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TOR HUE: OMAHA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15. l'Jlil TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) -EVENING SUNDAY TWC BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSON B. UPDIKE, rubllnlur. MEMBER Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS n Awwlitsd Prru, f whirs Tin Bt Is a aintr. Is -clutifdf atlilal S Ika um foiulilMllii of all itumlshu IM la II (r M MbarvlM rradlixt tn tblt MW. anil tlx tl cradt Intal am subUtBsd kmln. dlipwcst tt alas rMrrd. All rtisi of ptiWIeaiiuQ of DUi nisslsl BEC TELEPHONES IVtfsta Snack Xtrhtnit. Atk for Tvl.. 1 Aflfl Far Nljfkt Calls Altar 10 P. M.i ffdltsrls! Dmnrnttii ........... 'IfmilMloa napartawat A4rtlaliif Dapartaani orricES op the bee Main Offlr'a: irth ant Famain Council Bluffs II iooti 81. I Souih Bids Out-ef-Tewa Officn: War 1HWT. Tlar 10!, Tjltr 10OTL (tlnas jm rirth A.a. Btaaar Blrti. Wantitnatim I'll Q St Tans, rranoa, 420 BualK. Honors The Bee's Platform 1. Nw Union Passenger Station. t. Continues! Improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including lha para. maat of Main Thorouf hfaras laadinf Into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, low-rat. Waterway from the Cora Bait to tho Atlantic Ocaan. 4. Homo Rub Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. A Voice in the Wilderness. We welcome the Rev. C. E. Cobbey to the side of The Bee, and also congratulate him on emphasizing what this paper has preached for so many years. Police can not check crime; we restrain any unholy impulse to enumerate other things they can not do. Nor will the enactment of more laws have the effect sought. Crime is a result of weak morals. Morals must be taught in the home. Press and pulpit alike are devoted to the development of a high standard of living, but unless the precepts they endeavor to incul cate are put into active service, no good arises from the effort. 1 Disregard for one law leads to contempt or indifference for all law. The man who sets him self superior to any of the many statutes that have, been placed on our records merely as sumes the attitude of selecting for himself what laws he will obey and what he will ignore. As. Suming this right for himself, he must concede it to others, and the net result is just what w. are experiencing, such general violation of law as in effect amounts to anarchy. What may be expected when a federal judge in effect justi fie the theft of $96,000 by a bank teller because . his pay was low? Or when another judge re fuses to tell the court the facts in a murder case because to do so would be to "snitch on a kid?" Is( low pay an excuse for theft, or has the 12-year-old boy developed such moral perception as to render him exact in distinction between right and wrong? Railing at wealth is not to answer the ques tion which confronts every man, . nor is any headway made by scolding the church. . Minis ters of God are human, expounding His gospels as they understand them. Subject to the influ ences and effects of their surroundings, reacting to whatever excites the popular mind, they make mistakes, just as do editors. Yet they finally know right from wrong, as does evry self-disciplined individual, and just as they devote them selves to driving home the eternal truths of re pealed morality, so will they serve God and man. We sympathize with what Brother Cob bey says in regard to teaching morals in the home. When parents realize their responsibil ity to their children, to themselves and to so ciety, the need for juvenile courts, movie cen sorship and alt that sort of regulation and re striction will have disappeared. This, however, includes something else. Lib erty of action naturally contemplates action within the law. Resentment of the unwarranted intrusion of self-appointed monitors, who, insist on measuring the behavior of all others by their own standards, does not repeat any of the code established, however it may relieve the exaspera tion. Patience and; the careful development of a sentiment that is healthy is the one secure safe guard against the over-zealous regulators of the general conscience. Amnesty for Bootleggers. Taking a leaf out of the book of those advo cates of personal freedom of another kind, op ponents of prohibition may, be expected to plead for general amnesty for bootleggers and moon shiners. Federal courts are clogged with liquor cases and cell room for ordinary murderers and robbers must be getting scarce. The very prev alence of violations of the dry laws may be taken as indicating a belief in certain quarters that a day of forgiveness is certain and that de fiance of the law is not a serious matter. So far as this impression exists it is to be at tributed to newspapers and other influences that constantly declare that prohibition can not be enforced, giving as their reason the claim that it does not have behind it public opinion. How can this be established? State after state voted dry before congress ever considered acting. And it was not only the good folk whose lips had never touched the