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Show ENFORCING STATE AUTO LICENSE LAW IN SOUTH E. C. Penrose, representing the of-fico of-fico of the Secretary of State and also tho State Road Commission, is in Cedar Ce-dar City today on an itineray trip through tho towns of tho state, his main business being to look into the enforcement of tho law regulating the licensing of motor vehicles. He reports finding a number of violators of thp state law in nearly" every town nnd hus prosecuted considerable number num-ber of cases. It appears that a great many owners of automobiles are laboring la-boring under tho misapprehension that they havo relieved themselves of responsibility when they hnvo paid tho money for their license into tho stnto treasury and obtained tho receipt from the Secretary of Stato, and that it is a matter of indifferent moment whether the numbers nro affixed to their cars as tho law provides or not, so long ns they can produce tho receipt. re-ceipt. This is clearly nn erroneous view. The object of the number is as much for nn identification mark, to protect other traffic from injury as lor an acknowledgement of payment of tho license money. Somo well-nicnning well-nicnning and law-abiding citizens have therefore been arrested and fined for infractions of the law, after having paid out their money for license- and obtained tho numbers. |