, 1925-01-28
Three Bad Boys

Three Bad Boys Y
1t will be by just sheer good luck that the present session of
the Wyoming legislature adjourns without calling an investi.
cation or two. There are two departments that are overdue'on
being taken apart and scrutnized for defects in their running
gears. They are the highway department and the law enforce
ment department. If there is a third interest needing interior
exploration, then that interest is state university.
Generally speaking, the generality are specifically uttering
remarks about all three of these state supported institutions.
Complimentary terms arc growing very scarce in what is
being said. The highway department has made itself obnoxi-
Gus by its demands for special taxes, by its usurpation of pow
es, duties and functions of other and higher officers under
the state government. By maintaining a lobby in its own in
terest, composed of highway bosses, engineers and other en-
ployes, the sole purpose of which is to invade the pockets of
the taxpayers. These highwaymen have transferred their ac-
tvides from the highway to the hotel lobby. There is no
available report from this outfit, no maps of past, present or
future operations, no facts and figures upon which to base
Judgment upon whether these tremendous and expensive opera,
lions should proceed or be stopped. No estimates of cost of
present or future maintenance. In fact nothing to show
whittier we are tending in the highway business, where We are
going, o. where we will get off. Apparently all that concerns
the highway department is more money and, yet more money
out of the people to build roads and keep the personnel in
jobs.
The highway department goes upon the theory that it must
be supplied with funds in larger quantities every time it asks,
rgardless of whether the old sock is empty or not. 1t is re.
garded as a fairly good specimen of hog. Before any more food
is shoveled to it, there ought to be a complete examination and
= a proper accounting of what already has been emptied in the
2 trough. 1t may be that the whole thing is not worth what
it is costing.
The law enforcement department, is said, by those able to
Withstand the smell yer with m SKIS IN he the mos all
around putrid concern that ever encountered a state govern.
ment There are many good and well meaning citizens who be,
le7e this department is useful and should be maintained, but
it is because they are unaware that the tax money is reckless
~ frittered away in moonshine joints and academies of ill
repute to Secure evidence" which is never brought into court.
If the Christian and Godfearing people of Wyoming, who now
uphold the law enforcement department, knew the chapter of
infamy and waste written by this department, they would
hang their heads in shame. The whole thing is a useless dc
partment, and instead Of being a law enforcement power, it
is a power in aid of law evasion, the miscarriag e of justice,
and the escape of offenders from just punishment.
Any community in Wyoming can be adequately protected by
local peace authorities and without this costly and useless
state law enforcement crew, and be the better for it. This law
enforcement department ought to first be investigated, it's
record written, and then abolished.
The university is without question, the premier sink hole for
taxpayers money. 1t never has been satisfied and never will
be until there arises a patriot with sufficient intestines to call
a halt. 1t should, of course, be supplied with reasonable
appropriations as should all state activities. But professors
of athletics should not dictate the amount of tax money to
be awarded. That should be fixed by legislators.
Here are the three bad boys in the school, one ought to DO
expelled, one ought to be raw hidcd and The other ought to be
made to stand in the corner.