills connection except to pay for tor it She had followed th the propaganda pre pretty ty closely in the press and perhaps may be pe forgiven for tor her misapprehension May one suggest without Impertinence and at the risk of being panned for tor a dangerous radical a red bolshevik or one of ot Steves Steve's Dumbbells that the taxpayers rs of at Salt Lake City can get along CUm corn for another two years without with with- out the zoo It Is la quite true that In the frenzy hysteria and delirium prevailing for a year or two after atter the close of the World war Salt Lake voted a bond Issue Issue Is Is- Is sue for tor this purpose Also it probably Is true that if a a. r nA i u I presented at that time for tor a bond Issue i of a a. alike like amount I to provide nIghtgowns nightgowns nIght nIght- gowns for all the lady giraffes and pantalets for tor the little J girls it monkeys would have gone over with a whoop Two hundred thou thousand nd dollars was authorized at that bond election for tor the building of ot i a bathhouse at th the I Warn Warm Springs One infers from preas notices that Comm Commissioner loner Green rathor rath rath- er or r than city commissioner I I spent that money and an additional for the purpose Now ow if It It Is the city commission com corn mission rather than the Individual commissioners doing this Job let the additional why no not amount spent on the bathhouse offset for tor the present the amount the appropriated for tor the zo zoo True Interest the on zoo bonds is only per annum and the sinking fund a total of which perhaps is hardly worth considering since pub pub- lie lic money Is Involved If this were a private corporation Interest might be saved without any loss whatSoever whatsoever what what- to any person whomsoever it would at least be bo carefully considered May one suggest to Commissioner Stewart If It rests entirely with him and to the other commissioners If It they propose to Interest themselves to consider con con- sider aider for a moment What they would do In a a. similar case If they had to borrow bor bor- row money on their personal obligation obliga obliga- tion Would any anyone one of you ou gentlemen gentlemen gentle gentle- men involve yourself for tor something absOlutely ab ab- ab unnecessary even though his lila credit was good i A. 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