cheering fluid who voted in favor of prohibition. Men who used liquor to a varying extent themselves voted to abolish . the traffic, feeling that such sacrifice on their part was for the general good, even though they themselves never went to excess. , In spite of all the jests about home brewing, it seems probable that this is a small factor, and that in general the people who are producing illicit alcoholic drinks are not doing it for their own consumption, but, to sell for profit to people who through weakness or other reason are will ing to see others violate a law which they oth erwise would obey fully. anions' one's fellow citizens be impressed. No doubt some such object is that sought by the originators of this movement, so to emphasize the importance of the subject in one week that it will continue in the thoughts of the people the year round. For the most part the public limits its political interest to the single day of election, and if out of a citizenship week some wider attention to this and to the other duties of man to the skate and to himself can be ob tained, it will not be in vain. The Free Bridge. It may be accepted as settled that Omaha believes in a free bridge across the Missouri river. The people of this community have over come or are overcoming the barriers which' na ture has placed about the city in other directions, in the form of hills, ravines and soil which be comes a quagmire after every rain; the barrier of the river is a bit more absolute, but there is. no reason why it, too, should not be overcome. Tlie only question is that of the time and manner of the remedy. Is it wise to embark on a bridge-building project when costs of con struction give every indication of being less within the near future? The Bee suggests that if U be deemed ad visable to indorse Mayor Smith's bridge project at this time, it may still be well to postpone the actual letting of contracts at least until more settled conditions obtain. Omaha has talked free bridge for many years. It may be desired to capitalize the enthusiasm just now evident, but there is no need of rushing headlong into unnecessary expenditures.' Gambling for Empire. Europe, whatever else it may lack, now has a bumper crop of soldiers of fortune, men ,too proud to work and filled with the restless desire to live by their wits and their swords. In a sane world there would be no place for these adventurers, but their existence draws its very reason frpm the misguided tactics of the states men and the perverted ideals of the society about them. Greece sends forth the plea that unless the United States advances $33,000,000, which was promised in more hopeful days, it financial, sit uation wilt become exceedingly desperate. The army of conquest in Asia Minor is costing an immense sum each day, with little headway being made against the Turk nationalists. , Food prices are so high as to disrupt the industrial sit uation and business is at a standstill. The condition that prevails not only in Greece, but with some of its neighbors also, is aptly represented by the life and death of a Rus sian colonel whose suicide in a gambling resort on the Riviera recently was reported. This man fought with distinction under Denikin, and a year ago was sent to Paris on a special mission. Before the Russian revolution he was wealthy, and it was impossible for him to adjust hi6 life to his fallen condition. In other words, he wis not willing or able to work, to produce useful articles for himself or for anyone else. He drifted to a French gambling fesort, and after a preliminary run of luck found his entire means wiped out at baccarat. Unable to pay even his hotel bill, he consented to act as porter, a po sition with no real labor attached and orna mented by a gorgeous red uniform. " Still unable to adjust himself, he tried to pass a forged check, and after being detected, committed suicide. Life is a wonderful gift, and the world is filled with opportunity for useful and honest men. The same thing is true for those aggrega tions of people called rations. They may buckle down to develop their own resources by the process of industry, or they may go on im perialistic and vainglorious campaigns of con quest. This illusion of empire has led nations to neglect their opportunities at home and led them away from realities. Like the Russian colonel, they are living in a gambling hell. It is probable that the promise of the United States to advance a certaiu sum to the Greek government ought to be fulfilled. But . with it should be conveyed some homely injunction to make the most of, it for further help will not be forthcoming and only Greece itself can meet its own needs. America is the friend of the world, and as a true friend should not encourage new wars or wasteful political programs. A Line 0' Type or Two Haw lo lha Line, 1st tha quips (all whara thry may juDUhS m beautv contests should renicm- , a UUB lo lllc ber, with Vernon -Lee, that "shape-preference ,ba,?'llu- T,1!s I'i'lus is t Joes not invariably necessitate the detailed proc l'tfecteffi' fss of ocular perception, but is