Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-02-04
z APPOINTMENTS
MADE BY BLAINE.
Governor Names w. S. Smith
Prohibition Commissioner.
BELoIT MAN ON TAX BODY
Judge Charles D. Rosa Appointed
Member of Tax commission-New
Bill Would Make Auto Drivers
Pass Competency Test.
BY Fred I. HOLMES.

BY FRED L. HOLMES.
Madison, Feb. Governor Blaine
today sent to the senate the appoint
ment of Judge Charles D. Rosa, Beloit,
as a member of the state tax commits
sion for a six-year term, and the name
| of w Stanley Smith, Ashland, as state
| prohibition commissioner, for four
year term. Judge Rosa was appointed
to succeed Nels P. Haugen, who has
held the position as a member of the
tax commission in Wisconsin for 20
| years. Mr.. Smith succeeds L. e. Ha-
zelberg, who was appointed prohibition
commissioner by Governor Philip
| about a year ago, but his name was
| never sent to the senate by Governor
Philip for confirmation. Smiths ap-
pointment is for four-year term at.
| $4,000 year. The salary of tax COM
missioner is $4,000 a year. Both APP
pointments must be confirmed by the
senate.
Judge Rosa was born on farm in
Rock county September Is, 1870. He
| graduated from the University of Wis
consin law school and has practiced
| law in Beloit He was twice elected TO
the lower house of the legislature.
Mr. Smith is a lawyer at Ashland,
| who took an active part in the World
| war. He was member of the Ash
| land machine gun company and in Au-
| gust, 1917, was transferred to the One
Hundred Fifteenth machine gun bat
| talon, which represented the state of
| Wisconsin in the Rainbow division.
After serving for a time at the front
| he returned to the United States to
| become machine gun instructor at the
machine gun training school at Camp
Hancock, Ca Smith was born in the
town ,of Holland, La Crosse county,
graduating from the University of Wis
consin in 1901. He has served as dis
trict attorney of Ashland county and
! as city attorney of Ashland. 1t is ex-
| pected that these appointments will be
acted upon within the next ten days.
| Highways in Wisconsin will be made
safe. Automobile drivers will be re-
| quired to pass competency test be-
| fore being permitted to operate cars if
| a licensing system proposed in bill
| to be drafted by Senator George L.
| Buck Of Racine is enacted. 1t is aimed
| at reckless driving and at curling the
| number of accidents which are said to
have resulted from incompetent ham
| ding of automobiles. Careless driving
| on the part of licensed person would
result in withdrawal of the license by
the court which could also impose a
fine. Licenses would be renewed year.
! Iy on request. Any person over a spe-
| Gifted age, perhaps sixteen years, would
| be required to, make application for a
| license to the county clerk.
81 believe in the matter of licensing
| auto drivers, it would be proper for the
state to charge 81 for the license for
man driving particular machine,
| said John A. Hazelwood, chairman of
1.-THE state highway board, in urging the
Buck bill. "In case of other members
! Iof the family or other employees driv-
| ing the same machine, that supplement
tary licenses might be issued at half
! the cost Of the original license. In
! other words, the license should show
| the number and make of the machine,
| so that in case a person in authority
| asked for the presentation of a license
| the matter could easily be decided that
| the person was driving the machine for
| which he had been given license.
| Chauffeurs who drive cars continually
should be required to pay an annual Ii
cense fee of So, which should entitle
| the chauffeur to drive any make of car.
/ The driver license might be secured at
the same time as the regular automo-
! bile license is obtained.
81 am satisfied that if this license
| system were introduced into Wiscon-
/ sin there would be at once minlm1z-
ing Of automobile accidents. This Ii
cense fee could quite properly be used
| for county parks, planting of trees and
| shrubbery alonside of roads to pre-
vent snow blockade, building highways
in and through state parks and for
/ other purposes directly connected with
highway improvements.
wisconsin will have over 100000
motor vehicles this year. This fact in
dicates somewhat the fund that will
be received from licenses. | suggest
that the money received from such
source be distributed as follows:
.First, % per cent of this fund
should be returned to the counties for
the rural planning committees to ex-
pend for county parks and for the
planting of trees and shrubbery for the
prime purpose of preventing snow
drifting in the winter time.
second, 10 per cent of the funds
should be set aside and used for the
purpose of keeping the present mark
ing system on our state trunk highways
up to standard and to provide other di-
rection signs and markings along our
highways.
'"Third, 10 per cent of this fund
| should be allotted to the conservation
commission for the purpose of building
and maintaining roads to and through
state parks and across state lands.
Fourth, so per cent of this fund
should be turned over to the regular
tate highway fund"
| His Sentence.
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