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Show . A K - THE CITIZEN 4 NEW CHEST OFFICERS TAX STORY IN FIGURES Automobiles IS. 04 Lands Cities and Towns 1.05 I Improvements Cities and Towns i 1.03 Personal .99 Livestock i i Farm Lands .95 .79 Public Utilities Mines, Corporations, .77 FROM BAD TO WORSE! LAWS! Laws! and more laws! Such is of the average politician. Sane and just laws create a contented people; rad-laand order. The tendency of the past ten years has been to create more criminals. One would think that the criminals were directing our legislation. People who respect law and order can hardly secure justice in our courts today. Our present day criminal automobile driver is a real menace in our nation and something must be done to protect human life. Unluckily, we have those among us who believe the only way to cure crime is to be merciful to the criminal and to pass more laws. We do not need more laws, but what we do need are less laws and more severe penalties. Laws which by nature are not enforceable must necessarily prove a failure. Such laws breed criminals. We have come to the stage where the donts in our laws is gradually undermining our social life. Our penitentiaries are full of criminals; the police dockets are overcrowded with cases beyond the control and execution of the legal departments; our poor houses are crowded, with thousands of poor on the outside begging for a crust of bread; our insane asylums are full, and in every way we are headed to social destruction, such as faced Rome in the days of plenty for the rich and nothing for the poor but the beggars path, and the subsequent undermining of the strongest and richest nation on earth in her halcyon days. Now come forth reformers who would by legislation and more laws eliminate the criminal automobile driver from our highways. Does it stand to reason that law will curb the LAWS! w by passing more laws. It can only be accomplished by the strict enforcement of our present laws by punishing those who disrespect the law. Chief of Police Burbidge and Sheriff Clifford Patten have put themselves on record by asking for more law. The officers do not enforce the present law; then how can they expect to become more efficient by added legislation? it cant be done To cure the reckless driver issue a it is proposed to drivers license and make every person pass an examination. We may be but we cant see how such a law will prevent reckless driving any more than jails will eliminate criminals. thick-heade- d, y. the evil. License plates should not be issued to owners of cars the drivers of which have ignored the law. The license plate provides an accurate list of the car owners, or should do, and an extra drivers license collar would only duplicate work which can be efficiently done under the registered license plate. In the above picture we show the unjust taxa- tion placed upon the automobile. It is time for the automobile owners to demand a reduction in taxation, instead pi an increase, or to tax all other property in a similar proportion. Gasoline is taxed. It takes gas to create power for the automobile so that it can be driven. Why not tax the hay a horse eats? It is the gasoline vicious driver? We say Why dont we enforce our present laws ? Every car is provided with a license number. The average reckless driver never cleans his license so that when he gets into an accident it will be hard to get his number. How many car drivers have been arrested for having unreadable numbers might just as well have no number! We still have the one light driver. We still have the speedster. We still have the driver who pays absolutely no attention to the We still have the driver whose lights point at an uward angle instead of downward, thereby blinding all he meets on the highway. We have the driver who thunders along in traffic at 50, 60 and even 70 miles per hour, and its just too bad for any one that gets in his way! How many people have been arrested for any such violations? Youth and age is to be penalized if some have their way in dictating the new law. How many children have been in serious accidents while driving cars ? How many old people have been in accidents while driving cars? Have these people not a right to live and enjoy themselves if they are able to drive safely? Is it not a fact that the averagereckless driver is a big husky who sees nothing on the highway but his destination in mind ? Are not drunkards responsible for a big portion of our accidents? Have not the courts been too lenient with violators who have flagrantly defied every courtesy of the road? In summing up the entire situation, we find that the average reckless driver is getting by with little or no punishment. Heavy fines and jail sentences, together with barring the reckless driver from the highways will compel respect for the law. But to place a tax collar around our necks at so much tax per individual will never cure right-of-wa- CHEST nas been reorganized for the 1929 chest campaign. E; O. Howard, president of Walker Brothers Bankers, and pres- ident of the Utah Light & Traction company, has been named the chairman; J. H. Rayburn, gen- - O eral manager of the Newhouse hotel, is vice chairman, and Mrs. Lynn H. Thompson will direct the womens organization. Beverly S. Clendenin is chairman of the executive committee. Assisting this central committee will be the executive committee, which, besides Mr. Clendenin, includes Dr. E. W. Browning, Mrs. R. W. Daynes, Leon B. Hampton, M. A. Keyser, George Q. Morris, C. D. Smith, Mrs. Lynn H. Thompson and John M. Wallace, and a special committee which is composed of the general chairman, vice chairman, Louis Marcus, Imer Pett, James W. Collins, Dr. A. D. Bennion and Dr. F. A. Goeltz. The campaign will likely be held the last weekVin March, said R. N. Young, executive secretary. COMMUNITY for the horse. We suggest that all owners of cars get to- gether and demand of the legislature a just auto tax and prohibition of reckless drivers from the highways. Hit and run drivers should be forever barred from the highways. Such punishment will soon create a healthy respect for the law. Think it over, Mr. Automobile Driver! MUSSOLINI having given up the idea of conquering the world with an army, will now establish a fund offering prizes for large families. If the people would all respond it would not take long to grow a small Italy in every nation and eventually just take over the countries. - SHIFTING BLAME CITY Attorney W. H. Folland blames the county Attorneys office for the 700 lapsed cases on the court records. We do not know who is to blame for so many outstanding cases, but we do know that big funds are provided out of the treasuries to support the legal departments of the city and the county, and it is hard to understand why so many cases are on the docket. This thing of pushing the blame from one to another is not well received by the people who are footing the bills. The time to call a halt is when a case is neglected for some reason, and not wait until the end of the year. NEW LINEUP COUNTY Attorney-elec- t John D. Rice has named six assistants to help him in his office during his tenure, thus making a clean sweep in the county attorneys office of all help. His new as- sociates are all well known young men having had several years practice, thus affording the county the best of legal advice, as well as efficient prosecution of all criminals. Mr. Rice has as yet to appoint an investigator. He has also named Miss Alleen Jensen as his secretary, and Miss Mary Whitney as librarian and stenographer. The deputies appointed are: Herbert VanDam, Jr., who was assistant county attorney from 1914 to 1916, and assistant attorney general from 1916 to 1920. Harold E. Wallace, who served as judge of the man and a gradcity court, who is an uate of the University of Utah. George A. Faust, a graduate of the University of Utah, first post commander of the American Legion at Delta, and was commander of the Disabled War Veterans organization. Allen G. Thurman, son of Chief Justice Samuel R. Thurman of the supreme court, now associated in private practice with Delbert Mi Draper, DeiQ ocratic state chairman. Edward F. Richards, a graduate of the University of Utah, who has specialized in trial practice for the last five years. E. M. Wilson, who graduated from the University of Utah in 1917, went to war in France, and returned to practice in Salt Lake. He has been associated in law practice with Feramorz T. Little and H. C. Allen. ex-servi- ce SOME SAY the average working man has too many leisure hours. How about the rich, who work when they please; the poor must work or starve. Jr But when it comes to leisure hours from labor, note the former American Indian, whose daily life showed that he had little concern over the morrow. Life was not created to be a slave, and pleasure mixed with work makes life worth living. |