usutlly due to ftUy by oyRtP,.s Brul VPRftn Male It a "Gooditizenship Year." When an Englishman decides to visit a museum or an art gallery, he joins a club and goes in company, and this same system prevails to a certain extent among Americans who go on group tours of Europe. Quite similar is the growing custom of assigning certain days or weeks in which everyone shall talk or think of on certain subject. The latest declaration , of this tort has set the period from February 28 to March 4 for "Good Citizenship week." No cause could be better than this,- but it is to ba presumed that the occasion, is rather one for talking about good citizenship rather than practicing it. School teachers especially are solicited to give programs, although it must bo admitted that unless by, precept and example lessons cititenship are inculcated every day, tha object of education has been thwarted. Nothing can be done in a week, and only by That Illinois girl who has talked unceasingly pnstan attention to the" subject can right living for a week may be practising up for the senate. Forgiveness of Debts. If it really be true that Woodrow -Wilson agreed at Paris to bring about, if possible, the cancellation of the debts owed the United States by European governments for money borrowed during the war, it was but one of several pledges he made but -could not fulfill. It is easy to un derstand why Mr. Wilson, as also many others, have been imbued with the notion that great re lief would come with the wiping out of war debts. They have neglected, however, to give proper weight to another factor in the case. If Americans were to forgive their debtors, and they in turn were to forgive theirs, and thus by the exercise of a stupendous magnanimity all accounts were squared, what would happen? Whatever is material in tlie world would remain the same, food, clothing, shelter, and the. like. No difference would be noted in that regard. But thousands on thousands of the world's in habitants would note this difference: They would see the idle and improvident placed on an equality with the industrious and thrifty; orderly effort and patient saving made of no more worth than wanton waste and thoughtless extrava gance. War expenditure anticipated the productive effort of many years; it placed a mortgage on the surplus for generations, yet to forgive those debts now would be of no benefit to anybody, least of all to the debtors'. Instead of aiding in the restoration of the world, it would hnve the opposite effect, for it would confirm the in dolent and discourage the energetic Altruistic as the idea may appear, it fails to meet the test, because it does not provide the true solution. Only the bankrupt is entitled to a composition on part of his creditors. The energetio do not seek it. , fi:h. is. That day by Severn and tho ltock Spring Farm Sundered by depths uncalled Riiclent treea Were blindly tosKiiiR; many a wintry arm, And made by chance a, million traceries. That day chunce children sorrowed bring born, The black to slavery of body and mind. The white to tyranny of creed outworn. And all to nature' thralldoin, pitiless, blind. Put now the punctual sun has trod tha pky Untouched by all Aquarius, and he stands Kadlant above two cradles where they lie, Emancipators both, in swathlne bands. The chance by which to earth these freemen enme Darwin und Lincoln needs a better name. E. 11. U WE trust the author of the foregoing: docs not mind our reprinting' it every few years. MR. EDISON. 74, says he is going to keep up his present gait until the doctors bring in the cylinder of oxygen; "then an revoir." Au revoir implies belief in a hereafter. The agnostic says "Good night!" JUDGES in beautv contests should renicin- d ess every kind of associative abbreviation and equivalence of processes." Uh-huh! Thank.' Sir: T consider it necessary to warn you against this bird, M. J. B., who has put it over on you twice and Is planning to do it again. He writes a bunch of prose, hands it to his serrc tary to copy, she types it, starting a new line whenever she champs on ber gum, and you think it in poetry and run it at the top of the column, next pure reading matter. After this explanation from me it'll be your own fault if you continue to fan for um s esturr. w. s. "OLD Tom Bendelow allows that a fortune waits the man who finds a chemical that will kill weeds without ruining the grass. Another for tune waits the man who invents a bath-tub that does not put on a mourning band when used. SMALL. TOWN SATURNALIA. ' (From the Kewaunee, Wis., Press.) A stripping bee tool? place at the home of Mr. .and Mrs. Bohumil Albrecht Thurs day evening. Those present were the Mes dames Katherine Mach, John JIarek, John Jelinek, Wenzel Pokorney, Mr. and Mrs. John Navotny, Mr. and Mrs. John Hanna. and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wessely, Hr. A CHEERY forecaster is the Rev. A. U. T. Clarke, who, writing in the "Nineteenth Cen tury, can see at a glance that mankind is on the eve of four great wars; between east and west, between Jew and Gentile, between Protestanism and Romanism, and