The Utah Transportation Department has decided to raise the speed limit on U.S. Highway 50-6 through the tiny town of Soldier Summit to 55 mph. High officials plan to meet soon with town representatives to work out a schedule for posting new signs, abanding the 40 mph limit in existence in the Wasatch County town since 1959. If that’s what the highway people feel best, after a study, we have no quarrel with their decision. We do trust that as a policy, any proposal to adjust existing speed limits in small communities of the state will be considered on individual merit and not on complaints from motorists who resent being tagged. In the case of Soldier Summit, many motorists apparently had gotten used to exceeding the 40 mph limit, since the tovim had made little effort at enforcement until relatively recent times. Some of those ticketed raised quite a protest and in the process there were exaggerations that put Soldier Summit in a bad light. For example, it was claimed that the town hired four traffic officers. Actually four police officers were hired only part-time ; it was charged as high as a hundred cars were stopped per day, but the town’s magistrate claims that the high was about 50 on the Labor Day Weekend but the average cars stopped per shift per officer was only about l0. There were charges the town was trying to produce revenue for a water system ; but the residents say this was an exaggeration. We would not deny peoples rights to complain if they feel a situation unjust. On the other hand, if they’re caught exceeding posted speed limits they have only themselves to blame as long as those regulations are the law. It’s our observation that in highway and freeway driving in general, too many people are exceeding the 55 mph limit, with speeds inching upward almost as a regular thing. It’s quite possible we can look to this trend for part of the answer to increased highway fatalities this year. We believe that most cases we ourselves (the motoring public) are among those who benefit by speed limits and that adherence to the law should be the goal of all who drive.