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Show Why Have Drivers' Licenses" Many people are not converted to the real necessity of having a driver's driv-er's license and feel that the state Is only creating more laws to deprive de-prive them of freedom of action. They point to the number of "Good Until Revoked" licenses Issued Is-sued In 1933 and 1934, which were Issued without written or driving test. They point to the few remaining States that do not have driver's licenses and regarding them as the lust surviving frontiers of freedom. Even the "Three Year License" presents a problem with its fifty-cent fifty-cent renewal fee to be mailed or brought in within three months before be-fore the expiration date. Suspension of a license when a person has been convicted of three moving traffic violations calls for special examinations and hearings by the Commissioners. Revocation of the license for "H.t and Run", and "Drunken Driving", etc., causes many people to feel that freedom of the open highway is gone. Without investigation or thought It would appear that some Injustice Is being done, but a more thorough study reveals the wisdom and Just-Ice Just-Ice behind these requirements. The Driver's License Division has been built up through a gradual process of meeting problems as they arise. Legislators selected by the people have used their best Juig-nvent Juig-nvent In this work. It was f rst thought best to h.ive nil automobile operators register with the state for Identification. A license was issued for the sum of twenty-five cents to all who uppll-ed. uppll-ed. During the years that followed the large number of deaths caused by automobiles came to the attention atten-tion of the department. The public demanded that something be done. A study was made of the driver con-tol con-tol work of other states and gradually grad-ually the system we now have was developed. The annual death rate caused by auto accidents over the last five years has been reduced from 205 to 103. The saving of even one life would more than pay for the Inconvenience In-convenience thtat we are put to, to learn ''Road Rules" necessary for the preservat'on of life and property. proper-ty. Rather than require all "Good Until Revoked" license holders to appear for a special examination it was thought best to let then climate cli-mate themselves through the process of law enforcement. 11 they prove to be a hazard on the road, officers give them tickets, which brings their lack of driving abuty to the attention of the Driver's License Division. Duplicates are being issued to holders of "Oood Until Revoked" licenses, who have proven, by their records, to be safe drivers. The "Three Year License" now Issued with eye. wrltten.and driving test Is modern and efficient. The new generation of driver's. If they apply the knowledge gained in these examinations, should be safer drivers. driv-ers. If the holders of "Oood Until Revoked" licenses fully understand the volue of the tests given, they would of their own free will come In and take the test to Increase their driving ability. The new generation demand a higher freedom than is possible under the law of the Survival of the Fittest. They are stuggltng for fl system where large groups of people can nov safely and efficiently with equal freedom of personal rUiht to all. It Is the object of the "Driver's' License Division" to do Justly and efficiently the task the people?, through the leglslatature, have set for them to do When you see the Driver's License Examiner at work In your vicinity, don't feel that you are lucky to evade this service. It has been set up for the one purplse of saving life and properly. Drivers' Lfreniw Division STATE TAX COMMISSION |