between capi tal and labor. THE THOUSAND AND ONE AFTEItXOOXS. III. When the fair Saidee arrived to take up her duties in the house of Houssaln & Company, Ltd., the worthy Wozeer set forth for her the system by which the concern conducted Its en terprises, and led her to her table, which was in lioussain s private office. This table she set In stantly in order, and uncovered her typewriter. Then she inspected --Houssaln's desk, which pleased her little. She replaced soiled blottera with clean ones, and old pen-points with new, and gathered scattered papers into one Dile. When Stuffy Durkin, the office boy. entered with the mail, Miss Perkins sorted it with a swift and practiced handi placing beneath all printed cir culars and form letters, save those that related to price changes, the which she placed on top. At the stroke of nine Houssain came in, ar.d without a glance at his new secretary attacked his correspondence, dictating instruction to branch managers, suggestions to department heads, and decisions on questions of policy. He, then visited the outer offices, and when he re turned the letters awaited his signature. He noted their number and looked at his watch, and for the first time he looked at Saidee, and saw that she was beautiful as a slice of the moon. The day passed, and the last letter was dic tated. Tho fair Saidee gave a little sigh of sat isfaction. "I am going to like my work here,' she said; to which Houssain made no response. Wezeer, who had entered, also fetched a sigh, but it was one of dejection, for his mind was on Miss Perkins' successor. 'There was no sys tem in the last shop I worked in,' continued tho young woman. 'And when the machinery stalled, the Boss swore roundly; his oaths wero the roundest I ever heard. TJie help feared him, but they liked him, because he paid. But there was one who was not well paid; he was the old est of the slaves, and had been with the com pany from its beginning. The Boss was fond of the old man, and this excited the jealousy of the head clerk. One day this unpleasant person discovered that Benjamin Bolt, the venerable slave, had made a cash sale and had not turned in the money, so he put up a job on Ben, and tne aged party was caught with a marked green back on his person.' The clock struck five. Miss Perkins closed her typewriter, and reached for her bonnet, 'What happened to Ben Bolt?' inquired jnoussain How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Questions concsrninf rtyaisns, sanitation and prevention of diaraaa, aubmlttad to Dr. Evana by readers of Tha Be, will b answered personally, subject to proper limitation, whara a stamped addreaaed envrlope is enclosed. Or Evana will not make diafnosis or preecriba for individual diseases. Addrsss letters in care of Tba Bee. Copyright, 1321, ly Dr. W. A. Evaua TYPHOID A WAXINU DISEASE. "Please publish tin atWclo on ty phoid, causes and prevention," S. It. N. writes. When typhoid fever was far more plievulcnt than it now is the disease varied with the seasons and there was very little of it, relatively speak ing, during the winter. Atho pres ent time there is less winter typhoid than in the old times, but the heavy rates of summer and autumn have slumped so the disease no longer is looked on as seasonal. In other words, winter typhoid is almost as important us summer typhoid. Es pecially is this the case when we add to the list of typhoid cases those of winter diarrhoea, a disease which merely Is a masked form of typhoid. Typhoid is due to tho typhoid bacillus. This bacillus is spread bv by pol-occasion- Kctnblcs, and by flies and fingers. Typhoid bacilli in food have-found their way there from some human source. There are two great avenues of prevention. One of these is by vac cination. Vaccination is done by in jecting a considerable dose of dead typhoid bacilli hypodermlciilly. The injections are three in number, and are given at intervals of one week to 10 days. v Somewhere about one week after the first injection a small degree of immunity is in evidence. This in creases daily. By four weeks after the first injection the immunity Is considerable enough to withstand infection by typhoid bacilli present in moderate amount in food or wa ter. The Immunity lasts for three to five years, though It decreases materially during the third year. The immunity rarely is consider able enough to withstand massive dosage with typhoid bacilli. The other great avenue of pro tcetion is sanitation. Above all, keep the water supply free from sewage pollution. If pure water is unob tainable, that which is available can be made safe by use of chlorite. hypochlorite, or halazone, or by boiling. Keep the- milk clean. If not as sured of its safety, make, it safe by pasteurization or by boiling. Cook ing makes vegetables safe. Flips can be suppressed, and should be. Scrupdlous cleanliness of the house hold and of the hands should be ob served. Mrs. Harding is said to have chosen "gendarme blue" as her favorite color, which introduces another word that like "lingerie" and "brassiere" is not altogether what it appears. ' WE thought the