Show PERSONAL COMMENT ON CURRENT TOPICS if the salt lalit city papers continue to report holdups and murders with the frequency that have been reported for the past week chicago will hav have e to take a backs back seat as the greatest gica test harbored har boier borei of criminals of any city of the country an amend amendment meni to to the golton boiton odie road load bill places an increase 0 to the original provisions of the bill it takes akes in the expenditures for national park roads loads as well as roads across government I 1 land and we wonder if this increase was not tacked on by an opponent of the bill so that it would be defeated when it cemes up for final passage Sin sinclair clait lewis late latest st winner of tho the nobel prize for literature took a rap at american institutions of learning in his speech of acceptance at stockholm sweden ile he stated that the public schools of the united states failed to tach the chidden the essentials of education malley mabey lie he is right but it seems ill timed to go away off on to a foreign country to find fault with ones home institutions j dispatches announce that idaho will heend tor for the improvement of airports within the state state this year that state evidently appreciates what air transportation is destined to do for its people it is about time utah woke up to tile the fact granted WP we already alrea dy have transcontinental air moil facilities as good as thi the best sit it until every part dart of the state is connected up by landing fields ive vi e willbern will bein be in the ruck of the back woods communities of the country A Denver dispatch of the lath dinst states that the governor of colorado has approved the rond road budget of that tate calls for of jr an on colliado Coloia do liidi dur ing ig the year 1931 the oj dispatch Ls patch gives items of expenditure on the western slope of the mountains but we fail to see any allotments for colo i ra ado do roads within the san juan basin what if anything is southwestern colorado doing to get its share of the 7 A federal judge of a new jersey court has recently ruled that the eighteenth amendment to the constitution ution of the United states is illegal basing his decision on th the e p principle cinci that such an amendment to tho the constitution could only be rail ratified fied by constitutional conventions of the several states and not by their legisla atutes his decision will have a far reaching g effect anthe enforcement i of 0 prohibition in many states tid and i may have an unsettling effect effia on the ques tion in nil all of the states until finally passed upon lethe Sij supreme preme court of the he U united states to which it will be immediately appealed while our lawmakers lawm akeis are listening to the pleas picas of them the big guns that want their income burden lessened how would it be to give consideration to io he por rhan man who is striving to raise a family in a way that they will ultimately be an honor donor to the country i n many states consideration is as given to the heads beads of families by rebating their taxes up bip to a certain amount A law in in utah deducting a couple of hundred dollars from the taxes of all heads of tami lips would reduce recline taxes where the reduction auld do the most goed our coming legislatures legisla turee wo would uld do well to consider this matter now ow that the amendments to th the e cons constitution ta I 1 permit such action I |