Show THE RECORD regrets tile the illness ol of senator wm H king and sincerely hopes the ocean trip will prove beneficial to tile the distinguished utahn claim THERE Is hardly a community in america that will not profit directly or indirectly rom from the billion dollars the tha utilities will spend for or construction and expansion in 1930 and that will not join with mith the president in thanking them for or their patriotic operation cooperation co says an exchange MOTOR transportation Is ever on the inc increase ene in fit this motor age in which we are living purchase of thirty three additional dit ional tonal motor stages lor for use on Us its transcontinental routes at an aggregate cost of Is announced by J L haugh vice president of 0 the union pacific system thirty of the new stages will be thirty tour four passenger capacity two tile of 0 twenty sly siv passenger and one of tyone ty one passenger all ali of the new equipment Is for immediate delivery and will be placed in fit serille sen ice in tile the next sixty days SAYS christian science monitor where theres a will theres a way was demonstrated by capt charles chades K smith the australian who flew from the united states to australia in recently a tri trl motored plane made a forced landing in a forest clearing it seemed the plane could be moved only by being dismantled capt smith tied the planes tall to a tree and set the engines going lull full speed when the machine lifted fr from am the ground a farmer out cut the rope and the plane flashed away barely rising above tile the treetops STOPPING BANDITRY AN EASTERN judge in advocating a at stringent federal antl anti pistol law sald said I 1 that a pistol Is of no possible use in the possession poss cislon elsIon of honest law abiding citizens because of 0 the element clement of surprise sas the manufacturer on another page of at the same issue of the newspaper in which tills this statement appeared was an article describing the shooting of two armed bandits by the son of 0 a storekeeper they were attempting to rob evidently in this case the surprise was a on n the part of the bandits who had expected unarmed unprotected victims in the old days said bald judge franklin ta talor for ot of brooklyn when people were permitted to possess pistols it was customary to see a pistol hanging on a shop wall behind it a counter the mere presence of 0 that arm was a warning to the crook today the crook knows the law has removed that menace to him I 1 believe that it if it were once known in the underworld orld that shops were armed again that storekeepers stood an equal chance with tile the thief and that adequate police details were there to pursue fleeing bandits such a method would go further to stop banditry than any other small arms legislation of one kind or another restricts the pos possession sessio 11 of weapons in many of our states crime Is increasing dally daily murders assaults and robberies are commonplaces and yet the reformers keep up their cliant chant that further disarming ot of law abiding citizens would stop crimel A well armed citizenry would be more of a menace to the underworld orld than pro laws which in reality beauty act to the advantage of tile the criminal NEW USE FOR OLD CARS CABS ron spring motorists it should be blithe news that the automobile manufacturers rs of the united states have taken action to remove thousands of dangerously worn out vehicles vehicle from the roads in the six new england states tor for e example 7 it Is estimated that some old cars will be taken out of the traffic for the country as a whole tile estimate runs to something like it is reported that tile the lemoal nill cost the he manufacturers ul about a hum bum which hlll III be retries retrieved ed by the lie indrea increased ed de demand illand for low price used cars in condition rood good i those these old cars of course will not disi dis I appear all at once as ai it by magic bu but tive ono one after another as their respective C own ci hoping for the best offer them to dealers as part payment on newer never 1 eh chicles leles some old cars to be mire hure re tire ies es they go irrevocably out of commission and are arc mysteriously conveyed by the owner to some vacant lot or roadway tay far from ills home slid and there left others putting their best tires foremost and assuming bouth auth aarle at the dealers on such cars under the ne new w dispensation the dealer will be allowed a sum of money by the manufacturers with the understanding that they are then to be put irrevocably out of commission next they will 9 go to the junk man and no junk man how however ever careless of at tile the general safety wilt will he able to tinker them into precarious activity ca cars rs hine beai becia I 1 kept on the ro roads ads long after they were reasonably dependable machines and their unreliability n makes a Cs them dang dangerous erous not only to the cocu i pants but to other cars the interesting figures regarding car retirement illustrate once more the do of the automobile industry i and the resulting problem of making democracy safe for democrats it ls Is part and parcel of democracy that liberty for all Is interpreted by some as license tor for thein gelles in more nays than the lie continued operation of a motorcar when ulten consideration for others would scrap it does this minority interpretation enter into tile the problem of reasonable safety for the individual motorist and pedestrian in fit in automobile age ace the pon sible driver for example may be found in fit any kind of car it will no doubt materially advance the lie general security to remove trie cars it would adrance advance it further it if a way could be found to remote irresponsible dri driers lers |