doubtful honor was pos sessed by the United States, but M. Cambon declares that there is no other country where people take so little interest in foreign politics as tney 0.0 in i'rance. OVERDOING IT. Sir: AH week my mother scolded me for having untidy shoes. Saturday I got a wicked shine, and then she bawled me out for wear ing my rubbers in the house. C. y. b. i.! JOHN L. "SURNAMES taken from names of commo dities are not necessarily of occupative origin," we read. And we read, too, in the Rutgers Alumni Quarterly, that Lewis P. Booze, Jr.. re cently figured in an automobile accident in New Brunswick, N. J. "LANDIS Can Hold Two Jobs, Palmer Rules." "May" hold were better. We all knew he could. ' v. ANOTHER example of the lively wit of W. M. Evarts: "Do not so many different wines," a lady asked him, "make you feel seedy the next day?" "No, madam," said he; "it is the indifferent twines that do that." QUICK, WATSON! THE WHISKERS AND DARK LANTERN. (From the Denver Post.) A woman, beautiful, refined, 30 years, wishes to meet man, clean habits and edu cation. Must be wealthy and . a cripple; matrimony; no general delivery or triflers answer. C7, Post THE Russian proverbs, ironically extolled by J. C. Squire are matched, we think, by this trio of Swahili saws: "If the cat's away the mouse will reign." 'A little and a little fill the measure." "Spilt water cannot be gathered up." WE ARE WIRING THEM. Sir: Please rush nomination papers for Attorney-General Coco of Louisiana as Head of the Academy. E. B. B. FOR Mr. Briggs' collection: Wonder what a wrestler thinks about? THE Coal Man and the Ice Man were walk ing hand in hand. "Did you ever," said the Ice Man, "see such a remarkable (February?" . H. L. T. The Record Catch. Colonel Scott, who recently landed a 56 pound salmon, a record for the season, has ois patched his trophy to Perth to be set up. By way of commentary on the feat the "Angler's News" publishes a page of photographs of big catches. The world's record is held by a 710 pound tuna, taken on a rod at Port Medway, Nova Scotia. A 135-pound halibut has been captured in Ireland at Ballycotton. The Eng lish record for carp is a 20-pound fish caught in Chestnut Reservoir London Daily Chronicle. Painted Coffee. Iu Rio Janeiro there are certain mills in which raw coffee beans are painted and polished. South Africa buys about 300,000 bags of coffee a year tinted in a bluish Rreen-; northern Brazil wishes its coffee black. It is said that all the graphite, achre, talcum powder and other mater ials are destroyed in the roasting, so that 110 one would know from drinking the coffee whether it had been painted or not. Iudianapo lis News, , 1 Feed Baby a Little Less. A subscriber, writes: My 5 1-2 months old baby is breast fed with eomplemental feedings of sweetened condensed milk three times a day. Up to his third month, while breast fed only, he was gaining three to four ounces a week and constantly was constipated. Since then with bottle feedings a little richer than the formula given he gained 10 to IS ounces a week and between his 4th and 6th month gained an even three pounds. At birth he weighed eight pounds and now at 5 1-2 months weighs 17 3-4 and is not constipated. He is very strong, sits alone 111 his basket, and when held up in one's arms will push himself up until his whole weight rests on his feet. But it seems to me that he is gaining too much for his age. So many people condemn sweetened condensed milk for babies and say it is a fat builder only and not a muscle and bone builder and that babies fed on it are slow In cutting their tepfh. What is vnn oninion? I want to change from condensed to cow's milk so that when I am ready to wean him at about 9 or 9 1-2 months he can take whole milk. What is the best method of changing and how should the milk be prepar ed? Should it be sweetened at first? The condensed is so sweet that lam afraid he would refuse to take the cow's milk without sweetening. Do not care to change right away, as he is such a perfectly happy and contended baby, sleeps well during the day and after nursing goes to sleep in his basket in a dark room at 6:45 and does not wake up un til about midnight for a feeding. Of late he has been waking up once or twice between that and his regular feeding at 6 a. ni., but that habit can be broken as he has only started it within the last week or so while he had a cold in his head." REPLY. Do not change your baby's food. He is thriving too well for that. Give him less food and feed him less fre quently. He should have fruit juice daily and potato soup occa sionally. Train him to sleep through the night with no feeding between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. lie is gaining weight too rapidly, but you can reg ulate that by feeding him less. X-Ray Is Best, Treatment. W. B. writes: "My little girl has ringworm on her head. Will you please prescribe some cure for it. I have tised iodine without success." REPLT. Very much the best treatment of ringworm of the scalp is X-rays. In many cases only one application Is necessary. This should cause the Our Force