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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.
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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.
