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RANI t els t ru k faie le news out of Washington A. d U that at the Federal is about to take tak Government 0 e J 1 M V steps to encourage th theIrl the e Irl investment rt vestment estment of private capital in building operations s irge rge rge and small is good news ins ine in- in is not the slightest i e eed ed There that a quick revival of the i J industry would do more F achieve permanent recovery l i d would result in taking up l dl t ore ore re of the slack slade in employment jt an an anything else could do n d the shortage of houses and andi i 1 5 buildings is certainly c CH rge r rge g gI e. e 1 I ft Il All that private capital needs ak aka r induce it to invest in build build- U g g enter enterprises is some assur- assur ice ce of reasonable return on the vestment estment v without having proS proS' pro- pro Its is S' S confiscated by taxation and J u fair measure of security when a e r lend their money on mort- mort The plans now working t t ar are said to provide such as- as rances I I Jt It is understood that this new I I operatIOn between Govern Govern- nent and Business will not add J cent to to Government expendi- expendi res ires which is IS also good news effect in the long run should e to increase the volume of which and property on the securities represented by investments and the ill i Ebonies comes from new buildings peal cal al state and Federal got govern er n jents j e can collect more tax I a FecI ral efforts in the housing m eld have been focused upon 41 I lum cl clearance rance and providing providing- l n. n dr omes mes 3 for people who cannot flord to buy or rent modern e wellings The building of new newe e Houses uses for the use of those whon who n afford them should benefit under privileged sih ne e by g g m many my still livable houses i a a td will ViII be available at low Jow i eb i rentals to say nothing of d di ig ig g 1 for the frugal harde hard hard- e element which surely Reserves ionic Jm consideration t s. s SHOCKING t DECISION ibi tx Last week a man so drunk he uld I hardly stagger along rover his car ar r the str streets streets' ets I is J lf Manti for more th than n two tb curs urs thereby endangering the at Ives of many of our citizens r tuch such ch a m man an is a menace to the rt fety of the general public and hould he unintentionally cause I 1 he e death of a man woman or orhild hild the fact that he is drunk could be no excuse for the act 4 If the precedent set by a judge judg Lowell Mass is followed follower b by y ther her courts it will be possible i I or or r drunken drivers to kill p pu- pu r entrains right and left and go o cot A young man his fe and their two two- year two old ear son I were struck by a car The hus lrus- band and child were killed the mother is in the hospital The driver was drunk In court he lie was convicted of ui drunkenness and of reckless driving but the judge acquitted him of manslaughter manslaughter-b g r because ause he was drunk An old well-settled well u rule of law laid down by Sir Edward Coke the great English jurist more than three hundred years ago is that drunkenness is S no excuse for the drunkards drunkard's con con- duct A drunkard hath bath no privilege privilege privilege th thereby reby wrote Coke Whoever ever ill or 01 hurt he doth his drunkenness doth cloth aggravate aggravate aggra- aggra vate it I But the Massachusetts l judge brushed that aside and hand handed d down the amazing dictum t that manslaughter must result from willful wanton and reckless con- con duct If Curry was so drunk that he could not formulate hi his 1 ri will II can it be said that he is guilty of being willful wanton 1 and reckless If that view is js adopted by other courts and becomes prevalent prevalent prevalent pre pre- valent what curb is th there re on drunken driving or upon homicide homi cide cede in any manner if all that the killer needs to do to go free is to plead that he was so drunk he did not know what he was was doing It It Itis is not only b bad d law but a very definite added menace to the safety of the highways high Automobiles are already already- taking taking taking tak- tak ing a frightful toll of lives Every effort of society y should beto b be to impose heavier upon reckless dri vess not notto to- to to Fg them But But- here we havethe havethe have have- the shocking spectacle while oth other r communities are tightening tightening tighten tightens ing the restrictions upon driving b ba a ear car lr while drunk of a judge judger exonerating a criminal crimin l be because he was was' drunk r. It is to be bt hoped that this WW V 1 prove to b be an an isolated instance and that no other court will take the same view vie Alcohol and J automobiles mu must not be allowed to mix t FINGERPRINTING EVERYBODY It was contemplated by the framers of the Social Security i Act that every person pe registered register- register I i ed as eligible for Old Age pensions pensions pensions pen- pen should have havea a record of his fingerprints filed with rith his identification identification identification iden- iden I card The law v still permits it but that sure method of providing proof ten twenty venty i or forty years hence that the the- i 1 applicant for a retirement nt pension pension pension pen- pen j sion is the same person in In whose n me the Security Tax has been I paid for years was vas abandoned because of protests by people who ho felt that there was vas some something thing degrading in being finger- finger printed I Fingerprinting has a sinister I implication i ti n in the minds ds of the unintelligent since its use is mainly in the identification of criminals But there is no sound reason why everyone le should hould not l have his his' hisor or her fingerprints reI recorded re re- I corded at some central point for purposes of identification I under many conceivable circumstances circumstances circum circum- II stances not connected in any anyway anyway way With crime Finger prints have been proved proved proved ed ov over r a long period to be the theone theone theone one one characteristic of every human hu hw hueman man which is not duplicated in any other persons Even identiCal identical iden iden- twins have differences in their fingerprints Chinese business bushness bush busi- n ness ness ss men men for thousands of years have used the fingerprint as a signature 1 To T Tobe be able to prove ones one's ones own identity in such convincing manner that it cannot be challenged challenged challenged chal chal- would often be of great value to many persons To be beable beable beable able to identify a lost child a n victim of accident unable to give his liis name or the body of an unknown unknown un unknown known person are examples of real social values which would result from universal fingerprinting finger finger- printing Many l thousands of persons have filed their fingerprints fingerprints finger finger- finger 1 I i prints voluntarily with the Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral pral Bureau of Investigation in 1 Washington Everybody should I j I do so Only those who have something something- they 2 wish h to conceal congeal in their pasts ha have ve serious grounds for objecting to fingerprinting fingerprinting fingerprinting finger finger- printing everybody I |