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Show THE CITIZEN e in case of accident where to be barred from the roads, and is the cause, the automobile will be confiscated, as well as the public highways. c Prohibiting the driver from the use of I dXast year the total fatalities in the United States brought about deaths. v automobile accidents were 19,564 X If the public is to be protected against careless and hit and run The e tivers, radical changes must be made in our present laws. hiljurde of danger is the driver, and if. the careless driver is elimin-- 8 Ited there will be no accidents. ira The hit and run driver, is nothing more or less than a vicious htfrutcHvho appears to have no regard for law nor for the lives of his ;llow men. Such fiends should be weeded out, their automobiles i finfiicated, all damages paid, a penitentiary sentence and forever Prohibited from driving, a machine on the highways, Several people have been killed lately on our streets, and many ip: from the point ijured. In some cases the drivers have speeded away naf accidnt and left their victims to writhe in agony or to die. Life in le penitentiary would be a mild sentence for all such wreckless riving hoodlums. But no matter how many people are run down and crippled or sellled, the law affords poor protection for the pedestrian and little 5lief or justice. People do not understand it. Unless the law: irs.kes some drastic action, people will begin protecting their lives s nd property without recourse to law. bat There is no justification for accidents upon our wide streets ostid the penalties ought to be very severe. syr Why our lawmakers are adverse to a severe penalty we are un-- : pble to answer. The politicians tinker with the laws and every the law abiding citizen to drive his ly make it more difficult for reslir, but proper supervision of the thug driver is passed along to ke care of itself, apparently. It appears to be not much of a crime 1 8 drive a car in this city or county while under the influence of It is much more of a crime to play a game of cards noonshine. tof make a bet on a horse race or ball, game, or to park a car five L5 tinutes overtime. methods As long as we handle careless drivers with wishy-washiglae must expect accidents to increase. ' When the University of Utah school boys marked up our streets, the police department got after them, but now Chief Burton has the fever, and the town is marked up as if about to celebrate some prominent Indian sun dance. A crowd of people rush for the street car but are held on the red line until the bell tingles, notwithstanding there is no auto in sight. The shopper misses the car and waits twenty minutes in the hot sun in the middle of the street, or walks home. How many accidents have we had in this city and how many have we had in the downtown district? Evidently Commissioner Burton believes in advertising, but how about cleaning up the crooks first, Mr. Burton, before tackling these trifling technicalities, which after all is village stuff? We advise you, Mr. Burton, to go to Denver with an expert engineer and see for yourself how traffic is handled in that city. They have much narrower streets than we have, nearly three times as many people living in the city, hence the traffic must be three times or over what it is here, yet they are able to conduct their traffic without the red tape that we have here. In comparison there is about as much difference in Denver and this city, as there is in this city and Murray. Since the first of the year, we do not remember how often our traffic regulations have been changed, but with each succeeding change, we find them much more complicated. We cannot see the object in view, unless it be to brand the few remaining not listed as criminals as criminals in order to make it unanimous. Under our present system the entire police department will be demoralized. Already the boys have the name of automobile markers instead of policemen, and they are kept so busy down town marking cars and teaching people how to walk that they will entirely lose track of all the crooks. In fact the other day when real evidence was wanted in a case the city commission had to call on Ben Harries. Evidently the city commissioners do not realize that they are being negli-P(tenc- ei S . ; - S held up to ridicule. It is no wonder that tax money vanishes so quickly from the treasury. Yes, by all means, let us plant some flowers, buy a red lemonade and go home and study the law code for tomorrow. , y enfc NOT SURPRISE PROPAGANDA OIL A state senator, living in Ogden, is charged with embezzling erer two thousand dollars and has been released upon his own There is nothing surprising in that in this fast age when ThS only thing is of ?arly everybody is out to do the other fellow. intt rec-piizanc- e. j at if a poor working man tried the same game he would be eat-a- ll behind prison bars. The senator in question having had something to do in helping frame some of our criminal state laws, evidently knows just how g his meals pr .n!!.r he can go. ho! FANATICAL ERA urf ikt : While Commissioner Harry Finch is laying awake nights figur- how and where to plant flowers and vines in City Creek canyon, jly.g id Commissioner Burton is trying to educate the village people the widest ,rejjw to walk and how to direct automobile traffic upon eets of any city in the United States, the yeggmen, porch climb-e- p e ;s, safe crackers, sandbaggers, kidnappers and all round thugs and inmen are reaping a rich harvest in their robbing campaign in 30rl parts of the city. No doubt the crooks figure that they are en-- e led to collect some toll from the average daily worker, and what tle he gets is not even a fair division of the spoils. ices Every city of moderate size has its fanatical innings, just as a fiseball game may blow up at any moment. We are now going through what Denver did a few years ago. tially Denver discarded all the red tape and got down to busies. During a big part of the day, a cannon ball could be shot with-3,)Wn Main street and it would go all the way down the street Jt hitting anyone. There are a few occasions when traffic but upon our wide streets it is an easy matter to handle. Th late World War produced one curse which will take many years to overcome, and that is propaganda. Everyone that has an axe to grind, gets out the dope sheet and begins to write. In this day of perfect organization, the officers are always advancing the remedies necessary to bring about better results. Along this thought, President Sam H. Thompson, of Quincy, 111., of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said: We need a better marketing policy in America and we need a shorter distance between the producer and consumer. No doubt he meant that money could be saved the consumer, but we would like to ask Mr. Thompson how it is that the farmers living on the main highways of the country charge more for their fruits and vegetables than the same can be purchased in the down town stores? The produce goes through several hands before reaching the consumer and there is profit at each change, yet the farmer when doing business direct with the consumer, not only figures his own profit, but also takes the profit of the wholesaler and the retailer. Many people have stopped buying on the highways because of the holdup prices. However, some of the farmers say that if they do not hold up prices, the commission men will refuse to purchase their stuff. Looks like a little legislation will correct this evil. i GREAT NATION ! : 0 in-ease- s, It is interesting to read the production figures in the field of industry and agriculture in the United States. With a population of only some 118,000,000 people out of an estimated world population of 1,748,000,000 individuals, our total output is all the more as- - i i |