of 100 Employes Is Divided Into "Units" there's a force for cleaning, another for dyeing, another for tail oring, one for dressmak ing, one for hat remodel ing, and so on. all of these forces are complete they are effi cient because they have only their own special duties to perform -they do Not have to work all around. this special work by special workers maizes the Dresher Cleaning service what it is inimi table. DRESHER BROTHERS Cleaners --Dyers 2211-17 Farnam St. Phone Tyler 0345 If in South Omaha Phone "South 0050" hair of the patch to come away, aft er which treatment with a simple sulphup-tdntment or with iodine and simple ointment is effective. . You Itc.scinblo Napoleon. P. K". writes: "What causes a 'slow heart?' Is it serious? Does cigarct smoking have anything to do with it? If not, what causes it?" REPLY. There are several causes of slow pulse. Cigarct smoking is not on the list. It may be due to internilttenec in the heart beat, le may be nat ural. Napoleon is said to have had a very slow pulse. One Remedy For Naui-ca. Dr. R. A. L. writes: "Mrs. W. A. G. asked you for a remedy for nausea during pregnancy. I was disappointed that you did not rec ommend the hypodormis use of ex tract of oorpus luteum. Sometimes ono does give permanent relief, but otherwise requires an Injection every other day for a week or two." Population Center of U. S. Moves West, Census Report Shows n Washington, Feb. 14. The center of population as disclosed by the 19J0 census is located in the extreme southeast corner of Owen county, In diana, 8.3 miles southeast of the town of Spencer, the census bureau an nounced today. During the last decade the center of population continued to move westward, advancing 9.8 miles in that direction and about one-fifth of a mile north from Bloomington, Ind., where it was located by the census of 1910. The bureau attributed the west ward movement in the last decade "principally to the increase of more than 1,000,000 in the population of the state of California." Fritz Kreisler to Play At Auditorium March 11 Fritz Kreisler, violinist, will ap pear in recital in the Municpal Au ditorium under the auspices of the Omaha Tuesday Musicat club Fri day evening, March 11, at 8:15 o'clock. Boy Who Killed Wife Of Institution Warden To Be Held for Murder Aurors, iii., res, Ifran: v sett, a 16-year-old trusty at the II. nols training sdtool for boys at Jtt. Charles, said he did not know why he struck Mrs. Jesse Lovelett, wile of the assistant warden, as she slept on a couch. She died yesterday and the boy, who had escaped, was captured and ordered by a coroner's jury held for murder. "I didn't know what I was doing." the youth said. "I walked by the couch where she was sleeping, and the thought suddenly came to me how nice it would be to be free. I then cot the furnace shaker and struck here on the head. I did not intend to kill her. She seemed to waken and groaned and I hit her again and then she was still. She was good to all of us and I don't know why I did it " The Weight of a Kiss. A1 scientist has found that a kb on the lips weighs five milligrams, and it is too bad he cannot stats it In watts, volts and ohms or some thing understandable. Portland Or-egonian. NO CHANC) Gamble Speculation Risk When you buy protection of us you know of a dead certainty that family and estate are safeguarded. Invest in our superb policy contracts. The Bankers Reserve Life Company ASSETS, $10,500,000.00 Business in Force, $78,000,000.00 R. L. ROBISON, President W. G. PRESTON, Vice-Pres. R. C. WAGNER, Sec-Treas. HOME OFFICE-Omaha, Neb. We Want Two Good Men February 12, 1921. Gus Hyers, State Sheriff, Terminal Building, Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir: 1 In checking over the receipts on automobile taxes, I find that out of 220,000 cars, there are 100,000 cars that have not paid their registration tax. We have an organization to send these numbers out, and it will be necessary to discharge these men within a few days if these taxes are not paid so that the regis tration plates can be sent out. Also, the County Treasurers will be very busy after the first of March, and it will be a great inconvenience both to the Treasurers and to this Department if these taxes are not paid before the first day of March. For that reason, I would like to have your co-operation in employing such help as is necessary to en force the Motor Vehicle Law. Last year, it was the policy when starting out on the enforcing of this law to ask each person who had not paid these taxes, to do so. As the plates were in stock and the Treasurers in position to collect the taxes on December 1st, and it has been one and one-half months since these taxes were due, I do not believe it advisable to give the motor vehicle owners any special consideration at this time; and I would advise that on and after Monday, February 14th, that you cause the arrest of every motor vehicle owner driving a car, who has not complied with the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Law and paid his tax for 1921. i Yours truly, x Geo. E. Johnson, GEJ.-AEB Secretary.