Show Editorials by pie TIlE THE SALT LAKE LAIN TELEGRAM invites It Its readers to hi write letters rg about current events o or publication in tilts tills column There Is no better betler way or tho expression o 0 public opinion Write on one side of the paper and sign your jour name flame and give lve your our address If you oU do not wish your name published it will not appear In print Letters religious beliefs be beliefs bo- bo liet will bo be rejected iC I you IC J. J you wish Ish manuscripts returned returned send self addressed addressed ad ad- dressed stamped envelope J p Salt I Lake Labe e City April Ii S. S 1915 Editor Tele Telegram ram lias has the Jitney been ben Ic legislated out of or bu business In Salt O It L Lake CI City It seems that such Is the theca ca case o. o By fly Imposing unreasonable burdens burdens bur bur- dens and upon the these e busses the city government o Instead of rc regulating regu regu- u. u lating UJ their lr operation has banished them from our streets In doing doln this the city has exceeded Its powers The state law gives bives the tho city clU the power to regulate the use uso of or the streets it gives gl no or to prohibit their use 30 And this statute C cannot b be evaded e under tinder the ulse guise of or regulation reg which effectually prohibits Its the tho running of these machines With Ith all du duo due regard for our streetcar street streetcar streetcar car system which Is an n excellent on one tho the city elt should not enact measures the natural consequence o of which Is to tomake tomake I make the tho street railway the exclusive common carrier of or passengers on our I streets Which Is IB wor worse e to say Wo we will wilt regulate you ou so drastically that I you ou cannot possibly operate your our machines ma ma- chines or to say sar It t shall bo be unla unlawful lul I Ifor for you to operate Jitney busses on tho the streets of this thle elt city The Tho result I would he be the same In either case rase andin and andIn andIn In either case the elt city would be bl tX Its power I Soon after the Jitney made m Its app appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap p on our streets a cr cry went up I Ifor for It Its regulation No 0 one ono 1 desired llred Its banishment unless It were those In Interests In in- ler crests with Ith which It comp competed h by ti th n Ms his our city government enacted prohibitive ordinances Are Art not the cOic the ones to tn be considered In the matter maller If so o wh why give them prohibition tion In the form torn of ot regulation when they were only demanding regulation Is it to the best Int Interests r ste of the community com- com that the street et railway shall lave have no competition I hardly think tho the a average citizen will take such euch po po- The citizen who ho Is le compelled to stand up In crowd crowded street cars on his way ww to ami and from his work cry feels eels that A it competition might have e a el very salutary effect upon the street car ctr company compan that It might have tho effect of Inducing the company to com comply III with Its franchise and provide pro i n. sufficient number of cars to accommodate the public Tho service has al always always al- al Wn ways 8 been heen Inadequate during the rush hours of the day Under the provisions of tho the ordinance these motor busses busse are re reQuired required required re- re to provide a seat for every eT passenger pas pas- enger True frue the ordinance does dols not nottY say tY this In III so 0 many words word but hut that Is 18 the effect of or Its provisions Wh Why be beso beso beso so n of the tho motor motol bu bus anti I so long suffering with the he street car where people are often orten packed In it Ilk like sardines because the company comp will not run a sufficient number of cars cars cars' The people want fairness f In this mat mat- ter There are three Interests Interest Involved In the the people the street railway and the jitney Cannot our ctt city commissioners commis- commis enact reasonable ordinances which will the Interests of all throe three pUlleR parties THE TELEGRAM t has Bono dono much good 1001 work vork for the public Its fearless arl s and honest Onest course courso Is de del deserving deserving de- de serving l of muc much commendation If It Itcan itcan can eRn take up this question with a view of or having hating It solved Iol fairly tho the people will 1 owe ow It another debt of or gratitude JAMES JA W W. Editor Telegram In vl view w of the thc fact that all our present university muddle has hat its origin In In Inan an Incident similar to th the one no narrated below I b believe lIe tJ that It will be e Interesting rending reading it at t this time The distinguished pupils pupil of the tho cor- cor s are all good ator story storytellers tellers and thc they frequently cn the examination hour with anecdotes anecdote Ia Eb pt lly do they resort to this subterfuge fuge when th thy they arc not up uit In their lessons lee les sons on The other da day n a n y W was lS printed I In Inthe Inthe the p cf ot one one- of N the professors which vac I to Pupil Bryan After raising his hind hand and receiving permIssion permission sion sign to ask the question he ho said to th the tho professor or In lIT int i t s. s somewhat surly tone tono hero did you OU get Ret that story lOr i 1 dl It 11 said the professor or To Illustrate his view o 0 the tho denial Master lter Bryan told this story Ther was vas to be an examination In III Ina tt tta a 1 country before tho the trustees trustees trustees trus trus- tees of th the second s district When hn the trustees s had taken ken their seats scats and wore ore stroking th their th-lr lr beards with an Impress that spread awe v among the scholar the thc teacher r called ott olt Johnny Johnn Jonet Jone como up ut to the platform platform plat plat- form Johnny Johnn came tp p with fear rear and ind trem trem- bling Johnny Johnn said tho the teacher leacher who wo wrote The rh Merry Irry Wives I of Windsor Please ser lr I didn't do It said ald the scholar r Go back to your seat saM aid tho the leacher teacher with withering distrust disgust Hold on on said J o nc nf of th tho tha trustees after f sending a lr stream of or tobacco juice with v ura accuracy into a n nt clI cuspidor I dont don't like tho the W way y In which he ans answered r d that I think ho did do It iL After this anecdote th the professors It OJ time to close t school chool for that Ihal lav 11 |