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Show I AUTO LAW IS CONDEMNED. Automobile owners have been complaining com-plaining that the new state license law has elements of injustice, and now comes Judge Ben Johnson of Salt Lake who declares it is a piece of freak legislation. The judge had before be-fore him a man charged with failing io notify the secretary' of state that he had disposed' of his machine. He had traded his old car In on another automobile and had obtained a license from the state, which was a record in itself. In commenting on tho case, Judge Johnson said: "Violation of the law is punishable by a fine of not less than 525 or more than 51000, or by Imprisonment for not less than thirty or more than ninety nine-ty days in jail It Is a freak piece of V . legislation. Under such a section tho owner of an automobile doesn't know when he will have to' pay a huge fine or go to jail. Why the Imposition of such a penalty is absurd The law should either be repealed or the penalty penal-ty modified. The purpose of automobile automo-bile licenses is to meet the expenses Incurred in remedying l he wear and tear on the roads, and it is unjust to require the purchase of a new license when a machine changes hands." At the next session of the legislature legisla-ture the law should be changed and made to conform to reasonable re-ll re-ll itlH'flHllHl quirements. |