Milford chronicle., 1953-12-11
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Word reaches this scribe that
the legislature of the state of
Colorado may be asked next month
to pass a new law requiring all
motorists whose cars are registered
in the state to install recording
speedOmeters, which would reel
up continuous record of driving
speed. Under the same law state
officials would examine the tapes
periodically and chalk up a fine
for every time they showed a dis
regard Of the speed limit.
While we imagine it would take
a pretty educated recording device
to tell cops who was driving,
whether the car was in Colorado.
and whether or not it was racing
stork at the time, the idea may
have merit. ..5
We would like to suggest. how
ever, that the law require an old
fashioned speeding arrest and con-
victiOn before imposing this in
strument on the motorist. The cost
of it alone should be deterrent
enough.
Or does it violate the Fifth
Amendment?
They Could Be Heroes
The Senate, when it reconvenes
in January, could get us off to a
good start. 1t could save us $1O5.-
OOO,OO0 in its first item of business!
And, since consideration number
two, in the timetable announced
by Majority Leader KnOwland, is
whether or not to raise the national
debt-limit, it is conceivable that
a prior example of economy might
help to keep the lid on.
The legislative curtain-raiser
will be the Wiley resolution, which
hacks off a small piece of the St
Lawrence waterway project, pre-
sumably on the peddIer's theory
that a foot in the door is the first
step to deal. This measure would
create a Government Development
Corporation empowered to borrow
lO5 millions from the Treasury to
dig a q foot channel on the u. s.
side of the International RAPIDS
section Of the st. Lawrence. This
would mean deep water only as
far as Toledo, Ohio, but would be
quite useful to a half dozen COM
panies which have invested in
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iron ore.
The argument will follow the
same old tune-dOing the decent.
thing by our Canadian neighbors.
But what do the neighbors think?
The cooperation they want, New
York State is already eager to give
BIG million dollars for the con-
struction of an international power
plant in the Rapids, which is a
prerequisite to the waterway. But
Canada already has a 14-fOot water
way around the Rapids, which they
would prefer to deepen (and con-
troll for themselves. And we have
lived with this Canadian waterway
since time immemOrial without the
slightest inconvenience. If it were
13 feet deeper, harmony should
still prevail. On the other hand.
for us to take over management
and control of a as mile stretch
in the Rapids, when the Canadians
would have to spend IT'S millions
from the Rapids to Montreal (all
of it Canadian territory is a type
OF cooperation they have repeatedly
said they didn't care for.
The Canadians want our CO.
operation on many things, notably
tariffs; and they want the cooper
alton which New York State is
prepared to give on the power
plant. So we can hope, at least.
that our Senators will be unable
to resist pressing unwanted laid"
on Canada-and highly superfous
appropriation (1O5 million bucks)
on their constituents.
Brass-BOund
At his 1O:3O a. m. press confer
ence, President Eisenhower ex-
pressed agreement with Defense
Secretary Wilson's idea of reducing
military manpOwer, although he |
said it might not be possible to |
fix the reduction at exactly the I
ten per cent that Mr. Wilson esti-
mates.
Within IL hours. in a speech in
New York, Admiral Arthur w. Rad
ford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Of Staff, declared that he and his